Thanks for sharing your personal experiences and insights. Matt seems like a genuinely loverly person. He obviously loves you a lot! Your property looks very beautiful from what I’ve seen on photos. I hope he also feels completely settled there soon. 😊🦋
Sounds like you have done what a lot of people don't achieve followed your dreams faced your eating disorder and that's what life should be about its to short to just dream about what we want
Thank you so much for this wonderful video, Tabitha. Thank you so much for being so honest and talking about your experiences with bingeing. I think it is not so easy to talk about this topic, but you do it so cool and so straight forward without any shame. You are such a cool Person, and you inspire and you help so much. Your RU-vid channel literally saved my life. I am close to full recovery. Thank you so much for providing an alternative to ed treatment. Because your way of recovery is the one that works. In treatment Centers, I only got stuck
@@marjol3in i am fine, thanks for asking. I am still so happy that I choosed Recovery, thanks to tabitha. I enjoy a very happy life with a wonderful job, wonderful boyfriend and Hobbys that bring me joy. When I was sick I would not even have dreamt that this would be possible for me
Maybe I missed it ..but were you overexercising the whole time you were binging ? Did you ever have a period of time where you weren't overexercising and still binging? What if you want to stop overexercising and are afraid that if you continue to binge when you stop that it will be bad? Is that why you kept overexercising too?
Listening to Tabitha how she life’s right now,she is definitely play Minecraft,lol,just joking,Thanks for informative,helpful and funny video and videos. Thanks Tabs 😀
What if the food you feast on is quite similar to what you're eating during the day? I have been working very hard on eating more during the day and not restricting anything. Yesterday I had peanut butter, honey and banana toast for breakfast and enjoyed it so much. Then for lunch I had a cheesy vegetable pie. I was full but then continued to eat many more slices of bread with peanut butter, then peanut butter with chocolate chips by the spoonful, then muesli (which I often have for breakfast) until I felt quite sick. I wasn't really craving anything different. And in fact, mid afternoon is the most frequent time I have a feast/binge episode, no matter what or how much I eat for breakfast, snacks and lunch. I can't quite understand why I'm so frequently binging on these same foods I allow myself to have in abundance at other times, but I'm still eating them when I'm not hungry or until I'm in pain/feel sick. Thank you so so much.
You mentioned yesterday’s breakfast and then lunch. Did you have a snack In between? Maybe you are leaving too much time between meals. Make sure you never miss a snack and eat every 2 -3 hrs minimum. Your body will learn that food is always on its way and may stop sending you signals to overeat at meal times. This is what helped me. Initially my snacks were mini meals but as I continued to feed my body , the hunger has reduced.
You will be eating until discomfort frequently in eating disorder recovery because your body needs more food than you can handle physically. You need to let it happen at any time your body wants it. Dont try and question why it happens at specific times.. your body just likes eating at those times. I was the same during my recovery and now i am recovered fully from tabithas help and also allowing binges at any time of day. The discomfort will pass and your desire to eat past fullness will eventually fade. Keep with it!
@@sarahbartlett9870 Thank you for your advice!! I did have a snack in between. I had an apple. I know that's probably not enough, but I genuinely love apples and wanted it. But I guess I need to do more work on higher calorie or high fat snacks
@@jessicaking2425 Ah ok. An apple is definitely not enough. Nothing wrong with wanting an apple but you need something much more substantial with it. Experiment by making your snacks much larger.
Jessica King you could try to not eat some of the peanut butter toast for morning snack. If you really enjoy apples, you could decorate your peanut butter toast with apple slices. And keep going, I’m now almost 4 months all in and my appetite decreases. I had recovery feasts almost everyday after lunch. What helped me was to not skip my snacks in between my meals and to eat a calorie dense breakfast, lunch and dinner. Keep going !!
@@wicklawalker9495 absolutely I do. Tabitha changed everything I know about EDs and recovery in the last 2 years compared to over a decade of "therpay". She's been a game changer. Thank you for your concern x
same i didn’t for ages then i just let myself once and it triggered extreme hunger. Which is a good thing!! That is your body’s normal response to starvation. Try it once and see if it triggers extreme hunger. If it does perfect! Extreme hunger is difficult to deal with but 100% necessary and just listen to it.
@@Sophie-bj1nf Yes. Unfortunately that then sets you up to binge the next day. I found that I am just more hungry early in the day in general. I made sure I had a very good breakfast and a pretty large mid morning snack/ mini meal. First the mid morning binges went and then the after lunch binges got less frequent...once a week and then once every two weeks. Then gone. For me having a very substantial mid morning snack made all the difference
Sarah Bartlett thank you for your advice! I’m playing around with how much breakfast I eat at the moment. Too much and I just want to skip lunch, too little and it triggers a binge. Hopefully I can find a good balance soon x
@Sheela Narayanan The binges will stop once you stop restricting and giving your body the food it needs. I know Tabitha and others promote unrestricted eating and I’m sure for a lot of people that is the solution, however, it may not be the best plan for someone who binges. Personally I followed structured/ mechanical eating. 3 meals and 2-3 snacks a day. So you will train your body to know that food is coming and get back your hunger/ fullness signals.To start with your meals and snacks will most likely be pretty big. Keep eating . This alone should help reduce the binging. For me it took about 3 months of structured eating before the binging stopped because I just wasn’t eating enough for my body ( despite eating more than average person). They became less frequent , once a week, then every two weeks and then the urges just stopped and I haven’t binged since. Also a few months I noticed that I was not needing so much food. So really in answer to your question. They will stop but you have to eat enough for your body and I expect you will also need to gain weight in the process. Even if you don’t stop binging immediately if your binges become smaller and less frequent , you are on the right track. Keep increasing what you eat until they do and make sure you include a good amount of carbs. Good luck
Some people, like myself, who have had severe, restricting- type anorexia nervosa, for many years, and never been nutritionally rehabilitated, never experienced binges. Not once. I get that some people do, but it's not everyone at all. I have had extreme mental hunger and continuous thoughts about food. But we don't all have the need to binge, it's not something that happens to all of us.
