DR MARIANNE MILLER
CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS
Addressing Triggers and Cravings During a Binge Eating Program: 5 Strategies that Help With Binge Eating
Whether you live in London, Manchester, or Birmingham in the UK, or whether you live in San Diego, Houston, or Washington DC in the US, or anywhere in between, it can be so helpful to join a binge eating program that helps you reduce and eliminate binge eating episodes. Such binge eating programs also teach you to manage obsessive thoughts: Imagine what it would be like to go from thinking about food, eating, and body image 90% of the time to 10% of the time. It’s amazing! I know. I’ve lived it. I’ve also created an online, self-paced binge eating program to help you get to that place, too. Regardless of what binge eating program you join, it’s really about finding freedom with food and with your body. Throughout such binge eating programs, you still may struggle with triggers and cravings. Don’t worry—I’m here to help! Here are five strategies on what to do when such triggers and cravings come up.
How to Find the Right Binge Eating Therapist for Your Needs: 5 Ways to Get Help for Binge Eating
Finding a decent therapist is hard. Finding the right binge eating therapist in California or Texas is even more difficult. It’s partly because many eating disorder therapists don’t have much experience and training in binge eating disorder. Also, many individuals struggling with binge eating are in larger bodies, and they face judgment, stereotyping, oppression, and accessibility issues on a daily basis. Most therapists are unaware of such issues. If you grapple with binge eating, you’ve likely tried a lot of coaches, physicians, dietitians, and perhaps even eating disorder therapists who just haven’t clicked. You’ve felt misunderstood, invalidated, minimized, and ridiculed. Finding an experienced, compassionate binge eating therapist who knows the complexities of binge eating disorder is key. Here are five ways on how to do it.
Navigating Social Situations: Overcoming Binge Eating Challenges
Whether you live in San Diego, London, NYC, or elsewhere, navigating social situations when you are in recovery from binge eating takes a delicate touch. People may not realize that even choosing a restaurant or deciding what takeout to eat as a group or cooking altogether can be fraught with anxiety. It’s important to cope ahead in order to overcome binge eating challenges when you’re with friends, family, or even in work settings.
Understanding Binge Eating: Causes, Solutions, and Coping Strategies
A lot of my coaching and therapy clients come to me feeling confused about binge eating and are unsure as to why it developed and unclear about how to stop. Whether you’re struggling with binge eating in San Diego, NYC, London, or Atlanta, it can feel really overwhelming. You may even be experiencing a lot of shame. Here’s a few causes, solutions, and coping strategies to help you reduce and eliminate binge eating episodes so you can gain a life worth living!
An Open Letter to People Struggling With Binge Eating this Thanksgiving
This week is hard. I get it.
It's Thanksgiving. 🦃
And it's so difficult to feel thankful with binge eating disorder in California, Colorado, Florida, NYC, Chicago, wherever, when . . .
👉 You're struggling to get out of bed in the morning.
👉 You're dreading seeing your family on Thanksgiving.
👉 You can't stop thinking about food and eating.
👉 You feel terrified that people will comment on your body.
Where to Practice Mindfulness in New York City When You’re Struggling with Binge Eating Disorder this Fall
Binge eating is isolating. There is so much shame involved that it’s easy to hide your binge behaviors and move forward as though you’re like everyone else. In a place like New York City, the biggest city in the United States, it’s amazing how alone you can feel in the midst of nearly 9 million people. But you can. Especially when you have binge eating disorder. That’s why I want to suggest five calm places to practice mindfulness in NYC. I also include a mindful tip that you can do at each location.
An Open Letter to High Achievers Struggling with Body Image and Binge Eating
Hey there high achievers, high performers, and perfectionists in California, New York, etc., who struggle with body image and binge eating. I’m talking directly to you. I, too, am a perfectionist, I’m a high achiever and high performer. I’ve also felt stuck in the binge eating cycle and wrestled with negative body image. It sucks to be amazing at every area of your life except for food, eating, and body image. You are so effective at what you do that it’s difficult not to be able to figure this darn thing out. That’s why I’m writing this letter to you. I want to give you a path outta here. I want to give you hope.
How Does Binge Eating Disorder Differ from Bulimia Nervosa?
Fighting binge eating in San Diego is hard enough. Struggling with urges to get rid of the food afterward adds another challenge. When binge eating or bulimia is present, it’s more difficult to grab life by the horns and hang on for a wild, fun ride. As I’m siting in my office in San Diego, California, listening to the baby birds chirp in the nest outside my window, I’m thinking about how binge eating and bulimia really hijacks people’s lives. Whether you live in California, or anywhere else in the world, I hope that my message is coming directly to you—the message that both binge eating disorder and bulimia are complex brain disorders. They have similarities and differences. Despite how hard it is to have bulimia and binge eating disorder, people CAN recover from both of them. I promise.