You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Safety episode number 211.

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.

Hello, you are changing. You are always changing, in some ways unintentionally, and in some

ways intentionally. And when you're working

on changing something intentionally, something like your eating habits, there's something you can

for sure expect to happen. That you're not going to create new habits overnight. That's not how

habits work. They're created with consistent repetition. and over time, whatever it is that you're

turning into a habit becomes more automatic and you use less energy and mental effort to do it.

Now it would be awesome if we started doing new things and habits were created quickly and we

could just stop putting in so much mental energy, but that's just not how it is. So it's important to know

what you can expect and to be patient. Something I've seen happen to people, which is so

counterintuitive, but it happens is that they expect habits to form quickly and when they don't,

they quit. Maybe it's a little quit or maybe it's a forever quit. It's like if it's not

happening fast for them, then they don't want to wait. They'd rather not have it than wait.

There's actually someone I've been working with in my program that comes to mind when I talk about

this. She told me that she thought she'd come into the program, do everything she's supposed to do,

and stop binging and have her ideal eating habits pretty quickly. But that's not how it went for her.

What she expected was not what she experienced and it was discouraging for her. So what did she

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