Brittany Brown

I know the feeling all too well. Waking up the day after a binge, foggy minded, food hangover, bloated, water retention, puffy eyes, clothes feeling tighter, not wanting to get out of bed…

And those are just the physical symptoms. How about the emotional and mental…sadness, guilt, shame, criticism, disappointment in yourself, fear if never beating this, fear of gaining weight….

Then the plotting…

“How will I make up for what I did last night?”

“What can I eat today to “get back on track”?”

“Another day of starting over, I’m going to eat ___ now, and ___ later and I can get this weight off in a day if I work out…”

Looking at the gym class schedule… “What cardio can I do to sweat the most? Will I have time for the sauna?”

Looking at diets online….“Ok if I stick to this diet, I can lose X pounds this week and next, which means I will be X weight by the holiday party…”

ENOUGH.

Every one of those methods (and many more) lead me right back to the diet binge cycle which kept me trapped for years. Control, restriction, and any manipulating of your body from a place of force and fear will not work, in fact the attempts at control are exactly what prompt the binges or overeating sessions in the first place.

Dieting is Dead, and I talk about why it doesn’t work in this blog post here. 

If you’re ready to officially step off the diet-binge roller coaster for good, and want to know exactly what to do after a binge, then here are 7 simple steps to kick start your journey to food freedom forever™!

I will be going into these and more in detail in our Holiday Eating Survival Guide Q&A and Training Call Series! Reserve your spot by clicking here<<

 

What to Do After a Binge

 

1. Treat Your Binge as an Isolated Incident, Not Starting Over

You’ve been at this for a while, I get it. One step back feels like you’re standing at the bottom of a mountain and have the entire thing to climb but that’s simply not the case. You ate a lot, that’s it. It does NOT mean that every step you’ve moved forward until this point is invalidated. It doesn’t mean that you gained so much weight and you’ll never release it. It just means that there’s a little further to go, something to learn, something to shift, and you can use all of your momentum and progress before that’s worked before to serve you now. Focus on how far you’ve come, instead of how far you have to go.

What can you acknowledge yourself for? What have you learned so far? What can you use from your journey to support you in this moment?

 

2. Recognize the Binge Means NOTHING About You

When you truly understand where your urges to binge come from (these videos will help: Part One & Part Two) that you can see that they are coming from automatic patterns in a portion of your brain that’s not actually where your personality and higher consciousness is stored. That’s the true you, and unfortunately your programming in the levels of your brain that are responsible for automatic behavior is just a little off and has formed an automatic pattern called binge eating.

When you can separate yourself from the incident and be objective about it, instead of judging yourself and making yourself feel like a bad person, you’ll get freedom to learn and move forward. We go into detail in this process in our Beating Binge Eating Blueprint Program and this is one of the main reasons why our clients have such a huge success rate.

There is nothing wrong with you! You are not broken. There’s nothing to fix. You’re just disconnected from your power in this department, and with the right system you can restore it.

 

3. Foster Belief In Yourself

Beliefs are the blueprint and fabric of our reality. If you have underlying fears and limiting beliefs like:

• I’m not good enough to do this
• I’m not worthy of love, success, and happiness
• I’ll never break free from binge eating this is my struggle
• I never follow through with anything I won’t be able to follow through with this
• I always fail I might as well not try

And more, you’re literally creating a self-fulfilling prophecy for yourself that will always pull you back to old self-sabotaging behavior. Aside from shifting brain patterns, working through limiting beliefs is one of the most instrumental parts in the process of freedom from binge and emotional eating, that’s why we focus an entire week in the Beating Binge Eating Blueprint Program on shifting these!

In short, you and your results stem from what you believe about yourself at a subconscious level so it’s very important to be committed to working day in and out to fostering belief in yourself and nurturing empowering beliefs that set you up for a fun, fulfilled, and freedom fueled life!

You are worthy of food freedom forever, and you are capable of it no matter where you are on your journey.

 

4. Focus on Nourishment

Restricting, making up for what you ate, or intense control over what you’re eating is most likely the exact thing that got you to the binge in the first place. Even if you want to skip breakfast the next day, having a nourishing balanced breakfast and meals (and no this doesn’t mean super clean, low carb, or anything of the sort) is absolutely imperative for your success. If anything you’ll want to eat a little more than normal the next day, in a balanced way, to ensure your brain doesn’t think you’re restricting and kick on your survival mechanisms that will drive you to eat. This goes for not only releasing caloric restriction, but you want to be easy on yourself mentally and emotionally too which we will talk about in step 6!

