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Trust Your Body, Trust the Process, Trust Life

Binge Dieting - January 28, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
If you’re struggling with binge eating, you’ve thought at least once that recovery is not possible. You fall short of your goals, and you think that’s it. You can’t possibly reach the other side anymore because of this one slip-up. But sometimes, your body has a mind of its own and may not act...

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How to Stop Making Excuses and Take Charge of Your Health Goals

Binge Dieting - January 21, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Who doesn’t make excuses? From skipping the gym to overeating when we’re full, we can eke out any and all excuses about why we can’t stick to our health goals. Most of the time, we do this subconsciously. In fact, the excuses come from little parts inside of us that have a need. They seem like...

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How Feeling Like You Don’t Fit In Causes Binge Eating

Binge Dieting - January 14, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Do you often get stuck in the thought that you are so different and you don’t fit in anywhere — at home, in school, or in the neighborhood? Is that feeling forcing you to be who you are not, affecting how and when you eat?  If yes, you are not alone because so many people are stuck in that tho...

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How to keep healthy eating goals in the midst of physical pain, exhaustion or discomfort

Binge Dieting - January 07, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Do you feel the need to eat when you’re tired or in pain? Do you tell yourself, “Just for today, I won't eat healthy,” and then cope with these feelings through unhealthy eating?  You're not alone. Many people use food and overeat to get temporary relief from their discomfort. However, eating ...

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The Importance of Setting a Daily Intention

Binge Dieting - December 31, 2020 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
The Importance of Setting a Daily Intention The first step in change can be the hardest. It's easy to lose focus, even when you think you've prepared enough for it. A daily intention is a great way to help your brain come back to the present tense and to your goals, especially when you’re in t...

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Handling Special Occasions, Family Drama, And Practicing Forgiveness

Binge Dieting - December 22, 2020 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
As the holidays approach, it might be tempting to relax into the season with the attitude of eating in excess. It can be very easy to allow yourself extra bites of food or another piece of pie and to forget that you might feel overly full or uncomfortable later. In some cases, you might find it ...

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Living Without the Brakes On; Learning to Stop Self Sabotage

Binge Dieting - December 17, 2020 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Are you living your life with one foot on the brakes? So many of us (myself included) often find ourselves sabotaging our efforts to get what we want in life. When we do that it can lead to frustration, anger, and hopelessness. In today's episode, I talk about self-sabotage, empowerment, and how...

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How to Balance the Food You Eat

Binge Dieting - December 10, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
It’s hard to talk about eating without tying it to ideas about nutrition, so it's helpful to understand what makes up the food we eat and how it affects our bodies. Different foods have different functions in the body. There is no one answer to the question, “What should I eat?” However, there a...

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Structuring Meals & Managing Intrusive Thoughts About Food

Binge Dieting - December 03, 2020 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Structuring Meals & Managing Intrusive Thoughts About Food Many people are struggling with losing or maintaining weight. As eating becomes a coping mechanism, you might find yourself turning to food whenever stressed, sad, upset, tired, overwhelmed, angry, or bored. The truth is, you cannot sa...

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How to Use the Hunger Scale for Intuitive Eating

Binge Dieting - November 26, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
How to Use the Hunger Scale for Intuitive Eating Wouldn't it be nice if you can give your body permission to eat without feeling guilty? Often, we rely on binge dieting strategies and beat ourselves up for the short-term numbers we see on the scale. But what will happen if we tune into our hun...

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This Tool Can Stop Your Food Cravings

Binge Dieting - November 19, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
This Tool Can Stop Your Food Cravings Do you often find yourself binge eating? Are you having trouble following through with your goals? The good news is there are several ways to manage your food cravings and learn how to train your brain to stop the impulse to go into a binge eating moment. ...

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Understanding the Triangle of Perfectionism, Binge Eating & Shame 

Binge Dieting - November 17, 2020 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Understanding the Triangle of Perfectionism, Binge Eating & Shame  We all have a family that lives inside of us, which each member showing up as voices, urges, sensations, or images. These inner voices can be your harshest critics and worst enablers yet they’re trying desperately to help you. ...

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Life Purpose, There is No Emergency, Permission

Binge Dieting - September 13, 2020 20:32 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston RD talks about the experience of several clients and their struggles in the current pandemic environment. The podcast talks about Betsy's personal experience at a retreat, about a client's plan to show up on the beach showing more skin then she wanted, and about other client's and...

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Childhood, parents, and our eating predicaments

Binge Dieting - August 07, 2020 03:09 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about some common childhood situations that can set the stage for overeating, body shame, chronic dieting and a stressful relationship with food.  She talks about some specific action steps you can take to help work through and manage these problems.

