Ep #358: If You Feel Controlled By Food
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
When you feel controlled by food, you also feel powerless. You might think there is nothing you can do to stop yourself from eating it. You might also try to gain power by controlling the food. But, that isn't going to be the solution. Why? I'll tell you in this episode.
I'll also explain why the food actually isn't controlling you and what is. If you want to feel more in control and powerful, listen to this episode. You don't have to keep feeling like food has control over you. It doesn't.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Benge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 358. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:11.8 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:17.4 | binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.2 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarkty. Now let's get |
| 0:27.5 | to it. Hi. Something that many people who binge eat experience is feeling controlled by food. |
| 0:41.0 | They feel powerless. Like there is nothing they can do. |
| 0:45.3 | They think they can't say no to the food. They think they can't stop eating the food. They think that as long as the food is there, they will eat it because they think they are not in control. |
| 0:53.1 | The food is. It's as if the food is making their decisions for |
| 0:57.5 | them and making them eat it. But it's not. It can't. It can't do anything. The food just sits there. |
| 1:07.0 | It's an inanimate object with no power at all. It can't move. It can't make you eat it. |
| 1:14.8 | So if that's true, then why do you feel out of control and like the food does control you? |
| 1:20.2 | The main reason is because of your urges that you feel. When you feel an urge to eat or an urge to binge and you're thinking that you |
| 1:30.2 | have to eat the food, you might blame that urge that you're feeling on the food. You might think |
| 1:36.8 | that the food tastes too good or blame what the food is made out of or you might just blame the |
| 1:42.1 | food because you don't know what else to blame. |
| 1:45.6 | But you're not feeling that urge because of the food. The food isn't making you feel that way. |
| 1:52.0 | You are making or have made yourself feel that way. You feel that urge because you've been |
| 1:59.2 | overly restrictive with what or how much you've been eating. |
| 2:01.9 | You've been denying yourself of foods you want and like. |
| 2:05.0 | So your desire for them has grown stronger into an urgent desire and urge. |
| 2:10.5 | Or you are letting yourself eat something that you don't normally allow yourself to eat, |
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