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And I hope you enjoy the show.

Welcome to the Brain Over Binge Podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating.

I'm Catherine Hansen, and I'm so glad you joined me today.

If it's your first time

listening, I hope that you'll find useful ideas and practical guidance about how to stop binging

for good. With this being episode 147, we've already covered a huge variety of topics on the podcast

so far that can help you on your path to freedom from food issues. And I want to let you know that

if you're ever looking for a specific topic, you can go to my website, brainover binge.com, and run a

search for any term that you're interested in learning more about, such as overeating or anxiety

or weight. And the search results on the website will show you the episodes and also the blog

post where I've addressed those topics. Some of the topics and issues related to binge eating

recovery and learning to eat normally can be multifaceted, and today's topic of food restriction is

one of them. I've probably addressed food restriction in some way in the majority of these episodes,

and restriction has also been the primary focus of several episodes. And I'll link those episodes

in the show description for those of you who want to learn more about this topic. Coach Julie and I are

going to dive into this today and talk about restriction in some new ways that we hope

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