Understanding "All or Nothing" Behavior with Food & Diet – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Let's be honest: trying to figure out what's best to eat for our unique body – and stick to it – can be really hard.

So can trying to lose weight.

If we're not careful, our whole life can become dominated by food, what to eat – and what not to eat, trying to be "good," and constant thoughts about our diet.

Diet anxiety can happen to all of us, and it often drives us to what Marc David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, refers to as "all or nothing eating."

One of the hallmarks of this behavior is we're either eating 100% clean and healthy food, or we've ditched our diet and binge on sweets, carbohydrates, or fatty foods. There's no in between.

This "all or nothing" approach keeps us trapped in a cycle that simply doesn't work.

We may successfully lose weight for a time, but our healthy habits reach a point where they're no longer sustainable. Our diet starts slipping, and our weight will often go up. Self-attack, shame, and guilt quickly follow.

If you're prone to all or nothing eating, you'll want to tune in to this episode, where Marc works with 60-year old Lee.

Like so many of us, Lee has been dieting for decades, and goes through, in her words, "healthy" and "unhealthy" phases. Her unhealthy phases seem to last forever, and when they do, she can't stop thinking about her diet, the 20 kilos she'd like to lose, and what she needs to do differently in order to commit to a healthier lifestyle.

Watch Lee's breakthrough in her challenges around nutritional extremism and weight – you'll come away with some life-changing tools and takeaways.

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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 into a happier, healthier life.
0:11.0	Now, here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David.
0:29.0	Welcome. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. We are in the Psychology of Eating podcast. I'm with Lee today. Welcome, Lee. Hi. Hi. So,
0:36.5	you know, here's how it works. We haven't had the opportunity to interact before until now.
0:43.1	And we get to have a session together. And the idea is to just help you move forward in the brief amount of time that we have.
0:51.3	So if you could wave your magic wand and have whatever you want with food and body,
0:56.9	what would that be for you? I've been looking forward to this question. I think for me, the thing
1:03.4	would be to not have it take up so much of my bandwidth, you know, to not be thinking about it so
1:10.6	much.
1:11.0	I love what I've heard you say before about how much of our energy and, you know,
1:16.6	potential is taken up with that stuff.
1:18.9	And I feel like it's been happening my whole life.
1:21.7	And, yeah, I'd really love to be way more free of that.
1:26.5	I'd like to be lighter.
1:28.7	I'm not hugely focus on weight and numbers,
1:31.8	but I'd like to be, I'm almost,
1:36.0	I'm near my heaviest I've ever been,
1:38.1	and I'd like to be near a, you know, quite a bit lighter
1:42.0	and weight.
1:43.8	I'd like to feel more accepting of my body as she is in the moment.
1:52.3	And I feel like I've made some real gains in that,
1:54.6	but I'd like to be even more so, I think.
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