You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarfdy, episode number 232.

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 Sarkty. Now let's get to it.

Hi, what are you doing today? That's pleasurable. Have you done something already? Do you have

something planned for later? If not,

make it happen and not just today, but every day. Us humans, we are pleasure seekers. We want

pleasure. We crave pleasure. And if you don't intentionally experience pleasure,

chances are you're going to impulsively

experience it. What I mean by that is that if you aren't experiencing enough pleasure

and aren't deliberately choosing how you experience pleasure by planning for it and aren't

purposefully deciding what pleasures you are going to engage in, you're likely going to feel an urge

for it and then urgently try to find something, anything that's easy pleasure to get.

And that just might be eating a lot of food if eating a lot of food is something you've habitually

done for pleasure. This is something that happens a lot for people who binge when they get

bored. Bortem is one of the most common feelings that gets the ball rolling for a binge for many

people. They're bored, so they eat and they keep eating because it's pleasurable, and they think

they have nothing else or nothing better to do. And maybe they've also been

lacking pleasure. So they go all in on getting as much as they can now by eating all that food.

But there is something else and something better to do and ways to experience more pleasure

every day. I don't care where you are or what time it is. There is something else for you to do

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