You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 341.

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, let's jump right in and talk about eating more to help you to binge less. For many of you,

one of the reasons why you binge is because you're

not eating enough. And I'm not just talking about the amount of food that you're eating in general,

although that can for sure be a cause of binging. If you're not eating enough food to fuel your

body, then your brain is going to urge you to eat more.

And because your brain's number one job is to keep you alive, it might urge you to eat excessive

food because it wants to prepare for future under eating. This can happen if it sees a pattern

with you under eating and under fueling your body. It doesn't know that you're doing it on purpose

to control your weight. It only knows that it's not being properly fueled. So it's going to do

what it can to get you to eat more. It's going to urge you. For a lot of people, this happens

when they go on diets that encourage them to create big calorie deficits.

They get so hungry and then feel ravenous and they feel driven to eat a lot.

And what can also happen is that you might be eating very little during the day and then use that as an excuse to binge at night.

I know I for sure used to do that a lot. I would save up my

calories for a binge or at least overeating at night and that I'd sometimes end up eating beyond

my calorie goal I had set for the day because once I got started, I had a hard time stopping.

So under eating, not eating enough food to fuel your body properly can cause urges to binge.

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