Brittany Brown

Have you ever tried to quit your diet and then lost control on food? Here’s Why (And What To About It!)

Or even more frustrating…ended up gaining more weight? :/

I remember going through this vicious cycle over and over again and being so clueless about how to stop it. If you’re like most of us in the 21st century, problems mean one thing: get to Google and hit “search” anddddd that sometimes leaves you more confused than you were before.

In today’s world, you’ll find health coaches and fitness influencers everywhere telling you to STOP dieting. Then they replace diets with strategies “intuitive eating” and “listening to your body.”

This fundamentally is a GOOD thing (because we all know diets don’t for lasting change!). But there is a flip side to this “anti-diet” culture that just might blow your mind (and lead to disaster)…

I myself am a HUGE fan of dropping the diet, but unfortunately, quitting a diet cold turkey for “intuitive eating” can backfire big-time.

It can ultimately make you pack on the pounds, feel defeated, and go right back to what you know best…Dieting. (Only to have the entire cycle repeat itself again…UGH)

I don’t want this to happen to YOU because it only leaves you feeling demotivated about all the efforts you’ve taken previously that were actually setting you out on a new path.

Now that’s the bad news, but the good news is…

There IS a way to break the diet cycle for good without the side effects. You can let go of dieting and upgrade your relationship with food WITHOUT losing control on it and gaining a bunch of weight, and I’m about to share how-to’s in this week’s blog…

Let’s back up for a second and talk about why breaking out of the diet cycle is so important.

Restricting your food (i.e. a diet) causes some funky changes in your brain. It wires your brain into what we call “survival mode.” Your brain thinks that food is scarce. So it triggers you to think about food, have more cravings, and feel compulsive urges to eat.

Then you eat more, slow down your metabolism, stress your body out, gain more weight. All the things that you don’t want! This is why diets from Keto to Atkins and back again just don’t work.

You see, if you’ve been in the diet world for a long time, dieting is all you know. So when you try to stop cold, you’re left in unfamiliar territory. Which can lead you down a scary path if you’re not careful.

After years of food rules and restrictions, what happens when just like that, anything goes?

You realize that you don’t know what to do without the diet rules. Then you get scared. Then you realize that you still have those compulsive urges to eat. And lo and behold, all those forbidden foods are now allowed…

There are three main phases to our step-by-step process.

Phase 1: Take care of your needs FIRST. Your body’s needs come first. So make sure that you’re eating enough food to support it! This means eating meals that leave you feeling warm-bellied, grounded, and ready to go about your day.

Let’s be real. Those “little meals” you read about in Cosmopolitan magazine that supposedly speed up your metabolism actually don’t. A meal should always leave you satisfied, and, an apple and six almonds aren’t gonna do it.

Now, the end goal is to go from restriction to inclusion with food. But it doesn’t happen in one day! Here’s how to re-balance your meals in a gradual, healthy way.

Let’s say you’ve been doing a Keto-like diet and seriously cutting carbs. Quitting the diet and immediately gorging on pizza and french fries (just because you can) is not the way to go! Here’s what to do instead.

Look at the meals you’ve been eating, notice what you’ve cut out, and gradually add in those foods. If your low-carb diet is leaving you cold, choose a food that would make you feel that warm-bellied satisfaction. Then add it in, a little bit at a time.

The idea is to round out your meals in a balanced way. We’re not talking “all or nothing” with any kind of food. Go for reaching a satisfying balance instead, and do it one step at a time.

Phase 2: Break the cycle (it’s all in your head!) Now, I’m not implying that you’re crazy. I’m saying that urges to binge really are all in your head. Your brain, that is!

Say that you’ve gotten through Phase 1 and you’re feeling pretty good about food. Your body’s needs are being met, and you’re feeling satiated and grounded. You even feel confident enough to allow yourself a little bit of the foods that used to trigger you.

Now you need to get to the source of those binge urges, which are the habitual patterns in your brain. The ones that cause you to reach for food when you probably need something else.

Where did those patterns come from?

You see, what you do regularly eventually becomes automatic. You brush your teeth and drive to work every day without thinking about it. If you walked the same path across a grassy field enough, you’d eventually beat down a path. The same principle goes for food-based behavior.

If you’ve been dieting, survival mode and binge urges are all your brain knows. Sure, you can stop physically dieting. But if your mental patterns don’t change, you’ll still be thinking (and eventually behaving) like a serial dieter all over again.

