Brittany started struggling with binge eating at the age of 17. She tried many different programs and strategies (diet programs, hypnosis, etc) until she discovered that the solution to overcoming binge eating lies within her ability to understand and accept herself. When we first chatted she was pessimistic about what I had to say, she gained freedom in less than 2 months and now almost a year later she is still binge free. Enjoy her wonderful story!
Brittany started struggling with binge eating at the age of 17. She tried many different programs and strategies (diet programs, hypnosis, etc) until she discovered that the solution to overcoming binge eating lies within her ability to understand and accept herself. When we first chatted she was pessimistic about what I had to say, she gained freedom in less than 2 months and now almost a year later she is still binge free. Enjoy her wonderful story!
Hello, and welcome to another episode of stories from beyond the bench. My name is Mo and today we are going to be sharing Brittany story. Brittany is a remarkable woman who has such good such an amazing story, and very powerful life lessons that she's derived from her journey to overcoming binge eating. And anybody, regardless of their age can benefit from listening to this podcast. So I hope you're ready for this special and Brittany has been actually one of the first members of my group program when we started back and in late last year, and there has been, I think, I think we have 30 groups that have come after her. But she has been one of the first few and I've been following up with her since because her story is amazing and brilliant. And I was lucky to have her come on board and share it with you. So you're in for a treat today, sit back and enjoy. And I do apologize, the voice might be a little bit choppy every now and then the signal was dropping out. But hopefully it is no big deal. Welcome to one of the original people who started the program, actually, I think Brittany was in group number three or four actually something like that when I started the initial, the group component of it, which is funny because she didn't end up being in a group Actually, she ended up being on her own. I'm sure we'll dive into that in a second. And actually the also the person who gave me the idea to launch the podcast. So if you enjoy this podcast, you have Brittany to thank for welcome Britney and thank you for being here. Thank you,
Brittany:I'm so excited to be on your podcast, it's actually pretty surreal for me to be on this side, instead of being a listener, because for so many years, I've just always been the listener and listening to everyone else's success stories and trying to glean information from you know how they resolve their issues to help me resolve mine. And I've always wondered if I would someday be the success story. So to be here, as a success story. And someday is today, you know, I just feel very grateful to be on this side and to be where I'm at in my journey and just very grateful for you because you've played such a big part of it. Thank you, thank you so much. And I promise you, you also played a great way great role in my, in my in my journey as well. A lot of people a lot of the times, people don't realize this, but I learned so much from my clients. And I learned a lot of things from you. And I can't wait to share these as well. Do you want do you want to share with us like how your journey started? From like when it comes to eating? When did it start for you specific? Yeah, yeah. So I remember, I was actually 17 and I had just applied to be in a Miss Teen pageant in Arizona, and I got a coach. And you know, I've never thought anything was wrong with my body. And, you know, I'd always been on the very thin side. And she had told me we need to put you on a diet, it's important that you're very healthy, when competing. And the girls that look very thin on stage are the ones you know, that look really, or girls that are very thin are the ones that look really great on stage. So we need to get you to probably lose like five or 10 pounds. And that was like, you know, kind of that moment where I'm like, Oh, you know, I got to change something. I'm looking at my body differently now. And started, you know, this opened up the floodgates to dieting. And I started struggling sticking to my diet. And I remember very vividly at work where I thought I just cheated. I think I ate Panda Express, orange chicken. And in that moment, I'm like, Oh, no, I cheated on my diet, you know. And I in the back of my head, I'd heard girls stayed skinny through throwing up. And so I've gone to the restroom at work. And at that point, I had tried to make myself throw up and I failed. But couple days later when that happened again, I tried and succeeded. And I'm like, Okay, this is a great way for me to control. You know, my weight and be able to eat what I want, but still, you know, lose weight, I guess. And I want to say it was a it was in the first few months where I thought to myself, you know I'm in control. And then one day after an episode where I just finish this might be TMI, but just throwing up kind of violently, and I was so exhausted. And I was so I felt so disgusted with myself. And I'm like, in this moment I realized I'm no longer in control. And and then my story would just continue for the next 15 years that would be me trying to heal myself trying to learn to love myself, which for many of those years I thought would come naturally once I lost the weight once I was really happy and thin and fit all my other passions I want to go away, and I would love myself. So that was me just chasing, chasing that, uh, that, that narrative that, you know, thin equals happy.
