In sessions, your therapist will help you fundamentally change your relationship with food, reduce binge eating behaviors, and help your body find its natural balance. The initial goal of binge eating treatment is not weight loss though your weight may shift once you heal your relationship with your body. If you focus too much on losing weight, you may be overly fixated on an immediate, short-term result to the detriment of your own healing as it can actually trigger or cause binge eating. In order to create lasting changes, you will need to address the core issues contributing to binge eating and create long-term goals. Yo-yo dieting slows your metabolism and hurts your body. Weight loss is something that comes later in the process vs. right away so that it doesn’t trigger the restrict-binge cycle. While you may not lose weight immediately, it is common to notice health numbers such as blood pressure and cholesterol dropping and overall improvement in health issues. In therapy sessions, you can learn to identify triggers, trust your body, treat yourself with compassion, and better understand the feelings that make you want to binge. Once you heal the factors that are contributing to the binge eating, you can begin to release your body’s “weight loss resistance.” We will also look at how your weight is impacting you and how it impacts your social interactions and quality of life. Therapy can help you identify ways to improve both physical and emotional health while working on a healthy relationship with food. In the long run, having a balanced relationship with your body and coping effectively with binge eating triggers can help you release weight loss resistance in your body and ultimately move to a natural weight and improved physical health.