You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 38.

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, K 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, how are you? I am awesome.

Still loving my new home in case you were wondering. So fun. All right. Now, how many times

have you given up on yourself? How many times have you set out to achieve a goal, whether it be

to not give in to your next urge or follow your eating plan or the big one to never binge again

and stopped trying before you reach

the goal. Maybe you try once and it doesn't work out so you think it'll never work. Or you try a few

times. It's hard, but you get through it. But then fail a few times and think you'll never be

able to keep it up so you stop trying and then just let yourself binge

for days. Why does this happen? Why do you give up? Why can it work for someone else? But when you

try, it doesn't work out. I thought a lot about this, looking at what I've done and what I've seen

other people do. And here's five things I've seen most often.

The first one is that you're not willing to put in the necessary effort. Worthwhile, big goals

are hard to achieve. And the bigger the goal, the more effort you're going to have to put into it.

If you ever told yourself that something is too hard, that's for sure

going to stop you. I hear that reason all the time, that it's too hard and they want to do what's

easy. I had this one client who in the beginning kept telling me she wants to do the easy things

always, if given the choice of doing hard or easy, it didn't make sense to her why she

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