At Opal Food+Body, we understand that the journey to healing from binge eating is unique for each individual.
Our holistic approach to binge eating treatment combines both community support and personalized therapy to help you uncover the underlying causes of your eating disorder. Together, we work to explore the “whys” behind your behaviors and find healthier ways to cope. With three levels of care available at our Seattle clinic, we’re here to support you every step of the way toward a life of recovery.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
- A mental health condition with complex origins.
- Binge eating is defined as eating an abnormally large amount of food in a very short period of time and feeling out of control.
- Someone struggling with binge eating disorder has recurrent binge eating episodes.
- The feelings of being out of control while binge eating could be experienced in one’s pace of eating, response to one’s hunger/ fullness, location of eating, and amount of food.
- Emotional distress is present.
- No regular compensatory behaviors are used.
What are the Signs+Symptoms?
Although one could struggle with many of the above signs and symptoms of binge eating disorder it can be sometimes difficult to identify when you or someone you love is struggling. A change in one’s patterns, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors with food, weight and exercise could be a sign of something more serious going on. Due to so many culturally normative values around weight and health binge eating disorder can be difficult to detect. We encourage having a professional that specializes in eating disorders help you or your loved one get clarity on what is really going on. If you would like to get more information on supporting a loved one, see our advice.
If you would like to get more information on supporting a loved one, see our advice here.
At Opal, we offer:
- Individual therapy, nutrition counseling, psychiatry, exercise experientials and family/relationship therapy available at the PHP and IOP levels of care.
- Health at Every Size, weight-neutral treatment approach
- Non-diet approach to food. Meals and snacks provided offer a wide variety of foods (highly processed, fresh, organic, non-organic, home-cooked, frozen, easy to prepare, etc.)
- Eating at meals and snacks are done with other clients and staff, as a community.
- A belief that adequate food intake is a foundational step in recovery.
- Exercise + Sport programming, which addresses exercise bulimia, exercise avoidance, and other exercise concerns
- Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy as a foundational treatment
- Group therapy including body wisdom group, movement group, self-inquiry, process groups, facing fears and more.
- Teaching/Didactic groups including Radically Open Dialectical Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Exercise + Sport Didactic, Health at Every Size Didactic, etc.
- Non-clinical lodging for PHP clients to use while in treatment is available for a weekly fee, as space available.
- Alumni outpatient groups
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
- A mental health condition with complex origins.
- Binge eating is defined as eating an abnormally large amount of food in a very short period of time and feeling out of control.
- Someone struggling with binge eating disorder has recurrent binge eating episodes.
- The feelings of being out of control while binge eating could be experienced in one’s pace of eating, response to one’s hunger/ fullness, location of eating, and amount of food.
- Emotional distress is present.
- No regular compensatory behaviors are used.
What are the Signs+Symptoms?
Although one could struggle with many of the above signs and symptoms of binge eating disorder it can be sometimes difficult to identify when you or someone you love is struggling. A change in one’s patterns, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors with food, weight and exercise could be a sign of something more serious going on. Due to so many culturally normative values around weight and health binge eating disorder can be difficult to detect. We encourage having a professional that specializes in eating disorders help you or your loved one get clarity on what is really going on. If you would like to get more information on supporting a loved one, see our advice.
Check Your Biases
Binge Eating Disorder can be life-threatening for anyone that is experiencing it, regardless of body size, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, religion.
What You Might Not Know About Binge Eating
- You cannot tell someone is struggling with Binge Eating by looking at them. Body weight may or may not change due to the eating disorder.
- Many people that struggle with binge eating have had a long history of dieting which leads to a deeply ingrained restrictive approach to food and eating.
- It’s the most common eating disorder in the United States.
