You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty episode number 172.

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, let's talk about replacing binge eating. Because if you're not going to be binge eating what are you going to be doing

sounds great and all to just say that you're going to stop binge eating but without a plan for what

you're going to do instead it probably won't work and i know because that was what i ran into

over and over again i'd say that i'm not going to binge anymore without any plan

for what I do when the urge showed up. The plan was to just simply not do it. And it obviously did not

work. I'd feel the urge and have no plan of action for a replacement. So what I want you all to make sure you have is something to

replace your binge eating that will turn into your new habit. In order to do that, first, you have

to know why you have binge eating as your habit to begin with. At some point in your life, you found it to be

beneficial or useful in some way. Eating became your way of coping or became a solution. At some point,

you got into the habit of thinking that food was more than just fuel for your body

that's also sometimes just for pleasure. You begin seeing eating as a way to de-stress,

as something fun to do, as pleasurable, as a way to numb, calm down, soothe yourself,

or relax as a way to escape or feel free or to feel better.

Then once you got into the habit of eating for those reasons, eating more and more became your

way of getting more and more of what you were initially wanting. When I look back, I can totally

see how that slowly happened to me.

When I was a teenager, food was entertainment and food was my friend.

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