So what do you do about it?

The key is breaking the patterns in your brain that trigger you to binge, and replace them with healthy and supportive patterns. When you break old patterns and shift the way you relate to food, magic happens.

No more waking up and “will powering” your way through the day. Your natural hunger-fullness cues return. You make supportive food choices without even trying. You can even allow yourself to enjoy special food occasions without worry!

Best of all, your body starts to trust you again. It knows you will feed and care for it properly, and doesn’t have to use fear-based survival tactics like cravings and binge urges anymore.

Phase 3: Connecting To And Honoring Your Body. Your natural hunger-fullness cues have returned. You’re rebuilding trust with your body. Now you’re able to connect to and honor your body, and make supportive food choices for life!

This means knowing when the supportive choice is a salad and knowing when it’s a dinner out with friends. You can allow yourself a little freedom without fear. You can support yourself physically with food, and also mentally and emotionally. That’s what we call Food Freedom Forever!

Now, let’s get into the bonus phase that could truly take your healing journey to new heights…

Phase 4: The Deep Stuff. Last but not least, this step can really put you over the top: the deep work. I’m talking about recognizing and healing emotional patterns and triggers that keep you stuck (sometimes without your knowledge).

Not everyone is willing to go there. But let me tell you, if you do, your results will be so much more empowering.

Now, a quick disclaimer: you don’t have to heal every emotional trauma before you start healing your relationship with food. I can tell you that I was a total mess when I started my journey. I had no money, lived on my friend’s couch, just got out of a horrendously toxic relationship–you get the picture. But still, I was able to stop binging and start healing.

However, the deep work made my journey so much more fulfilling and rewarding!

I learned a lot when I took the time to go deeper. I realized that I’d been putting my worth in my appearance. I tried everything to my body size, and to someone else’s idea of beauty.

I also learned to simply be with emotional triggers when they came up, and without turning to food. I learned to let go of my limiting beliefs, the ones that made my entire life all about what I ate and how I looked.

Now, I repeat–you don’t have to have your emotions and beliefs totally sorted out before you start the phases. But including this work will truly empower you to become the best version of yourself.

So these are the phases to take you from diet-obsessed to food freedom! Eating adequately, ending survival mode, and breaking old patterns is 90% of it. Healing emotions and limiting beliefs is a beautiful addition to take you the rest of the way!

The path to food freedom forever can be scary, especially if dieting has been your M.O. all your life. After all, if you quit the diet and don’t know what to do next, the default is going back to what you know–the diet.

But I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to do this alone!

Click the image below where I’ve got a special gift for you! We call them, “Craving Cards”, and they’re one of our most popular tools!

If you ever feel night time cravings, sugar cravings, the urge to just say “screw it I’m going to start my diet over tomorrow”, or like you need a little body confidence pick me up… 

Just grab a card, go through the prompts, and shift it instantly!

Click the image above and let me know where to send them!

You’ll also get mini demo video training sessions for each card where I share how to use the cards and some of my best tips for food freedom forever!

With our Craving Cards and Demo Series… 

You’ll learn how to stop cravings in their tracks, feel confident, and get back your power, fast! 

Love,
Brittany

PS: Want the exact freedom and ease with our foods that myself and thousands of our clients get to experience?

In our Beating Binge Eating Blueprint (BBEB), I show you how to make this happen in just 8 weeks!

Many of our students have seen a DRASTIC difference in as little as a few days!

It’s our signature program, and up until recently, it was $3000 or more to join.

For now, you can get it as a part of our Food Freedom Collection for practically free by clicking the image below!

There is no catch…every resource I’ve created for food freedom and body confidence will land straight in your if you just click that image below and let me know where to send it!

Just like there are a million diets out there, there are countless strategies that claim they can cure binge and emotional eating.

And just like diets, I’ve been there and done that with all of those things. I’m guessing you’ve probably tried a fair share of them yourself.

One of the more popular overeating cures out there is called “intuitive eating.”

When I was stuck on the diet-overeat-repeat rollercoaster, I was desperate for change. I knew that dieting only made things worse, and I needed another plan.

Intuitive eating seemed to be the anti-diet I’d been looking for, so I went all-in. I listened to my body like you were supposed to, hoping it would “tell” me what it needed.

Funny thing, but when I “listened to my body,” it told me to eat macaroni and cheese, Doritos, and pizza.

Where did I go wrong with intuitive eating? Was this “listen to your body” thing a joke, or just something that worked for everyone but me?

