When we’re facing a chronic health challenge, one of the great ways to help ourselves is to turn to food and diet. So many of us have had great success when using the “food as medicine” approach.
But what happens when our healing diet routine feels too restrictive?
And how do we reconcile our need to avoid certain foods with our natural desire for freedom and exploration?
These are just some of the questions Cecili’s hopes to unpack as Marc’s guest on this episode.
Cecili is a nutritionist who’s spent more than a decade self-treating her own inflammatory bowel disease. After rejecting conventional treatments, Cecili embraced a food-as-medicine approach which eliminated her symptoms within months.
Now, Cecili seeks support in one area that continues to confound her – fear and anxiety around introducing new foods into her diet, and their potential for causing unwanted symptoms.
Follow along as Marc supports Cecili to reframe her journey, from a focus on fear and anxiety to the development of self-trust.
“As you become more explorative in your life, it's going to be a little bit easier for digestion to relax,” Marc says.
And when we pair the experience of safety with the knowledge that we are capable of caring for ourselves amidst unwanted symptoms, then we can finally create a more relaxed and joyful nutritional journey.
Listen now to learn more about:
✅ How mental and digestive processes can mirror each other
✅ Why discerning between trust in body and trust in self creates space for exploration
✅ How to cultivate a relaxed and resilient mindset around trying new foods
✅ The importance of challenging limiting beliefs about what we require to be healthy
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When it comes to food and weight, many of us have learned to treat our bodies as a kind of machine.
We know what our Body Mass Index (BMI) “should” be, and we strive to stay within it. We may severely restrict our caloric intake, increase our weekly exercise to the point of exhaustion, or take other extreme measures to lose weight.
And here’s the thing: these efforts often work, but the cost can be huge. At one point or another, most of us who pursue weight loss in this way end up feeling starved for pleasure and enjoyment in life.
That’s the world that Jacques, 55, has been inhabiting since childhood. As a rabbi, Jacques counsels members of his community and helps them find wisdom in their challenges and tribulations.
But when it comes to his personal relationship with food, Jacques is struggling to let go of what he refers to as his “obsession with food.”
Jacques has tried so many things to lose weight, such as addressing his gut microbiome, taking hCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) for weight loss, and committing to work with a personal trainer three times a week, despite his extreme dislike for working out.
None of these efforts have led to lasting weight loss. Instead, Jacques is feeling even more anxious and confused about what seems like it should be a pretty simple thing: to be at his natural weight, to feel nourished by food, and to live a good life.
For so many of us focused on weight loss, we tend to think about what needs to be lost, removed, or restricted … when what would actually serve us is embracing our love of food, and opening up to pleasure as a source of healing and transformation.
As you’ll hear in this episode, Marc David reframes the idea of “food obsession” as it pertains to weight loss - and explores why cultivating a nourishing relationship with food necessitates inviting pleasure into our lives.
As you’ll hear, Marc explores:
✅ Why embracing our love of food is one of the most life-affirming steps we can take
✅ Finding the wisdom in our love of food and pleasure
✅ How to unwind the cycle of self-punishment that so often defines our relationship with food and body
✅ Following our joy when it comes to movement and eating
✅ Why finding our natural weight can only come when we’re truly embodied
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Learn more about us at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating: https://psychologyofeating.com/
Ready to call a ceasefire in your battle with eating, and find peace and freedom with food? Learn more about our newest program, The Emotional Eating Breakthrough! https://learn.psychologyofeating.com/
Interested in becoming a certified coach in eating psychology? Then tune in to hear Marc talk about our Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training, and download a copy of our School Catalog: https://psychologyofeating.com/info-kit/ Learn our powerful, cutting-edge approach, and discover how you can create a unique career helping others find peace and freedom with food.
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For so many of us, numbers hold power. Whether it’s our bank account, the calories on our plate, or our final exam score, we give tremendous meaning to numbers.
But there’s one number we often give the greatest meaning of all – and that’s our weight.
Most of us have a “number” in mind for what we “should” weigh, and we tend to believe in it wholeheartedly. We can place almost mystical significance on that figure, believing that the world – our world – will be so much different when we finally achieve it.
In this episode, we meet 52-year old Reni from Australia, who has been dieting since her 20s. At one point, she *almost* reached her weight loss goal of 55 kilos, but missed it by 1 kilo.
As Marc David explores with Reni, that 1 extra kilo held significance for her far beyond the weight itself. Reni holds the common belief that she’ll feel more confident about herself once she loses the weight. And that extra confidence boost could be just the thing she needs to get out of a job that’s draining her soul, and move on to more fulfilling work – something that is of great importance to her.
But as she shares, it’s challenging to focus on life goals when she hasn’t reached her goal weight.
So how does Reni – and the rest of us – get out of this never-ending loop? How can she take her power back, and place it where it matters most: on who she really wants to be, and how she wants to live her life?
As you’ll hear, Marc explores:
✅ Why we place magical or quasi-religious significance on weight, and how this can hold us back from the bigger life we’re yearning for
✅ The key mindset shift so many of us can benefit from: focusing on WHO you want to be instead of how much you want to weigh
✅ How to recognize when it’s time to have a weight loss “reckoning,” and how we can begin to think differently about our bodies – and our life
✅ The role of baby steps when practicing being the “real you”
✅ And more…
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Learn more about us at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating: https://psychologyofeating.com/
Ready to call a ceasefire in your battle with eating, and find peace and freedom with food? Learn more about our newest program, The Emotional Eating Breakthrough! https://learn.psychologyofeating.com/
Interested in becoming a certified coach in eating psychology? Then tune in to hear Marc talk about our Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training, and download a copy of our School Catalog: https://psychologyofeating.com/info-kit/ Learn our powerful, cutting-edge approach, and discover how you can create a unique career helping others find peace and freedom with food.
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