Ep. #13: How Wanting to Be "Normal" Leads to Deprivation

For so many years, when I would go out and see skinny people – especially eating dessert – I would think to myself, “Why can’t I be normal, like her?” And I didn’t realize it at the time, but that perception of normal, that I had made up in my head, was leading to so much drama for me. It’s crazy.

I just wanted to be this definition of normal for so long. I wanted to eat whatever I wanted, eat all the sugar, and not gain a pound. Then, while at a retreat, I realized that this desire to be normal was really creating only one thing in my life: deprivation.

Listen in this week, love, and discover the truth about what it means to really be normal, why our perception of normal is not grounded in reality, and how chasing this idea of eating whatever you want and being comfortable is always available to you.

And here are this week’s transformational questions:

1. What thoughts do you have right before you eat off-plan or overeat?

2. What thoughts are causing you to feel deprivation?

3. What if you feel the feeling of deprivation? What would change for you?

What You’ll Discover:

• How confirmation bias influences our perception of what is normal.
• Why it’s impossible to know the full truth about someone else’s relationship with food and their body.
• What normal in the USA actually means from a diet and weight perspective.
• Why you are always in control, even when it feels like you’re eating uncontrollably.