Turns out that I honestly didn’t know what intuitive eating meant.

Intuitive eating can be a useful tool. But there’s more to it than sitting back, listening to your body and hoping it tells you to eat kale salad instead of donuts.

Ready to learn the missing piece in the intuitive eating puzzle, and fine-tune your body’s natural hunger-fullness cues, and finally be free with food?

Stay with me and find out what intuitive eating really means, and how to truly listen to your body and actually get the answers you need!

One thing I love about intuitive eating is that it does encourage you to stop dieting. If you’ve hung out here before, you know that nothing sets you up for failure faster than a traditional restrictive eating plan.

But here’s the crazy part. If you’ve been dieting for most of your life, your body and brain are used to it. Abruptly stopping the diet for total food freedom can throw you into complete chaos.

Here’s how it frequently goes…

You stop dieting cold-turkey and try to “listen to your body.” But because you’ve been on the diet treadmill for so long, when you suddenly throw out all the rules, it triggers an overeating frenzy.

Then you get freaked out because you’re eating everything in sight. You’re terrified you’re going to gain weight, so you quit this intuitive eating thing and go right back to dieting.

I tried to shift from total restriction to total freedom. Turns out that instead, it lead to a food free-for-all.

Before I knew it, I was back to what I knew best: diet, overeat, guilt, repeat.

There are a few steps you need to take between full-on dieting and food freedom. Unfortunately, the usual intuitive eating methods pretty much skip them all.

The truth is that you have to get your body and brain out of survival mode before listening to your body will work. You can’t hear what your body is saying when its natural cues have been dulled by excessive dieting and fear-induced eating.

In other words, you’ve got to get out of stress eating mode before your body will actually start talking to you.

The transition starts in phases. I’ll show you what those phases are, and how to work through them one step at a time.

Phase One: Eat adequately. This might sound like a counter-intuitive eating question, but are you eating enough? I’m not talking about going on a food frenzy. I mean eating enough to take care of your body’s needs.

Start by eating balanced meals that have a variety of foods, including carbs (#sorrynotsorry, Keto army!). Meals that care for your body’s needs and leave you satisfied for at least a few hours.

Not those “mini-meals” like half an apple and four almonds, like Cosmopolitan magazine might tell you. It should leave you feeling slightly full but not stuffed, and not thinking about food for three to four hours.

Forget what diet culture says about feeling a little bit hungry. Make sure you’re satisfied.

Phase Two: Recognize your personal hunger-fullness cues. How do you know to “eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full?” If only it were that easy, right?

It honestly can be that simple, but it doesn’t just happen the minute you stop dieting.

Your body needs a chance to get out of the survival response that years of dieting brought on. That needs to end before your body actually speaks to you again.

So the more you ease yourself out of the diet-scarcity-survival response, the more your body will tell you when it needs to eat, and when it’s satisfied.

We all have slightly different hunger cues, hints that show up way before your stomach starts growling. (That’s more of a demand to eat than a signal!)

My hunger cues usually show up around my midsection, near the solar plexus. I also know I need to refuel when I start feeling just a little spacey and start losing concentration. That’s how I know it’s time for a nourishing and satisfying snack.

Now, remember that there’s a difference between your body asking or nourishment and wanting to eat something just because it’s there. This is the difference between listening to your body and listening to your mind triggers.

It might take time for your natural cues to return, especially if you’ve been dieting for a long time. So take it easy on yourself, and practice checking in with yourself, and start recognizing the difference between cravings and genuine hunger.

Phase Three: What is your body really asking for? Intuitive eating tells you to listen to your body, but it doesn’t really tell you how to interpret what it says.

You might get the idea that your body will “say” it wants a carrot or a salad in clear terms. But that’s not quite how it happens. (At least not in the beginning!)

These days I get pretty clear signals from my body, and navigating food choices is easy. But when I first started listening to my body, all I heard was a lot of chaotic screams.

So the more I got to know my body’s natural cues, the clearer its messages became. But it took time, and I didn’t start with direct questions (or immediate answers).

I started by asking myself how I wanted to feel, then decided what foods would support me in that.

Some foods help you feel grounded and calm. Others help you feel more energized. Still, others give you that check-out, celebrate with special treats, food-coma kind of vibe.

The key is knowing how you want to feel and choose a meal that will make you feel that way. It’s an essential step in connecting with your body, learning its cues, and interpreting what it has to tell you.

