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In this Binge on Self-Love podcast episode, Anci shares her five personal tips about what she does after a binge eating episode(s).

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In this Binge on Self-Love podcast episode, Anci shares her five personal tips on how to deal with binge eating urges. Recovery from a binge eating disorder is not always a linear process but remember that life has so much more to offer than an eating disorder ever will. 

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In this Binge on Self-Love mini-episode, Anci talks about the popular trend of "What I Eat in a Day" videos on social media. While these videos can be a great source of inspiration for meal ideas, they often fail to reflect the full reality. Anci explores the potential dangers of comparing ourselves to others based on these videos and why we should never consider them dogmatic.

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In this episode, Anci tackles the relationship between self-love and alcohol consumption. She speaks about her experience with alcohol, what led to her decision not to drink alcohol and how choosing not to drink alcohol can be a form of self-love.

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In today's episode, Anci shares her journey to rebuilding a healthier relationship with exercise and movement. From obsessing about working out through not exercising at all to building a routine that's sustainable and based on joy rather than dieting and punishment.

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2023 is in full swing, leaving the bittersweet experience of 2022 in the past. But what has 2022 taught us about body image? Tune into today's episode, where Anci shares her top 3 things that 2022 did (or didn't) teach us about body image.

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IT'S OFFICIAL! Season 4 is launching next week on all podcasting platforms. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or any other podcasting platform so you don't miss any new episodes.

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We're being told, taught, and we have learned ourselves to feel a lot of different ways when it comes to food. It can make us anxious, it can make us feel negative about ourselves, about our bodies, and it can make us feel insecure and upset. But how do we learn to feel "normal" again around food? How do we learn to have a healthy relationship with food again? Tune in to today's episode of the Binge on Self-Love podcast on your favourite podcasting platform.

How do you tell that food has become more than just food to you? How do you tell that having a meal without any significant feelings or negative thoughts preceding or following having that meal is no longer possible? How do you tell that maybe you're using food as a coping mechanism, as a means of control, or as a punishment? Or, simply, how do you tell that your relationship with food is hurting you rather than serving you? In today's episode, Anci shares her thoughts on how to tell when food has become a problem.

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In today's episode, Anci shares her thoughts on why self-love should be rather unconditional. Why is it that it's easy to love others with all their imperfections, but we treat ourselves and our relationship towards ourselves with "I will love myself if..." and "I will accept myself when..."?

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Today's episode is dedicated to loved ones, family members and to friends of those who suffer from an eating disorder and to those who would love to lend a helping hand to someone struggling with an eating disorder, disordered eating, or negative body image, but you don't know what to do. 

Witnessing your loved one going through a tough time is never easy. It can make you feel hopeless - you want to help, but you're afraid to say or do anything because you don't want to make the entire situation even worse.

In this episode, Anci outlines a few things that someone close to a person struggling can do to show support to someone struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating.

RESOURCES ON HOW TO HELP SOMEONE STRUGGLING WITH AN EATING DISORDER:

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/eating-disorders/helping-someone-with-an-eating-disorder.htm

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/advice-for-life-situations-and-events/how-to-help-someone-with-eating-disorder/

https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/get-information-and-support/support-someone-else/tips-for-supporting-somebody-with-an-eating-disorder/

https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/help/caregivers

https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-help-someone-with-an-eating-disorder-5088664

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/eating-problems/for-friends-family/

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Self-sabotage can take on many different forms. For some, like Anci, the host of the Binge on Self-Love podcast, it's been binge eating and procrastination. In today's episode, Anci talks about her experience with self-sabotage, why we sabotage our own efforts, and why we often become our worst enemy rather than our biggest cheerleader. 

Mentioned video about self-sabotage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqEGQ3QyY38&list=PL7FigUAuw2Nu6-tpsYDZa_w0mssqoovxj&index=3

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Our bodies change and will keep changing as we age and step into different phases of our lives. That's a normal part of being a human being. 

As women, we are being taught to worry about having cellulite, stretch marks, wrinkles and our weight fluctuating through the month. 

The diet industry, the cosmetic brands, and the media tell us to fight our "imperfection" by using their products and services. 

But are they really imperfection? If our skin would stay the same, we couldn't grow into the person we are right now. If our bodies weren't able to adapt, we wouldn't be able to make it through some of the most challenging periods of our lives.

