DR MARIANNE MILLER
CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS
Night Eating Syndrome: Why You Feel In Control Around Food All Day Until Night Hits
If you struggle with Night Eating Syndrome, nighttime eating, or feeling "out of control" around food after dinner, you may wonder why eating feels manageable all day but so much harder at night.
Many people in California or elsewhere assume nighttime eating reflects a lack of willpower. They promise themselves they'll eat less tomorrow, skip breakfast to "make up for it," or try to avoid eating after a certain hour. Unfortunately, these strategies often make the cycle worse.
Why Am I Eating at Night? Understanding Night Eating Syndrome in Your 30s, 40s, and 50s
Do you ever feel like you “do fine” with food during the day—but the second it gets dark, all bets are off?
🍽️ Maybe you’re constantly eating after dinner.
🌜 Maybe you wake up in the middle of the night to snack.
😞 Maybe you feel ashamed or confused about why this keeps happening.
If this sounds familiar, you're not alone—and you're definitely not broken.
Let’s talk about Night Eating Syndrome (NES): what it is, how it differs from binge eating disorder, and why it so often shows up in your 30s, 40s, and 50s. Whether you’re navigating neurodivergence, chronic stress, hormonal shifts, or just plain exhaustion—your night eating has roots, reasons, and relief is possible.
Meet @the.binge.dietitian Toni Rudd, RD: A UK eating disorder dietitian based in Peru!
I got to know Toni Rudd via Instagram @the.binge.dietitian, and we’ve been friends ever since. Not only does she have a big heart and loves to help people, we are totally on the same page when it comes to helping people in the US, UK, Canada, Peru, and all over the world recover from binge eating. Whether folks are looking for binge eating treatment in San Diego, California, London, England, or Lima, Peru, learning more about Toni’s approaches and following her on Instagram will help you get you on your way to binge eating recovery.
How to Find the Right Binge Eating Therapist for Your Needs: 5 Ways to Get Help for Binge Eating
Finding a decent therapist is hard. Finding the right binge eating therapist in California or Texas is even more difficult. It’s partly because many eating disorder therapists don’t have much experience and training in binge eating disorder. Also, many individuals struggling with binge eating are in larger bodies, and they face judgment, stereotyping, oppression, and accessibility issues on a daily basis. Most therapists are unaware of such issues. If you grapple with binge eating, you’ve likely tried a lot of coaches, physicians, dietitians, and perhaps even eating disorder therapists who just haven’t clicked. You’ve felt misunderstood, invalidated, minimized, and ridiculed. Finding an experienced, compassionate binge eating therapist who knows the complexities of binge eating disorder is key. Here are five ways on how to do it.
An Open Letter to People Wanting to Recover in 2026: Find Freedom from ARFID, Binge Eating, Bulimia, Anorexia
To all of you who have spent years, even decades, struggling with an eating disorder, I hear you. I have experienced similar eating disorder challenges when I lived in San Diego, Denver, and Texas. I know that you want the suffering to stop.
Binge Eating and Emotional Intelligence: Enhancing Emotional Awareness in Recovery
It’s common for people who struggle with binge eating to have low emotional awareness. Whether you’re in San Diego, California, London, UK, Florida, or Texas, it’s helpful to cultivate emotional awareness, which propels binge eating disorder recovery. The thing is, emotions are hard. They can go deep and feel really overwhelming. So it’s important to learn how to identify AND manage your emotions in order to reduce and eliminate the binge eating episodes. Here are some strategies to do it.
Building Resilience: Strategies for Overcoming Setbacks in Binge Eating Recovery
Setbacks suck. Whether you’re in San Diego, California, NYC, or London, UK, it is so difficult to deal with setbacks in binge eating recovery. Picture this: You’re cruising along, and you haven’t had a binge eating episode in weeks. All of a sudden . . . WHAM . . . you have a stressful few days, and you forget to eat breakfast and even lunch, and you end up binge eating that night. Shame crashes like a wave over you. You feel physically uncomfortable. A thought keeps crossing your mind: “I’m a failure.” Guess what? The recovery journey isn’t over. You can build resilience and spring back from setbacks in binge eating recovery. Here are three tips on how to do it.
Navigating Triggers and Emotional Eating: Strategies for Overcoming Binge Eating Patterns
Struggling with binge eating patterns? It’s likely that you have common triggers that launch the binge eating cycle. Whether you are in San Diego, NYC, or London, it’s important to recognize the susceptibilities that can make you vulnerable to falling down the binge eating rabbit hole. It’s vital to identify strategies for overcoming binge eating patterns and navigating emotional eating. Read these top three tips to help you recover from binge eating.
Binge Eating Recovery: Celebrating Non-Scale Victories
Binge eating recovery is cause for celebration in so many ways. Whether you live in New York, Florida, California, or Colorado, it’s important to highlight small and big victories. What this means is that you focus on recovery achievements that have nothing to do with the scale. Here are 5 types of non-scale victories that you can celebrate as you recover from binge eating in NYC, San Diego, and London UK.