Why You Keep Binge Eating (and How to Actually Stop)
The 3 secrets behind why you eat like this, how diet culture trained it into you, and the 3-part roadmap out.
A free live workshop with Nic Gaviria, binge eating and body image therapist.
Come live and I'll give you my Food Freedom Recipe Vault, worth $33.
Can't make it? Register and you'll get the replay.
Sydney and Melbourne 10:00am | Brisbane 9:00am | Perth 7:00am | US Pacific the day before at 3:00pm
Save your spot
Come live and I'll give you my Food Freedom Recipe Vault, worth $33.
Can't make it? Register and you'll get the replay.
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sound familiar?
You run your life well. People think you've got it together.
And then there's the thing nobody sees.
- You eat for every reason except hunger: stress, boredom, loneliness, even joy. And sometimes you eat in secret, or hide the evidence after.
- You sometimes eat past full, and it can feel like you're on autopilot. After, the guilt moves in and so does that inner mean girl.
- You're tired of the cycle: bingeing, restricting, exercising to “make up for it,” obsessing about your weight. You've done every diet you can think of. You start again Monday. By Tuesday, it's unravelled. Nothing sticks.
- The food noise never switches off: what you can eat, what you shouldn't have, what you'll “start again” tomorrow. It's exhausting, and it's running in the background of your whole day.
- You've never told anyone the whole truth about how you eat.
Here's what diet culture won't tell you.
It was never a willpower problem.
There are 3 reasons it keeps happening, and nobody ever showed you them.
what we'll cover
You'll try the tools with me in the chat, so you leave with something you've already used.
Where the rules came from
How diet culture conditioned you to restrict, and why you never failed it. It failed you.
The 3 secrets behind your binges
Physical restriction. Mental restriction. Your nervous system and unmet needs.
One tool for each, done live
We try them together, in the chat, so they're not just ideas.
The roadmap
How the three fit together in my Food Freedom Method, and what lasting change actually takes.
Your questions
I stay on after to answer them live.
why come live?
- Do the tools with me in the chat, and I'll reply to you.
- Ask your questions and get answers on the spot.
- My Food Freedom Recipe Vault, worth $33. Everyone who joins live gets it. No calorie counts, no guilt, no foods off limits. I share the link at the end of the live session, and it isn't in any email.
- Your workbook, the day before.
is this for you?
yes, if
- You binge or eat for your emotions, and you're tired of it.
- You're capable and respected everywhere else, and this is the one thing you can't crack.
- You've tried diet after diet and you're done with them.
- You're open to a different approach.
not for you if
- You want a meal plan, calorie targets or new food rules.
- You're looking for another diet.
- You only restrict or over-exercise and don't binge or eat emotionally.
Hi, I'm Nic.
I'm a Registered Counsellor, and I've lived this too.
I've been every shape and size, and I've done every diet under the sun. At 23, I had gastric sleeve surgery. I thought a skinny body and a tummy the size of a banana meant I would finally be in control and get on with my life. I still binge ate afterwards. That's when I learned lasting peace with food and my body was never about what I ate (or the size of my jeans). It was about healing my relationship with them.
I've been binge-free since 2019. Now I've helped 400+ women get there too, without counting a single calorie, using the Food Freedom Method. It's the roadmap underpinning my coaching program, which won Steven Bartlett's (Diary of a CEO) business competition and backing in 2025.
- 🎓Master of Counselling + BA Psychology + PG Dip Health Science
- 🎙️#1 Mental Health Podcast in New Zealand
- 📰Contributing writer for OneNews. Featured in NZ Herald, RNZ, Good Magazine and Stuff
since 2019
women who've been where you are
“Oh, I consider the investments hugely worthwhile. This might be the best thing I've ever spent money, time or energy on. Seriously, this has been so enormously impactful on every single area of my life, I have zero regrets about any of the resources I have invested in this course.”
Messages from women in my community. Individual results vary.
ready to finally understand why?
Save My SpotDon't worry, this is a private space. No one is going to be outed for struggling with this. I know how much shame there is around it. You'll be with women who get it, and you'll have a free hour with a binge eating therapist to start exploring this and get some support.