The Eating Coach: Recent Episodes
Harriet Morris, Eating Psychology Coach
Irreverent, funny and challenging. This is the show for you if you are sick of being on the treadmill of binge eating and sugar addiction and none of the self-proclaimed gurus out there can help. The Eating Coach Harriet Morris brings you Stupid Idea of The Week (walking treadmill or baby food diet, anyone?) as well as real-life workable ideas from her own experience dismantling compulsive eating and sugar addiction, as well as psychology and neuroscience.
I coined the term chaotic foods to refer to products that have negative and unexpected effects on the body.
In this episode, I chat with nutritional therapist Louise Digby about her take on this topic, as well as sharing some revelations about processed foods that our conversation sparked in me.
Discover:
*Why diet foods can backfire so badly
*Why ultra-processed foods have zero nutritional qualities, but also why they promote overconsumption
*Why fat and carbs can be so addictive
*Why inflammation is such a problem - not least because of how people view it
*How these foods increase food cravings
*Why hormones are a scapegoat for other issues
*The effect sugar has on the menstrual cycle
*What Louise advises her clients to do re: artificial sweeteners
*The power of retraining your tastebuds
*Louise’s 80/20 nutritional principle
RESOURCES
Find out more about Louise at
@louisedigbynutrition
https://www.louisedigbynutrition.com/
Thriving Metabolism Podcast
Harriet's Avoiding UPF s Experiment
https://www.theshiftinside.com/avoid-ultra-processed-foods/
Ultra-Processed People is by Dr Chris Van Tulleken
Book a call to talk about coaching here:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
In this episode, I explore two very different real life type 2 stories.
In the first story, we meet Hannah, whose food intake was very much controlled by what I call The Inner Food Rebel.
I also interview a client of mine who in 6 weeks has dropped his A1C measure from 58 (well into type 2 territory) to 50 (pre-diabetes) and dropped 6 kilos. Find out how he achieved this.
There are four ways that Hannah and my client diverge. Four factors in their respective outcomes:
1: The Role That Food Plays
2: Control
3: All or Nothing vs Moderation
4: Possibly the most important factor of them all. Listen in to find out what it is.
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside.com
Free type 2 diabetes coaching session - limited numbers available.
Go to https://www.theshiftinside.com/start/ to find out more…or if you don’t want to wait, email me info (at) theshiftinside.com (subject line: T2D)
The hidden gifts of diabetes? Are you bonkers, Harriet?
Well, no. This episode will give you a massive Aha moment as you turn your dread and fear about your health into a feeling that you can do something about this thing.
In this episode, I reveal three positives that you have probably never considered before about this condition.
Gift No. 1: It’s A Wake Up Call
Hear the shockingly hopeful stat that will power up your motivation to do something about type 2 diabetes. Make the choice that you didn’t know you have.
Gift No. 2: It Can Prevent a Heart Attack
Find out how (and try not to fall off your chair). These facts will blow you away - and maybe save your life one day.
Gift No. 3: The Unexpected One
The key changes that will reverse your type 2 diabetes - eating better, moving more and reducing stress - create real pleasure. This stands in opposition to fake pleasure which is a product of ultra processed foods, couch potatoing your way through the weekend and overstimulation.
Find out how you can tell the difference in this episode.
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside.com
IG: @mindovert2diabetes
Go to https://www.theshiftinside.com/mind/ to get your Mind Over Diabetes Starter Kit - completely free.
If you don’t know anything about type 2 diabetes, treat this episode as a primer explaining what you need to know.
If you do know your T2D stuff, you’ll get a new and refreshing take on this condition. Instead of imaging it as an invading enemy, let’s see it as a delivery service desperately trying to adapt to a massive overload of packages.
All is explained in this enlightening episode.
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside.com
IG: @mindovert2diabetes
Introducing the Mind Over Diabetes series - a collection of episodes that aim to show how upgrading your mindset can make reversing type 2 diabetes.
Next episode out in the next few days.
If you are thinking: Well, Harriet, I don't have diabetes... you may be one of the estimated 850,000 people in the UK and 8.7 million in the US who are undiagnosed.
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside.com
My experience of giving up gluten. The ups and the downs. Definitely some challenges here but NO STRUGGLE.
Full disclosure: I am not completely gluten free, but its pull on me is loosening big time!
There will be an epilogue about my story here out before the end of June.
RESOURCES
Get your free Mindtrailers instruction video here
https://www.theshiftinside.com/mindtrailers/
Reclaim coaching programme details
https://www.theshiftinside.com/reclaim/
Interested in working one to one with me? Here are some next steps, depending on what suits you:
Book a 20 minute call to find out more
https://hmorris.as.me/20
Try a group taster session
https://www.theshiftinside.com/taster/
The Law of Attraction Activator podcast
https://www.loaactivator.com/
Check me out on Instagram @loaactivator
Harriet Morris
Info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Get your link for the free taster Shift session at
https://www.theshiftinside.com/taster/
Note: no details of my past trauma are shared. No need for any trigger warning - hurray!
In this episode, I talk about how I have processed my trauma and those experiences now feel irrelevant to me. The shame has all but dissolved.
In this episode I give some details about how this amazing process took place and the results I have seen because of it.
Resources
Interested in working one to one with me? Here are some next steps, depending on what suits you:
Book a 20 minute call to find out more
https://hmorris.as.me/20
Email me: Info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Find out about my Reclaim coaching programme
https://www.theshiftinside.com/reclaim/
Try a group taster session
https://www.theshiftinside.com/taster/
Episode mentioned from The Law of Attraction Activator podcast
http://sites.libsyn.com/474318/03-how-the-law-of-attraction-changed-my-life
Me Too Episode
https://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-me-too-release-your-trauma-and-put-food-out-of-a-job-it-was-never-meant-to-do/
Get your link for the free taster Shift session at
https://www.theshiftinside.com/taster/
Note: no details of my past trauma are shared. No need for any trigger warning - hurray!
In this episode, I talk about how I have processed my trauma and those experiences now feel irrelevant to me. The shame has all but dissolved.
In this episode I give some details about how this amazing process took place and the results I have seen because of it.
Interested in working one to one with me? Here are some next steps, depending on what suits you:
Book a 20 minute call to find out more
https://hmorris.as.me/20
Email me: Info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Find out about my Reclaim coaching programme
https://www.theshiftinside.com/reclaim/
Try a group taster session
https://www.theshiftinside.com/taster/
Episode mentioned from The Law of Attraction Activator podcast
http://sites.libsyn.com/474318/03-how-the-law-of-attraction-changed-my-life
Me Too Episode
https://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-me-too-release-your-trauma-and-put-food-out-of-a-job-it-was-never-meant-to-do/
Get your link for the free taster Shift session at
https://www.theshiftinside.com/taster/
Note: no details of my past trauma are shared. No need for any trigger warning - hurray!
In this episode, I talk about how I have processed my trauma and those experiences now feel irrelevant to me. The shame has all but dissolved.
In this episode I give some details about how this amazing process took place and the results I have seen because of it.
Resources
Interested in working one to one with me? Here are some next steps, depending on what suits you:
Book a 20 minute call to find out more
https://hmorris.as.me/20
Email me: info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Find out about my Reclaim coaching programme
https://www.theshiftinside.com/reclaim/
Try a group taster session
https://www.theshiftinside.com/taster/
Episode mentioned from The Law of Attraction Activator podcast
http://sites.libsyn.com/474318/03-how-the-law-of-attraction-changed-my-life
Me Too Episode
https://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-me-too-release-your-trauma-and-put-food-out-of-a-job-it-was-never-meant-to-do/
Email me: Info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Instagram : @loaactivator
Harriet Morris
Get your link for the free taster Shift session at
https://www.theshiftinside.com/taster/
This is the second in this four-part series on Living Directly.
Part one is at https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-215-adventures-in-living-directly
The hidden price of processed foods is that they enable a mindset you long to be free of.
Another way in to this topic...
Is it possible for any food to stop you living directly - to numb you out and deny yourself a place at the table of really enjoying your time on this planet?
Answer: yes and no.
See what I mean in this short episode, and learn which belief is enabled by substances such as sugar and other processed foods
Email: info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Get your free Mindtrailers instruction video here:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/mindtrailers/
A series of four episodes focused on living directly. What's that got to do with food and binge eating, Harriet?
Living directly is much more engaging, sustainable approach to health than the traditional problem solving that the whole world has been brainwashed into.
It's making old wounds as irrelevant as a cut on your finger.
It's saying to life: I can handle the downs as well as the ups.
Tune in to this episode and find out more.
Next episode will be tomorrow
Find out about the Reclaim Coaching programme here
https://www.theshiftinside.com/reclaim/
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Want to get the guided audio to help you make better choices without rousing your Inner Food Rebel?
Just email me
info @ theshiftinside dot com
with the subject line GUT AUDIO
Q: What’s better than a New Year’s Resolution? A: Why, a New Year’s REVOLUTION, of course!
In this episode, I give you a total 180 degree change in how to approach health change at this most failure-prone time of the year that will revolutionise 2023 if you let it.
The gut is the subject of some rockstar cutting edge research, so why not have the best of both worlds - a huge improvement in your health AND leaving behind struggle?
Resolution smacks of push, push, struggle, do penance for your food sins and try to be a completely different person.
There are two guiding principles to make superpowering your gut health much easier:
#1 Focus on internal health and #2 Fall in love with the changes you need to make.
As I explain, this is very different from the shame-based external focus of most people’s January ‘do better’ efforts.
RESOURCES Reclaim programme details https://www.theshiftinside.com/reclaim/
Harriet Morris Info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Photographer Julie Richards pops into Eating Coach HQ to talk all things 40 Over 40…her innovative campaign to build women’s sense of self. This is a photoshoot with built-in confidence building powers!
Watch this interview on YouTube; https://youtu.be/0yzFyMqGJos
Also in this episode:
2 Ways To make The Festive Season Easier
&
Harriet’s Be Seen Project
The 40 Over 40 Campaign
Julie says: “The 40 over 40 campaign is to empower woman over 40 and above,through beautiful images. There is no upper age limit! I want mature woman who have a story to tell or just want to be seen.
Maybe life has gotten in the way of how they see themselves. We lead busy lives and spin many plates and very often we put ourselves last before everybody else! The menopause hits and we suddenly feel invisible and don't like the we look and feel anymore. The connection to ourselves has become lost but, we are still that same beautiful woman and our loved ones still see our beauty even when we do not.
Through this campaign I want you to see yourself how others see you. I want you to really look at yourself and say 'wow' that's me! I am amazing!
I can bring out the inner you in different ways. Flirty, fun, sexy, bold and strong! You can be one of those or all of them. This experience is designed around and for you. With a mood board, professional hair and makeup, up to 5 outfit changes (I have some amazing gowns) style guide and beauty guide along with the fully guided photo shoot it is an experience not to be missed.
Once all 40 ladies have been photographed it will culminate in an evening of celebration. We will come together and celebrate our beautiful selves in style!
RESOURCES
More on 40 over 40
https://julierichardsportraits.com/40-over-40-project/
Instagram: @julierichardsportraits
The Be Seen Video Diaries
https://www.theshiftinside.com/the-be-seen-diaries/
Find out more about the Thrive event on 30th November here
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1143156
Get your video clips for the anti-cravings game here
https://www.theshiftinside.com/interesting/
In this episode I am going to share a simple game you can use to walk away from processed food cravings. Starring two of my favourite comedians and some mind games you can play with your own self-sabotage :)
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside.com
Find out more about the Thrive event here:
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1143156
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This is a replay of episode 88: How to eat less at Thanksgiving, where I give a useful reframe of that question to make the 24th November (as well as the whole of December) easier, more fun and less guilt-ridden.
Thrive
In 90 minutes, walk away with a rock solid plan for festive celebrating (24th Nov - 31st Dec) that will allow you to:
Fully celebrate the holidays without falling into compulsion
Know exactly what to do when you are faced with a pot luck spread the size of California or a shelf at work heaving with junk food
Use gamification to transform making the right choices into something that is actually fun
Wake up on 1st January minus the hideous guilt from party binges
Enjoy rich, indulgent food with those you love
Swap fake pleasure for real pleasure
See a real difference in your behaviour around party food and processed carbs without relying on self-belief or willpower
And all for only £25!
Includes planning sheet
Sunday 20th November 8pm UK (3pm EST), repeated on Wed 30th November at 8pm UK (3pm EST).
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1143156
Harriet Morris
info (at)theshiftinside.com
This episode is a follow on from episode 207 on your body as your long lost twin. Listen to that here:
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-207-your-body-is-your-long-lost-twin
Today I talk about three ways to reconnect to that long lost twin inside you and make those important health and weight goals much more easily achievable.
Reconnection Point 1: Eating Presence
What is eating presence? Well, it’s slow eating, Jim - but not as we know it.
Slow eating has probably the same status in your mind as watching paint dry while being poked with a sharp stick - boring and painful.
No lie - it is uncomfortable. But in the same way that many of the great leaps forward in your life (getting married, becoming a parent, getting the promotion) involved discomfort, it is so worth it.
So what has eating slowly got to do with feeling more connected to your body? Well, when you are eating slowly, you are NOT eating fast - and speed eating is a surefire way to check out of your body. It’s as if you have to drug yourself just to sit next to your wounded self in the canteen of life. It’s like Back to the Future where George McFly is the wounded self, Biff the bully is the inner critic, and Marty (Michael J Fox) is the part of you that is eating slowly to sit by George.
Reconnection Point 2: Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychology is, in a nutshell, the part of our brain left over from our cavedwelling ancestors: our Cavebrain. Fight or flight is one example - you switch into lightning fast reaction mode if you see a dangerous driver or your child runs into the road.
The great news is that you can use your Cavebrain to feel more body acceptance.
Reconnection Point 3: Possibility Shifting
People have been in struggle for years and years around their health. Limiting beliefs are the culprit - but simply telling yourself to ignore them. The truth is that these beliefs are a faulty coping mechanism. In this episode I go into more details on this.
RESOURCES
Lisa Crofton
Find out how to get your special launch price for Lisa Crofton’s new book Hope, Healing and The Way Forward here
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.crofton.7
Her website is https://lisacrofton.com/
The Body Confident Project
https://www.theshiftinside.com/body/
Back To The Future Episode
https://www.theshiftinside.com/back-to-the-future-helps-you-stop-binge-eating-ec-148/
Harriet Morris
email......info at theshiftinside dot com
Join the free planning session for the 3x1 project on Tues 1st Nov 8pm UK/4pm EST (Note different time difference this week only)
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
The 3x1 Project is a one month, low maintenance way to slide a healthy new habit into your busy life - right under the radar of your self sabotage!
How many times have you started off with phrases like MASSIVE ACTION careering round your brain, high on your good intentions - only to be tripped up by your own resistance ……days later (you insert the number)
What if you accepted that resistance is a fact of life, and instead created a workaround that allowed you to make real, sustainable progress on ONE area of your health?
This is the 3 x 1 plan
One Seedling Change
One Structural Scaffold in your daily routine
Once a day track your progress and celebrate
This approach will teach your mind and body to act in spite of your own resistance AND FEEL AWESOME in the process. You will train your brain to get a hit of feel good dopamine from even small successes. What do you think is going to happen to your motivation? It will skyrocket. And your resistance? It will divebomb.
FREE planning session this Tues 1st Nov 8pm UK - 9pm CET - 4pm EST
Get your link to join the Zoom here
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
Get your link for the 3x1 project Zoom call on Tues 1 Nov:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
Halloween - (A) time of stealing from the sweet mountain your home has turned into….
…or (B) time to overstep your perceived limitations and manage the temptation more easily than you could have believed?
If you fancy choosing B, here is a shortcut - one simple and powerful idea that will calm your cravings and make it easier to walk away from the junk than you could ever realise.
