Hey friends! Welcome back to another episode of Nourish to Bloom. Today, we're exploring a topic that creates a lot of confusion—Why am I hungry an hour after I just ate?
If you're someone who finds themselves questioning their hunger sensations shortly after a meal, or if you feel trapped in a cycle of doubt and diet culture, then this episode is for you!
In this episode, I’m uncovering common reasons why you might feel hungry soon after eating and introducing an essential exercise from the intuitive eating workbook to help you identify and tackle diet culture thoughts that may be holding you back.
Key Takeaways:
- Real-life scenarios where early hunger cues are frustrating and confusing.
- Understanding why it's normal to feel hungry shortly after eating.
- Potential reasons for early hunger:
- Higher activity level the day before.
- Inadequate amount or composition of your prior meal.
- Effects of a morning workout on your hunger signals.
- Biological factors like menstrual cycles affecting hunger.
- Disrupted hunger cues due to diet or illness.
- How suppressing hunger cues can lead to mistrust in your body’s signals.
- The importance of honoring your hunger to build trust and recognize bigger health issues early.
📣 Plus, I’m guiding you through an intuitive eating exercise designed by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch to differentiate diet culture thoughts from body sensations and identify self-care actions.
So, if you're ready to honor your body’s hunger cues and break free from the chains of diet culture, tune in now. Let's discover together how to trust in the beautiful design God has given you.
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Time Stamp Overview:
00:00 Feeling hungry soon after eating is normal.
06:59 Trust your body for intuitive eating decisions.
08:20 Honoring body prevents illness; promotes intuitive eating.
12:13 Consistently nourish your body, regardless of exercise.
15:04 Diet culture disrupts body's natural hunger signals.
21:23 Question dieting or self-care when eating lightly.
25:24 Overcome diet culture with faith-based wellness approach.
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Okay, I want you to imagine this real life scenario
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that I know many of you have playing out in your life on
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a regular basis. So you just ate
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breakfast at like, let's say, 07:00 a.m. and just 1
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hour later, at about 08:00 a.m. you're experiencing cues
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of biological hunger. Like your stomach is
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growling and it's gnawing. You physically
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feel empty and you have this desire to eat.
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But the first thought that pops into your head is, I can't
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be hungry. Like, I just ate. So then what
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do you do? You try to distract yourself from your hunger.
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You drink water, or maybe you have a diet
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soda or some sort of, like, carbonated beverage, or you
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drink some coffee, or you try to eat some
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safe food, like raw vegetables, like anything that
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you can possibly have to try to trick you out of feeling this
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hunger and being able to wait it out until lunch
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or whatever amount of time you deem appropriate
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before you allow yourself to actually eat, despite
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the fact that you are feeling hungry. Like, I get this. I
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get that it can be annoying and frustrating to
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experience hunger so soon after you've eaten. There are
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several logical reasons why your
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body is needing that nourishment, why your body is sending out those
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hunger cues like, it's not trying to trick you.
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So in today's episode, I'm going to help you. I'm going to help you
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identify what some of those reasons are that you may be
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experiencing that need for nourishment so soon after you've
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eaten. And I'm going to walk you through an exercise from the intuitive
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eating workbook that will help you identify some of those maybe
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potential diet culture thoughts. Like that thought, I can't be
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hungry, I just ate. And why these thoughts may be
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holding you back from really trusting your body and being
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able to meet its needs.
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Hey there. Welcome back to another episode of the Nourish to
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Bloom podcast. I hope that you are off to a the start
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of a wonderful week and so glad to have you back
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here for this episode. So, in the beginning
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of becoming an intuitive eater, a lot of the clients I
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work with often have this confusion
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about whether or not they should eat when they're feeling
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hungry. They'll say, like, kara, like, I'm feeling these hunger
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cues, but I just ate an hour ago. Like, is that
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normal? Is that, like, okay to
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feel like, am I doing something wrong? And
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I. And I get where they're coming from because so often when we
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are, you know, in that dieting and weight loss zone, and
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we're doing all those things. It's like, it's always been wrong to feel hungry.
