You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 225.

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, hello. Let's jump right in and talk about the times when you wish you could eat like other people.

I think all of us who have struggled with binge eating have had this wish at one time or another. Sometimes we think it when

we're alone and are thinking about binging or have just binged. Sometimes we think it when we're with

other people who are eating foods we want to be eating and in amounts you want

to be eating, whether those amounts are large or small. This thought about wishing I could eat

like other people came up for me a lot when I was trying to lose weight too, which was most of the

time during my years of binging. So there was a lot of wishing because of my binging and wishing because of my desire to

lose weight. And although I could technically say that my wish has come true that I can eat like

other people, it wasn't the wishing that did it for me. It was me. I made it happen by doing the things

I've talked with you about in the 200 plus episodes of this podcast.

I didn't just wish it into existence.

I put in the work.

And you know what the wishing did?

It made me feel sad and jealous.

And I bet it's making you feel sad and jealous too.

Notice how you feel when you think, I wish I could just eat like other people.

When you insert a specific person you want to eat like, some people insert their partner into

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