You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 366.

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.

Hello. So many people binge when they feel tired. It could be that they feel physically tired because

they're not sleeping enough or it could be because they're mentally tired because they've been

using a lot of brain energy, thinking about things, planning, making decisions, all the things.

In this episode today, I'm talking about that mental tiredness when your brain

energy is just depleted. What tends to happen for many people who experience that mental

tiredness is one of two things. Either they're so tired that they just don't care anymore, don't want to make decisions,

don't want to think. So they just eat whatever without putting any thought into it.

Or they choose to eat to try and get some energy. But then either they just keep going back to food

as soon as the energy dips again, which it will,

or they just keep eating because they don't have the mental energy to do the work to stop themselves.

It's just easier to keep eating.

So how you react to being mentally tired can lead you to overeat or binge.

And my simple answer to what to do if you feel mentally tired is to rest your brain.

You don't try to get quick energy.

You give your brain a real rest, a real break. That's what it's really wanting. Now, if you don't

have time to take a mental break, then my recommendation is to just let yourself feel tired.

Yes, it's not ideal. Yes, it can be harder to do things that you want to do when you're feeling that way.

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