66: The Clean Plate Club: How One Childhood Rule Quietly Fuels Binge Eating

You're not "bad at stopping", you're just following a rule you learned as a kid that's keeping you stuck in the binge cycle. Ever finish your plate even when you're full?

That's the Clean Plate Club at work. And it's one of the sneakiest drivers of binge eating and overeating.

In this episode:

- Why you keep eating past fullness (hint: it's not about willpower)

- Where the Clean Plate Club belief comes from and how it fuels the binge-restrict cycle

- How to start leaving food on your plate without guilt

-Why "avoiding waste" by overeating is still wasteful, just to your body instead of the bin

- The one permission statement that changes everything

This is the kind of deep rewiring work we do in The Break Up. If you're ready to dismantle the food rules keeping you stuck, check the links below.

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:39 What Is the Clean Plate Club?

03:12 The Food Rule You Learned as a Kid

06:09 Childhood Guilt Around Wasting Food

07:17 How You Learned to Ignore Fullness Cues

08:08 Dieting, Restriction & Food Scarcity

09:33 Why It’s Not a Willpower Problem

12:18 How Clean Plate Club Fuels Binge Eating

14:40 Losing Trust in Your Body

16:22 Overeating, Shame & the Binge Cycle

17:17 All-or-Nothing Food Thinking

19:08 How to Break the Clean Plate Pattern

20:16 Practice Leaving Food on Your Plate

22:18 Why Your Nervous System Matters

26:21 Work With Me