You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty episode number 217.

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 eating more slowly. I was actually pretty excited when I saw that

this topic was on my episode list for this week

because just last night, I went through this exact process that I'm going to teach you today.

I was at someone's house and we were watching a movie and eating nachos.

And at first, I was eating them and enjoying them and all was good. But then I

noticed myself eating a little more quickly and noticed my brain urging me to eat more quickly.

I also then thought back to all the times when I binged on tortilla chips, not even nachos or chips dipped in

anything, just the chips straight from the bag. And I thought it was so interesting that I still get

this urge to eat them quickly after all this work I've done on my eating and that I get the urge

with the chips, but not other things.

Why? I really have no idea. I mean, yeah, they taste good, but there are other things that

taste good too, and I don't feel that way when I eat them. And we actually also ate popcorn

with the nachos, and I didn't feel that way eating the popcorn, and both were salty

and corn-based. It's just so interesting to me. I used to binge on both and both are delicious.

I don't know what the difference is. But anyway, there I was noticing what was happening in my mind

and with my hand and my mouth, and what I didn't do was let it continue. I slowed myself

down. I ate a few more chips more slowly and then I stopped eating altogether. And in this episode,

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