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Get Through December without Bingeing Day 20

Leora Fulvio December 20, 2016

Good morning everyone. Less than two weeks left of this brutal Winter month. Hopefully you are getting some enjoyment out of the season and staying healthy (I have my Winter cold right now, yuck!) It really is a beautiful time of year with the lights and the excitement and the Vince Guaraldi on the radio and It’s a Wonderful Life on TV and of course time off of work. Today’s Tip On Friday my son’s doctor said to me, “most

How To Get Through December without Bingeing Day 19

Leora Fulvio December 19, 2016

Todays Tip I am assuming that many of you are headed to the airport to see family. Binge eating and binge drinking at the airport is extremely common. Long airport layovers are recipes for compulsive behavior because: Traveling is stressful and binge eating is a stress relief You are bored and it’s a way to fight boredom Although you are traveling among several thousands of people, if you are traveling alone, you are in a city where nobody knows you

Get Through December Without Bingeing Days 17 & 18 Weekend Edition

Leora Fulvio December 19, 2016

We are getting closer and closer to the big holidays and people are drinking more and more, eating more and more and partying a lot. Todays Tip Don’t shame yourself. If you “mess up” if you eat too much, drink too much, stay out too late, don’t sleep enough… whatever it is, remember that you feel bad enough already and the last thing that you need is guilt and shame. What you need is self love, self care and the

How To Get Through December without Bingeing Day 16

Leora Fulvio December 19, 2016

Okay, you made it. You are half-way through. Only eight days till Hanukkah, nine days till Christmas and ten days until Kwanzaa. How are things so far? Todays Tip Do you sometimes feel like you can’t go to sleep at night unless you binge? Is bingeing the only way to help you through insomnia? This is the bedtime journal tip. It’s to help you sleep deeply at night and ensure that if you do get up, you can get back

Get Through December Without Bingeing Day 15

Leora Fulvio December 15, 2016

Todays Tip On Monday, the New York Times ran an article about how weight loss is not a one-stop shop for everyone and that one diet doesn’t necessarily work for everyone. But in the article, what they actually pointed out was that diets work for almost nobody. “[Dr. Sack’s] study involved 811 overweight and obese adults, randomly assigned to follow one of four diets and undergo behavioral counseling to help them stick to their diets. The diets ranged over the

Get Through December Without Bingeing- Day 14

Leora Fulvio December 14, 2016

We are officially two weeks into December. Almost half way through. How’s it going for you? All good in the hood here. Todays Tip Being a visitor at other people’s houses is rough. For those of us with eating issues, control is all part of the psychological schema — being at someone else’s house has us at a loss of control and can create all sorts of anxiety and stress. The food is unfamiliar, the eating times are unfamiliar and

Get Through December without Bingeing -Day 13

Leora Fulvio December 13, 2016

Todays Tip Today I spoke with a 5 week program member over the phone. She was feeling a lot of anxiety over all the “lose weight,” or “maintain weight” over the holidays. She told me that she’s been seeing postings all over the Internet. She asked, “I know that I need to lose weight for my health, how can I do that mindfully?” So therein lies the issue. Anyone who has issues with disordered eating has tried not once, but

Get Through December Without Bingeing- Day 12

Leora Fulvio December 12, 2016

Todays Tip You that whole thing that happens when you entertain and you feel like you have to be perfect? That your house has to be perfect, that your food has to be perfect and that your hair, your clothes and your kids have to be perfect? And then something inevitably goes wrong, your tomato aspic comes out looking like an Alpo ad rather than a Martha Steward centerpiece… And you feel sad and you beat yourself up and the

Get Through December Without Bingeing Day 11

Leora Fulvio December 11, 2016

Sunday morning. Is it possible that you drank a little too much last night? Too much holiday indulgence and now you’re feeling a little hangover? Todays Tip Avoiding the dreaded hangover next day binge. A few years ago, there was a report that linked binge drinking to binge eating for the next 24 hours. If you have overindulged on alcohol, there is a pretty big chance that you will want to wake up and care for your body by eating

Get Through December Without Bingeing Day -10

Leora Fulvio December 10, 2016

Yay! The weekend is here! For me that means lots of time with my wild maniac 3 & 5 year old boys. Birthday parties, ice skating, trains, etc. etc. Today’s Tip So you know something that’s really hard during December? Holiday guests. They come, they mess up your house, you have no access to your bathroom or the food you want to eat. Especially if said guests are… oh I don’t know– YOUR INLAWS maybe? Don’t be in your house.

