What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast and this is a special

episode because as I'm recording right now I am live in the Facebook group and quick shameless plug you should definitely be in our

Facebook group. Just search the personality diet and neurotype training you can

join our group it's free, a ton of amazing

resources in there, but this is going to be kind of a dual episode. So I

asked a question in the Facebook group about what people want to learn about and got some amazing questions and I'm going to run through and answer them on this episode.

We're going to break it down into two parts because there were so many questions that I am not going to be able to fit it all into one episode so this will be part one and then we will do a follow-up part two.

So I'm just going to jump right in with the first question from the Facebook group which is how to overcome the fear of eating and not giving a shit about the scale.

So I love that we're starting right off the bat with a mindset question.

The fear of eating, first of all,

this can look different for everybody,

but ultimately there's going to be a reason why

That's the case and most of the time it's because of some past experience maybe you know for me personally when I was afraid to eat more it was

because I was going through very restrictive dieting protocols like I had a good list versus a bad list of foods

that I was allowed to eat.

I had a specific very low calorie target

and it was like every time I went through that process and then I stopped doing it I would gain weight back so I started associating

eating more with gaining weight and it put me in this place of chronic dieting.

So actually getting to the root of why that's the case

and then challenging those preexisting beliefs.

You know, what I did was actually went through the process of writing down what

was factual about the situation, like what is true. And once you remove the emotion and feelings from that equation and you just

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