You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 269.

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 Sarkty. Now

let's get to it. Hello, let's jump right in and talk about self-sabotaging. It's something

that a lot of people get really confused by because they don't understand why they do it.

They want to feel good and eat in ways that will make them feel good.

And they want to stop binge eating and they want to stop gaining weight.

And they put in all this effort to make all that happen.

But then they go and do things that will prevent them from having and doing all of that.

And it's all on them.

No one else is doing it to them.

No one else is forcing them to eat.

People may influence their eating decisions.

People may encourage them to eat or pressure them to eat or try to convince them to eat.

But in the end, if sabotaging happens, it's done by themselves. So why would we do

this to ourselves? Most of the time, if not all the time, it's not done on purpose. I actually

haven't worked with anyone who does it on purpose. They've only done it impulsively. It's not a well-thought-out

plan to self-sabotage. It's an impulsive in-the-moment

decision made in a response to a feeling. It could be a feeling of frustration, disappointment,

hopelessness, anger, doubt, defeated, or self-pity, just to name a few. So maybe you binged

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