The Body Image Comparison Trap — In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Marc works with 41-year old Lisa who is battling body image challenges. She frequently judges her body, and often compares herself to others. She'd like to lose about 10 pounds, but more than anything she just wants to be free of body judgment. She knows she can find a happier and more peaceful relationship with herself, she just doesn't quite know how.

As they explore in her coaching session, Lisa learned early on as an 8-year old soccer player. She remembers noticing other girls' legs, comparing hers to theirs, and wondering if hers were "right." A lot of life has been lived since then - she's grown up, been married, gotten divorced, switched careers, and is now in a wonderful new relationship with a man who loves her appearance. But she still finds that old familiar voice of comparison and judgment present at different times.

As you'll hear, Marc coaches Lisa and the rest of us who are challenged with body image to embrace self-awareness before trying to get to the holy grail of self-acceptance.

Some of what they explore:

✅The role of cultural conditioning around competition and "winning" when it comes to weight and body image

✅ The gift of maturation that arrives around the age of 40 for both women and men, and how the "Queen-in-Training" (or "King-in-Training") archetypes can help us overcome challenges with body image

✅ Why having a "perfect" weight number in your head is an unhelpful concept

✅ How fear of gaining weight creates a stress response in our body, which in turn makes it harder for the body to lose weight

✅ And much more…

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology of Eating Podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway
0:08.2	into a happier, healthier life.
0:11.6	Now here's your host, eating psychology expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology
0:18.4	of Eating, Mark David. Welcome everybody. I'm Mark David,
0:26.4	founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Here we are in the Psychology of Eating
0:31.4	podcast, and I am with Lisa today. Welcome, Lisa. Hi, thank you. I'm happy to be here. Me too. So here's how this works.
0:40.3	You and I get to be coach and client for a little while today. And the idea is to help you move
0:48.9	forward when it comes to food and body challenges. So if you could wave your magic wand and get whatever you wanted when it came to food
0:57.7	and body, what would that be for you?
1:00.7	I've been wrestling with this question because one of the things that I want most is to
1:06.7	not have judgment of my body or other people's bodies be one of the forefront things in my mind.
1:15.6	So comparing myself to other people's bodies, judging other people's bodies, and having that be such a, like an ever-present thought would be huge if I could just make that go away.
1:28.8	And also then secondary is maintaining, like figuring out what my perfect weight is and
1:34.4	maintaining that without effort.
1:37.7	What your perfect weight is and maintaining it without effort.
1:42.7	Yeah.
1:43.1	Let me ask you a question about that.
1:45.2	Do you have a guess in your mind?
1:47.1	Do you think you know what your ideal weight is?
1:50.1	I do have a guess.
1:52.1	Yeah.
1:52.7	Uh-huh.
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