Sound familiar???
You’re not alone my friend.
I’m Amber Abila, and I used to say those words every freaking day too.
This picture was taken when I was at rock bottom.
Binge eating 1000’s of extra calories, a constant anxious obsession around food, rapidly gaining weight, and internally the most insecure I’ve ever felt.
“I just want to eat normally”
It all started in 2015 when I became obsessed with losing weight & eating extremely healthy.
I counted my calories down to the spinach leaves. The scale went down and down until…
My first binge lives vividly in my mind.
7 cookies eaten frantically until I stood in shock.
With an overwhelming sense of panic, that was also the first time I ever purged.
After months of binge eating and bulimia, I knew I couldn’t keep living the rest of my life this way. I was completely miserable.
So I sought out my first option- therapy.
While I did find a lot of success in healing my bulimia, therapy didn’t really do anything to help my binge eating.
So I resorted to all the other things Google told me to do…
30 day no sugar challenge to “reset my system”
Stuck to intermittent fasting
Lifted weights, upped my protein
Journaled
intuitive eating and just listening to my body
But I couldn’t stop overeating.
During one of my frantic internet searches, I came across a blog post that explained “Binge eating is just a habit.”
And the good news about habits is they can be changed.
This was the first (of many) insights that inspired me to learn how to change my brain.
I started to train my mind to think like a natural eater.
I left food behind effortlessly and was eating everything in moderation.
Best of all, I felt CONFIDENT making my food decisions.
I’m a Certified Integrative Change Worker trained in the latest neuroscience of how brains change.
I now coach others around the globe using a unique blend of techniques from…
CBT/thought work
positive psychology
hypnosis
and the essential knowledge of how to eat naturally!
The extra fun stuff!