Compulsive Overeating Diary
Latest Episodes
Ep 0014 - Please help! Big birthday blues and other chip-worthy worries.
Feeling blue, whiney and in need of chips, Laurie asks her listeners for help and encouragement. Shout-outs to Heidi from Canada for her tweets and to composer, Josh Woodward for being so gracious and generous with his music. Finally someone calls the Dai
Ep 0013 - Faced with unexpected food temptation? Advice and Tips and Shout-outs for Bravery!
Inspired by a comment posted by listener, Crystal, Laurie braves the rainy weather to play with ducks and muse about 'what's under emotional eating?'. She gives some tricks to help when confronted by unexpected food and celebrates bravery with shout-outs
Ep 0012 - Developing Plan ‘Be’ vs. Plan Binge or Plan Bitch
When faced by food temptation do you go right away to plan Binge? Bitch? or Plan "Be"? Laurie hikes in front of gathering storm clouds and muses about this new idea. It came to her from a comment typo she made on her friend's blog. It's also bravery day!
Ep 0011 - Disappointment, Expectations and Dealing with the Compulsion to Stuff them Down
Laurie struggles up the mountain to her upper Zen place to emotionally pull the plug on her other podcast, Daily Adventure Tales, deal with the internal fall-out, and muse about expectations, disappointments and dealing with the compulsion to cover them w
Ep 0010 - Back on the bike. How will you treat yourself these next 4 weeks?
Back on the bike after 4 weeks, a live report. Plus dealing with dieting disappointment, losing fat and muscle, and how will you be treating yourself these next 4 weeks? Laurie sends a shout-out to Ava to thank her for encouraging Laurie on Facebook!
Ep 0009 - The Diet and Binge Trigger Tightrope. How do we balance?
Laurie rants and rolls about the scary balance between dieting and binge triggers. Damned if you do, Damned if you don't. Is there any hope? She also thanks Merc and Tracy for posting iTunes reviews.
Ep 0008 - What if today were the last day of your life? Remembering Unc
Laurie wrestles with the unexpected death of her uncle as she journeys from the comfort of her hammock back up the mountain to ponder, 'What if today were the last day of my life'?
Ep 0007 - Avoiding exercise bulimia and how to overcome a binge
When Laurie's awesome plan to record during a hike, Zen-like, from the mountain-top, derails due to technical difficulties, she climbs down the mountain and into the comfort of her hammock back home where she muses about exercise bulimia, the nature of b
Ep 0006 - Look to your gut for truth
Today's walk is all about truths we hide from ourselves. What's under the drive to fill our guts with food? Laurie tackles the question by taking a hard look at her people pleasing and the resulting rage, her relationships and why she may have kept on re-
Ep 0005 - Examining key triggers for my food compulsion, indecision and low self-worth
Powerful episode as Laurie dives deep into two key triggers for her food compulsion, indecision and low self-worth. She struggles with a key decision about the future of her podcasts and ruminates over past episodes and whether she can drum up the balls t