RESOURCES
Sugar Free Ice Cream Video Recipe
https://vimeo.com/765203854
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Schedule a 20 minute call
https://hmorris.as.me/20
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We are all encouraged to think that body hatred is a great motivator for health and weight loss. Let me prove that toxic myth wrong using the metaphor of the human body as a person in its own right.
How about if your body was actually your long lost twin?
In this episode, I talk about:
What Person Do Most People See Their Body As?
Why Treating Your Body In This Way Is Ineffective
Some of The Health Consequences on The Body Of This
What Does It Feel Like To Treat Your Body as Your Long Lost Twin?
Why None Of This Is Your Fault
The Hidden Reason I Lost Touch With My Body
RESOURCES
Schedule a 20 minute call
https://hmorris.as.me/20
Join The Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Freedom In Five guided audio
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1139639
Me Too episode
http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-me-too-release-your-trauma-and-put-food-out-of-a-job-it-was-never-meant-to-do/
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Top of many people's health goals is weight loss. The problem with this is that this perfectly useful measure of health has been corrupted by the diet and beauty industries, who have injected harsh unrealistic expectations into the mix, along with a nice toxic dose of body shame.
Actor Rebel Wilson's story around her weight loss departs from virtually every other celeb's yo yo dieting, and she has a lot to teach us about the difference between toxic perfectionism and healthy health goals.
There are two distinct reasons that I am guessing that underlie Rebel's sustainable weight change
Find out what they are in this episode.
Journaling for this topic:
Write down all the reasons you have to lose weight. Now put them in order of internal importance. For example, if you have written ‘to ease joint pain’ and then ‘to fit into my favourite dress’ then easing joint pain must come before the dress, because it impacts your life on a deeper level. Think health, think ease of movement, think what else you could do that you cannot nowadays.
Now look at the top and bottom reasons and notice if your motivation has shifted. Do you feel any better focusing on the most important item? Who else benefit from you easing this problem?
I would love to know what came top of your list, so please email me info (at)theshiftinside.com
RESOURCES
3rd Oct Genie In The Lamp episode (205)
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-205-your-3rd-oct-genie-in-the-lamp
Top of many people's health goals is weight loss. The problem with this is that this perfectly useful measure of health has been corrupted by the diet and beauty industries, who have injected harsh unrealistic expectations into the mix, along with a nice toxic dose of body shame.
Actor Rebel Wilson's story around her weight loss departs from virtually every other celeb's yo yo dieting, and she has a lot to teach us about the difference between toxic perfectionism and healthy health goals.
There are two distinct reasons that I am guessing that underlie Rebel's sustainable weight change
Find out what they are in this episode.
Journaling for this topic:
Write down all the reasons you have to lose weight. Now put them in order of internal importance. For example, if you have written ‘to ease joint pain’ and then ‘to fit into my favourite dress’ then easing joint pain must come before the dress, because it impacts your life on a deeper level. Think health, think ease of movement, think what else you could do that you cannot nowadays.
Now look at the top and bottom reasons and notice if your motivation has shifted. Do you feel any better focusing on the most important item? Who else benefit from you easing this problem?
I would love to know what came top of your list, so please email me info (at)theshiftinside.com
RESOURCES
3rd Oct Genie In The Lamp episode (205)
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-205-your-3rd-oct-genie-in-the-lamp
Did you know that today (3rd October) is exactly 90 days until 1st of January?
If there was one day in the year that is the calendar equivalent of a genie in the lamp, it's today.
But why?
Because it offers a pretty magical opportunity - to transform your relationship with the very idea of change, to make it sabotage-proof - an empowering adventure…even on the tough days.
Find out why in this minisoide - next one is coming on Tuesday
Questions To Journal About
#1 What would you like to wake up an experience on the 1st of January when it comes to food and your body?
#2 When you look in the mirror, what do you want to feel?
#3 If you have any health problems, how would you like those to have changed by the 1st of January?
#4 What do want your reality to be like when it comes to eating and food?
#5 Do you want to have in your fridge as a normality in 2023?
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Join the Cravings Anti-Challenge here
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1139918
The Sugar Made Me Do It!
This episode focuses on 2 laws, created on either side of The Atlantic, over 300 years apart.
Both express polar opposite ways of looking at the power of food, politically and legally. But curiously, together they express the same misunderstanding about food…one that causes misery for millions of people today. Find out more in this episode...
RESOURCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_White
The Cravings Anti-Challenge
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1139918
Starring Albert Einstein, The Minions & your Inner Food Rebel. This free 3-day adventure reveals how even the most dyed-in-the-wool food rebel can disrupt their cravings and walk away from sugar - without willpower, self-discipline or even self-belief. Discover: * The strategy I stole from Einstein (no physics degree required) that sidesteps struggle and is a backdoor to saying no to sugar - even when you have zero willpower * What anti-cravings Minions are * Who your Inner Food Rebel is, and how to enlist their help to transform making healthy choices into kick-ass empowerment * How to channel Harry Potter to walk away from any junk food
What Is An Anti-Challenge? One of the main problems for compulsive eaters is that they are caught between two opposing energies within them (all this gets explained during the 3 sessions). One of these is their Inner Food Rebel. And there's nothing a rebel loves more than disrupting rules that are imposed onto it. And that is kind of the definition of a challenge! We are going to be craftier and more subtle than to try to dictate to ourselves :)
In anti-challenge, we ditch willpower and self-belief in order to tap into sit down for peace talks with our self-sabotage...while tying its shoelaces under the table!
Starts Monday 26th September This free anti-challenge is a mix of 3 Zoom calls and other materials, such as audio visualisations. Don't worry if you cannot attend all of the calls, because each session will be recorded.
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1139918
Heads up: The Cravings Anti-Challenge is coming! Grab your spot here:
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1139918
This is a follow-on episode after Misbehaving With Integrity (link in resources).
Today we look at another benefit of misbehaving with integrity - saying no to social norms around compulsion - plus an surprise plus point you will not have thought about, I guarantee it!
Starring your internal locus of control and the curious case of the salad in the curry house!
RESOURCES
Join The Eating Coach Facebook Group here and watch The Sunday Story
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
This is the follow on episode from part one which you can access here
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-202-misbehaving-with-integrity
Jim Carey vs Jon Hamm episode on chocolate
https://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-eat-less-chocolate-with-the-jim-carrey-test/
Business Insider Article on Success after 40
https://www.businessinsider.com/24-people-who-became-highly-successful-after-age-40-2015-6?r=US&IR=T
Harriet Morris
Email Info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Heads Up! Get access to The Sunday Story here (and watch previous lives)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
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Misbehaving with integrity (MWI) is a term Clarissa Pinkola Estes coined in her book The Late Bloomer. However it’s not just older people who can benefit from MWI - most recovering food compulsives absolutely need to do it!
In this episode I talk about what MWI is and the huge benefits for you reclaiming your life from food.
Benefit #1 It acts against accepting bad treatment
Benefit #2 It stops you having to censor your life yourself (Which you do to avoid #1)
Find out more in this episode.
RESOURCES
Reclaim Coaching programme details:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/reclaim/
Grab your free 20 minute Change One Thing call with me here
https://hmorris.as.me/20
Here’s a subversive idea.
Bye Bye teen youtubers and pop starlets…and hello Vera Wang. Stan Lee. Toni Morrison. Grandma Moses. None had success til forty or older - in some cases A LOT older. Grey is the new black, dontcha know!?!
If you are nearing, celebrating or have long-ago waved bye bye to your fortieth birthday, middle age could be the greatest opportunity to stop binge eating of your life.
In this episode, I explain why.
RESOURCES
https://www.businessinsider.com/24-people-who-became-highly-successful-after-age-40-2015-6?r=US&IR=T
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Heads Up: find out more about the Reclaim coaching programme
https://www.theshiftinside.com/reclaim/
And join the Facebook group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
In June, a truly miraculous event took place: Brazilian conjoined twins Arthur and Bernado Lima were successfully separated. They had been fused at the brain. This operation had been set up using virtual reality to prepare.
In this episode I take an interview with lead surgeon Owase Jeelani and extract 7 lessons from his pioneering experience for reclaiming your life from food
Resources
Interview with Dr Jeelani here. It is only 5 mins but really worth a watch
https://youtu.be/Os0oSVOvODs
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Heads Up
Here’s the link to access the talk on Carrot or Stick? Neither! On Wed 3rd August at 8pm UK (3pm Eastern)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
What is The Fundamental Fatribution Error?
I made this term up. It is a corrupted version of the fundamental attribution error (FAE), which is the mistake we make when we for example blame others' bad driving on personality defects, but if we cut someone up in traffic it is usually down to factors outside our control. Most people believe that they are above averagely skilled drivers.
The fundamental fatribution error (FFE) is when you weaponise the FAE against yourself, and is exemplified by self attack statements like "I'm so fat because It's so undisciplined"
In this episode you will find out why the FFE is so toxic AND so strangely comforting…as well as an alternative.
About The Carrot and Stick Talk on Wed 3rd August:
We all know about carrots and sticks when it comes to human motivation. Punish or reward yourself (or get someone else to do it for you) and you are sorted…right?
Wrong.
This Wednesday at 8pm UK (3pm EST) I will be talking about why I don't think either really work for stopping binge eating or freeing yourself from junk food addictions like sugar.
For anyone with a history of food compulsion, the stick will trigger their Inner Food Rebel, a force 1000 times more powerful than any goals you might set.
I have found that carrot does work SOMETIMES for me…but only under certain conditions. And it has never really landed with any of my clients.
So…what can we replace the carrot and the stick with?
Something deeper. Something that always works. Something that connects you to a more powerful way of living. Something that is totally transferable to other areas you need motivation for.
This talk will be live in the Eating Coach Facebook group. If you are not already a member, join here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Heads Up
Here’s the link to access the talk on Carrot or Stick? Neither! On Wed 3rd August at 8pm UK (3pm Eastern)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
What is The Fundamental Fatribution Error?
I made this term up. It is a corrupted version of the fundamental attribution error (FAE), which is the mistake we make when we for example blame others' bad driving on personality defects, but if we cut someone up in traffic it is usually down to factors outside our control. Most people believe that they are above averagely skilled drivers.
The fundamental fatribution error (FFE) is when you weaponise the FAE against yourself, and is exemplified by self attack statements like "I'm so fat because It's so undisciplined"
In this episode you will find out why the FFE is so toxic AND so strangely comforting…as well as an alternative.
About The Carrot and Stick Talk on Wed 3rd August:
We all know about carrots and sticks when it comes to human motivation. Punish or reward yourself (or get someone else to do it for you) and you are sorted…right?
Wrong.
This Wednesday at 8pm UK (3pm EST) I will be talking about why I don't think either really work for stopping binge eating or freeing yourself from junk food addictions like sugar.
For anyone with a history of food compulsion, the stick will trigger their Inner Food Rebel, a force 1000 times more powerful than any goals you might set.
I have found that carrot does work SOMETIMES for me…but only under certain conditions. And it has never really landed with any of my clients.
So…what can we replace the carrot and the stick with?
Something deeper. Something that always works. Something that connects you to a more powerful way of living. Something that is totally transferable to other areas you need motivation for.
This talk will be live in the Eating Coach Facebook group. If you are not already a member, join here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Clip discussed in this episode
https://youtu.be/KaknXLvgJI4
Heads up: Grab your link for the 5 Minute Appetite Suppressant Session here:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
One of my favourite films is Arrival, starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. But it's not just a great movie - it is a brilliant metaphor for ending binge eating.
Adams plays Louise Banks, a linguist who the army have asked to help do a bit of translation.
Alien translation.
Yup, there's a egg-shaped UFO floating in the air, and it's all down to her to find out why.
In this clip, we see Louise take off her protective suit in order to really communicate properly with the aliens.
Everyone is freaked out, but no harm comes to her.
In this clip, the protective suit is emotional eating, and the aliens are life. The beautiful, messy, uncertain life you miss out on when you keep yourself finished via binges and junk food.
Louise takes a risk and realises she CAN get to know the aliens better.
Are you willing to take the risk of managing your life without food? What might your life look like without food compulsion?
RESOURCES
Eating Coach Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
5 Minute Appetite Suppressant Session This Thursday 28th July
Get access here:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
Imagine if there were an appetite suppressant that was 100% natural, with zero side effects.
One that is also a digestive aid and can help reduce stress.
The only drawback is that you need to sit and do nothing for 5 minutes while the pill takes effect.
Oh yes, and it's free too.
Q: Would you take it?
A: Why the heck wouldn't you? Something 100% natural that makes you eat less, with a price tag of £0.
At this point you may be thinking: What's the catch, Harriet?
And there is one - but it's a catch in the same way that you need to learn to read in order to enjoy The Harry Potter series.
A 'catch' that you'll be glad exists.
Ok, so the catch, the big reveal - is that this appetite suppressant is….
Slow eating.
Ta-dah!
Confused? Disappointed?
Yes Harriet, I’m Totally Confused What if I told you that eating fast blocks satiety (fullness) signals to your brain. Your stomach can’t really know it has had food if it’s coming in too fast - and your body cannot properly digest and use the nutrients in the food if you have not chewed it properly.
This is a bit like a quiet drink in a cosy pub that suddenly gets overwhelmed by 20 party goers. How well would you be able to get to know each of the new arrivals?
Yes Harriet, I’m Pretty Disappointed What if I told you that eating fast puts your body into a state of stress, which triggers the release of cortisol - the fat storage hormone which is responsible for millions of people's central obesity AKA belly fat.
Central obesity is one indicator that you could be starting down the path to type II diabetes.
So maybe the point of slow eating is to avoid eating your way to a big tummy and a big health problem down the line.
Now, what if I told you that there was a easier-than-you-think way to get started with this thing that you assume is too hard and undervalue in order to justify your perception of its difficulty?
The answer is to get started in five minute increments.
The answer is to turn slow eating into a game, thereby removing all the pressure.
The answer is to leverage the power of a tribe to motivate you.
The answer is to attend The Eating Coach Zoom session on Thursday 28th July at 8pm UK time. It is free, but there will be no recording. This is only for people who take the trouble to attend. It is a highly experiential session. (Can't make it? Email me info (at) theshiftinside dot com - as I can re run this session if there is enough interest).
In it you will….
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Understand the science behind why slow eating is such a powerful appetite suppressant and digestive aid, not to mention anti-stress technique
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Discover two simple and fun slow eating games that work with zero effort on your part
What you will NOT have to do:
No need to eat slowly for more than five minutes
No need to eat on camera (you can turn it off if you like - your choice)
Bring a piece of fruit or salad veg (eg apple, banana, cucumber, celery etc), a plate and a knife
This session is free. If you already get my Note From emails, there is no action to take - I will remind you and send you the Zoom link in good time.
Otherwise, fill in the form to ensure you get the Zoom link. This will not be posted in the Facebook group.
Get your link for the 5 Minute Appetite Suppressant Session on 28 July here. It’s free, so no excuses!
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
“This is the greatest moment of your life, and you’re off somewhere, missing it!”
Guess the movie this quote comes from.
Now guess the lesson it has for you reclaiming your life from food.
Thirdly, guess what that quote has in common with this one from Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince:
“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.” No idea? Then listen in and I will reveal all.
Resources
Clip discussed in this episode
https://youtu.be/zvtUrjfnSnA
Arrival clip to be discussed in the next episode:
https://youtu.be/KaknXLvgJI4
Get your link for the 5 Minute Appetite Suppressant Session on 28 July here. It’s free, so no excuses!
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
Eating Coach Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Harriet Morris
Info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Get access to the 5 Minute Appetite Suppressant event
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
Join the Facebook group here and get access to What Really Works Wednesdays Lives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Imagine if there were an appetite suppressant that was 100% natural, with zero side effects.
One that is also a digestive aid and can help reduce stress.