Mo Rezk:And it's actually I it's such a misconception I find that people think that binge eating and being overweight, there's a correlation often actually, there's very little correlation is that binge eating doesn't know size and gender and age stage in life is even a profession, but it doesn't at all. And it's something that can be picked up along the way. So it's so from what I gather is that you picked you picked it up at the age of 17. And then it became kind of like something like a monster that just gained more power as you went through life. When was the peak of like, how bad it was?
Brittany:Oh, it would I mean, it would vary. It depends. It depends on how hard I tried. That was determined how hard I failed, really. So I had tried everything I can imagine coaches hypnosis, therapy and outpatient therapy, Jenny Craig Nutrisystem keto, paleo fasting, juice fasting and like 40 other fads. Um, so the harder I tried, the more stricter that I got with myself, the more I the harder I binge, and the harder I failed, and the more I found myself at a really, really steep low in life. And I was consistently searching outside of myself for answers, and I tried to exert control over myself, and food for just so long. And then, you know, I had gone through a marriage and a divorce, and that getting married actually really helped me with my eating issues, because I had someone there to distract me from them. And I still struggled a little bit. You know, if he were to like leave town, I would overeat a bit. But that did help me, but I just knew it was kind of a band aid. So when we broke up, or we got divorced, um, that really caused me to be alone with my issues, and really brought them to the surface. And after a year after that, you know, things were just getting worse and worse and worse. I was trying so hard to control my weight. And I just remember one night going down the rabbit hole of binge eating solutions and looking into coaches, and I came across your website, your YouTube, your Instagram, and I really resonated with your story. So, you know, I thought, why not? Let's try this guy. And I remember being really skeptical. And when we first talked on the phone, and you know, you told me you could heal binge eating, like that would be the easy part. And I was like, No way, there is no way. There are all my 16 years that binge eating can be healed, you know, easily, I just thought it was gonna be a really long road for coverage, because I struggled for such a long time. And yeah, it's pretty crazy. It's
Mo Rezk:actually it's, I can't tell you how how, how much I hear this on the on the call when people I just just had a conversation with is like, I don't truly believe that like, how can you you won't tell me that I can overcome this in a few weeks or a few months, even? Like, I don't really believe and I get it, I totally get it. Because if, if we've if we've consistently tried doing solving a problem with the wrong approach or the wrong tool, there's no way we're going to get a solution. So we start thinking we're the problem, because you know what, we've tried many different tools. We don't we don't actually know that these tools are not meant to work for this specific problem. But But when we come to the conclusion that I've tried five 610 different programs, and I still haven't succeeded, then therefore I'm the problem. That's, that's, that's where that belief comes from. So but what was different? What did you do differently or we did differently in and our approach together? That was different that kind of helped you get out of that, that potentially haven't tried before? Well,
Brittany:quite a few things. So I want to say you helped me to shine a light on the dark areas of myself and my belief systems and the way I was thinking, whenever you shine a light on those, you know, dark, subconscious areas of yourself, you really bring things to light things that were originally programming you and you're kind of you know, unconscious to so me just becoming aware of my automatic negative thoughts was extremely profound as well as, you know, digging into some of my limiting beliefs as well. I remember you taught me how to do that. And there was one night where I spent four hours in a jar. No, and I would just get up everything in my brain that was like, a limiting belief that I could identify. So for instance, you know, you're only happy when you're thin men only find you attractive if you're, you know, 130 pounds, and just all these beliefs that, you know, kind of programmed me that I really, you know, I believed really hard. So I got all those out, and then I worked to disprove every single one of them. Therefore, I'd be limitless in a way and like that was really life changing for me, and you taught me how to do that. And I just kind of ascended above that level where those beliefs really, you know, held me down to this like low level of thinking. And once you ascend above that, you can attract those negative behaviors that you once were struggling with. So really fixing the mind and reprogramming reprogramming the mind was huge for me, as well as getting me to eat, I guess normally, and just kind of release the control and surrender. And just, you know, have that freedom. I think that was key as well, because, you know,
Mo Rezk:it's so beautiful how you said it actually I it's totally interesting how often freedom is lies in surrendering, as opposed to controlling is that we think that control is what's going to get us there. And we try to control what we eat, control the amounts, measure the calories, measure the portions to control so much, and that we end up losing control, eventually, when we try to control so much because there's only some things, the best way to control them is by doing nothing, it says doing nothing is a big response and write something during our program that I'd actually take it then coined after that. And I still give you credit in my programs after that with my clients. And as always say, I could always say credit because given a credit is due, I will say one of my best clients have actually met said that is whatever, whatever we resist persists. Tell me a little bit about how you came to that, like that episode. I mean, and it's lovely. How have you done so much journey? But what do you remember when you came with our has this always been there something that's always been repeated in the back of your head? or?
