You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 156.

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, how have you been doing? I'm good. And you know, I've had people comment before on how I always say I'm feeling good or better than good.

And honestly, when I'm recording and talking to you all, I typically am. Now, that's not to say that I'm always good.

I'm not good and happy 100% of the time. I don't want you all to think that I'm some

kind of happy robot. I feel emotions, positive, negative, and neutral. And I've actually felt a lot of

different ones of all intensities just over the past week. But even though there were some negative, I'm back to good. I always get back

to good. And so do you. Emotions are temporary, even though you may sometimes think that they are not.

So if you're not feeling good right now, it's okay. You can feel how you're feeling. Just know that the

feeling will end eventually. They always do. All right. Enough about feelings. I just really felt the

need to share that today. So now let's talk about rewarding yourself with food. It's something a lot of

people do. It's very common and you most likely learned from someone else or from many people that food

is a good reward. You won the game so you go out for ice cream. You finished a project so you go out for a fancy meal. You made it through

a tough week so you eat all the foods you love. Now, there's nothing wrong with using food as a

reward. Food can be a lovely reward. It's pleasurable and you enjoy it. But it can become an issue if it turns into excessive food or if food becomes your only reward.

So first let's look at excessive food as a reward.

But before that, actually, what even is a reward?

The good old dictionary tells me that it's a thing given in recognition of one's service,

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