Just a quick warning for our listeners today we're going to be talking about some touchy subjects including disordered eating and eating disorders.

Welcome to another episode of the talk today we are here with Dr. Evelina Cambanis and we're going to be talking about binge eating.

Specifically, you binged, now what?

Which was a question submitted to us by one of our listeners.

I'm so sorry, I don't remember who it was but you deemed me on

Instagram and you said that the show has helped you a lot but you still

experience binges sometimes and you're unclear on what to do afterwards I

thought this was a great question because I know after a binge is like one of the lowest points that you can feel in your life because you often was symptom of binge eating is that you feel so guilty afterwards.

So Dr. Kimbettis, can you just talk about what is a good thing to do after

binge eating to make yourself feel good again?

Totally.

Yeah, so I think there's a couple things.

So the first that I'll start with is you've benched, just go back to your regular eating.

As soon as you possibly can, even if you're not hungry, just eat like normal, right?

So don't restrict or skip meals, don't do anything to compensate for the bench.

Just resume your regular balanced eating, focus on nourishing your body,

don't punish yourself, right?

So the second kind of component of that is,

you know, really be gracious with yourself.

Practice some self-compassion.

Be kind to yourself.

You didn't mess up, you didn't make a mistake, just do something to kind of like self-sooth and then get your eating back to normal. So one thing that we know is that

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