Trusting Ourselves with Food & Pleasure – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jill, 44, wants a new relationship with food – one where she can enjoy a more easygoing, intuitive way of eating. She'd like eating to be fun and lighthearted, and feel satiated after a great meal.

But her dreamy new relationship with food seems so very far away.

Jill has an intense desire for food – so deep that it feels like her desire can never be quenched. No matter what or how much Jil eats, she doesn't really feel like she ever finds true pleasure and contentment with food. It just never feels like enough – and Jill has a lot of anxiety that she'll end up overeating and gaining weight in her pursuit of pleasure.

Jill's experience is one that many of us can relate to.

We secretly – or not so secretly – love food. But we don't trust ourselves with it.

We're afraid of our own pleasure, and what it might mean if we actually allowed ourselves to fully enjoy food.

In this episode, Marc David helps Jill and the rest of us understand why our desire for pleasure isn't something to be afraid of. Instead, Marc argues that our love of food and pleasure is something that should be fully owned and celebrated. When we honor pleasure, we not only enjoy life so much more – but often find that weight loss is ironically much easier and more sustainable.

Because when we own our love of food, we're in our power.

In this episode, you'll hear Marc share:

✅ What trusting yourself with food actually requires. Hint: it's not having a perfect track record with food, or never making a mistake!

✅ How to invoke your inner voice of wisdom when making food choices.

✅ The connection between trust and relaxation.

✅ How to honor our body's animal nature amidst the very unnatural modern times we live in.

✅ How to eat from your body instead of your brain.

✅ And much more!

Pleasure is a beautiful aspect of being alive on this planet, but not very many of us have a healthy relationship with it. Instead of fighting desire, we can make it a powerful ally as we learn to live a radiant, embodied life.

So tune in to learn how to deepen your own relationship with food and pleasure!

---------------

Learn more about us at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating: https://psychologyofeating.com/

Ready to call a ceasefire in your battle with eating, and find peace and freedom with food? Learn more about our newest program, The Emotional Eating Breakthrough! https://learn.psychologyofeating.com/

Interested in becoming a certified coach in eating psychology? Then tune in to hear Marc talk about our Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training, and download a copy of our School Catalog: https://psychologyofeating.com/info-kit/ Learn our powerful, cutting-edge approach, and discover how you can create a unique career helping others find peace and freedom with food.

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Psychologyofeating

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPEfanpage

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatingpsychology/

- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/eatingpsych

#intuitiveeating #foodfreedom #pleasure #desire #bodyrespect #embodiment #trustyourself #selflovejourney #relationshipwithyourbody #psychologyofeating #foodpsychology #marcdavid

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology of Eating podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway into a happier, healthier life.
0:11.3	Now, here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David.
0:25.5	Thank you. Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David. Welcome everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
0:30.4	We're in the Psychology of Eating podcast. I'm with Jill today. Welcome, Jill. Hi, thank you.
0:37.1	Thanks for being here. So for those of you new to the
0:40.2	podcast, the idea is Jill and I are meeting for the first time. And we're going to do a session
0:44.9	together and see if we can make some good things happen. So Jill, if you could wave your magic wand,
0:50.1	if you can get whatever you wanted with food and body, what would that be for you?
1:17.2	I would be just in my intuitive rhythm of eating when my body and soul is hungry and stopping when it's enough and moving on with my day.
1:23.6	And I think it would be reflected in so many ways in my life.
1:32.2	But physically, in terms of my body, I'd love to just to experience my body more as a playground rather than a battle zone and to have fun with it, with being in it, and to have fun
1:43.1	with the journey of tweaking things to alter the appearance.
1:50.4	And so there would be less fat and more muscle too.
1:55.3	How much fat would you lose or how much weight would you lose?
1:59.6	You know, I'm not sure because I would be fine if I stayed
2:03.9	where I'm at if I had significantly less fat and significantly more muscle. But I guess I'm
2:11.0	looking at like a 10 to 20 pound idea of like that there have been times in my life where I liked how I looked at 10 or 20
2:20.2	pounds less more 10 to 15 so these days what does it look like when you're not in the sweet
2:31.3	spot that you'd like to be in with food and you're not in that
2:34.4	natural flow describe what shows up for you that doesn't feel so good yeah like a lot of
2:42.4	angst and um like desire and fixation on um this idea that i more, that I don't have enough, and then sort of a shut down,
3:02.0	like a rumination around feeling kind of trapped and and pissed at my body. Piss at your body because it's not
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marc David, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Marc David and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.