Negativity with Food & Body - What's the Solution? — In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ahvanya, 27, from Goa, India, has one wish when it comes to food and body: to never engage in negative self-talk again. Meaning, she would always trust herself with food, and she would never again judge her appearance. She would simply feel good about herself and feel confident all the time.

But is it realistic to think we can somehow stop the negative internal chatter, all those voices that tell us we should be different or better?

And if we could, would this finally allow us to be in perpetual bliss and balance when it comes to issues around emotional eating, body confidence, and weight?

As Marc explores with Ahvanya, it's natural to see our negative self-talk as a problem. We can feel powerless and paralyzed by the difficult emotions they cause us to feel.

But when we try to deny our thoughts, we're ironically swapping out one type of perfectionism ("my diet and body must be perfect") for another ("my thoughts are unacceptable and I'm unwilling to allow them"). And this sets us up for feeling like a failure yet again, just in a different way.

So what do we do in a world where we've been taught to be perfect, inside and out?

Find out in this episode, where we explore the unrealistic expectations we often put on ourselves when it comes to our thoughts and feelings about food, body, and life.

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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.
0:11.0	Now here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David. Welcome everyone. I'm Mark David,
0:25.3	founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Here we are in the Psychology of Eating
0:30.3	podcast. I'm with Avanya today. Welcome, Avanya. Hi, Mark. Thanks for having me here. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad we're doing this. And for anybody
0:41.3	tuning into the podcast for the first time, this is Avanya and myself. This is our first and only session
0:48.9	together. And we get to see if we can do some good work. So if you could wave your magic wand
0:55.8	and have whatever you wanted with food and body,
0:58.2	what would that be for you?
1:02.4	I think it's never not trusting myself
1:06.2	when it comes to how I eat, what I feel like eating, never looking at the mirror and being like,
1:13.6	oh, I don't like that or like, oh my God, like my belly is so big today.
1:18.9	Basically never, ever shaming myself for my eating habits or just the way my body is in the
1:25.7	present moment. And I know because of, you know, your help and
1:29.1	because I have reached a great, I have crossed many obstacles, but I still find that voice
1:35.8	inside my head, like, in the deep roots of my subconscious. So I would really be able to, like,
1:42.8	remove that inner child, that 13 year old girl or that
1:46.3	six year old girl and be like just not let her come to the shadow even if she does like be so
1:52.5	aware of it that yeah I'm never negative about food and body and all of that okay so so so if you could have your wish, there wouldn't be any negative self-talk,
2:06.3	there wouldn't be any judgment about your own body, and you would just sort of trust what
2:12.6	you eat, and you wouldn't be second-guessing yourself, right?
2:16.6	Yeah, I'm a lot of trusting myself that. So. and you wouldn't be second guessing yourself, right? Yeah.
2:20.1	I'm a lot of trusting myself that.
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