You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarfdy, episode number 76.

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, Kirsten Sarfdy. Now let's get to it. Hi, so awesome that you

are here. I am so excited to be here recording this for you because today I'm finally talking

what a topic that I've

gotten quite a few emails about from some of you listeners. I'm always open to your requests

for episode topics and after receiving a few for this one, I decided it's finally time to do it.

So today I'm talking about health-related eating restrictions, allergies and tolerances,

chronic illnesses. This is for those of you who have a health issue that puts restrictions

on the foods that you eat. You have a diagnosis where a doctor has recommended that you don't

eat certain foods, types of foods, or whole groups of foods,

or if you've just found that certain foods don't work well in your system. Celiac disease is a big one

these days. When diagnosed with that, you're told to not eat gluten, lactose intolerance,

you're told to not eat dairy, Crohn's, IBS, other chronic illnesses might be exacerbated by certain foods, so you're told

not to eat the ones that negatively affect you. When you learn about what some of the triggers

for binge eating are, one thing that gets talked about often is the importance of not restricting

your food. Now, let's not forget that restriction in itself is not a problem.

See episode 48 about the two types of restrictions if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Because if done properly, it can be a good thing. But it's the restriction that goes against

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