For this step, focus on what you can have and what you can give yourself that will make you feel really good instead of what you’re cutting out. Cutting out anything will trigger another binge. Willpower is non-existent when survival mechanisms are activated because of restriction, and nourishment will help you stop fighting your body, and start working with it.

 

5. Self Care

How is punishment and self-criticism working out of you? Sit with that for a second.

Ok, you see? What’s the definition of insanity…Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.

It’s time to break the cycle. We’ll talk about the mental and emotional side of this in step 6, but for this step know we are talking about action. Sometimes the mind will take a little longer to release things and process things emotionally, so you’ll want to nourish and care for yourself and your body as you are doing the internal work to release what happened and move on in an empowering way.

How can you take care of yourself? How can you nourish yourself? How can you recover? How can you relax?

Self-care is in the outward expression of love for yourself and this struggle will never be transformed with more fear, criticism, punishment, and blame…only with more love.

 

6. Compassion and Forgiveness

You’re human. You’re messy. We all are. Welcome to the club, there are about 7.5 billion of us crazies running around on this spinning rock that’s flying through space rotating around a ball of fire.

After the dust has settled, and you’re out of the emotional spiral, it’s time to forgive. You are doing the BEST that you can, with the information that you have right now. There are biological, physiological, mental, and emotional systems at play that contribute to the cycle of binge eating. It’s not as simple as having the will-power to stop, there’s more.

If you’re not ready for that, that’s ok. Know you are so capable, so so so capable. Know also that you can be in freedom zone, and have something come up that may pull you to a place that you thought you’d never go again and that’s ok, you’re human. Normal eaters overeat sometimes too. It doesn’t mean anything about you. You’re still beautiful, enough, complete, whole and worthy of food freedom forever. You were NOT put on this earth to struggle, you are meant for more!

A really great exercise for practicing forgiveness is writing a letter to yourself. Have it out with yourself first, and then really try to view yourself with compassion, tapping into the reasoning, seeing your own point of view for why this happened, and make amends. There is so much power in releasing anger and moving forward from a peaceful place of working with yourself instead of against yourself.

Bonus: As you practice compassion and release thoughts of guilt, fear, and shame, your body and brain move out of stress and survival mode and this entire process becomes easier!

 

7. Process and Learn

Finally, once the emotions have subsided, there may be a lesson to learn….

Are there some emotions coming up that haven’t been dealt with?

Is there something you’re avoiding by binge eating?

Is there something you’re hiding from that this cycle keeps you subconsciously safe from?

Have you been eating enough regularly?

Have you been taking an “all or nothing” approach that’s setting you up for this cycle?

Did you pause before and try to separate yourself from your urge?

How can you do this in the future?

How can you use what you learned to set yourself up for success?

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and if you need any support, 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!

Health & Love,

 

 

 

Brittany Brown

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PS: We know the holidays can be tough however it doesn’t have to be! We are here for you!

I’m writing this to you today to tell you that you deserve it all…

You deserve to wake up with freedom to do and create as you please,

to pour your heart into a project or cause that you love,

to live in such pure joy that your soul wakes up smiling,

and to be blessed with abundance because of it.

You deserve to know that it’s ok if you’re not there yet,

and that you have the power to create any reality that you choose…

regardless of your circumstances.

You deserve to know what it feels like to have spirit running through your veins…

To look out at the ocean and feel so connected to the source that created you that your heart feels as if it will explode out of your chest,

and to know in that moment when the ocean looks as if it never ends,

that everything will always end up ok.

You deserve to know that the light is stronger than the dark,

that you are stronger than the dark,

and what you learn through those moments of what feels like your world crashing down around you,

is nothing but a stepping stone to your embodied greatness.

You deserve the type of love that send tingles down your spine,

that makes you feel safe,

whose eyes truly see you,

and whose touch feels like home.

You deserve a partner who knows what a privilege it is to have you in their life,

who shows you day and night,

and recognizes and honors you for all that you are.

You deserve to know they are out there, and to never settle for anything less, 

and once you find them…

you deserve to release the fear and go all in,

because what’s waiting on the other side has been hand crafted to shape you into all that you are meant to be.

You deserve to travel and see every wonder that this glorious world has to offer you…

to see something for the first time that takes your breath away,

and to trust in that moment that you can do anything,

because you can.

You deserve magic, pure fucking magic…

the out of this world kind that you can’t explain,

the type that feels like a coincidence but you know it’s not,

that lines things up laden with synchronicity,

that grants you opportunities and blesses you with exactly what you need.

