Ep #348: How You Know When, What, and How Much to Eat
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
How do you decide when, what, and how much to eat? Does it work well for you to decide in that way? Do you like using those factors to decide? If your answer is no or you're not sure then this episode is for you.
What you might think is the best way to decide, might not be. And, it actually might be contributing to your binge eating and overeating. So, I want to present another option for you.
Listen in to find out why how you've been making your decisions might be a problem and what you can do to make better decisions.
Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!
Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/348
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarfdy, episode number 348. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:12.0 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:17.6 | binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.3 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello, in today's episode, I'm talking about how you know when, how much, and what to eat. And I want to begin by asking you, |
| 0:40.8 | how do you know when it's time for you to eat? And how do you determine how much you should eat? |
| 0:47.7 | And how do you determine what you will eat? Really take a moment to think about that. |
| 0:56.9 | For a long time, I would answer those questions by saying something about time, calories, and serving sizes. That's how I would determine when, |
| 1:03.8 | what, and how much most of the time. I thought that there was a right amount of time to wait |
| 1:10.0 | between meals and snacks. I thought that there was a right amount of time to wait between meals and snacks. |
| 1:11.6 | I thought that there was a right amount of calories to eat and not just in a day, but at each |
| 1:16.7 | meal and each snack. I thought that they were right foods to eat based on how many calories |
| 1:22.0 | they contained. I thought that serving sizes on packages were the right amount to eat. |
| 1:29.1 | And this was something that started for me in college when I successfully lost a significant amount of weight for the |
| 1:33.8 | first time ever. I did it by spacing out my meals in a certain way and counting calories. |
| 1:39.3 | And what I would eat for pleasure, I would always look at what the package said was a serving |
| 1:43.4 | size. Before that, |
| 1:45.4 | I don't think I ever thought about those things. I think before then, I would just eat when I wanted |
| 1:50.3 | to or when it was time to, like at scheduled lunchtime or dinner time or before school. So that's how |
| 1:57.5 | it was for me for a long time, calories, time, and serving sizes. And do you know what was |
| 2:04.6 | missing there? My body signals and my wants. Most of the time, I was using external things to |
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