Accepting Our Aging Bodies – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We all have different reasons for wanting to lose weight:

Feeling lighter
Being healthier
Fitting into your "skinny" clothes
Or sometimes, just feeling more confident…

And sometimes, there are hidden reasons for wanting to lose weight that we don't even realize we have.

For Nataliya, 46, weight loss has been a lifelong journey. Nataliya wants to be more confident in her body, and to feel lighter. She jokes that her goal is to feel "like a squirrel" and be able to jump from branch to branch.

But what she doesn't quite realize is that her desire to feel lighter is driven by a part of her that's thinking some "heavy thoughts."

And as Marc David explains, those heavy thoughts are all about her resistance to something that so many of us would like to avoid:

===> Aging.

Even though she is youthful, has a young child, a great marriage, and is in good health, Nataliya is starting to feel older – and her unwanted weight is just one more reminder of the aging process. She finds herself often longing for the body she had as a young girl.

As Marc points out, making peace with aging is a spiritual practice. And to find peace with our age, we ultimately need to connect with that part of us that's wiser and more mature.

Because it's perfectly understandable to have a hard time saying goodbye to our youth – but it's also vital that we develop a healthy relationship with aging.

Along the way to making the powerful connection between weight and aging, Marc also helps Nataliya see that if she truly wants to lose weight, she needs to focus on a whole new approach, including:

✅ Letting go of needing the approval of others to feel that her body is "acceptable"

✅ Noticing when the "teenager voice" within her is taking over the weight loss conversation

✅ Finding peace with aging, and making it a spiritual practice

✅ Learning that body confidence doesn't come from future weight loss … it happens when we do things, right NOW, that help us feel better in our body

✅ And much more…

Tune into this wonderful episode on aging, weight, and making peace with ourselves and our lives.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology of Eating Podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway into a happier, healthier life.
0:11.3	Now, here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David.
0:25.6	Thank you. Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David. Welcome, everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
0:31.1	We're in the Psychology of Eating podcast, and I'm with Natalia today. Welcome, Natalia.
0:37.3	Thank you. Hi. Hi. Glad we're here. Glad we're doing this.
0:41.6	So if anybody listening in is new to the podcast, how it works is Natalia and I are meeting for the
0:48.4	first time and we get to do a session together. And the idea is for, for you know to see if we can help move you
0:56.1	forward and do some good work together so if you could wave your magic wand and get whatever
1:03.0	you wanted with food and body what would that be for you okay so if i had a magic wand, I would have no attraction to sugar and flour whatsoever. I would not be attracted to sugar. And I would be about 35 pounds lighter.
1:24.4	Okay. And 35 pounds like, when was the last time you were 35 pounds lighter?
1:33.2	Many years ago when I was 19. When I was 19. How old do you now?
1:39.7	46. Okay. Have you lost that weight at any point? Not all of it. Like I lost, I gained, you know, it's been up and down, but I, yeah, since then I have not been at that weight.
1:55.7	So what would be, what do you think is a doable amount of weight for you to lose that you think is
2:02.2	is really possible within your reach? Well, within my reach maybe, like go down to 140 probably.
2:16.3	Yeah, that's probably within my reach so how many pounds so that would be from
2:21.8	today's weight about 18 pounds okay so how long would you say you've been actively trying to
2:31.9	lose weight all All my life.
2:35.5	Since when?
2:36.5	How young?
2:38.5	Since when I remember myself, but it wasn't like, it started not with me.
2:43.2	It started with my parents, of course, at that age.
2:47.7	And it was really funny because it was very double-sided.
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