The Stop Binge Eating Podcast

  In today's episode, I'm talking with Krista St-Germain, a grief coach who coaches Widowed Moms.   After the sudden loss of her husband, she tried to escape her emotions with food and other emotional escapes. She also felt confused about what her process of grieving looked like and what she thought it was supposed to look like. Like with most of us, she was only familiar with the 5 Stages of Grief and that just wasn't something that resonated with her.   So now, she's teaching her clients a different way. She's helping them find their own, personal ways through grief and teaching them better ways to cope with emotions besides eating food and other escapes.   And today, she's going to be sharing that with you.   I'm so excited to have her on the podcast, sharing her wisdom and knowledge. I've worked with many people who have experienced grief for various reasons and learning how to go through it without binge eating is extremely valuable.   So, I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation with Krista!     Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/356         FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE   Awesome Free Stuff The Widowed Mom Podcast FREE DOWNLOAD: Memories That Matter

Too often, people think that being hard on yourself, and being harsh with yourself is how you get yourself to change and do better. In this episode, I'm going to show you why it isn't.   Doing the opposite, and being kind to yourself is actually pretty powerful. It's not necessarily you being too soft with yourself, or making excuses, it's you choosing to support yourself in a way that will actually help you. So listen in hear the ins and outs of unkindness vs kindness, and what effects they really have, so you can make sure you're talking to yourself in a way that's actually going to be helpful.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/355   FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE   Awesome Free Stuff Episode #324: Being Assertive With Yourself

If you think that food is only fuel, and it should be something we consume just to keep our bodies going, this belief might be contributing to your binge eating. How? In this episode I'm going to show you.   There is so much food in our world that is not nutritious, and it's really delicious. If we're only supposed to eat to fuel our bodies then where do those not nutritious delicious foods fit in? That's what I'm talking about in this episode. I want to help you to fit it into your life the way you want to. So listen in as I talk with you about eating for fun, pleasure, and enjoyment, and not just for fuel.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/354

Have you had success in so many areas of your life but not with your eating? You see yourself as a successful, driven, motivated, determined person yet, you still haven't had the same success with your eating that you've had with other things. Why?   In this episode, I'm going to shed some light on why. When you know why the eating thing is different for you, you can gain clarity and understand what you need to do differently to have success in it. So listen in to find out why this is different and what you're going to do to have success.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/353

Do you have a hard time being with just yourself? Maybe you don't feel content, or have lots of thoughts and feelings, so you find yourself eating to feel better or escape. If you do, then this episode is for you.   I'm going to help you understand why it's hard for you to be alone with yourself and how to enjoy it more. When you do, you won't be thinking about food so much when you're alone. Listen in to find out how it's going to happen.     Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/352

Wouldn't it be nice if you felt good all the time? So many people want that and when they don't get it, they eat food to try and make it happen….and we all know what happens when you eat to feel good too often. You end up feeling bad.   In this episode, I'm talking about feeling good all the time, why it actually shouldn't be your goal, and how to truly feel better without eating food. Want to feel good more? Listen in to find out how.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/351

If you binged, listen to this episode. I will help you feel comforted, feel encouraged, and to move on from it so it doesn't turn into another binge. You will be okay.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/350

Do you binge or overeat when you're feeling an uncomfortable emotion? Eating will help you to escape it, numb it, or to feel better. But of course, not without consequence.   So I want to encourage you to commit to feeling those emotions without eating. If you've tried to but haven't succeeded, then listen to this episode. I'm going to help you to honor your commitment and actually do it. Listen in to find out how.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/349   FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE   Awesome Free Stuff Episode #343: Waiting for Emotions and Urges to Pass Episode #347: The Benefits of Feeling Emotional Discomfort

How do you decide when, what, and how much to eat? Does it work well for you to decide in that way? Do you like using those factors to decide? If your answer is no or you're not sure then this episode is for you.   What you might think is the best way to decide, might not be. And, it actually might be contributing to your binge eating and overeating. So, I want to present another option for you.   Listen in to find out why how you've been making your decisions might be a problem and what you can do to make better decisions.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/348   FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE   Awesome Free Stuff The Stop Binge Eating Program

Do you binge when you're feeling uncomfortable emotions? There are benefits to doing this such a temporary relief, comfort, pleasure, or numbness. But if you eat too much, it doesn't come without consequence...feeling worse than before you ate.   So thankfully, there is another option for feeling better that doesn't result in feeling more discomfort once it's over – feeling through the emotional discomfort. On the other side of doing that is real better feelings. But, since that involves feeling discomfort before feeling better, most people don't choose that option.   So in this episode, I'm going to help you choose it so you can get REAL better feelings, not just the temporary ones that you get when you eat. Learn how to be more willing to choose the option that will truly help you to feel better.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/347   FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE   Awesome Free Stuff The Stop Binge Eating Program  Episode #343: Waiting for Emotions and Urges to Pass Episode #266: How to Change Your Thoughts