The only drawback is that you need to sit and do nothing for 5 minutes while the pill takes effect.
Oh yes, did I mention that it's free?
Q: Would you take it?
A: Why the heck wouldn't you? Something 100% natural that makes you eat less, with a price tag of £0.
At this point you may be thinking: What's the catch, Harriet?
And there is one - but it's a catch in the same way that you need to learn to read in order to enjoy The Harry Potter series.
A 'catch' that you'll be glad exists... one that get you walking away from chronic health conditions like type II diabetes.
Find out more in this episode.
Resources
Get access to the 5 Minute Appetite Suppressant event
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
Join the Facebook group here and get access to What Really Works Wednesdays Lives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Harriet Morris
info (at) the shift inside dot com
Grab your link for the 5 Minute Appetite Suppressant Zoom session on 28th July:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/sessions/
Pop Quiz:
#1 Would you give a five-year-old Tolstoy's epic War and Peace as reading homework?
#2 Would you ask the office junior on their first day at work to present to the board of directors?
#3 Would you get a learner driver to tackle a Formula One racetrack?
No, no - and once again NO!
So why do millions of people regularly do the equivalent in terms of managing their health and weight?
War and Peaceing your health means taking steps that are far too advanced for you.
In this episode I talk in more depth about this, and give an alternative.
Heads up: Join the Eating Coach Facebook group here to access the Live talk on parent-child dynamic:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
You've heard of dinner dates, right?
But have you ever thought about dating your dinner???
You: What madness is this, Harriet?
Me: This quite ludicrous title hides a very powerful shift that is the foundation for this work.
It is highly likely that for a long time you have been in a parent-child dynamic with how you eat.
Basically this involves the diet being the strict parent and the dieter being the naughty child who cannot be trusted to make their own food choices.
Looking to a diet or personal trainer or ANY external meal plan for instructions you must slavishly adhere to in meal planning and eating is to risk putting yourself in the naughty child role - because too often these meal plans etc are sold as temporary escapism.
Think: lose 10lbs in a week and so on.
No human (except those giving birth) can do so sustainably.
Instead, we are going to EXPERIMENT with trying new ways of eating. Think of me as a matchmaker, helping you find the best way to eat for yourself. If I was a dating coach, my job would not be to force my idea of Mr or Mrs Perfect onto you, but to help you meet someone who is good for you, but also that you want to date again.
Cheers now
Harriet
PS I will be in the Eating Coach Facebook group tomorrow (Wed 13th) for a new weeklyfeature - talks called What Really Works Wednesdays. I'm going to talk about something called the parent - child dynamic that is at the heart of so many compulsive eaters' food issues.
If you are not already in the group, join here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
The Eating Coach is back with a series of short 5-6 min episode for your pleasure during the month of July. Today: How junk food is an anaesthetic (as well as being damn hard to spell!).
Check out the Facebook group where I will be posting more content. https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Many people understand that emotional eating is trying to do the job of managing life, a bit like a sticking plaster or band aid.
But what I have realised is that it serves a much more subtle and invisibly powerful function - that of an anaesthetic.
If you've ever come down from any kind of high (be it from food or overstimulation) and used a takeaway to fill that emotional gap - you are using food as an anaesthetic.
If you binge because you are dreading the meeting with person X - you are using food as an anaesthetic.
If you use sugar as dutch courage before an interview in the same way alcoholics nip into the pub - you are using food as an anaesthetic.
The question is - does the anaesthetic ever work? If it did, then you would have renewed vigour, boss that meeting and ace the interview - you would be more confident with the help of food.
Of course not.
No anaesthetic can ever do more than a temporary job. That's what they are meant for. Great for dental work, rotten for emotional eating.
So the question to ask yourself before you anaesthetise yourself via the deli aisle is this:
Is it worth it?
The Eating Coach podcast is back and in this episode I have two more questions you can ask to alienate yourself from that anaesthetic.
Cheers now!
Next episode out within the next few days
Harriet Morris
info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Get free access to the introductory module of the Release programme to end emotional eating here:
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1128432
In this episode, I interview Lindsay, one of my clients, on her experience putting emotional eating out of a job.
In this empowering chat, you will hear about…
*Going from feeling like a broken sugar addict to being able to say no to dessert at a big social occasion
*The awesome question (starting with “What does….”) Lindsay uses to bring herself to alignment with her higher self
*The shift from eating 7 pieces of wedding cake to not even wanting the junk after taking a bite of it
*How quitting sugar changed her relationship with herself
*Lindsay’s PCOS diagnosis and the link with binge eating
*The awesome rebel-against-your-food rebellion strategy I taught her and how it meant saying no to sugar was actually FUN
*How this work gave her the confidence to quit another addiction
Release Emotional Eating Programme
The Adventurer's Mindset Getting ready for this life-changing transformation and ending the toxic trash talk about yourself takes a specific framework:
The daily practice of shifting from passive sufferer to hero/ine's journey mindset
How to put a gagging order on your inner critic
The counterintuitive power of low commitment and gamification
Nutrition For Emotional Wellbeing You see junk food as your emotional saviour, but behind the scenes it is making things worse. Learn better coping strategies to use when you really need them
Discover how junk foods hijacks your brain chemistry
Practise eating a nutritious AND pleasurable diet that will elbow the mood-hijacking junk out of the way - without you feeling torn between what is right and what feels good.
How to use The Staircase Approach to transition from the addict's dependence to nutritional, craving-free eating.
Emotional Regulation Difficult emotions have been demonised, and it is also these feelings that trigger compulsive eating. Is it possible that there is some link between suppression and bingeing? Hint: Yes there is!
Learn how to use the emotions as messengers reframe as a positive constructive scaffold for managing them.
Step-by-step processes that support you in learning how to manage your feelings.
Dealing with anger and guilt: safely channel and release what you should not be holding on to. Imagine what a weight off that will be!
Eating Presence If you have been using mealtimes to squash your emotions, then it follows that when you use the strategy I have coined eating presence, you eat in a way that ensure you stop doing this. It happens in a very gradual, step-by-step process.
Slow eating games - it is impossible to eat emotionally when you slow down. Gamification reduces the pressure and makes it fun!
Meal planning for people who hate meal planning. Strategies, games and tapping into the power of the subconscious.
The 90% Beats Perfection rule - why you will never eat 100% consciously, and why you shouldn't even try.
Boundary Repair Emotional eating is a very understandable but ineffective way to manage relationships where the dynamic is unbalanced. If you feel like other people walk all over you and you feel nervous about standing up to them, this module will be invaluable for you.
Subtle strategies to ward off energy vampires in a classy, no-conflict way
How to strengthen your boundaries in a way that feels emotionally safe
How managing your inner cavewoman is a gamechanger in making this process much easier
Contact: info @ theshiftinside.com
How can a woman in a cafe have a present for you, when not even I have ever met her?
Find out in this super short story from my life yesterday.
Get your free intro module to Release here:
https://shiftinside.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1128432
Harriet Morris
info {at} theshiftinside.com
Find out more about Release here:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/release/
Details below
Book an informal chat with me to answer any questions you might have about Release here
https://hmorris.as.me/?appointmentType=31373005
In today's episode, we look at the second major component (as well as emotional regulation) of freeing yourself from emotional eating: Eating Presence.
In a nutshell, Eating Presence means eating nutritious food slowly.
It doesn't mean being perfect and trying to turn yourself into a poster girl/boy for low carb/keto/paleo/no dairy/no sugar etc etc.
It means aiming for the most nutritious meals possible, while still allowing pleasure.
And it means eating them consciously.
In this episode I go into detail about what Eating Presence means in the real world, and we hear from on of my clients and how it has helped her.
Release
My group coaching programme to free yourself from emotional eating starts in early April.
https://www.theshiftinside.com/release/
I am only taking 8 people and two spots have already gone at the time of recording.
Got questions? Why not book a 20 minute Zoom call with me and ask me anything you like.
https://hmorris.as.me/?appointmentType=31373005
Info @ theshiftinside.com
HEADS UP – ZOOM CHAT - 8pm Sunday 20th March. I made an error in time zone calculations and wrongly converted this to eastern The correct time is 4pm Eastern and 1pm pacific.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83561552905
PASSCODE 4321
Completely free – Just turn up, ask me anything and I will reveal the big mindset shift to put stress eating out of a job.
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Emotionally expensive foods are ones with a huge price tage – not necessarily financial, but mental, emotional, life purpose -wise – ENORMOUS
I am talking about fried foods, what, dairy and the big momma of ‘em all : sugar.
In this episode I give you a reframe for how you see these foodstuffs that will allow you step two ft to the side of your ingrained belief that you absolutely cannot do without them.
Join the Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Email me: info @ theshiftinside.com
Watch the follow up video in the Facebook group. Join here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Imagine a postie (mail delivery person if you live outside the UK) who delivers a parcel to your home, and invites themselves in for a cuppa. Ten years later they are still there, drinking you out of house and home…
A ridiculous scenario, but if we replace the postie with difficult emotions you have a situation that millions tolerate, simply because they don’t know how else to manage their anger, disappointment, guilt etc.
When you can learn to regulate your emotions yourself, you reduce 50% of your emotional eating issues….or should I say ‘stuck emotional eating’ issues.
Emotions are messengers, and never meant to stick around. AND they are not meant to be solved.
Join the facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
…and watch the follow on video where I talk about one time where I regulated my emotions without trying to solve them. Warning: content involves being triggered by annoying teenagers 😊
info (at)theshiftinside.com
HEADS UP - ZOOM CHAT
You are invited to my informal Zoom call next Sunday 20th March, to talk all things emotional eating. I will talk about THE biggest shift most people need to make to reduce stress eating
TIME: 20th March
8pm UK time - 9pm CET - 4pm Eastern - 1pm Pacific
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83561552905
How do you deal with stress? Beating it? Escaping It temporarily? These solutions sound quite stressful in themselves!
In today’s episode, I give you a reframe: managing your life better. And I explain three ways you can dothis, with one timy change you can make TODAY that will have a small but mighty effect on stress eating.
Join the Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Email: info (at) theshiftinside.com
Watch the video accompanying this episode in the new Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingcoachgroup
Today I correct what I think is a very unhealthy misconception about change: that everything springs from self belief. You will love this if you have ever doubted your ability too stop emotional eating – or indeed , you had zero self-belief, as was the case with me.
I still want to know your thoughts on emotional eating, so you can let me know in the following ways:
#1 Book a 15 minute Zoom with me here
https://hmorris.as.me/
#2 Email me: info (at) theshiftinside.com
#3 Join the Facebook group
Next episode in two days’ time.
Contact me for a 15 minute chat about this issue and get a strategy you can use today to start to reclaim power
info @ theshiftinside.com
Today we ask: what if you stopped seeing emotional eating as a problem to solve and started asking some more useful questions.
What if it is a really crappy life manager?
What issues is it trying to solve for you?
What do you get out of employing this substandard employee?
How can you manage your life directly?
What do you get out of that life manager – because you must do (you haven’t scked them yet, right?)
What sort of partner would they make?
Next minisode will be out in 2 days’ time.
Book yourself in for an informal chat about emotional eating here
https://hmorris.as.me/
and I will give you a strategy you can use straightaway to reduce this problem.
Monday sees the start of my series on emotional eating. In it I will be covering:
*A powerful reframe to make you feel more empowered
*How to start believing that you can do something about it]
*Where self-acceptance fits into the jigsaw
*How to use gamification and actually make this process FUN some of the time at least!
Email info (at) theshiftinside.com if you want to tell me about how emotional eating impacts you. You also get the strategy mentioned above as a thankyou.
An interview that makes no mention of food – yes, it’s true! I interview artist Catherine Rains and I wanted to bring you this interview because I extracted so much wisdom from it. Catherine is an amazing human being who has lots of life lessons that will put food out of a job.
At the end of the interview, I discuss two areas relating to compulsive and binge eating that what we talked about
#1 – Non-verbalising feelings
#2 – the difference in language between us. I referred to the victim, where Catherine talks about ‘the child’. How much of the shamed child lives in you, one who is carrying shame that doesn’t belong to her?
Highlights
“Double-pronged non-resistance”: while continually affirming the job she wanted, she was at the same time embracing the job she had.
How to be unintentionally intentional
The five words anyone can use in a negative situation to feel more empowered
Catherine’s epiphany about non resistance
The non linear nature of change.
How she diverted her energy to sidestep jealousy and intended her way to the job of her dreams
Why affirmations don’t work for so many people - because they are doing this thing alongside the affirmation
Her strategy for releasing fear and dread after her cancer diagnosis (I have never heard this from anyone else)
How she developed compassion for her husband in the midst of her divorce but still shielded herself from his manipulation
Her hilarious way of managing old resentments
RESOURCES
Check Catherine out on Instagram: @catrains.artist
https://catherinerains.com/
See the Freedom from Sugar course:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Find out about one-to-one coaching:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Watch the video version of this interview:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/catrains/
Ever feel like you want more power in your life?
I don’t mean power as in control, overruling others or even parts of yourself.
I mean the ability to navigate problems - not just around food, but relationships, work and health on a bigger scale.
A powerful way to view this is to take on The Queen identity.
I recently appeared on The Real Estate Investing For Women podcast talking about just that, and I’d love you to check it out to find out more. And don’t worry if you think you need to know loads about property portfolios to understand. (I don’t!)
Check it out at
https://blissfulinvestor.com/be-the-queen-of-your-own-life-with-harriet-morris-real-estate-women
You can also get my video series The Queen Audit
Stressing over less than perfect food choices when you are away can ruin your vacation time. In this episode, we talk overeating on holiday:
*The invisible reasons behind it
*How to manage and reduce it
*The mindset shift that starts with N…….. that is vital to this work
*A useful reframe if you do make choices that you regret
This is a personal episode, recorded on my phone at the end of my holiday this summer.
RESOURCES
Coaching information
https://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Episode talking about being compulsive in lockdown
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec170-bit-of-a-risky-episode-isnt-it
Email info (at) theshiftinside.com
Today I present a completely biased review of Whole 30. Biased? I hear you cry. Isn't that meant to be UNbiased?
Nope. I am completely skewed in favour of recovering binge eaters finding a programme that empowers them, that helps them start to trust themselves again. One that allows them to proceed at a doable pace, and build confidence as they go. This diet in sheep's clothing is not it. Read on (or listen to the podcast episode below) for more information and what the alternative looks like.
What Is Great About Whole 30
It increases awareness about all the fake natural sweeteners out there, such as agave nectar
A lack of focus on measurements, although it seems to be very happy with before and after photos, which are problematic.
Problems With Whole 30
#1 It tries to do too much, too fast.
This is not just a misguided issue that is borne ourt of well-intentioned ambition. It is a cold, hard profit-driven strategy that leverages compulsive eaters desire to escape themselves via a temporary transformation.
It is very, very hard to give up a multiplicity of foods that you are addicted to all at once and make that change sustainable. I think the clue is in the name. No wonder it’s not called Whole Forever.
#2 it Demonises Certain Nutritious Foods That Actually Reduce Compulsive Urges and Cravings
Quinoa. Lentils. Brown rice. Ah yes, how silly of me not to see that they need to placed in the nutritional sin bin with high fructose corn syrup, candy cigarettes and deep fried everything. Really? Really?
#3 Fruit Juice Is Permitted
That’s right, kids. Lentil soup is verboten, but something with more fructose than Coke is OK. Listen to the podcast episode above to hear what Dr Robert Lustig has to say about fruit juice and type two diabetes.
#4 It’s Based on Original Sin
This criticism is something that Whole 30 shares with just about every health fad and diet out there. You are broken the deprivation-fuelled edicts silently imply. You can chase that bad guilt and shame away with this nutritional hairshirt. Escape yourself in only 30 misery filled days! That is one whole month of your life you’re never getting back.
