Harnessing the Power of Conscious Ritual to Overcome Binge Eating – In Session with Marc David
The Psychology of Eating Podcast
Marc David
4.7 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Night-time binge eating.
It's a pastime that many people struggle with, and can feel truly insurmountable.
But nightly binge eating doesn't have to get the best of you.
The reality is, there's a clear road to recovering our power and being in control with food – all that's needed is a deeper understanding of why nighttime binge eating – otherwise known as "nighttime eating syndrome" – happens, and a wise framework for overcoming it.
In this episode, we meet guest coaching client, Megan, who would like to finally break free from this challenging nighttime habit.
As a former fitness competitor, Megan spent many years on a low-calorie diet. Eating only 1,200 calories a day, and exercising extremely hard, Megan would find herself ravenous at night. And this would inevitably lead to giving into unwanted cravings – and heavy duty self-rejection.
Years later, Megan is no longer competing, and isn't so restrictive with her diet. She eats well, and takes care of her body. And yet, she hasn't been able to kick her nightly binge eating … a habit that takes a full 2 hours every night snacking, munching, and roaming the kitchen for food.
Disempowered and deflated, Megan feels like a failure with food.
As Marc David helps Megan see – it's understandable given her history that she's having a hard time kicking her nightly binging. Bringing compassion and self-awareness to the table is the first step in transforming nighttime eating syndrome.
The next step is identifying an effective approach that addresses the root problem.
And that's where things get really interesting in this episode!
Marc offers Megan a soulful, unusual approach to healing binge eating that you won't hear anywhere else.
So, please be sure to tune into this powerful episode to discover this beautiful tool in overcoming binge eating! Marc gets to the heart of why we eat at night, and how to gently transform it without the fight or struggle.
Some of the key insights & practices you'll learn:
✅ The concept of "conscious ritual" – and why it matters.
✅ Identifying nourishing nightly rituals that powerfully transform binge eating.
✅ The relationship between "fast eating" and nighttime cravings
✅ The counterintuitive need to stop fighting and criminalizing nighttime eating.
✅ Learning to trust pleasure & how to make friends with food.
✅ And much more…
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Psychology of Eating Podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway into a happier, healthier life. |
| 0:11.3 | Now, here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David. |
| 0:26.2 | Thank you. Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David. Welcome everybody. Mark David here, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. |
| 0:31.3 | We're in the Psychology of Eating podcast. I am with Megan today. Welcome, Megan. |
| 0:37.3 | Thanks, Mark. I'm glad we're here, glad we're doing this. |
| 0:41.3 | For anybody who's new to the podcast, how this works is Megan and I are meeting for the first time. |
| 0:47.4 | And we're going to have a conversation to see if we can make some good things happen. |
| 0:52.1 | So, Megan, if you could wave your magic wand and have whatever you wanted with food and |
| 0:57.1 | body, what would that be for you? |
| 1:00.3 | In this current season, Mark, that would look like not eating at nighttime. |
| 1:08.1 | So it's the, I'm putting in air quotes, emotional eating after dinner. So it's just |
| 1:14.2 | mindless snacking. Although it's not so mindless anymore. I've gone quite away with my |
| 1:20.9 | relationship with food, but it would just be clearing that up completely. I eat really well |
| 1:27.1 | during the day. It's just that little bit at night. And it's not |
| 1:30.4 | even that I'm eating, and I don't want to use the words bad food, but it's not that I'm eating |
| 1:35.5 | unhealthy food. It's just, I don't, I eat the healthy food, but it's the nuts and seeds and peanut |
| 1:40.7 | butter. And obviously, that's very calorie dense and I'd like to and that's just |
| 1:47.3 | keeping me back from my health and fitness goals and yeah keeping me a little bit more |
| 1:52.5 | comfortable in my skin than I would like to be so that would be my ideal situation great great |
| 1:59.4 | let's dive in how long has nighttime eating been more of a challenge |
| 2:04.3 | for you? I would say, so 13 years ago, I competed in fitness competitions and that's really what |
| 2:14.8 | created this disordered pattern of eating. |
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