Reddit reviews End Emotional Eating: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Cope with Difficult Emotions and Develop a Healthy Relationship to Food

Hey! I have tried a few things that have really helped.

• A lower carb diet - After the first miserable four or five days, not having the ups and downs of sugar wrecking havoc in the brain is amazing. Reading how to do a diet like this via /r/keto helped a lot. The community can be kind of iffy at times from what I've seen.. but the information is solid.
  
  
• Counseling - I've been in treatment with a psychologist which specializes in food issues and I've shown a lot of progress, but I've also been to someone who did a lot of work with addictions using DBT or dialectical behavioral therapy. Both have been really helpful in becoming healthier.
  
  
• Overeater's Anonymous - I've gone to meetings in person, but the online meetings are more feasible for me now due to location. I haven't gone in a while, but they were very helpful when I was going through acute suffering.
  
  
• Reading - Books about mindfulness or overcoming emotional eating such as this one have really helped me.

Hey, I have the same problem that you have. Yeah, it's pretty insane when the monster surfaces. Sometimes it stays through the day. The guilt feeds it through. I can't speak for you but I can tell you what I've been doing.

I started seeing a therapist and a few things became clear very early.
I had shame that I needed to deal with. Anxiety that I needed to control. Finally, I need to learn how to eat again.

I'm doing pretty well so far. I've learned not to judge myself. I have hard days sometimes. It's learning to pick yourself up from those hard days that is the challenge right now.

I suggest getting a therapist that specializes in eating disorders. Also, find a registered dietician that deals with eating disorders. If you can handle it, try mindfulness. It is particularly helpful when learning to eat properly again. I found a lot of help with a book called End Emotional Eating. I'm sorry, I can't link to it at this moment. I'll try an add it in an edit later.

Edit: Here is the link to the book and a few others.
For dealing with bing eating:

1. End Emotional Eating by Jennifer Taitz: http://www.amazon.com/End-Emotional-Eating-Dialectical-Relationship/dp/1608821218
   
2. 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food by Susan Albers: http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Soothe-Yourself-Without-Food/dp/1572246766
   
   If you have problems with shame:
   Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw: http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Shame-Binds-Recovery-Classics/dp/0757303234/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453094655&sr=1-1&keywords=Healing+the+shame+that+binds+you
   
   A little disclaimer about this book. I had my doubts going into it. I'm not very religious and this author talks about religion and god right from the beginning. Whether you are religious or not, it may come on a little strong. Later on, I realized that he was more into the spirituality of it than anything else. He even speaks about how you can associate this with whatever belief or non-belief system that you have (belief because his religious passages are mostly based on the Judeao-Christian belief system). What I really liked about this book is that it helped me understand how the shame I felt in life affected me. It was like an epiphany. What's great about this book is that he examines shame at the family level and you won't believe how powerful those revelations can be. The reason I suggest a therapist is that these revelations often need a guiding hand to help you along the way. I hope that you are able to find the help you need, despite living far away from possible treatment centers.

I have a major addiction problem with food. I was anorexic as a teenager and I have swung to the opposite side of the spectrum since. I am finding two books to be very helpful at the moment:

[End Emotional Eating] (http://www.amazon.ca/End-Emotional-Eating-Dialectical-Relationship/dp/1608821218/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420336121&sr=1-1&keywords=end+emotional+eating) by Jennifer L. Taitz
It applies to all addictive thought processes. It's helped immensley with my sober life, and to get a handle on the processes of addiction and recovery.

[Healing your Emotional Self] (http://www.amazon.ca/Healing-Your-Emotional-Self-Self-Esteem/dp/0470127783/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420336179&sr=1-1&keywords=healing+your+emotional+self) by Beverly Engel

Extremely helpful for depression and for helping to examine the underlying issues behind maladaptive behavior.

Maybe this kind of reading is not your thing, but it's worth a mention. Take care.

That's a very long time I hope you find your answer, it's never clear what the answer is. I had serious binge eating but also chronic depression problems for the past 3 years (although I had both growing up until I transformed my body @ 16) and what has worked for me has been starting Wellbutrin. I feel more goal driven and passionate about my hobbies again. I'm eating logically and tracking everything, treating food as fuel.

I do fall back every once in a while but it's so far in between where it used to be every other day or 3 days of eating 6k-7k+ Calories on those days and heavy depression and starvation/cardio the next days. I abused a lot of bronkaid (EC stack) and stuff because of the bodybuilding circle to try to stop my binge eating when cutting weight. I almost started purging, that's when I went to see therapists and psychiatrists. I knew it was getting close to the borderline.

I also resonated a lot with this man maybe it can pull some strings for you. The way he explains it is to a 'T' and the book he recommends is really cheap and provides strategies to combat and understand emotional eating.

Good luck!

May I suggest a good book for this?

"End Emotional Eating: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Cope with Difficult Emotions and Develop a Healthy Relationship to Food"

I started reading it after a suggestion from a friend and it's really been helping me get a better grip on my relationship with food.