Does Food Hold Power Over You? – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Food is intended to be our source of nourishment, but all too often it can feel like a losing battle.

Perhaps you've been struggling with your weight, and why it's so hard to lose it – or keep it off. Or maybe you binge or emotionally eat, and are frustrated that you can't stop these behaviors.

Whatever your unique challenge with food may be, after a while it's hard to not come to a particular conclusion…

Food has a POWER over you.

It must – otherwise, you'd have been able to put an end to your unwanted habits a long time ago, right?!

But is it really possible for food to hold power over you?

In this episode, we explore what's going on when we feel we've lost our power to food – and how to navigate the very real feeling of powerlessness that many of us experience when it comes to food.

Paulien, 58, has been maintaining her weight loss for the past decade, but she still doesn't feel at peace with food. She wants to be free of food fear, and instead embrace being a natural eater.

But Paulien feels like food holds a certain power over her that she can't overcome. She gets lost in food, and ends up binge eating a couple of nights a week – provoking her fear that she'll gain weight back.

Marc David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, helps Paulien discover a vital new truth about owning our personal power with food, as well as:

✅ How to identify your inner eating archetypes or "voices," and why every voice must have a seat at the table.

✅ Embracing the parts of ourselves we're ashamed about, and how that strengthens a healthy relationship with food.

✅ How to transform nightly binges into conscious food rituals.

✅ Opening up our throat chakra and speaking from our authentic self as a way of healing our eating challenges.

✅ Why becoming the most natural YOU will lead to becoming a natural eater.

This deeply spiritual conversation will provide an important reframe on the belief that food holds power over us. You'll come away inspired and feeling more compassion for yourself on this human journey. So be sure to tune in!

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Ready to call a ceasefire in your battle with eating, and find peace and freedom with food? Learn more about our newest program, The Emotional Eating Breakthrough! https://learn.psychologyofeating.com/

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Transcript

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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.
0:37.6	Thank you, Mark. How are you? Very well. I'm so glad we're doing this. I'm glad you're here. And for those people who are
0:42.1	new to the podcast, Colleen and I are going to have a client session and see if we can do some good
0:49.5	work together. So, Pauline, if you could wave your magic wand and you can have whatever you wanted
0:55.2	with food and body, what would that be for you? If I could have whatever I wanted, it would be to
1:02.5	liberate myself from the grip that food still has on me and to become a natural, relaxed
1:09.7	eater.
1:14.9	So it's a wonderful wish for sure.
1:18.4	So what grip does food have on you?
1:23.4	Well, on the one hand, I have a fear of food.
1:27.4	And the fear of food is connected to the fear of gaining weight. I've lost a lot of weight and I
1:29.9	I'm very eager and desperate to keep it that way. But on the other hand, I'm also, I would say,
1:36.7	obsessed by food. And so there is, I feel I'm, I'm in a grip when it comes to food.
1:53.7	So it sounds like to me the main fear is I'm going to gain weight and food's going to be the reason.
1:55.5	Exactly. That's it.
2:00.4	So how do you feel about the weight that you are right now?
2:03.6	I'm fine where I am.
2:07.7	Going up and down a little bit, but in general I'm fine.
2:11.8	Even though there's always that little voice inside that tells me you can do better,
2:13.2	you can lose some weight.
2:24.6	So how long have you been in this particular place where, you know, I'm fine, goes up and down a little, but I'm basically good?
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