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

191. 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 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. This episode is being released at the end of March. So if you're listening to this

soon after it was released, you are currently

finishing up or just finished up the first quarter of the year. Q1 is complete. How to go for you?

Did you do what you expected? Are you where you expected to be? And did you even set expectations?

Did you give yourself any sort of

guidance for how you wanted these past three months to go and what you wanted to do?

One of the biggest mistakes I made when I was binging was not doing that at all. I can't tell

you how many times I just said, I'm not binging anymore.

And that was it. There was no game plan, no strategy, nothing, just a declaration. So it made

sense when I'd feel an urge and just give in to it. I did zero preparation for it.

I also wasn't helping myself to not even feel urges. If anything,

I was continuing to do things that were contributing to me feeling urges without even knowing it.

I actually found two of my old journals where I made beginning of the year declarations.

So in January 1st of 2011, I wrote, no binging, no matter what,

what a dumb thing to allow myself to do. Stop. Now, I never wrote about it again for the rest of

the year in any of the entries that I wrote. But I will tell you, I am positive

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