Ep. #222: Diet Trends

I struggled with my weight pretty much my entire life. I started to notice that I was different around eight years old. Other people noticed too and had things to say about it. That led to years of dieting and feeling like my body wasn’t good enough. When you carry extra weight, everyone can see your struggle and you can’t hide from it. It created a level of shame within me.

Shame makes you feel like you’re broken.

You are not broken.

There is a way to start to have more love for yourself and to start to heal your relationship with food.

In today’s episode, I want to share a personal story and give you my take on all the things out there weight loss and diet culture related.

In this episode…

≫[1:46] My personal struggle with weight.

≫[2:57] I believe every human struggles with some sort of buffering.

≫[3:33] I share the story of why I had weight loss surgery.

≫[5:25] There’s a lot of judgement and shame about weight loss surgery.

≫[6:11] It reduces your stomach so that you feel full and you get sick, so there are consequences.

≫[8:15] If you carry extra weight on your body, you carry shame.

≫[9:04] Weight on your body doesn’t make you less than. It doesn’t make you not good enough. You are good enough.

≫[9:25] Because you have learned to cope with struggle, you have learned to push down your emotions with food does not mean that something is wrong with you.

≫[9:48] This work that I have done on myself, the work that we do in Transform Boss is about releasing the shame and starting to learn how to heal your relationship with food.

≫[10:06] I didn’t learn how to lose the mental weight. I didn’t learn how to cope when my life was stressful and overwhelming, my coping mechanism was food.

≫[11:10] At some point, you’re going to learn how to get around the tool.

≫[12:17] Whatever you’re doing, the mental part has to be part of it.

≫[15:51] If you want to lose weight for the last time, the mental part, nothing can fix that but you.

≫[18:03] When you have shame about your weight, you avoid, you isolate.

≫[19:38] I don’t believe in “or”.

≫[20:23] Ask yourself, can I do this for the rest of my life.

≫[21:26] You can heal your relationship with food and with yourself.