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Reduce anxiety and fear quickly

Binge Dieting - June 10, 2020 14:32 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
In this episode Betsy talks about quick and effective ways to manage anxiety and fear in the moment. This is a practical, no nonsense episode which looks at common issues related to food issues as well as life issues that lead to eating problems. 

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Alcohol and Overeating. The story of Sarah

Binge Dieting - May 08, 2020 00:53 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the beginning of a success story involving alcohol and eating during the time of Covid-19.  She walks listeners through her journey, step by step.  Internal Family Systems, Pema Chodrin, Compassionate Curiosity, Courage and Boundaries all play a role. 

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Having an honest conversation with the part of us that's eating

Binge Dieting - March 29, 2020 17:08 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to manage emotions such as panic, anxiety, fear, or anger without resorting to food. She includes a role play between internal parts of us using internal family systems therapy (IFS) . Betsy also covers key points needed to survive eating problems during thi...

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Moms and Dads and our eating relationship, AND The 5 personality patterns

Binge Dieting - March 07, 2020 21:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the values and habits of mind that result from our relationship with our parents and how this drives issues with food problems or an inability to stay focused with health goals. She talks about three clients and their specific stories, and at the end she gives a...

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How to stop falling into old habits of mindless overeating, listening for spiritual guidance

Binge Dieting - February 06, 2020 04:13 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about what to do when the habit of mindless overeating takes over. She talks about several clients and their experiences including stress over jobs, physical pain, dating, needing to be perfect, and managing a longstanding pattern of using food to soothe. She tells a ...

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Somatic Experiencing to unravel the motives for overeating

Binge Dieting - January 15, 2020 00:42 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about somatic experiencing as a tool to help understand reasons for some habits and behaviors related to eating.  Betsy explains how to apply this technique and also talks about several different clients and their struggles and insights.  She talks about clients with ...

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Trusting the body, finding the higher self, AND Protein and Fiber!

Binge Dieting - December 22, 2019 20:50 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to trust the body and listen to it through the perspective of our two separate selves (our higher self and our human self).  She also addresses practical issues regarding protein, fiber, check lists for food, and addressing physical versus emotional hunger.  

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Navigating Holiday, Social, and Family Eating and SItuations

Binge Dieting - November 27, 2019 04:35 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to be in the midst of the holiday parties or other social events as well as family tension without overeating.  She looks at concepts from spiritual teachings as well as practical food advice.  Several concerns of various clients are also considered.  

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Mind Body Syndrome and Creating the Life you Want

Binge Dieting - October 30, 2019 16:50 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about many types of physical pain in the body, eating disorders, and anxiety and depression as a process in the brain called Mind Body Syndrome.  Healing from these symptoms is possible and she presents tools to help this happen.  Manifesting your dreams and creating ...

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The Habit of Self Sabotage and Rethinking Everything.

Binge Dieting - September 20, 2019 23:32 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the experiences of two separate clients and the behaviors that sabotaged their efforts to stay with their health goals.  She talks about specific ideas regarding food and goal setting and also about very general concepts that help give perspective to the struggl...

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Quick tool to decrease and emotions in the moment using the law of attraction

Binge Dieting - August 20, 2019 20:09 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about an effective tool to shift out of unhealthy eating patterns or worry about food and the body.  She uses examples from clients in her practice to help demonstrate how to work with this tool. Specific practices are provided at the end. 

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How to let go of the habits and the forces that drive our unhealthy habits

Binge Dieting - July 19, 2019 21:41 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD brings listeners into a group exercise which delves into the drivers behind our compulsions to overeat or to lose focus on our health goals.  Listeners will get a front seat into the experience of letting go of those habits that sabotage our efforts. The answers will be ins...

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Family Roles and Rules, also 8 Eating Tips to Get You Back on Track

Binge Dieting - June 22, 2019 19:22 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about some common roles in the family and how they might influence eating behaviors. She also covers some of the unspoken rules that are often present in families that can create enormous internal upset.   At the beginning of the podcast Betsy lists 8 eating ideas and...

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Why bother, what's the point, just go ahead and eat....

Binge Dieting - May 22, 2019 01:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about self sabotage and specifically the voice inside that tells us it's hopeless to even try to change our eating patterns, so just go ahead and eat...  On this podcast Betsy talks about one special trick and also explores some specific examples of managing sabotage ...

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It's not that I won't, it's that I can't! The tool to stop food cravings

Binge Dieting - April 20, 2019 20:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
This Tool Can Stop Your Food Cravings Do you often find yourself binge eating? Are you having trouble following through with your goals? The good news is there are several ways to manage your food cravings and learn how to train your brain to stop the impulse to go into a binge eating moment. ...

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Body Positivity (and why it helps to care about this)

Binge Dieting - March 20, 2019 17:23 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratings
Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the body positivity movement, and how you can use these concepts to help with your personal health and weight goals.  She includes some exercises as well as intuitive eating tips and some great instagram accounts to follow.  

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