In today's episode, Anci talks about stretch marks, cellulite, and weight fluctuation as something that so many of us feel insecure about, even though it's just a normal part of being a human.

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In this episode, Anci shares her five tips on what helped her during her binge eating disorder recovery.

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Life is about finding a balance in everything we do - in working, eating, moving our bodies, spending time with our loved ones and with ourselves, in creating and consuming, etc. Therefore it's to no surprise that finding a balance can be…well, complicated sometimes. 

We want to treat our bodies the right way, we want to be active, but also take enough time to rest, we want to look good and feel good, we want to eat nutritious food, but we also want to stay sane and enjoy eating whatever we're craving. How do we find the balance between trying to juggle everything, between trying to be perfect and not trying at all; how do we find the balance between being obsessed with health and being healthy and living our life?

Listen to today's episode where Anci talks about finding balance in food, exercise, and self-love.

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I've recently come across a comment in a fitness community on Facebook - it was a comment of this girl who shared her feelings that seeing before and after photos of people on the internet makes her anxious and has a negative impact on her. She said something that resonated with me and what I believe will resonate with many of you - that when people share the before and after photos of themselves, it's usually perceived like the "before" version was unhappy, "fat", and ugly, whereas the new, lean, thin and toned version is pretty, happy, and most importantly, celebrated by others. 

Logically, that makes it seem like the "before" version wasn't good enough because of their weight and appearance. The emphasis on the weight and the appearance, yet again, makes it seem like we can only be happy and loved and feel beautiful if our scale shows a lower number than it did a day before. 

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The Binge on Self-Love podcast is about eating disorder recovery, accepting and loving yourself and about loving your body just the way it is.

And therefore, in this episode, Anci takes some time and talks about the recent campaign that has spared so much controversy that it actually got banned in the United Kingdom. The campaign promotes their new sports bras, using photos of bare breasts of different shapes and sizes of 25 women.

Everything stated in this Binge on Self-Love podcast episode is just the author's personal opinion and this episode, this content, and this podcast are not, in any way, related to any brands mentioned in this episode.

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In today's Binge on Self-Love podcast episode, Anci shares her personal tips on how to get more self-love into your life on a daily basis. 

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In today's episode, Anci shares her recent feelings and realizes that in order to build confidence and create our values, we need to accept ourselves with everything that comes with it. We can spend our life hating ourselves for the way we look, the way we act, and the decisions we've made, or we can accept that as part of our past that does shape us in some way, but doesn't define our future.

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The summer season is slowly but surely getting close, and once again, it's the time of the year when all over social media, the internet, television, magazines, etc., you get to see ads and content dedicated to getting shredded for summer. When you google "get summer body", you'll get over 6 billion results on how to get in shape for summer, how to get summer body ready in just a couple of weeks, how to get a beach body fast, and so on.  

I think that the whole idea of changing your body for the summer is insane, twisted, and unhealthy for anyone's confidence and body image, let alone for people struggling with any form of an eating disorder.

In this episode, Anci talks about why the "summer body ready" is bullshit, and it's just pure marketing, and why we don't need to get summer body ready.

Social media gives us a voice and a platform to share our stories and our battles. It's often encouraging and inspiring seeing people who go through something similar, and if anything, it makes us feel a bit less alone in whatever we're dealing with.

But at the same time, social media can become a toxic place for our self-esteem, our perception of what being successful means, our body image, and our eating habits.

In real life, we usually compare with people we personally know, with people that are in the same age group or in our social circle, whereas on social media, we can compare with literally anybody - a stranger from the other side of the world with a completely different background, experience, values, life goals, etc. 

And what we've been comparing ourselves to in the past few years especially are edited and photoshopped bodies and faces of strangers, models, celebrities, and influencers 

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Today's episode is an update on my personal binge eating disorder recovery journey. Please keep in mind that everyone's journey is different, so never compare to anyone else. Nothing in life is ever perfect, and in the online world, we only get to see a fraction of the reality.

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When struggling with our mental health, we often hesitate to ask for help. Maybe it's because we feel ashamed, we're afraid we will come across as weak or that people won't understand. Asking for help is not a sign of weakness, if anything, it's a sign of bravery, courage, and the desire to change something for the better.

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How can you support your loved one, a family member, a friend on their eating disorder recovery journey? Recovery is hard - it's challenging for both our mental health as well as our physical health. Having someone by your side who's supportive and encouraging can be very helpful.