The type of magic that leaves you always feeling supported,

and reminds you that are here for a reason, 

because you are.

You deserve to know why you are here…

To undo all the bullshit,

and the layers of conditioning that keep you living in fear,

in self sabotage,

in anything that doesn’t honor the absolutely magnificent work of art that you are.

You deserve to step into your power,

and live from a place of freedom…

with no person,

no food,

no substance,

no job,

no void,

no situation,

no circumstance,

no longing,

holding you back.

You deserve to know you have a choice,

and that you deserve to choose love,

to choose it daily even when it’s hard,

and to choose it so much it starts to become a part of who you are…

so much so that it permeates from your being,

and radiates from your soul,

and lights up a room when you walk in.

You deserve to know that the world wouldn’t be the same without you,

because it wouldn’t.

The same force that created you,

created the seasons,

the mountains,

the changing tides,

the moon,

the ocean,

the galaxy,

and that force conspired to create you.

Nothing is by accident,

you are not by accident.

There is a ONE IN FOUR HUNDRED BILLION CHANCE that you are alive in this particular time and space,

and you deserve to know that.

You deserve to live on purpose.

You deserve to live like you’re a miracle,

to believe that you are a miracle,

because you are,

and I hope you know that.

I beg you, please start living like the miracle that you are.

The world needs more people who are on fire and burning bright for all that they believe in.

The world needs you.

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

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!

With so much love, 

Brittany

 

I’m going to cut straight to the point here…intuitive eating is a wonderful TOOL but not the answer for healing from binge eating.

By definition intuitive eating is the practice of eating through listening to your body, eating when you’re hungry, and stopping when you’re full. All great things, but it can leave you frustrated and feeling like a failure if you don’t use it at the right time with some other support systems in place.

If you’ve ever tried “listening to your body” and felt confused, craving filled, or frustrated then this blog post is for you so you can use this TOOL to help you find freedom!

Reasons Why Intuitive Eating Can Support You:

1) After years of dieting or restricting, you’ve probably relied on answers outside of yourself to help you decide to eat like google, nutritionists, friends, family, what Sally is doing at the gym and more. The truth is…you always know. You know how to eat, what to eat, and what’s going to make you feel the best. Your body will tell you when you learn how to listen but don’t be fooled it’s VERY difficult to listen straight out of the cycle of binge and emotional eating, I’ll talk more about that in the section below.

 

2) Learning to rely on yourself and your body can be very empowering. Trusting yourself is a huge gift in this beautiful journey called life and intuitive eating can help bring your body back into the discussion. Your body holds so much wisdom that’s waiting to be tapped into.

 

3) Your body has a natural set point or healthy place it will go to when you’re eating foods that make you feel good and come alive a majority of the time. If you really learn how to tap into your body and treat it from a place of love you’ll be able to choose those foods (most of the time) and your body will release any excess weight in a way that’s sustainable without force or restriction.

Intuitive eating is about working with your body instead of against it.

 

Reasons Why Intuitive Eating Isn’t the End All Be All Answer for Binge Eating Recovery:

 

1) After a period of dieting, restricting, and or binging your body’s signals may very well sound like: “eat all the cake now”. To practice intuitive eating and healing your relationship with your body, it’s important to start with phase one of beating binge eating to make sure you’re not fighting your brain and body. Once your brain and body are fueled and out of survival mode, our body will begin to speak to you from a more balanced place and intuitive eating will be easier.

 

2) Intuitive eating can be scary if you don’t understand where your urges to binge are coming from and how to separate from them. Therefore you could jump into intuitive eating, but still have urges to binge, then determine “this intuitive eating stuff doesn’t work for me”.

That’s not the case, you just may have not been equipped with the knowledge and tools to work through an urge to binge. I teach my clients how to do this in a very systematic fashion in our Beating Binge Eating Blueprint program.

You can also learn more about where your urges to binge are coming from and how to separate from them so you can condition them to become non-existent in this youtube video.

3) Intuitive eating can become as restrictive as a diet in itself. I see people follow it so strictly that they feel wrong, guilty, or shameful when they eat when they aren’t hungry. Here’s the thing, normal eaters eat too much sometimes or grab something that sounds good that they aren’t hungry for. Treating intuitive eating like a diet that you have to get right will do nothing but set you up for the on vs off again, all-or-nothing diet mentality and from the phase one of beating binge eating you learned that that does nothing but set you up to fail.

