You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 357.

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 Sarfdy.

Now let's get to it.

Hi, I would bet that most of you are familiar with stress eating when you eat while

feeling stressed.

But what about after stress eating? Here's what I'm talking about. You go through a stressful time, but you don't overeat or binge

at all while you're feeling stressed, but then once it's over, that's when the overeating or binging happens. It can be really confusing

to experience this because we're so used to the idea of stress eating and stress eating makes a

lot of sense. You stress eat to try and distract from the stress or to calm, too comfort,

to soothe yourself when feeling stressed. But if you're not doing

that and you make it through the stress without eating, why would you do it after? That's what I'm

going to talk with you about today. I've coached several of my group members on this topic,

and I've seen three main things come up each time.

They're putting off overeating or binge eating because they simply don't have time.

They're rewarding themselves with a lot of food after the stressful time, or they're eating

to get away from the stress quickly. So maybe you want to stress eat. Maybe you're thinking about it

while you're going through the stress, but you're so busy, you have so much to do. Maybe you barely

even have time to eat meals because you're rushing from thing to thing. And if you are skipping

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