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1. 1. Nutrition
Understanding Why You Binge Eat

2. What You’ll Learn In This Video
● The number 1 cause of your eating disorder
● Why you are pushed to binge or overeat and have no control over it
● Why this behaviour is happening naturally and should not be seen as a
disease
● How diets work and why they are inefficient
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3. Note
During the Make Peace With Food Program I use the terms “eating disorders”, “eating
issues” or “disordered eating” regularly and interchangeably.
When using these terms, I am referring to any type of Eating Disorder (ED) - whether it
be bulimia, binge eating (with or without purging), overeating, compulsive eating,
emotional eating or any other names you are used to reading or hearing.
On the same note, I am often talking about ‘purging’ or ‘purging methods’.
When this is the case, know that I am referring to any type of purge, including dieting,
restricting food intake, over exercising or stronger conditions such as self-induced
vomiting or use of laxatives.
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4. Note
In other words, all these different terms mean that your relationship with food has
become a source of discomfort, dissatisfaction and suffering.
These are all associated with an eating issue and as soon as nourishment becomes a
source of worry, you can be sure that you’ve been disconnected from your birthright,
which is…
● health,
● ease,
● happiness
and that you deserve to get better.
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5. The Number 1 Cause Of Your ED
First, I’d like you to take a moment to think about the time when you first developed
issues around food. Try to remember what was the first ‘unusual’ behaviour you had with
food.
Chances are that it started with a type of diet.
Did you know that 90% of the time, disordered eating starts with a diet.
But what’s a diet?
● A diet = restriction regarding your food intake
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6. The Number 1 Cause Of Your ED
Restrictions can appear in many different ways:
o Restriction regarding quantities of food
o Restricting certain food types (like carbs or fats)
o Restricting some food groups (like dairy or meat)
o Setting up foods rules (like not eating after 7pm or only eating chocolate on
weekends)
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7. Why Does That Get Out Of Control?
● An eating issue becomes an issue when it becomes destructive and ‘out-of-control’.
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That means, even if you are totally aware of it, you still continue to restrict
yourself and behave in destructive way.
● Out-of-control means that this has nothing to do with your intelligence or
willpower! I’ve seen many incredibly smart people get caught up in the vicious
cycle of an eating disorder.
● On top of that, the fact that you can’t get rid of this destructive behaviour has an
important impact on your self-worth and self-esteem, which creates very harmful
impacts on your health and wellbeing.

8. Why Do We Get Out Of Control?
To understand why restrictive behaviour can sometimes get out-of-control, we have to
look back to our origins.
● We are wild animals!
● As wild animals, our survival is the most important thing we are striving for.
● When we stop breathing, for example, our body will force us to breath at one stage.
● This is a natural compulsion that has nothing to do with willpower.
● It’s the exact same mechanism with food, because what represents a lack of
food?.... a risk for our survival!
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9. Why Does That Get Out Of Control?
Our survival mechanism is set up to make sure we survive if we undergo a famine or a
lack of food storage.
That means that if we don’t get enough food, our survival instinct will be automatically
activated to make us eat.
The act of eating will then become our number 1 priority.
All our energy and attention will be focused on food and we will become ‘hypnotised’ by
these thoughts.
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10. Why Does That Get Out Of Control?
That makes sense when you think about it…... Imagine us at the time when we were still
hunter-gatherers. As soon as we became hungry, our survival mode had to switch on if
we wanted to survive.
● Finding food and the act of eating were then placed as number 1 priorities straight
away.
● All we could focus on and all we could think of was related to food for survival
needs.
This not only explains why we eat ‘out-of-control’ when deprived but also why we are
thinking about food all the time when we are restricting our food intake.
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11. Why Does That Get Out Of Control?
This out-of-control behaviour is not only destructive but makes us unable to enjoy life and
focus fully on what’s happening around us (family, loved ones, events...).
Diet or any type of restriction can have this same impact on our survival
mechanism. Even-though food is easily accessible in our modern societies, our brain
and biology haven't changed.
This is why a simple food restriction can lead to such a vicious cycle.
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12. How Does That Work?
Purge / Restriction To
Compensate Overeating
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Restriction or Food Rules
Survival Instinct Activated
Binge / Overeat
Focus On Food

13. Why Diets Don’t Work
Diets are a type of restriction. Even-though you might not restrict on food quantities,
you still have certain food rules to follow, that you assume are true.
By just avoiding certain foods or food groups for too long, your brain will get a deprivation
message and sooner or later you will have to eat this specific food or food group again.
And chances are high that you will actually start overeating foods you’ve restricted for too
long.
This explains why diets don’t work and why they never will!
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14. Why Diets Don’t Work
In fact, 95% of all dieters gain their weight back within 2 years and 98% of them within 5
years.
Any time we deprive ourselves from food or restrict our food intake our survival instinct
will have us compensate for it. It’s a natural reflex!
This is why many people who suffer with bulimia are not underweight and why many
people who suffer from anorexia (more than 50%) will end up binge eaters.
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15. Take Action!
★ Restriction is the main cause of your ED, so stop dieting or restricting your food
intake straight away.
★ Be aware that the more you restrict, the bigger and more intense the urges are
going to be. This is a natural reflex.
★ Stop torturing yourself about the other causes or triggers of your eating issues. They
are important for sure but it’s not essential to understand them all to start
recovery or even to recover fully.
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16. Action Plan
★ Download your Play Sheet PDF
★ Do the exercises immediately
★ Share your insights and action steps in the comments below this video
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