Ep #24: Fighting Urges
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel like every time you feel an urge to binge it turns into a battle? You say no and the urge says yes and the fight begins.
People often tell me about their fights with their urges and I always say that if you're fighting then you're doing it wrong. In this episode, I'm talking about why you always seem to lose your fights with your urges and what you can do instead if you want to win.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 24. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:10.9 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:16.5 | binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and insights |
| 0:21.3 | that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:28.9 | Hi, how are you? It is a beautiful morning here. I'm feeling good and I am so happy to be here |
| 0:36.1 | talking to you. And today it's all about fighting urges. It's something we think we need to do. I used to do it a lot myself. We feel an urge. We got to fight it so we can win the battle of the binge. The urge appears. We say no binge. The urge says, yes, binge. And we go back and forth giving our arguments for why we're |
| 0:56.1 | saying no and yes. And it starts to get heated and intense. And eventually, one of us loses the battle. |
| 1:02.4 | Most likely, it's you. Most likely, the urge is going to win. Your urges are really good at urging and convincing. It's what they do. And you have |
| 1:14.1 | become really good at succumbing to them. It's what you've gotten really good at doing simply |
| 1:18.8 | because you keep doing it. So why do you keep succumbing? Why do you surrender to the urge |
| 1:24.9 | after fighting it for so long? Well, first of all, fighting your |
| 1:29.4 | urges is exhausting. Fighting anything is exhausting. And when you're exhausted, what's the easiest |
| 1:36.3 | thing to do? Just give in. You don't want to fight anymore. You're tired of fighting. You just |
| 1:41.9 | wanted to be over and you don't think you're going to win |
| 1:44.6 | because you lose more often than not so you just surrender. When you fight with an urge, |
| 1:50.0 | you end up fueling it. You're giving it the wrong kind of attention. When you get more emotionally |
| 1:55.8 | charged, so does it. It becomes more intensified the more you fight with it. Think about if you're arguing |
| 2:03.1 | with a toddler because our urges really are seriously just like toddlers. If you get louder, |
| 2:09.7 | what are they going to do? The exact same thing as you. They say, gimmee. You say no. They say yes. |
| 2:15.9 | You say no. They cry and scream. You raise your voice. They get louder. |
| 2:20.2 | You yell at them. They become completely bonkers and unbearable. So the reason why your urge is |
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