You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 340.

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 Sarty. Now let's get to it.

Hello. Today I'm talking with you about practicing being your future self. You all have an

idea of what it will be like when you stop

binge eating in the future, basically what your future self will be like and what they will

experience. You think about what you'll be letting go of, what won't be happening anymore,

how you'll feel, what you'll think, what you won't be thinking, and what you'll do.

And what I recommend you do with all of that

is to actually write it down. Actually put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard and get the words

on paper or your computer or your phone. Get clear and specific about what it is you're expecting

for your future binge-free self.

And the reason why I want you to know what it is and to write it down is because you're not

going to wait for it to happen. You're going to start making it happen right now, today.

Sometimes people think that a better life, better feelings,

better thinking, better eating, and a better relationship with their body and their emotions and

with food will just happen once they're not binging anymore. But it's really the other way

around. You stop binge eating when you have created better feelings

and a better life, when you are thinking better and when you have created a better relationship

with your body, with your emotions, and with food. You make those things happen and then

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