In Session With Marc David: A 64-Year Old Embraces Eating as A Holy Act

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Psychology of Eating Podcast, Marc David speaks to Francesca from Brisbane, Australia. Francesca has had weight challenges since she was a young girl, and would like to lose 50 kilos.

She's tried Weight Watchers over the last few years, but frequently falls off the program … the food restriction feels too hard, and her motivation to continue drops. For Francesca, food restriction feels like being told what to do — and she's at a point where she just doesn't want any more restraints on her life.

Growing up, her mother died at birth and her father was very disciplinarian, making it hard to know where to go to for comfort. He eventually set up an arranged marriage for Francesca, to a good husband who himself didn't quite know how to provide the comfort and care her heart yearned for.

Marc identifies that food became a source of safety, security, intimacy, and bonding. It was a strategy that made sense when she was young, but now at 64, she's being called to invoke the more mature parts of herself that can challenge the idea that having the right body will make her happy. And he points out that the teenage rebel archetype inside her is a beautiful one, it just needs channeling into other parts of her life instead of her relationship with food.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology of Eating podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway
0:08.2	into a happier, healthier life.
0:11.6	Now here's your host, eating psychology expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology
0:18.4	of Eating, Mark David.
0:29.0	Welcome, everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
0:35.6	Here we are in the Psychology of Eating podcast, and I'm with Francesca today. Welcome, Francesca.
0:40.0	Welcome. Thank you. Yes. I'm glad we're here. I'm glad we're doing this and the whole idea is you and I don't know each other and we're going to spend 45 minutes to
0:46.1	an hour and see if we can further the action for you. And if you could wave your magic wand and if you could get whatever you
0:56.3	want with food and body what would that be for you look i think that word is always that freedom
1:03.1	the freedom the stopping of thinking about food the ability to just say no i've had've had enough, thank you, and move on.
1:12.4	Instead of thinking, oh, there's still some left.
1:15.0	I want more.
1:16.4	You know, and it's always plain.
1:18.8	You know, I just want that to go away, you know, just stop.
1:24.3	Would it be nice if we could just remove it like it was a little splinter in your foot or something
1:29.1	like oh it's gone totally totally totally where are you from francesca um i'm in brisbane at the moment
1:38.8	um yeah Brisbane Queensland Australia and um parents are Italian, but I was born in North Queensland.
1:47.0	So from Sicilian heritage. Wow. What an interesting move. Yeah. Yes. So, yeah, no. So how long has it been that you've noticed that you have not had freedom when it comes to food?
2:06.8	Look, I think probably way back when I was a young kid, you know, about 9, 10, you know, actually I used to steal food from the teacher's canteen, you know, from the teacher's, um, uh, lunch room, you know, and that was something, you know, probably because I came from, you know, ethnic people who, they didn't really send you to school with a lunch wrap like, you know, other
2:35.8	kids and so I didn't go to school with food.
2:38.9	And so when I was putting on morning tea duties just to get cups ready and stuff, I would,
2:44.0	you know, sneak the teacher's food.
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