Dieting & Health & Why Diets Aren't Harmless

In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, Deb and I talk about dieting, health and disease.

We share scientifically backed details about the reasons diets may be harmful and how you can begin to unchain yourself from the beliefs that you’ve been fed all of your life.

Even though you may still “know” that weight loss is the number one way to get healthy, stay healthy or do better, you’ll slowly (or super, super fast) have to realize that this is not the case. Health is a complex symposium and it’s been shown over and over again that weight loss is not the answer to every single malaise out there.

In fact, weight cycling (which will occur for up to 98% of all dieters) is a huge stressor on the body, which affects the body in negative ways and might contribute to chronic diseases that have been blamed on weight.

Instead of focusing on weight loss and feeling ashamed of the weight you have, you can learn to heal your body image and come back to a joyous life in the body you were born with, a body that you shouldn’t change based on beauty ideals.

In other words, your attempts at weight loss cause you harm! Is that really what you deem healthy?

You can fight all you want, but your biology will eventually win.

After all, we’re programmed to seek food, eat and make sure that we do not starve in order to survive and thrive.

There’s more to say, of course, which is what we do in this episode.

Go check it out now.

Resources we mention:

Food Psych Podcast
Isabel Foxen Duke’s post “Health At Every Size (HAES): A Guide for Binge Eating Recovery“

Check out Deb’s blog “We are more than good enough” here.

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Princess or Queen? And how these archetypes relate to body image and food
Overeating, Dieting and Binging – The core healing strategies to get out of diet prison
Unbelieving and finding your core
The best practices to build resilience around media messages and our diet culture
Self-Compassion trumps Self-Esteem: Practices to give yourself kindness and care
Feminine & Masculine Energies and how to use them to your advantage
My personal self-care strategies and exactly what I do to stay confident and in love with my body without falling back into the dieting trap
A brand sparking new Journaling 101 eBook!
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Weekly EFT Videos and scripts.
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