Just eat the damn burger

Mental Makeover

Lauren Curtis

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How many times a day do you beat yourself up about the food you eat? Do you eat a meal and then immediately feel guilty for doing so? Do you tell yourself you're not allowed to eat certain foods? I've struggled with this my entire life, and it's only the past few years that I've managed to finally get a grip on it. Whether it be viewing certain foods as 'good' or 'bad', limiting my portion sizes so I don't consume too many calories, making myself feel horrible and ashamed for eating junk food even though I enjoy it, or just going on health-kicks every once in a while because I thought I needed to eat 'cleaner', my relationship with food had been strained since I was young. I got to a point where enough was enough. Reece was sick of hearing me complain ever time I ate a delicious meal, and I was sick of the constant self-inflicted guilt trips. If this all sounds familiar, please give this episode a listen. It might help you see things a little differently. If you enjoyed, please don't forget to subscribe, rate and review if you haven't already - I appreciate it so much! X

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to the Mental Makeover podcast. I'm Lauren Curtis. You've probably heard the phrase,
0:06.4	the grass is always greener on the other side, but I believe it's greener where you water it.
0:12.2	This podcast is here to provide you with meaningful advice from myself and others in order to give
0:18.2	your little patch of grass the best chance to grow and flourish.
0:23.7	Hello, welcome back. Thanks for tuning in this week. Today I want to talk to you about food
0:31.2	and your relationship with food, my relationship with food, our relationship with food in general, because I feel
0:40.1	like I can safely say that most of us have an unhealthy relationship with it. It's either,
0:47.3	ooh, I can't eat that, oh, I shouldn't eat that, I'm not allowed to eat that. If I ate that,
0:51.8	something bad is going to happen. Food is this
0:54.2	like horrible, scary thing that only brings us pain and misery. I have struggled with this
1:01.2	pretty much my entire life and it's only probably the past few years that I feel like I've
1:08.0	really got a grip on it. It comes from my family. It's just the way I was
1:12.9	brought up. It was never like, oh, Lauren, you can't eat that. But when you see someone older than
1:17.9	you watching their weight all the time and saying some foods are worse than others and some foods
1:22.8	are bad and some foods can't be eaten, you know, they have to be eaten in moderation. Like you start to develop
1:28.1	this idea around food, even though no one ever said to you that you have to watch your weight.
1:33.6	You just, you're a sponge when you're young and you absorb the habits and behaviors of the people
1:38.4	around you. So that's what happened to me. I can remember as far back as when I was in primary school, I was probably like 10 or 11,
1:46.9	and my brother and I have a great relationship now, but when we were younger, it was just like
1:51.8	us to against each other. I don't know why he was the middle child. I was the youngest. We just
1:56.7	never got on. I remember when we used to have to share the dial-up internet and we had one hour each
2:03.3	and if either he or I went over that time, the other person would pull the plug out of the modem
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