You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 22.

I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach and Author Cookie Rosenblum.

Welcome back.

Today we're going to talk all about deprivation, what it is, where it comes from, how we apply

it and make our own weight loss and eating issues much harder.

So I'm very happy you're here with me today.

Let's get started on this episode.

Let's talk about what deprivation is firstly. Deprivation, if you look it up, says that

you are suffering from a severe and damaging lack of something.

Unable to make ends meet, you literally don't have what you need.

So we might say that someone had a deprived childhood or there are certain parts of a city

that are deprived or growing up without certain things might lead you to feel that you're

deprived right means that you're deprived, right?

Means that you're truly missing something.

Something is lacking.

Now, how does this apply to eating and weight loss

and why does so many people apply it? How does it even fit together?

Well if you're like my clients or the women in the freedom group, it happens to a lot of us when we tell ourselves that we shouldn't eat something

then we connect it and we also tell ourselves that if we shouldn't eat something

or we shouldn't eat whatever we want, whenever we want, that we are

deprived. And it comes from you thinking that you should be able to do whatever you want,

whenever you want, eat whatever you want

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