151: How To Stop Overeating & Giving In To Temptation
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Last week I shared a personal episode about my experiences with binge eating. I talked about how & why I binged & how I stopped. The response to that episode was overwhelming. Whether you could relate to binge eating or just emotional eating and overeating, hundreds of you reached out for help and support.
Today I want to help you take that next step. I want to cover how to stop overeating & repeatedly giving in to temptation.
So many people feel like it's beyond their control - like they just can't stop. You can. I will help you.
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How To Stop Overeating & Giving In To Temptation
I was a champion overeater and binger. I used food to cope with emotions and I would often eat until I felt (or became) sick. I felt that in many ways food owned me and had more control than I had. I was wrong.
There were a few strategies I began to gradually implement to help me radically change my relationship with food, my mindset & my body.
I strongly encourage you to listen to the episode because I think it will be helpful to hear exactly how & when I'd implement these strategies.
The first step I encourage you to take, before implementing any of the strategies described in this episode is to identify the lies you tell yourself. For me, the lies were often, "I'll start tomorrow. Just this once. It won't hurt. I deserve a break."
I want you to challenge those lies and ask yourself, "Is that true?"
When you tell yourself, "I'll start tomorrow", is that true? Do you? Or is this how you make yourself feel good about being indulgent? Are you telling yourself what you want to hear?
Then, you can try one of the following 4 strategies:
- Just for today
- The 3 questions
- How do I want to feel in 1 hour?
- How will this choice make me feel?
- Is it worth it?
- 1 more (rep, choice, minute, hour)
- Do not go back to what broke you
In today's episode I explain how these work & how I apply them in moments of indecision.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.8 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello everybody, it is me, Elizabeth and we are back for another Saturday episode of |
| 0:32.3 | the Primal Potential Podcast and last Saturday. |
| 0:36.2 | I released an episode that I marked as explicit because there were some sensitive things |
| 0:41.7 | talked about on there and I shared what it would look like inside one of my benches. |
| 0:48.9 | And I was a serious binge eater at my heaviest. |
| 0:53.1 | It was something that I didn't think I would be able to overcome on my own, but I did. |
| 0:59.2 | And the feedback from that episode was pretty amazing, pretty powerful. |
| 1:04.3 | The volume of responses. |
| 1:06.5 | And it wasn't just from people who consider themselves binge eaters or have any experience |
| 1:11.9 | with binging. |
| 1:12.9 | It was also feedback from people who are maybe emotional eaters or just overeat, right? |
| 1:19.6 | And so I wanted to do a follow up episode. |
| 1:23.8 | And this is for people, even if you have never bingeed in your life and you can't even relate |
| 1:28.5 | to the very sensitive things that I talked about in that episode, maybe you just use food |
| 1:34.6 | for comfort or boredom and you're eating when your body doesn't need fuel. |
| 1:40.6 | Now I am all about enjoying food, right? |
| 1:44.4 | In fact, I won't even eat food that I don't enjoy. |
| 1:48.7 | But there is a difference between using food, thinking, you know, I'm a wreck. |
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