Here are a few examples of how this works…

Let’s say one day, I have a video shoot, and I need a meal that will get through four hours of camera time. I’d want something that would energize and sustain me for a long day in the studio.

My food choices would be very different if I needed to decompress after a stressful day. In that case, I’d be looking for a meal that was grounding and peaceful.

So let your body tell you what it needs based on how you want to feel, and you’re well on track to making intuitive eating work for you.

Phase Four: Build trust with yourself and your body. Now that you’re taking care of your body’s needs and you’re eating adequately, you’ll notice that something amazing starts to happen.

You begin building trust with your body.

Over time, you’ll eliminate those triggers that send your body into panic mode. You won’t be nearly as likely to give in to cravings, because your brain and body knows that food is not scarce, and you’re going to feed it properly.

This is one of the most significant advantages of getting out of survival mode and connecting with your body. It takes some time and patience, but the results are totally worth it.

So that’s the real deal with intuitive eating!

It can take time and patience to restore your body’s natural. But if you take your time and follow these tips, you’ll soon regain the connection to your body. That is what makes listening to your body and intuitive eating possible!

This can be a bumpy transition at times, though. Like we said before, intuitive eating is a useful tool, but it doesn’t magically work overnight. It’s pretty tough to go from strict dieting to “listening to your body” without taking the necessary steps.

That’s where my team and I can help!

Click the image below where I’ve got a special gift for you! We call them, “Craving Cards”, and they’re one of our most popular tools!

If you ever feel night time cravings, sugar cravings, the urge to just say “screw it I’m going to start my diet over tomorrow”, or like you need a little body confidence pick me up… 

Just grab a card, go through the prompts, and shift it instantly!

Click the image above and let me know where to send them!

You’ll also get mini demo video training sessions for each card where I share how to use the cards and some of my best tips for food freedom forever!

With our Craving Cards and Demo Series… 

You’ll learn how to stop cravings in their tracks, feel confident, and get back your power, fast! 

Love,
Brittany

PS: Want the exact freedom and ease with our foods that myself and thousands of our clients get to experience?

In our Beating Binge Eating Blueprint (BBEB), I show you how to make this happen in just 8 weeks!

Many of our students have seen a DRASTIC difference in as little as a few days!

It’s our signature program, and up until recently it was $3000 or more to join.

For now, you can get it as a part of our Food Freedom Collection for practically free by clicking the image below!

There is no catch…every resource I’ve created for food freedom and body confidence will land straight in your if you just click that image below and let me know where to send it!

I struggled with binge and emotional eating for years. And let me tell you, during those agonizing times, there were few things quite as painful as the morning after…

The morning after a night of binging or overeating that this…

I would wake up feeling gross, bloated, and shameful. And I’d almost always default to one of two actions.

I’d either decide that I’d already blown it, so I might as well keep eating and “start over tomorrow.” OR, I’d go crazy with a rebound diet, thinking I’d “make up” for the binge by eating clean and undoing the damage.

So it was either keep binging or barely eat.. Both were painful options. Neither of them worked.

No fun. And I know with this time of year, overeating can easily happen even for people who don’t struggle with food.

But what if there was a better way to bounce back when you’ve overdone it at the table? The good news is that there IS, and I’m going to share it with you here!

Overeating doesn’t make you weak, undisciplined, or broken. It’s just a thing that happened, and you can recover from it quickly, if you know how.

In the video below, I’ll show you how to release the guilt and take care of yourself when overeating strikes, and without making it mean anything about the person you really are.

Step 1: Recognize that overeating incidents happen. The first step is to treat any overeating session like what it is: an isolated incident. It’s just something that happened, and it doesn’t mean a thing about you.

Everyone overeats from time to time. It’s Thanksgiving dinner. You went to a party. You’re on vacation. Even on some random day, you might have an overeating moment.

So if you indulged at the table, know that you’re NOT a bad person. You don’t have a willpower problem. It doesn’t mean that you’re broken, flawed, or undisciplined.

Don’t make a big thing of it. Simply acknowledge it, and don’t punish yourself for it. Be honest about what happened, be kind, then take the steps to take care of yourself.

Which brings me to Step 2!

Step 2: Take care of yourself. Instead of punishing yourself for what you think you did, give yourself a little love and compassion. Listen to your body and honor its needs.

If you feel sluggish, ask yourself what you need to feel more energized. Maybe that’s eating nourishing food. It could be going for a walk or a run. It could be a yoga class, some meditation time, or a bit of rest.

