Ep #213: Weighing Yourself While Working on Stopping Binge Eating
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Should you weigh yourself while you're working on stopping binge eating? If this is a question you want the answer to, there's another question for you to ask yourself. Why do you want to?
In this episode, I'm talking about the reasons why you'd want to weigh yourself and whether or not it's helpful to do so. There are underlying reasons that could be making it harder for you to stop binge eating so listen in to learn if it's going to be helpful or harmful for you.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty episode number 213. |
| 0:06.9 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food. |
| 0:15.3 | You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your life. |
| 0:19.5 | And I'm going to show you how by giving you |
| 0:21.4 | simple tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarkty. |
| 0:27.2 | Now let's get to it. Hi, let's talk about weighing yourself when you're working on stopping |
| 0:35.2 | binge eating. Should you do it? Is it okay to do it? Will it have a |
| 0:39.8 | negative impact? I totally understand why people ask those questions, but I think that an even more |
| 0:46.1 | important question for you to ask yourself is what is the purpose of weighing yourself? When you're |
| 0:53.4 | working on stopping binge eating, why do you want |
| 0:56.3 | to weigh yourself? Sure, you probably want to see if you've lost or gained weight. That's why we all |
| 1:02.3 | weigh, right? But why do you want to know that? I'm guessing it's for one of three reasons. One, |
| 1:10.5 | you want to see if you're making progress. |
| 1:13.2 | Two, you haven't fully put weight loss on hold yet. |
| 1:17.4 | Three, you're using your weight to determine how you will eat and think. |
| 1:22.5 | So first, the progress reason. |
| 1:25.6 | So many of us have used the number on the scale as a progress gauge for such |
| 1:30.7 | a long time. You want to know if you're doing well? Step on the scale. But there are so many more |
| 1:37.4 | ways to determine progress and the scale is not the best way to gauge progress with binge eating. |
| 1:43.7 | You might be making amazing progress while |
| 1:46.9 | maintaining your weight or even while gaining. You might be gaining because you are being less |
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