In this episode, you're going to hear an interview with Jennifer who went through The Stop Binge Eating Program back in 2022 and she is a success story!   She began binge eating when she was a kid and throughout the years just kept on eating to avoid feeling her emotions and went back and forth from being super restrictive with her eating to bingeing for 40 years.   And now, so much is different for her not just with her eating but with so many things in her life.   She made so much progress during the program but then, she's continued to improve herself since and she can't even tell you the last time she binged because it's been so long since she has.   I love her story so much and I think you will too. She is a changed person and you're going to hear all about it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/346

Is your eating track record not good? Mine wasn't either. And if it's not, it can be hard to believe that you'll be able to change how you're eating and stop binge eating.   But, you can change, regardless of your track record. Why? Listen in to find out.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/345

Do your binges mostly happen on the weekends? You do well all week and then once the weekend comes, you binge. If you don't know why this happens or how to stop it, then this episode is for you.   There could be a few different reasons why this happens and I'm going to walk you through them all so you can figure out which applies to you. Once you know why, then you can work on it. So, listen in to find out why you binge on the weekends and how you can stop.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/344

Do you ever try to wait for your emotions or urges to pass but, they just last TOO long? You end up getting tired of waiting so, you just do what you know will change how you feel. You eat.   In today's episode, I'm going to show you what you might be doing wrong that is stopping your emotions and urges from passing sooner. Also, there is something you can do to help your feelings to pass sooner. Listen in to find out what it is.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/343

What do you rely on food for? Is it more than for fueling your body and for moderate pleasure? If so, then listen to this episode to learn how you can stop relying on food so much. It can help you to stop being so obsessive about food and to stop eating excessively.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/342

Eating more can actually help you to stop binge eating. Some people binge because they're not eating enough food in general and some binge because they're not eating enough of foods they enjoy. Why? In this episode, I will tell you why so you can understand why eating more food in general and why eating more of the foods you enjoy will help you to stop binge eating.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/341

Your future-self is binge-free and you are going to become them. And, you're going to start becoming them today.   In this episode, I'm going to help you to stop waiting to think, feel, and do better right now and so you can start being like your future, binge-free self now.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/340

Do you want food freedom? What does that mean and how can you get it? That's what I'm answering in this episode. Listen in to find out how you can become free of guilt, self-judgement, fear around food, obsessing about food, and so much more that is stopping you from feeling free.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/339

Do you spend more time thinking about your binge eating and why you do it or more time trying to stop your binge eating? Both are important. But, what's also important is giving both equal time. If you're spending too much time on one and not the other you're missing something that you'll need to help you to stop binge eating.   In this episode, I'm explaining why it's important to find a balance between thinking about the problem and thinking about a solution for the problem. Listen in to find out why so you can make more progress and finally stop the binge eating.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/338

If you binge eat to avoid feeling uncomfortable emotions, so you can feel comforted, soothed, or numbed, you likely have an “under-feeling” problem that is causing you to binge eat. What does that mean and how do you solve this problem? Listen to this episode to find out so you can binge eat less.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/337

When I was binge eating, I wanted to eat like a “normal” eater so badly. Many of the people I work with say the same thing. So how do you become more like them? Well, you become more like them when you think more like them.   In this episode, I'm sharing what “normal” eaters think and don't think, and how you can start to think more like them. Listen in to find out how.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/336

Not believing you can stop binge eating will actually stop you from doing it. When you don't believe you can, you won't even try. So if you're having a hard time believing in yourself, I want to help you. In this episode, I'm going to help you to build your belief in your ability to stop binge eating so you'll actually put in effort to do it. Listen in to start building your belief.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/335

Why do you want to stop binge eating? Does your answer to that question light you up? Does it motivate you to do everything you can to stop binge eating? If it doesn't, then your reason needs to be more compelling.   In this episode, I'm talking about how to you can make your “why” as compelling as possible and if you don't think your “why” is good enough, how to make it good enough. Listen in to find out how you'll do it so you can have a “why” that will make you feel highly motivated.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/334

You might not even know if you're being too restrictive with your eating. You might binge because you're being overly restrictive but because you don't know that you are, you might be really confused about why the binge happened. So you have no idea what you can do differently to prevent a binge in the future.   In this episode today, I'm going to share some signs that you might be overly restricting your eating. I'll give you some things to look out for. Listen to learn about them and to find out what you can do to stop being overly restrictive which will help you to stop binge eating.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/333