But here’s the most important part: take action in the name of self-care, not self-punishment.

Don’t try to make up for what happened the night before, just give yourself what you need in this moment. Take your power back from food and do something for YOU.

Go for a walk, or sit in nature. Call a friend. Do some yoga, or have a dance break. Whatever sounds fun and supportive!

Just remember to take action from a place of loving care, not a place of punishment and hate.

Step 3: Stop the all-or-nothing (i.e. diet) mindset. This is a more proactive step, but it’s worth mentioning (since it might be one of the reasons why you overeat in the first place).

The more you diet, the worse your eventual food rebounds will be.

The stricter you are with food in your day-to-day life, the more likely you’ll lose control with food if you’re given a chance.

Here’s how that works…

Let’s say you’re on a super-strict, low-carb, low-fat, or low-whatever diet, and you’ve been on it for a while. What happens when you go to a party, a big dinner with friends, or at the Thanksgiving table?

Of course. You go all-out and raid the buffet table. You probably gorge on everything you can find. Because it’s now or never with the “cheat” food, right?

That’s what I call the “all or nothing” mentality. It’s the mindset that you’ve got to eat all of that forbidden food NOW before it’s gone.

Bottom line: the more you diet, the more likely you’ll overeat when you get the chance. That “now or never” attitude will take over, and you’ll eat everything in sight.

But if you live a more balanced lifestyle every day, you’re less likely to lose control, even on special occasions.

So allow yourself a little more freedom on the regular. Connect to your body every day and honor its needs. The more you use these two powerful practices, the less overeating will be an issue in the first place.

So remember this: overeating happens to everyone. It’s a normal thing, and it’s totally OK.

There is a natural ebb and flow to life, and food is a part of it. Embrace it instead of fighting it.

So, be as proactive as you can. Break out of the diet cycle and the “on-track, off-track” eating madness. Listen to your body and take care of yourself.

And if you have a binge or emotional eating moment, treat it as an isolated incident. Then take care of yourself in the aftermath.

I know this is easier said than done. But one thing is for sure–punishing yourself for overeating incidents just ISN’T worth it. Not only is it painful, but it also doesn’t work in the long run.

When I decided to stop punishing myself for overeating moments and put these practices to use, amazing changes happened. I recovered more quickly. I found more freedom with food. Eventually, I let go of binge and emotional eating for good.

This is not to say that I never overeat at all. I’m just like anyone else, and I have moments where I eat more than I planned! But when it does happen, I know how to handle it without shame or restriction.

This is the kind of freedom that I want for you, too!

If you need any support in this area, we are here for you!

Click the image below where I’ve got a special gift for you! We call them, “Craving Cards”, and they’re one of our most popular tools!

If you ever feel night time cravings, sugar cravings, the urge to just say “screw it I’m going to start my diet over tomorrow”, or like you need a little body confidence pick me up… 

Just grab a card, go through the prompts, and shift it instantly!

Click the image above and let me know where to send them!

You’ll also get mini demo video training sessions for each card where I share how to use the cards and some of my best tips for food freedom forever!

With our Craving Cards and Demo Series… 

You’ll learn how to stop cravings in their tracks, feel confident, and get back your power, fast! 

Love,
Brittany

PS: Want the exact freedom and ease with our foods that myself and thousands of our clients get to experience?

In our Beating Binge Eating Blueprint (BBEB), I show you how to make this happen in just 8 weeks!

Many of our students have seen a DRASTIC difference in as little as a few days!

It’s our signature program, and up until recently, it was $3000 or more to join.

For now, you can get it as a part of our Food Freedom Collection for practically free by clicking the image below!

There is no catch…every resource I’ve created for food freedom and body confidence will land straight in your if you just click that image below and let me know where to send it!

If you’ve ever struggled with binge or emotional eating, I bet you’ve spent a lot of time desperately seeking solutions.

Back in the day, I used to scour the internet looking for something–anything–that would help me stop my body-food struggles. I’ve been there, and I get it.

More than likely, the solutions you’ve found have been temporary solutions at best–and have backfired at worst.

So why doesn’t all that expert binge eating advice actually work? Does it mean that there are no real solutions, and you’re doomed to struggle with binge eating forever?

The answer is NO. You don’t have to stay stuck in the binge eating struggle for the rest of your life. No matter what you’ve read online or been told by a therapist, there IS a way out.