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Have you ever thought about how much we let the fear of not being perfect and of not doing things perfectly stop us from actually doing something? I have, and I've realized that I pretty much live in fear of not being perfect. In today's mini-episode, Anci talks about why perfection will always hold you back.

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We live in a time period where everybody loves to share their lives. We mostly share our successes, significant milestones such as graduation, wedding, starting a family, buying a house, travelling, simply all the good things in life. But we're not always so willing to share the not-so-happy part of our lives, the daily struggles we tackle, the day-to-day reality, the time period when we don't really feel that super happy about everything. So if we only share the positive things happening in our lives, it's really easy for other people who see your content online to assume that you're just really happy all the time and that you're truly living your best life. When we're sharing just the bright side of everything, it can become very easy for other people to start comparing themselves to you, to doubt themselves, and to question whether there's something wrong with them if they're not that happy all the time, or seemingly that successful, or that strong all the time as someone they see online.

And as it often comes with comparison, we first start to question our abilities and where we're heading in life, and what we've accomplished so far, and after some time, we end up feeling so demotivated, believing we're just so behind in our life and everything.

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We often dwell on the past self, on that person we once used to be. With eating disorders and disordered body image, it's often difficult to let go of that person as it was part of our identity for a long time. In today's episode, Anci talks about why it's important to let go of who we once were in order to become who we're meant to be.

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In today's episode, Anci covers the many faces of eating disorders and how often the smallest and insignificant things we do because of an eating disorder or distorted eating can cause the biggest damage in the long run. 

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In today's Binge on Self-Love episode, Anci talks about how important honesty is not just in the recovery process itself but also on our way to a better self and our self-improvement journey. It plays a big in our attempts for a change, and it may be one of the keys to recovery.

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In today's bonus episode, Anci reviews the Physical series and shares her personal opinion on how the Apple TV show tells the story of Sheila, who suffers from an eating disorder, who falls in love with aerobics, and who helps her husband run for politics.

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I've had a tough time accepting myself for the past ten years, especially my body, size, shape, and weight. It's been only in the past couple of years that I started working on my body image, trying to accept myself just the way I am, with no "I'll be happy when I lose this amount of weight" or "I'll feel prettier when I look like that model on the internet."

But even though I've come a long way, even though I've improved my eating habits and the relationship I have with food and exercise, from time to time, the thought of having the "ideal body" comes to my mind. It got me thinking: Why am I still holding onto that idea? Will I ever let go of it? And aren't so many other people struggling with self-acceptance, maybe feeling the same?

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The New Year has just started, and we're all full of hope that this year will be even better than the last one. In today's mini-episode, Anci shares with you her 5 personal tips for a better 2022. Listen now on your favourite platform.

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When speaking of the consequences and side effects of an eating disorder, most of us probably think of weight. On the one hand, it is understandable that weight, worries about weight, and body image are tightly connected to an eating disorder. 

But at the same time, an eating disorder affects so many other aspects of our lives, health, relationships, and confidence, to mention a few.

In today's episode of the Binge on Self-Love podcast, Anci shares a few of the consequences of her struggle with binge eating disorder that she's been dealing with.

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Binge on Self-Love Bits are short mini-episodes where I share with you some extra dose of self-love and remind you to be kind to yourself and treat yourself nice. 

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With the onset of a new year, many of us tend to ruminate on things we have or have not achieved, on what we've experienced, about people we have met, places we have visited. It's the time of the year when we set new goals and resolutions.

But we often believe that in order to change or start something new, we need to have everything perfectly planned out. And when we don't have everything figured out, we don't try at all. In today's episode, I share my thoughts on why I think that usually starting somewhere and somehow is better than waiting for the perfect opportunity.

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It's been a while but Season #3 of the Binge on Self-Love podcast is launching on Tuesday, January 4th! You can look forward to topics on self-love, body image, and me sharing bits of my journey. But for the first time in the history of this podcast, you can look forward to interviews with inspiring and empowering guests. Make sure to subscribe to the Binge on Self-Love podcast on your favourite platform so you don't miss any future episodes. Talk to you soon! xo Anci

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Have you ever dreamed of starting something? Maybe starting a new hobby, a new habit, a new journey, but you never did? In today's episode, I reflect on what it is that's stopping us from starting and what exactly are we waiting for?