Get Through December Without Bingeing Day Nine

Leora Fulvio December 9, 2016

Really, I don’t mean to complain but it is COLD here in California. So cold that I have to wear my warmest hoodie. Lol– when I had just moved here, I remember the first Winter hearing on the radio that it was a COLD day in the Bay so to remember to get your warmest hoodie. I grew up in New York City and had been living in Boston so when I heard “cold day” and “warmest hoodie” I burst

Get Through December Without Bingeing Day Eight

Leora Fulvio December 8, 2016

I’m happy you’re still reading my daily series on how to get through December without bingeing. What a week! So happy it’s Thursday already. We are getting knee deep into holiday parties so remember to keep coming here for tips and inspiration. Todays Tip Did you know that often, in the Winter, people binge eat because they are cold? FACT. Eating raises your metabolism and warms you up. So other things to do when you have the urge to binge

Get Through December Without Bingeing Day Seven

Leora Fulvio December 7, 2016

We’re already on Day 7! Can you believe it? Only 24 more days to go until we say goodbye to 2016 and only 17 more days until Christmas and Hanukkah. If there is a particular tip you want me to share for this get through December series, or a specific challenge you’re having, please reply to this email with your question. Todays Tip: When you are feeling the urge to binge, stop for a moment and ask yourself, “what do

Get Through December Without Bingeing Day Six

Leora Fulvio December 7, 2016

Happy Tuesday. I hope that you’re enjoying your Get through December email series. If you’re just joining us, (do you like my Terry Gross impression?) I’ve been doing a daily email for the month of December because, well, December is rough for people with disordered eating habits or dysfunctional relationships with food and their bodies. Todays Tip I call this the one-plate strategy. When you go to a party or a buffet where there are a million different foods and

Get Through December Without Bingeing Day Five

Leora Fulvio December 5, 2016

I hope that you had a beautiful weekend. Mine was pretty great. I took my 3-year-old and 5-year-old ice skating for the first time. We had so much fun. My 3 year old was a little freaked out by it, but my 5 year old was awesome. He picked it up really quickly and became lightening on the ice. Funny fact about me – my mother had an intense obsession with the Winter Olympics figure skating and wanted me to

Get Through December Without Bingeing – Day Three & Four (Weekend Edition)

Leora Fulvio December 3, 2016

Weekends are rough this time of year. Tip of the Day Be cautious about alcohol. Of course you should be cautious about alcohol anyway, but it’s a huge contributor to binge eating ESPECIALLY IN DECEMBER. For instance, you have a few drinks, get drunk and go home and eat as much as you can and you don’t even remember how you got there. The other thing is a morning hangover. Many of us have those memories of being in college

Get Through December Without Bingeing – Day Two

Leora Fulvio December 2, 2016

Today’s Tip: Holiday gift baskets. You know those gift baskets that people send? The ones full of peppermint brownies and all sorts of other gooey things and candy canes and cookies and short breads and jams and pears? You know the ones that I’m talking about. They’re both sort of gross but also sort of delightful and tantalizing at the same time. People send those haphazardly and constantly. In fact one year I even got one sent to my office

Get Through December Without Binge Eating – Day One

Leora Fulvio December 1, 2016

Thanksgiving is over and Winter is here! Hopefully you enjoyed your holiday and it went well. The Fall is very difficult for people with disordered eating issues. Halloween brings candy with it all over the place, Thanksgiving brings family drama, mashed potatoes and phantom urges, and then there is December. December is the worst! There are constant parties, constant drinking, there are cookie swaps, latke feasts, gift baskets full of peppermint brownies sent to the office every minute, baked goods

How To Get Through Thanksgiving without Bingeing

Leora Fulvio November 21, 2016

In my first semester of graduate school, right before we left for Thanksgiving break, one of my professors asked who was headed home for the break. Most of us raised our hands. “Well,” he said, “I don’t care how much therapy you’ve had, I don’t care how much you meditate, I don’t care how much healing you’ve done, when you go home, you are going to be that same twelve-year old kid that you used to be. Same family

Free Webinar – 5 Steps to Changing Your Brain to Stop Binge Eating

Leora Fulvio November 15, 2016

Are you torturing yourself with food? Have you been on and off diets for years of your life? Do you feel like you are constantly tormenting yourself either with diets or food binges? Do you start a diet, fall off the wagon, and then beat yourself up for not being able to lose weight? It’s NOT your fault and you DON’T have to live like that. The diet and binge cycle is very real and very painful. But you

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