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If you've been trying to control what you eat for years I bet you are desperately needing a break. Fresh Love Food Podcast episode has insight. Pull up a chair and listen now for #foodpeace insight.
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Episode's Key Points:
- Recovering from an eating disorder is SO different than recovery from an addiction... we NEED food! So how do we figure out how to navigate something that we struggle with, but that we have to engage with on a daily basis?
- When we struggle with an eating disorder, food becomes the central focus of the brain. When we pursue recovery, it's no wonder that food is still on our minds! We have to retrain our brain, and rewire it so that over time, it stops obsessing over the food.
- Lean into the resentment, anger, and exhaustion! These emotions are present for a reason. Ask yourself, who DESERVES this resentment and anger? This resentment and anger should be directed at our cultural expectations for the human body and for womanhood.
- Food is there to NOURISH us, not punish us.
- Recovery from an eating disorder is HARD WORK, and it's made harder by the fact that our culture still needs to recover from its own eating disorder. You keep getting mixed messages!
- We HAVE to feel our feelings, and examine them to figure out what their messages are for us... otherwise they'll keep resurfacing.
- Even when things feel hard, remember that you are STILL moving forward.
- Work with a therapist to help you muddle through this stage!
- Some practical advice: keep some easy, low-prep, go-to foods on hand at all times! Use these foods when you need a break, but you still want to make sure you're getting the nutrients you need.
- Food's important, but it's not everything. It doesn't have to always be the most pleasurable or nourishing experience... it can just be food!
- Food might become boring. That's normal! Try to schedule a meal or snack once a week that you eat with someone else to help support you through this stage.
- Food is a connector!
- Food is not supposed to be thought about all the time. Instead, it's a part of our lives, and our relationships should be taking central focus.
Show Notes:
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace Syllabus.
- Naomi Wolf
- Susie Orbach
- Virgie Tovar
- Eating Disorder Dietitian
- Julie Dillon RD blog
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.
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Do you feel like you've done everything to tackle your struggle with binge eating? Is there a constant battle in your head over cravings? Listen now to hear some solutions on how to overcome this food peace struggle.
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This episode is brought to you by my FREE roadmap: Your First 3 Steps Towards Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Join our Facebook group to get extra support!
Episode's Key Points:
- The recovery process is NOT linear, and it takes TIME.
- Isabel Foxen Duke joins to talk about dieting, bingeing, and more!
- Physical restriction is NOT THE SAME as emotional and psychological restriction... even if you're eating "enough," bingeing can still occur if you feel mental restriction. Diet mentality is the bigger thing to break down when trying to break free from bingeing!
- Cravings are neutral things!! We don't need to feel shame about them.
- Emotional eating and binge eating are two different things! Emotional eating is when we eat something in order to make ourselves feel better. It's a coping mechanism to distract, comfort, soothe or avoid a feeling. Binge eating, on the other hand, is a reaction to the diet mentality. Isabel calls is reactionary eating! For example, when you tell yourself you can't have "x" food, all you want is "x" food, and then it results in a binge.
- Food is never black and white!
- Just because we think we're eating "enough," we actually may not be because we live in a restrictive, diet-culture world.
- Diet mentality tells us that there's a right and wrong way to eat. Giving up dieting is giving up an attitude around food that categorizes certain food behaviors as safe and others as unsafe.
- "The Don't Binge Eat Diet:" when you're desperately trying to avoid and overcome the urge to binge, which only perpetuates a binge. Think about a bow and arrow... the farther back you pull the bow and the more tension your build, the farther that bow will fly in the other direction when you inevitably let go!
- There's NOTHING wrong with emotional eating!! The only reason why people fear emotional eating is because we fear getting fat.
- Emotional eating turns into a binge when we decide that the action we're doing is not okay and feel shameful about it.
- Quitting dieting doesn't just mean you've put down the calorie counts and the weight loss goals... it means we leave behind the "right" and "wrong" with food.
- When we struggle with food, we have to ask, where is the restriction happening?? Where is the diet mentality hiding?
- Not dieting is a physical AND emotional issue! 90% of recovering from dieting is about the diet mentality and diet attitudes, and only 10% of it is about the physical.
