Ending the Cycle of Self-Punishment with Food – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever tried to lose weight, you know it's not so easy. In fact, it can be incredibly challenging (just look at all the billions of dollars we collectively spend on weight loss every year).

So that begs the question: why is losing weight so hard?

While challenges with weight loss are multifactorial, today we look at one of the hidden psychological obstacles that often gets in the way.

And that's feeling like the things we must do to lose weight are a form of self-punishment.

It can seem like we're being forced to do things that we don't enjoy, and eat foods we don't love, and the real kicker? We must do them F.O.R.E.V.E.R.

Healthy decisions like:

Eating vegetables at every meal
Minimizing processed foods and sugary snacks
Fitting in time at the gym most days
Prioritizing meditation or yoga over Netflix or surfing the web…

… can have us feeling like there's no longer any pleasure or enjoyment in life.

Friends, as long as weight loss feels like self-punishment, we're always going to be in a battle with ourselves.

As Marc points out to guest coaching client, Adrianne, it's pretty hard to find freedom in weight loss when getting there has us feeling imprisoned.

As you're about to learn, a big part of the weight loss journey is reversing the old belief, "I must punish myself in order to lose weight."

That's what this episode is all about: learning how to transform this negative belief that holds so many of us back.

{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, set to release in early 2023! 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.
0:11.0	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, founder of the
0:27.3	Institute for the Psychology of Eating. We are in the Psychology of Eating podcast. I'm with
0:32.6	Adrian today. Welcome, Adrienne. Thanks for having me. Glad we're here, glad we're doing this.
0:38.3	So the idea is this is our first time that we get to meet and see if we can move you forward
0:45.3	and get you where you want to go.
0:47.3	So if you could wave your magic wine, have whatever you wanted with food and body.
0:52.3	What would that be for you? For me, it would be
0:55.6	kind of centered around freedom. A lot of like my challenges from childhood that have kind of
1:03.3	affected my whole life have been kind of centered around limiting. So I have chronic pain,
1:09.6	which limits my ability to get outside and,
1:11.9	you know, things like that. So around food and body, it would just be like a sense of freedom,
1:17.9	you know, to be able to be in my body in a way that allows me to participate in life and activities
1:26.2	and the things that I want to do.
1:28.1	At this point, partially due to pain, but also just due to size and weight, there are just
1:35.8	things that I'm limited.
1:37.2	Like I go on vacation with my family and I have some teenagers left.
1:43.7	They're between the ages of 14 and 21 right now. And so
1:46.4	they like to do fun activities that are really active. So zip lining or going to a carnival and riding
1:54.9	roller coaster. And even just like being comfortable in an airplane to get there is really hard for me. And like my car is
2:03.5	needs to be replaced and has needed to be replaced for several years. It's like not getting any better.
2:10.5	But I go and I look at cars and I just don't feel like I fit in any of them. So just like my size is a
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