Earlier this month, I completed Lydia Wente's Beat The Binge program, and HOT DAMN.... I am PSYCHED!
Lydia recently invited me to do an "exit interview" after graduating the program and I was quite honored to be a part of it. God knows that after dealing my wackiness on a daily basis for 8 weeks, I should do anything she asks of me.
The fact is that the whole process was amazing. And I had..... get this..... an incredible time! Yup. I said ‘incredible’, and I mean it!
Granted, there were some tough moments as I tried to find answers to overcoming my eating disorder, but when the answers came, they always left me wanting more. Every step was even more exciting and educating, leading me to WANT to search for more answers. It never once felt tedious or boring. This was self-discovery at its finest AND most enjoyable.
And if I had a dollar for every "Ah-HA!" moment that I had, I'd be a happy camper. I always love a good "Ah-HA!" moment.
There is nothing else out there that even compares to Lydia's program. Lydia is so knowledgeable and just brilliant in her field. An extra bonus is that she has such a warm heart and fun personality! Here we are discussing my experience with the Beat The Binge program:
If you know anyone who might benefit from Lydia's program, please share this post or her video via social media or email.... or whatever it is that you do to pass on interesting info!
Truthfully, there are probably many people in our lives who WOULD benefit from this but we just don't know it. No one knew how much I needed Lydia's help until I discovered it myself. I would have been so grateful if someone had pointed me in her direction much earlier.
Please share. You may be doing an enormous favor for someone you care about!
Many blessings,
Vicki
xoxox
PS. Part Two of my finding freedom is coming verrrrrrrrry soon. Like, tomorrow!
This ABSOLUTELY is NOT a paid endorsement for the Brain Over Binge Program!! Just the facts....according to me (and hundreds of others 😉)
It's the diet news that's nuts.....not a diet based on insanity, just in case you were confused by the title 😉.
Actually.....can you imagine that? "A diet that will make you insane! But we promise you'll lose weight!" I can't even fathom how many people would actually consider it..... cuz trust me when I say that there are people who would.
I had to pause there and think that one through. Was there any point in my life where I would actually agree to go temporarily insane in order to lose weight? And the answer was YES. I'm very sad for that version of Me. Desperate times, people. Desperate times.
Anywho! (Don't you just love people who say that?)
I've completed my sixth week on Lydia Wente's Beat the Binge program and I'm just so pleased with the entire process. My next post will explain how life changing it was for me in greater detail, but as of now I can tell you that I have NOT binged in over six weeks. It's the first time in over 20 years. I feel informed, educated, enlightened, supported, loved (yes, LOVED!) and free!
As I said, LIFE CHANGING.
But I'm getting ahead of myself here. I wanted to touch on two other topics today before I get into the subject of my progress. I want to be a little bit closer to the end of the program before I share that information, but trust me, it's coming!
First, a few people reached out to me about their confusion over whether overeating is the same as binging. It's not. To help you understand the difference, I made the quick video below:
So, what do you think? I imagine there are a number of people who refuse to accept that diets don't work, or that there isn't a magic pill/drink/program out there to take our weight loss woes away. That's completely understandable as many of us (and I say US because it was my way of thinking for 30 years as well) have put all of our hope into this one belief. It's our only salvation if we "ever want to find true happiness and the ability to love our bodies". That one diet/drink/program/pill is our Holy Grail! If not for that, what hope do we have???!
While we are busy spending money on trying everything that the diet industry is trying to shove down our throats (pun totally intended), the answer sits before us every moment of every day. And it's FREE. No joke. FREE.
As the diet industry pushes us over the edge of insanity, urging us to spend every waking moment planning and counting and buying helpful weight loss aids, inner peace and freedom stares back at us in the mirror. Unfortunately, most of us don't believe that this is even possible. In our minds, if we can't lose weight WITH the help of "science", how can we possibly do with WITHOUT?
The reality is that the true science is within us, but we keep messing with it. The "fake science" (not related to Trump's "fake news"), has tricked us into believing that we need their extra help, when the truth is that every time we take their extra help, we get further and further from our goal.
So, what am I getting at?
Our bodies know how to do "this" already. With the exception of some of us with medical issues, our bodies are built to keep us alive and healthy and in shape. The science behind the human body will help you with balancing your weight as long as you treat it well. We need to stop putting crappy food and metabolism- destroying substances into our bodies and let it do its job! Like a good employee, if you treat your body well, you will get good results!
Put good, healthy food in your body and it will run with peak performance. Stop with the "something better"! Every time you use "something better", you are pushing your body further from optimal performance and creating a longer recovery period when you finally figure all of this all out.
But you CAN do it. Give your body a chance to undo all of the "mystery miracles" that you've tried to enhance it, let your body regulate itself and do its job. It's very capable if you let just treat it well.
This next video is great! It's one of my favorites. I've been dying to share Lydia's video about what happens to your body after you stop restricting (i.e. dieting) or bingeing. If it doesn't click the first time, watch it again. After all, it's under 5 minutes and she's very entertaining! :-)