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In July, Pinterest has banned weight-loss focused ads on their platform. In today's episode, I'll talk about what this step may mean, and how much ads subconsciously affect us.

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I've spent a big part of my life worrying about what other people may think of me, worrying about whether or not they will like me, and I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to please others, so they would show their approval of me and satisfy my need for external validation. In this episode, I share part of my story and provide you with few tips that are helping me to change this mindset.

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Doing something day to day may not bring many results, but after a longer period of time, it is what makes the actual difference. You don't have to break a record every single day - you just need to show up every day and take that little step. And all though your action may not make much difference on a day to day basis, in the larger scheme of things, they are immensely powerful. In today's episode, Anci talks about setting goals and why we often fail, and what role does the compound effect plays in shaping our lives and achieving our goals.

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Today, Anci is back with part II of 40 things she's learned and understood about eating disorders during her 10+ journey struggling with anorexia and binge eating disorder. 

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Today, we're celebrating a 40th episode of the Binge on Self-Love podcast as well as 2,000 listens of the podcast worldwide.

In this two-part series, I share with you 40 things I've learned, understood, and realized about eating disorders.

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"Have you lost weight? You look much healthier now; you were just too skinny before." These are just some of the comments that you might have heard or maybe even experienced yourself.

For whatever reason, so many people think they're entitled to comment on other people's weight, body, and appearance. But what they don't realize is how much of a negative impact their comments can have on that person self-esteem and body image.

In this episode, Anci shares her TOP five reasons why you should never (ever) comment on someone's body.

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Life with an eating disorder is not easy. It's full of fear, anxiety, and self-loathe. In today's episode of the Binge on Self-Love podcast, I talk about the amount of shame and self-loathe we have towards ourselves when dealing with eating disorders. 

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When it comes to putting things off, how to tell if you have issues with procreation or if you're just "being lazy"? We often tend to interchange both terms as if they're equal. And when you think about it, it's not even that surprising. Procrastination is about wanting to do something but not bringing yourself to do it for various reasons. So we, and other people as well, tend to say to ourselves, "Oh, you're just lazy."

In today's episode, Anci talks about the main differences between procrastination and laziness, why do people often confuse both terms and she shares a few personal tips on how to beat procrastination (at least sometimes). 

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Eating disorders and recovery are not just about weight. There is so much more that comes with being healthy, happy, and in peace with your body. Recovery is so worth it, no doubts, but it comes with things no one prepares us for. Self-doubts, body image struggles, bloating, or comparison often comes during the recovery. So it's not surprising that recovering from an eating disorder (ED) can often feel overwhelming.

In today's episode, Anci shares her thoughts on recovery, dealing with bloating, insecurities, comparison, and how eating disorder affected her relationship.

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Have you ever heard of productive procrastination? I haven't until a few months back. I've been a passive procrastinator for most of my life - indulging in YouTube, TV series, and shopping sprees instead of studying, writing essays and working on my side hustle project. I've recently noticed I'm actually working on something; it just happened not to be the most important task that needed to be done. Productive procrastination means you do what needs to be done; it's just usually not something that's that important - such as organizing your folder, cleaning your workspace, going through emails for the fifth time.

Productive procrastination can happen to any of us - when studying, working, or working on our dreams.

In today's episode, I cover productive procrastination from my perspective, and I share my five tips with you, which have been helping me tackle procrastination habits.

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How does an eating disorder develop? An eating disorder often starts innocently - as a goal to lose just a couple of pounds, a desire to try a new diet, or get ready for the holiday season. The way eating disorders develop is slow and gradual, making the signs of an eating disorder hard to spot early on. Very often, there is a unique combination of multiple factors that have led us to develop an eating disorder. In today's episode, I share another part of my story and a few things that I believe contributed directly or indirectly to developing anorexia nervosa and binge eating disorder.  

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Binging sucks. But the worst part comes right after the binge - feelings of shame, disgust, and anger. To "make up" for that binge, we're often quick to jump to the idea of restricting, overexercising, and dieting. But crazy diets and restrictive eating only lead to more binging. 

In this episode, I share with you my 7 TIPS on what to do after the binge and what not to do. There's no point in hating yourself, as binging is part of the eating disorder and part of the recovery process. Recovery doesn't happen overnight, but it's every little step you take that count.

