Ep #281: Changing Your "If/Then" Statements
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
"If I eat one, then I won't be able to stop." "If I have it in my home then I will eat it all." We've all had "If/Then" statements like this that make us feel powerless, out of control, and like there's something wrong with us. If you've been thinking "If/Then" statements like this too, then you must listen to this episode because believing things like that is just going to perpetuate your binge eating.
So in this episode, I'm going to help you to change them. You don't have to live your life according to these "If/Then" statements and you can instead believe and live into new ones, ones that will make you feel empowered. Listen in to find out how you'll do it.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 281. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food. |
| 0:14.9 | You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you |
| 0:20.2 | how by giving you simple tools and insights that you can apply in your life. And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.4 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello, today I'm talking about if, then statements. And what I mean by that is when we say |
| 0:36.5 | things like, if this thing happens, then this is what will happen. And what I mean by that is when we say things like, if this thing happens, |
| 0:39.4 | then this is what will happen. We're basically stating that if a certain circumstance is present, |
| 0:45.0 | then a certain outcome will happen. And I hear people do this all the time about their eating |
| 0:50.0 | and binge eating and I used to. I'd say things like, if it's in my home, then I'll eat it all. |
| 0:56.6 | Or if I start eating, then I won't stop. We say these kinds of things because we've experienced |
| 1:04.0 | it so many times. There were so many times that I'd eat it all. And after experiencing it so |
| 1:10.4 | many times, I just saw it as an inevitable |
| 1:13.3 | truth. And that's the problem here. We see all our if then statements as being inevitable and true. |
| 1:21.2 | We look at what we've done in the past and now we assume that's how it's going to be in the future. |
| 1:26.7 | We assume that that's how we are. |
| 1:29.7 | And if we are fully believing that, then we're not even going to try to make it different. |
| 1:36.8 | Now, let's be clear, not all if then statements are untrue and not all are a problem. |
| 1:43.8 | It's true that if you binge and eat an excessive amount |
| 1:47.7 | of food, then you'll feel terrible. And holding on to that belief is going to be helpful because it |
| 1:53.2 | will help you to decide to not give in to an urge and binge and could also help you to not feel |
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