Eating Enlightenment: Recent Episodes
Jared Levenson
Welcome to Eating Enlightenment!
This interview show is hosted by Jared. Jared is a former Zen monk, certified intuitive eating counselor, and creator of the Eating Enlightenment app.
Have you ever found yourself reaching for that extra cookie even when you're not hungry? Or using food as a coping mechanism during stressful times? If so, then you're in the right place.
This episode is specially designed for you! I've poured all my knowledge and experience into this comprehensive guide to help you understand and overcome binge and emotional eating. It's a holistic approach that addresses not only your eating habits but also your mental and emotional wellbeing.
This episode is about a journey that I, your host and guide, have been on professionally for over five years as an Eating Disorder Coach and a staff member at a residential Eating Disorder treatment center. My personal journey of healing has been much longer.
Now, as I transition careers, this video represents my understanding of how to heal the root causes of binge and emotional eating.
Remember, overcoming binge and emotional eating isn't about deprivation; it's about making mindful choices that nourish your body and soul. Are you ready to embark on this transformational journey?
In this special episode of the podcast, I share my interview on Write Your Best Self! "This can be a very anxious process. There's so much trauma around food... Learning to feel your body can be a scary process that brings up a lot."
I'm super excited to introduce you to Jared Levenson - the founder of Eating Enlightenment.
Jared was plagued with binge-eating for years until he learned how to transform his relationship with food. He's now a mindful eating zen master who's helped countless people curb their cravings through the power of journaling so they can feel empowered and enlightened around their food choices.
In this powerful episode, Jared explains why journaling is such an effective tool for tackling food problems - as well as sharing his own personal story of transformation.
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I enjoyed recording it.
"The process of writing changes reality... it's very inspiring."
In this episode, Jared and I explore:
- What is mindful eating and what benefits does it offer.
- How can our body tell us what to eat?
- Why we turn to food as an emotional crutch - and how can we cultivate a healthier relationship.
- How Jared discovered that writing can change your relationship with food while at a monastery.
- The science behind externalising our thoughts in our journal.
"Usually before people emotionally eat there's this cacophony - this internal argument back and forth that escalates. Then people binge to calm down those voices."
- How labelling feelings helps us to unravel them.
- The power of dialoguing with and hearing the different voices that show up around food.
- Why changing your relationship with food helps you to reclaim your personal power.
- Catching cues and rewiring triggers. Tapping into the wisdom of the body.
- How can we trust our body to tell us what it needs to be healthy, vital, and strong.
- Jared's story - how he transformed from binge-eater to mindful eating Zen master.
And more...
Feeling empowered around food can be a transformative experience. I hope this episode helps you to navigate forward in some way.
Jared's journaling prompt:
Write with awareness right before you eat.
How to discover more about Jared's work:
1. Visit the Eating Enlightenment website.
2. Check out Jared's YouTube channel.
3. View the Earing Enlightenment journaling app.
Also, check out the BestSelf Co. range of journaling tools:
1. Transform Fear to Focus [$5 investment].
2. 52 List Journaling Prompts [a free tool].
Finally, if you enjoyed this episode, please rate and review the show as it helps more people find us. You can also tag us on social. We're @bestselfco and I'm @georginaelmorshdy.
Support the show (http://bestself.co/)
Alex Dorr is the Founder and CEO of Mushroom Revival Inc., a business dedicated to supporting an individual’s health and wellness through the incredible properties of functional mushrooms.
Alex co-hosts The Mushroom Revival Podcast - the #1 mushroom podcast in the world.
As a studied mycologist, he released a book titled, “Mycoremediation Handbook: A Grassroots Guide to Growing Mushrooms and Cleaning Up Toxic Waste With Fungi.”
Dr WendyLeigh White, a licensed Naturopathic Doctor (ND) and nondiet, weight-neutral nutritionist, takes a “nature cure” approach to prevention and healing in her clinical practice, teaching, and speaking.
She has maintained a clinical practice since 2008 and taught at the graduate level since 2016. In 2020, she was included in the Portland Monthly’s Top Doctors, Naturopath category.
Her aim is to empower every one of her patients/clients/students, especially those in larger bodies, to understand the interconnected systems of your body and its specific needs.
In this way, you learn to tune in to the signals your body is telling you. Only then can you give it what it needs to heal, to thrive, to learn how not to follow in your family’s medical footprints.
Building from a “nature cure” philosophy (food, water, air, movement, relationships), Dr White specializes in developing personalized lifestyle plans that align to your unique genetic makeup and lifestyle.
She enjoys coaching people who are needing support with allergies, digestive issues (irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, constipation), and their relationship with food.
Despite her full schedule of patient care and university teaching, the times that Dr White is most passionate is when she is speaking to groups about the body’s innate ability to heal itself and to keep itself in balance when supported appropriately.
For more info, visit Dr. WendyLeigh White: http://www.drwendyleighwhite.com/
Aqua therapy can really help your body to heal. It's a great way to keep your joints and muscles loose, while also working on flexibility and range of motion.
This practice can be revolutionary for people living in larger bodies, and is totally in line with the Health At Every Size Perspective.
The water really helps with joints while still giving you a great movement practice.
And aqua therapy is in warm water too so don't worry about the temp!
I learned so much in this episode and I know you'll walk away with a ton of useful info!
Plus, Jen is hosting workshops in the Bay Area mid-May so be sure to check out her website for more info!
https://www.jennifersylvesterdpt.com/
Nicole is a nurse, coach, counselor and so many different roles!
She struggled with an eating disorder for many years before finally recovering.
Here she shares how she learned to love her body again and deal with the illness that once controlled her life!
We all have something we struggle with in our lives - but it's not always about what we eat or drink!
Nicole shares her story of how she recovered from an eating disorder and found peace within herself by using intuition and healing.
For more info on Nicole, visit her at: http://www.nurtureconsultingllc.com/
What if your child no longer wants to eat?
Maybe he or she is no longer growing so fast!
Knowing in what stage of life your child is helps you understand how to best help your child.
Maryann Jacobsen is a best-selling author, and podcast host of the Healthy Family podcast.
Maryann is a mother herself and writes from both a scientific and parental perspective.
She's truly devoted the last 20 years of her life to these topics so be sure to listen and enjoy!
For more info on Maryanne, see her website here:
https://maryannjacobsen.com/podcast/
Intuitive eating is a way of eating that works with your body and environment to find what foods work best for you.
This interview with Haley will cover the basics of intuitive eating, but it's not just about food, it's about finding balance in all areas of your life.
For Haley Hughes, Crossfit is a big part of her life.
Haley has figured out how to do hard exercise like Crossfit the right way: by listening to her body, having fun, and community.
Haley also is an amazing dietician you can find online:
Website: https://rdrxnutrition.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rdrxnutrition/
In this interview with Kathleen Layer, we discuss the basics of eating intuitively. Kathleen is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Master Level Coach. She helps women heal their relationship with food and their bodies through intuitive eating and body image work. You can learn more about Kathleen on her website: kathleenlayer.com And connect with her on Instagram @kathleenlayer Eating is a big part of your everyday life and can have a major impact on how you feel about yourself, how you feel while exercising, and even how well you sleep at night!
But how do you not get trapped in your head, or focused on perfectionism?
Kathleen Layer shares her insights on intuitive eating, movement, and how she went from food and body-obsessed to food and body freedom.
These days it's common that people are suffering from problems related to their thyroid gland due to the fast paced life that we live in today.
These problems can range from being overweight or not feeling well at all - but there are also other symptoms which may be caused by your condition such as hair loss and fatigue.
So here's how to get the best of your thyroid health this year with Amie Hornaman!
Amie Hornaman DCN, MsN, CFMP is a leading certified functional-medicine expert on a mission to optimize thyroid patients around the world and give them their lives
back using scientific elements of nutrition and functional medicine.
After her own experience of insufferable symptoms, misdiagnoses and improper treatment, Amie set out to help others who she KNEW were going through the same set of frustrations and who were on the same medical roller coaster.
She examines all factors that tie into thyroid dysfunction and thyroid symptoms and treats the person from top to bottom
to give them their lives back.
Visit Amie at https://www.facebook.com/amiehornamannutrition/
Be sure to check out Amie's podcast too at The Thyroid Fix!!!
This is such a fun conversation with Maria!
Maria's passion for authenticity just gives me the goosebumps!
Maria is Certified Counselor and Coach who helps people make peace with food.
Maria specializes in "emotional eating", body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating such as chronic dieting and binge eating.
Be sure to check out her website: https://mariascrimenti.com/
Learn more about her Facebook group too!: https://www.facebook.com/Mariascrimentiwellness
This episode originally aired on The Thyroid Fix:
"In today's episode, I share an interview with Jared Levenson about overeating, binge eating and mindfulness around food. Jared is a former binge eating wrestler, lay ordained zen monk, certified intuitive eating counselor, and a CBT journaling advocate. Jared helps hardworking folks write their way to eating enlightenment and food freedom."
