Id agree 100% here, he’s making out the binging a lot of us used to do after a slimming world weigh in is the same as the person who sits in the corner of a Tesco’s car park eating their way through a bag full of food before they go home as the same thing and they are miles apart. I used to eat next to nothing all day on weigh day and once I got home would eat all the things I didn’t eat during the day along with a big bag of Maltesers and some buttery toast, and many many people were the same, but I have never done the other type of binging. That’s the difference between binging through lack of calories and binging because you have a serious eating disorder, yes he can probably help with the first (mainly because he’s removed the weighing aspect), but he’s well out of his league with the second, no amount of calories given will stop the second because it isn’t about food.
Im so sorry you struggle like this and that charlatans like him feed off you. Do you have access to proper help? I know the last couple of years have made getting help for anything other than COVID an absolute nightmare and everyone has just been making do.
This! youve succinctly explained what I was rambling about. He thinks that eating emotionally is the same as binging and it’s not, me eating a bar of chocolate on the drive home from work because it’s been a tit day is eating emotionally and there’s nothing wrong with it, I think this is what he’s trying to get at when he says binging is good for you, but because he’s an uneducated, semi literate loon who can’t get his words out, let alone a coherent sentence he gets it very wrong. A celebratory meal is emotional eating and is great and we should be able to use food in whatever way we need to, but when it becomes obsessive or in control of you is when you need help and he is not the man to give it.