You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 260.

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.

Hello, let's talk about emotional eating. And in this episode, I'm actually going to be talking

about why emotional eating isn't bad and why it's

important to not think it's bad. But first, let's get clear on what emotional eating is and how I'm

defining it here. And also what overeating and binge eating are. So we're clear about what I'm talking about

today as I'm talking about emotional eating because these are not all one and the same. Now, how I'm

defining these might be different or the same as how you've heard them defined before. But so you and I are on the same page in this episode here.

Here is my take on it all.

So the first part of my definition of emotional eating is when you're eating for any reason other

than hunger.

You're not eating to fuel your body.

You're eating because you desire to eat.

And I classify this kind of desire as an emotion. It's a desire that you feel that is not

originated in the body, but in the mind. You might be desiring to eat because you simply want

the pleasure of the food or you're desiring to eat because you simply want the pleasure of the food or you're desiring to eat

because you are wanting to numb, distract from, or change another emotion you're feeling like

anxious, sad, lonely, bored, etc. Emotional eating is driven by your emotions, either desire to feel

one or desire to change one.

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