How I maintain my weight without counting calories (as someone who used to be a binge eater)

For years my pattern was;

1. Feel unhappy with my body

2. Start a new diet

3. Be an absolute perfectionist and quit when I made a mistake

4. Enter last supper mentality and eat everything I could before I started again on Monday

5. Repeat

I genuinely believed I had a problem with my eating but I didn't know what.

I felt like I needed a therapist but I believed it wasn't a big enough problem. Like the therapist would say I was being silly.

So, I assumed it was the diet or my discipline.

And the solution to those two things?

Start a different diet (again).

Be more disciplined (aka perfect).

And, it failed EVERY TIME.

It wasn't until I learnt about the binge-restrict pattern and that the binge was the symptom not the cause.

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The second I realised that today's restriction triggered tomorrow's binge I was gobsmacked.

Not to mention, my perfectionist tendancies really fed into that. I only operated in extremes.

I decided I needed to do things differently, I had finally become aware of the pattern I had been repeating over and over again for years and it was scary, but I had to do something different.

This is what I did:

1. I stopped dieting.

2. I stopped being perfect.

The thing I didn't expect was how completely unprepared I was for eating without a diet and without being perfect.

I had ZERO balance and ZERO structure.

That's when I created the tools that I teach in The Fix.

It brought healthy constraints in without creating restriction.

It was an abundance mindset instead of scarcity around food.

And, I was able to see how a mistake was so insignificant in the big picture and FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE just... carry on?!

If you want to learn more about the tools I use on a daily basis to eat well, I share them in this podcast. 👇

This is hands down the most consistent with eating healthy I have been in my life.

And, it feels EASY.

No crazy cravings.

No hyper-vigilance.

No overthinking food.

Food is a forever thing so we need a forever strategy... The Fix is that strategy.

More information about The Fix 10 Week Challenge here (starts June 23, 2025).