96 | Overcoming Your Binge Urges By Rewiring Your Brain with Amber Abila

Amber Abila helps people stop binge eating & overeating by rewiring their brains so they can feel normal and in control around ANY food.Through coaching and psychology, she learned that there was nothing wrong with her and she just needed some simple brain tools to start making dramatic shifts in her eating habits and life.She now walks others step by step through her process in her Confident Eater Program as well as in her top rated podcast “Become a Confident Eater.”RESOURCES:Free Gift! Guided Audio "Get Through An Urge WITHOUT Eating:https://www.theconfidenteater.org/urgeBuy the book "Brain Over Binge" by Kathryn Hansen:https://amzn.to/3E63ZrWWork with Amber in the "CONFIDENT EATER" program:https://www.theconfidenteater.org/work-with-meFollow the "Confident Eater Podcast“:https://www.theconfidenteater.org/podcastVisit this “The Confident Eater” on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theconfidenteater_/Free Support Group on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/532434625387487/?mibextid=c7yyfPWatch this episode on YouTube:https://youtu.be/2K-Qg_AsiSQTIMESTAMPS:00:00 Intro Snip01:47 Amber Abila's earlier challenges with overeating and the mistakes she made along the way02:20 What happens to your metabolism when you don't consume enough calories regularly04:10 What is the psychology of habits?06:00 When did binge eating become a recognized eating disorder?06:49 What is the difference between binge eating disorder and bulimia?08:04 How much of the population struggles with binge eating?10:35 What are urges and how do they work interact with habits?12:20 How are the younger generations influenced differently and how can we better understand and help our children?15:30 How does less family structure, no family dinners, and increase in processed foods affect the habits of the younger generation?17:05 what is "mindful eating"?19:12 What is some of the negative programming kids are getting related to desert?22:48 How do we teach our kids mindful eating experiencing the taste, smell, textures and how it makes you feel?24:12 How does stress affect our digestion?26:28 What are some techniques for calming down to control urges?28:42 What are triggers?30:01 Instead of avoiding triggers, how can we use them to rewire our brains?30:35 How avoiding triggers can be unhelpful33:00 What were some of the influences and books you read to learn these things?36:20 How to use visualization to get through urges38:07 What is one of your favorite testimonials from someone you helped?39:29 How visualizing a specific process of consuming a food you would otherwise binge on helps rewire your brain.41:37 What is the podcast "Become a Confident Eater" about?43:10 How can someone contact Amber Abila to schedule a consultation?44:00 What final thoughts do you have to help the audience?