Summary: The Quit Binge Eating Podcast. Show number nine. Telling Others About your Binge Eating Disorder Open in iTunes Summary In this episode of The Quit Binge Eating Podcast, Alen gives updates and then talks in depth about an audience requested topic: Telling Others About your Binge Eating Disorder. Introduction & Update Many thanks to Doing Wellness, A Woman with a Phone, and Think Positive Thoughts for your excellent reviews on iTunes. Thank you! Wanting to take QBE to the next level this year. Join our secret Facebook group just for listeners. Send me, Alen Standish, a friend request on Facebook and I'll then send you an invite. Here is how Facebook defines a "Secret" group: Non-members can’t find these groups in searches or see anything about the group, including its name and member list. The name of the group will not display on the timelines of members. To join a secret group, you need to be added by a member of the group. Want to join my beta Binge Eater's Mastermind group? Sign up for the QBE newsletter and I'll email out a survey for those who are interested on January 28th. If you purchase items on Amazon I'd love your help. Before purchasing anything on Amazon, please get to Amazon via my Amazon Affiliate link which takes you to the Amazon homepage. This does not increase the costs any to you but it does help reward me at the end of each month from Amazon for having referred you there. Hosting the website, the podcast, equipment purchases and production efforts all have a cost and I'd appreciate any help you could provide by using this link for any Amazon purchases you do. Thank you! Feature: Telling Others About Your Binge Eating Disorder Alen talks for 40 minutes about how to tell others about your Binge Eating Disorder. So why don't some of us want to tell others? being embarrassed, feeling ashamed or guilt amounts that you eat are not normal and often what you eat is not normal or even tastes that good binge eating alone with no one else around you know there are other problems pushing you towards being eating and you don't want to acknowledge them or you , don't understand them Admitting weakness - this is a big one for anyone who is a business professional, head of a household or a leader somewhere. In much of today's culture many people fear admitting they have a problem for how others might view them professionally or personally. Fear that maybe it's not a real problem. Two parts You think that it's not a real problem you have either in terms of not believing it's an actual eater disorder and that you're just being weak willed. Others around you might not think it's a real problem. don't think it's a real problem. "Can't you just stop eating when you're full?" No outward physical signs to convince someone that you have a eating disorder. No real outwards signs other than weight gain but since being overweight is such an epidemic this will not raise a lot of flags. Esp for men, traditionally for guys beyond their twenties, our culture seems to feel it OK for guys like me to be overweight because hey, guys are supposed to be big. It's not like Anorexia where you're not eating anything Many women today have told me they are purging bulimics and therefore able to keep their weight down So who and how should you tell about your problem? Think though all the problems I listed earlier about why you feel embarrassed, ashamed or guilty about your binge eating problem. Be honest with yourself and tell yourself how you feel about the problem and yourself. Make a list for yourself if you need to. Then think about each item you listed and try to understand why you feel that way about yourself. You didn't chose to have this problem. If you could have stopped you would have, right? Possibly attend a meeting or listen to someone who has recovered from an eating disorder tell their story and how they shared their secret.
