Ep #298: How to Have Useful Conversations With Yourself
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When your brain tells you to eat, do you just do it without really thinking? If so, it's time for you to do some more thinking.
Having a conversation with yourself (with your brain) about whether you actually want to eat or not is so important if you want to make a decision you'll be happy with. So in this episode, I'm going to help you do it. Listen in to get tips for how you can converse with yourself in a useful way and get what you want the most.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarfdy, episode number 298. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:11.4 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:17.0 | binge eating from your life. And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools |
| 0:21.1 | 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 | Hi, let's talk about having conversations with yourself. A lot of the time when people are |
| 0:36.5 | describing to me what goes on in their mind |
| 0:38.8 | before they start eating when they're not hungry or when they're feeling an urge or before they |
| 0:44.1 | eat more when they're full, there doesn't seem to be much of a conversation happening. |
| 0:49.3 | Basically, their brain says to eat and they eat. They're not really paying attention to what their brain is saying |
| 0:54.9 | to them. They're not considering their options. They're not considering the implications of doing |
| 0:59.5 | what their brain is suggesting. Or maybe they're not even acknowledging what's going on in their |
| 1:05.0 | mind at all. There's no awareness. There's no real discussion, no back and forth. They just eat. And this is a problem because our brains |
| 1:14.0 | usually aren't going to think things through on their own. Our brains are very toddler-like, |
| 1:20.4 | at least this part of our brain that's telling us to eat when we're not hungry or to eat more is. |
| 1:26.4 | It's just the lower brain wanting pleasure and wanting to feel good. |
| 1:30.9 | That's all it's considering in that moment. It wants pleasure. Eating will be easy pleasure that |
| 1:36.4 | it's familiar with. So it tells us to do it. It's that simple. But if we just go along with everything |
| 1:43.2 | our lower brain tells us to do, if we just go along with everything our lower brain tells us to do, if we just go along with |
| 1:46.5 | everything our lower brain wants, we'd be in a lot of trouble. We wouldn't show up for important |
| 1:51.8 | obligations. We wouldn't get done so many of our adult responsibilities. We wouldn't do anything |
| 1:57.9 | that isn't enjoyable. We would only do things that are enjoyable and we would |
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