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Anci Speaks is a series of shorter, bonus-like episodes where I share with you some of the recent thoughts and ideas that have been going on through my mind. Today, I share with you my frustration with giving up too easily, my desire to do well or not to do it at all; feeling lost amid having everything I've dreamed of, and how gratitude may be the key to many of my millennial problems.

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Eating disorder recovery is a gradual process. There will come days when we will feel proud about how far we've come and we'll celebrate our small victories. But there will also come days when our self-esteem drops when we have one of those days when we feel really uncomfortable in our own skin, and when we start to doubt the way we and our body look. And that may leave us questioning: Will I ever learn to love my body? Will I ever feel comfortable in my skin? 

In today's episode of the Binge on Self-Love podcast, I share my recent experience with doubting and questioning the way I look and I'll share five tips that help me navigating negative emotions towards my body.

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In this episode of the Binge on Self-Love, I explain why I took a two-week break, where does this podcast stands, what I plan for its future, and also where do I stand in my recovery journey. 

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May is a mental health awareness month. In today's Binge on Self-Love episode, I share part of my experience with navigating difficult situations and changes while being in recovery and what has helped me to not give up on the recovery.

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I've been a people pleaser for the most part of my life. My desire to pleaser everyone to feel some kind of social validation and positive interaction led me to do things I didn't want to do, things I didn't agree with, and things I didn't even have the time for. In today's Binge on Self-Love episode, I talk about my experience with people-pleasing and why do I think it is a serious problem.

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In today's second part of the two-part series, I talk about women body shaming other women, about brands parasitizing on our insecurities, and I share a little of my experience with body shaming.  

Body shaming is something that many of us have experienced - either as a victim, as a witness, or maybe as someone who's actively participated in it. Body shaming is an issue that's we as a society need to face and address. Being someone who struggled with eating disorders and with disordered body image, I know how much harm a single comment on someone's body and appearance can do with your self-esteem, confidence, and mental health.

In today's episode of the two-part series, I'll talk about something that we all have experienced - either as a victim, as a witness, or maybe as someone who's actively participated in it. Body shaming is an issue that's we as a society need to face and address. Being someone who struggled with eating disorders and with disordered body image, I know how much harm a single comment on someone's body and appearance can do with your self-esteem, confidence, and mental health.

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This episode of the Binge on Self-Love podcast is more like a personal chat about everything and anything that's been going on in both my life and in my mind. The binge eating urges started to come back, I've done a lot of self-reflection, and I've realized that the only one standing between where I am and where I want to be is, at the end of the day, my procrastinating self.

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Is building a healthy relationship with exercise possible? In today's episode, I share my experience with re-building a negative relationship with exercise, as someone who struggled with anorexia and binge eating disorder for over 6 years.

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Bad days - we all have them. They come when we least expected, and they can make us feel miserable in different areas of our lives. In today's episode, I talk about my recent experience with bad body image day as well as having bad days in general, and I share a few tips that help me not to let those bad days affect me that much.

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(Episode mentioned) Comparison on social media: https://anchor.fm/bingeonselflove/episodes/21-Comparison-On-Social-Media---Recovery--Body-Image--and-Expectations-eqpcif

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The growing pressure to be working more, to be working harder, and to constantly available 24/7 is real. So real that it leaves many of us feeling exhausted, stressed out, and anxious. As a procrastinator or as someone having issues with procrastination, I find myself in a very difficult position - surrounded by people with the hustle mindset, while sometimes not being able to reply to an email in time. In today's episode, I share my experience with being a procrastinator in the hustle culture, and why doing more always doesn't mean being more productive, and essentially, become happier.

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What a life with a binge eating disorder looks like? To be completely honest, it can often be very lonely, full of shame, and lost control feelings. But it doesn't have to be like that forever; recovery is possible.

In today's episode, I talk about what life with binge eating disorder may look like to help others understand their friends or family members who may be going through the binge eating disorder.

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Do you feel worse after scrolling through social media? Do you start to doubt yourself and where your heading in life? Do you begin to question why you're not as "pretty," as "successful," and as "loveable" as influencers, celebrities, and other people on social media seem to be? I got you. I often feel the same. In today's episode, I share my honest experience from the last couple of days when too much time on social media got me feeling miserable, depressed, and demotivated.

