Ep #59: Fear of Weight Gain
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
You probably know the importance of not restricting your food too much when you're trying to stop binge eating. But it can be hard because you want to balance out the amounts of food you're eating. You want to eat normal meals, but you're afraid that if you do, and you still binge, then you're going to gain weight.
In this episode, I'm talking about your fear of weight gain and how you can overcome it. It's important to do because as you do this work, it's a possibility that it might happen. How you respond to it matters.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 59. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:10.7 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:16.3 | binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and |
| 0:20.6 | insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your to show you how by giving you simple tools and insights that you can |
| 0:21.8 | apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. Hi, welcome back. Let's talk about |
| 0:32.5 | weight gain. We love weight gain, right? Yeah, right. Most people try to avoid it at all costs. And if you're |
| 0:43.9 | someone who binge eats, which I assume you are, if you are listening to this right now, |
| 0:47.7 | then you're probably one of those people. Depending on how often you binge and how much you |
| 0:53.1 | consume when you binge, there's a good chance |
| 0:55.4 | that weight gain is something you're battling. And the battling usually entails the binge |
| 0:59.9 | and the punishing restriction and then going back and forth between them. That was my battle for |
| 1:05.4 | sure. I was always trying so hard not to gain weight, except during the times when I was |
| 1:10.5 | apathetic and didn't |
| 1:12.0 | care and just let the binges and the weight happen. Then once I'd start fearing that my weight |
| 1:16.9 | would get too high, I'd get back to calorie counting, which I did not enjoy, and denying myself |
| 1:23.1 | foods, which made me feel deprived, and using willpower to say no to overeating, which only |
| 1:28.3 | lasted so long. The action that fear drove me to take was not a positive action. Fear doesn't |
| 1:35.2 | do that. It drove me to go to my personal extremes that weren't helping my binge eating tendencies. |
| 1:42.0 | People sometimes get that confused about fear. They think that fear motivates them, |
| 1:47.2 | but it doesn't really. Fear freezes you or fuels the fight or flight response. And it's a |
| 1:54.1 | primitive, protective response. If you're afraid of a predator, then your body prepares you to run or |
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