Ep #52: Identifying Emotional Eating
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
We've all heard about emotional eating, but do you know all the ways that it shows up in your life? When we're working on stopping binge eating, it's important to also work on emotional eating but since there are so many ways that emotional eating has been normalized, it's hard to recognize it.
In this episode, I'm talking about the different reasons we eat that are purely for emotion driven purposes and not based on our hunger or nutrition or for fueling our bodies. I'm also going to give you a tool for figuring out exactly when you're eating emotionally. Listen in so you can become aware of what your emotional eating looks like and how to begin to stop it.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 52. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:10.3 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:15.9 | binge eating from your life. And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and |
| 0:20.2 | insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host show you how by giving you simple tools and insights that you |
| 0:21.2 | can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. Hey, hi. Are you ready? |
| 0:31.3 | Then let's dive in to today's topic about emotional eating. Not everyone who emotionally eats, binge eats, but everyone who binge eats |
| 0:39.8 | emotionally eats. Binge eating really is extreme emotional eating because when we talk about |
| 0:45.1 | binging in response to urges, urges are really strong desires and desire is an emotion. |
| 0:51.1 | You feel desire for food. It grows and grows and grows and grows and it turns into an urge. |
| 0:56.4 | And there's also the times when binges begin with emotional eating and you eat because you're |
| 1:00.6 | stressed, overwhelmed, bored, lonely, whatever it is, and it gets out of hand. And a quick side note, |
| 1:05.7 | too, just for ease and simplicity, I'm going to be interchanging feelings and emotions. And some |
| 1:10.8 | might argue that they're not the same. And I could change all of what I'm going to be interchanging feelings and emotions. And some might argue that |
| 1:11.7 | they're not the same. And I could change all of what I'm talking about here to be called |
| 1:15.5 | feelings eating. But I just don't think that it is necessary. Emotional eating is the common |
| 1:23.1 | term. So I'm just going to go with it. And emotions are feelings. And let's continue on. |
| 1:29.6 | So quite often, |
| 1:35.0 | you're eating in response to your emotions when you're not hungry, whether it be between meals or when you should be finishing a meal because you're full, but you keep eating anyway. But what I find |
| 1:39.8 | so interesting is that there are a lot of times when you may not even know you're emotionally eating. |
| 1:45.3 | So what is it even? I like to classify emotional eating to be any eating done in response to an |
| 1:51.6 | emotion. A clear identifier of this is if you're eating and you're not hungry, you are eating |
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