You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 258.

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 jump right in and talk about those times when you just don't know why, how, or what.

This is a topic that I've touched on here and there throughout the podcast,

and I decided I wanted to give it its own episode because it's something that I see

causing people to get stuck sometimes.

There's so many things that I hear people say that they don't know that they need

to know as they're working on stopping binge eating. There's the hows where they don't know

how to stop binge eating as a whole, how to stop overly restricting themselves, how to feel an

emotion, how to feel an urge without giving into it, how to change their thoughts. There's also not knowing

what other options they have, like another option for how else they could be thinking about

something or what else they could do. And then not knowing why they did what they did because

they don't have awareness of their thoughts or feelings or not knowing why they even feel urges to binge at all. Having these answers that they don't know are part of the

answer for how they'll stop binge eating. When they know the how, then they can work on doing it.

When they know what the other options are, they can choose and doing it. When they know what the other options are, they can choose and practice

one. When they know why they did something or what they were thinking or feeling before they did it,

then they can have understanding of their motives, decisions, and drivers and work on changing

their motives, decisions, and drivers. But when they don't know,

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