You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 15. What to do when you get that urge to binge.

Welcome everyone, I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach, and author Cookie Rosenblum.

And today we're going to explore how to stop a binge. So let's jump in and get started.

First, thank you, thank you, to all of you who are kind enough to leave me a review on iTunes.

It is tremendously appreciated.

And I'm really happy that you're back with me today and that you're finding these little

coaching sessions useful. We're exploring all aspects of how to lose weight, how to stop eating emotionally, and how to bust through your binges.

And underneath all those subjects is the goal of freeing up your energy

so that you're not obsessing about your weight

and what you did or didn't eat,

and then you're able to use that energy

to create a wonderful life, which is what we all want. Now if you're not a

binge eater and you just habitually eat too much or you eat whenever you might feel an uncomfortable emotion, I want you to listen and

substitute whichever issue you're dealing with. Because all eating that's above and beyond what you need for hunger is still a habit.

It's a thought habit and you can still treat it in the same way that we treat binge eating. So first I want to go over the basic steps for

dealing with a binge. Now these steps are what I use with my private clients.

And they are from my colleague and friend

Catherine Hansen's two books,

Brain Over Binge and Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide.

So if you have not already listened to our discussion,

maybe you should go back when we're finished and listen to episode 8 but she has five steps I'm going to talk

about them as an overview now and then I'm going to tell you how to actually get yourself to do them.

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