For Those Who Have Struggled With Binge Eating — This One's For You
I got a DM today that reminded me why I started my entire journey into the research space, and that was figuring out how to beat binge eating. This is a topic that's really personal to me, and I know a lot of you are going to relate. After losing 70 lbs, I thought the hard part was over. I was wrong. The "food noise" wouldn't shut up. When I say food noise, I mean that constant mental chatter about food — thinking about your next meal when you just finished one, not being able to stop picturing food, and feeling like your brain is screaming at you to eat even when your body doesn't need it. It's not just being hungry. It's an obsessive loop that won't turn off. I was in the gym lifting 5 days a week, doing cardio 5–6 mornings a week, making all the "right" lifestyle changes — and I was still eating myself into physical discomfort and depression every time something fatty or sugary was in front of me. I couldn't hold myself back. And to make it worse, I actually needed to put some weight back on at that point, so it became this vicious cycle — eat way too much, feel terrible, try to fix it by eating only whole foods (unprocessed stuff like chicken, rice, fruits, vegetables), and then the food noise would just push me right back into overeating. It wasn't about willpower. It was a real problem happening in my brain. That's actually how I found the research peptide space. For those of you who are new here — peptides are small chains of amino acids (the building blocks of protein) that can signal your body to do specific things, like reduce appetite, boost growth hormone, or improve recovery. The research peptide space is a community of people studying how these compounds work. That struggle with food noise is what sent me down this rabbit hole and eventually led to everything I've built here. So if you're in that place right now, I see you — and here are some things that have helped me stay over a year binge-free. Tip 1: You Don't Have to Be Full 24/7 — But Don't Let Yourself Get Starving