You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 144.

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.

Hello, let's jump right in. Today, I'm talking about what you can expect with your

urges and desires as you move on from binge eating.

In the beginning of my group program, and really throughout the whole thing, we talk about goals,

what my group members want to achieve, and within that, what kinds of behaviors they want to have

and what they want their thought patterns and habits to be

once they've stopped binge eating. For the most part, in my opinion, what they want is absolutely

achievable. But sometimes they tell me things that seem kind of not human. And what I mean by that is really perfect. They want perfect eating,

perfect thinking, perfect feelings. They don't explain it as being perfect, but the words that do show

up are never and always. So for example, they might say, I want to always follow my plan, or I want to

never feel desire to overeat. And they sound like reasonable wants, especially after dealing with

binge eating and feeling out of control around food and battling your weight for so long. You want to

have the opposite, to be in full control of everything

involving food and eating and to have it be easy and requires zero effort to be just a clean

eating machine. And that's literally what you'd be if you were that way, a machine. Because humans

are imperfect. We don't always think and feel the way that we

want to. And it also means that we'll make mistakes sometimes, no matter how much we plan and manage our

thinking and no matter how much we practice. It will be so much more content with ourselves if we

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