Once Upon a Binge Podcast

Once Upon a Binge Podcast
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Once Upon a Binge is a podcast about binge eating recovery, body image and letting go of perfectionism. Hosted by Becca, a therapist specialising in disordered eating, the podcast offers honest and compassionate conversations about what’s going on behind the binge-restrict cycle – and how to break free from it. Through conversations with people who have lived experience, as well as professionals working in the field, we explore the realities of healing your relationship with food and finding body acceptance. Has the pressure of beauty standards left you feeling like you’re not enough? Are you fed up of obsessive food thoughts? Are you tired of feeling out of control around food? Then you’re not alone. This is a space for you to feel seen and supported as you break free from food rules, find food freedom and learn to accept yourself as you are.

  1. 3d ago

    Why Getting Angry at Diet Culture Helped Her Stop Binge Eating & Find Food Freedom

    What happens when years of dieting stop working? When you’re done with hating your body? In this episode of Once Upon a Binge, Becca is joined by Flo, a coach and diversity & inclusion consultant, who shares her powerful lived experience of disordered eating. From growing up watching her mum diet, to years of restriction, binge eating and believing that losing weight would finally make her confident and happy, Flo opens up about what really kept her stuck—and the unexpected moment that changed everything. Together, they explore why dieting can become an eating disorder, why recovery only works when you're truly ready, and how curiosity, intuitive eating and reconnecting with your body can help you find freedom from food obsession. They also discuss body image, diet culture, "fitspiration", friendships, values, and why recovery is about so much more than food. If you've ever wondered whether life without constant thoughts about food and your body is really possible, this conversation offers both honesty and hope. Becca and Flo talk about: 00:00 Meet Flo 01:30 Coaching Meets Recovery 05:03 Why Diet Culture Is Everywhere 06:08 How Childhood Shapes Body Image 07:07 From Restriction to Binge Eating 17:24 The Promise of Thinness and Power 20:16 When Therapy Doesn't Help 21:14 The Hen Do That Changed Everything 26:21 Recovery Readiness & The Fitspiration Era 28:38 Why Recovery Isn't Black and White 29:14 The Anger That Fuelled Recovery 29:59 Learning to Trust Body Signals 32:58 Gentle Nutrition vs Food Freedom 35:01 Emotional Emptiness & Using Food to Cope 36:33 Curiosity Instead of Self-Judgement 39:15 Why Women Bond Through Body Talk 41:58 Values, Identity & Life Beyond Food 48:16 When Recovery Changes Friendships 50:23 Creating a Recovery-Friendly Social Media Feed 53:17 Final Takeaways & Hope for Recovery If you found this episode helpful, please like, comment, subscribe and share as it helps my channel grow and reach more people who need to hear these conversations. 💜 Connect with the podcast: - Instagram - @onceuponabingepodcast - Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com     Connect with Becca: - Instagram – @bingefreeandbeautiful - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/ - Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com   Connect with Flo: - Email – flo@diversityintheboardroom.co.uk - Instagram - @diversityintheboardroom - Website - https://www.diversityintheboardroom.co.uk/

  2. Aug 3

    Can Ozempic Stop Binge Eating and Food Noise? A Therapist & Dietitian Discuss GLP-1 Medications

    Are GLP-1 weight loss injections really the breakthrough they're being made out to be? Or are we missing some of the bigger psychological and physical questions? From Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro to "food noise", binge eating, body image and weight stigma, GLP-1 medications are dominating conversations online. But are they really the answer? In this episode of Once Upon a Binge, host and psychotherapist Becca Robinson sits down with nutritional therapist Lisa Unger for a balanced, evidence-informed conversation about the benefits, risks and unanswered questions surrounding GLP-1 medications. Rather than taking a "for or against" position, this episode explores the complexity behind these drugs—including why they can be genuinely life-changing for some people, why they may not work for others, and the potential psychological and physical risks anyone should know before making a decision. They discuss: 01:39 Why GLP-1s are divisive 02:57 Clients and eating disorders 05:26 Poll results and why now 06:42 How GLP-1s work 10:27 Research gaps and dosing 12:17 Weight loss vs food noise 13:54 Shame and fatphobia pressure 17:00 When it fails and coping swaps 20:46 Therapy without food noise 24:42 Nutrition and muscle loss risks 27:21 Training Injuries Concerns 28:21 Low Energy and Nutrition 28:43 Staying on for Life 31:20 Shame and Medication Parallels 32:56 Eating Disorder Motivations 34:56 Access Risks and Black Market 39:30 Body Image Backlash 43:12 Food Culture and Portions 45:13 No Magic Wand Wrap Up 49:16 Final Thoughts and Feedback   💜 Connect with the podcast: Instagram - @onceuponabingepodcast Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com Connect with Becca: Instagram – @bingefreeandbeautiful LinkedIn -   / beccarobinson   Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com Connect with Lisa: Email – lisa@lisaunger.co.uk Instagram - @_lisaunger Website - https://lisaunger.co.uk/