Please be sure to check out Amie's podcast on:
- iTunes
Amie's website can be found here:
https://amiehornaman.com/
I recently went on Amanda's Savor Food and Body podcast!
In the first half of interview I reveal:
- my struggles with wrestling and bingeing
- my journey to become a lay ordained zen monk
- my passionate in belief in awareness journaling
In the second half of interview we all address many of the obstacles that come up when attempting to awareness journal:
- triggers of calories logs
- perfectionism
- difficulty
Be sure to check out Amanda's website and our original episode here!
Website: https://www.alpinenutrition.org/
Original interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtjAUcT26Hg&feature=youtu.be
Hey Eating Enlightenment tribe :)
I'd like to introduce Amanda Bullat.
In the beginning Amanda ate with many restrictions. She definitely wasn't eating enough during her marathon training!
Eventually her body started to breakdown.
Fortunately, Amanda found new alternative approaches to health, wellness and beyond ... Aka, Intuitive Eating and Be Body Positive.
Nowadays Amanda is an anti-diet Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Be Body Positive Facilitator.
Check out her podcast and youtube channel, Savor Food and Body!
For more info, visit Amanda at http://www.alpinenutrition.org/
Hey everyone, Melissa Welch RD is today's conversation.
Melissa is a good friend and we used to work together too at Cielo House for Eating Disorders in the Bay Area.
Melissa is a passionate advocate and skilled dietitian who embraces Health At Every Size and Intuitive Eating with her clients.
Melissa is also working with people who struggle with kidney and renal issues. We talk in depth about the struggles of trying to eat intuitively while managing your kidney health.
Melissa also shares stories about her family, setting boundaries, her thoughts on what Health At Every Size really means and much more.
If have any questions just reach out to me at jared@eatingenlightenment.com
If you want a free Food Awareness Journal, along with templates and training videos, visit https://eatingenlightenment.com
For more info on Melissa's private practice, see here too:
http://melissawelchrd.com/
How do you let go of rules without falling to chaos?
How do you navigate the difficulties of life, without getting trapped in your head or saying 'F*ck it' and giving up?
Amy Scott has 18 years of therapeutic experience and her orientation is of Mind, Body and Soul.
In this conversation you'll hear us talk about eating struggles in general and then get super practical about:
- how food is energy and energy is flowing
- grounding techniques that Amy teaches me live on our call
- taking away the immortality of binge eating
- cultural issues like being too logical or feeling bigger bodies are bad
Overall I really liked this conversation and thought Amy was super fun, present, connected and I soooo appreciated her emphasis on connecting to the person in front of her.
Amy is also coming out with a new podcast, DIY Therapy, so be sure to watch out!
If you want more info about Amy, be sure to visit her at https://www.amyscottmindbody.com/
How is it possible for Diabetes management and Intuitive Eating to go together?
Diabetes you need to manage blood sugar, whereas on a superficial level you might hear that Intuitive Eating means you can eat anything.
Can you really eat anything if you have diabetes? And is this even what Intuitive Eating means?
In this episode with Glenys Oyston, from Dare To Not Diet, Glenys also talks extensively about her journey from chronic dieter to Intuitive Eater.
One interesting thing about Glenys's story involve her weight gain over the years as she ditched the diet mentality, as dieting had kept her deprived and underweight for years. Oftentimes we are so afraid of weight gain, so Glenys's story is impactful and inspiring.
Glenys's is a full-time anti-dietician and she truly walks the talk and has been through the struggles and can help you if you struggle with dieting.
Be sure to check out Glenys's Diabetes course here: https://selfcare4diabetes.com.
Today's guest is Holly Toronto and I'm so grateful she shared her story!
From her early roots in a rigid 'Purity' Christian culture that taught bodies were dirty and wrong ...
To struggling with food anxiety, hair loss, and extreme body image problems ...
Things all changed for Holly when she serendipitously brought the book Intuitive Eating with her while on a cruise where she couldn't eat anything.
Fast forward years later and now Holly helps women bridge the gap between Spirit and their bodies.
This interview is full with amazing insights:
- how to set up expectations to unconditionally eat so you can't fail
- how to deconstruct body image beliefs within the HAES philosophy
I know you'll love this episode.
Be sure to visit Holly:
@holly.toronto
http://www.hollytoronto.com/
Have you ever heard of Eidetic therapy?
Neither had I until I met Wendy Yellen.
In this episode Wendy goes through a live, unscripted therapy session with me where I am the client.
Let me tell you something:
I have never tapped into my primal images before using Eidetics and was blown away.
I highly recommend listening to this episode if you're looking for:
- a vulnerable conversation
- an experiential demonstration of an alternative form of therapy
- are curious about your subconscious mind and visualization
For more info, please visit Wendy at MeAsIWantToBe.com
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Jodie has been through her own trauma and eating healing journey.
Then she's gone on for the last 20+ years to help women heal from trauma and eating.
Now she's sharing all of her wisdom for us today.
Enjoy :)
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To visit Jodie's website go here - https://jodiegale.com/
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Get the food report and subscribe to email list here - https://eatingenlightenment.com/podcast
Austin and Lindsey have both experienced panic attacks.
These days both Austin and Lindsey have learned how to overcome panic attacks and anxiety.
Now they are sharing strategies to overcome anxiety.
Their podcast, The Disconnect, helps people with anxiety and de-stigmatizes anxiety.
Check out their podcast The Disconnect - https://www.frankdisconnect.com/podcast
Download the Myth of Food Addiction report here - https://eatingenlightenment.com/podcast
Dr. Alex Ridley from Rejuvenated Women talks about Selfless Syndrome.
Selfless Syndrome in a nutshell is when you burnout because you give too much of yourself to others.
The consequences of Selfless Syndrome can impact eating, health, career and relationships.
It's time to reclaim proper boundaries and self-care!
Dr. Rocco works at the only licensed facility approved and recognized by the Rhode Island Department of Health for patient evaluation and education for medical marijuana.
Part of Dr. Rocco's passion includes CBD:
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great for inflammation
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useful for anxiety
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no downsides
CBD does NOT get you high!
This episode we talk about dosages, misconceptions and more.
For more info on Dr. Thomas visit https://www.bak2basicsllc.com/
This was one of the most impactful conversations I've had in my entire life.
Jana Short, host of the "Oh My Health ... There Is Hope!" podcast is here with us today.
We first talk about Jana's journey, including her near death experiences.
Then we transition to even deeper topics about finding your authentic voice.
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How do you speak authentically about family trauma?
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How do you own your voice when there may be repercussions?
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Why claiming your authentic voice is so needed in today's world.
Be sure to check out Jana's podcast here - https://www.bestholisticlife.com/omhtih-podcast/
Kathy Gruver is a Professional Speaker, TED-x, Award-Winning author and Trapeze Artist.
Today we talk about:
- Trapeze
- Meditation
- Wine
- Stress
- Go-For-It
Today Heidi and I talk about how you can nourish yourself.
We talk about how plants are like eating disorders.
For plants to grow, they need nourishment.
But what is nourishment?
Heidi Schauster is a Nutrition Therapist, Writer, and Clinical Consultant.
Her website is https://anourishingword.com.
Her book, Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self, can be found on Amazon here - https://amzn.to/338CbxM
Here are Andy The RD's Three Nutrition Principles:
1. Protein Variety
2. Commitment
3. Kale (symbolizing your unique food preferences)
This podcast focuses on teaching Acceptance.
Acceptance is the first part of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
First you accept, and then you Commit.
For in depth article to learn more about Acceptance and Commitment therapy read here:
https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/09/12/what-is-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/
Dr. Delaney was an established science professor in London.
He had all the markings of external success with papers, prestige and respect.
But inside Dr. Delaney was miserable. He was trapped in his mind.
He had no connection to his heart, and was dying inside.
He turned to alcohol, food, and nearly gave up on life ...
Then he became open to the power of his heart chakra.
He has healed and has dramatically shifted his perspective on modern medicine.
This is an amazing conversation!
Treatment means you already know you have a problem with binge eating.
Now you are looking for help in order to get rid of your binge eating problem.
- What binge eating disorder treatment option is best?
- What should you know before you commit to a treatment path?
- What are the different treatment options out there? How are they different?
Our 4 Principles of Transformation Today with Jen Kates are:
1. Pause
2. Mindfulness
3. Intention
4. Movement
Jen's story begins with being burned out from corporate life.
Then, after shifting into her passion and slowing down, Jen was able to become a full time health coach!
This was years ago and now Jen thrives at Shift Human Performance!
Hey everyone thanks so much for your support!
