Ending Our Quest for The One Perfect Way to Eat — In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Tareshvari (Tish) from Australia joins Marc David for this episode of The Psychology of Eating Podcast. Tish, 59, finds herself in a place of deep nutritional confusion. She was trained as a health coach, which she thought would help her find clarity about what to eat — but it only seemed to create more uncertainty about what foods are truly best for her health and well-being. The experts she follows in the health and nutrition space all seem to contradict each other, and so does the research. Listen into this powerful episode to learn how you can get out of nutritional confusion and find the eating style that works for your unique body.

Key Insights:

There's a lot of conflicting information about food, eating, and weight loss. Knowing how to choose what's right for your unique body can be understandably confusing.

The science of nutrition is still in its nascent stages, which is one of the reasons there's so much conflicting information.

An important distinction for all of us is the concept of being a nutritional explorer: someone who acknowledges the unique and changing physiological needs of their own body, and who is willing to experiment to find what foods help the body thrive.

So many of us are looking for the "one perfect diet" that we can follow for the rest of our life. But this isn't realistic given the changing needs of the body. Things like stress, illness, age, and more all influence our body's nutritional needs at any given time. Tuning into our body and following our intuition is as important as following the latest research or listening to our favorite health experts.

Nutritional confusion versus nutritional uncertainty are very different. Confusion keeps us paralyzed and feeling torn in many directions, while uncertainty recognizes that we simply haven't quite figured it out yet. When it comes to our relationship with food and body, be careful about the words you use as they deeply influence our eating challenges.

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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.
0:11.0	Now, here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David. Welcome, everybody. I'm Mark David,
0:26.1	founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Here we are in the Psychology of Eating
0:31.2	podcast, and I'm with Tish today. Welcome, Tish. Hello. Hi. So here's how this works.
0:38.6	You get to be my client for the next 45 or so minutes.
0:44.1	And hopefully in that time we'll help you make some progress
0:48.6	and help you move in the direction where you want to go.
0:52.7	So if you could wave your magic wand and get whatever you wanted with food and body,
0:58.3	what would that be for you?
0:59.9	I think there's some clarity.
1:03.0	I think I'm so confused about food and body.
1:07.5	And, you know, all the different diets out there, like, it's just completely
1:14.5	confusing, completely crazy. And then whether to try to lose a bit more weight or whether to
1:21.1	say, okay, stay at the way I'm at, you know, I'm an older woman, maybe it's okay. So I'm in a place of complete, really
1:30.2	confusion about it. It's well understandable, you know, nutrition and diet and food and eating
1:38.8	and weight loss is confusing. There's a lot, and there's a ton of information out there. There's a lot of experts,
1:47.3	and they're all smart, and they all have PhD, their MDs, and they all tend to say something
1:52.8	different. They all contradict to each other. Yes, so I can understand why you would be confused.
1:58.6	Where are you geographically, Tish? Well, I'm from Australia
2:02.7	originally, which is, you might be picking up an accent, but I'm in London in the UK.
2:07.3	Got it. Okay. So how long would you say you've been in the place where you've been feeling
2:13.2	confused about what to eat, what to do? Yeah, I trained as a health coach actually myself and we did a lot on nutrition.
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