211: Thin People & Food Issues
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Food issues, guilt, emotional eating and food obsession are not exclusive to overweight and obese individuals. Not even a little bit. Today, we're talking about thin people & food issues.
Except, it's more than that. We're talking to my sister.
A couple weeks ago, I had my mom on the show. It was a tough episode but we talked about how, as a thin mother, she really struggled with having an overweight child (me). I was the token fat kid. It was a rough road.
That episode triggered a lot of comments and questions, many of which were related to that sister I talked about. What was it like for her, as a thin child, to grow up with so much emphasis on food and shame related to obesity?
Well, "that sister" is Debi. My oldest friend, my closest friend and the yin to my yang. Don't miss this candid conversation about food issues then & now in the absence of a weight struggle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Menden. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.7 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. |
| 0:28.9 | I know that I have a habit of saying that I'm excited about particular episodes but I guess that's |
| 0:33.3 | the blessing of what I do. Like I actually do get kind of excited and every new episode is like a |
| 0:37.5 | new gem and I'm like oh I can't wait to share this but I know I know we've heard me say this before |
| 0:42.0 | but I am really excited about today's episode because my sister is here with me. Don't worry |
| 0:47.4 | it's not going to turn into like a total family show or whatever because I had my mom on in |
| 0:51.6 | episode 204 but because I had my mom on in 204 and we talked about how my mom is the reason for all |
| 0:59.2 | my problems. Don't totally kidding that's that's not fair. In episode 204 if you haven't listened to |
| 1:04.6 | that definitely go back and listen to it. We talked about what it was like for me growing up |
| 1:11.4 | because yeah I was born heavier than most babies are and I did have some metabolic issues |
| 1:19.9 | because of my mother's pregnancy but the reality is that my emotional attachment to food, |
| 1:26.3 | my things like fear of missing out and emotional eating, sneaking food over like binging and hiding |
| 1:33.9 | food all of those things really developed in response to certain things that happened when I was |
| 1:39.6 | growing up. So we talked about that in episode 204 and I got so much feedback on that episode. |
| 1:45.5 | One of the things that I talked a lot about was the difference in how I was treated versus how |
| 1:51.6 | my older sister was treated because she never had a weight problem. That doesn't mean that over the |
| 1:58.6 | years she didn't develop food problems but she absolutely never had and to this day has never had |
| 2:04.8 | a weight problem. She's tall in fact when we stand side by side her hips are like at my boobs like |
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