The podcast is growing and I'm having a lot of fun!!
The new season of the podcast will have a few slight changes.
1. Based on affirmations and inspirational stories:
At the beginning of the episode I'll ask guests for their 'words'.
Then during a deep-dive into a story of inspiration, we'll weave these 'words' into the podcast.
2. More solo episodes
Interspersed between interview episodes I will start doing 10-20 minute solo episodes.
These will have in-depth blog articles attached and will also be broadcasted on my Youtube channel, Eating Enlightenment.
That's it.
Thanks again! Namaste.
Do you find positive thinking difficult?
You may want to try hypnosis. It's easier than you may think.
Today we explore hypnosis for healing, health and happiness with Jennifer Matteo – Holtz:
- why switch language from weight 'loss' to weight management
- how to relax yourself using muscular relaxation
For more information, visit Jennifer at her website https://enlightenedhypnotherapy.com/
You don't need to be miserable to be healthy.
You can use spices and other tips that Nagina shares to indulge!
- Metabolism boosting morning secrets
- How Nagina lost 40 lbs while working 70+ hrs a week and raising two children
Down Nagina's book “7 Spicy Recipes to Melt Off 7 Lbs.” at https://masalabody.com/
This episode features Christina from the Wellness Realness Podcast!
- how the doctor's got Christina's diagnosis wrong!
- how chakra's, reiki and tapping into her intuition helped Christina heal
- why Christina now teaches wellness professionals about creating 6 or 7 figure businesses
Resources:
- quiz + 30 Day Eating Challenge at EatingEnlightenment.com
Contact:
- Visit Christina online at https://christinaricewellness.com/
Check out Christina's Wellness Realness Podcast too!
Get ready to learn about eating, neuroscience and spirituality with Jeffrey Siegel.
Jeffrey's background includes:
- struggling and healing eating habits
- studied neuroscience and Buddhism
- coach, speaker, trainer and much more
In this episode of Eating Enlightenment:
- we talk about how to integrate body and emotions
- our journey's of eating struggles and studying mindfulness wisdom
- spiritual activism
- how you can get started healing your own eating struggles
Resources:
- take the quiz + 30 day challenge at EatingEnlightenment.com
Connect with Jeff:
- JES Wellness Facebook
- JeffSiegelWellness.com
This is a beautiful conversation with Kelly 🙂
Kelly shares stories from her journey from disordered eating to becoming an Intuitive Eater:
- how parents and coaches can accidentally encourage disordered eating
- how becoming a parent motivated Kelly to eat more intuitively
- how to teach your children to be intuitive eaters
For more information about Kelly and her amazing services, please visit NPowerYou.
You can also find Kelly online:
- NPowerYou Facebook Page
- @intuitive.eating.for.women
Lastly, Kelly’s free ebook “7 Steps To Overcome Stress Eating” is available here: https://npoweryou.com/free/
Listen to Razena and I connect over food passion and travel stories :)
We also talk about mindful eating, slow eating, best food vacation destinations, and much more.
Razena's food & travel blog can be found at https://www.tantalisemytastebuds.com/
In this episode Susan and I connect over meditation :)
We have a lot in common and talk about the various meditation communities we both know and love, such as Spirit Rock and San Francisco Zen Center.
As a Transformational Coach, Susan helps women to choose & prioritize themselves creating in more balance and compassion in their lives and those they love.
Susan also has her own podcast, The Healthy Tips After 50 (HTA50) Podcast, which available at the following places:
Healthy Tips Website - https://healthytipsafter50.com
Healthy Tips FB Page - https://facebook.com/healthytipsafter50/
Finally, the links mentioned in the podcast about Inside-Out Meditation and Susan's Facebook are down below:
Susan Rosin FB Profile https://www.facebook.com/susanerosin/
Sydney Banks website. http://sydneybanks.com/
Tricia Nelson is a bright light for anyone struggling with emotional eating.
Tricia has been helping people understand and heal from emotional eating for over 30 years.
Tricia has been through the trenches of emotional eating herself. She really is a great resource!
Tricia's website can be found at HealYourHunger.com.
Tricia's facebook page & group under Heal Your Hunger.
Finally, check out Tricia's book "Heal Your Hunger: 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now"
Have you ever wondered about the basics of nutrition for greater energy and performance?
Or even just how to eat and at what times to be content and happy around food?
Nancy Clark is a Registered Dietitian in Boston-area. Her book Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook has sold over 750,000 copies.
By listening to this episode you will learn:
- how to fuel from a nutrition perspective for maximum athletic performance
- timing during the day to eat so that you can maximize workouts
- the principles of regular eating which apply for everyday athletes and civilians alike
- why Nancy has been drawn to sports nutrition since she was a child
Nancy has a variety of resources on her website including coaching for RDS, handouts, and homestudy worksheets for you on her website at https://nancyclarkrd.com/
This podcast features Jessica Procini from Escape From Emotional Eating! Here is what you'll learn by listening: * Why the 932 hours Jessica spent in therapy never helped her end her fight with food * How to literally flush your emotions down the toilet * Jessica's transformational eating journey and how she created Escape From Emotional Eating
Jessica and her work have received awards from the Institute of Psychology of Eating three years in a row. She has appeared in various media outlets such as ABC, CBS, and MindBodyGreen, just to name a few. For more information about Jessica and her various transformational programs, please visit: www.EscapeFromEmotionalEating.com.
This is a fun conversation with Kristi and Shane from Food Drives The Mood.
1:30 - Kristi As A Single Mom Got Her Health Transform Journey Going
10:45 - Shane's 300 lb Health Journey
18:00 - Don't Compare Yourself Others
25:30 - How To Calorie Count Without Getting Obsessed
37:30 - One Step At A Time Builds Self Esteem & Confidence
In Buddhism ignorance is the problem.
Awareness is the solution.
Eating is the same.
In this episode Jared Levenson rants about the fundamental eating delusion which keeps people trapped in cycles of food craving.
Join us every Monday at 10am for next podcast release.
Today you’re in for a treat 🙂
The one and only, Chef Dennis from AskChefDennis.com and @AskChefDennis, is here to chat!
Here’s a few of our conversation topics:
- Dennis’s most popular Tiramsu recipe with 1,562 comments
- Why Madrid is one of Dennis’s favorite cities
- Thoughts About Covid-19, Cruises
- Musings Why Europeans Are More Connected To Food Than Americans
Also, it’s rare that I say this …
But Dennis really exemplifies to me the idea of ikigai or “reason for being”.
In other words, Life Purpose.
This ikigai concept was first modernized by Dan Buettner in 2005 in his National Geographic cover story, “Blue Zones”.
There are 7 seemingly magical Blue Zones throughout the world. Each area is defined by containing a strikingly percentage of people who live 100+ years old.
It turns out however, that Blue Zones are not magical. The people who live to be 100+ in these areas have tapped into this idea of ikigai.
It turns out that tapping into Life Purpose keeps you ALIVE!
Dennis represents ikigai to a tee because:
- Dennis is a great chef
- Cooking, sharing, and teaching is Dennis’s passion
- The world needs food connection
- Dennis gets paid quite handsomely for his expertise and brand
I really, truly feel that this ikigai energy, presence, light …
Shines through in this episode.
It’s an intangible feeling that’s hard to pin down, but when I re-listened to our conversation I just felt good afterwards!
Ok, Ok, I’m being over-dramatic 🙂
Without further ado, I present to you, the one and only, Chef Dennis:
Today Laura Ali introduces me to food appreciation.
Our conversation centers around two main topics:
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Finding Great Cuisine Locally
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Cultural Food Connection.
Laura also shares some great stories:
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Pittsburgh's cultural food center
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Sour Milk Donut recipe from Laura's great-great-grandmother
I learned some fascinating lessons too:
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how food appreciation can help you enjoy your food
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health professionals can build trust with clients by knowing local food scene
You can visit Laura at https://www.onthekitchenshelf.com/
Or, follow Laura @LauraAli_RD
Take a listen and leave a 5-star review if you appreciate the food lessons in this podcast! Link down below :)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eating-enlightenment/id1438292960
In this episode with Jeff Chilton we talk about mushrooms.
Jeff has over 30 years of experience growing, researching, consuming and eating mushrooms.
We talk about mushroom:
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health benefits including immunology so that you can boost your immune system
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Jeff's biggest secret to cooking mushrooms so that you can avoid watery mushrooms
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why my mushroom supplements weren't high quality (I'm now switching to a higher quality brand because I want those juicy brain benefits!)
For more information, you can visit Jeff at https://nammex.com, or shop at https://realmushrooms.com
This is a review video before our free* live 'body image and compassion' training.
The free training will focus on specific techniques. This review video gives you the context to appreciate the depth of the compassion techniques you'll learn during the free training.
