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And I hope you enjoy the show.

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

I'm Catherine Hansen, your host.

I'm the author of two books on binge eating recovery, brain over binge, and the Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide. If you've

been listening to the podcast, you know that there are two goals of recovery that I talk about.

The first is dismissing urges, and the second is eating adequately.

Although no one recovers in exactly the same way or on exactly the same timeline,

when you get down to the basics, those two goals are really all that's necessary to put a permanent end to binge eating.

You have to eat enough food to make sure you aren't in that survival state

that really ignites the binge urges, and you also have to dismiss any urges that are due to habit.

Dismissing urges is a deconditioning process where you're actually using neuroplasticity to change your

brain. You do this by not giving the urges value or

attention, and of course by not acting on them. My colleague, friend, and co-hosts for the first

several episodes, Cookie Rosenblum, and I talked about the five components of dismissing urges

back in episodes four through eight. So if you want to get clear on

how to dismiss the urges to binge and change your brain, you'll want to go back and listen to those

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