Kara Collier | Weight Loss or Wellness Trap? Exploring Perfectionism, Orthorexia + The Real Impact of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) For Health
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 676
How can technology help you return to homeostasis and achieve sustainable weight loss?
Kara Collier, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Co-Founder of NutriSense, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 676, to discuss the importance of fostering a healthy relationship with food, using technology like continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to better understand your body's signals, and why mindfulness, compassion, and balance are essential for long-term nutritional and emotional well-being.
"When we are given a prescriptive diet and follow this one exact thing, it's really hard for many of us to actually stick to that long term. But when we see our personal data and how our body responds, it's much more meaningful and it's a lot more sustainable long term." - Kara Collier
In This Episode, Kara Collier Uncovers:
- (01:30) Healthy Nutrition Mindset
- (07:35) How to Teach Children About Nutrition
- (12:05) NutriSense Technology
- (16:50) Modern Lifestyle Works Against Human Biology
- (23:35) Continuous Glucose Monitoring
- (28:40) Nutrient Timing
- (33:05) Understanding Glucose
- (37:05) Is Fruit Healthy?
- (41:00) Orthorexia: How to Live in Harmony with Food
- (47:10) Finding Compassion for Yourself
- (51:30) How to Cultivate Awareness Around Food
- (58:20) Healing from Perfectionism
- (01:06:20) Food Healing Journey
- (01:11:05) All or Nothing?
- (01:19:10) Path of Purpose
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| 0:00.0 | data helps people reconnect to their natural signals. So a lot of these signals are things that we |
| 0:05.7 | can hear naturally, but we've lost a lot of that ability. It's one super powerful mirror because |
| 0:11.5 | the data doesn't lie. And I think that flies in the face of many people in our wellness world that |
| 0:16.0 | say, well, why would you need a CGM anyways? You should just listen to your body. Well, what if the signals |
| 0:20.7 | in your body are so blunted because of trauma, hypervigilance, |
| 0:24.4 | the emotional component that food is attached to with food being a drug? |
| 0:28.9 | Most people don't realize when their glucose is dipping really low and they're having hypoglycemic symptoms. |
| 0:34.7 | Or most people don't realize when their glucose is really high and they're |
| 0:38.8 | jittery and nervous and it feels like anxiety. When we are given this prescriptive eat keto and follow |
| 0:45.2 | this exact thing, it's really hard for a lot of people to actually stick to that long term. But when you |
| 0:49.9 | see this is my data and this is how my body responds it's much more meaningful and it's a lot more |
| 0:56.2 | sticky and then eventually ideally you've enhanced your own intuition and you can know these things |
| 1:03.2 | without the data always needing to be present it's about developing a lifelong healthy relationship |
| 1:09.7 | with food and how you think about food. So a lot of times |
| 1:13.7 | we think of it as punishment or like, I have to be on this strict diet because I want to lose weight. |
| 1:18.8 | But if instead we can reconnect to when I eat healthier, I have more energy and I can be more |
| 1:24.4 | present and I can be a more loving partner and parent. Because when we build |
| 1:29.7 | awareness, we naturally gravitate towards those things that are healthier. |
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