You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarfty, episode number 326.

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 Sarfdy.

Now let's get to it.

Hello, many of you listening want to lose weight.

Not everyone who binge eats does, but most people who binge eat do. And if you're

following my recommendations, you're not focusing on losing weight until you've decreased greatly

or completely stopped your binge eating. I recommend this because for most of you, what you do in

order to try and lose weight actually perpetuates your

binge eating. You don't allow yourself to eat what you want to eat or you don't eat when you're

hungry. So basically you're being overly restrictive with your eating for the sake of weight loss.

And not only will this not be sustainable and is a reason why people get to their goal and then gain

all or a good amount of the weight back, but it can also cause you to feel urges to binge. Either you're

urging to eat a lot because you've been denying your body of the fuel it needs, or you're urging

for all those foods you've been denying yourself of for so long.

So you get yourself into this cycle of being overly restrictive, binging on what you've been

restricting, then being overly restrictive again, binging on what you've been restricting,

and repeat, repeat, repeat.

So you need to stop with that overly restricting.

Let go of your diet mentality thoughts that drive the excessive restricting,

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