You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty episode number 233.

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. Today I'm going to talk with you about shopping for new clothes and this is actually going to

cover two scenarios around this topic. Shopping for new clothes. And this is actually going to cover two scenarios around this topic.

Shopping for new clothes in general, which for a lot of us can be a rough experience when

clothes aren't fitting us how we want them to and shopping for new clothes because the

clothes you have are too small because you've gained weight.

So let's first talk about when the

clothes you own don't fit. Weight gain can happen when you binge eat and it can also happen

when you're working on stopping binge eating because you're being less restrictive with what

you're allowing yourself to eat and you might still be binging sometimes too since for most people the binges don't just stop right away and there's a period of time

when you're still binging and learning from those binges. I know for me pretty much the whole time I was

binging I wanted to lose weight so the thought of gaining weight worried me and I did actually gain many times.

My weight went up and down throughout those years. I would do whatever I could do to lose it.

And what I was doing was most likely causing me to feel more urges to binge, which would result

in gaining the weight back. It was things like

not going out with friends because I didn't want to go out to eat because I was associating

eating out with not eating as healthy as I wanted to, which I thought would result in gaining

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