Where True Confidence Comes From — In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Marc works with Lori, 57, who has been dieting for nearly 40 years. She's exhausted from thinking about food and weight constantly, but still feels attached to losing weight. She believes she'd feel more accomplished once she loses the weight, and that how she feels on the inside would finally match the outside.

Lori has lost weight in the past, and initially feels more confident. But somehow that starts to go away, and she gradually falls back into eating her favorite high-fat foods. And that inevitably brings the weight back. At these times, Lori asks herself what triggers her old behaviors so that she can avoid slipping back into the diet cycle yet again, but comes up short on answers.

As Marc explains, people carry weight for many different reasons, including medical, metabolic, nutritional, food-related, and emotional. But regardless of the root cause, those of us who have focused on weight loss our entire lives have often never experienced their essential self, free from any weight loss goal. As they explore, taking the time to discover what fulfills us and who we are beyond our body's shape and size is essential to finding the happiness we're looking for. And it's also important in our efforts to lose weight, as a negative mindset creates a physiological stress response that can cause us to become weight loss resistant.

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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.
0:11.4	Now, here's your host, eating psychology expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David.
0:25.8	Welcome, everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. We're in the Psychology of Eating podcast
0:31.1	today, and I'm with Lori. Welcome, Lori. Thank you. Happy to be here. Good. I'm glad you're here too.
0:38.6	So for people tuning in for the first time, Lori and I haven't met, and we're going to do a session together and do our best to move her forward.
0:48.0	And Lori, if you could wave your magic wand and have whatever you wanted with food and body. What would that be for you?
0:55.1	I think if I could wave my magic wand, I would not be so consumed in thought about food.
1:05.6	There's always something, especially trying to lose weight, which has been very challenging.
1:13.0	But also as I'm trying to figure out, and as I have found your website and found you,
1:18.9	the, you know, why behind it? You know, why am I struggling? And at this point, there's been so many years of this that I'm tired.
1:32.5	So I haven't figured it out.
1:35.4	And I'm hoping that you can help me with that today.
1:39.4	So it's really, I think my biggest thing right now is just the all-consuming thought.
1:45.3	It's all the time.
1:46.5	I'm always thinking about it and I'm tired.
1:49.8	I'd like to get past it.
1:51.6	So always thinking about food, always thinking about weight, always thinking about what you
1:56.6	shouldn't, shouldn't eat, that sort of thing?
1:59.2	Yes, those things and also just the fact that I have not
2:03.4	been able to accomplish what I would like to accomplish. Yeah. And being frustrated with that
2:11.0	and unhappy about that. And I'm at the point now where I feel like I'm again at a fork in the road. Either I'm going to
2:21.3	leave it alone and let it be, which might be what I need to be seeking or I'm going to keep trying.
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