You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 91.

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, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it.

Hi, I hope you're doing well. I am, and I'm happy to be here talking with you today.

This episode today is all about celebrating successes,

which is such an important part of achieving any goal, of course stopping Vengeeting included,

and something that a lot of you don't do enough of. Too often, you are only focused on your failures and not in a

productive way. It's one thing to be aware of your failures and use them as a learning experience

and remind yourself of what to do and what not to do, but it's another to use them as evidence

that you are a failure and a terrible person

and worthless and any other kind of self-defeating label. Using it as evidence for those things is a

sure-fire way to bring yourself down and lead you to give up. It doesn't feel good to only focus on your failures.

And when you do, notice what happens. You think poorly of yourself so you feel bad,

then you do bad, and you get a poor result. You think you're a failure, you feel inadequate,

so you give up and you fail again. I, like everyone else,

have had failures in my life. The list could go on and on with big ones and with little ones.

If I use those as evidence that I myself was a failure, then I would be stuck and never improve.

I could have a week of eating where I ate on my plan, but then one day I didn't plan for some

reason, and I ended up eating foods that don't make me feel good, and I overate them.

Am I a failure for doing that? Did I ruin my whole week? Was all that

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