Stay Tuned for the video I’ll be releasing on Thursday! I’ll give you some step-by-step tips for practicing intuitive eating so you can use it to support you on your journey to food freedom forever! If you’re not on the list yet, subscribe here so you don’t miss a thing!

 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!

Health & Love,

Brittany Brown

#FoodFreedomFighter

 

Phase ONE: Getting Your Brain Onboard and Physiology in Alignment

Phase one of beating binge eating is all about working with your body instead of against it. Up until this point, if you’re still struggling with your body and food, you could be thinking things like:

• If I just had enough will power I could do this.
• Why can other people stick to a diet or way of eating and I can’t…what’s wrong with me?
• I eat because of stress, anxiety, loneliness, overwhelm (or other feelings) and can’t stop using food to numb out or for comfort.
• Maybe there’s a deeper emotional thing going on that I don’t know about and I need to “fix” myself to “fix” this…

I’ve thought all those things and many others when I was struggling with my body and food and they’re completely normal because that is what we learn from the diet industry and eating disorder recovery culture.

The truth is though, if you’re in a cycle that’s on repeat, what you’re doing to break the cycle may be exactly what’s stopping you to fail.

How To Stop Binge Eating: Phase One, Part One

In last weeks blog post I shared all about Sarah’s story. In this video I break down what you can learn from her journey, why certain things worked and certain things didn’t, and the foundation of food freedom forever so you can end your struggle with your body and food for good!

If you don’t do what I share in this video no “emotional coping mechanism”, no diet, no plan, no meeting with a psychologist…nutritionist…personal trainer etc, no “tool”…nothing will work to beat binge and emotional eating.

Your physiology and innate survival mechanisms will always win out, and that’s why your “will power” doesn’t work in these moments.

It’s not you that’s broken…the way you’ve tried to stop binge eating is driving you to think about food all the time, driving you to eat, and driving you crazy.

Watch the video below to learn how to break the cycle today!

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How To Stop Binge Eating: Phase One, Part Two

After that video you should really understand the importance of making sure your survival mechanisms aren’t activated and that you can’t stop binge eating while they are. Any attempt will be overshadowed by the brain patterns and survival mechanisms at play.

Speaking of brain patterns, reprogramming those is part two of this process. We have to make sure the survival mechanism are quieted first because when the survival mechanism in your brain are activated your brain isn’t properly fueled to break the pattern of binge eating and dismiss your urges.

As you learned in those moments, your brain is invested in trying to drive you to eat so what it does is it takes fuel that is typically is evenly distributed throughout the brain and shuttles it to portion of the brain that’s sole function is survival.

People call this portion of the brain different things…the reptilian brain, the monkey brain, the lower brain…I’m going to call it the primal brain here because it’s the most primitive part of brain that’s responsible for basic functions like your heart beating and lungs breathing, as well as your instincts. In this portion of the brain the only thing that matters is survival: food, reproduction, safety, protection.

This portion of your brain is very automatic, irrational, and can’t be reasoned with through conscious thought. This portion of your brain is also where your urges to binge come from. When fuel is sent to this area, it’s taken away from the portion of your brain that you reside in. When I say you I mean YOU…your personality, your conscious thought, your reasoning, your rational thinking, your long term goal creating, your discipline, your will power, you love for yourself, your love for your family and so forth…

So basically…when you use conscious reasoning to stop a binge urge or techniques like talking yourself out of it, going on a walk, playing music, calling a friend, will power, force etc they do not work and they don’t because you’re trying to use conscious surface level “tools” for an unconscious, automatic pattern residing in the primal brain.

It’s literally like talking a monkey who thinks his survival is threatened out of anxiety and out of eating when his brain is telling him he’s starving. That would never work. Well, I’m not calling you a monkey, but that part of your brain where your urges to binge come from is at that level.

Don’t be discouraged by this, it’s actually very liberating because through this knowledge you can see that the urge to binge isn’t from some deep unresolved broken part of yourself it’s just there because your brain has made the pattern automatic and deemed it necessary for your survival.

Here are some other liberating nuggets you can use to empower yourself with this information:

1) Your conscious part of your brain is the one that’s responsible for movement and your motor control, so even though your urges to binge are coming from an automatic part of your brain you ultimately have the power to decide not to act on it

2) This allows you to separate yourself from your urges to binge by realizing the urge isn’t coming from the real you but an automatic part of you

3) Your brain is extremely malleable and always trying to make things automatic to make it’s job easier, so as you dismiss your urges to binge over time those brain patterns will die off or “prune” away as the neuroscientists call it, and new patterns will form.

