Becoming An Intuitive Eater & Completely Free With Food: Stages I went through & how long it took?

❤️ We help women move from binge eating, food obsession and yo-yo dieting to a 'normal' and healthy relationship with food. Without relying on rules, restrictions or willpower.

[RachaelWrigley]

DISCLAIMER, PLEASE READ: Please note, this video contains only general information for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to and cannot replace physician advice and diagnosis. If you are unsure if you have an eating disorder or have mental health concerns, please consult a health care professional to seek treatment and appropriate support.

[auntpurl]

This is so freeing!! I'm just a month into the process of "all in" and I feel like shackles have fallen off. I'm already craving fewer sweets, wanting more vegetables, and stopping the mental food police thoughts by replacing them with gentle, friendly, encouraging ones. I've gained 7 pounds, but I am no longer afraid. I have a feeling I'll find my happy place soon enough. At first my impulse was to freak out and restrict, but then I paused to consider everything I'd learned. This is part of the process. An extra 10 pounds may be looming, but so what? Bring on the stretchy pants and loose dresses until I settle in. I have also quickly exchanged weight loss exercise for joyful movement that I love. Strength training because it feels amazing, running because the sunshine is glorious, and stretching because it's relaxing. I am feeling so hopeful. I even went to get ice cream with my hubby and felt no guilt, counted no calories, and got exactly what I wanted, what I hadn't had in years -- a peanut buster parfait. I feel like I've turned a corner. Your videos were super helpful. Thanks for sharing!

[ea]

Love the video, very informative! I’m struggling with feeling my fullness sometimes I feel like I can keep on eating forever and never be full (that happens during the meal but I kinda feel satisfied around 2 hours after). I really hope I’m not the only one who feels this way.

[hussainj]

You're ability to articulate your ideas and let them manifest themselves is a powerful tool that you use it incredibly well. Love your videos Rachael 💙💙💙

[adelinapepene]

Dear Rachel,
Your experience is very similar to mine. Right now I resonate fully with what u did, and I am now at the stage to let myself get really hungry until I eat (because when I was binge eating I really never felt hunger, my stomach was always filled)
Your words are a confirmation of what I am already doing.
Thank you!

[vintervn]

Lovely notes for BED and anorexia recovery: (let's do them togheter, if you want)

1) honor your extreme hunger
- it's your body trying to keep you alive
- EAT it's the only way to make your body know that you are not restricting anymore, and with time it will stop giving you those strong cues

2) Binge eating VS extreme hunger
- You can develop both of them after dieting
- Binge eating is something unnecessary, you can develop it after a period of extreme hunger: is your animal or lower brain doing its work and not understanding that you don't need those strong urges anymore
- Binge eating urges is just dopamine (hormone of pleasure) doing his tasks
- Extreme hunger can become a habit, and then binge eating (binge eating is similar to nicotine addiction)
- To break this addiction, you have to IGNORE these urges, or "sitting with them"
- on of the main difference between the two is: are you eating in secret? If yes, it may be a binge eating episode

3) "I'm diagnosed BED, what should I do? "
- EAT ADEQUATELY or it will never stop, so stop every form of restriction and dieting
- set a timer of 10 minutes once you feel the urges, and then repeat until they disappear
- try to integrate your fear food in your main meals, Instead of eating them alone

4) What about my weight?
- probably you will regain all the weight you lost back, and even overshoot, but remember that is just your body healing Itself. With time, you will reach your weight set point.
- You could eventually lose some weight safety after a ED, but make sure to do it with a dietitian or nutritionist

Just tell me if you can relate, or if something need to be fixed. Have mercy for my english, I'm Italian.

DISCLAIMER: this is what I learnt from surfing for years on YouTube and internet, and by reading "The Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide: A Simple and Personalized Plan for Ending Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder" by Kathryn Hansens. I just put all my knowledge all together

[lisag]

Hi Racheal, This was 2 years ago. How has your eating evolved and any other new nuggets of wisdom you have to share with us?

[lanafattash]

I’m so happy I found your channel. I feel that I’m not alone anymore. I’ve been suffering with binge eating for five years now. I’ve always knew I was different than everyone around me from my eating habits. Everything that was normal to my friends and family was so hard for me. I thought I lacked willpower. I always wondered how people around don’t think about food as much as I do and how they can stop eating when they’re full and I literally will keep eating forever. I started to hate the way I look and eat less than what I eat at home because of how embarrassed I feel about my food portions. I cancelled a lot of plans and avoided pictures and videos because I hated how I look. And I always wondered why I keep on restricting and losing weight but instead of keeping the weight that I lost I gain all the weight back if not more because of binging. I went onto YouTube like three months ago searching for ways and methods and diets and other stuff to lose weight (like always) and this is where I reached the binge eating disorder topic and this is where I related too much. I felt home.
I decided to collect my courage and go confront my parents about this disorder and that I think that I need to see a doctor or something just to make sure and I haven’t been any sadder than this. I thought I’d find acceptance and support but instead all what they said “ no you don’t eat that way. No we don’t see you do that. We don’t think you have anything wrong. just stop eating and you’ll lose weight. You just want something to blame your weight gain on.” . That broke me. I don’t care if I actually had a binge eating disorder or not I have a problem with food and I should get help for that no matter what. I’ve been trying to convince them to take me to a nutritionist for the past three months but until now they haven’t agreed :( I just want confirmation I want to know that I’m not making things up. I started to sometimes think that I making some things up while I’m acutely not. Thanks to you I’m doing a little better now following your advices. Even if my parents won’t take me I know that I have something and I would get help for it wether it’s a binge eating disorder or not. And even if I have to do that alone without any special help. Thank you so much you really don’t know how much you impacted my life

[assoumasoumaa]

yesterday it was my first day after a long time when i was really feeling down and angry and i didn't binge and i didn't even had the urge to binge like i was normally sad and i didn't think about food as much as was

[auntyamelia]

Allowing myself to eat what I want, all in, feels too scary
I have a few food intolerances, gluten, dairy and fructose
And the arm cellulite is really getting to me
I want to eat healthy, have good health but I'm not there yet 😊

[Mo-tnlv]

Nice to see you're doing great!! Keep it up😁

[lolmac]

Wow it sounds like you had a really really easy ride there!! I'm months in n still just want to eat chocolate and pizza

[jillianr.]

/current exercise regime and thoughts on exercise? "Shoulds" and "shouldn't" when it comes to hypertrophy, strength training, pilates, yes weight, no weights, etc?

[soniaperez]

hi!! thanks for this great video. Re. 6:10, how long did it take for "the excitement to taper off" and for those kinds of things to loose their novelty? xx

[lolabus]

Hi Racheal, your channel really helps me for binge eating. Do you have any idea what can I read about this topic?

[moura]

Can you please make a video about emotional eating? I can’t stop dieting for the fear of letting emotional eating takes over and ending up with gaining uncomfortable number of kilograms.

[marym]

dealing with binge eat( mainly sugar ) but having IBS, and histamine intolerance. I find it harder to do intuitive eating because of my stomach issues. Any advice ?

[jennifert-lewis]

Love this! You give me reassurance about intuitive eating (started a few weeks ago, still feels weird not to be starving after work)! Sorry for the randomness, but I was wondering if you've ever had an injury or something that stopped you exercising during your journey? I have a hip injury at present and can't exercise like I want to which is messing with my head as feel kind of guilty..

[Phoenix-uclo]

How would you do this with a progressive disease like diabetes?

[wallyc]

You have that young Margaret Thatcher look.