The Binge Code: 7 Unconventional Keys to End Binge Eating & Lose Excess Weight Paperback – June 1, 2017

This book has changed my life and I'm not exaggerating! I've struggled with binge eating for over 15 years. About 5 years ago I came to the realization that I was killing myself with food and knew I needed to get help. I found a therapist and finally started getting the help that I needed, but it wasn't enough. 5 years later and my binging was still kicking my a$$. My therapist suggested getting a book and I found this one. I feel so seen! I've started doing the work and I haven't binged in 5 day! That may not sound like a lot but I was stuck in a binge that was weeks long so even a day of relief means a lot to me. I initially bought this book on audible, listened to it, immediately listened to it again, and then went and purchased the hardcopy because I need to be able to tab and highlight. If you are struggling with binging, please do not hesitate to get this book. This book is now my binge bible!

It made sense to me, helped me become more compassionate with myself i I "lost my footing" and relapsed. I so appreciate thatThey start slowly, eating "safe foods" and then moving into intuitive eating. I recommend this book to anyone suffering with an ED related to binging alone, or pinging and purging (which I was a slave to for 30 years) In short, this book helped me realized I could actually do this! I could could become fully recovered. I remember thinking "there is NO WAY I could make it even for one day without binging and purging" This "false refuge", (another expression of eating disorder) that I had suffered from for so long, felt impossible to become healthy, to eat intuitively, and not to use food as a way to not pay attention to my life's problems, to escape or take refuge. Although we may feel that these false refuges help us, in fact when I finally became "present" and realized the damage that my ED had done to my body, and negatively affected my family relationships. This book started me on my way, and I'm not looking back! I especially benefitted from making space between the desire to eat or binge. It really helps me calm down, and I found as I scanned my body and listened to really needed at I realized it wasn't that yummy looking baked good behind the bakery case! Yes I have gain about 20 lbs, and there is a chance I might gain more? I was severely underweight before I started my recovery. In make it a rule not to weigh myself...EVER! I love my new body, what it has carried me through, and what it is still capable of today. I love and accept every curve as part of the glorious blessing of having a body and nourishing it physically, mentally, spiritually. I am so grateful to Alison Kerr for being bold and open, in turn I now feel the same way. I want to shout from the rooftops that recovery IS POSSIBLE!!

I just finished this book and have already started implementing some of the simple techniques with some success already! I’m looking forward to implementing more of the tools and techniques to overcome my crazy sugar cravings!

Richard & Ali Kerr are the very best at what they do - help desperate people like me to recover from binge & disordered eating. There is just simply no one better. They are so smart and so compassionate that they will seem like your new best friends. If you struggle with binge eating, Binge Code is a must.

I’m struggling reading this book. It looks like the general ideas are pretty decent and could possibly be helpful, but I’m having trouble getting past the first chapters with the way the person is writing this book. A lot of repetitive useless wordage. It’s like when you write a paper and it’s not as long as you want it to be so you fill it up with fluff to make it look longer.

By the end of the first page I was so relieved that someone else understood, and by the end of the book I was so sad/mad I hadn’t read this book years ago, and SO GRATEFUL someone finally recommended it to me. Of course, it would have been hard to get the recommendation because I hid my binge eating, so if you ever feel frustrated with yourself for overeating or wonder why you can’t seem to stop making stupid decisions even though you’re generally a capable adult, please read this book. Ali uses simple words and concepts to explain the science for why we binge and how to recover. She doesn’t promise a magical fix, and provides a realistic, achievable, and easy to understand approach to helping ourselves let go of the shame, the habits, and the weight (whether that weight is over OR under). It’s only 173 short pages; do yourself a favor and read at least the first chapter. You’ll find out for yourself that you’ll want to keep going. Thanks Ali, for helping me help myself. I’m feeling better.

I bought this book a few months ago, and it truly has changed my life. I had anorexia in my teens and since then had gotten healthy, but over the years a lot of weight crept on. I have never had luck with dieting--it only "fed" my obsession with food, via deprivation and obsessive calorie counting. This book (as do others) takes a completely new approach that seems to work beautifully for me as well as many others. There are many techniques in the book that I use, but the one that has made all the difference is scheduled eating, i.e. eating small but healthy meals/snacks every 3-4 hours throughout the day. I feel sated, healthy, and truly hopeful that this will be a permanent lifestyle change. I've lost 10 pounds and have quite a bit more to go to get to a healthy BMI--but weight loss is absolutely NOT the point of this Code. You will reach a healthy, natural weight set point by following this method. For some, that means eating more than you have been. Certainly for me, I'm eating much more during the day, and eating a tasty, healthy snack at night. All I want is NOT to diet, NOT to look skinny or fat (just like myself at my most healthy), NOT to reach a certain goal, NOT to be obsessed. And Ali's book, website, videos, and Facebook support group are helping me to achieve all of those.