In Session With Marc David: Healing Weight From The Inside Out ... A Special Look At Grief & Loss

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Alison is almost 50, and has been trying to lose weight – without success – for 20 years. A mother of four, Alison has tried various diets and got expert help but nothing has worked for her. Marc David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, helps Alison get a new perspective about her weight loss journey and empowers her to be in her body. Don't miss this episode of The Psychology of Eating Podcast.

Key Insights:

Alison has been trying to lose weight but only starvation diets seem to work for her. After a time the weight always comes back. She wants to not be consumed by weight loss, but is uncertain what to do at this point.

Alison suffered a miscarriage in her 20s and later lost a teenage child to cancer. Marc explores the role of bereavement in her weight gain.

In the past, Alison has experimented with letting go of food restriction just to see if eating like the rest of her family might give her the chance to re-regulate her body's metabolism. After gaining weight, Alison considered this experiment a failure and returned to her starvation diets.

Marc explains the rubber band effect that causes a body to gain weight suddenly after a long period of restricted eating. The fact that Alison gained weight is no surprise, nor does it make her experiment a failure.

Marc suggests that the key to Alison creating vibrant health is by tuning into her body's unique needs - what many think of as 'intuitive eating' and, at least for a time, give up weighing herself and dieting. For many, dieting can be a never-ending cycle of self-punishment that doesn't ultimately lead to what we're truly looking for: being healthy, feeling good about ourselves, and living a fulfilling life. It's time to try a different approach.

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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.
0:11.4	Now, here's your host, eating psychology expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David.
0:24.0	Welcome, everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
0:28.8	We're in the Psychology of Eating podcast once again, and I'm with Allison today. Welcome, Allison.
0:35.0	Hi, thank you for having me. Yay.
0:37.8	I'm glad we're here.
0:38.6	I'm glad we're doing this.
0:40.2	If you could wave your magic wand and get whatever you want with food and body, what would
0:44.8	that be for you?
0:48.7	Just feeling good about all of it.
0:51.5	Yeah?
0:53.0	Meaning what?
0:54.0	What is it? What would make you feel good? I would like to
0:59.0	not have to worry so much about my body or what I'm going to eat, when I'm going to eat. It just
1:07.4	takes up so much of my time and my energy to be so consumed with all of it.
1:14.5	So what's the challenge for you, just being a person who eats and not wanting to think about
1:22.7	what to eat or cooking or anything like that? Where's the challenge for you? Well, for the last 20 years,
1:32.3	I've been at the hands of various doctors on diets and exercise programs that haven't gotten me
1:41.2	anywhere. And so I've counted carbs, counted calories, counted everything for so long and have
1:49.0	become such an expert at doing all of the cooking, you know, keto and this and that,
1:57.8	you know, everything that it's just, it's so complicated and it's become so
2:02.5	hard and with nothing ever working to actually, you know, lose any pounds off of me.
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