The Binge Eating Prevention Plan
Overcoming compulsive eating and making peace with food
Gia Marson, Ed.D., and Danielle Keenan-Miller, Ph.D.
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Negative messages about weight, obesity, health, and dieting can lead to unhealthy eating behaviors among children.
Your child is a picky eater. Should you worry? Some simple tips can encourage a healthier relationship with food and help you know when it might be an eating disorder.
Why is eating healthy so hard to pull off? Because healthy eating is only partially about food. Discover how to revolutionize your eating habits for the long term.
Emotional eating triggers may be inevitable, but how you respond is not. Learn six coping skills that steer you toward positive memories rather than food when stress levels rise.
Trauma can produce serious physical and psychological symptoms—and lead to eating disorders. Fortunately, nutrition may play a role in recovery.
Our inner dialogue can spur and maintain binge eating, or our self-talk can prevent it. Find out whether what you say to yourself is helping or harming your relationship to food.
If you have tried to stop binge eating but can't, you may be missing important clues. Listen to what the disorder is telling you.
Do you eat more when you sleep less? The science of sleep may offer a missing key when it comes to overcoming binge-eating.
Are cycles of binge eating wearing you out? Knowing the triggers can help you make a plan to stop compulsive eating and prevent binge eating disorder.
Using food to handle or control negative emotions doesn’t work. Learn what to do instead.
Unmet needs hit some groups harder than others. Despite the barriers, learn how you can make a difference on World Eating Disorders Action Day.
One of the most effective treatments for binge eating isn’t a diet; it’s a therapy that focuses on changing your thinking.
Athletes do what they love: participate in their sport, push through pain, and win. But this mindset can be dangerous when living with an eating disorder.
Striving for perfection can hinder healthy eating habits and pose an obstacle to full recovery from an eating disorder. A change in perspective can make all the difference.
Symptoms of binge eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, or bulimia nervosa can affect physical and mental health—and negatively impact your future—in myriad ways.
If dieting isn’t working, try the opposite: intuitive eating. Learn how to nourish your body by noticing what it is telling you it needs.
Don’t delay getting help for anorexia nervosa. Learn three effective ways to improve your relationship with food.
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If reaching for food has been a go-to coping mechanism during the pandemic, you're not alone. Learn how to use mindfulness to build a more intuitive, healthy diet.
Make 2021 the year you give up diets for good. Learn tips that can lead you to natural, healthy eating.
Is the fear of binge eating increasing your anxiety as the holidays approach? Learn how to feel empowered and stop obsessing about food.
You may have more choices than you think. Start by setting a helpful intention.
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Binge eating disorder is three times more common than anorexia or bulimia, yet it’s treated least often. Find out how you can stop loss-of-control eating and make peace with food.
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