You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 157.

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 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, today I am talking with you about anticipating the urge to binge. If you've downloaded my free PDF

titled How to Not Binge Eat Tonight, you've seen the first step I talk about on there is

anticipating the urge. And if you haven't downloaded it, you can go to coach cur.com

forward slash free and scroll down to the bottom. You'll find it where it says

ready for a binge free night. And there's also a link to it on the show notes page for this

episode. So the first thing I recommend you do is to prepare yourself for an urge. A lot of you get

blindsided by your urges and you're not

ready to handle them when they come up. So you're surprised and you freak out or you just react.

Now, we can't always know when every single urge is going to show up, but there might be times

for you when they are likely going to show up. Maybe it's when you have a day off.

Maybe it's right after work. Maybe it's at night when you're watching TV. Maybe it's every Sunday at 5 p.m.

If you're expecting it to happen when it most commonly does, you can plan for how you're going to

handle it. Or you can also make time to

prepare yourself for when it may randomly happen. You can set yourself up with a plan of action.

But when I talk about your plan of action and what you're going to do, what I'm really talking about here is what you're going

to intentionally think. What you're doing actively, like the activity that you're doing,

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