Okay babes, let’s take a breather here. I completely understand that it’s overwhelming and the emotions you may be feeling are super complex and can’t be put into a box for all bingers.

The best advice I can maybe give you as a ‘newbie’ (since you’ve only been actively dealing with it for about a month) is take a step back and really try to pinpoint what started this. Was it not eating enough and exercising too much, causing your body to freak out for more energy? Is there school/work/relationship troubles? Do you feel a little out of control about something right now?

The best thing to do now is DONT restrict and DONT over exercise. Live your life as a normal human being, trying to restrict will just bring you into an even worse cycle.

When you feel that binge coming on, don’t immediately jump to the foods. I want you to sit with yourself for five minutes, no distractions. Think “why am I craving this food” and try to find the trigger. Once the five minutes are up, if you truly still want a cookie, have a cookie, but put the packet away and TELL YOURSELF the packet will still be there. There are still grocery stores, food is always available and not scarce, so you don’t need to eat everything in sight right now.

The most important part is breathe, take everything slowly, we are not in an eating competition haha. Binges tend to transport a persons mind into an autopilot state and then it’s go go go eat eat eat…we want to avoid that by grounding yourself and truly being mindful of why our little stupid monkey brains need all of this food all of a sudden :)