Dietitian Reacts to Trisha Paytas’ Binge Eating (How to Break the Cycle)
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I haven’t had these in so long oh my god oh we’re definitely talking about this day hey everyone I’m Abby sharp welcome to aby’s [Music]
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Kitchen in today’s video I’ll be talking about Trisha pis says what I eat on a binge video I know we said we’re not going to do trigger warnings anymore but I do have to give a trigger warning here because we are talking about binging and we are going to watch a video of someone binging so
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please skip this video if it’s triggering to you also check out my description for my free Hunger crushing combo ebook for some healthy meal and snack ideas and excuse my voice I’m trying here but I got L and gas for my kids again okay I’m just going to jump in here and we can
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kind of explain things as we go and reminder to please keep it kind in the comments both in my video and on trishas we do try to keep this a supportive place especially for those sharing their experiences with EDS I have ordering personality disorder and have to recognize
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triggers cuz I have emotional um instability it’s like really hard for me to regulate my emotions I have to recognize triggers well a big trigger for me is actually going into the grocery store so as Trisha mentioned she has BPD or borderline personality disorder which actually
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is what my psychologist sister Dr Sky Fitzpatrick specializes in so I threw a few questions her way so Sky echoed that Bing disorder and borderline personality disorder are highly comorbid largely related to this emotion dysfunction piece that Trisha described there are a lot of Pathways
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to binge eating but some researchers have hypothesized a model where individuals who have low self-esteem are predisposed to binge and when a negative self-belief is triggered that person understandably feels a lot of anxiety and stress folks who have difficulty
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with emotional regulation like those with BPD are just completely intolerant to to these negative emotions and will do anything to try to distract themselves from them some do this through self harm others through impulsive shopping and others by restricting their diet while engaging
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in more negative self-eating beliefs which then triggers a binge so the disordered eating serves as a temporary false sense of emotional control which ultimately obviously is very maladaptive so being in a grocery store or a certain fast food chain can be a big trigger for a lot of folks with
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bin shooting disorder if that is where a lot of Their Fear Foods had traditionally become consumed as Sky told me the ultimate end goal would be to confront rather than to avoid those triggers but this is a really long game for a lot of folks now the other major trigger for binging
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however that we can and probably should avoid is dieting my mindset this week was like I need to start dieting like I want to start dieting I want to start losing weight um cuz like for a number of reasons I just want to look better I obviously am trying to get pregnant again and so because I’ve
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like put that diet word in my head like I’m like a restricting myself I kind of went on a bench shopping like I got these for my daughter but um like I hadn’t gone in there in so long I need to lose weight but then like I’m like okay this is my last like little binge before I I go hardcore next
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week cuz next week I’m filming a lot so I’m like you know what next week I’ll probably have really small dinners and I won’t be snacking so let me just this week go like ham and I think that’s like that’s where like it’s a mental thing Bingo we know that one of the biggest predictors of a
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binge is restriction our bodies are biologically primed to defend our weight when faced with a diet or in this Cas even the anticipation of a diet we typically call this the last supper syndrome and it’s an actual psychological phenomenon one stud he found that when restrained eaters AKA
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folks who have historically dieted were told that they were going to begin a weak long low calorie diet after participating in a cookie tasting task they ate significantly more cookies than those who were not told about the upcoming diet once you get into this binge restrict cycle it is really
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really hard to get off that ride when we restrict our food intake our hypothalamus tells our brain to ramp up metabolic efficiency and force us to eat more we get anxious our cortisol Rises we get hungry and we specifically start to Crave high calorie foods this phenomenon isn’t unique
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to folks with bingeing disorder or borderline personality disorder or folks with a history of dieting or some kind of lack of willpower this is a primal human survival mechanism and is really in all of us it’s just that for folks with borderline personality disorder this impulse
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is driven by this desperate attempt to regulate dysfunctional emotions let me hop in here quick to chat soup season because I partnered up with Emy Ramen for today’s video and if you are a noodle lover you’re going to want to try this so like most kids there was a good chunk of my life