These new patterns will eventually become automatic, and you will create a new normal for yourself.

We start here in phase one, because even though people may think bingeing is linked to deeper emotional reasons, and perhaps it could have originated there in your past, there are plenty of people in the world that have emotional breakdowns or stress and don’t use food to cope through them.

This is because their brain hasn’t created the link between emotional stress and food like yours may have.

Although working on those deeper emotional issues is a part of the process for long term freedom, you can have freedom from binge eating with or without “healing” them all, and if you couldn’t, that means we’d all be in therapy for years which isn’t fair and something I won’t stand for.

In fact, many of my clients come to me after decades of therapy and unsuccessful treatments and these methods break them right through their life long struggle.

You deserve freedom from binge eating, and you deserve it fast. Here’s a video that breaks Part 2 of Phase 1 of Food Freedom Forever even more:

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!

Health & Love,

 

 

 

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Part 1: Sarah’s Story

Sarah (name changed for privacy) came to me when she felt defeated, after she had tried it all, and was out of options. I was her “last resort” and after one conversation, there was no doubt in my mind that she was exactly where she needed to be. Now it was just a question of her being open to something different or not. I’ll let you know what she decided soon, and the insane thing that happened after she decided.

Her weight was up and down for years, and all she knew to do to try to “control” her weight was to attempt to “control” her eating. She had been successful with dieting before in terms of being able to lose the weight (she had gained it all back and more soon after though), so she kept going back to the familiar even though the familiar kept leading her down the same dark path.

I’ve been there too…

That place where you know you dieted successfully once before and think if you can just muster up the motivation, will power, and strength you can do it again, then again and again it never works.

Sarah tried it all…weight loss medicine, she tried hypnosis, personal training, working with a nutritionist, therapy…no one seemed to “get it”, but I did.

Sarah was so scared to jump into the unknown and release the control and restriction around her eating just like I was when I was in a similar struggle. Then the doctors, nutritionists, and personal trainers reaffirmed those fears when they would keep pushing her back towards the school of thought that her relationship with food could be mended through diet, workout, and keeping a motivated mindset (keep an eye on your inbox Thursday, I’m sharing a video training that breaks down exactly what could be setting you up to fail too. If you’re not subscribed, click here to subscribe so you don’t miss a thing.)

Knowing in her heart that there was something deeper, Sarah began to read books on overcoming binge and emotional eating. They’d say you have to allow any and all foods to work through this with no restriction what so ever, and that terrified her because she felt like the control was the one thing that kept her from eating all day, every day, and the only thing that accounted for her not gaining a massive amount of weight.

So she’d stay at it…she tried to control her food, she’d have a really “good” day, and then at night would she’d allow herself something small that was off limits during the day so she could incorporate a little bit of what the books said to into her daily routine. Once she started eating these forbidden foods she kept eating them, and eating, and then with a sense of “oh I already messed up I’m going to start back over tomorrow”, it’d turn into a full on binge.

The binges would feel almost out of body, like they’d happen automatically, and no tools that the therapists gave her seemed to do the trick in the moment of an urge. Once the fog lifted and the food coma wore off the guilt would set in. The shame would crush her, the thoughts that she was broken, that there was something wrong with her, that there was a part of her she needed to fix filled her mind. She thought…

If other people can do it, why can’t I?

Those people who have it easy with food just have a fast metabolism. I don’t so I always have to live like this.

Am I addicted to food? That’s the only thing that could explain this behavior after all this work…

And more defeating thoughts that kept her stuck…

She tied it to her emotions, so every time a binge would happen she’d analyze and try to look for answers. Oftentimes this lead to more emotional turmoil and feeling like a failure.

The next day Sarah would wake up, hands, eyes, and feet swollen from the event the night before, brain foggy, pants getting tighter and just feeling overall defeated, but determined to “get back on track”.

Every back on track day would start the cycle over. Sometimes it wasn’t every day, she could have moments where there’d be days in between her bingeing but she was white knuckling it the whole time.

There was no ease to her relationship with her body and food…there was pain, control, force, fear, and a sense of missing out on life.

Food thoughts controlled her mind…Confusion about what to eat, how to eat, what not to eat danced around daily. This kept her from living her life fully and showing up for her family completely.

She worried her daughter would see the behavior, and knew she had to change, but didn’t know how. She was determined to make every day different, but for some reason unknown to her, no matter how determined she was, something would pull her back into the pattern of binge and overeating, and she couldn’t figure out why.

After one call with Sarah, I saw it so clearly. I eased her mind, gave her clarity into exactly what was happening.

