“Okay, I’m thinking about food. Does this mean I need something else right now?”

6 Powerful Steps to Stop Binge Eating for Good

Or when I have the overwhelming urge to pop bites of food in my mouth while I’m preparing dinner, I say to myself,

“Don’t eat before you eat.”

This Practice Will Make You Stop Your Food Cravings

Disordered eating disrupts your natural connection to your own appetite. Once you cultivate and nurture that connection again, you won’t have to live in fear or monitor every choice or tune into your circular thoughts. Your choices will feel organic.

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St Macedonius the Anchorite, in order to heal a woman afflicted with bulimia (though eating thirty chickens a day, she could not by surfeit extinguish her appetite but hungered for still more’) came and offered prayers, and by placing his hand over water, tracing the sign of salvation [the Sign of the Cross], and telling her to drink, healed the disease. And so completely did he blunt the excess of her appetite that thereafter a small piece of chicken each day satisfied her need for food. 

Mental Disorders & Spiritual Healing: Teachings from the Early Christian East
Jean-Claude Larchet