Ep #124: Relaxing with Food
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When you get home after a busy or stressful day, is the first thing you go to food? It's your way of relaxing – just sitting down and eating. Now, this may not be a problem and doing this may be relaxing but, if you take it too far, you will run into a problem.
In this episode, I'm talking about the ways using eating as a way to relax can result is the opposite outcome you were hoping for. I share my stories about when I used to do that and how I relax now instead. If you want to stop eating to relax and relax in a less destructive and more productive way then this episode is for you!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 124. Welcome to the |
| 0:07.3 | Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident |
| 0:12.6 | and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your |
| 0:18.5 | life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.1 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get |
| 0:27.5 | to it. Hi, how are you feeling? Are you feeling super stressed? Are you relaxed? Somewhere in the |
| 0:36.7 | middle? Well, if you're someone who feels super stressed |
| 0:40.6 | or is very busy and eating is your go-to method to relax, then this episode is for you. |
| 0:48.0 | A lot of people binge eat to relax. Or maybe they're not intending to binge to relax, but they sit down to |
| 0:55.6 | eat to relax and don't stop eating after they've started and then it turns into a binge. |
| 1:01.0 | I used to do that quite often after work when I was binge eating. As I've talked about before, |
| 1:07.0 | for most of my binge years, I was working in restaurants as a server. And as anyone who has done |
| 1:13.4 | that job too knows, it's not usually a walk in the park. It's fast-paced. It can be stressful. |
| 1:20.2 | And dealing with people and coworkers in the atmosphere can be draining. It's not always like that. |
| 1:25.8 | Sometimes it's super chill, but often it is. In the first |
| 1:29.7 | few years, I found myself going out for drinks after work with my coworkers. I thought it was a good |
| 1:35.2 | way to feel good, enjoy myself, and wind down. In the following years, it switched to food, |
| 1:42.1 | and I wasn't with my coworkers anymore. It was by myself. I'd take a dessert or an |
| 1:47.9 | unhealthy comfort meal to go after work or stop for something on my way home or go home and then go out |
| 1:54.8 | and get something soon after. It was my reward, my pleasure, my enjoyment after a tiring day. It was an enjoyable way to relax |
| 2:04.4 | and let go of the day. I'd finish my day and think, I just want to eat, fill in the blank, |
| 2:11.4 | whatever I wanted that day, sit on the couch and watch my shows. That's all I had in mind. |
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