What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast. As always, I am your

host Mike Milner. Today's episode, I'm going to be talking about an important and maybe difficult topic to hear or to discuss.

But that's what we do here. We talk about difficult things.

And that is orthorexia.

Orthorexia is something that I have personal experience with and I was actually planning to do this

episode and then somebody had messaged me saying, because I wrote about it recently, and somebody

messaged me saying, hey I would really love some help because I struggle with this myself.

If you're not familiar with orthorexia it's an eating disorder where you are

obsessed with clean eating, where food becomes very consuming in your brain and you have a very hard time almost to the

point of obsession with eating certain foods that you deem clean and that the idea or the thought of eating foods that are quote unquote unclean

can drive a lot of anxiety and guilt and shame and negative emotions around food and it becomes very mentally exhausting as

somebody who has gone through it through it. So I wanted to talk about my own

journey while I also mentioned that I am not a therapist, that I am not a mental health

practitioner and so if you are really struggling, then please go seek out professional help.

We have to always understand that asking for help is a sign of strength.

It is one of the greatest signs of strength.

Asking for help can literally save your life.

So don't be afraid to ask for help and don't expect that

that you should be able to do things on your own. I think it's one of those

false beliefs that's just not serving us. We think we have to do everything alone and that it's somehow

it's a badge of honor to fly solo. It's not. It's not. And it only oftentimes leads to more damage than anything else so

Ask for help where you need it. I'm going to talk about this through the lens of my own

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