DR MARIANNE MILLER
CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS
Navigating Social Situations: Overcoming Binge Eating Challenges
Whether you live in San Diego, London, NYC, or elsewhere, navigating social situations when you are in recovery from binge eating takes a delicate touch. People may not realize that even choosing a restaurant or deciding what takeout to eat as a group or cooking altogether can be fraught with anxiety. It’s important to cope ahead in order to overcome binge eating challenges when you’re with friends, family, or even in work settings.
How to Navigate Food Delivery Services When You Struggle With Binge & Stress Eating
One HUGE change in the past few years in how people binge eat is the use of food delivery service apps like DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, and UberEats. You feel the urge to binge, you whip out your phone, and 30 minutes later you can get pretty much any type of food on which to binge. Gone are the 11p runs to the convenience store. Now there are 7 ways you can eat Sag Paneer and Korean BBQ. You can literally have Taco Tuesday on the other 6 days of the week, without having to cook, and without leaving the house. This type of access was unheard of prior to the pandemic. Yes, it existed, and it wasn’t widely used (except perhaps pizza, and in big cities like NYC & Chicago). Now you can get delivery nearly anywhere. Here are 5 quick tips to navigate food services when disordered eating is part of your life.