If you’ve been using food to manage your life, trying to leverage guilt over past mistakes is not only unkind to yourself…it’s downright impractical.
#5 It Denies Pleasure
Just because you may have eaten chaotically and got extreme and fake pleasure from food does NOT mean that misery and deprivation is the counterbalance. Pleasure is a core human drive, and if you deny it, your primitive Cavebrain will take over and make sure you get it via more binge eating and other unhelpful knee jerk responses. Bye bye Whole 30.
#6 It Sets Up a Parent-Child Dynamic With Food
Listen to the podcast episode to understand exactly what I mean here.
Alternatives To Whole 30
If nonsense like this programme is not the answer to your food compulsion, then what is? Here are some pointers.
*Curiosity
*Experimentation – which gives you data and is impossible to fail at. In the episode, I give a concrete example of how this plays out.
*Learning to relax enough around food to get real (not fake) pleasure from real food
*Imperfectionism
*Being present with food, instead of using it as an escape route from self
More on coaching with Harriet
https://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
RESOURCES
Freedom From Sugar programme
www.theshiftinside.com/freedom
Whole 30 Rules
https://whole30.com/whole30-program-rules/
Fat Chance is by Dr Robert Lustig
Louise Breaks The Binge-Deprivation Cycle episode
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-156-louise-ends-25-years-of-the-binge-restrict-cycle
Email me about your emotional eating. tell me about yourlast emotional eating episode
info {at} theshiftinside.com
In this third part of my series on addiction, I tackle the question of why some foods are just so addictive….or as I want to rephrase it, just why is it so easy to feel compulsive about certain foodstuffs?
Brilliant Idea of The Week
is Focusmate. Find out more at
https://www.focusmate.com/
Main section
Just exactly why are some foods are just so addictive is actually 2 questions:
#1 What is it about some particular foods (their ingredients, the way they are processed etc) that can encourage compulsion?
....and
#2 Why do we feel compulsive about some foods in the first place? Why do human beings feel they need to manage problems with food at all?
#2 is a more empowering question, because it turns us from passive victims into responsible beings with the power to change our lives.
"A core part of addiction is, I think, about not being able to bear to be present in your life" ~ Johan Hari
Many people don't believe that they can manage their overwhelm and shame - but they CAN.
RESOURCES
Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Episode 17: http://www.theshiftinside.com/whats-wrong-with-calorie-counting/
Johan Hari's TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong
Episode 4: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain/
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https://www.theshiftinside.com/tide/
to find out more about dismantling your fear of hunger.
Is this a problem for you? In this podcast episode of The Eating Coach, we dive into this topic - one that I have not heard discussed often. I talk openly about my own anxiety around my appetite, and what happened when I actually decided to experience hunger intentionally. I was very surprised at what I discovered.
Part One: Why You Might Have a Fear of Hunger
- Childhood experiences. Food was used to give adults power over you.
- Food as a way to Numb yourself out
- In both scenarios, hunger can act as a very persuasive PR tool being used by your child rebel or the part of you that feels it is essential to numb out
- I managed overeating a long time ago, but lockdown created a very powerful PR for my compulsion because I was doing too much. I dissolved Some key relationships which created lots of fear. I perceived genuine hunger which was not always genuenuine. about managing my life
Part Two: What Happened When I Faced My Fear of Hunger
I realised that hunger is not a fire, it is a tide
I realised that hunger is plastic
I discuss the role that ghrelin (the hunger hormone plays) here and the evolutionary reasoning behind the plastic nature of hunger
Part Three: Over To You
Ideas for you to get going on your fear of hunger
RESOURCES
Intermittent fasting 2.0 episode
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-177-your-internal-hunger-games
The Metronome
https://www.theshiftinside.com/metronome/
Fear of Hunger coaching programme
https://www.theshiftinside.com/tide/
In this episode, I take inspiration from The Hunger Games series, where hunger is used as a tool to control the people.
What if hunger is not what you think it is?
What if you are unconsciously using hunger as a tool to control YOUR life?
In This episode, I talk about
*How fear of hunger was an invisible force I used to oppress myself for years
The concept of restrictors vs permittors – how i used health fads. My fear of hunger and how it manifested
*What purpose fear of hunger REALLY served for me
Starring George Mcfly
*How some foods create their own hunger ecosystem
I talk about processed carbs as an example here.
*What happens when humans allow themselves to be hungry
Surprising evidence about how this is not only good for us, but easier than you think.
Part two of this topic follows in a week’s time.
RESOURCES
Coaching information is at
https://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
What is The Metronome?
https://www.theshiftinside.com/metronome/
Hypnotic gastric Band episode
https://www.theshiftinside.com/the-curious-tale-of-my-hypnotic-gastric-band-ec-150/
The Healthline article
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/14-reasons-always-hungry
Dr Jason Fung’s article on ghrelin
https://www.dietdoctor.com/not-get-hungry-fasting-ghrelin
Books mentioned:
Women Food and God by Geneen Roth
The Fast Diet by Dr Michael Mosley
Contact me: info @ theshiftinside.com
Have you ever heard anyone ever say "No, thanks, I don't actually like bread"...? Nope, me neither. Taking a tour of not only the Sugar Rollercoaster, but the Neolithic age, The Roman Empire and The Hunger Games, let's take a peek at the fascinating and surprisingly shocking hold bread has on the human race.
A replay of episode 53.
Stupid Headline of The Week
No Gluten, No Dairy, No Joy
Main section: Why Is Bread So Addictive?
A short preface on gluten intolerance - the symptoms.
I then have a discussion on if we should change the word 'addictive' in the same way I want us to replace 'addiction' with compulsion'?
There are 2 reasons why bread is addictive.
Reason #1 relates to white bread. Being a source of highly refined carbohydrate, it triggers the production of glucose and consequently insulin into the blood stream. It is this regular emergency response, the call for insulin that can lead to obesity, type II diabetes and a host of other health problems.
Reason #2 is less well known. You probably know that bread contains gluten, but have you ever heard of gluten exorphins? They have an opioid effect on the brain and can cause spontaneous behaviour. Compulsive binge, anyone?
Fascinating factoid of the week: The roman empire used bread to subjugate the peoples it was dominating
RESOURCES
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/nutrition/no-gluten-no-dairy-no-joy-has-britain-become-nation-nutrichondriacs/
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/signs-you-are-gluten-intolerant
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/06/26/195292850/can-you-be-addicted-to-carbs-scientists-are-checking-that-out
https://www.scgmatt.com/researchology-blog/archives/02-2015
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/page/dark-side-wheat-new-perspectives-celiac-disease-wheat-intolerance-sayer-ji
Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Get your free audiobook at:
http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach
Sound effects by https://www.zapsplat.com
Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
https://www.theshiftinside.com/freed/ - Boundary Setting 101 Week starts on 17th May. 3 masterclasses - all completely free.
Possibly the worst titled episode in the history of this podcast. It makes you feel out of sorts just looking at it, doesn’t it?
…and that’s the point.
A TionQues is a question that is all wrong, just like the way I have spellt that very word here.
When you do something that causes you pain, like bingeing, the questions you ask yourself about it are absolutely key for the quality of solutions that you tap into.
The problem is that people often do not know what the RIGHT questions to ask are.
The TionQues you might ask yourself post binge are:
How can I make amends for my terrible greed?
How can I escape myself?
In this episode I give you some better questions to ask.
RESOURCES
Boundary Setting 101 Week
https://www.theshiftinside.com/freed/
Q: WHAT IS IT?
A: Three free masterclasses to help you start setting empowering boundaries, even if you feel like you are no good at this skill. You can attend on Zoom or get the videos in your inbox.
Q; WHAT’S IN THE MASTERCLASSES?
Masterclass 1 ~ Turn Down The Volume on Your Fear of Setting Boundaries
Discover why you are already better than you think at boundary setting, and learn all about your fear centre. Something akin to a blind and stubborn bouncer living inside your head, your fear centre is actually trying to protect you by resisting setting boundaries. By the end of this session, you will understand how you have more influence over this part of your mind than you think.
Masterclass 2 ~ Setting Your First Empowering Boundary
Learn what the crucial difference is between reactive and empowering boundary setting. In this liberating masterclass, I take all the pressure off this challenge in two important ways that allow you to step into your power.
Masterclass 3 ~ From Struggle To Adventure
How to reframe this skill so that it excites you instead of fills you with dread. Step two foot to the side of the nonsense your inner critic tells you as we uses two powerful and inspirational reframes that will make you want to stretch your comfort zone.
Q: HOW DO I ACCESS THE MASTERCLASSES?
Make sure you sign up https://www.theshiftinside.com/freed/
You can attend on Zoom or get the videos in your inbox.
Heads up! https://www.theshiftinside.com/freed/ Boundary setting 101 Week starts 10th May.
Today I bring you an interview with Jamie Vine from Beautiful Disaster, a multi-million dollar clothing brand the like of which you’ve never seen. Their lines are not only size inclusive, but they have empowered slogans I absolutely love like Perfectly Imperfect.
Film of The Week
…is The Sound of Metal starring Riz Ahmed. Some uncommon wisdom fr binge eating from the experience of deafness
Jamie Vine Interview
In this interview, Jamie talks very frankly about:
- Dealing with weight gain at college
- The struggle to love herself and how the Beautiful Disaster tribe has helped her
- How embracing failure is part of her business success
- What happened when Beautiful Disaster stopped trying to sell hoodies and did something radically different instead
- How she connects with her tribe every day and how this contributes to their success
Quote of the interview: “The bigger part of being curvy is loving yourself”
RESOURCES
Boundary Setting 101 Week info is at
https://www.theshiftinside.com/freed/
The Beautiful Disaster blog
https://www.bdrocks.com/
https://www.bdrocks.com/blogs/tellingyourstory
IG @beautifuldisasterclothing
The Body Confident Project taster
http://www.theshiftinside.com/tryit/
Join the free No Struggle Intermittent Fasting Group on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2557248144399072
This is a replay of episode 34 from 2018.
What cover stories do we tell ourselves to legitimise a binge? More importantly, how is that binge a cover story for a deeper problem in your life? These can be uncomfortable, yet incredibly liberating questions. Come with me and let’s find out the answer.
Stupid Idea of The Week
Is the concept of loss when applied to weight. Find out why it is a stupid verb to use in this context, and what to replace it with
Food Lies
Let’s look at some of the untruths we deceive ourselves in order to continue diminishing our lives with compulsion, and how we use food as a really understandable invisible cover story for deeper issues.
Find out:
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The difference between a lazy and safety cover story
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The difference between the lies you tell yourself ABOUT food and how food ITSELF can be a cover story - a deeply self-critical one that masks a far more neutral, compassionate truth. Don’t you want to discover what that is?
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What Cavebrain is
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How you can start to uncover your own cover stories right now
RESOURCES
Join the free No Struggle Intermittent Fasting Group on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2557248144399072
Episode 19: Me Too
http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-me-too-release-your-trauma-and-put-food-out-of-a-job-it-was-never-meant-to-do/
Harry Potter Saved My Life podcast
http://www.harrypottersavedmylife.com
www.theshiftinside.com/coaching
Sound Effects by www.zapsplat.com
Get your free video course: The 3 Mindshifts To Stop Binge Eating at
https://www.theshiftinside.com/gift/
This is a partial replay (with added nutrients for the mind!) of the episode I put out this time last year. It is a mix of practical to dos and powerful reframes to get you to alienate yourself from those Easter eggs.
RESOURCES
Freedom from Sugar Course details are here
https://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
www.stoppeoplepleasingshow.com – episode 19: Silent Agreements
Welcome to The Shame Starvation Diet: The only regime in the world with no set meal plans, but offers side effects like freedom from deprivation, feeling awesome at last AND reclaiming your life from food AND stupid toxic guilt!
STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK
Diets and wellness programmes that tell you exactly WHAT TO DO. Your Inner Food Rebel will not stand for that AND they are a breeding ground for toxic shame.
THE SHAME STARVATION DIET
This is divided into several sections
#1 How food can be used to manage shame
-The difference between appropriate and inappropriate shame
-How compulsion expresses instead of proves the ‘truth’ of shame
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guilt vs shame
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The double function of compulsive eating when it comes to toxic shame
#2 What Is The Shame Starvation Diet
-Definition
-Discussion of dealing directly with issues so you do not have to use food to deal with them vs shame that cannot be exactly ‘solved’
#3 Actions Change Beliefs
If you take actions that disrupt what your toxic shame is telling you is the truth (even though it’s a lie), you start to change a negative sense of self.
- An example is given with meal planning
- How your favourite film can help this process
RESOURCES
3 Mindshifts to End Binge Eating Video Series free at:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/gift/
Stop people Pleasing podcast
Email me: info @ theshiftinside dot com
Yup, indeed.
Email me
info @ theshiftinside dot com
RESOURCES
The 3 Mindshifts Video series can be accessed at
https://www.theshiftinside.com/gift/
https://qz.com/work/1947585/earnups-matthew-cooper-im-leaving-as-ceo-due-to-mental-health/
https://www.stoppeoplepleasingshow.com/
info {at} theshiftinside.com to contact me about the upcoming March audio intermittent fasting offer.
The locus of control refers to your perception of how much power you or the world outside has to affect events and outcomes.
An internal locus of control means that you feel powerful and an external locus means the opposite.
In today’s episode, I talk about how these two concepts can apply to eating, and how it is Not a black and white distinction. I give some practical ideas for moving from external to internal.
Freedom from Sugar Programme
https://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Very Well Mind article
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-locus-of-control-2795434
Saturday Question
Uses a quote from the late, great Stuart Wilde in his book Infinite Self
Go to https://www.theshiftinside.com/fast/ to secure your place for the experiment next week. It’s free, so this should be an easy yes!
In 2018 I did an intermittent fasting experiment. In this episode I discuss my recent learnings from a new experiment I have been doing, as well as listeners’ views on the matter.
I discuss if this mode of eating is restrictive or freedom giving.
Listener quote
‘IF has so many options, that’s what works so well, it’s finding what works with your circumstances. It’s endlessly flexible, this removes the common feelings of failure that are a part of ‘diet plans’. If you have an opportunity to enjoy food and company, just change things around.
I don’t know that there is one person who has ever fixed the problem, it’s a matter of management over a lifetime, a lifetime that you want to be enjoyable.’
Victoria
IF EXPERIMENT – W/C 15th February
This is two-day experiment that will take place on Tuesday 16th and Thursday 18th February. If you want to move the two days you are welcome to, but be aware that there will be some Zoom calls so you may want to do this alongside others/
Be aware that it will also require some preparation time.
This experiment has been designed for anyone who is interested in intermittent fasting (IF) but has misgivings or questions about its workability, especially if you have a history of compulsive eating.
You are also welcome if you have some experience with IF and are looking to optimise it or try out a different approach.
How It Works
You can do the experiment alone, or join the Zoom and/or Facebook group. This will open on Saturday 13th Feb.
There will be a Zoom call on Monday 15th at 8pm GMT where I will answer any questions you might have. I will also share some ideas on the experimental mindset and how important this is
Day One is Tuesday 16th February. On this day, you are going to try IF on this day anyway you like. You choose the eating window and what foods you eat.
I will lead another Zoom call on Tuesday at 4pm then again at 9pm GMT, when I will release the 3 guidelines for Thursday’s IF day.
Day Two is Thursday 16th February. On this day you will be following 3 guidelines that I will release on Tuesday evening. These are the guidelines I use myself and have found to be very user friendly for any recovering compulsive. You then have Wednesday to get ready for Thursday, in terms of buying and preparing food. I suggest setting aside 60-90 minutes on Wednesday, although you may not need all of this time. NB You do not need an hour and a half a day for the rest of time to implement my IF approach ! Hurray! !
There will be a third Zoom call on Thursday at 4pm and again at 9pm to wrap things up.
