You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 360.

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 Sarkty. Now

let's get to it. Hello, something I talk about often on this podcast is allowing yourself to

eat whatever you want. And for a lot of people,

when they hear that, they are very resistant. They're nervous or afraid to do it because they think

that if they allow themselves to eat whatever they want, then they'll always choose

super unhealthy stuff. They'll eat a lot of it,

and they'll lose control and binge. So they don't do it. They keep forbidding foods,

making them off limits, and not allowing themselves to eat them. And then what happens is that

their desire for those foods grows. Whenever they think about them,

they tell themselves they can't eat them. And each time they say no, their desire grows. What also

grows is their feelings of deprivation, disappointment, maybe even anger, and feeling restricted.

And eventually, they're done with feeling that way. They're done with saying

no. So they say yes, but it's yes with conditions. Those conditions are usually that it's just this one time.

They won't eat them again tomorrow or for a long time or ever which sounds like a reasonable condition

but what usually happens then is that they get into a last hurrah mindset this is their one chance

this is the only time they're going to eat it so they go big they eat as much as they can while they

can they eat it all so it's not in their home the next day they might even eat more than one food

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