You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 185.

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 Sarkty. Now

let's get to it. Hi. There is so much that I want to talk about with you today. Today's episode is titled self-love, but I want to talk about

a few things involving love. So here we go. First of all, I'm 40. My birthday was a couple

days ago as I'm recording this a few weeks before it's released.

And I had a great day doing things I love, seeing people I love, and not overdoing it on food.

I had decided that I would eat whatever I wanted. I would have a birthday dessert, but I

wasn't going to use my birthday as an excuse to eat

like crap. That was the last thing that I wanted to do because then I would feel like crap.

It wouldn't be able to enjoy myself. And I physically felt good from start to finish.

Emotionally, that was a little different for the first part of the day.

So plans were made for my 40th birthday, and long story short, those plans didn't happen.

And I was very disappointed and kind of mad because I take my birthdays very seriously,

especially milestone ones. The night before, after the plans were confirmed, canceled,

I was very emotional and I was worried that this was going to ruin my birthday. I worried

that I was going to feel upset all day because the day wasn't what I had

wanted it to be. But thankfully, I wasn't and my day wasn't ruined. And it's all because of the

thought work that I did. What we do in the coaching I do is mostly thought work. We do some actions strategizing,

but for the most part, we look into our thoughts and work on them because they are what

...