Resources
The first IF episode
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-70-my-intermittent-fasting-experiment
Email me
info {at} theshiftinside.com
This is a replay of episode 64 on making clean eating actually work for you.
Clean eating is neither good nor bad. However, when it gets used as a tool for some perfectionist search for 110% health, the chances of it backfiring are about 110%. In this episode, I tell you how to make it work for you by approaching it differently.
PODCAST OF THE WEEK
…is Species, hosted by Macken Murphy and my absolute favourite podcast discovery of 2018. Listen to this to de-stress and take a break from your self-help podcast addiction. Funny, dramatic and full of NO REALLY?!? moments.
MAIN SECTION: AN ALTERNATIVE TO CLEAN EATING
You cannot apply the 2D idealism of detoxes and so forth to something as multi-faceted with so many meanings (social, pleasurable etc) as food is.
In this episode….
*I give you my alternative to clean eating – one that is sustainable and involves one single syllable!
*The real reason many people try clean eating (you won’t like this one!)
For more on my thoughts about this, listen to my interview on The Simplifiers podcast at https://thesimplifiers.com/podcast/022-harriet-morris/
RESOURCES
For more information on coaching with Harriet, go to http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Species: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/species/id1334821500
Episode 26: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-real-vs-fake-pleasure/
Episode 35 http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/
What do you do when you not only fall off the wagon, but’s disappeared round the corner and a world-wide motivational wagon shortgage has just been announced?
The answer: Imperfectly does it.
We need to give ourselves leeway when it comes to making change…while avoiding the trap of complacency – the ‘just do what you can’ get out clause.
This episode finds a healthy and inspiring middle ground between harsh perfectionism and lax apathy that fits perfectly with the Heroine’s Journey thinking described in the previous episode.
The Map
I include a reply of episode 54. This is a short thought-provoking piece called The Map.
RESOURCES
The James Clear Quote
https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker
More information on coaching:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
There is nothing wrong with New Year’s Resolutions per se…but be careful you don’t misuse them in an invisible bid at unconscious self-sabotage.
Eh???
Listen and find out about the important mindset shift you need to ensure you start 2021 strong. Plus...
Section 2 - How To Stick To Your 2019 Resolutions An extract from an earlier episode on practical ways to uplevel your New Year’s resolutions PRINCIPLE #3 is temptation bundling. Temptation what?
PRINCIPLE #4 really breaks the back of traditional motivation. Your decidedly average positive thinker and Instagram poster will NOT like this. Incidentally, it works like gangbusters. Go figure. Find out what The Effortless Tipping Point is, and how you reach it.
PRINCIPLE #5 – Do a deal. Yes, but what kind of deal? And with whom?
PRINCIPLE #6 – I asked James Dean to pop in for this one. He said he was busy, but attends in spirit.
RESOURCES
14 Days To Freedom From Sugar Kickstarter course: http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom
The Freakonomics episode on temptation bundling: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/when-willpower-isnt-enough-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/
The Willpower episode: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-better-than-willpower-ec29/
You can hear the rest of the Temptation Bundling episode here:
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/temptation-bundling-and-5-other-ways-to-stick-to-your-new-years-resolutions
Episode 28 – New Year’s Resolutions for Food Rebels
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-28-a-new-years-resolution-for-food-rebels
Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Get your free audiobook at:
http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach
Sound effects byhttps://www.zapsplat.com
Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
Last episode was all about practical strategies to reduce binge eating this Christmas. Today is more philosophical. I want you to consider if you have been pitting the festive season against New Year, with Christmas as the pantomime villain and your New Year’s Resolutions (NYRs) as the heroine?
The time to think about this is not 1.1.21, but right now.
What kind of heroine did your NYR turn out to be in 2020?
Here’s an alternative: How about a mental ceasefire? What if your binge eating of late December was not actually your defective shadow side? What if you could step aside from that whole compulsive Christmas vs polish-your-halo January?
Food for thought indeed, plus Stupid Idea of The Week gets taken over by Documentary of The Week (zero yuletide jumpers involved, I promise).
RESOURCES
Find out about one to one coaching here
https://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Last epsiode on reducing Christmas binge eating
https://www.theshiftinside.com/masterclass/ has all the details for my upcoming masterclass on stopping Christmas binge eating - 13th December.
How to stop Christmas binge eating? The answer to that is that you ask a very similar, but subtly different question. One that will empower you to do exactly what the title of this week’s episode is seeking.
It is very important to avoid being perfectionist about this. Isn’t that what has got you into that painful binge-restrict cycle before?
Harriet! How do you know me so well?
A: Because I was you. For almost three decades.
This episode is divided into 4 sections
THE PROBLEM
Your problem with compulsive eating at Christmas is NOT that you lack willpower and all that food is so hard to resist. The issue is more complex, and far more interesting.
The real issue is that the festive season has become so overloaded with pressure to conform and somehow be good at Yuletide. Provide the best spread. Make sure everyone is happy.
For my clients, especially women over 30, bingeing is really a wake up call. Their soul will no longer tolerate being good little girls anymore, but they haven’t yet discovered a way to rebel against these unrealistic pressures directly,
So food becomes the fall guy.
Maybe this time of year is NOT the monent to face up to such existential questions. However, you CAN make things easier on yourself by understanding the true dynamic at play.
3 Strategies To Deal With Binge Eating At Christmas
#1 Replacements
...But not any old healthy snacks you have found in your local health food store. And neither will a boring old apple suffice.
Listen to this episode and find out the key distinctions you need to understand about replacements this Yule.
#2 Plan ahead
Planning ahead to deal with difficult situations is surprisingly effective. Listen to find out more
#3 Get some space
You need time for yourself, especially if you feel overloaded. The obviousness of this statement is not lost on me. The point I want to make here is that there is work to do for many compulsive eaters in actually allowing them that space.
Resources
Masterclass details here
https://www.theshiftinside.com/masterclass/
What Is Cavebrain?
https://www.theshiftinside.com/rum-what-is-cavebrain/
Hidden Sugars Checklist
https://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
Email me info (at) theshiftinside.com
I am putting together some helpful strategies to help deal with Christmas during this pandemic. All I want to know is: What is stressing you out about Christmas this year? Food or non food related.
Many thanks!
Harriet
Email me info (at) theshiftinside.com
We start off with a problem shared on a different podcast: what would you do if your partner wanted you to lose weight, under the guise of ‘better self care’?
I dive deep into this topic and give this lady some uncommon wisdom that she definitely will NOT find in mainstream diet literature.
RESOURCES
The Body Confident Project free sample is here
https://www.theshiftinside.com/body-image-coaching/
https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2014/09/the-evil-exit/
www.theshiftinside.com/coaching
The episode of The Savage Lovecast I refer to was released on 10 Nov 2020
Email: info (at) theshiftinside dot com
Listen to the new podcast starring Matt Damon & Robin Williams (!) here: https://rebelqueenempath.libsyn.com/04-how-to-play-the-hand-youve-been-dealt
The Barkley Marathons is regarded as one of the toughest endurance races on the planet. Why do I call it The Failure Olympics, and why does it offer a counterintuituve escape from failure?
Assuming you even get a place in this race, you are almost certainly guaranteed to not finish. However, the gift inherent in just participating is far more precious than the disappointment of the loss could ever be.
The Barkley Marathons is not only tough, but reaches levels of eccentricity previously attained only by English aristocrats such as Screaming Lord Such. 5 marathons in 60 hours. The entry fee is less than a cup of coffee, but you must bring a personalised present for the organiser. The trails are not marked and the combined altitude of all 5 marathons equals that of Everest. Only 15 people in 30 years have ever actually finished it.
So why do it?
And what has this insane event got to teach is about recovering from binge eating and food compulsion? So much - that’s what. Even if - especially if - you’d rather cut your arm off than run a marathon, this episode is for you.
RESOURCES
Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Sound effects by https://www.zapsplat.com
Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
In this episode, one of my clients talks about her experience working with me and the changes that she has seen.
We discuss:
The crazy rollercoaster of happy-miserable and how she had given up before the coaching.
Putting food out the job that it was never meant to do in the first place
The importance of group support
The major positive changes she has made elsewhere in her life alongside dealing with her
The importance of meal planning for her wellbeing
Dealing with bright shiny object syndrome
More info on coaching
https://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Today, a replay from way back in 2017 - episode #16
Ever wondered why you lost interest in that health plan you couldn't stop talking about two weeks ago? Dive and in a discover what is happening.
Stupid Idea of The Week
The world of fitness is full of increasingly over-engineered solutions to our less than flat stomachs. Today I go after the creators.
Change Tourism
People often make excuses about deserting their goals, and others give them a hard time about it. But is there a middle ground, where we allow our resistance to what we long to achieve to grow, without really understanding what is happening.
Quote of The Week: "It's not about how quickly I fall off, it's about how quickly I get back on again".
RESOURCES
https://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/facebook-more-needy-than-a-newborn-baby-say-experts-20171003136851
Go to https://www.theshiftinside.com/stop/to find out about next month’s coaching programme for people pleasers who want to get their life back.
Have you ever stopped to consider that there could be a link between people pleasing and compulsive or binge eating?
In this episode, I explain what I believe the common root cause of both of these experiences is.
I also give you three ways to stop being so damn nice to everyone at the expense of your own self respect.
Quote of The Week
Comes from Rita Mae Brown
The Stop People Pleasing Coaching Programme - enrollment open now!
Do you long to accept yourself, but have no idea how to do this?
Would you like to develop emotional resilience and navigate life more powerfully?
Would you like to learn how to stand up for yourself and say no without being aggressive?
Do you want to build your self confidence in a real way, without having to fake it til you make it?
Would you like to learn how to put food out of the job of life manager?
Do you want to learn how to become the role model that you long to be?
Who Is This Programme For?
I have designed this programme for empaths.
An empath is someone who has a strong tendancy to soak up others’ emotions. There are many positive aspects to being an empath such as an ability to read people well and high intuition. However, most empaths are so weighed down by how their emotional sponge nature has taken over their lives that they fall into the habit of people pleasing, finding it hard to say no and stand up for themselves.
The aim of this transformative 8 weeks is to shift how you are showing up in the world by learning to rein in these disempowering behaviours and start playing to your strengths.
How The Programme Works
This programme has two separate strands.
#1 The Empath Sessions
Managing your empath nature, self acceptance and how to start showing up in more powerful ways so that life becomes rewarding instead of draining for you.
1 x 90 minute session a week over 8 weeks
#2 Eating Psychology Sessions
Put food out of the job it was never meant to do.
This part of the programme comprises 4 x 90 minute sessions that give a solid foundation of how to eat better using the principles of eating psychology. You will dive in and try out doable food-rebel proof changes that are not too extreme. These changes have been shown time and again to reduce cravings and binge eating. We look at the HOW of eating, which is a hugely underrated part of reclaiming your life from food. I devote a whole session to sugar and give you some practical ways to free yourself from those little white granules.
IMPORTANT: If you have worked with me previously, or you do not have eating issues, you can choose to omit part 2. The programme fees will be reduced by 25% if you opt to just attend the empath sessions
…Indeed why not? Why can’t you dismantle your addiction to junk? Whoever said that was out of your league? An inspirational piece to motivate you.
Also: what stand up comedy has to teach us about living more empowered lives, and the return of Stupid Idea of The Week, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow.
RESOURCES
The empath survey:
https://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/
Comedian’s comedian interview
https://www.comedianscomedian.com/26-stephen-grant/
…starring a metronome and a teenage arsonist.
HEADS UP: Go to http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/ to complete the short questionnaire if you feel like you are an empath
In today’s show I talk about the real reason that so many people are in a binge-restrict cycle and one client shares her story of getting off this toxic seesaw.
You probably think this cycle is how you control your greed and out-of-control appetite. WRONG.
This cycle does not start with a binge – it starts with deprivation. My name for it is The Metronome, and you can see some images to explain this process at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/metronome/
I interview a group coaching client, Louise, who shares about:
All of the failed unsustainable diets and other solutions she tried
The changes she has seen since starting coaching
“I was the inner critic’s teacher’s pet, but I am delighted to say that I have freedom from this, and my binges are almost gone”.
How the group support helped her
The importance of imperfectionism and sustainable change.
RESOURCES
Coaching information:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
ADVANCE NOTICE: Upcoming Programme September 2020 for empaths
Give me your thoughts at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/
This is a replay of episode 12 on Robin Williams. 6 years on from his death, one of the world's favourite comedians and actors is sorely missed - but there are also many lessons we can draw from this famously troubled funnyman's death.
The mystery magician in this episode is Derren Brown. I was reading from his excellent book 'Happy'. Get the audiobook free when you sign up for a 30 day Audible trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach - just search 'Happy' - or any other of the 180,000 titles to choose from for iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player.
In This Episode:
Stupid Idea of The Week
This week I tear apart claims like "with added vitamins and iron" you see on children's cereal. All with the help of a chain smoking babysitter and insane PE teacher...
Robin Williams: A Lesson
"We would be doing his life and memory a disservice if we did not extract some wisdom from his choice" wrote friend and fellow actor Peter Coyote after Robin Williams' death. But this is not the whole story. Williams' early demise was not actually the result of depression. Find out what actually was (if you don't know already) as well as the unusual teaching from Robin Williams' situation that speaks to eating issues - as well as living a better life.
To think about:
*Is there really always something we can do in the face of our food compulsion, especially when it feels immoveable? Is that not a bit polyanna?
*If so, what would that look like - as well as the mental shift that accompanies it
Special treat: what your ego sounds like. I have an actual recording of it!
RESOURCES
Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
Ask a question at:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast/
Peter Coyote's beautiful Facebook post:
...Unfortunately I did not know how to copy and paste the Facebook post I refer to in the show - probably because Facebook wants you to share everything within their ecosystem. However I did find his words elsewhere along with that wonderful picture:
https://365daysexpectamiracle.wordpress.com/tag/peter-coyote/
Get your free audiobook at:
http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach
Empaths and binge eating survey:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/
Episode 4: How Sugar Hijacks The Brain
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain/
Freedom From Sugar programme
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
ADVANCE NOTICE: Upcoming Programme September 2020 for empaths
Give me your thoughts at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/
STRESS EATING
In today’s episode, I talk about stress eating through a rather unusual lens and help you do a 180 on how you see it.
By the way, if we are taking about stress eating, we are also talking about binge eating – because they are one and the same thing.
Have you ever considered that stress could be addictive?
I explain how this could be true, and give you a reframe for stress eating
And if so, does this change how you see stress eating? Ould this coping technique be a way to deal with a situation that you yourself have unconsciously created in order to release stress hormones?
I also give you a practical alternative to eating as a stress relief that you can do today. You can’t say fairer than that!
RESOURCES
Empaths and binge eating survey:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/
Joe Dispenza’s book: Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself
Freedom From Sugar programme
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Episode 4: How Sugar Hijacks The Brain
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain/
Christiane Northrup’s book is Dodging Energy Vampires
The Eating Coach turns 3 today, so it’s time to light the candles on the (sugar-free) cake and listen to some of your favourite bits from the last 150 episodes. Starring Brad Pitt, the Roman empire and a veeeery dodgy prescription courtesy of your local...beautician. You couldn't make this stuff up.
BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY FOR EVERY LISTENER- Ends this Sunday 19th July (Well 8am on July 20th UK time to be precise!)
Find out what it is here
https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/birthday-giveaway-ends-this-sunday
…plus a brand-new…
Stupid Idea of The Week
One of my group coaching clients, Louise, drops in (digitally, of course) to share her own dieting disaster story: the skinny jab.
Main Section
I play extracts chosen by listeners
EXTRACT #1 – The limits of goal setting (and my football knowledge!)
