Karly Randolph Pitman
Can you soften sugar cravings with kindness? When we crave sugar, we tend to have 1 of 2 reactions: we either try to control, white knuckle, suppress, shut up, or cut out the feeling of wanting. Or we act out the craving by eating the … [Read more]
How I walked away from sugar (when I was really, really tempted)
What happens when you open the door to the emotions underneath a sugar craving? For most of my life, I’ve been an emotional eater, soothing myself with sugar and food. I’m highly sensitive, which means I feel everything – both the … [Read more]
Overeating is healed in relationship
We typically approach diet, health and weight loss as a science: eat less, lose weight. Exercise more, lose weight. In this mechanistic view, we view the body as a machine, where we do X to get Y. We focus on fixing the behavior (eating less junk … [Read more]
Stop a binge in its tracks with empathy
We tend to judge and blame ourselves when we do something "wrong" or "messy" like bingeing. But I see it differently - if you're bingeing, overeating or fixating on sugar, there's a valid, honest to good reason. Binges don't occur in a vaccuum. … [Read more]
Letting go and finding faith
I was just traveling, visiting family in Ohio. Normally when I travel, I plan extensively in advance: cooking and packing food to take with me, searching for gyms, scoping out the health food stores in the area. Preparation has its value. But my … [Read more]
Caring for our ‘survival machinery’
We all have ways of caring for ourselves - coping mechanisms - that look really, really messy on the outside. This may include overeating or sugar bingeing. It's easy to label and judge them as bad or wrong - "I should know better. I should be able … [Read more]
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