Ep #53: Anxiety
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Anxiety is not a comfortable feeling to feel. Because of this, many of us eat to try and calm ourselves down. But as we know, eating is only a temporary solution and there's a good chance the anxiety will come right back once the food is gone.
In this episode, I'm going to help you understand why you feel anxious. Having this understanding can be very helpful when you're trying to figure out how to feel anxious less often and how to calm yourself down in a useful way. Listen in as I not only explain what's going on, but also how to handle anxiety instead of eating in response to it.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 53. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food. |
| 0:13.3 | You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your life. |
| 0:17.5 | And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and insights that you can |
| 0:21.5 | apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi, how are you? I am good, doing good. Hope you are too. I hope you're feeling calm and not at all |
| 0:36.4 | anxious, because from what I hear from you all, anxiety is quite the binge or at least overeating driver. |
| 0:43.5 | One of the most common feelings that people tell me they binge in response to is anxiety. |
| 0:48.8 | It is not a comfortable thing to feel. |
| 0:51.6 | We all might experience it differently, but there's usually a sense of restlessness, |
| 0:55.6 | maybe increased heart rate, shallow breathing, a buzzing throughout your body amongst other things. |
| 1:00.7 | You might feel like you need to do something. Like you can't just sit there and do nothing. |
| 1:05.1 | For many of you, as soon as you start feeling this way, you want out of it. You want calm and |
| 1:10.3 | comfort, ASAP, and the quickest |
| 1:12.1 | way for you to do that is to eat. Eating will calm you down. Eating will distract you. Eating will |
| 1:17.5 | give you something to get up and do. Eating is your way to ease anxiety. We all feel anxious. Some |
| 1:24.2 | of us more often than others. We feel it just like with any feeling or emotion we feel because of our thoughts. |
| 1:31.7 | Now, there are times when medications or caffeine can cause us anxiety, sure, but that's not what I'm talking about here. |
| 1:40.1 | Although later in this episode, I will talk about a way to help yourself if you are feeling anxiety due to one of those factors, but mostly here I'm focusing on thought-induced anxiety. |
| 1:49.1 | There are so many thoughts that can lead to feeling anxious, thoughts about work, school, your kids, your relationship, your life, your weight, the list goes on and on and on. |
| 1:59.6 | But I like to say that the basic thought |
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