  3. Jul 20

    Can You Be Healthy in a Larger Body? A Dietitian on Health at Every Size, BMI & Fear of Weight Gain

    Can you be healthy in a larger body? Does BMI really measure health? In this episode of the Once Upon a Binge Podcast, registered dietitian Alice joins Becca to discuss Health at Every Size (HAES), intuitive eating, body image, menopause, eating disorder recovery, weight stigma, and why weight isn't the whole picture when it comes to health. Many of us have been taught that losing weight automatically means becoming healthier. But is that actually true? Together, Becca and Alice explore what the research says about BMI, Health at Every Size, intuitive eating, and how to support your physical and mental health without becoming trapped in the cycle of dieting, restriction and shame. They also talk about the emotional impact of body changes caused by menopause, cancer treatment, illness, ageing, and eating disorder recovery, and why learning to trust your body again can be one of the hardest—and most important—parts of healing. In this episode: 00:00 – Introduction to Alice and her work as a registered dietitian 02:00 – What Health at Every Size (HAES) really means 05:20 – Supporting people through body changes after cancer treatment 10:00 – Why weight gain after illness can be so distressing 15:00 – The similarities between cancer recovery, menopause and eating disorder recovery 19:00 – Why women's bodies naturally change throughout life 24:30 – Challenging unrealistic expectations around body image 28:00 – Using science and CBT-informed strategies to build body acceptance 34:00 – The role of a dietitian alongside therapy 39:00 – Common fears about weight gain, health and identity 43:30 – Debunking myths about BMI and health 51:00 – Why BMI is a poor measure of individual health 56:30 – The dangers of weight cycling and repeated dieting 59:30 – What intuitive eating actually is (and what it isn't) 1:05:00 – Rebuilding trust in your body after illness or an eating disorder 1:10:00 – How to advocate for yourself if your healthcare provider focuses only on weight 1:17:00 – Weight stigma, anti-fat bias and navigating healthcare 1:24:00 – Gentle nutrition after eating disorder recovery 1:32:00 – How to improve your health without returning to restrictive dieting 1:38:00 – Why food is about connection, culture and joy—not just nutrition 1:44:00 – Final thoughts on healing your relationship with food and your body If you've ever struggled with body image, binge eating, emotional eating, dieting, weight gain, menopause, or eating disorder recovery, this episode will help you understand your body with more compassion and confidence. If you enjoyed this conversation, please like the video, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment below – this helps the channel grow and help others through our conversations. We'd love to hear your biggest takeaway or any questions you'd like us to answer in a future episode. #HealthAtEverySize #IntuitiveEating #EatingDisorderRecovery #BodyImage #Menopause #FoodFreedom 💜 Connect with the podcast: - Instagram - @onceuponabingepodcast - Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com     Connect with Becca: - Instagram – @bingefreeandbeautiful     - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/ - Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com   Connect with Alice: - Instagram – @hamptonnutrition - Website - https://hamptonnutrition.co.uk/ - Email - alice@hamptonnutrition.co.uk

  4. Jul 6

    The Accident That Ended a Personal Trainer’s Dieting Obsession & Healed her Body Image Issues

