Hello and welcome. This is Jesse Jean and you're listening to the Dear Body Podcast.

I spent 10 years stuck in the diet binge cycles hating my body and envying women who seem to have it all because I never felt enough.

And what I discovered in my journey to food freedom, radical self-love, and becoming an eating psychology coach is this.

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it.

And that is what this podcast is all about.

We get real, we get raw, and we hold nothing back.

So if you're ready to learn how to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to the show.

Welcome to the episode where we talk all about the science of binge eating.

If you hit play on this episode, it is my assumption that you are somebody

who is longing to understand why the heck you're doing what you're doing. Why, perhaps why are you

binge eating? Why are you emotionally eating? Why do you feel so compulsive with food when you know

that some of these behaviors are self-sabotaging? We're going to talk about that. In this episode,

I'm going to talk about

the neurobiology of binge eating, and essentially neurobiology is just the study of the nervous

system and how the brain works. So we're going to talk about what's going on in the brain as it

relates to food if you are struggling with these cyclical self-sabotaging patterns. Now, I want to preface by saying I'm not a neuroscientist.

I'm not a medical or mental health professional.

I'm a certified eating psychology coach.

I'm just going to share information that I have learned over the course of my own

healing journey and coaching almost over a thousand women inside the food freedom online program.

So we're going to talk about a lot of really, really fun stuff,

in my opinion. I kind of geek out on the science because once I started to understand more of the

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