You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirst and Sarty episode number 245.

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 those times when your behavior just doesn't

make sense. And what I mean by this is when your thoughts

and your behaviors don't seem to be aligned. So an example of this would be thinking that you

hate how your body looks and then you go and eat a bunch of food, which of course isn't going to

help you change your

body the way you actually want to. You might think that if you hate how your body looks,

then you do something to change it and make it better in your eyes. But instead, you make it worse.

It can be so confusing and you might wonder, why would I do that? When things don't make sense like this,

it can get frustrating. We don't like when things don't make sense. It's confusing and again,

frustrating. I used to experience this a lot when I was in my binge eating years when I would

think about how I wasn't having enough fun, but then I wouldn't go and have more fun. At least I

wouldn't have more fun the way I wanted to have. I'd binge eat and watch TV alone instead.

That was the fun that I chose and it didn't make sense to me. Why wasn't I having more fun in my life

when I didn't think I had enough? And why are people eating so much when they think that they

don't like their body and are doing things that make them feel worse instead of better when they

think they don't like how they feel? And are spending too much money when they think they don't

have enough and are not being productive when they think they have a lot to do. It's all because

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