You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarfdy, episode number 20.

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 are you? I am so good. Good things and fun times are happening people, and I am loving it. All right. Now let's talk about

being able to eat whatever you want. As you know, and if you don't know, go listen to episode

four. A lot of binging comes from restriction by saying you can't eat foods that you think

you'll binge on or foods you think are bad. So we're told

to eat what we want if we want to stop binge eating. And for some, this concept can be quite

confusing. I know for me when I was binging, this idea didn't make much sense to me because

if I did that, I would binge. I'd want to eat a whole pizza and a large french fry and

multiple cookies all in one sitting. So how can doing that lead me to not binging? It was

binging. So confusing. If I ate what I wanted, then I would be eating crap all the time.

The problem people have with this concept is that they take

the suggestion of eating what they want and make it mean that they can just respond to their

urges and desires and let themselves be free to run amok without constraint. They think that if they

want to binge or want to overeat, then allowing themselves to do that is kind and useful

because they're not restricting themselves. But binging and overeating and letting yourself be

unrestrained and uninhibited is not kind or useful. It's not going to end well. It's not going to

give you the results that you want. Yes, you want to be free to do what you want,

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