- If you are clinging to ANY kind of wagon, you will inevitably fall off!
- Permission to binge is step one!!
- It's time to overcome emotional restriction.
- You have permission to be where you are right now, and to meet your needs in however you need to.
Show Notes:
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus.
- Isabel's video training series, Stop Fighting Food ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #1
- Isabel's blog ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #2
- Connect with Isabel by getting on her email list!
- Eating Disorder Dietitian
- Julie Dillon RD blog
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.
Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!
Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.
Are you trying to make peace with food, but still trying to lose weight? Do you want to know if there is a way to pursue weight loss AND heal your relationship with food? Are you struggling with what you see as an addiction to food? Listen now to hear my insights on this complicated food peace issue.
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This episode is brought to you by my PCOS summer series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This series and our Facebook group will be with you every step of the way.
Episode's Key Points:
- The pursuit of weight loss CANNOT be combined with making peace with food... so now what??
- Thinking about food addiction leads to issues with food preoccupation. We NEED food to survive and thrive! We shouldn't pathologize the desire for food.
- There isn't ONE diet that, for most people, can help maintain weight loss for more than two years. In fact, most dieters regain all their lost weight, plus more, within five years. Dieting predicts weight gain!!
- Ancel Keys' Minnesota Starvation Experiment: strong and fit men were fed half of the amount of nutrition they needed. Eventually these men became depressed and food preoccupied, and experienced a decrease in libido and in interest in extracurricular activities.
- Weight loss pursuits promote restriction, and restriction leads to food preoccupation... so we can't pursue weight loss without it resulting in food preoccupation.
- Remember, even if you decide to leave dieting and intentional weight loss behind, it will still take TIME to end your struggles with food preoccupation. Make sure you have a team behind you to support your healing!
- We live in such a fatphobic world! It's important that we break down our own internal biases related to fatness, and face our own fat discrimination.
- What is really behind the fear of fat? Explore that to figure out what's really behind the obsession with weight loss, and to discover what's keeping you stuck in disordered eating patterns.
Show Notes:
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus.
- Marci Evans' Love, Food Podcast episode
- Ancel Keys' Minnesota Starvation Experiment
- Eating Disorder Dietitian
- Julie Dillon RD blog
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.
Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!
Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.
Have you embraced body trust, but are suddenly up against a trigger such as body changes? Are you concerned about relapse, and are trying to maintain recovery through a stressful time? Listen now for some advice on navigating this part of the food peace journey.
Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.
This episode is brought to you by my PCOS summer series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This series and our Facebook group will be with you every step of the way.
Episode's Key Points:
- Our bodies are ALWAYS changing, especially as women. We go through pregnancies, menopause... so how do we engage in body trust when our bodies keep changing??
- Sometimes pregnancy can help grant a reprieve from an eating disorder.
- Weight gain fears with pregnancy are so common!
- Stressful transitions can trigger a relapse... Ellie Herman from Eating Recovery Center in Denver, Colorado joins to talk about how to keep us safe in these difficult times.
- Anxiety about body changes is normal! Take a breath, and remind yourself that it's going to be okay.
- Eating disorders feel so isolating, but the truth is that you are not alone.
- Sometimes people with a history of food and body struggles will place the stress and blame of new life changes on the body. We fixate there because that's familiar! But the truth is that this body anxiety might be about something else entirely.
- Find an eating disorder therapist or dietitian to help you on this journey.
- Investigate what body discomfort means to you! Does it tend to come up with strong emotions, or with the stressors of life? Sit with that discomfort and fear and be curious about it.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): If we try to push discomfort and fear away, it only brings on more discomfort and fear! Try connecting with your values, and continue living towards those values while still making space for that discomfort.
- Post-pregnancy can be a big trigger for relapse... for new moms, remember that nourishment for yourself is also nourishment for your child! Focus on taking care of yourself, along with taking care of your new baby.
- Start a gratitude practice to help ground you in your recovery.
Show Notes:
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus.
- Ellie's new podcast, Mental Note ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #1
- Eating Recovery Center ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #2
- Contact Ellie at alumni@eatingrecovery.com
- Eating Disorder Dietitian
- Julie Dillon RD blog
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.