You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 262.

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. Today I'm talking about accepting being a human because too often when I'm coaching

people, they're either thinking they shouldn't be

human or are annoyed, frustrated, or defeated by their humanness. I'm going to give you some

examples of what I mean by that. And I will first start with the one that comes up most often.

Being perfect. So many of us expect ourselves to be perfect. We expect ourselves to

eat perfectly, to think perfectly, to feel perfectly, and to do perfectly. But that's not human.

That is not how humans are. All of us humans are imperfect. We make mistakes. We think thoughts that aren't useful.

We feel uncomfortable emotions. And we don't always make and follow through on decisions that align

with who we want to be, our goals, and what's best for ourselves. When we think we shouldn't be

that way and essentially shouldn't be human, it causes us so much

frustration when we are that way, are human, and are exactly as we're supposed to be.

And we are all going to be that way.

All of us will.

Even when we know better, there's no avoiding it. I know better and still don't do

what I know to do sometimes because I'm human and I'm imperfect. And when we accept this,

it's going to create a much better human experience and more peace than when we argue with it,

think we should be different and get annoyed with ourselves. Now, I've said this before,

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