Brittany:Yeah, I don't really know how I came to adopt that. I want to say I've just I've heard it, obviously Somewhere I read it somewhere. And then I really realized how much that applied to everything in my life. So just me, the harder I dieted, the harder, I failed the you know, the more you give energy to something negative, the more it's going to take your power. So your thoughts really are power, and you have to be very careful. You know, what you what you focus on? So? Yeah, no, no, I just can apply it to so many different areas of my life. So it's just been, you know, a law to me. Yeah.
Mo Rezk:This is definitely something that that I've, specifically, like you said with the, with whatever you we when we try harder in one area, if we end up going a little bit backwards, and we can but you're right we're feeding then it's it's it links to the limiting beliefs is like when we're dieting and putting so much energy into dieting, we're actually feeding the limiting belief that we are not healthy because Healthy People do not diet for one thing. They just have a lifestyle in place. So it makes so much sense as whatever we feed it would be very careful we're feeding energy to and the problem is that it's so difficult to know what is serving us and what is not serving us like that hard work does not promise results. You can be really different work so hard on your dieting and your discipline. But still you might not get the results because you're working in the wrong direction. And largely Actually, I truly believe that that hard work that we're putting in certainly I say dieting or something else to get out of benching is a form of resistance, because we can't stand it to the extent we can stand the idea of being somewhere so much that it's forcing us to do extremes.
Brittany:Right. And I found that the path to least resist that the path that is you know, the least resistance is the correct path for you. And you know, whenever you're dieting you are on that path of resistance. No one wants to be on a diet. No one wants to, you know, feel deprived. And your program really taught me two key things. And I think these are some of the most important lessons in life and that's self love. If you love yourself, you're not going to overeat. You're not going to starve. You're not going to eat crap. You're not going to binge and letting go and letting go of the diet mentality, the dieting, the all the behaviors and those two things. Yeah, were some of them. important lessons that I took from your program and were able to apply to several areas, several other areas of my life.
Mo Rezk:What? You've tried so many things in the past, I'm curious what, what made you not give up on yourself and be like, Oh, well, I'm just gonna like, you know what, it's not solvable. Like you kept seeking and going forward and finding a solution. But what why did you not give up?
Brittany:Yeah, I'm, it's really important to me to be the absolute best I can in every area of my life. I don't know where that came from. But, you know, I know that we all have struggles for a reason. And this was mine. And my purpose in life was to beat it. And I couldn't live happily, I'm Libra. And we're all about balance. And I couldn't live a happy life if I wasn't in balance. And if I didn't beat this problem, so I didn't just want to live with it for the rest of my life. Although a lot of days, I had thought that might be the case. But yeah, I just was really driven to find answers and to heal this. If I'm not healed, I'm no good for anyone else around me. And I noticed in my relationships with people that because I had this huge issue in my life, even though a lot of people didn't know, I had it impact those relationships. Instead of me feeling good and whole on my own, I almost became a kind of a burden. I remember, you know, I would take things out on my mom, or I'd have, you know, specific fights with my, my ex husband, or I just wasn't a great sister. I wasn't a great friend, I wasn't a great partner, because this area of my life was bringing me down and was, you know, such a gaping hole in myself, that I know I really had to fix it or else I wasn't going to be the best Brittany I can be if I if I didn't fix it.
