Challenging The Food Police (Intuitive Eating Principle 4)

Fuel Your Strength

Steph Gaudreau

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

There is a good chance that you have should’s and shouldn’t, do’s and don’ts, and a myriad of voices in your head telling you what to think when it comes to what you are putting in your mouth. The negative thoughts that come out regarding all of the rules you have around food are not serving you, but don’t worry, there is another way.

How To Respond To These Food Police Tendencies With Purpose

When you internalize foods as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, you can wind up creating emotions and actions that are not in line with how you truly want to feel about food. Instead of perpetuating the behaviors, you are trying to stop, intuitive eating can help you become aware of the voices in your head and show you how to respond to these food police tendencies with purpose.

By developing a more flexible way of thinking you can start to be kinder to yourself and make peace with the food stories you may have been telling yourself for years. Are you ready to stop using negativity as your motivator and start to challenge the food police? Share how you are working towards intuitive eating in the comments on the episode page.

In This Episode

Why you should be challenging the voices in your head when it comes to food (4:20)
How the moralizing of food can negatively impact your relationship with it (13:10)
Tips for developing flexibility when it comes to your mental framework (17:15)
Ways to develop new internal voices such as the food anthropologist or nurturer (20:20)
Exercises to help you reframe your thoughts to become aware of your inner dialogue (29:14)

Quotes

“Intuitive eating takes time, it is something you put into practice.” (3:26)

“You are not broken if this happens. You are not broken if your appetite is all of a sudden ravenous after a day of not eating. You are not broken, this is how your body works!” (15:05)

“It is really important to start paying attention to the language that you use and understanding the thoughts and the beliefs that you have been living by… you have to get clear or develop that sense of awareness because you can’t change what you are not aware of.” (16:54)

“It’s knowing that the way you are going to make progress and find more peace with this is not by being harsh on yourself.” (22:54)

“If you are constantly saying ‘always’ and ‘never’, you are going to the worst of the worst place all the time. And that is a huge opportunity for you to be able to reframe.” (29:24)

Links

LTYB 288: How To Ditch Dieting (Intuitive Eating Principle 1)

LTYB 289: Honoring Your Hunger (Intuitive Eating Principle 2)

LTYB 292: Make Peace With Food (Intuitive Eating Principle #3)

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0:00.0	This is episode 293 of the Listen to Your Body Podcast. On today's episode, I'm going to be covering how to shut up all of the
0:08.1	voices in your head that run their mouth when it comes to what you're putting in your mouth.
0:16.0	The next evolution of Harder to Kill radio is here.
0:20.0	Welcome to the Listen to Your Body Podcast.
0:23.0	On this show, we'll explore the intersection of body, mind, and soul health
0:29.0	and help you reclaim your abilities to eat and move more intuitively, hear your body's signals,
0:36.9	and trust yourself more deeply. I'm Steph Godro certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Nutritional Therapy
0:45.3	Practitioner, and Strength Coach. On this podcast you can expect to hear
0:50.0	expert guest interviews and solo chats that will help you deepen your trust
0:55.2	with food, movement, and your body. Remember to hit the subscribe button and
1:00.5	share this podcast with your friends and loved ones. Now on to the
1:06.2	show. Thank you so much for tuning in to
1:20.0	this week's episode of the podcast. I really appreciate that you're here. I know that you have
1:24.9	a lot of things going on in your life, so it really means a lot that you're spending your half hour
1:30.1	with me here today. Today on the show we're going to be covering principle number four of
1:40.0	intuitive eating. This is the fourth obviously.
1:44.5	Oh, Captain Obvious, thanks for that. The fourth installment in the series that I'm running
1:51.7	over, you know, the next few months couple months all
1:56.8	about the principles of the Intuitive Eating framework so that you can better understand what this framework is about
2:08.7	because there's a lot of nuance there is a lot of stuff that you may have to apply to your life or just let the concepts
2:19.6	breathe a little bit. It is something that when I work with my clients, we're talking about
2:27.5	exploring these topics and these concepts over months. And I wanted to put together a series for you where you could
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