    In this powerful episode of the Once Upon a Binge Podcast, therapist Becca sits down with Claire Ashton for an honest conversation about binge eating recovery, body image healing, and breaking free from diet culture. Claire Ashton is a Body Confidence Coach and intuitive eating counsellor, nurse, and personal trainer who helps women over 35 stop waiting for weight loss to feel confident and start living fully now. After years of working in the health and fitness industry, Claire realised that the problem was never a lack of discipline—it was the belief that confidence had to be earned through changing your body. Through her coaching she helps women break free from dieting, food guilt, and body battles so they can feel confident without conditions. As a mum to three daughters, Claire is passionate about modelling a healthier relationship with food, movement, and body image for the next generation, while helping women reclaim their own confidence in the process. In this episode, Claire shares her deeply personal journey through disordered eating, bulimia, compulsive exercise, and years of yo-yo dieting — including how working in the fitness industry reinforced harmful beliefs about worth and body image. She also opens up about the life-changing accident that left her unable to walk and how relearning to walk completely transformed her relationship with food, movement, control, and self-worth. Together, Becca and Claire explore: ✨ Treatment for bulimia and what was missing ✨ The binge-restrict cycle and why dieting feels so addictive ✨ Bulimia recovery and the emotional side of purging ✨ Exercise addiction and toxic fitness culture ✨ The impact of the “heroin chic” era and modern GLP-1 diet trends ✨ Intuitive eating and rebuilding trust with your body ✨ How learning to walk again helped Claire see her body in a different light ✨ Learning to let go of food rules and finding meaning in suffering ✨ Body image struggles in motherhood and raising daughters in diet culture ✨ Social media, comparison, filters, and teenage body confidence ✨ Why your worth has nothing to do with your weight or appearance ✨ How to stop waiting for weight loss to start living your life   This episode is a must-watch for anyone struggling with binge eating, emotional eating, body shame, chronic dieting, or feeling trapped in the cycle of trying to “fix” their body. If this episode helped you, please like, comment or follow to stay up to date with the latest episodes releases. This also helps spread the message of body acceptance, intuitive eating, and eating disorder recovery to others who might need it.   💜 Connect with the podcast: - Instagram - www.instagram.com/onceuponabingepodcast - Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com     💜 Connect with Becca: - Instagram – www.instagram.com/bingefreeandbeautiful   - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/ - Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com   💜 Connect with Claire: - Instagram – www.instagram.com/claireashton_ - Website - https://claireashton.co.uk

  5. Jun 22

    Do You Ever Fully Recover From an Eating Disorder? | Finding Food Freedom - Once Upon a Binge Podcast - Ep. 39

    I'm Becca, a therapist specializing in binge eating and body image, and this is the Once Upon a Binge podcast, where I have honest conversations with guests about breaking free from the binge restrict cycle and finding body acceptance. Today, I'm joined by Anne Richardson. Anne is a registered nutritional therapist, cognitive behavioural therapy practitioner, lecturer, and supervisor. She's been practicing for more than 10 years and exclusively works in the field of disordered eating. Anne suffered with anorexia in her teens, and now draws from her lived experience to blend her knowledge of nutrition with her CBT skills. She works with people all over Europe to help them achieve food freedom. She is also invested in helping other practitioners work with disordered eaters, as she recognizes that general nutritional advice can be extremely damaging to disordered eaters. Anne is also a mom, the maker of all things, and especially a keen baker. In our conversation today, we talk about supporting clients through cooking in recovery, the role of nutrition, and whether you fully recover from an eating disorder or not. We also dive into: ✨ The role of nutrition in recovery ✨ Why calorie counting keeps people stuck ✨ Using rigid thinking to our advantage in recovery ✨ Cooking with clients in eating disorder recovery ✨ Perfectionism and control in anorexia ✨ The flaws with My Fitness Pal ✨ Mechanical eating vs intuitive eating ✨ Whether the “eating disorder voice” ever fully disappears ✨ Recovery, body image, and coping with stress 💜 Connect with the podcast: - Instagram - www.instagram.com/onceuponabingepodcast - Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com   Connect with Becca: - Instagram – www.instagram.com/bingefreeandbeautiful - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/ - Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com   Connect with Anne: - Email – anne@theeatingdisordernutritionist.co.uk - Instagram - www.instagram/com/theeatingdisordernutritionist  - Website - https://www.theeatingdisordernutritionist.co.uk

  6. Jun 8

    Male Body Image & Disordered Eating | How We Helped Each Other Heal | Once Upon a Binge Podcast Ep. 38

    In this deeply honest episode of Once Upon a Binge, Becca is joined by her partner Will for a raw conversation about disordered eating, body image, binge eating, orthorexia, fitness culture, and recovery. Together, they unpack how their relationship with food and their bodies changed through meeting each other — despite both struggling with unhealthy beliefs around eating, exercise, appearance, and self-worth when they first met. Will shares his experience with: Orthorexia and “clean eating” Veganism and identity Body dysmorphia in the fitness industry Social media pressure and perfectionism Binge eating behind the scenes Male body image struggles Personal training culture and physique obsession Becca opens up about: Restrictive eating and dieting Fear of weight gain Recovery from binge eating and food rules Reassurance seeking and body image anxiety Learning to feel safe in her body Healing through relationships and connection This episode explores how shame, diet culture, wellness culture, and external validation can shape our relationship with food — and how acceptance, compassion, and emotional safety can become part of recovery. If you’ve ever struggled with: binge eating emotional eating food obsession calorie counting body dysmorphia orthorexia fear of weight gain restrictive eating comparison on social media feeling “not good enough” …this conversation will likely resonate deeply. Let us know in the comments: Are you a male who's struggled with body image and disordered eating? Have relationships ever impacted your healing journey with food or body image? Subscribe for more conversations on: Eating disorder recovery, binge eating recovery, food freedom, body image healing, mental health, self-worth, and recovery from diet culture. Connect with Becca & the podcast.... Instagram: @bingefreeandbeautiful @onceuponabingepodcast  Email: bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com 💜

