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Binge No More: Your Guide to Overcoming Disordered Eating

Binge eating is part of a disordered eating pattern that may qualify as an eating disorder. Most often, binge eating is associated with bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by vomiting or other attempts to compensate for calories consumed. Binge eating is also the central feature in a recently recognized eating disorder—binge eating disorder. Less well known is the fact that many people who suffer from anorexia nervosa also binge periodically. In addition, untold numbers of people have subclinical eating disorders—any of a number of conditions that do not meet the stringent criteria necessary to qualify for a diagnosis of anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder—but who nevertheless suffer from distress related to disordered eating.

Unable to cope with stress, hunger, or deprivation, the eating disordered person succumbs to the overwhelming urge to eat. Most eating binges produce—and are produced by—painful emotions. The binge is a way of coping with anxiety, anger, loneliness, boredom, and other feelings. The end result is that the binge eater hates herself, her body, and her behavior.
Binge eating undermines success in managing weight, impairs health, damages relationships, diminishes the quality of life, and causes untold misery for millions. Binge No More assists readers to understand their own disordered eating problems and take appropriate action. Integrating principles and techniques from cognitive-behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, and dialectical behavior therapy, this book offers a variety of strategies for addressing the factors involved in maintaining an eating disorder.

Table of Contents

Part I: Information: What You Need To Know about Disordered Eating

Chapter 1 – Eating Disorder or Disordered Eating?
Chapter 2 – Who Binges?
Chapter 3 – How Binge Eating Hurts
Chapter 4 – The Causes of Disordered Eating
Chapter 5 – Understanding Binge Eating

Part II: Intervention: How You Can Overcome Disordered Eating

Chapter 6 – Assessing Your Binge Eating Behavior
Chapter 7 – Changing Your Eating Behavior
Chapter 8 – Challenging Problem Thinking
Chapter 9 – Balancing Acceptance and Change
Chapter 10 – Improving Your Coping Skills
Chapter 11 – Increasing Interpersonal Effectiveness
Chapter 12 – Overcoming Backsliding

Dr. Joyce Nash, PhD    (650) 329-1000