When it comes to weight loss, so many of us feel that we need to restrict our food, punish the body with exercise, and be in a constant state of worry. We expect our weight loss journey to be an ongoing battle where we can never truly relax and live.
But there’s a much better way.
In this episode, Marc David works with guest podcast client David, and challenges the belief that weight and health goals have to be difficult. At age 74, David wants to lose weight and eat healthy, but he’s tired of all the hard work.
He knows what he wants, but he’s confused about how to get there.
David would like to enjoy food and not live in a state of restriction, but at the same time, he wishes he could be 40 pounds lighter.
Fed up by the cycle of working hard to lose weight, and then gaining it right back, David wonders:
“Can’t I just be me? When do I get to just live my life?”
Listen in as they explore the power of cultivating a more natural and easy relationship with food and body. Instead of punishing the body into weight loss, Marc helps David develop a strategy to nourish himself into finding his natural weight.
“You have a natural relationship with food and with your appetite. You just have to create the conditions for that to emerge,” Marc says.
Paradoxically, by taking weight loss off the table, not only can we finally relax and enjoy life, but we actually create the ideal conditions for real and lasting weight loss.
You’ll also hear Marc share valuable insights on:
✅ How putting “pressure” on food to make us lose weight doesn’t work.
✅ Creating a relaxed relationship with the body that gets us closer to our natural weight.
✅ How having a spiritual reckoning with ourselves can help us have a more loving body image.
✅ Why clarity about our life’s purpose is especially powerful for older men and health.
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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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So many of us are trying to lose weight.
We can put all of our energy, our heart and soul, into fulfilling what seems like a simple desire - just lose a bunch of body fat.
When our efforts aren’t working though, things can get complicated.
We can become a bit anxious, and adopt the kind of beliefs that are intended to motivate us, but actually hold us back. These beliefs can include:
I’m not good enough as I am
I am not lovable
Something is wrong with
Once I lose the weight, then and only then can I finally be happy
If I just work harder, then the weight will come off
When we think such thoughts, oddly enough, the body itself does not feel safe.
And when the body doesn’t feel safe, our physiology tends to hold onto weight.
That’s the dilemma Marc David helps our guest coaching client Carrie untangle in this episode.
After a recent weight loss, Carrie feels conflicted about the praise and positive comments she receives from the people around her. Far from feeling validated by the feedback, it seems only to raise the volume on her own self-judgment.
What’s most problematic though, is that Carrie equates losing weight with spiritual growth.
Meaning, Carrie believes that if she can work hard enough on her spiritual growth, then the last remaining pounds she wants to lose will magically drop away. From there, she imagines she can finally be her best and truest self, which she’s admittedly put on hold the last 20 years.
But as Marc helps her to see, that’s an extraordinary amount of pressure to pressure on our body, and ourself.
When we put off our happiness and satisfaction into the future, when we tell ourselves that “I can only be the real me once I lose weight” - we are assuring that the life we have right now is at best only half lived.
Follow the conversation as Marc guides Carrie in a process of decoupling weight loss from spiritual growth.
In the process, Marc helps Carrie redefine her approach to her own spiritual journey. He reminds her that, “just because there's places where you need to grow doesn't mean there's something wrong with you.”
He helps her see that true healing goes far beyond the size and shape of our body.
After all, when we look at our weight as proof that we are broken and defective, we just perpetuate a cycle of unhappiness, discontent, and constant judgment of our body.
Sometimes, finding peace with food and body simply means loving and accepting our body just as it is – right here, right now.
From this place, our journey to actually lose weight can be far more successful.
This episode also explores how:
✅ Owning our preferences means we don’t have to explain ourselves
✅ Self-acceptance creates an embodied sense of safety
✅ Our inner rebel can be a powerful ally in weight loss and in life
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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.
Follow us on social:
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Psychologyofeating
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPEfanpage
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatingpsychology/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/eatingpsych
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