Ep #65: Positive Emotion Eating
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever binge or even just overeat when you feel positive emotions? This can be confusing for people who are used to hearing about emotional eating in response to negative emotions. It makes sense to want to eat to get away from the negative, but why would you eat when you feeling positively?
There's two reasons and one of them is yours. In this episode, I'm telling you why and also how you can stop. Emotional eating isn't just about negative.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 65. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:10.8 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:16.4 | binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and |
| 0:20.7 | insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host show you how by giving you simple tools and insights |
| 0:21.1 | that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:28.7 | Hi, how are you feeling? Are you feeling happy? Are you going to go eat because you feel happy? |
| 0:37.5 | When we talk about emotional eating, most people think it's only in response to negative |
| 0:42.7 | feelings. |
| 0:43.6 | They think it only happens when you feel sad, stressed, bored, feelings like that. |
| 0:48.2 | But it's not only the negative emotions that we eat in response to. |
| 0:52.1 | It can happen when you're feeling positive feelings too. |
| 0:55.4 | And this can be very confusing for some people who notice that their binging happens when they feel |
| 1:00.6 | good or when they're celebrating. They can understand why they'd eat when feeling negatively, |
| 1:06.2 | but not so much why when feeling positively. So today, I'm going to tell you why. First, just want to |
| 1:13.6 | remind you what emotional eating is. It's when you eat based on how you're feeling emotionally |
| 1:18.3 | instead of based on you feeling hunger. I go into much more detail back in episode 52 in case you |
| 1:25.1 | missed it. When you're emotionally eating because of negative feelings, |
| 1:30.5 | whether it be an urge, stress, sadness, loneliness, boredom, feelings like that, |
| 1:35.1 | you're doing it so you can numb, avoid, or distract from them. You don't want to feel them |
| 1:40.1 | so you eat to escape them. Put simply, you're trying to control how you're feeling and you're |
| 1:45.7 | using food to try and do it. And this makes sense to you with negative emotions. You want to feel |
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