You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarfdy, episode number 57.

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, we're here. You and I together again. Isn't it great? It is. I wish it would never end.

Unlike binge eating.

Let's end that.

Sometimes binge eating seems like it's a part of a cycle that's never going to end.

It just goes around and around with one thing leading to the next.

And I actually did a quick image search on Google for binge eating cycle, and there were so

many images of what a binge cycle might look like for someone. Most of them include feeling bad,

feeling urges, the binge restricting over hunger, and also feeling better, meaning that temporary

relief that happens when you start the binge.

And this is how I see it go for most of you. You feel bad, whether it be an urge or other

negative feeling. You binge and feel better for a few minutes, then feel worse. Restrict your food

intake to make up for it. Then get overly hungry. Feel an urge, binge to feel better, but feel bad after,

binge to feel better again, then feel bad, restrict, and so on. Sound familiar? That's how it used to go

for me, at least. One thing leads to another and everything in the cycle is a problem. So it can be confusing to figure

out where to break the cycle or how to break it. Which problem do you stop first? There has to be a

point where you can do it, right? There definitely is. And although you can start at any place in it,

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