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-temptation-bundling-and-5-other-ways-to-stick-to-your-new-years-resolutions/
The 14 Days to Freedom From Sugar programme:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
EXTRACT #2 – How wheat helped build The Roman Empire from episode 53
Starring psychoactive peptides and The Hunger Games
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-is-bread-so-addictive-ec53/
EXTRACT #3 – from episode #76 – De-clutter and de-binge
http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-de-clutter-and-de-binge/
EXTRACT #4 Stupid Idea of The Week from episode 87
Starring Brad Pitt and a dish of yams!
http://www.theshiftinside.com/sarah/
EXTRACT #5 From The Body Confident Project (episode #124)
http://www.theshiftinside.com/the-body-confident-project-podcast/
Find out more about The Body Confident project itself at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/body/
RETREAT
If you are interested in seeing what the retreat can do for your compulsive and binge eating, go to
http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/
Contact Harriet at info (at) theshiftinside.com
CALL FOR YOUR FAVOURITE EPISODE!
On the 15th July this podcast turns 3. I want to hear from you – what was your favourite episode? Email me:
info (at) theshiftinside.com
Or
Record your thoughts to play on the show at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast/
“I binged because I felt like I deserved a treat”. I have heard this sentence come of the mouths of clients many, many times.
In today’s show I talk about the meaning of treats, and I give you some questions to ask yourself to unpick this mystery.
Mystery??? I hear you cry. Listen on….
BRILLIANT IDEA OF THE WEEK
Ellie Winter from https://www.one2runuk.com/ dropped in to talk about her innovative running buddy service – whether you live near her or not. I love the confidence-building approach for women of all fitness levels that Ellie offers.
LIMITED OFFER – 3 weeks free accountability when you purchase an online plan. Limited to the first 5 who mention they have come via The Eating Coach.
@one2runuk
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Treats are not bad – however they can be used as a hidden tool for self-sabotage.
#1 Treats are cover stories for ‘this is the only way I can get pleasure in my life’
#2 Treats offer pleasure – but with a huge pricetag
I offer some really useful questions to help you distance yourself from the possibly perceived dependence on treats as a coping mechanism.
RESOURCES
Coaching info is at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
What is Cavebrain?
http://www.theshiftinside.com/rum-what-is-cavebrain/
My fabulous junk graphic
http://www.theshiftinside.com/junk/
Real vs Fake Pleasure – episode 26
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-real-vs-fake-pleasure/
Email me info (at) theshiftinside.com
Or
Record your thoughts to play on the show at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/
This is a bonus episode which takes an extract from my other podcast, Harry Potter Saved My Life. Although that podcast does not usually talk about eating problems, I do here - and the invisible pricetags of binge and compulsive eating - and how you can stop creating them for yourself.
Next Eating Coach virtual retreat is June 23 - 29th.
http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/
…Starring The Failure of Willpower and a bright red pair of knitted shackles… Have you ever considered that there might be hidden opportunities – hidden in plain sight, no less – to reclaim your life from food – opportunities that are available to you 24/7, but never more so than now, as we start to ease lockdown in many parts of the world. BRILLIANT IDEA OF THE WEEK
A few days ago, the statue of Edward Colston, the slave trader, was ripped off its plinth and thrown into Bristol Harbour. This is not brilliant idea of the week – why not? And if not, what is? And what has all this got to do with binge eating?
MAIN SECTION
This episode begins by discussing how one of my group coaching clients, Helen, used one of our strategies to discover some unexpected and empowering changes in her life.
However, the period that many of you are entering now – the easing of lockdown restrictions – presents some incredible opportunities to reclaim your life, not just from food, but from all the burdens you are carrying that really don’t belong to you.
This is a discussion that encompasses slow eating, the limits of willpower…and a bright red pair of knitted shackles.
Next Eating Coach virtual retreat is June 23-29th. More details below.
RESOURCES
Retreat details here
http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/
You can see the knitted shackles if you go to
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden-opportunities-ec151/
More details on the Colston statue here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-52962356
Q: When is an operation not actually an operation? And when does an operation have some rather unexpected consequences? A: Listen and find out. In 2011, I had a hypnotic gastric band. In this episode I explain what happened and the events that surrounded it. In this episode, I tell you all about it.
This experience was the beginning of my recovery from compulsive eating. But the $64,000 question was: how much of that was down to the hypnotherapist, and how much was down to what I did with the experience?
In this episode I share:
*What is a hypnotic gastric band
*The extra (some would say OTT) prep I did outside my sessions to make the ‘operation’ as real as possible to my subconscious mind (I don’t think anyone has ever been so committed as I was!)
*The odd thing that happened immediately after the ‘operation’
*The turning point two weeks afterwards – and the landmark three words that changed everything for me
*What Bear Grylls and a Victorian dwarf have got to do with all this
RESOURCES
Find out more about coaching here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Email: info (at) theshiftinside.com
Instagram @eatingcoach
6 Years Sugar Free Episode
http://www.theshiftinside.com/six/
Better Than Willpower episode
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-better-than-willpower-ec29/
Sound effects byhttps://www.zapsplat.com
Watch that your earbuds don't burn off with the heat of this week's show! Yes, it is the the (ever so slightly bonkers) chilli challenge - and this is the woman who - up until last summer - would no more eat spicy food than retrain as an astrophysicist . I also talk about body hacking and biohacking. Hilarious Idea of The Week Ever wondered what to do if you were unfortunate enough to lose half a finger in a motorbike accident? Why, turn your misfortune upside down by transforming said missing digit into a USB stick. Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
Main section: The Chilli Challenge LIVE!!! A finger USB stick is bodyhacking - optimising (and I use term loosely) your body using technology. Biohacking is more about optimising your body using medical, nutritional and physical advances. The big, extreme biohacking invetions make big news - but I want to focus in this episode on much more basic, simple biohacking techniques you can implement today for virtually nothing.
The Chilli Challenge is one such technique. The point is that you eat more chilli than is comfortable for you in order to get an endorphin rush.
Listen as I take you through the discomfort and safe-for-compulsives high of the chilli challenge. Is it worth it? Only you can decide.
See the photo of the stir fry at http://www.theshiftinside.com/feel-amazing-challenge/
This is a replay of episode 39.
RESOURCES
Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
The Virtual Retreat: http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/
Real vs Fake Pleasure episode
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-real-vs-fake-pleasure/
The Bulletproof Blog article on biohacking: https://blog.bulletproof.com/beginners-guide-to-biohacking-101/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/
Today we are going to use Back To The Future to help you eat less compulsively in lockdown, and start shifting to a more empowered way of handling stress and food at this time.
I introduce you to the concept of the internal and external locus of control. This is rather like the introvert/extrovert divide – just as most people are not one or the other (they are ambiverts on a continuum), I believe that we live on a sliding scale between the internal and external locus of control. The trick is to shift towards one as much of the time as possible.
In the second half, I discuss how you can move from having an external towards an internal locus, using some real life examples from my recent virtual retreat.
Next retreat: 4 – 11th May. Find out more at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/
RESOURCES
The Back to The Future clips :
https://youtu.be/95_DB6GgLQs
https://youtu.be/zZJ7cq6T3v4
Instagram: @eatingcoach
Find The Eating Coach on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TheShiftInside/
Got five minutes and are in a really foul mood? No need to turn to food when you try this gem called "conscious complaining" Want a quick tip to help you stop stress eating? This is for you if you are sick of people telling you to be positive 24/7 No need to turn to food when you try this gem called "conscious complaining" RESOURCES
The virtual retreat will be running again in the first half of May. More details here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/
Find out more about 1 to 1 coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
The Masquerade episode is at: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-masquerade-and-the-treasure-hunt-to-reclaim-your-life-from-food-ec-47/
Yes! A retreat during lockdown. What's THAT about? One week 7 fun & thought-provoking sessions on managing your eating in lockdown Small group coaching sessions 1 bonus one-to-one session
Find out more about the retreat here: http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/
Looking for some ways to avoid Easter Eggs that actually work? When willpower has left the building and Just say no rings more hollow than The Grand Canyon. Food-Rebel proof and usable even for the most dyed-in-the-wool compulsive.
Freedom From Sugar programme is at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Email Harriet at
info (at) theshiftinside.com
Back tomorrow with details of The Lockdown Retreat :)
Sick of boredom eating? Want a quick, 30-second way to tackle it? Then listen in... Some thoughts on the real reason that some many people are boredom eating - it is to give them a quick hit of something that was readily available pre-lockdown. Also a quick, actionable strategy you can use TODAY to curb boredom eating. I'll be back tomorrow with news about an online event I am doing this weekend that goes into more depth on this and other relevant topics.
Fancy a few hours off your life? These ten lockdown-proof activities will give you that sorely-needed break at a cost of zero pence. So turn off the news and block out all social media. Prepare to feel better right now!
I start the episode with a short rant about how everyone telling us that we should make the most of being stuck at home can too easily backfire. We need to be realistic about how much we can actually accomplish right now.
Here are all the activities I talk about
#1 The Theme From Badlands
#2 Space - as in any open space
#3 Kindle Unlimited Free Trial
#4 The End of Return Of The Jedi
#5 A Cathartic Cry
#6 Everything Is Alive
#7 Listen To A Perfect Album
#8 Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review
RESOURCES
Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
What Is Cavebrain?
http://www.theshiftinside.com/rum-what-is-cavebrain/
Episode on Self Help Food Junkies
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-122-self-help-food-junkies-and-freedorothy
Broadcast News Trailer
https://youtu.be/Fuhxg3mkiIw
Everything Is Alive
https://www.everythingisalive.com/
Kermode & Mayo’s Film Review
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvdrj
Get your free audiobook at:
http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach
Sound effects byhttps://www.zapsplat.com
Imagine the deity of Marvel handing out superpowers to The Black Widow, Batman, Superwoman, et al. They are all lined up and getting a bit bored. It’s a bit like queuing up for a visa.
Marvel deity gives everyone their respective super-abilities: scaling wall for Spiderman, top notch espionage skills and a super-bracelet for Black Widow - and so it goes on.
At the end of the day, there are two superheros left in line: Lockdown Woman and Pandemic Man.
In this episode, find out what exactly is the superpower that Lockdown Woman, Pandemic Man and each and every one of us has within us to deal with this situation.
I also give you a practical strategy you can use right now to reduce your binge eating. More to follow in the days to come.
RESOURCES
Find out about coaching here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
The 1 Minute Thought Experiment
http://www.theshiftinside.com/calm-your-coronavirus-anxiety-in-less-than-a-minute-ec-140/
Today I tell you all about how I helped one of my clients turn around her stress eating this week, regroup and come back stronger. I am so pleased she allowed me to share what we talked about on the call, because her behaviour around food was very typical. I am sure that you will resonate with her story.
RESOURCES
Find out more about Freedom from sugar plus coaching at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Apollo 11 Trailer
https://youtu.be/tpLrp0SW8yg
The Failure Olympics Episode
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-the-failure-olympics-ec32/
Here is something you can do about your Coronavirus anxiety - immediately. If you give me five minutes of your time, I will give you an anxiety-calming tool that takes less than 60 seconds to implement. It costs nothing, and you can do this anywhere. You could even get away with this in the middle of a stressful meeting about COVID-19, and nobody will notice. It is not meditation, EFT or deep breathing. Before I explain exactly what this, let’s imagine anxiety as a merry-go-round (or should I say unmerry-go-round). Anxiety looks at a problem and circles it. Not only does it fail to respond to that problem, but it starts disabling your higher creative thinking, which is so vital when it comes to the complex problems of the world in 2020. Anxiety also makes you susceptible to the profit-driven hysteria of the press. Cue more anxiety.You never get anywhere with anxiety as your tool to deal with Coronavirus. All it does is let you fool yourself that your state of hypervigilance is justified. Of course we need to be vigilant with the present COVID-19 situation. What I am saying is that hypervigilance, which means fretting beyond what is useful, increases our stress levels to the point where we cannot respond effectively. This is when stress can start to put an extra unneccessary load on our immune system, which is something that everyone needs to have functioning as effectively as possible right now. Listen and help get yourself out of hyper-vigilant anxiety that you know is doing you no good at all. RESOURCES Last episode http://www.theshiftinside.com/coronavirus-panic-lessons-for-binge-eating-podcast-ec-139/
Yes! It's a surprisingly cheerful podcast episode about Coronavirus. What?!? Starring toilet roll panic buying, Cavebrain and one kick-ass bride... The state of panic that surrounds Coronavirus has some surprisingly useful hidden lessons to help you deal with your binge eating. In today’s episode I tell you what two of those lessons are.
Just asking different questions about major challenges allows us to reclaim our power from victim stories immediately.
“The great upheavals of the world are just self-transformational seminars that a lot of unconscious people are forced to attend so that they look at their lives under pressure” – Stuart Wilde, Infinite Self
RESOURCES
Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/yourcavebrain/
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-why-are-people-panic-buying-and-why-toilet-paper-11952397
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/07/supermarkets-begin-food-rationing-wave-coronavirus-fueled-panic/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/coronavirus-reasons-to-be-reassured
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/couple-divorce-after-three-minutes-13965800
Today is an updated reply of episode 67: Veruca Salt Helps Us Feel The Fear and Do It Anywaywith some comments at the end that turn some of what I say on its head!
Curioser and curioser...
Watch the videos of me at Go Ape last year here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/fear/
For more information on coaching go to
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Today I interview health coach Jessica Romrell about emotional eating, which she defines as ‘using food to cope with or escape an emotion’
STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK
…is the concept of being ‘too emotional’. This is a nonsense, and is expressing something subtly distinct. Find out what that is…
MAIN SECTION
Emotional eating is not about the food. Let’s get under the bonnet of this issue and go deeper.
We discuss:
- The problem with willpower
- What stress cycles are and how they impact emotional eating
- Deconstructing and neutralising the shame around this issue
- The two types of coping that Jessica recommends
- What true self care is (clue: it’s not taking a hot bath!)
- What habit stacking is and why it’s important
RESOURCES
Get Jessica’s free cravings tracker at
https://www.jessicaromrell.com/cravings
Body Confidence Project
http://www.theshiftinside.com/body/
Freedom From Sugar
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Captain America, Ironman and The Black Widow…they may be drawing in the crowds at the box office, but they ain’t got nothing on this, The Secret Superpower of Recovery.
Find out what it is in this episode...and what Prince Harry has got to do with any of this.
STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK
…is the rather delightful (NOT) comments made by the press regarding Prince Harry’s career plans. He has, in fact, resigned from a job he never even applied for – who would want that duty foisted onto them?
What has all this got to do with binge eating, I hear you ask…well all will be revealed.
The Secret Superpower of Recovery
Hint: this superpower begins with the letter R
Find out:
What Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice* has to do with this
*The B word that this superpower often gets mistaken for
*What The Effortless Tipping Point is
RESOURCES
Coaching info is at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Freedom From Sugar Programme details are at http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
The Daily Mirror article is at
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/piers-morgan-accuses-harry-meghan-21309679
Toby Maguire clip
https://youtu.be/2DYodUX4sJU
AKA Meditation for people who can't sit still...and a deeper exploration for the rest of us.
Are you one of those people who feel like they should meditate because they see gurus everywhere talk about it, but would rather stick pins in your eyes than sit down and close your eyes?
What you need is an intervention of the non-spiritual, non-BS variety. Today I talk to the only person who has ever got me to meditate, master coach Rob Scott.
STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK
…comes from poet and playwright EE Cummins, all about belief and change
MAIN SECTION
In this interview, discover
*What the ten breaths challenge is, and the hidden benefits of failing it
*What beginners should focus on instead of time spent meditating
*The difference between thought and sensation – and why understanding this can start to dismantle compulsion
*How meditation lets you access the actual experience of being alive vs the thought model of being alive
*A definition of ‘being present’ that takes you from some 2D perfectionist social media meme to a real workable tool that will help you accept yourself
*The difference between pain and suffering – and why this is so important for your ability to manage your compulsion
RESOURCES
Connect with Rob at https://fundamentalshift.com/
Find out more about Shapeshifting coaching here: http://www.theshiftinside.com/transform/
And Reclaim Your Life From Food coaching here http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
The Willpower Instinct is by Kelly McGonigal
The Improving Slowly article
https://improvingslowly.com/2017/11/07/acceptance-complacency/
There’s nothing wrong with New Year’s Resolutions (NYRs) in themselves – it’s all about HOW you approach these lifestyle changes. This list may have some mistakes you’ve heard of – but I bet there will be some Aha! Moments as well.
I also show you 3 ways to avoid these 7 pitfalls – all without feeling deprived or bad about yourself.
Shapeshifting 2020
http://www.theshiftinside.com/transform/
Join this exciting 90 day programme and replace the repeated failures of weight loss with a sustainable and empowering alternative for life: Shapeshifting
- Uses neuroscience to ramp up your motivation to make the best food choices
- Small group support
- Learn the principles of Shapeshifting that turn this struggle into an adventure
- Develop self-acceptance in your body and mind
- No set meal plans - instead, sound nutritional principles that you adapt for yourself
- Calm your inner food rebel using guidelines YOU set for yourself
- How to turn this challenge into your heroine's journey
- Fall off the wagon one day? No problem - learn how to neutralise guilt and get back on track ASAP
- Motivate yourself get more active, no matter how unfit you are
- The world's most obvious shapeshifting secret - hidden in plain sight. Learn how to implement it
- The Mindshifts you need - go beyond empty cliches like 'think positive' and overcome your deepest resistance to this change you want so much
RESOURCES
Instagram: @eatingcoach
Find out more about the Shapeshifting 2020 group
http://www.theshiftinside.com/transform/
Episode 28 on New Year’s Resolutions for Food Rebels
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-a-new-years-resolution-for-food-rebels/
Episode 17 on calorie counting
http://www.theshiftinside.com/whats-wrong-with-calorie-counting/
130 – The Backwards Law of Weight Loss
http://www.theshiftinside.com/the-backwards-law-of-weight-loss-audio/
Episode 29 on willpower
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-better-than-willpower-ec29/
#26 – Real vs Fake pleasure
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-real-vs-fake-pleasure/
Cavebrain episodes
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/how-to-stop-stress-eating-part-2/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/the-body-confident-project-podcast/
Christmas Day is always a tricky one for many compulsive eaters. Whether that’s you , or you just want to feel a bit less uncomfortably overfull at the end of today, here is a mental survival kit for the 25th December. Plus some useful links to other longer episodes.
RESOURCES
Shapeshifting Resources
http://www.theshiftinside.com/transform/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/the-backwards-law-of-weight-loss-audio/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/what-is-shapeshifting-audio/
USEFUL EPISODES
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-to-celebrate-without-overeating/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-eat-less-chocolate-with-the-jim-carrey-test/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-own-your-food-compulsion/
…AKA an audio survival guide for Yule to watch, read and listen your way out of all the compulsive eating that everyone is taking part in. There are even some things to do (in a very low-energy way).
That’s it for shownotes as the resources section is longer than War and Peace and The Harry Potter series put together!
RESOURCES
EC 129: The best Thanksgiving and Christmas dessert episode:
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-129-the-best-sugar-free-thanksgiving-and-christmas-dessert-ever
Find out more about the Shapeshifting programme at:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/transform/
Episodes 130 and 131 on weight loss and shapeshifting:
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-130-the-backwards-law-of-weight-loss
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-131-what-is-shapeshifting
Freedom From Sugar:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
The Success Journal page:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/success-journal/
https://www.meetup.com/
The His Dark Materials trilogy comprises The Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Get all these on audiobook from Audible, amd if you’re not already a member, get your first book FOC. Go to www.audibletrail.com/eatingcoach and support this podcast.
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-flow-2794768
Flow was conceptualised by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
(see, I told you I couldn’t pronounce it!)
Nativity 3 reviews mentioned:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/nativity-3-dude-where-s-my-donkey-film-review-instantly-forgettable-9859749.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/nativity-3-dude-where-s-my-donkey-review-a-new-low-for-british-cinema-1.1999498
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11226085/Nativity-3-Dude-Wheres-My-Donkey-review-Martin-Clunes-makes-an-ass-of-himself.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/16/nativity-3-dude-wheres-my-donkey-more-festive-nonsense
Songs mentioned:
The Woods by Hollow Coves
Are You With Me? – Lost Frequencies
Hometown – 21 Pilots
Renegades – Ex-Ambassadors
I have an easy AND luxurious sugar free dessert that you can enjoy at Thanksgiving, Christmas or any big celebration. This episode is coming to you a few days early to give all my American listeners the chance to try this one out before next Thursday.
Next episode will be Wed 4th December.
STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK
…is that you should not have something luxurious and indulgent at feast times even if you don’t eat sugar. Find out why.
RESOURCES
The recipe for this dessert is at:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/pudding/
Freedom From Sugar Programme is at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Hidden Sugars Checklist
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
The Daniel Lieberman quote is from this article:
https://www.businessinsider.com/evolutionary-reason-we-love-sugar-2014-4?r=US&IR=T
Body Confident Project episode
http://www.theshiftinside.com/the-body-confident-project-podcast/
The Celebrate Without Overeating episode
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-to-celebrate-without-overeating/
How Sugar Hijacks The Brain episode
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain/
“I’m going to build a house using only this hammer”
CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) is one of the most popular forms of therapy that people seek these days for a wide range of issues. Today we look at if it can help eating issues.
STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK
Far be it from me to cast apersions on anyone’s truly healthy ice lollies…well actually, near be it because I, ahem, am doing just that. Ah, the creative engine that is reality TV…
MAIN SECTION (3 min 43)
Does CBT work for binge eating? And if so, does it have any limits?
CBT is a therapy that helps people identify and correct distorted thoughts than can affect their behaviour. And this is the really important thing to note here: in this approach, conscious, faulty thinking is at the root of behaviours such as binge eating.
The principle is that thoughts create feelings, which create unwanted behaviours, which in turn reinforce the thoughts.
I look at some evidence on this issue and give my opinion: where I see overlaps with my own coaching and what I see as its glaring inadequacies.
I talk about the invisible forces behind binge- and compulsive eating that could well escape a CBT therapist.
RESOURCES
The 14 days to Freedom From Sugar Course is at:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Find out more about 1 to 1 coaching at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
The video from the charity Mind is here:
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/drugs-and-treatments/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-cbt/#.XcL_nDP7SUk
Current and Emerging Directions in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3411516/
The NICE article
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/people-with-eating-disorders-benefit-from-specialist-cbt-and-self-help-programmes-says-nice
Episode 4: How sugar hijacks the brain:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain/
Produced by Louis Morris
‘All natural sweeteners are equal; but some are more equal than others’ as George Orwell never said.
There is a massive difference between nightmares like the fake healthy-sounding agave nectar and what I have to recommend for you today.
Fortunately there is a great rule of thumb to use plus a handful of Eating Coach-approved natural sweeteners, so this does not have to be a complicated business.
Listen and learn in this highly practical episode.
Featuring a Stupid Idea of The Week Hall of Shame!
Quote of the episode: “Brown rice syrup bears about as much resemblance to brown rice as I do to The Dalai Lama” 😊
RESOURCES
Get your Hidden Sugars Checklist at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
Freedom From Sugar Course
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Find out more about coaching here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Episode 4: How Sugar Hijacks Your Brain
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain/
NKD Living erythritol
https://www.nkdliving.com/products/erythritol
Dr Eric Berg’s video on erythritol
https://youtu.be/-iSy1nDxovo
Are you worried about how much candy and sweets your children are going to guzzle this Halloween? Well, DON'T! I explain why you are barking up the wrong tree and diverting yourself from focusing on how to bring them up in the most healthy way possible.
I also give some practical tips on how to reduce your kids’ sugar consumption without ruining the fun.
This is a replay of episode 84, first released in 2018.
Normal publishing schedule resumes with the next episode in 2 weeks' time.
RESOURCES
The Hidden Sugars Checklist
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
14 Days To Freedom From Sugar:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
One idea to deal with one day out of 365…How can you eat less sweets and candy on the 31st October, when this whole event centres on those very items? This episode will give you a realistic solution dives deeper into how you can turn this night into an opportunity to stand up to your sugar addiction, as well as some useful resources to learn more.
This is about anti-perfectionism and turning your thinking about sugar, food compulsion and binge eating on its head.
This is about calming your inner food rebel, not adding fuel to their motivational fire….in fact how about using this festival of junk as a way to rebel against your food compulsion?
Coming in the next few days: what to do about your kids and their sugar consumption at Halloween. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss that episode.
This is a replay of episode 83, first released in 2018.
RESOURCES
Freedom From Sugar; The 14 Day Kickstarter:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
The Hidden Sugars Checklist is at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
Episode 4:
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec004-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain
Episode 20:
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-20-how-to-stop-sugar-cravings
Episode 27:
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-27-eat-less-chocolate-with-the-jim-carrey-test
Portion control is a great thing to focus on – but only if you have already got it. Virtually all clients, when they come to me, start off with lack of control uppermost in their mind. However, when they change their eating habits, they never rejoice “Control! I have control!” So what is going on here?
STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK
…the Fridgecam. Why use your own basic intelligence when you can hand all your power over to AI?
PORTION CONTROL
We tend to think of control as a good thing, that it is the royal road to considered moderation. It is a great way to DESCRIBE a state of affairs where moderation is natural and unforced.
Control as a tool for change is however a disaster, because it is to us ideal as a tool for change.
Control wants to squash the external manifestations of control. This will not work if your compulsive overeating is fuelled by an inner rebel (created partly by the deprivation of diets and other forms of nutritional self-harm).
Control says ‘I don’t trust myself’ – in fact it is about using mistrust as a weapon against yourself.
In this episode, discover:
*A useful way to stop using the word ‘control’
*3 alternatives to portion control (14m 22)
*What teenagers have to teach us about this issue
*The A word that you can replace control with
*An eating game you can try today
RESOURCES
If you are interested in 1 to 1 coaching:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
The ‘Better Than Willpower’ episode
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-better-than-willpower-ec29/
Other links mentioned:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/fridgecam-lets-you-make-your-dumb-fridge-smart-with-a-simple-camera/
https://www.manhelper.com/money_career/10_incredibly_stupid_ways_to_spend_your_money
http://www.illusions.org/
Produced by Louis Morris
@bodyconfidentproject
Is it possible for any woman to start to accept and even like her body and appearance in less than a month?
This was the question I asked myself a few months ago when I became sick of being beaten down my poor body image.
I wondered whether I could go deeper and reproduce the success I had 7 years ago giving up sugar. I had to find a different way through that challenge than the cookie-cutter solutions being presented to me by everyone else.
And this is exactly what I have done with The Body Confident Project.
The key to gaining body acceptance – and gaining it relatively quickly - is Cavebrain.
In this episode you will find out...
*Exactly what cavebrain is and why it is absolutely crucial in this process
*Other women's experiences with this project
*Why this goes beyond being able to look in the mirror and is also about living a life that is both easier AND more empowered
RESOURCES
http://www.theshiftinside.com/body/
NB Link to the documentary below...This is not just another review – in this episode I am going to not only talk about this documentary, but describe what the next steps are for anyone with low body confidence…which is just about everyone.
What do you get when you put reality TV, airbrushed perfectionism and cyberbullying together? A poignant portrait of how toxic body shaming can – well, let’s not say ruin someone’s life – because there is always hope…and actionable ideas that every woman can put into practice. Jesy Nelson of Little Mix fame tells the story of the cyberbullying she was subjected to even before she had won The X Factor and the start of recovery.
The question is…
What next?
In tomorrow’s extra episode I will be talking about The Body Confident Project and how this is the next step on from the awareness that Jesy and millions of women like her need to stand aside from their body hatred and stop trash talking themselves.
From “I can’t look in the mirror’"to “I look great” in less than a month…is it really possible?
Listen in and let’s see…
Resources
The Body Confident Project
http://www.theshiftinside.com/body/
@bodyconfidentproject on Instagram
Watch ‘Odd One Out’ here:
https://youtu.be/WPxd5AFtJ3s
The Guardian review
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/12/jesy-nelson-odd-one-out-review-a-modern-fairytale-in-reverse
We’ve all heard of self help junkies (I’m one in recovery)…but what is a S/H food junkie? Someone who reads Think and Grow Rich while working their way through the dessert aisle of their local supermarket?
Nope.
Quite the opposite in fact.
Find out exactly what I mean, and how the SHFJ differs from their book-loving counterparts.
Plus a really, really Stupid Idea of The Week...
RESOURCES
For more information about coaching
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Freedom From Sugar
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
The Body Confidence Project
http://www.theshiftinside.com/body/
The Self Help Junkies article
https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/04/self-help-junkies/
The smart fridge article
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/13/teen-smart-fridge-twitter-grounded
Produced by Louis Morris
Today a Stupid Idea of The Week that does have a grain of truth about the causes of obesity. It is too easy to throw the baby out with the public health bathwater when it comes to OTT toxic nonsense. Yes, it’s Michael Buerk’s ridiculous anti-obese people rant. And yes, it does have something to push the debate forward…
Plus a partial replay of episode 28 from 2017: Own Your Food Compulsion.
WORD OF THE WEEK
…is Uncomfortability. This is more than discomfort, it is the ability to sit with discomfort and pain. Includes a hilarious quote from Stuart Wilde!
OWN YOUR FOOD COMPULSION
My disastrous “lonely hearts” story vs Moss from The IT Crowd. Lesson: If you have a problem, it is better to own it than hide it away in secrecy. I explore this from several different angles.
RESOURCES
To find out more about 1 to 1 coaching:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
The 14 Days to Freedom From Sugar Programme
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Article about the Michael Buerk furore:
https://news.sky.com/story/michael-buerk-let-obese-people-die-early-to-save-nhs-money-11778620
The Stuart Wilde quote and ideas come from the book Infinite Self
The IT Crowd:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0487831/
Some Stupid Ideas of The Week you have to experience them to get the full force of their idiocy. Yes, dear listeners, I would just LOVE to tell you this was someone else's tale of fizzy woe, but I cannot lie.
Listen and (unlike me) manage quite easily to not weep.
Also today: Real Success Stories...how to turn failure into success. Oddly enough there is no mention of artifically sweetened soda in this section. Funny that...
The 3 success stories are:
#1 Got A Pulse
#2 Alfie and The Tantrum Eraser
#3 The Post Its Surprise
RESOURCES
The Independent article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/fruit-juice-sugar-cancer-health-sugar-obesity-bmj-a8999726.html
Episode 21 – fruit juice http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-fasting-yes-or-no/
Episode 15 - http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-artificial-sweeteners-what-you-should-really-worry-about/
Getting over binge or compulsive eating is hard – and we often tell ourselves stories called ‘I Can’t Do It’ when that discomfort hits home. In this episode I give you a reframe to help you manage and move through the discomfort of reclaiming your life from food. Hint: It’s called The FeelGood Factory...
Also featuring: Word of The Week. Today this word is Rumspringa. Find out what on earth one of those is, and how awesome they can be in any change you want to make with eating or body image
RESOURCES
Coaching info is at:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Find out more about The Body Confidence Project at: http://www.theshiftinside.com/body/
This American Life episode - https://www.thisamericanlife.org/486/valentines-day/act-one-6
What do Apollo 13, Hidden Figures and The Guinness Book of World Recordsall have in common?
Why, today's episode of course!
Listen and see what I mean...
Find out about coaching here: http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Today an update on my no coffee experiment I started on 1st January this year, plus why the subject of caffeine and coffee is relevant on a show about eating compulsion
Plus some funny quotes about diets.
