Ep. 19: Should You Drink Alcohol While Trying to Stop Binge Eating?
Brain over Binge Podcast
Kathryn Hansen
4.6 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kathryn discusses the affect that alcohol has on the higher and lower brain, and why drinking may make it more difficult to dismiss binge urges. You will learn how to make a good individual decision about whether or not to have alcohol during recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever feel out of control around food, you're not alone, and you're in the right place to learn practical, no-nonsense information about why you binge and how to stop. |
| 0:12.4 | Binge eating does not mean that something is wrong with you. It's a natural but primitive brain response that you can correct. |
| 0:19.9 | If you're ready for change, sign up for the |
| 0:22.3 | Brain Over Binge self-paced online course for less than $20 per month. And if you feel you need |
| 0:28.2 | personalized support, we also offer one-on-one coaching and group coaching. To learn more, go to |
| 0:34.6 | brainoverbinge.com forward slash subscribe. |
| 0:38.3 | And I hope you enjoy the show. |
| 0:45.3 | This is the Brain OverBinge podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm Catherine Hansen, your host. |
| 0:53.3 | In this podcast, I share information and strategies to help you put an end to binge eating. I'm Katherine Hansen, your host, in this podcast I share information and |
| 0:55.5 | strategies to help you put an end to binge eating. If you've been listening since the beginning, |
| 1:00.6 | I hope that you've gained some valuable and practical ideas that you've been able to apply in |
| 1:05.6 | your life. I've seen this brain-based approach change so many lives. And even if what you learn here isn't the entire solution for you, I hope it does make a big |
| 1:16.3 | difference and it allows you to feel empowered and capable of achieving freedom from binge eating. |
| 1:22.7 | No one's recovery will look exactly alike or follow the exact same path. You may take the information you learn |
| 1:29.3 | here and combine it with another approach that you find helpful, or you may decide to dive deeper |
| 1:35.0 | into the information you're learning here by reading my books or enrolling in a course with me |
| 1:40.8 | in Cookie Rosenblum. You may use nutritional advice from another book or podcast or consult a |
| 1:46.9 | professional who can help you meet your nutritional needs. I believe that everyone is capable of |
| 1:52.6 | recovery, no matter how long the binge eating habit has been present, but not everyone gets to |
| 1:58.5 | recovery on the same timeline. And I want to say here something that I do say at the |
| 2:03.3 | end of every podcast, and that is never to hesitate to seek medical attention if you feel you need it. |
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