You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 236.

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 your desires.

We all have desires for so many things, including food, and it's totally normal. But sometimes

people have some thoughts about their food desires, whether it be what they're desiring or when

they're desiring it. They might judge themselves for desiring and wanting what they want,

and the shoulds start coming into their

mind. I shouldn't want this. I shouldn't want this right now. Or then there's the I don't want to's.

I don't want to want to want this. Whether you're thinking you shouldn't or don't want to want to,

both are not going to feel good because

you're either judging yourself or upsetting yourself. And you might also be shaming yourself.

It could be that you think it's wrong to have the desire you have. And all these feelings you

might feel because of your thoughts about your desire and what you want,

ashamed, judged, or upset are most likely going to drive you to deny yourself of what you desire.

And it's probably not going to be an easy denial, but more like a denial with some struggle

because there's this desire driving you toward what you want and then your

resistance to the desire. That resistance might cause a back and forth tug of war and lots of

mental chatter, none of which will make it easy to not give yourself what you're desiring.

And what's really happening here too is that you're using willpower and are trying

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