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Thank You Beautiful Binge!

Bingeing is often a reflection of what is going on in your internal landscape.  If you are feeling the innate need to fill yourself, to stuff food into your mouth, it’s a simple and strong sign that somewhere, somehow in your life, you are not being filled up.

And no, I am not just talking this from a theoretical background here.  I have spent my whole life as an emotional eater.  Even as a holistic health counsellor ... after I understood the why, the how to avoid the drops in blood sugar, how to reduce cravings through good nutrition, just last year I hit the emotional eating wall all over again.

You see, I was my Dad’s carer for 5 years, and at the beginning of last year he became very ill.  It took him three months to die.  In that three months of pretty much living in his hospital room, I ate on autopilot, unconsciously running away from the pain and fear and guilt I was feeling.  This period saw me eat my body weight in chocolate every day: be warned, sugar and grief are never good bedfellows!   Before long my jeans would not do up, and I was horrified to find that 15 kilos had reacquainted themselves with my thighs.  So even health professionals trip up when they forget to LISTEN.

So back to you.

There is nothing wrong with you, there is nothing that needs fixing, you are not stupid, undisciplined or lazy. 

In fact, your body and your soul are so very clever – this powerful need to eat is a neon sign saying WRONG WAY, GO BACK!  It’s a clear signpost saying SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT HERE, SOMETHING DOES NOT FIT.  (So say thankyou beautiful binge.)

Your job is to listen to your soul, your inner knowing and ask yourself...

What is it that is missing from my life – what am I craving?

What is it that is not fitting me anyone more – what do I need to let go?

Where am I empty?

What am I trying to stuff down?

Listen to your own answers. 

True integrated holistic health is looking after your needs on an emotional, spiritual and physical level.  The need to overindulge in food tells you that something else is not being fulfilled.  It is important for you to be living your life’s purpose, taking time out to experience pleasure every day (no I do not mean the cheap thrill of a binge, I mean real long lasting yummy pleasure).  For you to be deeply connected to yourself and the people around you, to feed yourself clean and fresh food and take time out every day to rest and relax.  Any one of these basic holistic health drivers can send you running to the fridge if it goes ignored.

For me, during the time I spent with Dad in the hospital, I stopped doing all the things that brought me joy and pleasure and deep peace.  I went from competing in a triathlon to not moving for days on end, disconnected from my husband and two daughters, stopped taking time out for pleasure and relaxation, and ate on the run often out of vending machines.  From the advantage of hindsight it does not take a rocket scientist to work out I put myself on a very slippery slope to self neglect, and as my pattern has always been emotional eating, in my distress, that is exactly where I found myself.

If you tend to over-eat, binge or swing from being overly controlling with food to losing the plot and eating everything in sight, you already KNOW this about yourself, you are familiar with this pattern. 

It is time to practice the radical self respect of taking care of yourself in all areas, and take the pressure off yourself to be perfect.  Relax the way you think about being healthy or not, and give yourself permission to feed yourself, to nourish yourself with your delicious life.  Like me, once you return to answering all your soul’s demands calling out to be fed, the need to overeat will quickly subside. 

To help to action this, my clients and I work on the fundamental Tall Poppy Principles of Purpose, Pause, Pleasure, People, Prosperity, Plate and Power – you can find a free download of these principles at http://www.tallpoppyproject.com/.

You too can renegotiate your life terms and smash through the blocks to living a Delicious Life.  The key is to deep and truly honours yourself, to really listen, and to see that need to eat as the neon sign that it is.  To tell you are off track!  

Thank that beautiful binge, thank your gorgeous wise soul for reminding you that you serve better.

X Kylie

Kylie Patchett is a forensic scientist and medical biologist who has spent over 15 years working in Western Medicine, and studying and practicing the ancient Eastern philosophies of health. She is a certified holistic health counsellor who knows there is far more to health than a one-size-fits-all prescriptive approach to eating and exercise.  Her mission is to inspire women globally to stand tall and stake a claim on exactly how they want their lives to look and feel - through the integrative health of their entire physical, emotional and spiritual Being.  Kylie’s bubbly personality, grounded, no BS approach, and innate East meets West intuition make her a powerful allay in your journey towards rocking out your own version of a Delicious Life.  You can find out more at The Tall Poppy Project www.tallpoppyproject.com.