Do you have a hard time stopping eating once you've started? Maybe it's because the food tastes so good, or because you don't want to feel however you think you'll feel if you stop eating, or because you're eating while distracted, or because you feel like you're out of control. Whatever the reason, there is a way to make it easier for you to stop eating. Listen in as I show you how you'll do it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/332

Do you ever look at food and think, “I'm going to binge on that?” And then you do in fact binge on it. Are you ever home alone and think, “I'm going to binge?” And then you do binge. You've been in these situations many times before and most of the time, or every time, you do in fact binge. Well, today, I'm going to help you to break that pattern. Listen in to find out how you'll do it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/331

Are you doing a lot of work to stop binge eating but aren't making progress? Do you do well for a period of time but then stop doing well and this cycle repeats over and over? There's a reason why this happens and in this episode, I'm going to explain it to you.   There's something you're not doing that's stopping you from really changing. Listen in to find out what it is.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/330

When you binge eat, are you present and connected with yourself? I bet you're not. What about when you're feeling uncomfortable emotions or urges? What about when you're feeling hungry? What about when you're deciding what to eat or not eat?   Disconnecting and not being present with yourself is a huge contributor to binge eating. So in this episode, I'm showing you how it is and talking about the importance of self-connection and presence with yourself. Listen in to understand this important topic connected to your binge eating.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/329

Do you think about food too much? In this episode, I'm going to help you to understand why you do AND show you how to quiet your “food noise” and think about food less.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/328

You probably know who you want to be when you stop binge eating but, do you know who you want to be UNTIL you stop binge eating? Who are you choosing to be during the process of stopping matters and you get to decide who that is.   I'm going to help you to figure out who you want to be in the process AND how to be that kind of person. Listen in to find out how.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/327

You might be waiting until you reach your goal weight to do some things. You might be waiting to see people you haven't seen in awhile, waiting to buy and wear cute clothes, waiting to be more active, so many things. But, waiting to do those things might actually be perpetuating your binge eating. How? I'll explain it in this episode. I'll also show you how you can yourself to do all the things you're waiting to do now, before you lose even one pound. Listen to find out how because it will make your life so much better.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/326

Do you ever binge because you're wanting pleasure and you don't know what else to do? Then after you've eaten all that food, you totally regret it. Choosing to eat food was an impulsive decision but because you were feeling such a strong urge, it was hard to make a different decision.   If this happens to you, I want to help you to stop being so impulsive when you're wanting pleasure and start being more intentional. I'm going to help you to make decisions that you don't regret later and help you to feel less urges to binge too. Listen in to this episode so find out how you're going to do it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/325

Being hard on yourself is not useful. It doesn't motivate you, it just makes you feel bad. And if you're aware of this, you might know that it's recommended that you be kind and compassionate with yourself instead. But sometimes, that's not going to be helpful either. In certain moments, it's going to be so much more useful for you to be assertive with yourself. Why? And why does that mean? Listen in to find out so you can create the determination and drive you need to actually do the things you want to be doing.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/324

You probably want to make changes in yourself ASAP. You want your eating habits to change ASAP. So you might try to make big changes today, or tomorrow. But do those changes stick? Do you end up creating new habits? Or do you do the new things for a little bit and then stop?   If your changes aren't sticking, try making your changes smaller. In this episode, I'm talking about why the smaller changes stick better and how to make the small changes without letting your patience get the better of you. Listen in to find out how you're actually going to change and make new habits.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/323

Urges to binge aren't just caused by restricting. They can also be caused by the thought of restricting. When you're anticipating that you're going to restrict, you might start feeling urges for what you're going to restrict. So in this episode, I'm talking about why this happens and how to stop it from happening. Listen in to find out why and how so you can prevent more binges.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/322

Ignoring the truth can stop you from stopping binge eating. What truth am I referring to? Listen to this episode to find out so you can be honest with yourself and stop stopping yourself.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/321

Do you eat as soon as you feel an uncomfortable emotion? Or do you feel it for awhile, but then decide you're done with feeling and you eat to distract from it, numb it, or avoid it?   Now imagine that you were able to just feel the emotion, for as long as it was there, without eating. If you did that, overeating and bingeing for emotional reasons wouldn't happen. So that's what I'm going to help you to do in this episode. Listen in to find out how you're going go build up your emotional endurance so you can feel your emotions for as long as you're feeling them and so you don't end up overeating or bingeing when you feel uncomfortable emotions.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/320

How you eat day to day matters. It can either make it more challenging for you to stop binge eating or make it easier and support you in stopping binge eating. So in this episode, I'm going to help you to support yourself.   Listen in as I share some basic guidelines that you can follow to support the work you're doing to stop binge eating.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/319