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can get a 30-day money back guarantee but let me let me know in the comments which flavor is your favorite I don’t know like I think this is like a part of my life that I don’t share because I feel like I am so spiritual and I’m in so much control of like my emotions and how
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I react and I’ve like really gained control of like that aspect of my life gain control of spending gain control of like not picking bits for like knowing what love like I really feel like I gained control in so many aspects of my life that I like almost feel embarrassed that
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I don’t have control of this because like even when I was Shing the documentary we did a whole like food segment and he’s like okay if you can manifest everything you know which I feel like I can he’s like why can’t you manifest like and not he wasn’t like insensitive or anything like that
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it’s just more like why can’t you manifest like eating control better eating habits like being skinny being healthy and that’s a really good question and I don’t know my mind is just like not quite there yet here’s the thing I don’t have to hide my food with my husband like I bring this
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back like it’s it’s not an issue like I told him like verbally I was going to go on a diet like I wanted to lose weight and I rarely do that because like if this happens like I don’t want to be judged yeah my husband sees all my videos it’s not me like hiding it and I know a lot of us are
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like we used to hide food like a lot of people who have been cheating disorder especially like fat people with eating disorders like we hide our food hence why we’ve been trans and I used to do it shame and embarrassment are such integral drivers of e disorders which is why they often go
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so underdiagnosed undertreated and in way too many cases even celebrated in the eyes of the public e disorders often are associated with vanity low self-esteem and weakness and within the Ed World binge eating is seen as particularly shameful where anorexia is marked with extreme discipline
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binge eating is often seen as lacking self-control control is the ultimate blow to one self character especially when you’re also fat so it’s no wonder that most binging and purging happens in secret the world is already super unkind to fat people especially fat people who aren’t actively doing
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everything possible to lose weight but they can be extra unkind to fat people who say they want to lose weight and then bring home bags of chips and ice cream from the store so I can really empathize with that shame that comes along with feeling like you failed before even started and
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The Bravery it must take to open yourself up to that criticism so I really applaud this openness and honesty because you know shame is actually the fuel that keeps the binge restrict cycle alive you restrict your Cravings increase you binge you feel guilt and shame rinse and repeat we have
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to intercept the cycle somewhere and while the obvious place to do that damage would be right here at restriction shutting down the guilt and shame can also weaken the Beast as bernee brown said say shame cannot survive being spoken I got I went down the chip aisle I got cake P chip I got
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baked Che um I got to get the Similac formula I also got rocky ice cream which clearly I can’t eat in the car me maybe I could figure out a way to do it look it’s four items like a binge kind cuz like you know what I’m going to do I’m going to taste all of these I’m going to share my thoughts
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on whether or not this is a binge after we get through the eating episode I I do better where it’s like I will eat breakfast I won’t like so I do have binging disorder and if I would Bing like this I would just eat and eat and eat and then like not eat for a couple days I will eat tomorrow
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and I will get back on track like the longest a binge has been for me now is like this it’s like in a sitting okay this is a huge huge step in the right direction and yes having breakfast and regular meals to follow a binge is so important if we want to weaken the momentum of that cycle
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often folks with bingeing disorder will start with one bad food in a day and then be unable to stop until they are physically sick fall asleep or both then the following day that guilt and shame fuels them to tighten their rins even further sometimes abstaining from eating anything at all which only
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throws them into another binge if you struggle with binge eating episodes and you are entering a scenario where you feel that you may be at risk so for example a lot of folks feel that way around the holidays the most important thing that you can do leading up to that triggering scenario is to
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eat normally normal breakfast normal lunch maybe a normal dinner depending on the situation your brain cannot be expected to not overcome these these intense cravings when it is under fueled and even if you do overindulge like so many of us will during the holidays eating a normal meal the
