You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarfdy, episode number 62.

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 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, how's it going? How is your life? Are you having enough fun? If not, then this is the podcast episode for you. For so many years,

my New Year's resolution was to have more fun, along with stopping binge eating.

And as I was setting that goal, I'd think about how I'd set it the year before and throughout the previous

year and I wasn't doing it. And I couldn't figure out why. Because I love fun. Why did every year

end with me thinking I didn't have enough fun in my life? Why were there so many times throughout

the year that I wanted to have fun but wasn't?

Why wasn't I having enough fun?

I wanted my life to have more fulfilling activities and I wanted to see my friends more.

I wanted to try different things, new things, and go out and meet people and travel and hit up events in my city.

It was not only because I liked those things,

but also because I believed that my lack of these things contributed to my binging, boredom,

and loneliness. I've said this on here before. I love relaxing at home and watching mindless shows

and also high quality shows and movies. And I wanted the balance between

alone time and relaxing and going out and having fun. What usually happened, though, was that my life

was too often leaning toward the not fun side. My alone time would turn into not fun time,

and my going out time would dwindle.

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