I had full-blown, massive, daily binges back in the day. Now I am completely free, and will never binge again. And it wasn’t because I found the perfect diet or went through 10 years of therapy.

Not only have I freed myself, but I’ve also helped thousands of women find their way to food freedom.

You DON’T have to struggle with binge eating for the rest of your life. You don’t have to rely on diets, willpower, or therapy. You can set yourself free once and for all without pain, shame, or struggle.

Sound too good to be true? Then you’re going to LOVE what I have to say! Read on (and check out the video below) and find out why you don’t have to struggle with binge eating forever!

First of all, what’s up with the conventional binge eating wisdom, and why does it usually fail so badly? That’s because it’s based on faulty logic and outdated ideas.

From my own experience and in working with clients, I’ve noticed two different trends based on two different schools of thought.

The first one is all about willpower and motivation. That means, of course, dieting.

You have to eat “healthy,” eat clean, stay on track with food to keep binging under control. It sets you up for a life of dieting, restriction, and control.

The second camp is geared toward those with more severe eating issues. It’s based on the idea that binge eating is a serious disorder, and you’ll just have to live with it.

That means that you’re going to need constant therapy and treatment, probably for the rest of your life.

Sure, you might “tame the beast” or learn emotional coping mechanisms. Maybe you’ll succeed at healing some of your past trauma or learn to keep triggers at bay. But it’ll always be a struggle.

(Interestingly enough, this is a common philosophy at many binge eating treatment centers…)

So there are two schools of thought. Both of them are based on faulty assumptions. Neither of them work, and I’ll tell you why.

They don’t address the real root causes of binge eating, so they can’t provide lasting solutions.

But here’s the good news. You don’t have to go with either of these schools of thought. There IS a better way. And it starts with understanding the real triggers behind binge eating.

After all, if you know where binge triggers really come from, you can deal with them in a way that actually works!

Now, let’s get down to the good stuff. I’m going to share the top 3 root causes of binging, and what you can do to stop them from triggering you.

You don’t have to struggle forever. You just need to know what you’re dealing with!

Let’s go ALL in and set the record straight about root causes of binge eating–and what to do to shut them down, once and for all.

Binge Eating Trigger #1: Dieting. Most of our clients at Beating Binge Eating have spent their lives dieting like crazy. Everything from Keto to Paleo to Atkins and back again.

But the unfortunate truth is that it doesn’t matter what diet you choose. In the end they all lead you to the same place.

That’s because dieting itself is, quite frankly, one of the biggest binge triggers there is.

Diets mean control. They thrive on a scarcity mentality, too. Here’s what I mean by that…

Restricting your food actually makes your brain believe that food is scarce. And when your brain perceives scarcity, it goes into overdrive to correct the situation.

This means you think about food all the time. You eventually get triggered to overeat. Both of these things make you a lot more vulnerable to binging.

Crazy as it sounds, the one thing that you think will prevent binging is the thing that actually triggers binging. So step #1 to dropping the struggle is letting go of the diet.

Binge Eating Trigger #2: Managing stress and overwhelm with food. Here’s a question for you. How comfortable are you with your emotions? If you said “not very,” you’re not alone. Difficulty in managing stress and emotions often leads to a warped relationship with food.

It’s a lot more tempting to push down emotions rather than let them out, and food is one of the most common emotion-squelchers out there.

Emotional triggers make you reach for food. If you’re not careful, food becomes a habitual go-to when life gets too stressful.

But if you take your time, and learn to simply BE with your emotions, your relationship with food can radically shift, too.

Binge Eating Trigger #3: Patterns turning into habit. Triggers create responses. The more that you respond in the same way (like binging and emotional eating), the more you create behavior patterns.

That means that if you default to binge triggers often enough, binging becomes a regular thing.
Your brain becomes what we call “wired to binge.” Behaviors start repeating on autopilot, sometimes before you know what happened.

Here’s a quick analogy. Say that you were on one side of a grassy field, and you wanted to walk to the other side. What would happen if you walked the same path from one end to the other 100 times?

You’d eventually create a well-beaten path across the field. This path becomes the path of least resistance.

This is what happens when your brain becomes “wired to binge.” You default to binge triggers often enough that binging becomes your new normal.

Now, let’s go back to the grassy field example. Suppose that a roadblock suddenly showed up in the middle of that path you created. What happens next? You’d need to create a new way to get to the same place.