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next day even if you’re not particularly that hungry can be imperative to nipping that cycle in the bud I’m truly older I get truly grease upsets my stomach so much you guess I’ll still have fast food like when I film I never eat fast food personally well it’s summertime lunches here
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and there but the pool days will’ll take to play to the pool but normally I don’t like normally we don’t and I don’t prefer it so this really speaks to the real growth INRI Journey when you’re really in the throws of bingeing disorder you can find yourself unable to stop eating food you don’t even
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like when we constantly override our body’s inate wisdom we disrupt our physical and psychological tools for detecting satiety satisfaction hunger likes dislikes Etc literally any and all input from our brain and body but it sounds like with the work that she’s put in Trisha has collected
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some data on how Foods actually make her feel fast food upsets her stomach and she doesn’t even particularly like it so she doesn’t eat it when she’s not filming for work I still don’t understand the whole mukbang genre especially if you don’t even like these foods but we covered
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that in more detail already when you’re fat or when you’re older or whatever like people are like especially Bing eating disorder people really think it’s like an excuse for you to just like shove your face um and like it is is an addiction like it’s something where I like really saw these
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things like I need to eat that I almost opened the bag in the store if I was pregnant I would have done that all day long and like ironically enough when I was pregnant I did not snack that much and I wasn’t like hungry like this I didn’t have addictions it was very weird like you
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supposedly you get pregnancy cravings I didn’t get any pregnancy cravings that was the opposite like I just didn’t even want to eat like towards the end like it was very odd like I just didn’t eat a lot anyways like I said I feel not too bad I feel like this is something that I don’t do very often
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and I don’t go to the stores for this reason so the jury is actually still out on whether or not binging disorder is an addiction especially since food addiction is not yet an official mental health diagnosis one review of the literature found that patients with binging disorder tend
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to overeat to deal with emotional disregulation rather than for hedonic experiences of anyone specific substance or taste the latter of which is more characteristic of food addiction that said it makes total sense that Trisha may feel addicted to the ritual of binging so in other words that
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it’s something that she wants to stop but she feels like she’s out of control and just can’t and again that often comes down to weakening one or more of the links in the binge restrict chain yeah I don’t feel like too bad after this binge I feel like I don’t feel like you know it yet so
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yeah I mean four items four items isn’t like bad they’re kind of all mixed together and I did have sweets before dinner so I feel like it is going to ruin my dinner a little bit um but it is what it is okay so I promised I would talk about if this is a binge and to do that I will just give a recap
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of what she ate I didn’t show the entire eating episode but she ate a couple small handfuls of each of the chips and Muddy Buddies and two fudge cookies now the official description of of a binge in the context of binging disorder requires three or more of the following behaviors eating more
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rapidly than normal eating until uncomfortably full eating large amounts of food even when not hungry eating alone because of the embarrassment and feeling disgusted with oneself depressed or guilty after eating now based on everything we just saw here Tisha didn’t eat until she was
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sick Trisha didn’t finish all of the snacks she bought Trisha ate alone in her car but actually not alone since over 200,000 people watched her do it and Trisha said that she doesn’t feel too bad so based on that one might actually say officially that this was not a binge but a lot of disordered
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eating comes down to intention and it was clear that Trisha’s intention was to eat as many bad foods as she could before she started her diet next week she was kicking off the binge restrict cycle so if Trisha feels this is a binge then it’s a binge the feelings associated with a binge may
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be similar while the foods or amount may vary but semantics aside it’s clear that Trisha has made some serious progress on her journey and I really do appreciate her openness in sharing the ups and downs because that is generally what Enos swur of recovery looks like it is almost never
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linear or predictable but on that note let’s keep it kind and supportive in the comments on Trisha’s video here that is all that I have for you guys today if you liked it be sure to give it the thumbs up leave me a comment below and I will see you next time on aby’s kitchen [Music]
