You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 365.

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 about understanding your behavior. Because in order to change it, you have to understand why you're doing it.

If you've ever binged or overeaten or said you weren't going to eat something, but then you did,

then this episode is for you. In my coaching program, so much of the work I do is helping my group

members understand themselves because they've spent so much of the work I do is helping my group members understand themselves

because they've spent so much time feeling lost or confused by their behavior.

We do a lot of work around this, but in this episode today, I want to talk about one of the

most important things you'll need to do to better understand yourself.

And it's being a better observer of yourself.

Many of us are good at observing our past selves.

We can pretty easily reflect back and observe what we did.

That's probably the easiest thing for us to notice about ourselves. Sometimes we can look

back and observe what we were thinking and feeling too, but that can be a little more challenging

if we weren't paying attention to it in the moment. Not being aware of your thoughts and feelings

is a problem because it's going to make it harder

for you to understand and to change your behaviors. The reason why you act as you do is because of how

you feel emotionally and you feel how you feel because of what you think. So your thoughts and feelings are going to be what

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