Enjoy!
Resources
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/funny-diet.html
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-does-caffeine-make-binge-eating-worse/
What has the upcoming disruptor of Wimbledon, the conqueror of Venus Williams, got to teach us about giving up sugar?
On the 7th anniversary of me freeing myself from sugar, let me explain.
Find out about The Freedom from Sugar Programme here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Listen to the 6 Years Sugar Free episode (that is #59) from 2018 here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/six/
Happy 4th of July to my friends over the pond...and happy independence from body shame day to everyone!
Find out how you can access some of my Body Confidence Project activities in this episode.
More details are at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/body/
Watch out for another extra episode this Saturday on a different topic.
A quick clarification of something I was not clear about in today's episode: A Calorie Is Not A Calorie
Calorie counting works like gangbusters…as long as you are a simple input-output machine that never experiences stress or someone who has never sat down to a big celebratory meal. All you Tibetan monks can stop listening.
For the rest of you, listen in onto this primer as to why a calorie is not a calorie.
There are two main areas I will focus on:
A - the role of stress
B - food rebellion.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
…is totally brilliant. Just have a listen!
THE BODY CONFIDENCE PROJECT
Listen out for a special bonus episode out in the next two weeks telling you how you can get early access to some of the materials.
RESOURCES
Coaching info is at: http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Contact me: info {at} theshiftinside.com
The Bustle Article:
https://www.bustle.com/articles/89191-20-body-image-quotes-for-your-next-bad-day-because-your-body-isnt-the-problem
‘The Slow Down Diet’ is by Marc David
Blade Runner trailer: https://youtu.be/iYhJ7Mf2Oxs
Apollo 13 trailer: https://youtu.be/Y_rkXC9HH9k
Hidden Figures trailer: https://youtu.be/5wfrDhgUMGI
Jonathan trailer: https://youtu.be/V17pEDh6VYw
‘Jonathan’ is available on Netflix
This is a follow on from episode 112 about how useless ‘The Secret’ and its ilk are. Today we look at a viable alternative to that nonsense: the REAL law of attraction.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Come from JP Sears’ video ‘The Law of Attraction Delusion’
MAIN SECTION
If ‘The Secret’ is the fast food version of the law of attraction, then we need a more nutritional feats that will sustain us mentally and see us through the inevitable unpredictability of life.
This episode answers one question: what happens when, despite your best efforts, your affirmations fall on deaf universal ears and your vision board starts going dusty with lack of manifesting?!?
To answer this question we have a orchestra and conductor on hand as well as Carl Jung. We look at the role victim thinking plays here, and what stuck stories are. The role that mystery plays.
RESOURCES
To find out more about one-to-one coaching: http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
JP Sears’ video: https://youtu.be/k7ibcK1SVZg
Freedom from Sugar Programme:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom
Oliver Burkeman's The Antidote: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13721709-the-antidote
Bonus episode. Nike installs a plus size mannequin in their flagship London store. Cue outrage from certain parts of the media and a backlash from the fat activism movement.
Who is right?
A better question is: how helpful is this marketing move to the average woman and man in the street, who feel bewildered by this controversy. They know the airbrushed perfectionism of size zero is toxic, but they do not know what to do with this opposite conception of beauty.
Join me as I try to find some middle ground in this debate.
The main Eating Coach episode will be out tomorrow.
RESOURCES
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/obese-mannequins-selling-women-dangerous-lie/
Feeling guilty because you read or watched ‘The Secret’ and just didn’t manifest that toned new body well enough? Wonder what in the name of Rhonda you’ve done wrong as your beach body plan turns to binge baddy disaster?
Fear not, for ‘tis not your fault.
In this episode I tell you why I believe the law of attraction (in the form it is presented by books such as The Secret) is 90% drivel, 8% commonsense and 2% pure gold. I see this book as a superficial parody of an extremely powerful set of principles that can be the springboard for you to change your life.
Over the course of the next two episodes, I am going to
#1 Dismantle the nonsense and release you from any feelings of inadequacy you made have been experiencing trying to apply the LoA
#2 Give you an alternative that goes deeper and is far more realistic than the version that you have been attempting to follow – and that will be in the next episode, a fortnight today.
In this first part, I hope to achieve #1. We look at the two camps that have sprung up when this topic is discussed.
THE LIMITS OF THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
#1 It relies 100% on visionary thinking, which has a shelf life which can be veeeeeery short, depending on how great your resistance is.
#2 The snide and sneaky pressure to feel good 24/7
#3 The ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ language
*Watch out for part two next time***
RESOURCES
Eating coaching here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Wikipedia page on Phineas Quimby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Quimby
The Mark Manson article
https://markmanson.net/the-secret
Cravings Busters – These are ways to divert your cravings and channel them into something more harmless than binge eating. Albert Einstein helped me create them, so they must be good! This episode has more on them:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-how-to-stop-sugar-cravings/
Find out more about The Pauly Principle here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-better-than-willpower-ec29/
Episode 4 on The Sugar Rollercoaster:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain/
Mark Vernon’s Guardian article on The Secret
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/aug/31/secret-byrne-positive-thinking
Today’s episode looks at 5 anti-compulsive eating actions you can take today – even if you don’t think you can stop yourself turning to food to manage your life.
You absolutely can.
STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK
…is that natural automatically = good. We all know this is a bit of a nonsense, but how many times have we unwittingly fallen for the green packaging and exotic sounding ingredients list? Let’s dig into this most spurious of axioms.
MAIN SECTION
The idea for today came from me reading what could be seen as a pretty depressing statistic about eating. But like so much raw data, we can look at the information differently and turn it to our advantage.
Discover
*How many food decisions we make on average a day
*How to reduce the overwhelm of your cravings
*How the supermarket environment can increase the buying of junk
*The devil’s advocate question in the last two minutes that puts a completely different spin on the whole episode
RESOURCES
14 Days To Freedom from Sugar - http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
Article on natural not equalling good: https://effectiviology.com/appeal-to-nature-fallacy/
The Willpower Instinct is by Kelly McGonigal
Pauly Principle episode is here: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-better-than-willpower-ec29/
The episode on bread: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-is-bread-so-addictive-ec53/
What could be on the surface THE most depressing title of any episode I (or any other podcaster, for that matter) have ever put out is, in fact, a reason to feel less guilty, less disempowered and less down about your own binge eating than you might guess.
All will be revealed, with the help of some 70’s glam rock!
I talk about how modern life is setting the stage for evryone to be compulsive in many areas of life and the specific ways I see that manifesting, with eating and in other areas.
And I give you two great reasons to find some gold in this - how you can use this information to empower yourself to truly reclaim your life from food.
RESOURCES
Find out more about coaching with harriet at:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
Hidden Sugars Checklist
http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/
The song that inspired this episode:
https://youtu.be/eEv6jy_7PQQ
Cavebrain episode is at:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/
Welcome to the first of a 6-part Chocoholics' Survival Kit for The Easter weekend. I help you get through the Easter weekend with all of its cravings without you feeling terrible. If you have ever, like this podcaster, had to replace your kids’ Easter eggs, this one is for you….
Today I tell you the worst approach for compulsives at Easter – which I funnily enough the most popular one.
It is HFTBing.
Find out what this is and one concrete alternative.
In the rest of this series which you can access at www.patreon.com/eatingcoach, find out….
*How to translate guilt over food compulsion
*How intolerance can be your best friend at this time of year
*How a 1950’s B Movie that you can go and watch completely free on YouTube can help release you from the loneliness you feel about avoiding junk over the Easter weekend
*Ridiculous ways to spend your money – but ones that are still not as bonkers as buying Easter eggs
*The two things that you absolutely need to acknowledge if you are going to navigate Easter Sunday
*Discount-proofing your craving: how to avoid half-price chocolate
*What the Spanish Armada, Bear Grylls and the roman emperor Caligula has to do with all of this
Ah yes! It's Stupidfest. More stupid than the law that said you can convict a swarm of locusts for destroying your crops in the Middle Ages (I'm so proud to be British!). Stupider than not being allowed to name your pig Napoleon (it's illegal in France) or arresting a man for wearing a skirt (possible in Italy)
The Eating Coach presents some new and unheard Stupid Ideas of The Week for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
RESOURCES
Listen to the whole of the Space Film Special at
https://www.patreon.com/EatingCoach
Find out about one-to-one coaching at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
The Freedom From Sugar programme is at
http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/
The opposite of addiction is not what you think – unless you happen to have seen Johan Hari’s TED talk Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
What on earth is Groucho Marx doing in Eating Coach HQ???
MAIN SECTION
In this episode, I talk about some key points from this talk. You don’t need to have watched it to understand.
Find out:
- Why grandmothers aren’t heroin addicts (it’s not Victorian morality!)
- How our innate need to bond can indirectly lead to addiction under specific circumstances
- The role of shame in all this
THE GAME Of LIFE
An excerpt from last week's Eating Coach Extra episode The Game of Life.To hear the whole episode right now, go to https://www.patreon.com/EatingCoach
RESOURCES
Johan Hari’s TED talk is at https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong?language=en
Find out more about coaching at www.theshiftinside.com/coaching
Can food really heal depression? And if so, is it all you need? Let's investigate...
STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK
…is the the when/then game. We’ve all played it – and let’s face it, it’s total pants (as we say here in good ol’Blighty).
MAIN SECTION
In today’s episode I look at how what we eat can impact our mental health. As important as the information are certain caveats that you need to be aware of. The main focus is on what foodstuffs we can introduce to improve our state of mind and emotional regulation.
Included is an extract from my new audiobook Natural Antidepressants. You can buy it today (link below) or….
…alternatively you can hear it over two episodes (this week and next) of Eating Coach Extra – these are paid episodes that will be coming out every other week.
Access Eating Coach Extra here:
https://www.patreon.com/EatingCoach
To celebrate the launch, I am publishing the first two (i.e. the whole of Natural Antidepressants) as follows:
Part 1 – today
Part 2 – next Wednesday 13th
For a low monthly fee you will now be able to hear new episodes every single week if you include the main free Eating Coach episodes.
RESOURCES
https://www.patreon.com/EatingCoach
http://www.theshiftinside.com/natural-antidepressants/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/can-changing-your-diet-heal-depression-with-joan-sotkin/
Would you listen to voicemails from your future?...is an intriguing question...but not the most useful one for this Saturday. Find out what is in this minisode.
This is the last Saturday Question for the time being. Speak to you as usual on Wednesday.
RESOURCES
http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/story/2018/4/5/the-runaways
Yesterday would have been Steve Irwin's 57th birthday. I talk about a hidden lesson the wildlife adventurer from down under has to teach us about how we are living our own lives.
The Cavebrain episode is here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/
In this episode I talk about the work I did with one client and her suicidal thoughts. I discuss the link between eating issues and suicidal urges, and offer some questions you can ask yourself to give you some distance between yourself and this kind of overwhelm.
Be aware that the topic discussed is passive suicidal ideation – thoughts such as “I just don’t want to be here anymore” – as opposed to a definite intent to take one’s own life.
This episode contains an extract from an episode of my other podcast Harry Potter Saved My Life, which is available here:
http://harrypottersavedmylife.com/s2e4-how-to-stop-feeling-suicidal-using-harry-potter
RESOURCES
https://www.socialworktoday.com/news/enews_0812_01.shtml
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25231853
https://www.verywellmind.com/eating-disorders-suicide-4174291
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mindful-musings/201803/eating-disorders-and-suicidal-thoughts
Can you do this one thing - just for an hour?
RESOURCES:
https://drhyman.com/blog/2019/02/06/podcast-ep39/
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec006-fatbook
This Saturday Question minisode is inspired by an argument I heard half of while standing in the supermarket queue. If you have ever lit the Olympic-size torch of your self pity and frustration with the words 'Why do I bother?, then I have a much more fun alternative for you. Enjoy!
It's episode 100! With over 100,000 downloads, I take one hour look back at some of my favourite moments of The Eating Coach podcast and have a couple of giveaways for you at the end. I have gone for a mix of main episodes, Stupid Ideas of The Week and Saturday Questions: thoughtful challenge, deep and meaningful moments and humour.
Every episode I have used is linked to in the resources below, in order.
Giveaway Details Giveaway # 1 - 2 x 50 minutes of coaching by Zoom
Just tell me what you like about the show, or how it has helped you. Here are all the ways you can contact me:
Email info [at] theshiftinside.com
Facebook - join The eating Coach Discussion Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1594950873896541/
Or: https://www.facebook.com/TheShiftInside/
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Giveaway #2 - For everyone - Relaxation audio : http://www.theshiftinside.com/fishtank/
RESOURCES
Here are the episodes mentioned in order:
#1 The Maple Syrup Diet was from ep 14: http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/hollywood-rebels
#2 Why Is Bread So Addictive? (ep 53) http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-is-bread-so-addictive-ec53/
#3 Lori Massacot is speaking in episode 59: Six Years Sugar-Free http://www.theshiftinside.com/six/
#4 How Sugar Hijacks Your Brain (ep http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain/
#5 The Shangrila Diet (ep 15) http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-15-artificial-sweeteners-what-you-should-really-worry-about
#6 Normal = Mediocre episode - http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-normal-mediocre/
#7 The Failure Olympics (ep 32) http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-the-failure-olympics-ec32/
#8 Describing The Ideal was from ep 18 - http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec18-own-your-food-compulsion
#9 Cavebrain (ep35) - http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/
#10 Me Too (ep 19) - http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-me-too-release-your-trauma-and-put-food-out-of-a-job-it-was-never-meant-to-do/
#11 Brian Wong (ep 65) - http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec-65-saturday-question-brian-wong
What nonsense do orange men spout on stage in dingy basketball stadiums at 8 O'clock in the morning? Listen and find out.
The Antidote is by Oliver Burkeman
Twice this week I heard what sounded like an entirely reasonable and wise statement come out of the mouths of two separate people in different contexts.
I replied "Is it?"
Listen to this tear down of what seems like a self-evident truth, and then go ask that same question to someone today. Go on, I double dare you!
Guilty pleasure - just a harmless bit of fun, surely? A treat after a hard day’s work? Nope – unless you actually want to saddle yourself with a price tag of inadequacy and misery. Let’s look at some better alternatives that allow you pleasure without the pain.
STUPID ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
...is one I found wilting beside a supermarket till, announcing ‘My food shame made me lose 5 stone’. I look at some of the backdoor toxic pressure underlying this seemingly good news.
MAIN SECTION: WHY YOU SHOULD DITCH GUILTY PLEASURES RIGHT NOW
Embedded in the very concept of guilty pleasure is the conflict between feeling guilty for pleasure, and on the other hand, legitimising the experience. This is just one of the reasons that this seemingly harmless form of fun is a breeding ground for disaster.
I talk about:
- How we have an overload of pleasure today
- What The Space Shuttle has got to do with any of this
- Why some shame is an illusion
- The underated role that rule breaking has in this behaviour, and its link to the issue of power as regards compulsive eaters
- What to replace this thinking with
RESOURCES
Find out about coaching here:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/
The ABC of Eating Psychology episode:
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec10-abc-of-eating-psychology
Ep 26 – real vs Fake Pleasure:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-real-vs-fake-pleasure/
Ep 13 – The Invisibilia of Secret Eating:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-the-invisibilia-of-secret-eating-ec13/
Space Shuttle article:
https://priceonomics.com/the-space-shuttle-challenger-explosion-and-the-o/
Dan Cumberland’s article on breaking rules:
https://theseattleschool.edu/blog/breaking-the-rules/
The Eureka Alert article on breaking rules:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-05/sp-brm051911.php
Today's Saturday Question takes as its starting point one of THE most unusual televisual experiences I have ever been through; choose your own adventure TV.
Bandersnatch is available on Netflix