Mo Rezk:How long did it take you to to stop binging?
Brittany:Well, I remember I was, yeah. So when we started, I want to say it was the second month. So it was like the fifth session or the fifth week, fifth or sixth week. And I was like, Whoa, this is way too good to be true. And I didn't believe it. I was like, yeah, I'm not bingeing right now. Most that I wouldn't. I said it would be easy to heal. But I'm not convinced that I'm forever healed. Just maybe right now doing really good. But it was, it was crazy. You were You're so right. And I just, yeah, it's pretty insane to to have healed from something that was so difficult, such a big problem in my life. So quickly. And yeah,
Mo Rezk:I'm itching to ask this question. The next question, and I'm very practical, I understand that sometimes. It's people will have relapses, and that's totally okay. But did you yourself? Did you have a relapse? Or did you struggle with it? And if so,
Brittany:tell me more about that. Yeah, so um, I did relapse three times. So once earlier this year, so it's a June right now. And that was in February, just once. And then once last October. And then once maybe in September, so I want to say three times. But each time that I did, I wasn't hard on myself. And I just, I needed it, that it taught me something. And now I'm at a place where I'm like, that will never, that will just never happen again. And I honestly know that with every fiber of my being so, um, so yeah, I did have a couple, but it was nothing compared to what I was struggling with every day. Thank you so much
Mo Rezk:for sharing that. Yeah. Because he is this actually the vast majority of people I work with and myself too, when I was overcoming benching, and my smoking addiction is I relapsed a few times and I always view it as it's we just needed to learn something you know, we need to go hearings again. So we can we can have that awareness and have that understanding, and also some extent test ourselves to see like, you know, What, are you going to be harsh on yourself that you did in the past? Like, is it going to be a permanent sink and stay stuck in that rut for a long time or are you going to get out of it? This bit of confidence, when we have a bit of a relapse so that we have a you know what i can i can get out of that, though, so that was Yeah. And when you went through that relapse is like the last one With the jeweler, yeah,
Brittany:I learned that I was being really hard on myself. And I was gonna go on a date, and I didn't feel like I looked perfect. So I just decided to restrict some things. And then after the date, I didn't feel like, um, I don't know, I didn't, you know, like him, and I didn't care what he thought about me, but I just felt down in that moment. And I just thought, you know, maybe if I have some junk food, I would feel better. And then that junk food was like, Oh, no, I'm doing so well. I just ruined my progress. And I kind of went into that. Just a negative mindset, I want to say is pretty much the overall issue. And why I benched. And then after that, I was just like, you know what, I need to just be really kind of myself and love myself, and be my own partner and take care of myself. And I just got back to that place where I was, and I just learned that it just wasn't anything that I learned, it was just more awareness around my thinking, and sometimes giving my power to other people in other circumstances. And it's just to put myself first and, and take care of my needs. That makes sense.