(In your inbox Thursday I’ll share with you exactly what was happening to Sarah so you can watch out for it in your own life. If you’re not yet on the list to get my best free trainings and weekly emails yet click here so you don’t miss a thing)

There were so many fears coming up for Sarah after our conversation. She wondered…

Was she going to be able to lose the weight with this approach?

Was she going to lose all control of herself around food and gain more weight?

Was she going to be able to follow through?

Did she really believe in herself to beat this thing since it had been a part of her for so long?

Sarah was skeptical, she trusted me but she felt like her case was different, like what worked for others may not work for her.

Sarah had a choice to make:

1) Go back to the familiar, the comfortable, the path that felt safe but lead her into this destructive cycle

2) Take another path. The one that was unknown and scary, with less control, less restriction, more trust, more faith, and proven results.

What would you choose?

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Part 2: Sarah’s Choice

I was so surprised when she told me her decision: She told me she wasn’t ready.

I sat with Sarah and held space for what she was exploring internally. With no pressure of course, I asked a few questions.

The thing is, we are never ready. There’s rarely a “right time”, and always reasons why we can’t take the leap of faith but if we’re committed to growth and freedom as I knew Sarah was, we must. It’s that or stay stuck, and I knew that it was just Sarah’s fear that was keeping her stuck.

After a day or so Sarah reached back out, and then she decided to go for it. She promised me regardless of her fears she’d surrender into the process, and commit to herself and the Beating Binge Eating Blueprint Program fully.

So, Sarah jumped in. She hit the first week, and began to fuel her body from a place of love and nourishment. She was worried about gaining weight, but went for it anyway.

Then she learned how to dismiss her urges and reprogram them to become non-existent. Sarah had her power back in just two weeks. 

Her binges stopped. Sarah felt what it was like to feel free.

The third week really shifted her perspective. We began to work on her relationship with her body, and then in the fourth we uncovered limiting beliefs that were standing between her and her happiness.

Sarah was stirred inside, but felt so good after not bingeing for a few weeks that she went against her better judgement and decided to step on the the scale. It hadn’t budged.

Sarah spiraled. After 4 weeks of work, not one pound lost. She started to question everything. Question the program. Question herself. Her beliefs about her case being different felt like they were reaffirmed.

She went back to restrictive eating…and all the negativity led to a binge. I noticed Sarah had pulled back from the support group so I reached out, and we got on a call to talk through it.

We uncovered that even though Sarah was going through the program and giving it her all, she was still one foot in one foot out belief wise. Meaning…Sarah always had in the back of her mind that this might not work out, that she might mess it up, that she might always live with binge eating and have to control her weight.

Little did she know, that even though she was going through the motions, these subconscious fears and lack of belief in herself were holding her back from fully surrendering into the process and truly experiencing lasting success.

That’s how beliefs work. Beliefs are the foundation for how we experience to world, and her beliefs were keeping her in the same defeating cycle over and over.

When you believe something like:

I don’t believe in myself to accomplish this… your brain begins to seek out experiences that affirm that belief, including having you act in ways that keep you at the same level of comfort you’re currently operating in.

Beliefs become self-fulfilling prophecies. They make up the fabric of your existence. 

After our breakthrough call, Sarah recommitted to breaking free. She promised me that no matter what fear came up, she’d reaffirm her truth and belief in herself and her process, and that’s when the magic happened.

She dismissed the negative self talk, ignored the urges to binge and restrict, began to focus on her wins, started to choose love over fear, embraced a relationship with her body and began to listen, fostered a sense of trust within herself, and her belief in herself grew.

And you’ll never believe what happened next…

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Part 3: What Happened Next

Sarah surrendered. Without realizing it, in the first four weeks, she was approaching the program like she had approached diets she had in the past…rigor, control, force, pushing, all or nothing…

While I commend Sarah’s commitment to herself and the program, she was placing so much unnecessary pressure on herself to be “perfect”. We uncovered she was feeling that she needed to get everything just right when it’s actually quite the opposite…

There’s no perfect. There’s just discovering what works for each individual and reconnecting them to their power.

In that place anything is possible…including sustainable weight loss and a normal, easy, and loving relationship with one’s body and food.

Underneath the control and strive for perfection, there was also an intense fear about not losing weight and that fear and lack of belief in herself affected her behavior. Even at times when she would think she wasn’t restricting, she’d still be worried about not getting things just right and about her body not releasing the weight.

