Ep #30: Fearing Hunger
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
How scary is hunger to you? It's uncomfortable and you might think that too much hunger leads to overeating and binge eating. So you avoid it as much as possible so you don't have to feel it.
But it's time you start. In this episode, I'm talking about why it's important to allow yourself to feel hungry and how to do it. I also add in some tips for how you can make your hunger feel less intense. Let's get over the fear of hunger.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirst and Sarty episode number 30. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:10.6 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:16.1 | binge eating from your life. And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and |
| 0:20.5 | insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your to show you how by giving you simple tools and insights that you can |
| 0:21.6 | apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirsten Sarfdy. Now let's get to it. Hi, I am so glad to have you |
| 0:31.0 | here and I'm so glad to be here. How are you feeling? Are you feeling hungry? Are you afraid to |
| 0:36.7 | feel hungry? If yes, then this |
| 0:38.8 | episode is for you. For a long time, I did not want to feel hungry. I associated it with feeling |
| 0:45.3 | tired and cranky or is what we now refer to as hangary, the mix of hungry and angry. |
| 0:50.9 | I didn't like who I was when I was hungry. I just wasn't me. So I'd often try to avoid it. |
| 0:57.0 | Or as soon as I felt an inkling of hunger, I'd want to eat ASAP so it wouldn't get any worse. |
| 1:03.8 | This meant that I'd eat when I wasn't hungry just to stave off any hunger that may come in the |
| 1:08.9 | future during a time that I didn't think I'd be able to |
| 1:11.1 | eat. I'd eat in anticipation of being hungry later, even though I wasn't hungry at all then. |
| 1:16.9 | I wanted to avoid what I thought would be an agonizing experience. It just seemed like my hunger |
| 1:22.8 | was never mild. I'd go from zero to starving. I'd go from being just fine to I need to eat or I'm going to |
| 1:31.1 | die. I wanted to avoid this at all costs and eating when I wasn't hungry was a solution for me. |
| 1:38.5 | I had a client who would call what she did pre-eating and I loved that term. She'd eat before eating, so the hunger would |
| 1:46.0 | never arrive. So many of us have experienced fear about hunger. There was my big fear that I would |
| 1:53.1 | feel terrible and hated how I felt when I was too hungry. Then there's just the discomfort |
| 1:57.8 | that it causes. Feeling hungry isn't comfortable. We also get |
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