Mo Rezk:It makes a lot of sense. And actually, we were talking a bit before, before we started this, we had this conversation about like, emotions. And you were, you're talking a little bit about how you were because we might get from that from that story is that you're just kind of like you're experiencing potentially some some sadness or disappointment, something like that. And yeah, sometimes even loneliness for we experienced that is such a normal emotion to experience. But you, you said you, you mentioned to me that you went through like a period, were you a bit of a bit sad, and you decided to focus on the emotion and process it as opposed to escape it? Yeah. How important is emotional processing? Do you think when it comes to overcoming binge eating,
Brittany:it is so key, you know, I'm in a place where I'm so much more aware and so obsessed with negative feelings and emotions. It's like, Oh, I'm not feeling good. What is this teaching me? What can I learn from it, instead of like, shoving it down with food or distracting turning on the TV or calling someone or scrolling through social media, I'm like this is, every time you experience a negative emotion, you're unaligned and when you're unaligned, you know, there's something there that you need to learn. So, it's an opportunity. If anything, you know, to take some time to go within, to put yourself first and your needs serve your needs first. And no, that's, that's self love. And I think that's really important. And, you know, we're so programmed to, it's like, when you feel negative emotion to just go with it. And it's like, it's, it's, it's there for a good reason. It really is. And it's just deconditioning the total look at it differently. It's what I
Mo Rezk:you know, what's actually just gave me like, this really cool, thought is free, I feel like a big A big part, like, specifically this generation, and actually previous generations to many, many people. They're programmed to not love themselves, they're, like, programmed to, like have to find somebody who loves them for them to verify that they are worthy of that love. And so if they don't find that, then they conclude Well, I'm not there is no love or I'm not lovable. And self love is so so talked about nowadays, but people say like, love yourself, love yourself self love, but the How to is so key. So I want to know, how does, like what did you discover self love looks like for you, how do you practice that?
Brittany:Yeah, I mean, it's definitely been a process and coming out of a marriage. Um, you know, I was alone for a couple years. And I'm really grateful that it didn't work out with a lot of guys and I was forced to be alone. And to find happiness and solitude. And you know, I just kind of feel like almost it happened to me and I'm, you know, was privileged in that way. where it's like, Here you're alone, and you really need to work through all of your issues and feel all of your issues and and just find so much happiness in your journey because it really is beautiful. And, and I want to say just over time, I realized how important it is to to fill your own cup and to feel whole. As if you're not home or not good for anyone else around you. And you can't even really have that fulfilling, wonderful relationship and that love that you seek if you don't have that love within to give. So a lot of people walk around with like this, this hole and they're needing to fill it, but that it's like a, it's like a bucket with holes. So they're filling it, and then they just need more of it. And they never feel that like fulfilled feeling. Whereas, you know, now if when I enter into a relationship, it's not because I need anything, because I'm happy on my own, my life is great. I'm so happy with my life, my friends, my career with how far I've come personally, that someone is going to make it better. You know, if they're allowed into my life, they're there because they make that better. And instead of, you know, just just needing someone else's validation, so it's key, it is so key to really be happy with your life and be happy alone before, you know you share life with someone else.
Mo Rezk:I can't tell you how many and this part that breaks my heart. How many under 16 girls reach out to me and are struggling big time with this. And often, when I ask them questions like, Well, why do you want to? What's making you want to lose weight or binge eat or diet? The first thing as you can you guess what? The first thing they always tell me is they want to be thin. For for what reason? For a man? Yeah, exactly. They say to find a boyfriend, I'm like, Oh, yeah. And that breaks my heart. Because it's like, getting your body to be somewhere because society says this is what you know, men are going to like, and you're 16 and younger, like some of them are 14 and 15. Very, very young. Makes me just gonna think that you know what, there's, we're doing something wrong as a society. And there's a dad, many who are struggling with it. Therefore, like there's something needs to change. So if you were to go back and give me 17 is close to 16. So you said 17 is when you were struggling with 1716 year old Brittany some advice. But would that be