Free live training is for Eating Enlightenment email subscribers. To subscribe visit https://eatingenlightenment.com.
Free live training will also be live on facebook. To watch join private group at https://facebook.com/groups/eatingenlightenment
The articles mentioned in the video can be found here for further info:
Negative Body Image: https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/04/22/body-image-and-self-esteem/
History of Body Image: https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/05/05/why-fat-acceptance-movement-really-began-1000s-of-years-ago/
Loving Kindness and Compassion: https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/04/29/loving-kindness-meditation/
Is Health At Every Size Literal? https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/05/02/fat-acceptance/
Here’s a quick summary from my most recent podcast conversation with Melainie Rogers (Balancedtx.com and @Balancedtx):
- The 3 Signs To Tell If You Are A Disordered Eater Or Have An Eating Disorder
- Why Eating and Body Image Disorders Are On The Rise
- Why Dieting Fails
Overall, I was incredibly impressed by Melainie’s clear expertise in the field of eating disorders. She also explains complex topics in an easy to understand way!
For example, most people don’t understand why their attempts at weight loss fail. Yet Melanie was able to describe how your fat cells don’t go away when you lose weight, your fat cells only deflate.
And once your fat cells deflate, they trigger your body to start craving foods. And of course ... once you start craving it’s basically all over from there right?!
I know you will get a ton of useful information out of this video and podcast.
Are you worried about the impacts of an unattainable body image and social media?
Or, would you simply like to hear from an expert about some of the science behind body image?
Today we welcome to the podcast Dr. Solomon. Dr. Solomon has conducted clinical body image research and has also over 10 years of experience working in out-patient eating disorder clinics.
In this post about body image and social media we will cover:
- Why is body image an issue?
- Technique #1 – Ask What’s Missing
- What is a negative body image?
- Rethink How To Think About Obesity
- Technique #2 – Surround Yourself With Realistic Body Images
- What are the 4 aspects of body image?
Do you exercise too much or eat insufficient calories?
If you are an athlete then listen to Registered Dietitian and marathon runner Katie Kissane talk about eating disorder in athletes.
In depth article here - https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/03/09/eating-disorder-in-athletes/
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Noticing an eating disorder in athletes can be very difficult.
As Katie mentions below, an athlete’s great discipline and focus can like their Achilles Heel.
Their demanding discipline becomes their fuel for an out of control eating disorder that sucks the life out of the athlete.
Today help shine light into this complex issue, this podcast highlights the professional expertise of Katie Kissane, Registered Dietitian.
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Understand How Eating Disorders In Athletes Begin
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Why Athletes Develop Eating Disorders?
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Tips to Manage Eating Disorders in Sports and Athletics
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Has finding healthy veggies to snack on ever made you feel frustrated?
If meal prepping or cooking vegetables seems like too much time for you … Then please take a listen to Liz’s story.
And Liz’s personal veggie story began in the most frustrating way, with a high cholesterol mistaken diagnosis …
This healthy veggies to snack on article covers:
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Liz’s frustrating vegetable beginning
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Tip #1 How to eat more veggies
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Tip #2 How to make veggies easy
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Liz’s quick recipe vegetarian cookbook
For an in depth article read here - https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/03/06/healthy-veggies-to-snack-on/
Are you curious about fitness trackers and keeping track of your time?
Do you like SMART goals, productivity and organizing your time?
If you are an analytical person and you want to learn about health principles based on time management … keep reading.
This article covers 4 main points:
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The beginning of Mark’s 110 weight loss journey
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First principle – Prepare for tomorrow, today
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Second principle – Respect your time
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Third principle – Examine to eliminate overeating
For in depth blog article click here - https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/03/06/health-principles/
This is a fun conversation with Susan Davis!
- Susan’s background in Nutrition Therapy
- Susan’s history with food allergies and taking certain foods out of her diet
- Fermented drink recipes!
Susan Davis has been a professional practitioner since 2009 providing consultations to clients with various health conditions including digestive problems, low energy, weight related problems, depression, anxiety, addictions and children and adults with autism.
In 1964 America passed the Civil Act Right which essentially declared it’s illegal to judge and discriminate against a person based on their appearance.
Back in 1964 people with darker skin tones were seen as inferior. Dumb. Incapable. Not worthy.
Why do we treat commonly people living in bigger bodies the same way today?
There’s tons of obesity bias in our 2020 culture and so …
Today we explore the weight stigma conversation with Julie Fanning. Our topics include:
- The Beginning of Julie’s Weight Stigma Story
- How Julie Realized The Truth About Weight Stigma
- Example of Weight Stigma and Medical Discrimination
- One Note About Bariatric Surgery
- Acceptance & Grace – How Julie Began To Heal From Weight Stigma
“Is Health At Every Size really possible?”
“Are you telling me fat people can be healthy?!”
If you’re asking these questions you’re in the right spot. This article is an honest overview of Health At Every Size.
This article features expert Kori Kostka, a mindful-at-heart, Registered Dietitian for over 10 years.
Kori is going to help us answer some common questions about Health At Every Size.
- What Is Health At Every Size?
- What is Weight Inclusive?
- Is Health At Every Size True?
- What Does The Health at Every Size Program Emphasize?
- What Benefits Could Our Society Gain By Adopting A Health At Every Size Approach?
- Can You Be Healthy Fat?
- What Do You Say When Your Client Says, “But I Need To Lose Weight”?
Is this your typical day?
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You get stressed out at work
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Don’t eat that much and generally worry
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Go home at night
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Begin stress eating
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Feel bad
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Go to work the next day and repeat
It’s time to end this cycle.
You’re reading this right now so I’m assuming you’re ready!
This stress relief article features 5 sections for you to read and digest:
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How Lula First Developed Stress Eating
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What Is Stress? Stress Definition, Stress Symptoms
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Lula Brown’s tips for stress relief
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Lifestyle strategies to stop being stressed out
In this post Beth Rosen gives us tools to:
- improve body positivity
- help maintain a healthy body image
Now often times ‘body positivity’ is misunderstood.
Many people think body positivity means you are giving yourself permission to be unhealthy and fat.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, this is the opposite of body positivity!
So in this post we explore how to improve and maintain body positivity by examining two distinct trains of thought:
- What is the opposite of body positivity?
- How can I improve my body positivity?
When we learn about the opposite of body positivity … we’ll see:
- how a culture of impossible beauty standards sets us up for body dissatisfaction
- why body dissatisfaction leads to negative mental health out comes and eating disorders
- examples of how your mental health and anxiety are effected daily by diet culture
Have you ever felt out-of-control while emotional eating?
For the in-depth post on my blog covering this topic read here -
https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/02/19/how-to-deal-with-overeating/
Like literally you were out of your body and couldn’t stop yourself?
For many people this amount of food intake can cause extreme stress.
Especially when you want to get back on track but find your eating habits getting the better of you … once again.
How do you deal with this overeating pattern?
The big picture idea on how to deal with overeating is two-fold:
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Eat mindfully even during a binge
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Reflect afterwards and learn without guilt
These 2 steps are how to deal with overeating.
Imagine going to work with a big rash on your face because you had been so stressed for months on end that your body was having a physical reaction.
A physical reaction due to stress? Yes, physical. Like your body.
Oftentimes people think stress is just in their heads. But your mind and body are connected.
And there are even more levels of stress too. For example, there is existential stress too.
Yentl describes these different types of stress later on in the interview, which you can see down below.
Now why listen to what Yentl has to say about how to be less stressed?
Yentl is an award-winning blogger and most importantly … Yentl was the person with the rash on her face.
Remember, imagine going to work with a rash on your face? That was literally Yentl.
She had a rash on her face due to high levels of chronic stress for months on end.
This was before she learned some of the relaxation techniques to reduce stress (like playing with her dog) which she shares below.
Yentl also shares another embarrassing story when she forgot about her party planning responsibility for a big event until the last minute!
That story is at the bottom of the post which you can read here: https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/02/11/how-to-be-less-stressed/
For an in-depth blog post about Amy on my website you can read more here!
https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/02/04/foods-that-are-good-for-you/
Amy spent 6 months worrying about her keynote speech for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Finally her friend told her to just stop worrying and just tell the audience about her passion for food, farmers and fun.
Her keynote speech was titled “Success in dietetics, inspired by farmers, flavor and fun.”
In this article video interview about foods that are good for you, you will learn:
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Real Life Example Of Food Label Lie
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What Scientific Article You Published Makes You Most Proud?
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What Percent Of A Burger Can Actually Be Mushroom?
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What Was The Topic Of Your Keynote Speech for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics?
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What Mission Inspired You To Start Farmer Daughter’s Consulting?
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The History OF Why GMO’s Became Fearful
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What Is One Of The Best Foods That Are Good For You?
