This is the 10% Happier Podcast.

I'm Dan Harris.

Hey gang, we're going to return today to one of the most frequent, if under-discussed

ways in which we make ourselves miserable.

How and what we eat and how we feel about the shape of our bodies, the cut of our jibs,

so to speak.

As far as I can tell, women seem reasonably comfortable, or at least sincerely interested

in wrestling with these issues.

But in my experience, this is not an easy subject to raise among men or at least among

the men I know.

Interestingly, while many men seem unenthusiastic about discussing body image issues and might

even give you a blank stare if you broached the subject with them, when I sit down to

meals with the guys I know, many of them are on some sort of rigid diet.

They're doing paleo or keto or they're denying themselves sugar or they've subscribed

to some sort of hardcore exercise regime.

No judgment here, but I've done many of those things myself.

But the bottom line, as one writer recently put it quite astutely in my opinion, and

I'm paraphrasing here, if you're a man, it's become culturally acceptable to diet, even

to diet in public, like bragging about your calorie count or exercise exploits on Instagram.

As long as you call it a biohack.

So what's going on here?

We're going to talk about this today with Aaron Flores, who's a registered dietitian nutritionist

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