This did a number of things to her results, and I’ll share what those are and how you can avoid them in Thursdays video. Subscribe HERE if you haven’t already so you don’t miss it.

With all of Sarah’s pushing, controlling, and fighting mentally and emotionally, even though she was physically going through the motions her body was holding on to everything and pushing right back.

When Sarah surrendered, tapped into her internal guidance system, learned to trust and believe in herself, and truly trust the process her body surrendered too.

Sarah began to meet, nourish, and honor her body and her body honored her in return.

This process is not about weight loss, however I will share with you what happened to Sarah’s weight since that was a significant concern of hers and may be for you too.

Sarah’s weight released. Over the next few weeks it was 10 pounds, and she’s been out of the program about 4 months and though she’s not weighing herself, she had to weigh herself at the doctors and there was a 17 pound loss.

The Doctor asked what she was doing and she said: “I stopped dieting.” He looked puzzled, and she just smiled back. She said it was one of the most surreal moments she had experienced because weighing herself at her Doctor’s was a really scary experience prior to this.

When one stops focussing on the weight, and truly begins to love, honor, and accept their body as is if there’s weight to release, the weight ends up taking care of itself.

Your body will find it’s happy place when you give it what it needs to find it, just like Sarah’s did.

On top of that and even more importantly, Sarah’s relationship with food and her body dramatically changed. 

She began to feel “normal” around food, had ease in eating when she was hungry and stopping when she was full, and enjoyed a variety of foods including those she had labeled as “forbidden” before without losing control around them.

She began to look at her body from a place of love instead of criticism and hate and began to work with her body instead of against it.

This allowed her to start living her life fully without worries and fears around food or her body.

She started going on trips, saying YES to dinners and experiences she would had previously said no to, and she began to feel free.

Today, four months later, that freedom keeps growing and now she’s digging deep into different passions in her life that light her up and connecting to her purpose.

I’m so proud of Sarah. I believed in her every step of the way, and I believe in you too.

This work is about so much more than just food, it’s about life. If you’re reading this, know that you are so much bigger than whatever it is that you’re going through.

Know that you aren’t broken, that there’s nothing to fix, that you’re just disconnected from your power and you have the ability to reconnect and get unstuck any time you choose to.

Once you make the commitment to dismantle the wall that’s standing between you are your power…Your life, the life of your loved ones, and the world will be forever changed. 

One person’s freedom can create a massive impact on the world just through the positive ripple effect in the lives of those they touch around them, and yours can too.

You are so worth it!

On Thursday I’m going to be releasing a video training breaking down why Sarah achieved success, and how you can in your life too. 

Click here to subscribe if you haven’t already, so you don’t miss the free video training breaking down exactly what Sarah did that led her to food freedom forever™!

Health & Love,

Brittany

 

 

 

 

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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, but when I was struggling with my body and food it was by far my least favorite. I remember being stressed about all the food, stressed about gaining weight, and stressed about seeing people I hadn’t in a while.

I’m sure you can relate!

For most, Thanksgiving means food, and a lot of it. Below are a 11 helpful strategies that will provide you with freedom from food and weight obsession, and guide you to joy and happiness this holiday season!

Bonus: You can use these for any “outing” or eating situation that causes you stress, worry or fear.

Before the Celebration…

1) Get your Mind Right:  Be sure to do things that bring you peace and get your mind centered and emotions grounded when you start off your day. Some ideas would be meditation, a yoga class, a walk in nature, or some deep breathing exercises.

Visualization is also a great way to set yourself up for success. Your brain doesn’t know the difference between what’s actually happened, and what you vividly visualize in your mind. If you visualize yourself going through a successful Thanksgiving day with grace and ease, your brain will be able to recognize that as familiar, and be on your team when it comes down to the real situation. Things will feel easier because if you’re brain feels like the situation is familiar it’s less likely to sense danger in the environment, which means less stress response and anxiety, which also means less urges to binge.

2) Drop the “On” Verse “Off” Mentality: This all or nothing way of thinking stems from diet culture and with a 95% failure rate, we know that diets don’t work. You can’t “fall off the wagon” if there’s no wagon to fall off of so lets smash the hypothetical wagon to pieces. When you treat Thanksgiving like a “cheat day” or day off, you’re bound to over indulge because messages like these have a way of telling ourselves that it’s the last day on earth we’ll get this type of food, and that we have to eat everything now, and we can just start back over tomorrow.

Know that there’s nothing to start over with, that normal balanced eaters eat meals that aren’t always the most nourishing, and it doesn’t mean you have to diet away the next day. If you’re having trouble releasing this mentality, we are here for you!

