If you've truly eliminated food restriction and you're now adequately nourishing your body, any urge to binge is not coming from you, it's coming from the survival part of your brain still running the binge eating habit loop you created while you were once restricting food.
The urge comes before the binge, focusing on stopping binge eating alone isn't dealing with the root cause, it's treating the symptom. You don't just want to stop binge eating, you want to stop getting the urge to binge eat so there's nothing to fight against.
Solution? Know that the urge is a false urge to eat and it's your survival brain still firing off that habit loop unnecessarily. The urge to binge is no longer needed for your survival because you're no longer restricting. Now what? Let the urge do it's thing in the background of your mind and burn itself out. You don't need to do anything except understand the urge isn't coming from you. It has nothing to do with you.
Because it's burned into your mind, it will resurface while trying to choose against it. That's normal so don't expect perfection buy do expect eventual completion if you continue to watch it burn out.
No Restrictions
At first this can mean eat any and everything, but that's not necessarily for your body, it's to give you peace of mind around food. When your mind is at peace with food, you naturally make food choices that are beneficial to you because you're listening to your bodies feedback. This doesn't mean "clean" eating, it means feeling good physically & mentally eating.
Emotional Eating (Negative Emotions)
Emotions aren't causing the urge to binge eat, they latched onto the binge eating habit loop already running from the restriction. Why? Because it's the easiest thing available to you to change your state. When you do this over and over again, you've created a new habit loop of emotions + binge eating on top of the already established binge eating habit loop.
Not everyone chooses food when they feel emotional. If the easier state change for someone is painting, they'll always result to painting to change their state. Another example is singing, if someone finds singing to be the easiest form of state change for them they will turn to that. Eating just so happened to be the easiest state change for you because you were already binge eating, which is pleasurable.
Feeling your emotions alone doesn't tell you where the urge comes from. You still believe it's coming from you if you go down this route which is of course false. Thinking urge comes from you, you're led to believe you lack the willpower to even stop yourself from having the urge. Knowing the urge has nothing to do with you almost relaxes you.
Emotional Eating (Positive/Neutral Emotions)
When you're without binge eating and emotional binge eating, you're left with eating. The enjoyment of food without negativity attached to it. Don't confuse mindless/anxiety eating while you're in a joyous/celebratory environment as normal. It's still a habit associated with the state change you learned from any form of binge eating. Most people have no idea what interacting with food while being in a positive or neutral state looks like. What I can say is guilt & shame and anything other than satisfaction & enjoyment are certainly not in the picture at all.
If you're wondering why you're still getting urges despite knowing the negative effects of binge eating, rest easy knowing it's the habit loop from the survival part of your brain still active, don't feel bad about it. The urges are not coming from you.
PS: I would highly highly suggest you also watch some YouTube videos of people talking about their experience with brain over binge. If you don't read a single word of the book (I didn't) watch the videos below talking about the book, it'll still make sense to you, they sum up the importance parts really well and that's all you need. I feel for some maybe the entire book includes so much outside of the actual concept you can get overwhelmed, distracted or even confused while reading so it loses it's effectiveness. Of course feel free to read it if you want to.
Here's the videos specifically that I watched:
They include their back story, their previous mindsets, how brain over binge resonates with them and also how and why it works. Their testimonials make you believe this approach to binge eating really works and it sure does if you listen attentively. This post is my own interpretations, I've expanded on what's being discussed in the videos & brain over binge.
The link below is the following post discussing why using mindfulness and emotional healing alone as methods to completely stop the urge to binge eating is unreliable, fragile and a continual process instead of a final procedure because you're treating the symptom not the root cause. (https://www.reddit.com/r/BingeEatingDisorder/comments/ags6rj/the_other_side_of_brain_over_binge_the_emotional/?utm_source=reddit-android)
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