On the Wagon, Off the Wagon
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
All-or-nothing thinking is not helpful when it comes to how you approach eating. Talk of "falling off the wagon" is extremely common and serves to keep you stuck in a loop of white-knuckle "compliance" (yuck) followed by periods of fuck-it-all eating, guilt, and shame. If you keep coming back to this way of thinking, start by asking yourself if it's actually helping you find better health and more ease. Probably not.
In this episode, I'm talking about why all-or-nothing words and ways of thinking create unhelpful feelings which then lead to behaviors that cause further guilt and shame with food. I'm also sharing five practical steps you can follow for beginning to detangle yourself from the words and metaphors of dieting so you're more empowered from within and less likely to spend all of your time thinking about food.
In this episode I covered:
- The reaction to last week's BMI episode
- Who I'm not for
- Why all-or-nothing thinking about food is disempowering
- 5 steps you can follow to begin breaking the cycle of on the wagon, off the wagon thinking
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- 6 Reasons BMI is Bullshit – Ep 214
- The Scale – Ep 120
- Diet Culture – Ep 142
- Intuitive Eating
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 216 of Harder to Kill radio. I'm your host Steph Groddro and this is |
| 0:07.6 | Fierce Love Friday. If you're new to the show that means that every Friday I hop on the mic by myself to give you my |
| 0:16.1 | thoughts to bring you some real talks bring you some fierce love and really |
| 0:21.9 | address a lot of the things that I see going on in the community. |
| 0:25.8 | So that's what today's show is going to be about. |
| 0:29.2 | I've done a couple variations of this topic recently. |
| 0:33.1 | One was a blog post and another one was a social media post. |
| 0:37.0 | But really, this particular topic |
| 0:39.8 | has received so much engagement and feedback that it's important for me to also bring it to this |
| 0:45.2 | medium podcasting because it's another way for you to access the information and also you might not be on my social media, which I hope you will be, but if you're not on |
| 0:59.0 | social media for whatever reason, or you are not a blog reader reader which is I'm finding out now fewer and fewer and fewer |
| 1:06.4 | people are actually reading blogs. Who knows that trend will probably swing back in the opposite |
| 1:11.6 | direction at some point but I really want to |
| 1:13.8 | bring this to you today so we're going to be talking about some of the language regarding dieting |
| 1:20.3 | and diet culture and diet mentality overall so particularly talking today about |
| 1:25.6 | falling off the wagon and why this stop saying this I'm just gonna say it like if |
| 1:30.7 | if falling off the wagon is part of your phraseology and part of the way you look at |
| 1:34.8 | food it is not helpful for a variety of reasons and I'm going to be examining those and kind of giving you |
| 1:41.3 | some practical steps to take to start changing this way of |
| 1:46.9 | thinking and if you have had this way of thinking for a long time this is not going |
| 1:52.0 | to be a switch that flips overnight. I had this way of |
| 1:56.2 | thinking for a long long time and the reason why I'm so passionate about talking about the things |
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