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Or it's always been like, how is it possible that I just ate and I'm
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feeling hungry just an hour later? Like, we think that there must be
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something wrong with the way our body is working or that we're doing something
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wrong? Well, the answer is that, yes, this is
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normal. It is normal that you can eat something and an hour
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later feel hungry. And, yes, you are
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okay, and there is nothing wrong with you, and you are
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not doing anything wrong if this is something that happens to
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you. So what I do with clients is we kind
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of, you know, look at the scenario. We look at what they're eating, what's. What's
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we talk through, like, how sometimes there are just certain things that
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can maybe influence or interrupt or interfere with
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those direct experiences of hunger, those physical sensations
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they are feeling, and how sometimes it's a thought, and
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other times it could be something like an acute illness, like a stomach
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bug or the flu, and how that can interrupt
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you being able to experience those hunger cues. So it would
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be normal that you would experience
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situations that maybe you're feeling hungrier than normal, or you're
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feeling hungry despite the fact that you just ate an hour ago.
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The bottom line is, is that your here and now body, the one that
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you are living in, in that moment, is needing more
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nourishment at that moment. And it can be for a variety
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of reasons. Things like maybe the day before you had an
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unusually high activity level, or
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maybe you ate less the day before, and maybe that was
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intentional or unintentional. But now your body is trying
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to maybe play catch up and make sure that it has enough
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calories. Or maybe what you ate for breakfast
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may not have been enough food for your body. Maybe the
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amount you ate wasn't enough, or maybe it wasn't,
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you know, kind of balanced enough. Maybe you needed to have a little more protein
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or added some fight or add some fiber to that.
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Maybe you are just hungrier today, and
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that is okay. Maybe you don't necessarily need to
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know why you are hungry that day. Maybe we just
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need to work on being able to honor that hunger.
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Or maybe you worked out this morning, and so,
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you know, you worked out, and then when you sat down to kind of eat
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breakfast, your hunger may have been blunted. And so you didn't, you know,
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really know how hungry you were, because maybe you weren't really experiencing
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any of kind of strong hunger cue. But now that
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your hunger is no longer blunted, you're experiencing those body
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sensations, and your body is alerting to you, alerting you to like, hey, I
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need a little more nourishment. Like, what we had at breakfast wasn't really
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enough, and so I'm going to need a little more food to eat right
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now. Or maybe you have a physical condition, like
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being premenstrual and that's making you hungrier than
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normal. Like, all of these are normal reasons
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why you may experience things. Like that scenario
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where you just ate and it's like an hour later, you're feeling
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hungry. All of those are possible reasons why that could be
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happening. And, like, I get that it can be somewhat
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inconvenient trying to honor your hunger in that timely manner. But I
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want you to think of it this way. It's really no
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different than needing to take a bathroom break,
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even if you just went to the bathroom an hour ago.
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Like, needing to use the bathroom and feeling hunger are both
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normal and natural cues that God included in his
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design of your body. And I want you to stop
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and maybe reframe this. Like, it's really a gift
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that we don't have to overthink or waste mental energy
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knowing when we need to go to the bathroom or when we should eat. Like,
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don't you think, like, how much time do we save not having to sit there
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and overanalyze? Hmm? Do I need to go to the bathroom?
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Like, I'm just not really sure if I'm feeling that sensation.
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Maybe I could. Maybe I could wait or maybe I could, like, just kind of
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pretend that I don't need to go. Like, that's what we do with hunger. Right?
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But the difference is that you don't typically feel guilty for needing to use
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the bathroom, but how often do you feel guilty or believe
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you, you did something wrong because you were feeling hungry?