3) Eat Balanced Breakfast: Skipping a meal in an effort to “make up” for calories later in the day is a surefire way to set yourself up for a binge. Instead, eat a nourishing and balanced breakfast in the morning so you can go into the rest of your day feeling strong and satisfied (this goes for your other meals too if you aren’t eating until later).

“Nourishing” does not mean restriction or low carb. It means giving your body fuel to feel great all day. This way, when you get to the big Thanksgiving meal time, you can treat it more like a meal where you can make a present moment choice around what you want to eat, versus coming to the table starving and setting yourself up for an all out feast.

Throughout the Day…

4) Focus on Presence and Connection: Family time and loved ones are wonderful but they have a way of pressing our buttons or triggering emotions inside of us at times. Combine that with the stress and worry about food and your weight, and it can make family time and holidays tough at times.

You can implement one of my favorite acronyms to combat this: FTL (fear to love)

Fear happens and it is our responsibility to choose the loving perspective moment by moment. No matter how hard it is, we always have the choice to view ourselves, others and any situation in a loving way.

Since you’re committed to flipping the fear as mentioned above, focussing on connecting with others should be much easier. Thanksgiving has a way of being totally focussed around food; it’s your job to shake things up a bit and focus on what really matters; connecting with those you love.

Truly being present and connecting will bring you so much joy. Really be in the moment, enjoy it, help out, do things that you love, play a game, relax. The only moment we have is the here and now; and the greatest gift we can give another and ourselves is our presence.

5) Focus on What Will Make You Feel the Best: This goes for food, who you connect with, and also activities you participate in. On the food front, be sure to have some foods on your plate that will make you feel really good and nourished, and don’t judge yourself if there are foods on the plate that might just taste really good and feel good in the moment (even if they aren’t nourishing). On the people front, connect with those that lift you up instead of bring you down. On the activity front, enjoy yourself (see strategy 8).

The holidays are a great time to practice compassion for both for yourself and others, flexibility, and freedom!

6) Focus on Adding Instead of Subtracting: This goes along with focussing on foods that make you feel the best. Truthfully, Thanksgiving is one day a year. Eating indulgences that you don’t normally have on the holiday isn’t going to hurt you, your life, or your progress. Allow yourself some freedom today and truly enjoy it.

On the other side of things, eating an abundance of foods that aren’t made of nourishing goodness might make you feel a little off the day of and next day.  To counteract this, be sure to fill your plate with some health-giving goodness that will give you energy and really balance things out. This will also leave a little less room for the things that might not make you feel the best.

7) Focus on Gratitude: Fear, stress and anxiety can not physically be experienced at the same time as gratitude. It’s proven scientifically that it’s impossible. A quick fix to calm any unwanted emotions that come up is to focus on what you’re grateful for. You don’t have to live in a million dollar home to be grateful; the art of true gratitude is learning to love and appreciate even the most ordinary things in life. If you’re feeling off, take a deep breathe and think of 5 things you’re grateful for that moment. Do it now and watch your entire energy shift!

8) Focus on Fun: Pleasure and fun are the opposite of what causes binge eating. Have as much fun as you can and focus on things that really light you up through out the day. Start a family game, play catch outside, play with the children or pets if they’re around, be silly, lose yourself in an activity, participate in anything that will bring you joy! This will also keep you present, out of your head, and your body out of stress response.

9) Focus on Love: My personal favorite. How can you give more love to others? How can you give more love to yourself? How can you give more love to the world?

10) Focus on Contribution: My second favorite. How can you show up fully and openly to the experience? How can you help? How can you support a loved one? How can you provide happiness for a complete stranger? How can you be there for someone? How can you contribute to society (volunteer / donate)?

To get out of your own head, oftentimes all it takes is a little giving and contribution.

During and After…

11) Focus on Compassion: You’re human. You’re going to overeat. You’re going to eat balanced and healthy. You’re going to gain weight. You’re going to lose weight. You’re going to struggle. You’re going to be free.

You can choose how you react to this…are you going to judge it, or are you going to accept it and love yourself through your humanness?

There are about 7 billion of us messy humans…feel free to come join the club 🙂

Thanksgiving is just one day, and you have the right to enjoy every bit of that, even if that means indulging in foods you normally wouldn’t.

Have compassion on yourself throughout this beautiful journey called life and shift your focus to what really matters; your freedom and happiness.

If you need support, we got you!

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

Love,
Brittany

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Health & Love,

Brittany Brown