Who hasn’t had a binge-eating episode? If you have not, then just shut down this email and go away because I hate you. Hehe.
Pretty much everyone has had a binge, but when it is due to addiction or to deal with some type of trauma, we have to start talking about ways to control it.
We have urges, and whether you want to admit it or not, you do have control over your eating urges. When you are in the food addiction circles on Facebook, it is very easy to fall into the ‘victim’ mentality. “I can’t control myself” or “I am addicted; it is out of my control” – NONSENSE. Of course you have control. It might be hard because you might be physiologically addicted to the substance, but, nevertheless, YOU are putting it in your mouth.
What you have control over is setting yourself up in a way that makes binging less likely. The way I did it was not eating anything with sugar or flour in the ingredients. I was not able to diet, not even for a day. I was overweight for decades. Nevertheless, at some point I decided no sugar or flour – NO MATTER WHAT – and just like that – even though I am addicted to sugar, I no longer eat it.
Pick a rule, any rule, and, no matter what, do not break that rule and, by the principles of neuroplasticity, you will no longer be out of control. Remember I am a sugar addict, but I don’t eat sugar. Am I a sugar addict or not?
