You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 335.

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. Hi. Last week on the podcast in episode number 334, I talked about making sure you have a compelling reason to stop binge eating

that you are telling yourself every day multiple times a day. This is an important part of your

motivation to do the necessary work to stop binge eating. Sometimes doing this work can be hard.

You might get tired of doing it.

You might not feel like it. And having a compelling reason why will help you to do it anyway.

When your reason to do this work is compelling, it is so much easier to be all in to not let

your excuses stop you and to make this work a priority. But having that compelling reason is only part of your

motivation. The other part is your belief in yourself. You'll feel motivated if you have a compelling

reason to do something and if you believe that putting in the effort and the time and using your energy

will be worth it. And it will be worth it if you actually change, right? It will be worth it if you

actually do achieve the goal you have set out to do. And if you don't change and you don't achieve

the goal or you don't even get close to the goal, then you might think

that all the effort and time and energy you used wasn't worth it. And if before you even start,

if before you even put in the effort, time, and energy, you don't believe you will change or achieve

the goal or even get close to the

goal, then you're probably going to think it's not even worth it to try. You won't even start

if you don't think it will be worth it. And you'll think it's not worth it if you think you're not

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