Ep #259: Describing Urges and Emotions
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Being willing to feel urges and emotions is an important part of stoping binge eating. Most people don't want to do it though because they seem too scary, painful, intolerable, or unbearable. If that's you too, then this episode is for you.
I'm going to help you change your opinion of your urges and emotions so you can be more willing to feel them instead of eating to make the go away. Listen in to find out how.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 259. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:11.9 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:17.5 | binge eating from your life. And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.2 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:30.1 | Hi. One thing that you need to know about binge eating is that it is driven by urges to binge. |
| 0:37.1 | You feel an urge to binge for whatever reason. |
| 0:40.3 | And if you respond to that urge by giving it what it's urging for, which is a lot of food, |
| 0:45.7 | then you're going to eat and binge. This is why the main goal here is to stop feeling those |
| 0:53.2 | urges. And if you're like most people who binge, |
| 0:56.4 | part of the reason why you feel urges to binge is because you're not willing to feel emotional |
| 1:02.0 | discomfort and have been using food to deal with your emotions. You've trained your brain to believe |
| 1:08.8 | that eating food is what you're supposed to do in order to feel |
| 1:12.7 | better if you're feeling an uncomfortable emotion. So if your emotions get intense, |
| 1:18.2 | you'll feel an intense urge to eat so that you can make the feeling go away and feel better. |
| 1:24.6 | So when you feel an uncomfortable emotion, your brain will urge you to eat. |
| 1:29.6 | And usually, the more intense the emotion, the stronger the urge will be. So if you are one of |
| 1:35.5 | these people, then learning how to feel instead of eat is going to be crucial for you. |
| 1:42.1 | But even if you're not, learning how to feel discomfort is still going to be |
| 1:45.9 | crucial because urges in themselves are uncomfortable. And although when you're feeling one, |
| 1:52.1 | it might seem like you have to give into it, like you have no choice, you don't have to give |
| 1:58.0 | in and you do have a choice. You could choose to feel it out and feel it |
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