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Do It Yourself Olive Oil Taste Test At Home
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What Are Your Top 5 Foods That Are Good For You?
For more info about Amy as well as her consulting services for farmers, please visit –
https://www.farmersdaughterconsulting.com/
Amy is a qualified Person Centred Counsellor registered with the BACP, and you can watch below in the full interview where she shares how to heal your inner child wounds.
For a detailed blog article you can view on my blog click here - https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/02/04/heal-your-inner-child/
Here are some points this Heal Your Inner Child Wounds article also talks about:
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How To Help Someone Discover Their Inner Resources When Healing From Trauma
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Amy’s Specific Technique To Heal The Inner Child Wounds
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How Amelia Healed Her Inner Child Within Quick Summary - How Amy Healed Her Inner Child Quick Summary
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Why Healing Your Inner Child Wounds Is Like “Big” With Tom Hanks
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Amy’s Definition Of Acceptance
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How Amy Got Fired For Standing Up For Ethical Behavior
For more info for Amy Bambury who helps people in healing from all sorts of pain including relationships you can visit https://www.treeoflifecounselling.co.uk/
Does food impact your self-esteem?
In this article Melissa from Karma Chow shares lessons from her inspiring journey of self-worth.
- How to build more confidence by removing your limiting beliefs
- How to be more confident and get out of a negative mindset
- How you started letting go of food rules to live in freedom
- Can you give some how to be more confident tips
- What are your biggest eating enlightenment moments
Notable quote from Melissa: It’s okay. Just like trust yourself, trust the process, like stay connected to your body. Your body’s always going to tell you what it needs and what it doesn’t.
Melissa has a great website presence at https://karmachow.com where you can learn more about:
- working with Melissa
- latest blog articles
- recipes
- shop
- what people have to say
You can also find Melissa’s Facebook Food Freedom Group here 🙂
You can also order Melissa’s book on Amazon, The Karma Chow Ultimate Cookbook with 4.7/5 stars with 140 reviews here.
It’s rare to lose 140 lb dieting and to keep the weight off. Most commonly people will binge, gain back weight, feel bad, and restart with another diet.
Here is an in-depth article on my blog for her journey: https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/01/24/how-to-not-binge-eat-3/
So what’s even more rare lose weight “successfully” is to then switch to intuitive eating. The few people who control their diet and “successfully” lose weight often remain feeling trapped by their diet for rest of their lives around food.
Emotional eating is always the diet demon around the corner just waiting to find a time when you’re willpower is down! But Sophia is not ordinary.
She’s brilliant, like a shining sun 🙂 Sophia “successfully” lost weight but then went beyond. She realized losing weight just made her binge or feel trapped around food.
Sophia became obsessed about being good by exercising and her diet did nothing to help Sophia with her feelings. So Sophia decided to switch to intuitive eating!
By reading this interview article you will learn:
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How Sophia Lost 140 lb
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Why Sophia Switched To Intuitive Eating
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How To Not Binge eat - My opinion on “successful weight loss” stories
What if a Registered Dietitian gave you a simple healthy food list so you knew how to eat healthy everyday without thinking too hard?
I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Michelle @TheTrueBite and ask her a variety of questions to help you clarify nutrition!
You can read the full in-depth post on my blog at https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/01/18/what-are-some-healthy-foods-to-eat/
Here were some of the questions I asked Michelle:
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Is there a recommended healthy food chart?
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What are some healthy foods to eat?
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How to eat healthy foods everyday?
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What about unhealthy food?
About Michelle: Michelle Azizi, MS RD is a registered dietitian with extensive education and experience in the field of nutrition. She has a bachelors degree in psychology from UC Berkeley and a masters in nutritional science from California State University Los Angeles, graduating both universities with honors. Michelle completed her dietetic training at the prestigious institutions of Cedars Sinai Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, and St. John’s Hospital.
You can learn more about Michelle’s private practice in Los Angelos and online at https://thetruebite.com.
You follow Michelle on Instagram at https://instagram.com/thetruebite
I recently conversed with two wonderful Registered Dietitians Hayley and Michelle about Intuitive Eating!
For an in-depth blog article with this interview and notes, please see here -
https://eatingenlightenment.com/2020/01/17/definition-of-intuitive-eating/
Here’s my take on our conversation. In this post I’ll draw from our interview to answer commonly asked questions like:
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What is the definition of intuitive eating?
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Does intuitive eating really work?
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What an intuitive eater eats in a day (if can’t feel hunger cues)?
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How do I deal with a poor body image that prevents me from listening to my body and eating intuitively?
About Hayley: Hayley is a dually licensed dietitian and psychotherapist with 8 years experience working with clients with eating disorders. Hayley also has 12 years experience as a dietitian and 10 years experience as a therapist. She is the owner of Hayley Miller Nutrition.
You can learn more about the services of Hayley and Michelle their website at http://hayleymillernutrition.com/
Hayley’s Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/hayleymillernutrition/
About Michelle: Michelle is a masters level Registered Dietitian who works with clients from a Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating lens. She believes that all foods can fit into a healthy lifestyle, feel good, and that eating well can be really simple and fun! Michelle has experience working as both a chef and registered dietitian in residential eating disorders treatment, and has additional experience counseling clients in the private practice setting.
You can learn more about Michelle at https://www.michellepillepichnutrition.com/
Michelle’s Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/michellepillepichnutrition/
34 years ago in approximately 1985, Michael Collins discovered that he was a sugar addict. 4 years later in approximately 1989 … 30 years ago from today …
Michael became completely sugar free. Since then Michael Collins has been completely sugar-free for over 30 years and has worked closely with others to help them regain lives ravaged by this addictive product.
Michael has gone on to start SugarAddiction.com (https://sugaraddiction.com) and is the Board Chairman of the Food Addiction Institute (https://foodaddictioninstitute.org/).
And here’s what’s crazy … not only has Mike has been in recovery from substance-use disorder for over 34 years … Michael has raised two children sugar-free from the womb to over six years old – when they only had sugar once a month for their entire childhood.
Michael’s also written a great book on Amazon. Michael has made his book free on Kindle and you can download here (https://amzn.to/2RRuAP4).
Michael is also on Facebook, where he maintains a page “Sugar Addiction” which you can like and follow (https://www.facebook.com/QuitSugarNow/).
Jen Bruno is a former college softball player and DePaul University Hall of Famer.
She has been passionate about health and wellness for much of her life and has used that passion to build a personal training and holistic health coaching business, J.B. Fitness and Nutrition over the last 11 years.
She has certifications from the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Wellcoaches, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and the American Council on Exercise.
She believes everyone deserves to live their healthiest, strongest, and most energetic life and feels grateful to accompany clients on their journeys.
Jen has a fantastic instagram profile (@jenbrunofitness) where she shares her fitness journey.
Jen also maintains a fitness website at http://www.jbrunofitness.com/
Just shoot her an email at jenbruno5@me.com if you’re interested in working with her!
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Meryl Hershey Beck, MA, M.Ed., knows about grief both personally and professionally. In her 30-year role as a licensed counselor, she often helped clients work through their grief.
And then in 2011, her 35-year olad son fatally shot himself. By example of her own life, she shows others that a return to wholeness is possible.
Meryl created SourceTapping®, a meridian therapy technique that helps ease pain – a tool she uses for herself and with bereaved clients.
Her first book, Stop Eating Your Heart Out, has helped many people deal with their emotional eating issues. And her second book, Loss, Survive, Thrive: Bereaved Parents Share Their Stories of Healing and Hope, demonstrates that a rich, fulfilling life is possible after your child has transitioned.
Loss, Survive, Thrive: Bereaved Parents Share Their Stories of Healing and Hope can be ordered on Amazon here, affiliate link - https://amzn.to/33RGsD4
Meryl has appeared on TV, radio, online summits and is also a frequent presenter at international conferences.
Meryl’s script for Source Tapping, a combination of Emotional Freedom Techniques to help you heal and contact your Higher Power, is available here for free download here -https://www.sourcetapping.com/script-and-diagram/
To learn more about Meryl and her best-selling book “Stop Eating Your Heart Out”, visit her website https://StopEatingYourHeartOut.com
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About 6 years ago Kelly began to experience burning sensations all over body like a painful rash.
Obviously something felt very wrong to Kelly. She went to the doctors office and the doctor said they could find nothing wrong with her. Yet Kelly’s skin was burning and itching! Obviously something was very wrong.
Things continued to get worse. The burning sensation that began on her skin began spreading internally! Kelly continued seeing doctors. Finally she found a doctor that gave her some medicine but warned her, “This might cure you, but this might make things 10x worse.”
Kelly took the medicine and things got 10x worse. And then Kelly found out she was pregnant. That’s how her journey began.
Nowadays Kelly has fully recovered.
Not only has Kelly recovered, she’s thriving. Kelly has blogged extensively about her journey.