You definitely want to stop binge eating. That's why you're here. But, what kind of eating do you want to do more of? What about less of? Is there anything else you want to completely stop doing? Well, maybe you shouldn't...or should you? That's what I'm going to help you to figure out in this episode. Listen in to find out how you can set yourself up to create realistic and useful eating goals for yourself.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/318

Do you eat to control your emotions? Or eat for enjoyment? Or both? If you do, take a listen to this episode to find out my take on each of them and how to make sure you're not eating in a way that's a problem for you.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/317

If you tend to have multiple binges in a row, and if you are having a hard time stopping binge eating, your self-talk might be to blame. How you speak to yourself is going to have a huge effect on how you behave. So if your self-talk is negative, your behavior will be too.   In this episode, I'm going to help you to improve your self-talk so you can binge less and eat how you want to eat. Listen in to find out how you'll do it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/316

When you're wanting to binge, or are feeling like to need to binge, what is it that you're REALLY wanting or needing? It's not really the food, it's what you think you're going to get from eating all that food. That's what you want, and knowing what you want from that food is going to be very important if you're going to stop binge eating.   In this episode, I'm going to help you to uncover what it is you're really wanting when you binge so you can actually get what you're wanting without eating anything. Listen in to find out how you'll do it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/315

It's frustrating when you know what to do but you're not doing it. You have all the knowledge, know the tools, but aren't succeeding. So how can you get yourself to actually do it? That's what I'm going to help you do in this episode. Listen in to find out how.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/314

Making time for yourself is important. It's going to affect your happiness, your energy, and your eating.   For many of us, it can be hard to make time for ourselves with all that we have going on. But in today's episode, I'm going to help you do it.   Listen to this episode to find out why it's so important that you make time for yourself, what to do with the time you do have, and how to make more time for yourself.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/313

Not all urges are the same. They don't all feel the same and you don't handle them all in the same way. So in this episode, I'm talking with you about how you can handle your urges, no matter what kind of urge it is.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/312

How do you describe yourself? Your body? Your life? If you're describing them negatively, it's likely having more of an effect on you and your eating then you think. And it doesn't have to be this way.   In this episode, I'm talking about how you describe things about yourself, how it affects you, and how to create a more positive effect. You have authority over the words you choose and choosing more useful ones will make a big difference for you. Listen in to find out how you'll do it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/311

If you're engaging in behaviors you don't want to engage in, you're most likely doing more reacting than pausing. When you're reacting, you're just doing what you're feeling driven to do without much thought. But when you pause, you're thinking about what you're going to do and you're actually giving yourself more of a choice about what you're going to do.   In this episode, I'm going to help you to do more pausing. Listen in to find out how you'll do it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/310

When you feel an uncomfortable emotion, do you want to change how you feel fast? And do you eat food in order to do it? Eating might actually work, and help you feel better but, it's not the fastest way to TRULY feel better. Listen to this episode to hear a better, more effective way.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/309

Are you lacking fulfilling connection in your life? I was, during the years when I was binge eating. Sure I did have some but it wasn't enough. And when I was craving it, too often, I'd eat food instead of connecting with people. I used food to try and fix my loneliness instead of giving myself what I was really needing.   Although I'm still not great at connecting as much as I'd like to, I've gotten a lot better. I've also gotten better at not letting any loneliness I do feel lead me into a binge.   In this episode, I'm going to help you to create more fulfilling connection in your life too. Food isn't going to satisfy your craving for connection. What will, is spending time with people. Listen as I'll help you overcome whatever it is that's stopping you from doing it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/308

When you're deciding to eat, or deciding to eat more, what are you thinking about? How good it will taste? How pleasurable it will be? How good you will feel? That's all fine to think about but, is that all that will happen if you eat?   For many people, when they're deciding to eat, they're only telling themselves about what will happen at first, a.k.a. the beginning of the story. But what about what will happen at the end? The end matters, it's coming, and if it's likely not going to turn out well, you need to be thinking about that. You need to tell yourself the whole story of eating that food or of eating more, all the way until the end.   In this episode, I'm going in depth about why it's so important that you're telling yourself the whole story and what can happen if you don't. This is going to be a really helpful tool for you to use so listen in to learn about it and how to use it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/307

Do you panic when you feel an urge to binge? If you do, you're making it really challenging for you to not give in to that urge. Panic is not going to help you get through an urge, it's more likely that you'll default to eating when you panic. So in this episode, I'm going to help you to not panic when feeling an urge.   There are things you can do to ease or prevent panic and I'll be giving you examples for how you can do that. Listen into find out how you'll do it.   Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!   Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/306