How To Eat Whatever You Want
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Every January nearly 75 percent of Americans resolve to make their lives better by losing weight. But this year we're breaking free from the cycle of restrictive eating and spiraling shame. Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith, host and author of Burnt Toast and The Eating Instinct, has some eye-opening tips for our listener Tori that will help her ditch the scale, become more comfortable with her body, and even learn to control sugar cravings—by eating as many sweets as she wants.
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| 0:00.0 | all these walls that we have in our brain around all these different foods, you start to really |
| 0:04.8 | say, well, there's really no logic to that. Why couldn't you have pasta for breakfast, |
| 0:10.4 | like you have toast for breakfast? What's the difference really? |
| 0:12.6 | You know, welcome to How To. I'm Amanda Ripley. It's a new year, which means that many of us, |
| 0:21.5 | right now, are resolutely vowing to better our lives in some way. The most common |
| 0:26.9 | new year's resolution to lose weight or exercise more. It adds up to a lot of pressure, |
| 0:32.4 | followed often by a lot of guilt if we don't succeed. So this week, we thought we would see if we |
| 0:37.9 | could take some of the pressure off by accompanying one of our listeners on her own new year's reckoning. |
| 0:44.7 | I was super excited to find out that y'all wanted to do this. So my name is Tori. I live in the DC |
| 0:52.5 | Metro area and I work for a non-profit and try to ensure that folks have affordable homes available |
| 1:00.4 | to them. It's work that has been all-consuming, especially during the pandemic. There's been a lot of |
| 1:06.1 | pressure to make sure that people are not evicted. So we've been working insane hours and my anxiety |
| 1:16.3 | has been terrible throughout the pandemic. I'm not getting sleep like I tend to take, not take care |
| 1:22.1 | myself. I tend to take care of everyone else around me. Do you remember what your news resolutions |
| 1:28.2 | were last year? Yeah, I wrote them down, actually, in my notebook. Yeah, 2021 resolutions. |
| 1:35.6 | Keep off the 10 to 15 pounds. A lot of it was like around mental health stuff and painting |
| 1:41.9 | and resorting to other things that aren't healthy as coping mechanisms, like drinking and eating |
| 1:49.9 | sugar and who knows what else. Are you tracking how much sugar that you're consuming each day or |
| 1:55.5 | not really? So I was. You know, it's tracking everything I ate, then I just started tracking |
| 2:03.0 | if I was eating dessert. Can you read us a little bit from the journal if it's in front of you? |
| 2:08.1 | It's a zero desserts. Can I do it? Question mark, question mark, question mark, question mark, |
| 2:14.9 | February 22nd Kit Katz, February 23rd lemonade, a cookie. So I skipped two weeks, probably because |
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