Kelly is starting a podcast and is almost finished with her 1st book, which is in the final stages of editing. She’s also an intuitive reader and you can book a reading with her here.
Finally, Kelly offer’s Holistic Health Coaching to help people become the healthiest, happiest, & most fulfilled versions of themselves possible.
How did Kelly recover from her autoimmune disorder and go on to thrive? You can watch the interview down below, or click on the link to download the podcast episode!
Plus, we recorded the interview in her daughter’s room too 😊
Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, MEd is a psychotherapist, popular blogger and an international, award-winning author of 7 books on eating, weight and body image.
Her next book, on self-talk and self-care, will be published in January 2021. Her expertise is in eating psychology which is the how and why of eating.
She has been treating and teaching dysregulated eaters for more than 30 years, currently practices in Sarasota, Florida, and can be found at https://www.karenrkoenig.com/.
You can also connect with Karen on her FB page here, or order her top reviewed bestseller "The Food and Feelings Workbook".
In this interview Karen R. Koenig shares interesting stories like:
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Why Karen will continue working helping compulsive and emotional eaters until her last breath
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Why Karen loves writing and blogs so much (7 books and #8 on the way!)
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How To Have A Fantastic Attitude About Self-Care
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Why Diversifying Dopamine Activities Is Key To Stop Binge Eating
For more info about your host, Jared Levenson visit https://eatingenlightenment.com
Nonviolent Communication and emotional eating, they are almost like identical twins.
Imagine realizing that you have a twin, who looks nothing like you. Yet your mannerisms and thought patterns are the nearly the same.
You both think and approach problems the same way.
Having trouble in a relationship? You and your twin both observe, feel, realize your needs and make a request to your friend or partner.
Having trouble with food? You and your twin both observe, feel, realize your needs and practice self-care to stop emotional eating.
Twin-ness.
In yoga they say twin-ness differently. They say that the “micro” contains “macro”. Or how you do one thing is how you do everything.
It’s like a professional athlete. You can’t just be confident in the court. You can just ‘flip on’ confidence like a light switch. You have to BE confident in life. Then your confidence will show up naturally on the court.
How you eat food is how you live life.
Food is the micro. You only are eating food at maximum a few hours a day. You sleep many more hours than you eat food. You work many more hours than you eat food.
Yet how you eat food is how you live life. Twin-ness. The micro (food) contains the macro (life).
And so yes … communication and food … on surface level … they don’t have much in common.
But there is a certain twin-ness. There is a certain uncanny parallel that I find absolutely fascinating.
And that's what this article is about today!
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Let’s talk about stress eating from a 10,000 foot view.
Let’s talk about why you stress eat, while others at your job or in your social circle – who are under the same amount of stress – are normal with food.
This post will cover:
- Stress Eating Definition
- Now What Causes Stress Eating?
- Common Triggers For Emotional Eating
- Reasons “Why Do I Stress Eat?”
- Stress Eating Cure (Big Picture)
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This post is about discovering your beliefs so you can avoid relying on willpower to change your patterns.
Willpower is notoriously fickle. In Rick Kausman’s book “If not dieting, then what?” he talks extensively about avoiding the willpower trap.
In this post I take some of Rick’s thinking and mix in my own perspectives on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
I also talk about willpower in context of both eating and relationships.
There are 3 steps to change your eating and relationship patterns without using willpower:
1 – Understand Your Beliefs – your behavior is being unconsciously controlled by subconscious beliefs. The first step is simply discovering what your subconscious mind believes.
2 – Question Your Beliefs – after coming up with some ideas as to your subconscious beliefs, now you challenge, identify how current beliefs are black-and-white, identify how current beliefs help and harm, and question these beliefs.
3 – Write Out A New Gameplan – after coming up with more realistic versions of your beliefs, now it’s time to write out how you will take action the next time a situation occurs.
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Today we talk about a powerful four step process to stop emotional eating.
Below are the four steps but it's important to remember to go through these steps while speaking towards your feeling mind.
Basically you must go through the steps, say the phrases with emotions mixed into your voice.
STEP 1. Express unconditional acceptance of internal experiences.
STEP 2. Offer understanding of internal experiences.
STEP 3. Remind and reassure: Inform your feeling self that your Inner Nurturer is on the scene and ready to help.
STEP 4. Offer love and support: Flood your feeling self with loving and supportive phrases.
THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS. Offer comfort: Calm your feeling self with soothing words and gestures.
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Today we continue to learn how to help people with eating disorders.
Often times people with eating disorders are stuck in their heads and are resistant to change.
This means that often times you need to give this person resources so they feel more comfortable and secure and opening up about their struggles with food.
Here are three types of resources you can bring up in discussion in a non-threatening way:
1 - Internal Resources - emotional, cognitive, spiritual, relational,psychological, creative, physical
2 - Identify Unhelpful Resources - hyper vigilance, lashing out, running away, shutting down, disconnecting, cutting off from feelings and needs, overeating, working too hard, staying busy, trying to be perfect
3 - External Resources - emotional, relational, cognitive, psychological, material, spiritual
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Today I will be talking about cognitive behavioral therapy to treat eating disorders.
Specifically I will be focusing on how cognitive behavioral therapy can be highly beneficial for engineers, coders, programmers, etc
So if you're a logical, left brained professional who struggles with food listen up!
Here are 3 reasons your analytical job increases your risk of food struggles:
1 - Left Brain Work Disconnects You - for your job you are always thinking, which means you are not feeling.
2 - Deadlines and Stress - you have lots of pressure to complete projects, meaning you sometimes are forced to skip meals and have low willpower at night
3 - Brilliant at Work, Not so Brilliant with Food - you have a natural strength and preference to use your thinking mind and it's gotten you far in life, but other aspects of life require different brain muscles
Now here are 3 reasons cognitive behavioral therapy can be amazing if you are natural thinking person:
1 - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Is Gold Standard Therapy - cognitive behavioral therapy has the most double blind placebo controlled studies and it's results are the best
2 - Cognitive Therapy Involves Thinking - you can use your strength in analyzing and thinking to work through cognitive behavioral therapy
3 - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Is Simple and Structured - compared to other therapies, cognitive behavioral therapy is simple to understand and has a structure
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Have you ever ate something unhealthy, despite knowing this food was unhealthy and not wanting to eat this food?
Or just generally speaking, do you have bad habits that you cannot stop?
Do you even research various blog articles and videos about how to stop these bad habits? Yet you find yourself continually repeating these unhealthy habits?
It can seem very strange - on one hand you are actively trying to improve your life, but on the other hand you are sabotaging yourself.
This is the worst. Knowing that you are out of your own control is extremely stressful.
Today we are going to be examining what to do when you are stressed out and can't change your habits.
There are a few ways we will understand how to make sense of this paradox.
1 - Understand The Rewards Of Your Bad Habit - bad habits are giving you an emotional reward. You must identify this reward
2 - Replace Reward With Self Care - you must try to substitute bad habit the reward good habit
3 - Have A Growth Mindset - you must be willing to reflect upon why you are not changing by seeing what rewards you are getting from your bad habits
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Often times when I talk to people before they hear about intuitive eating, they say things like
- Sugar is addicting
- Sugar is like cocaine
- I'm addicted to sugar
They report feeling these incredible urges to eat candy, sweets, ice cream and other sugary treats. Their instincts are powerful and they often times find themselves eating sugar without even thinking about it.
But today I will show you why you're not actually addicted to sugar, despite feeling like an addict. I'll also give you some practical tips to help make sense of this so that you can stop craving sugar so much starting today.
1 - No Human Studies On Sugar Addiction - there have only been a few studies on mice that showed sugar addiction and these mice were put in deprived conditions.
2 - Lack Energy Density Creates Sugar Cravings - if you aren't eating foods that fill you up nutritionally, you'll be faced with gnawing hunger and your instincts will go towards sugar.
3 - Unpleasant Eating Leads To More Sugar Cravings - if you are constantly following restrictive sugar rules and being guilty, instead of being present, you get even more urges towards sugar to disconnect
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Here is the story of my dad's weight loss journey so far. The story is simple. He retired. But there's more than meets the eye ...
The following are some reasons why I am hopeful my dad will keep the weight off:
1 - Less Stress, Less Weight - instead of being on a diet with rules, which is stressful, flip the script and focus on decreasing your stress at work
2 - Clean Up Your Environment - at work you might be tempted by sugary snacks, if you remove yourself from tempting environments you will naturally have less urge to eat those sugary snacks
3 - Try To Associate Less With Unconscious Eaters - you might be in work relationships with unconscious eaters who eat unhealthy without thinking. While you're stuck with family, work relationships are easier to switch up
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Today we are continuing our journey to stop emotional eating.