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What are limiting beliefs? Why knowing what limiting beliefs you have can help you to face them and change your approach? In today's Binge on Self-Love podcast episode, Anci talks about her experience with limiting beliefs and why it's important to question every limiting belief you have.

Listen to Part I.: https://anchor.fm/bingeonselflove/episodes/19-Labels-and-Limiting-Beliefs-Part-I-epsr99

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What labels do you give yourself? And how do you label others? The way we think about ourselves forms our mindset, approach, and attitude towards challenges and opportunities. But most importantly, it helps to build the relationship we have with ourselves - whether a positive one or a negative one. In today's episode, the podcast host Anci will share her point of view on labels and why they can be both helpful and detrimental to us.

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Binge eating has been part of my life for almost 6 years. During those years, I've learned a lot about myself. But the most important experience I've learned is that we are more powerful than we think and more powerful than our eating disorder makes us believe. In today's episode, I share 5 things that binge eating disorder taught me - from realizing that food is not your enemy, that diets are not the solution but the problem, and how important it is to share your problems with those around you. So what you're waiting for? Tune in Binge on Self-Love podcast on your favorite podcasting platform.

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Welcome to my pity party! My name is Anna, but you can call me Anci. In today's Binge on Self-Love episode, I'm going to get personal and share my recent discovery about myself - I've been self-sabotaging my life and my efforts due to the self-pity attitude.

We all need a little pity-me moment, but when you start blaming everything and everyone for your unhappiness, self-pity might be the problem.

In this episode, I share my thoughts on why self-pity is unhealthy and detrimental to us and suggest a few tips for breaking free from the self-pity attitude.

So what you're waiting for? Let's get into the episode.

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What food do you associate with the word “healthy” or “good”? And what food, on the other hand, do you associate with the word “unhealthy” or “bad”? Chances are that you answered something like salad or broccoli, or avocado to the first question. And for the latter, I guess you said something like pizza, or ice cream, and fries, and chocolate; simply food that most of us enjoy, but feel guilty about eating.

For almost 8 years, I considered food to be my worst enemy. Through anorexia and binge eating disorder, I created a list of food "safe to eat" and food that I needed to avoid at all costs. But it never was that easy. With my "good food vs bad food" mindset, I became terrified by food, I believed eating "bad food" made me bad.

In today's episode, I share my experience with the "good vs bad food" mindset and my thoughts on why such a mindset is detrimental to our mental health, as well as few tips that could possibly help you to stop seeing food black and white. 

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Have you ever wondered why you can't seem to make your goals and New Year's resolutions really stick and why you've never really seen the results you hoped for? I have too. And I think I've found the answer - CONSISTENCY. Being consistent with your actions seem trivial, yet it is usually the thing we all struggle with the most. I'm not a fan of New Year's resolutions, but no matter what goals you set (and when), consistency is what will help you turn your plans into reality.

I've never really been consistent with my actions, so I've decided to change that - not just for 2021, but hopefully, for a lifetime. In today's episode, I'll share my thoughts on why I believe consistency is the key to (any) results, why we find ourselves struggling with being consistent, and I'll share a few tips that I believe can help you (and me as well) to become more consistent. 

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How many New Year's resolutions have you set in January 2020? How many of them have you actually achieved? Although different studies show that more than 80% of New Year's resolutions fail, we still keep setting them, hoping that this year, things will be different. But usually, they're not. And as the end of the year approaches, we feel often end up feeling like a failure, ruminating over and over why we failed, yet another year in a row. I was no exception. In today's episode, I'm going to share my point of view on why I think New Year's Resolutions are bullsh*t, why we keep failing at them, and what we can do to set goals that we can actually achieve. Let's get into the episode.

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The imposter syndrome affects many of us. But why does it happen and is there something we can do about it? The imposter syndrome seems to be connected to both procrastination and perfectionism. In today’s episode, Anci will share her experience with the imposter syndrome.

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What do you think when you look at yourself in the mirror? Having a negative body image isn’t something that only people with an eating disorder struggle with – many of us feel self-conscious and focus anxious about our appearance. In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about what affects our body image, why is it important to have a positive one, and whether there is something we can do to develop more positive body image.

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In today's episode, I share my story - how did I developed binge eating disorder, what my experience has been like so far, and what helped me on my recovery journey.