If you repeated the new path often enough, it would eventually become the new path of least resistance. So what does this mean?

You might have one default pattern set now, but you’re not stuck with it forever. You can start creating a new pattern any time you wish.

What if you could create a new path that led you to food freedom instead of binging?

Believe it or not, you can create a new pattern of freedom and ease with food. A pattern that supports you in being happy, confident, and free from cravings.

That might sound impossible, especially if you’ve been struggling with binge and emotional eating for a long time.

I’ve been where you are, and here’s what I want you to know…

You don’t have to spend your life dieting, fighting cravings, controlling your food.. You don’t have to be in therapy forever. You’re not addicted to food and you’re not beyond help.

All you need is the right tools to help you break free.

Click the image below where I’ve got a special gift for you! We call them, “Craving Cards”, and they’re one of our most popular tools!

If you ever feel night time cravings, sugar cravings, the urge to just say “screw it I’m going to start my diet over tomorrow”, or like you need a little body confidence pick me up… 

Just grab a card, go through the prompts, and shift it instantly!

Click the image above and let me know where to send them!

You’ll also get mini demo video training sessions for each card where I share how to use the cards and some of my best tips for food freedom forever!

With our Craving Cards and Demo Series… 

You’ll learn how to stop cravings in their tracks, feel confident, and get back your power, fast! 

Love,
Brittany

PS: Want the exact freedom and ease with our foods that myself and thousands of our clients get to experience?

In our Beating Binge Eating Blueprint (BBEB), I show you how to make this happen in just 8 weeks!

Many of our students have seen a DRASTIC difference in as little as a few days!

It’s our signature program, and up until recently, it was $3000 or more to join.

For now, you can get it as a part of our Food Freedom Collection for practically free by clicking the image below!

There is no catch…every resource I’ve created for food freedom and body confidence will land straight in your if you just click that image below and let me know where to send it!

Let’s face it. Sometimes this “adulting” thing gets pretty stressful. Sometimes after an insane day you feel overwhelmed, anxious, and exhausted. At that point, any quick-fix solution sounds good.

But if you’re like I was, you frequently find yourself standing in front of the refrigerator looking for stress relief (and a LOT more often than you wish you did.)

Maybe you head straight for the vending machine at work when the day gets crazy. Or you grab a snack (or two) out of the cabinet as you pack your kid’s lunch (while said kid screams in the background.)

I bet you also know by now that refrigerators, cabinets, and vending machines don’t have the answers to life’s toughest moments.

Let’s be real. When you grab a bag of chips for emotional support, you usually get to the bottom of the bag before you get to the bottom of the stress.

Even worse, you set yourself up for damaging default patterns. You create habits that lead to binging, weight gain, and perpetual struggle with food.

But nonetheless, stress eating is still a thing.. Food is still all too easy to reach for when you’re desperate to make your stress go away.

If you’ve had enough of anxiety eating for one lifetime, read on!

I’ll show you how to stop stress-based eating once and for all. You’ll learn better ways to handle triggering emotions than standing in front of the refrigerator, looking for answers that food can’t give you.

Stop stress eating and start creating a more peaceful relationship with your food (and yourself) starting right now!

Read on, and I’ll show you how.

Nobody likes to feel stressed out. But the choices you’ve been making to quell that stress might be doing more harm than good. Turning to food is definitely one of them.

The more you respond to stress with food, the more you create a default pattern. Eventually when your body screams STRESS, your brain triggers you to eat.

But what if there were better ways to manage stress than gorging on cookies and candy? The good news is that there are–and I’m sharing them with you today!

There are steps that will help prevent food-stress triggers, and steps to deal with the triggers when they arise.

The proactive side helps you prepare for heightened stress states so you can manage them more effectively. The reactive side shows you what to do in the moment when you’re feeling the sting of stress.

Let’s start with what you can do to prevent stress eating in the first place.

Stress Management Strategy #1: The Proactive Side. Think of stress management as a tank, and that tank is filled with your ability to manage stress. As you go through your day, you rely on the reserves to deal with crazy moments as they come up.

So every decision that you make, every overwhelming moment, screaming kid, traffic jam, or work incident takes a little bit out of your tank.

If you’re not careful to keep your tank on full, you’ll eventually burn out like a car that ran out of gas (and reach for the nearest snack you can find).

So fill your stress management tank proactively. That way, when you really need it, you’ve got the “gas” to keep going with your day.

