You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty episode number 250.

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. It's episode number 250 and I thought this would be the perfect time to share with you

some more of my own personal journal entries.

So back in episode number 200, I shared some from 2007 when I was writing fairly actively on an

online journal. And I had so much fun going through those and people told me how much they enjoyed

hearing them. So I figured, let's do some more.

And what I found to be really unfortunate, though, is how little I did journal about my binge

eating while I was in it. I really wish I had written more, not only because I find it so

interesting to see how far I've come with my eating and food mentality, but also because I believe that journaling is such a

helpful tool. But of course, journaling is going to be the most helpful if you are journaling about

helpful things. And if when you're problem solving in your journal, you're focusing on the correct

problems, which after reading through so many of my own personal entries, I was seeing over and over

that I was not. So I recently looked through three of my written journals, one from around

2007, 2008. Those entries weren't actually dated. But I have a good idea of when I wrote what I

wrote based on the non-food things that I

wrote about in there, and two journals from 2010. I scanned through all that I wrote, which was

mostly about dating and men. I had a lot to write about that, and also about friends and my social life and work stuff.

And here and there I spotted some things about my eating.

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