  7. May 25

    What’s Next for Once Upon a Binge? | Binge Eating Recovery Podcast. Ep. 37

    After 18 months of co-hosting the Once Upon a Binge Podcast, Katy is stepping away from the show. In this emotional and honest episode, Becca and Katy talk openly about the decision to end this chapter of the podcast, navigating change, burnout, recovery work, and what’s next for Once Upon a Binge. If you struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, body image, perfectionism, or eating disorder recovery, this conversation may really resonate with you. In this episode, we discuss: -Katy's decision to leave the podcast -The emotional impact of endings and change -Burnout in the eating disorder recovery space -Recovery, mental health, and capacity -The importance of conversations around binge eating recovery -What the future of the Once Upon a Binge Podcast looks like -Upcoming guest episodes featuring lived experience and professionals Moving forward, Once Upon a Binge will continue with Becca as solo host, alongside guests including therapists, dietitians, coaches, and people sharing their own recovery journeys. This podcast is dedicated to helping people heal their relationship with food, break free from the binge restrict cycle, improve body image, and let go of perfectionism. ✨ We are also looking for future podcast guests with lived experience of binge eating, emotional eating, body image struggles, disordered eating, or eating disorder recovery. If you have a story or perspective you’d like to share and think it could help others feel less alone, please get in touch — we’d love to hear from you. ✨ Thank you so much to everyone who has supported the podcast over the past 18 months through listening, sharing episodes, commenting, and reaching out 💜 Wishing you all the best Katy! If you enjoy the podcast, please like, comment, and subscribe — it really helps more people find these conversations around binge eating recovery and eating disorder recovery. #BingeEatingRecovery #EatingDisorderRecovery #BodyImage #MentalHealthPodcast #EmotionalEating #Perfectionism #RecoveryJourney #bodyacceptance #bodypositivity

  8. May 11

    Why social events are SO hard when you struggle with Food and Body Image. OUAB Ep. 36

    In episode 36 of the Once Upon a Binge podcast Katy and Becca talk about navigating social events and disordered eating. They talk about how food rules blocked them from having food freedom at social events, the role of binge eating and how body image insecurities made socialising challenging. They discuss: •⁠  ⁠Anxiety before social events and binge eating as social avoidance  •⁠  ⁠Mental calculations around food at social events  •⁠  ⁠Introvertism and extrovertism and how it impacts our relationship with social events and food  •⁠  ⁠Food restriction before social events •⁠  ⁠The role of dopamine in socialising and binge eating  •⁠  ⁠How being ADHD impacts socialising  •⁠  ⁠How alcohol effects socialising and binge eating  •⁠  ⁠The need for time to prepare for social events and alone time afterwards •⁠  ⁠How food thoughts block connection with others at social events  •⁠  ⁠Feeling like there’s something wrong with you for not wanting to socialise  •⁠  ⁠Body image spiralling  💜   Connect with the podcast:  •⁠  ⁠Instagram - www.instagram.com/onceuponabingepodcast •⁠  ⁠Email - podcast.onceuponabinge@gmail.com   Connect with Becca: •⁠  ⁠Instagram – www.instagram.com/bingefreeandbeautiful    •⁠  ⁠LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beccarobinson/  •⁠  ⁠Email - bingefreeandbeautiful@gmail.com

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Once Upon a Binge is a podcast about binge eating recovery, body image and letting go of perfectionism. Hosted by Becca, a therapist specialising in disordered eating, the podcast offers honest and compassionate conversations about what’s going on behind the binge-restrict cycle – and how to break free from it. Through conversations with people who have lived experience, as well as professionals working in the field, we explore the realities of healing your relationship with food and finding body acceptance. Has the pressure of beauty standards left you feeling like you’re not enough? Are you fed up of obsessive food thoughts? Are you tired of feeling out of control around food? Then you’re not alone. This is a space for you to feel seen and supported as you break free from food rules, find food freedom and learn to accept yourself as you are.

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  • Creator
    Once Upon a Binge Podcast
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    43
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    Explicit
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