Brittany:that would be to really trust yourself, and trust your intuition and tune out everything, all of the noise around you. Because when you're at that age, you're so susceptible to everyone else's opinion. The media, social media, it's a really tough time. And I really think connecting with yourself and listening to yourself is key because I just remember that moment where I was put on a diet, and I just felt negatively and I'm like, I shouldn't even be doing this Paget. You know, I should just be following what it is that I want to do, which is, you know, something else. And it wasn't that but the reasons why I was doing that pageant, honestly, were because if I became, if I was a pageant girl, more boys would find me desirable. So you're doing all these things for all of the wrong reasons. But if you really tune into yourself, and you really strengthen that voice within you, and you really have the courage to follow that, I feel like that that's really key and girls aren't taught that we're taught, you know, to follow the crowd and you know, you got to be attractive to have a boyfriend and just all these lies and it is really sad. So I think that's what I that's the only thing that I can think of from my experience,
Mo Rezk:I totally agree with the tuning and tuning out the noise and the social media what like it can be it can really affect your mind to some extent, we've learned that the mind is actually very vulnerable to what we feed it and if we're going to feed the things that don't serve it then it's going to eventually produce things that don't serve us and that's just how it goes. But I also really wanted to point out that I was like I one of the things that that for sure. Like show me and I know that you don't need to show anybody anything but it's just like with other people they see actions wise they you have such a high level of confidence over this problem and overcoming binge eating and specifically you actually practice self love is that you're able to look back at your past and not be ashamed of it and not look at it was negative like that was you know a bad or any bad or anything like that they're able to learn from it and share about it and look at it as you know what it was an experience and you talk about it with that non judgmental tone as well. It was really empowering. I just want to say that we deal with is so
Brittany:thanks. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm I wouldn't trade the pain and the struggles for anything in the world. I lost my entire 20s I want to say to just self isolation and really struggling and you know, I people in my position would say you know, I have a lot of regrets. But I don't, it was my journey. And there's so much beauty and all of that pain and I wouldn't be a fraction of the person I am today had I not gone through all that I did.
Mo Rezk:Yeah, that's something you and I have in common is I, my 20s were filled with pain as well, and pain and binge eating, and all that stuff, it was really, really filled, and I only started healing towards the end of my 20s and beginning of my 30s, when everything started coming together, I would have dreamed actually, of like my past 20s he wouldn't have dreamed of being going through so much changes and having that much awareness I'm I but I am by being where I am right now, I totally agree with you, I'm very grateful for the experiences that I went through, it's able to give me a lot of actually what I call, like an authentic human experience, to some extent is that life is not life is not all like, you know, sunshine and rainbows and positive and whatnot, all that is there is negative in life, we're going to experience that there's nothing wrong with that, but our ability to come out of it, and not stay stuck with stuck in it or feel like it defines who we are as people is right? What is really important. And I feel like you've had that something within you that's just kept you fighting define something until you did find that eventually. But when you if you go back to actually and people who are who are where you were in saying that, you know what, I don't believe I can overcome it. Like, would you have to say that?
Brittany:Well, I've been there, and you know, I would say that they probably just follow the same path that I did, which was trying to find the answers outside of themselves. And once they find their, their sense of self, and they strengthen that they learn to trust themselves, that, you know, all of the answers that you seek are really within, and we're just so unconscious for so long in searching, you know, following what other people are doing or trying this or falling into that. Um, so I would just say, you know, trust yourself. And that's what this problem is really trying to teach you is to learn to love yourself, let go trust yourself. You are, you know, a divine soul and a human experience. And you're capable of achieving anything that you really want to and all this is, is it's going to teach you more about yourself. teach you all the things that you need to let go of that are holding you back and you're going to be better because of it. But you just you know, need to learn that. And you need to shut up the noise.
Mo Rezk:Yeah, totally agree with it. It's so much noise now it now There has never been a time in history with this so much noise actually. We have it rough this time. We've so so tough. There's so much noise around so much sources of distraction. It's never been like this before. So many things competing for our attention. No non stop. Yeah. Yeah. Tell us tell us something interesting. About about about Britney. Besides that you were a Libra. I actually didn't know that. That's you know, I didn't I didn't know that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We did chat about that. Yeah, remember? Yeah. Or were you a Libra to know Virgo right behind right before you. Right. That's right. Yeah, I astrology is one of the things that I really enjoy. It's kind of fun. A lot of fun. And I like to like I it's something I don't forget. It's just like, my best way. People remember with names. I remember astrology. astrology. So that's awesome.
Brittany:Yeah, trying to get more into it. It's a little still, like there's a lot to learn.