Here are a few exercises you can do to increase your acceptance of your emotions to learn how to be emotionally strong:
1 – Reflect on what you currently value – take a good look at yourself and clarify what you currently. Gracefully admit you may over-value your appearance, weight, and opinions of others.
2 – Reflect on your ideal values – instead of over-valuing appearance, weight and the opinions of others, what else would you like to value?
3 – Imagine you have died and people are at your funeral – what would you like them to be saying about you?
4 – List out various aspects of life and see how important they are to you – just looking at various life aspects can help broaden your perspective to see what’s truly important
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Today we are increasing your tolerance and ability to handle distress.
Basically we're increasing your pain tolerance and to do that we are tying together a few different skill sets.
Together these skill sets are called distress tolerance. Distress tolerance means that you can handle difficult and intense emotions without needing food to make you feel better.
Let's first examine the cycle of distress so we can solve the problem:
1 - Non-acceptance - difficulty accepting negative emotions, want to pretend not bothering you or doesn't matter
2 - Unwillingness - even if you notice the negative emotion, you might not be willing to sit with the emotion and feel it
3 - Escape - you eat to avoid negative feeling
4 - Distress - you feel incredibly bad as you are forced to face the consequences of avoidant behavior
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Here are a few ways you can start to practice mindful eating.
1 - Just A Few Mindful Bites - let's be real here eating a full mindful meal might be too much to ask in the beginning start off with just a few undistracted bites
2 - Use Your Mouth To Notice Tastes and Textures - to practice mindful eating pay attention to the distinct tastes and textures
3 - Try Chewing Slowly - just chew more slowly and you'll naturally be more mindful
4 - Explore Your Preferences - you have the freedom to eat foods you like, but you need to taste and discover these foods for yourself!
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What is a Life Weaving Conversation?
It's a conversation where separate strands of life are strung together in a coherent way contributing to greater understanding.
The first thread in my conversation with David centered about tunnel vision. Tunnel vision is where your reality is restricted to a limited view, and in David's case, tunnel vision meant religious fundamentalism.
Learning to ask questions and to question his assumptions was a critical foundation for David's journey into working as a counselor in private practice and helping veterans with invisible injuries.
The second thread in our conversation explored the difficult in getting out of tunnel vision. Because it's one thing to talk about tunnel vision, but a whole different thing to actually be stuck in tunnel vision.
Relationships, it turns out, are crucial to changing your perspective.
Relationships form the backbone of our life. Even in Buddhist philosophy, everything is recognized as interconnected.
Relationships are far more important than willpower. Willpower is oftentimes why mindfulness and cognitive therapy can be misunderstood.
Both mindfulness and cognitive therapy can go to battle with thoughts. You might try to 'will your thoughts' away. However, battling your thoughts only causes resistance.
So the key is to change your relationship to your thoughts. As David notes, you don't act on every one of your thoughts during the day. Thoughts are more like a structure of reality.
However, you can learn to accept your thoughts without getting lost in tunnel vision by having a clear understanding of your vision and values.
Finally, we talked about vision and values. Particularly in a world where there's so much noise, it's perhaps the most important thing for us to form relationships and explore our values consciously.
Without conscious exploration, we'll be greatly hindered in our quest to live our best lifes and to be able to respond to situations flexibly.
David has a private therapy practice and he works with people all over the world in different timezones.
For more information, please visit David's Life Weavings website here.
Rarely do you meet a person who is so uplifting!
From having found her gift and purpose at age 16, to spontaneously writing a book in 4 hours, Dani really made me smile in this interview.
As I myself personally identify with the gift of healing, I knew I was in the presence of a healer.
How did I know I was in the presence of a healer?
I knew because Dani spoke about Love from the heart, so effortlessly the energy just poured forth. I even gave her tough questions too!
Asking about her struggles from changing career paths, asking her to share stories about her two daughters and husband, Dani answered all questions in a powerful way.
I'm not surprised to see that her book is titled 'How To Empower Your Kids'. Empower seems very fitting, in a caring supportive way.
So without giving too much away I highly suggest you listen to the podcast episode!
Below the podcast are various links you can use to connect with Dani.
To follow Danny on Twitter visit @DaniBastos
To visit Danny's website visit DannyBastosLifeCoach
To empower your kids purchase Danny's book!
A handful of videos ago, I started diving into the topic of emotional eating.
I started off by saying there were two primary skills you needed to know. These skills were opposites - active versus acceptance.
The first skill was reframing. Here is the link to the previous video about refraining - https://youtu.be/JR1JTNz_owI
Today we are starting to talk about the acceptance skills.
Here are a few different ways we will approach the topic of acceptance:
1 - SIFT - sift your emotions to accept them by sensing, interpreting, feeling, and noticing your tendencies.
2 - Examine Limiting Emotional Beliefs - many of us subconsciously believe feeling and accepting our emotions is failure. We must be aware of these beliefs in order to practice acceptance.
3 - Notice Non-acceptance Versus Acceptance - you can start to get a feel for acceptance by bringing up a difficult situation and tensing your muscles and noticing how you feel. Then release your muscles and notice how you feel.
4 - Being Truly Willing To Feel Pain - you might secretly want to 'accept' your feelings in hopes you feels go away but this is not what it means to be honestly willing to accept pain feelings.
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For years I ate vegetarian food only, no meat.
But I wasn't a healthy vegetarian. I let vegetarianism get to my ego. I anemia and only weighed 125 lbs. I wasn't getting enough iron in my blood, and I was always fatigued.
So I started eating meat again for health reasons. My weight normalized and my energy improved. In the following years I have continued to eat meat...
But nowadays I feel inspired when I see companies like Beyond Meat. I am tempted to become vegan again.
Here are my thoughts on going vegetarian and eating meat replacements products.
1 - Be Vegetarian With Protein - being vegetarian can be great but dangerous if you don't get proper protein
2 - Eat Meatless Meat For Delicious Protein - meatless meat nowadays tastes great and has similar texture to hamburgers or sausages
3 - A Dash Vegetarian Pride Is Good - be proud, tell people if you want that your vegetarian and eating meatless meats, but don't get too prideful
4 - Vote With Your Dollar - buying meatless meat products supports these technologies. Ultimately to stop global warming we need to transition to meatless meats
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Today we're going to be talking about the root causes of disordered eating, eating disorders and binge eating.
It all begins with the bond between mother and child, and father's too.
According to attachment theory there are three main types of attachment:
- Secure
- Anxious
- Avoidant
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I recently read Christie Harrison's New York times opinion piece about yoyo dieting and other cultural issues around weight.
This video I'm going to give my reaction to several talking points that I read in her article
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/op...
Have you ever had a train of thought disrupted by self hatred thought?
You're just going about your day running errands or sending out emails and all of the sudden you're mentally beating the crap out of yourself because your body isn't an Instagram model?
These negative thoughts are the reasons why we are our own worst critics. This post explores:
Why we are our own worst critics
Two skills to be nicer to yourself
2 techniques to make your brain shut up
First let's understand why we are our own worst critics.
It all begins innocently. Perhaps your parents would always weigh themselves each day and make an off-hand remark to you about whether they gained weight.
Even simple visits to the doctor's office where you are weighed can lead you to place much of your self-esteem on a proper weight and body image.
Of course there are many people who have verbally abusive parents, whose parents teased them about their weight.
My experience tells me that the majority of people had pretty good parents, good enough parents but their parents came from an older generation that was ignorant in terms of dieting.
Nowadays we know that dieting doesn't work. In fact we know the opposite is true - that dieting is actually harmful and causes weight gain.
Yeah the previous generation didn't know this. They grew up in a generation that didn't even know smoking cigarettes was bad for you. So they were raised with much different beliefs and would much less sensitive about weight.
So for all these reasons you may have a developed an inner critic simply because your environment growing up was hostile to weight.
Okay so we are our own worst critics, now what?
The old generation was all about willpower.
If you are overweight, go to the gym. If you weigh too much, eat less. Simple as that.
Obesity was because you were lazy.
And even worse, if you were obese, then teasing you and shaming you was considered proper behavior. I've talked to people who believe that shaming people who are obese is the proper way to treat of these people and it just saddens me.
But nowadays thankfully, we know better. We know that willpower and controlling our thoughts and our appetites simply doesn't work.
It's like trying to build a house to live in with Legos. Legos make things nice and simple but when you actually tried to do it in real life, it doesn't work out. The same is with willpower.
So instead of willpower we use two primary skills.
The first skill is skillful effort to redirect and refrain your thoughts.
The primary way we do this is to examine the truthfulness of our thoughts.
There's a big misunderstanding that we do need to clarify before going on. We do not get upset at ourselves for having these automatic thoughts. We must remember that these automatic thoughts we grew up with as children and these thoughts were embedded into us through our childhood.