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I want you to stop and remember that the goal of Christ centered
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intuitive eating, or, you know, one of the goals is to help
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you regain trust with your body and God's good design
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and allowing your body and the sensations you feel
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to really be the guide that you use for making
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informed health decisions. Because that's that collaboration of you and
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God, of you and God and you using his good design
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of your body to help you make those informed health
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decisions. So if you can learn to trust your body with these smaller
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matters, like honoring your hunger, it's going to
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help you be more aware to potentially bigger health
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issues. Knowing when something maybe doesn't feel quite
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right in your body, and so you're aware of that, and you go and you
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seek professional medical help, and maybe that leads to a
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potential diagnosis, but because you were attuned with your body and you were
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connected with your body, you caught it at a really early stage,
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or you were able to, you know, put some practices
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into place that prevented from. Prevented a
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potential chronic illness from popping up, or it delayed
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it from that onset. So each time you honor your
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body by honoring your hunger with that timely and adequate
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nourishment, you're building up that trust, and you're
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establishing that communication and connection between your mind
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and your body, which is the way God intended for our bodies to
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work. The last thing, or what I want
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to do now in this episode is I'm going to guide you through an
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intuitive eating exercise that was designed by Evelyn Triboli
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and Elise Rush, the dietitians who developed the intuitive eating
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framework. And this exercise is in their intuitive eating workbook.
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And it's really designed to help you begin to identify some of the differences
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between a potential diet culture thought and a
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body sensation or a body cue and what would be a potential
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self care action. This is important
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because oftentimes these diet culture thoughts are the
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barriers, the obstacles that get in our way of meeting
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our body's needs. So if we can start to identify what some of these
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potential diet culture thoughts are, we can start to
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build tools and utilize tools to help us overcome those
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obstacles so we can focus on getting
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our body's needs met and promoting our overall health
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and well being. So, before we start this
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exercise, I want you to remember that a diet culture thought is in the
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mind, and it's stemming from a thought, opinion,
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or judgment. And a body
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cue or body sensation is a direct experience
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or sensation from your body.
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And self care is an action that you
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take to care for your body to meet your
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needs. But it also involves that mind and being aware of
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a need that is needing to be met.
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So I have ten statements I'm going to go through, or ten scenarios
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or examples I'm going to go through. And as I go through them, I
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want you to kind of think about whether you would categorize this as
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a thought, like a diet culture thought, a body cue
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or sensation, or a potential self care
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action, and we'll reflect on them. I'll
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provide a little bit of insight as to, you know, this is why this was
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categorized. This is what it's meaning, and kind of give you some guidance on
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how you can either lean into this thought if it's helping
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you create a self care action or help you really being able
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to give you some tools of how to break down this potential
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barrier obstacle. If it's a diet culture thought, and so,
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um, we'll go through it, you know, just this brief explanation of each to help
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you better understand the answer. So,
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number one, I can't be hungry. I just ate
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1 hour ago. Okay? This is a diet
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culture thought. The tone of this
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is likely condemning, and it's causing confusion.
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Like it's putting a little bit of blame on you. Like, how is this
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even possible? It makes you feel as if you did
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something wrong. So I want you to pause
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and remember that what you're here and
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now body is physically experiencing
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in this scenario, it is feeling hunger.
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And it's sending you those cues to alert you that you are hungry
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and that your body is needing energy, even though you
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just ate an hour ago. So the best form
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of action to take in this scenario would be to honor that
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hunger and give your body the fuel that it
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needs and not obey that
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judgmental diet culture thought.
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Number two, I deserve to eat this food because I worked
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out today. This is also a diet
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culture thought. You may be feeling as if you deserve a
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reward or that you're entitled to eat a certain food or
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treat because you exercise today. But you have to
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remember your body is deserving of nourishment. No matter
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what you ate yesterday, no matter what you ate at the previous
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meal, and whether or not you exercised,
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your body needs consistent nourishment throughout the day
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to support its proper function. And when you don't
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provide consistent or adequate nourishment, your body will
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compensate. Oftentimes, that compensation looks
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like out of control eating. At the end of the day,
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it looks like your body breaking down lean
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muscle mass in order to get the fuel that it needs.
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Diet culture plays a lot into this idea of
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this deserving or this entitled eating for doing
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something good that day. But this is also setting you up
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for not being able to sustain whatever plan it's.
