You are listening to the StopBinge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 125. Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple

tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get

to it. Hi, let's jump right in and talk about your past self, because you may have some

thoughts about her that are causing you to feel

angry or resentful now because your past self made a lot of mistakes she chose to binge many times

she may have restricted too much in order to lose weight she broke promises and broke commitments to herself and to others.

In my past self did all those things too. Although she felt like she had her life together and

she did in many ways, she would fall apart when it came to food and eating. She would let herself go, stop caring, choose food over

people, and do things she'd regret because she didn't know what else to do. She felt urges

and didn't believe they would go away unless she ate food. She thought counting calories was a solution. Because she did all these things,

there were many wasted moments of my life. There were many missed opportunities for fun and pleasure.

There were declined invitations and holding myself back from things. I hear myself say all of this,

and you would think I'd be mad at her. You'd think I'd resent her for doing this to my life.

You'd think I would be angry that she made all those decisions that led me to spend years

struggling with eating my weight, my social life, my romantic life,

my work life. But I'm not. And I hope you are in a place or can get to a place where you are not to.

Your past self that got you to where you are today didn't do everything she did to purposefully sabotage you. That wasn't her

intention. She tried, and she tried hard. But what she tried didn't work. She didn't know it wouldn't

work. She believed it would. She heard it would work. Someone told her it would. The internet told her it would. It worked for

someone else. Maybe it had worked for her for a period of time, so she tried it again and again.

I kept doing that thing that worked for me before, over and over. In college, I was able to change my

eating habits by counting calories. And it worked. I ate less and lost 40 pounds.

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