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And I hope you enjoy the show.

This is the Brain OverBinge podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating.

I'm your host, Catherine Hansen.

I'm the author of the book's

Brain Over Binge and the Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide. My goal in this podcast is to help you

achieve freedom from binge eating. In this episode, I'm going to talk about one thing that may be

preventing you from achieving that freedom and how to overcome it. Today I will address one last time thoughts, and I'll explain what that means, why it holds you

back, and what to do about it.

Listen to this scenario and see if it sounds familiar to you.

You decide you want to stop binge eating.

You create a plan for yourself.

You may have someone to support you

in the form of a friend or a mentor or a coach or a therapist. You may be doing very well. You may be

eating enough food so that you're no longer in that survival state. You may be also doing very

well dismissing the urges. But but then you have an urge that feels stronger

and more compelling than usual. You start having thoughts of all the reasons that you should binge,

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