You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 349.

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.

Hi, today I'm talking with you about commitment, particularly your commitment to feeling emotions. Most of you binge because you're not

committed to feeling your emotions. You might start out being committed when you're just thinking

about doing it, but when you're feeling an uncomfortable emotion and the time comes to actually

feel it through, you break your commitment and you eat to

escape your emotion instead. You don't follow through on what you've committed to. So essentially,

you're not truly committed to it. Instead, you're committed to escaping your emotions. What you do is what you're committed to. So if you want to know

what you're actually committed to doing, look at what you've been doing. If you're committed to escaping

emotions rather than committing to feeling them, then when you feel as uncomfortable emotions,

you're going to be searching for food since that's

your means of escape. And not only can this cause a problem because you're overeating or binging

when you feel those emotions, but you're also not addressing your emotions, processing them,

and working through them and resolving them. So they're going to keep coming back and the cycle will continue.

Feel, escape with food, feel again, escape with food, and so on. And then there's the bigger issue

at play as well. When you commit to feeling your emotions without eating and then you don't follow through on that

commitment, you're not just breaking the commitment to feel. You're breaking a commitment that you made

to yourself. You're not committing to yourself. So then you lose trust in yourself. And a lot of you have. You stop believing that you'll do what you say you'll do. You don't believe what you say. And that's of course going to affect your relationship with yourself and cause you to feel a lot of self-doubt, which is going to hinder your attempts at stopping binge eating. It's going to make it so much harder

for you to stop binge eating when you don't trust yourself and when you doubt yourself. So this lack of

follow through on your commitment to feel uncomfortable emotions isn't just affecting you in that

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