Ep #66: Comparing Yourself to Others
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
When you compare yourself to others, it can really bring you down. You start thinking people are better than you, doing better than you, look better than you, so much better than you thinking. So why do you do it? What's the purpose?
In this episode, I'm talking about what happens when you compare yourself to others, how to stop, and what is a more useful thing you can do. Get out of compare and despair and start creating some motivation instead!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 66. |
| 0:05.2 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food. |
| 0:13.6 | 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 |
| 0:21.0 | that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:28.9 | Hi, are you ready for another riveting episode of the Stop Binge Eating Podcast? Well, here it is. Today, I'm talking about you comparing yourself |
| 0:41.8 | to others. I think comparing ourselves to others is something that we all do sometimes. Some of you, |
| 0:48.1 | more than others. It can be hard not to living in the world that we live in. Scroll through |
| 0:53.0 | Facebook or Instagram and you see |
| 0:55.0 | people living their best lives. You see people who look thinner than you, seem to be doing more |
| 0:59.9 | fun things than you, seem happier than you, seem more successful than you. It can be hard to not |
| 1:05.3 | compare their lives to yours. And it may happen in your career. It may happen when you go into an online support group. |
| 1:12.4 | You see other people doing well and you start comparing your accomplishments to theirs. |
| 1:17.3 | Now, comparing isn't always a bad thing. It can be inspiring and motivating and drive you to |
| 1:23.6 | become better. But the way most of you are doing it, it's actually the opposite. |
| 1:28.2 | It's making you feel discouraged, less than, inadequate, resentful, jealous, angry, sad. |
| 1:34.0 | Those are not positive change-fueling emotions. Not even close. Those are pity party, self-loathing, |
| 1:41.6 | wallowing, binging emotions. It doesn't feel good to think other people |
| 1:45.9 | are better than you. Even more so, it doesn't feel good to think that you're not as good as other people. |
| 1:51.3 | You start thinking you're not good enough because you're not them or where they are or as good as |
| 1:57.2 | them or you don't have what they have. When you allow yourself to think this way, |
| 2:02.7 | and yes, you are allowing it to happen, you begin judging yourself based on other people. |
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