Mo Rezk:It's fun. I look at it as fun. I don't. I don't take it seriously. Like, I don't take it away where I'm like, and I some people do it just fine. But I don't. I don't be like, Oh, so I'm, you know, I operate as a Virgo. And it will be that's it. But I think it's right, right. Yeah. But it is fun to look at it that you do find similarities to some extent, which is kind of fun to
Brittany:do. I know that there's some truth there. Yeah, sure. But as far as something fun about me, that's a tough question. Um,
Mo Rezk:I wouldn't would it be me if I didn't put you on the spot?
Brittany:Well, I just kind of like, what's what I think is kind of fun about me is that I really like to do the things that I really fear. Um, so you know, the ocean kind of scares me and I decided to take sailing lessons and public speaking scares the heck out of me. And but I knew I needed to do it for work. And I have a little bit of anxiety around that. So I decided to take stand up comedy.
Mo Rezk:Oh, yeah. That's a big jump from being scared of public speaking to making people laugh.
Brittany:I know I'm like, Okay, if I can talk to these people about stuff that I know you easily if I can get on stage and, you know, make strangers laugh for for three minutes, because that's terrifying. So, you know, I'm kind of on this what's fun, I think is just really exploring myself and really taking anything that causes, you know, fear or anxiety and mastering it. I'm kind of obsessed with that. Flying scares me hide scare me. So I'm kind of looking into maybe taking some flying lessons or fun.
Mo Rezk:I'm just gonna, that is really, really cool. I'm just gonna go out on the limb here and make your promise in front of everybody that if you become a famous comedian, you're sending me free tickets. Even if you're not famous, send me tickets anyways, I will show up. I will for sure if he if you want to happen, you can make it happen, you know that?
Brittany:Oh, I will for sure. It's impossible to ever forget you. You're such a main character in my journey. So yeah, you'll for sure get tickets. But I guarantee you that's that's just not
Unknown:worth a try. Yeah, I'm not funny, but I don't think I'm like that. So you never you never know. Who knows. But
Mo Rezk:never know. That is that is that is that is a big that's something that we have in common is I've I've tried to do things that I'm afraid of heights is next thing, I want to conquer a huge fear of heights. But public speaking is something that I had to conquer earlier on in life. And I was like, terrified of like giving presentations in school. And I was like getting anxiety for days on end before. Yeah, I remember going through the process of by going from from from the fear of public speaking to like, stand up comedy that yeah, that's that's confidence, honestly. Good job.
Brittany:I didn't execute, you know, as well as I would like to I'm still you know, it still makes me nervous. But yeah, I've come a long way because of it. So
Mo Rezk:I will hold you accountable to it to check in on you. Yeah, you can you can count on that for sure. Yeah. Good. All right. Brittany, thank you so much for for coming on and sharing your story. I really, really appreciate it. And and thank you again for for MIT for having me be a part of your journey.
Brittany:Yeah, I mean, thank you for inviting me, it's just such a privilege to speak with you again. And you're literally the biggest blessing in my life. And I'm so excited for everyone that gets to cross paths with you also, because I know that they're they will have a huge impact or you will make a huge impact in their life as you didn't like it really grateful to know you and to be here today and to be sharing my success story. It's a huge accomplishment for me.
Mo Rezk:You're so kind. Thank you again, thank you. I do apologize. The Voice might be a little bit choppy every now and then signal was dropping up. But hopefully it is no big deal. All right, there you have it. What a wonderful story, and very, very powerful. It's really I find it super inspiring when somebody goes from, I can't believe that this is ever resolvable to, I can see why this was part of my journey and what I had to learn from it in such short time. I want you to know if you're out there struggling with binge eating that you are not alone, and many people have struggled in the past, many people still continue to struggle with it, you can overcome it. And unfortunately, it is not easy to see when you're in the middle of the storm that it's possible to get out the storm. So if that's the case, then please reach out for help. You can reach out an schedule an appointment www.morezk.com r you can even join our free Fa ebook coaching group and you wil find that link on my website as well. I hope you having a wond rful, wonderful day and I'll s e you in the next po