So this right here is really important. We expect these automatic thoughts. Because we expect them we don't get mad when they arrive.
So for example, if you suddenly think to yourself "God I'm fat and ugly and hopeless" we realize this is an automatic thought and don't get mad at ourselves for having it.
Instead, we seek to examine the truthfulness of these thoughts.
How do you examine the truthfulness of a thought?
You turn the thought into a question.
So for the "God I'm fat and ugly and hopeless" thought, you could reframe as a question by asking if you were really hopeless. Is it really true that you are hopeless?
The answer is no. You are not entirely hopeless. Therefore, the thought needs to be modified.
How do you modify a thought?
You try to come up with a more realistic thought that actually reflects reality.
You can say instead of being hopeless, that you feel hopeless, but are actually successful in different areas of life.
So that's it for this video. Let me know - what's your preferred technique on stopping negative thoughts, mindfulness or effort?
Amy is the founder of Dancing with ED.
She's a Professional Speaker, Writer, Eating Disorder Recovery Advocate for Dancers, Founder of Dancing With ED (https://dancingwithed.com/)
You can find Amy on Linkedin too (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-waddle-321aba134/)
This interview explores how Amy overcame her checkered history with dancing, bulimia and profound darkness.
I felt really connected to Amy too while she shared her experiences and unexpected surprises on her eating recovery journey.
One of the memories I remember from this conversation is the analogy of a candle. Amy said that hope is like having the embers of a blown out candle. There's hope you will burn brightly again.
As Amy demonstrates herself through her journey from darkness to light, you can be inspired too.
Please leave a comment or review would love to know your thoughts.
In this Eating Disorder Interview With Amy Waddle you will learn:
- How Amy dug deep into her history to unearth hidden hope that kept her alive while she dealt with suicidal struggles and bulimia
- How to write an autobiographical memory of past trauma so you can release subconscious fears and heal yourself
- One of Amy's biggest Eating Enlightenment's was realizing that "she was not her body"
This past Saturday I gave an open, free overeating workshop at the Santa Clara library.
During this workshop I met some interesting characters who had some interesting stories.
One story in particular resonated with me. I met an older Indian man and his wife who were living with their son who worked at Google.
And I was able to connect with him in a powerful way by giving him analogies to learning a different language.
See, this man said he had a problem with overeating. He was eating too much. Eating too much till the point of feeling bloated, guilty, and anxious.
But, something I noticed was that his English was excellent. His wife on the other hand could understand my body language and my gestures which I was exaggerating, but the husband was the translator. He had learned English very well. This insight would help me later on explain to him:
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Why he needed to realize his body spoke a foreign language that he could listen to.
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How the same skills he used to learn English could be applied to learning the different language of his body.
Before I gave this man some eating wisdom about learning a different language of his body, I first got to know him and hear his story (which I explain in video above).
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Would you like to know what Evelyn Tribole told me about intuitive eating?
Evelyn is one of the co-founders of intuitive eating and I am in the final stages of completing my intuitive eating certification.
This snippet of intuitive eating is actually some pretty revolutionary advice. What's her advice?
Drop your expectations.
If you want more unconvential wisdom from experts, check out this video snippet here about realizing "I am not my body" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOEj...
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Everywhere you look you see beautiful images of people's bodies. Instagram, magazines, media...
Imagine spending hours on your makeup to post an image on Instagram. Then because you didn't get enough likes, you delete your hard earned photo.
What a shame. Body image issues are real.
This video is about:
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Common forms of body image problems like comparing your body to another person's body
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Understanding the big picture of helping someone with body image issues by thinking truthfully
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Exercises to uncover your self worth
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Two techniques of AND and Narration to stop obsessive inner critic
For another video about body image exploring "do you need to even lose weight?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqvSn...
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Let's talk about how to change your relationship with food.
I'm going to talk about specifically the steps you need to take to undergo the unconditional eating process.
First you must develop a plan and think things through.
What food?
How will you eat this food?
Where will you eat this food?
When will you eat this food?
After you have planned out everything for your big day, for this transformative meal, follow these three principles:
Before - notice what you are feeling before you eat.
During - notice how the food tastes like while you eat and when your stomach starts to give you fullness sensations and the pleasure and taste of the food decreases.
After - be careful that you truly eat until you are satisfied. After you have eaten to your heart's content, notice how you feel afterwards.
Now here is an important question - are you even ready to unconditionally eat? Do you understand the process. If you don't understand the process please be sure to watch my other video here which goes in-depth about the process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJDH...
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You probably have seen an extreme food challenge.
Or perhaps you glanced at your kid's screen and noticed people wolfing down insane amounts of food very quickly.
Let's name this phenomenon for what it is - binge eating without guilt.
It's likely that this type of behavior is giving an inappropriate message. Simply put, watching other people stuff themselves is not good for your health.
So should we ban these videos? Should we write to the creators of these videos and tell them to stop?
Here's my perspective on what is appropriate action for you to take:
Stop tuning out, start tuning in.
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Take a stand for personal food preferences by giving everyone food freedom!!!
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By letting go of judgment towards others, you give yourself the chance to be free of judgment towards yourself.
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There will always be arguments about the right way to eat food, are you going to get involved in everyone of these arguments?
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It's hard enough to respect your own body and taste preferences, focus on yourself first and be your own light.
Here's another video where I talk about why diets fail psychologically - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgfiA...
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Do cravings feel impossibly irresistible to you? You can't stop thinking about food all the time?
Perhaps you're ready to try some radical approach to food. Perhaps you're really ready to embrace unconditional eating.
4 Points of Unconditional Eating
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Dieting is dangerous - and can cause food obsession thoughts and binge eating
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Food freedom is important - many people that are normal with food have this food freedom and you can have it too.
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How to do food freedom correctly - don't try food freedom unless you're eating enough nutrient dense foods and have actively prioritized meeting your emotional needs.
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Common fears of unconditional eating are mostly nothing to worry about - you won't eat too much and your taste preferences will change.
This is an easily misunderstood topic so feel free to explore another video on this topic about getting rid of cravings which you can watch here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Creut...
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Why do I always want to eat?
Here are 5 reasons why:
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Cultural Conditioning - for millions of years food was scarce. Now food is always in your face.
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You Eat To Avoid Stress - you're in a bad habit of eating when even just slightly stressed.
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You're Not Eating Enough To Get Full - fullness is either foreign to you OR you are afraid of feeling full because you fearfully associate fullness with binge eating bloatedness.
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Lack of Protein / Fat Or Too Many Carbs - carbs are easy, convenient and temporarily fill you up.
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You're Stuck In A Story Of Deprivation - You haven't healed an inner wound just yet
If you aren't sure what fullness is or how to tell when you are full, I made an additional video training you can watch here on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpmBI...
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Below are some more in-depth thoughts of mine!
You can have your cake and eat it too.
Well, maybe not cake. But here's a list of foods that will keep you full so you eat less calories overall.
These measurements are from a ‘satiety index’ or a scientific list of foods that keep you full.
In general these scores are derived from 4 different criteria:
Lots of fiber
Lots of protein
Lots of volume
Low in energy density
To read this list please realize the base measurement is white bread which only scored 100.
Boiled potatoes 323
Fish 225
Oatmeal 209
Oranges 203
Apples 197
Whole Wheat pasta 188
Beef 176
Baked Beans 168
Grapes 162
Whole Wheat Bread 157
The highest scoring food was boiled potatoes.
Way different than salty fries!!!!
Specifically boiled potatoes scored 3.23 on a Fullness Index.
White bread only scored 1.
What does this mean?
Basically boiled potatoes keep you 3x as full. So if you get full ... You don't need to eat so many slices of white bread.
Knowing what foods are filling can also help you significantly decrease food cravings and binge eating!
For another post where I review a short guideline on how to easily sort through foods which give you fullness so that you can easily make purchasing decisions while grocery shopping, check out this video here - https://youtu.be/R-q4RJHI5AM
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Have you ever come home from work absolutely starving, ate dinner, got full, and then proceeded to keep eating until you fell asleep?
Or, do you have a vague fear that your kitchen is a place where you lose control in the evening or late at night?
often times we feel that evening and late night is where we're most vulnerable. And this video I take a look at the late afternoon snack.
Getting late afternoon snack is important for the following reason - missing the afternoon snack makes you vulnerable to overeat at night.
On the other hand, if you eat this snack, you'll be much less likely to give into temptations.
oftentimes people know about the benefits of the late afternoon snack, but they either ...
À) don't have enough time
B) don't know what to make
So in this video I wanted to show you a quick snack template which will give you a couple ideas on what snacks to make in a short amount of time.
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Combine Black Beans with Whole Wheat Bread or Brown Rice
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Then Add A 'Good' Fat On Top Like Avocado, Meat, Or Egg
That's it!