How do you Break the Power of a Binge?

By Heleen Woest

How do you prevent a Binge from turning into a whole day (or month) of overeating? Of course it would be best to not binge at all. However, preventing a binge is easier said than done. If you are on a journey of finding healing for the root issues behind your eating disorder, you might not quite be at the place where you recognize the early signs of a binge (starting in the thoughts and emotions) and thus find yourself still binging from time to time.

You can easily undo all the progress you've made with one lousy binge! So how do you keep a binge from taking over your life?

The answer lies in TURNING YOUR BACK ON PERFECTION FOR GOOD!

There is a strong link between Perfectionism and Eating Disorders. If you have strong perfectionist tendencies then you might have a very difficult time trying to break away from binging. The reason: You want to have a 100% perfect day or NOTHING - No middle ground.

In order to find healing in this struggle and to BREAK THE POWER OF THE BINGE, our focus has to shift. We have to ask the Holy Spirit DAILY (maybe even hourly) to help us shift our focus from:

WEIGHT LOSS to HEALTH AND 24 HOURS OF PERFECTION to A YEAR OF HEALTH

So what am I trying to say?

If you can change your focus (only with the help of the God of course) to not see your life in 24 hour compartments of "today-I-will-have-a-perfect-day" but rather view your progress over a period of a year, you will not be so devastated by a binge. As soon as a binge loses it's power over you, it will start fading into the background of your life, until you don't binge anymore. We are so scared of those binges because it makes us spiral down. But if we remember every day that a 90% successful day will give us a 90% month, which in turn will give us a 90% year, things will start to change.

Do you realize that if you throw every binge in the 10% "failure-basket" and just get on with doing the 90% of healthy eating, exercise, rest, and drinking a lot of water YOU WILL HAVE AN AMAZING YEAR? You will be healthy, stronger, peaceful and yes some weight loss will be on the agenda. However, if you keep having "100% success days" and "100% failure days" (the days when you binge and just keep eating because you've already "failed") then you either end up at the same place after a year, or worse...

Ask God today to help you change your focus FOR GOOD! A binge has no power over you if you know exactly where to "file" it and remember that it's just a drop in your big sea of 365 days!

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