Ep #376: What To Do When People Talk About Diets, Restriction, and Weight Around You

The Stop Binge Eating Podcast

Kirstin Sarfde

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When you work on stopping binge eating, how you think changes. You think differently about food, yourself, bodies, and so many other things. But unfortunately, the people around you might not. They might be saying so many things that you USED to think but you don't anymore. And it can be frustrating or uncomfortable to be around that.

In this episode, I'm going to help you navigate those situations. You have options for how you can handle them and for how you can be more comfortable. Listen in to find out so you don't have to worry so much about what other people might say.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

How to feel more comfortable when people are vocalizing their diet mentality
Why you shouldn't try to educate them or change how they're thinking if they don't want you to
How you can set a boundary around this kind of talk
What to do if you think other people are judging your eating or your body

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 376.
0:06.8	Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast.
0:09.5	It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food.
0:15.2	You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your life.
0:19.3	And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple
0:21.6	tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarkty. Now let's get to it.
0:30.6	Hello, let's jump right in and talk about those times when people talk about diets, restriction,
0:41.0	and weight around you. For so many years,
0:46.3	these things have been talked about a lot in conversations. There are so many people wanting to lose weight, trying to lose weight, and talking about what they're doing, what they've done,
0:51.2	and what they think they should do. They talk about cheat days, about foods being
0:56.2	bad, about needing to work off what they ate, about earning joy food, about calories, points,
1:02.7	macros, about their bodies flaws, about other people's bodies, about what other people eat.
1:08.5	And it's so normal to them. It's matter of fact to them. It's just part of
1:13.4	their thinking. It's just what they talk about. And I totally get it because I used to be the same way.
1:20.6	I also still have plenty of people in my life who are that way. And I understand why. I know what messages they've received, what they've
1:30.1	been taught, what they've observed and heard and seen from other people. Because I have too.
1:36.4	I understand why they put their focus on those things. I get it. But what are you supposed to do
1:42.3	when they're doing it? But you don't talk that way anymore.
1:48.1	As people go through this process of stopping binge eating and changing their relationship with food
1:52.9	and their bodies, what they think about changes. They get out of diet mentality, which is a term
1:58.2	that sums up what I listed other people talking about.
2:05.8	So they talk about food and eating differently and they think about food and bodies differently.
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