Ep #387: How Your Past Can Help You
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Most people who binge eat think about their past and feel bad. They get mad at themselves, feel ashamed, and get frustrated. But thinking about your past doesn't have to make you feel that way. And actually, you can think about your past and feel proud, motivated, and certain. You can also use your past to help you. How? That's what I'll be sharing in this episode. So listen in if you want to be able to use your past for good.
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
- Why it's important and will help you to think about your past successes
- How to use your past to do better in the future
- Why it can be helpful when things don't work
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 387. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:11.9 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:17.5 | binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.3 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello, today I'm talking with you about your past. A lot of the time when it comes to binge eating, people think about their past |
| 0:39.2 | and negative emotions come up. They think about how long they've been binging. They think about |
| 0:45.1 | how their body used to be compared to how it is now. They get mad at themselves. They feel |
| 0:49.8 | sad. They feel ashamed. Thinking about their past can be an uncomfortable experience and when it is, |
| 0:56.6 | it might actually contribute to overeating and binge eating if they feel so bad about themselves |
| 1:02.7 | that they eat to feel better or just give up on themselves because they don't think they can |
| 1:07.6 | change anything that they've created in their past, or they are so desperate |
| 1:11.0 | to change that they go to drastic measures, overly restrict their eating, and end up perpetuating |
| 1:15.9 | their binge eating, and end up recreating what they created in the past. Of course, dwelling on the |
| 1:22.4 | mistakes of your past and getting mad at yourself about what you did in the past is not useful. It's not going to |
| 1:29.3 | motivate you. It's just going to make you feel bad about yourself. And when you feel bad about |
| 1:33.5 | yourself, you're likely not going to take positive action to improve yourself. It's also not at all |
| 1:39.7 | useful to tell yourself that your past is evidence for what will happen in the future because it's not. |
| 1:46.2 | You can do differently in your future and create different outcomes. |
| 1:51.1 | So what I don't want you to do is use your past as a reason why you can't stop binge eating. |
| 1:56.8 | Don't think about your past mistakes and binges and make them mean you can't do it. |
| 2:02.2 | The self-doubt that you'd create from doing that is just going to make it so much harder for you to be successful. |
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