Kathryn Hansen | Binge Eating, Eating Disorder Recovery and what it means to 'eat well'.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Kathryn Hansen changed my life. I don't say that lightly, but her book Brain over Binge helped me confront, come to terms with and ultimately start recovery from an eating disorder I didn't even realise I had.
You see, binge eating disorders tend to go undiagnosed and actually impact more people combined than the better-known anorexia nervosa and anorexia bulimia. It can be easily dismissed as gluttony, laziness, greed and a whole host of other negative labels that nobody really wants to wear. Still, it is a recognised emotional/mental illness that can be supported with treatments, including counselling.
I had lived in shame for years since I was a child and my weight tipped over into the obese category at the doctors, so I began a relationship with food that was secret, feast or famine and co-dependent and which led my body to look and feel a way I didn't want it to.
In this episode, four years after reading Kathryn's book and being able to install lifestyle changes that have changed my relationship with food forever, we discuss the muddy topic of what it's like to feel dependent on and powerless around food.
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| 0:00.0 | My guest today is the author and broadcaster Catherine Hanson and this is a conversation that I and I suspect many of you have been eagerly anticipating. |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah, for sure and I was never like that until I started dieting. |
| 0:19.7 | But I know that calories can be problematic for people. What's your view on that? |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, that's a great question too. I do think the way you used it as a framework to help you know what |
| 0:29.8 | normal portions were, I think that's perfectly fine. |
| 0:34.0 | But did you ever have the experience of looking to try to blame something else for why your body looked |
| 0:40.1 | the way that it did and felt the way that it did? |
| 0:42.1 | Oh yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:43.7 | I really love the calls coming from inside the house. |
| 0:46.2 | I think I might have to use that. |
| 0:49.0 | More people are impacted by an overeating disorder |
| 0:52.4 | than by restrictive eating disorders. |
| 0:55.0 | That's a good point and I alluded to that a little in the beginning that I tend to see people on both spectrums. |
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