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

I'm Catherine Hansen. I'm the author of Brain Over Binge and the Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide.

Thank you so much for listening. My goal is to continue providing practical and empowering guidance to help you

stop feeling out of control around food. Before we get started with today's topic, I want to remind

you that you can get my free Brain Over Binge Inspiration booklet, which contains daily

supportive messages to reinforce key concepts from this approach and to help keep you focused

on recovery. You can download that

booklet at brainover binge.com forward slash inspiration dash booklet and that link is in the show

description. In this episode, I want to talk about something that comes up often in coaching,

and it's something I also remember well from my own experience with binging. And that's what I'm

calling the binge inevitability mindset.

This mindset is when you find yourself thinking, feeling, and believing that a binge is inevitable

at some point.

And usually when you have this thought, it drives you to binge in that very moment or soon

after.

The thoughts can sound something like, I know I'm going to binge at some

point anyway, so I might as well just do it now. Or even if I get through this urge, another one is

going to show up and I'll eventually give in, so I might as well just binge and get it over with.

It can almost seem logical to give in in those moments, almost like you're saving yourself from future pain

by just going ahead and binging now. It can be like you're checking a box on your to-do list

of something you know you need to do anyway. But as I'm sure you can predict that I'm going to say,

binging is not a to-do item. It's never something you need, and it's never inevitable or something that's

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