You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 369.

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, today I'm talking with you about not being good enough. This is for anyone who thinks they're not good enough to

stop binge eating, who thinks what they're doing to stop binge eating isn't good enough,

and who thinks that they're just not good enough in general. And I want to talk about this

because thinking this way about yourself can be a huge obstacle that is getting

in the way of you stopping binge eating. When you think that you're not good enough or that what

you're doing isn't good enough, how do you feel inadequate, defeated, disappointed, ashamed?

And what do you do when you feel that way? It's very likely that you do nothing. You stop trying, you hide, you don't put in any effort to do better.

So nothing changes and you don't do better. You don't do good enough. That's what happens when you get down on

yourself and start telling yourself that you're not good enough or that what you're doing isn't good

enough. You actually bring yourself down. You make it harder for you to do better. So if this is what

happens, why do you do it? Let's take a look at why you might be thinking this way

about yourself. One reason might be that you have too high of expectations for yourself.

This falls into the perfectionism category. You think that if you're not doing perfectly,

if you're not acting perfectly, if you're not acting perfectly,

then you're not good enough. So as soon as you do something, think something, or feel

something that's not ideal, that's not perfect, then you immediately tell yourself that you're

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