Here’s the deal. When you’re running on empty, you can’t expect to handle a stressful moment like a Zen master. But if you keep your reserves on high, you’ll stand a lot better chance of moving through life’s trials with (relative) ease.

What can you do to keep your tank full so that when life happens, you don’t head straight for the refrigerator?

You don’t necessarily have to take extravagant actions like bubble baths or massages. Simple things will definitely make a difference!

Simple actions like deep and intentional breathing work wonders. Checking in with yourself periodically for a mindfulness moment is a great thing to do. You could listen to a favorite song or take a short walk.

Small actions add up fast. They help you release stress instead of shutting it down. They keep your stress management tank full without resorting to candy, caffeine, or chips.

Because the more you go through the day, drinking coffee to stay alert and pushing down every stressful moment, the worse it gets.

But if you take proactive action to keep your tank full, it builds up resiliency for those stressful moments. You’re a lot less likely to turn to food when life gets crazy.

Right now, take a moment and think of a few ways to fill your stress management tank. What favorite actions can you take throughout your day to keep your tank on full?

Stress Management Strategy #2: The Reactive Side. Now, how do you handle those unexpected stress surges without going for the cabinet?

This is getting into acute emotional eating territory, and those triggers can make you want to grab the first snack you see.

With this kind of emotional eating, it usually goes from stressful event to grabbing a snack, and without a pause. If there is a pause, it turns into a mental downward spiral.

You say things to yourself like, “should I eat this, should I not eat this?” and “you’ve had a stressful day, go ahead and eat it,” and “yes, eat it. No, wait, don’t eat it.”

The key is to put some space between the stress and the response.

Pause and connect with yourself. Ask yourself what you need, and if you honestly want that cookie, or you’ve just had a rough day.

With that pause, you could do many things. Breathing is helpful. Emotional state changes are useful, too. You can also include this question:

“I know I want food, but is there anything else I need? How am I actually feeling, and what do I need?”

If you decide to go ahead and eat something, that’s fine. Just be sure you’re choosing from a place of connection instead of stress.

Not that getting to that centered place is necessarily that easy, especially when you first start practicing. It’s not always easy to just BE with your emotions.

Maybe you push past these moments. You might live life in overdrive, like so many of us do. We’re talking about plowing through every day with a long to-do list, a jammed calendar of obligations, and not much rest.

But then you sit down for a moment, and it all hits you. You’re left with nothing but yourself and your stuffed emotions. This is when many of us reach for a distraction of any kind.

You start scrolling on Social Media. You watch something silly on TV. Or reach for the cabinet and grab anything that you find.

All these things are recipes for self-sabotage.

The reactive strategy is to stop, pause, and make space before you make a choice.

During this pause, don’t fight yourself, or make yourself wrong. Simply connect with yourself and honor your feelings. Then decide what you need to feel the way you want to feel.

You might have noticed I frequently encourage you to ask yourself what you truly need. It’s a part of both the proactive and reactive strategies I outline here. That’s because it’s one of the most important things you can ask yourself.

I ask myself this question all the time, even now. These honest self-check ins have helped me get to a place of genuine freedom.

I mean a place without binge and emotional eating. Where you can get through a stressful day without relying on comfort food. Where weight releases naturally without dieting or restriction.

These strategies were such game-changers for me. Now, I want to support you in making them work for you!

Click the image below where I’ve got a special gift for you! We call them, “Craving Cards”, and they’re one of our most popular tools!

If you ever feel night time cravings, sugar cravings, the urge to just say “screw it I’m going to start my diet over tomorrow”, or like you need a little body confidence pick me up… 

Just grab a card, go through the prompts, and shift it instantly!

Click the image above and let me know where to send them!

You’ll also get mini demo video training sessions for each card where I share how to use the cards and some of my best tips for food freedom forever!

With our Craving Cards and Demo Series… 

You’ll learn how to stop cravings in their tracks, feel confident, and get back your power, fast! 

Love,
Brittany

PS: Want the exact freedom and ease with our foods that myself and thousands of our clients get to experience?

In our Beating Binge Eating Blueprint (BBEB), I show you how to make this happen in just 8 weeks!

Many of our students have seen a DRASTIC difference in as little as a few days!

It’s our signature program, and up until recently, it was $3000 or more to join.

For now, you can get it as a part of our Food Freedom Collection for practically free by clicking the image below!

There is no catch…every resource I’ve created for food freedom and body confidence will land straight in your if you just click that image below and let me know where to send it!