Just go shower.

If you feel like you're about to binge, please just go take a shower. Seriously. Before you order the food, before you open the pantry, before you decide fuck it. Just go shower. Because when I'm about to binge, I get this insane tunnel vision where all I can think about is I want food right now. I'm not thinking about how painfully full I'm going to feel. I'm not thinking about sitting there afterwards regretting it. I'm not thinking about tomorrow. I just want that feeling right now. And taking a shower physically interrupts that moment. You put your phone down, you leave the kitchen, you give yourself 15 minutes where you literally can't be eating. I'm usually checking in on my recovery app, "Unbinge" around this point too, because anything that gets me out of that automatic binge mode helps. And I swear, when I get out of the shower, put on clean clothes, brush my teeth, I feel like a different fucking person. 5 minutes ago I was greasy, laying in bed, scrolling DoorDash, thinking about ordering $50 worth of food. And now I'm clean, awake, and I'm actually thinking about what I want with the rest of my night or my day. Will a shower magically cure every binge urge? Obviously not. But sometimes you do need to solve your entire relationship with food in the next 20 minutes. So calm down, breathe, take a shower, distract yourself from the food. You got this. I love you. I'm with you.