You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty episode number 199.

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 the times when you are really looking forward to eating a joy

food, or any food, for for that matter and you're really excited

about it and then it's not so great. I think this has happened to all of us and it's going to

continue to happen. You're going to order your favorite meal at a restaurant and for some

reason it won't be as good as it usually is. Or you hear that someone

is bringing a dessert to a celebration and it sounds amazing. But then when you eat it, it's not.

It's just okay. Or you hear everyone rave about a certain food. And then when you try it,

you don't think it's so great. Sometimes our expectations

are not met when it comes to the food that we're looking forward to eating. And we feel disappointed

because we were expecting a better experience than we had. And how you handle this disappointment is

important. Here's what I see people sometimes do.

They're disappointed by their food, yet they still eat it anyway. Then, because they're disappointed

that they didn't get the pleasure they were expecting, they seek out pleasure from another food,

or multiple foods. It becomes this search for pleasure to overcome the disappointment.

But unfortunately, that search might turn into a binge and might result in continued disappointing.

Because what if the next food is disappointing? And the next? Then what?

This is what can happen when you don't just let it go. When you don't just let the experience, be what it is, and move on from it.

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