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The Psychology of Eating Podcast

How Our Regrets In Life Influence Our Journey With Weight & Body Image – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7586 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Regrets.

They're something all of us have experienced over the years. 

Whether it's not following a dream career, missing out on the trip of a lifetime, or wishing you had been able to say that final goodbye, regrets can be truly hard to move on from. 

As we explore in this episode, our regrets and disappointments in life can not only be difficult to get over, they can end up massively influencing every area of our lives – including our relationship with weight and food. 

Think of it this way: regrets and disappointments are a burden. They hold us back mentally and emotionally, and keep us stuck in the past. 

While we may not be consciously aware of them, our regrets can be a heavy weight – and we can end up associating that emotional weight with any physical weight we may be carrying.  

As you'll hear in this episode, Marc David works with 60-year old Mardeen around her desire to lose 7 pounds. Mardeen has already lost some weight, and would love to lose a little more.

Like so many of us, one of the key beliefs Mardeen holds is that she'll feel lighter once she's lost the weight. 

But as Marc explores with Mardeen, it will be difficult to feel lighter so long as her lost dreams and past regrets continue to loom. For Mardeen, the dreams she never realized – losing the chance to have another child after an unplanned hysterectomy, and not pursuing her lifelong desire of becoming a professional artist – have become a kind of emotional weight. 

And as long as the emotional weight isn't addressed, no amount of physical weight loss will give Mardeen the deeper experience of lightness she truly desires. 

So please tune into this episode, where we explore the important topic of life's regrets and disappointments, why it's so necessary to honor and release them – and how doing so can give us the peace and freedom we're looking for, and ultimately support our weight loss and fitness goals. 

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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.

0:25.6

Welcome everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Here we are in the Psychology of Eating podcast, and I'm with Mardine today. Welcome, Mardine.

0:35.6

Hello, it's so good to be here with you. I'm glad we're doing this.

0:39.7

Where are you geographically? Santa Cruz, California. Oh, what a lovely place. It really is.

0:47.1

I have been there so many times over the years, and as a young man, I grew up in New York, and I was, I so wanted to go to college at University of Santa Cruz.

0:58.8

Don't ask me how I picked that place out.

1:01.3

And it didn't end up happening.

1:03.5

My family wanted me close by.

1:05.3

But ever since I visited there so many times and just absolutely love it.

1:10.0

Yeah.

1:10.5

I grew up in L.A. and moved to Santa Cruz in 1988.

1:15.6

So once we landed here and made our community and found the home of our dreams,

1:23.6

you know, it really is the only place that's felt like home to me. And I love Santa Cruz.

1:29.6

Good for you. So you all know how this works. So this is our first time meeting and we're going to

1:35.8

have a session together. And the idea is we look to move you forward and make a difference for you.

1:42.7

So if you go wave your magic wand and you can get whatever

1:46.3

you want with food and body, what would that be for you, Martin? If I had a magic wand, I would

1:52.5

just magically have my 25-year-old body back. Yeah. For all the, I i mean mainly that my metabolism was just so um everything i felt really

2:13.2

healthy and energetic and i weighed 125 pounds and I didn't have to really think about it.

2:23.8

It just, you know, I ate what I wanted to eat and it didn't seem to matter.

2:29.8

So that, yeah, if I could have a magic wand, that's what I would do.

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