Binge eating disorder successfully removes any and all of the love that you have for yourself. It makes you feel awful about the person you have become and keeps you feeling down in the dumps quite often. In order to overcome binge eating disorder, it's important that you start rebuilding a ...Binge eating disorder successfully removes any and all of the love that you have for yourself. It makes you feel awful about the person you have become and keeps you feeling down in the dumps quite often. In order to overcome binge eating disorder, it's important that you start rebuilding a strong relationship with yourself. It's definitely something that takes time to do, but it's also the most important relationship you have and it must be nurtured.
Having a healthy and positive relationship with yourself is truly important. After all, how do you give love away if you can't love yourself? If you have a decent love for yourself, keep on doing things that will continuously raise it to another level. A better level. If you have been binge eating for a long time and have found that your self-love just isn't there, try some of these tips to improve the relationship and love for yourself. We should never give up on ourselves and on beating binge eating disorder.
To build a better relationship with yourself and find more self-love, try these 8 tips:
1. Set healthy boundaries.
Learn to say no when you don't want to do something, don't have enough time, or are too stressed out with everything else going on in your life. You have to make yourself a priority and it's important that you have boundaries so the potential to binge eat is not as apparent.
2. Get to know yourself.
When you spend time alone, you will discover so many things about yourself that might have been hidden for a long time.
3. Practice positive self-talk.
Negative feelings can get the best of you and make you feel bad. Imagine bingeing without beating yourself up. Imagine not allowing yourself to have any guilty feelings or self-hatred about the binge. Imagine not being at the lowest level possible. Think about what healthy self-talk can do for you and for ending the struggle with binge eating disorder. Letting go and moving forward can truly turn your life around!
4. Learn to forgive.
Forgiveness is something that can be hard to do. At times, it can seem like holding a grudge makes more sense. When you hold a grudge, your feelings suppress the growth that is required to grow as a person.
6. Show your emotions.
It's not a healthy idea to hold your emotions in. Instead, it's best to let whatever emotion you are feeling come out! Show your anger, happiness, or sadness. Letting your true emotions show will yet be another step in the right direction of not bingeing.
7. Be true to yourself.
Instead of always beating yourself down, why not start to praise the good things that are going on in your life? Start being true to yourself by showing encouragement for new things and praising what you have already accomplished.
8. No more perfection: Just be yourself.
Stop trying to be someone or something that you are not! Show your true colors and be proud of the person you have become in life. Celebrate who you are by not trying to be perfect. There's no such thing and you'll never reach that goal. Allow yourself to just be you!
Kristin Gerstley suffered from compulsive overeating and now has a very healthy relationship with food. (In addition, she lost 70+ pounds after she beat her eating disorder.) Since 2005, Kristin has helped thousands of people get the Binge Eating Disorder help they need through her website: www.endbingeeatingnow.com. A 100% free newsletter is available where you can read Kristin's actual journal entries when she was coming to terms with her food addiction and binge eating disorder.