You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 367.

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 with you about living as if you are binge free now. I bet that that how you imagine your eating to be, your thoughts about

food, yourself, and your body to be, how you imagine so many other aspects of your life and

what you'll be doing when you're no longer binging is quite different than how it all is now.

When we think about this, we sometimes have this idea that all of that will happen once we've

stopped binge eating.

When we have stopped binge eating, then we become a different version of ourselves.

But that's not really how it works.

You actually become a different version of

yourself before you stop binge eating. Everything you have after you stopped binge eating,

you actually get before you stop and that's how you stop. You change things in order to stop and that includes any skills,

thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. You change your thoughts to stop binge eating. You acquire

skills to stop binge eating. You do things differently to stop binge eating. Something that

sometimes scares people about stopping binge eating is that they're

afraid of how they'll cope with emotions or just how they'll get through life without having

binge eating as their crutch. But what they don't see is that they're going to learn all of that

along the way. You don't just get to the point where you stop binge eating and now you have to learn all that.

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