The Dark Side of Healthy Eating — In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Good health is the foundation for every other wonderful thing we could want in life: relationships, career, wealth, happiness, and so much more.

But striving for good health, like anything else, can be taken to its extreme.

One of the manifestations of this is orthorexia, a type of eating challenge hyper-focused on making only the very healthiest of food choices. On paper that can seem like a good thing, but orthorexia has a real dark side.

People suffering from orthorexia eventually find themselves severely bound by the strict food rules they've created for themselves about what, when, and how much to eat. And this can feel a lot like prison, except it's a food prison existing only in one's mind.

In this episode, you'll meet 29-year old Rachel, who is overcoming orthorexia – but still has a lot of questions about how to quiet the voices in her mind that drive her to follow certain food rules, or feel really guilty when she fails to meet them. Rachel is exhausted from feeling so bound up by all the rules she follows, and wants to find more freedom with food.

As Marc David explores with Rachel, orthorexia can present as the desire to eat healthy, but the fuel that perpetuates the disorder is often rooted in body dysmorphia.

When we make the connection between orthorexia and body image/weight, we get to the real truth behind our vigilance with healthy food choices. From there, we can start to implement the key practices that will help us get out of our mental prison, and into a much more natural and intuitive relationship with food.

Whether you have orthorexia, or simply overdo the food rules and restrictions, be sure to tune into this revelatory episode!

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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,
0:26.1	founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Here we are in the Psychology of Eating
0:30.9	podcast. I'm with Rachel today. Welcome, Rachel. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.
0:37.1	I'm glad we're doing this, and this is all about you and I meeting together for the
0:42.5	first time in a first session.
0:45.1	And if you could wave your magic wand and get whatever you wanted with food and body,
0:50.1	what would that be for you?
0:53.1	I think that would be to get rid of some of the guilt of the food rules that, you know, I used to have for myself when I was going through my own eating disorder.
1:05.1	I went through an eating disorder for a good five years of my life.
1:08.5	And I feel like I've come a pretty long way, but I still don't feel
1:13.0	like I've achieved that food freedom of just being able to nourish my body and just being
1:19.4	conscious at the same time. Sometimes I feel like I get lost in some of those old rules that I
1:25.7	made for myself. So really looking for more of that mental freedom in terms of food.
1:33.3	Got it.
1:34.3	So I can understand more specifically, what does the mental unfreatom look like?
1:42.3	How might that sound in your head? Yeah. So say, you know, I went out with my friends
1:49.5	the night before. Maybe we had pizza. Maybe I had a glass of wine. And the next day, I will, you know,
1:59.4	want to have like a sweet potato with my lunch or something
2:02.6	that might be a little bit higher in carbohydrates. And that is something that will restrict me
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