You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 184.

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 has your self-talk been lately? Are you being kind and compassionate with yourself?

Are you encouraging yourself?

One of the most basic components of stopping binge eating is being kind, compassionate,

and encouraging with yourself if you binge. Beating yourself up, calling yourself a failure,

making a mistake or a fail mean that you aren't capable, none of this is going to help you achieve

your ultimate goal of stopping binge eating. It's just going to bring you down and stop you

from learning and growing and getting better at not giving into urges and decreasing the amount

of urges you feel. But when your self-talk is nicer, you'll put yourself in a mental and emotional state that will

allow you to do what you need to do.

We talk a lot about how you're talking to yourself after you binge.

But what about when you're feeling an urge?

It's of course helpful for you to encourage yourself

if you binge to help you get back to doing the work, but it's also going to be helpful for you to

encourage yourself when you're in the midst of doing the work, when you're feeling an urge to

binge. When you're feeling that urge to binge, how you're thinking about the urge is important.

Being accepting of its presence is going to be more useful than arguing with it. Being open to it

is going to be more useful than being afraid of it. What's also important is how you're

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