I'm Arial Lori and this is the Blond Files podcast where I talk to experts,

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Welcome to the show everybody. I have such a great guest on this week to talk about something that so many people have asked me about.

Binge eating.

So I had my therapist on back in January,

and we talked about eating disorders and why they are usually present.

But in today's episode, my guest and I get into the nitty gritty of the crazy addictive cycle of binging and eating to numb our emotions.

We have all done this at some point, okay?

So I know everybody can relate.

So full disclosure, when I started my Instagram account four years ago, I was

stuck in a bingey cycle where I would eat healthy all day and then at night I would eat like a pint or two of Arctic Zero that awful

no offense Arctic Zero awful low calorie ice cream with like a microwaved quest bar in it because you know

hashtag health I don't even know what they put in that shit to be low calorie and

it wasn't satisfying hence the binge. So in my experience there were two

components to my binge eating. There was the emotional which I think was because I was still kind of fairly newly sober at that point. I was single.

I was just feeling a lot of feelings that I hadn't felt before because I was so used to numbing

out with drugs and alcohol.

And then there was the physical component.

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