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“No one is you, and that’s your superpower.” Every single day, we compare ourselves to other people. We compare everything – our appearance, lives, education, career, success, popularity, wealth, with people we know, as well as people we never met before. According to recent studies, comparison on social media can contribute to lower self-esteem, envy, loneliness, and feeling anxious and depressed. In today’s episode, Anci covers why the comparison is a thief of literally anything, and she shares her TOP six tips on how to break the self-comparison mindset.

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One thing that people do is that we tend to wait for the right moment. We postpone our plans when the timing is better. We delay changing something – our work, home, maybe even partners, for some uncertain time in the future, when the circumstances will be better. We postpone our dreams for tomorrow, for that "one day" when we will finally feel ready. But do you know what happens with that "one day"? It turns to never. In today's episode, we will cover some of the common things that hold us back when it comes to action. We'll talk about how seemingly helpful things, such as planning and creating to-do lists, give us the false sense we're already doing something, whereas, in reality, we're just waiting for things to happen to us rather than making them happen.

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We live in a world where we are continuously overloaded with information and tips on losing weight, gaining muscles, looking as lean as possible, and getting back in shape. Weigh became associated with success, and somehow, we started to believe that our ability to control our weight will bring us more happiness, success, and love. In today’s episode, we will talk about the diet culture, why it’s toxic, and how dieting is connected to eating disorders.

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Feeling like we're not progressing or progressing too slow, feeling stuck, and demotivated, that's all a natural part of the process. But how can we break from such a mindset in order to accept that no matter how little or how slow our progress is, it still IS progress? In today's episode, Anci will share her current struggle with feeling demotivated and will provide you with a few tips to overcome this mindset. 

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Breaking the Binge Eating Cycle: https://anchor.fm/bingeonselflove/episodes/01-Breaking-the-Binge-Eating-Cycle-ehhj3f

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Seeking for Validation in The Wrong Places (and People)

Being praised by someone and being told how great, smart, and beautiful we are is undoubtedly flattering, but it shouldn’t be the only source of our self-worth and confidence. Sometimes, we may seek validation and approval in other people, external things, and different situations. In today’s episode, Anci, the host of this podcast, will share her experience with seeking validation in all the wrong places and provide a few tips to find this validation within yourself.

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We will cover another four common myths and misconceptions people tend to have about eating disorders in today's episode. A certain stigma around eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, binge eating, and other types and subtypes of eating disorders, prevails in today's society. By sharing our experience and leading this kind of conversation, we can contribute to breaking such stigma. This episode is a second part of the Eating Disorder Misconceptions. You can find a link to the first part of the series in the show notes.

Eating disorders are accompanied by myths and misconceptions. Among the most common myths are that only people with certain bodyweight have eating disorders, that only girls suffer from an eating disorder, or that binge eating is not a “real” eating disorder. In today’s episode, we will cover some of the most common misconceptions and discuss some ways to break the stigma surrounding eating disorders.

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Procrastination, to a certain extent, is completely normal. Everyone procrastinates sometimes, including the most productive people. Procrastination is even more common during specific periods in lives and during certain situations – for instance, when we're supposed to study, when we're supposed to do some prep for work, but also when it comes to our personal goals, such as recovery. Sadly, not many people talk about it publicly. In today's episode, we'll cover what procrastination is and what are some of the most common reasons why we procrastinate.

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Why do we have such tendencies to be perfect, and to be completely honest, who doesn't want to be perfect? We may strive for perfection because we believe that people will finally accept us, love us, and respect us once we're perfect. As someone dealing with an eating disorder, I wanted everything to be perfect - my body, appearance, grades, and subsequent eating disorder recovery. In this episode, I will share my experience as a perfectionist and binge eater in recovery, how I reached a breaking point as a university student, and some of the crazy things I've done to be "perfect."

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Have you ever sabotaged your own efforts only to find yourself wondering why you did it? We often self-sabotage without realizing it, and it's no exception when it comes to an eating disorder and the recovery. In today's episode, we'll cover why we're resistant to change and why postponing won't make a recovery any easier in the future.

Breaking the binge eating cycle isn't easy but it's definitely possible. It today's episode we're going to cover how do we get caught in the binge-restrict mindset, why it's hard (but possible) to break it, and what are some tips on how to navigate the change.

DISCLAIMER – Binge on self-love podcast is intended for information purposes only. It doesn’t provide professional medical advice, and it is not a substitute for diagnosis or treatment.