Ep 169: Overcoming "Yeah, Buts" (with Coach Julie)

Brain over Binge Podcast

Kathryn Hansen

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Kathryn and Coach Julie talk about when doubts pop up in binge eating recovery in the form of “yeah, buts,” including:
Yeah, but I have weight to lose.
Yeah, but I have too much stress in my life.
Yeah, but I have been bingeing for too long.
Yeah, but my case is different.
You can learn to recognize and reframe the “yeah, buts” so they don’t hold you back from having freedom from the struggle with food.

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Episode 116: You’re Not Too Far Gone & It’s Never Too Late

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“My Case is Different”: When You Feel Your Unique Problems Prevent Recovery from Binge Eating

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Over Binge podcast, where you learn a simple, brain-based approach to ending binge eating.
0:11.3	I'm Catherine Hansen, your hosts, and I'm glad you're here for another show.
0:14.9	I'm looking forward to exploring another topic with Coach Julie to help you as you let go of harmful behaviors with food. Before we get
0:22.5	started, I want to tell you how to get a free resource to give you daily encouragement and
0:26.9	guidance as you use the brain over binge approach. This resource is the Brain Over Binge
0:31.5	Inspiration booklet, which is a free PDF booklet containing 31 days of messages to keep you motivated and focused on recovery.
0:39.8	This is a great companion to listening to the podcast, and you can get it through the link in the show
0:44.5	description or on the homepage of brainover binge.com. And now we'll get into today's conversation.
0:51.3	Hi, Julie. Welcome back to the show. Hi, Catherine. So good to be here.
0:56.1	I am looking forward to this conversation. We've been talking about doing this for a while.
0:59.9	We're going to be talking about yeah butts. And we're going to explain what that means. And it's
1:05.5	something that comes up a lot and the people we work with on 101 sessions and in the group as well.
1:11.9	Totally. Totally, totally.
1:17.0	There are so many of them. I can't wait to dive into this. Why don't we just start by saying what is a yeah but? So a yeah but is that thought from the lower brain that wants to
1:24.6	take us down. You know, we might be doing really well.
1:29.0	We might be eating adequately, dismissing urges, taking care of ourselves.
1:34.1	And then the lower brain is going to look for what's not working.
1:37.6	What is going wrong?
1:38.8	And it is going to come at us with a yeah butt and try to knock us down.
1:46.9	Oh, for sure. I mean, it's like that negativity bias contained in two little words. Exactly. Exactly. I mean, there are so many of them.
1:53.5	Should we just get started with one? Absolutely. Yeah. So one of the first ones when I'm talking
1:58.9	about adequate eating is yeah, but I'm too heavy.
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