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It's trying to keep you on. It's
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like this is kind of that same mentality as cheat days. If you've been good
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all week, then you can cheat on the weekend. But that cheat day often
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leads into extreme overeating. So just remember
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that no matter what you ate, no matter how you moved, your body
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is deserving and needs that consistent nourishment
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throughout the day. Okay, number three, my
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stomach feels empty and I'm having difficulty
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concentrating. I need to eat.
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So this example reflects a direct physical
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sensation, a direct experience in your body, the
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stomach feels empty, you're having difficulty concentrating,
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and it's also a thought reflecting awareness of the body
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sensation and identifying what the body needs, which is
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promoting self care. So it's identifying that, hey,
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my stomach felt empty. I'm noticing I'm having some difficulty
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concentrating and what I need is to eat. So the right action
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to take is to provide that adequate nourishment to the body.
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Number four, I skip breakfast, which will keep me from
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feeling hungrier the rest of the day. So this
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reflects a diet culture thought. Those good old diet culture
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tricks we think will help us lose weight, but only end up
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backfiring when we end up eating and feeling out of control around food. At the
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end of the day, your body will alert you to
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when it is hungry and your job is to provide the
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adequate nourishment. Skipping meals can actually
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disrupt that trust and that connection with your body
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because it will start to cause those hunger cues to
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fade because you're intentionally suppressing and ignoring
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those hunger cues by skipping meals or ignoring your hunger.
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So the more you do that, the more your body is saying, well, I can't
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trust her that she's going to feed me, so I'm going to like
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save the energy and the calories that it requires to
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send out these hunger cues because I know I'm going to need it to be
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able to perform some other function. So I'm just not going to do that because
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it's not like she's going to listen to me anyway.
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So we have to remember that we have to
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continue to honor that hunger in order for our body
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to trust us to meet its needs.
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Okay, number five, I'm afraid that if I eat this snack to honor my
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hunger, it will add unnecessary calories.
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This is a diet culture thought, and what it is doing,
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it's interrupting your desire to practice self
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care. It's causing and promoting a
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fear based decision which we know is not from
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God. And it's having you hold on to old
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beliefs about a certain number of calories
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being the right amount versus trusting your body to
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inform you of when it needs food.
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Number six, I did not exercise today and I ate a lot of
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calories. I feel like this is way too many calories to eat because I
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didn't work out, but I was hungry all day, so I ate.
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Okay, so this is a diet culture thought, but
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the direct experience of the body, that the physical sensation
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of the body feeling hunger was honored.
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So this example really shows the gradual
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shifts that come on the intuitive eating journey that there will
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be times you have these diet culture
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thoughts and times that you're having these diet culture
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thoughts while also experiencing these physical
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sensations in your body. But you get to choose in
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that moment to listen to your body and to trust your body
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versus obeying that untrue,
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judgmental diet culture thought. And what tends
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to happen is that these diet culture thoughts often gradually fade.
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There's not like they quickly disappear as soon as you start practicing
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practicing intuitive eating, but they gradually fade as. As you continue
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to practice honoring your hunger and meeting your body's needs.
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Number seven, I haven't eaten since breakfast, which was
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about 6 hours ago. I should eat something even though I don't feel
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hungry. So this is an awareness thought
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that's prompting you to self care,
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knowing that it's a good rule of thumb not to go longer
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than about five waking hours without eating, and choosing to
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fuel your body even if you aren't experiencing those hunger cues.
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So this example could reflect the early stages
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of you reestablishing your hunger cues. If you're just starting out
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with intuitive eating, and maybe you have suppressed those hunger
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cues for a long time, one of the practices that we use is kind of
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that rule of thumb of eating every five waking
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hours to help you reestablish those hunger cues in your
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body. But this example could also reflect a
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situation of you maybe being ill and your
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appetite is suppressed, but knowing that you need to provide your
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body with nourishment to promote healing. So
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even though you may, you know, you might be sick and you're not feeling hungry
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or you're not feeling those hunger cues, you know that your body is going to
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need some nourishment to help with the healing process. So you go ahead
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and eat. Number eight, I
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don't know when we'll arrive at my parents house for dinner. The drive is long
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and takes several hours. I'd better pack a some snacks. So
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this is a self care thought. You're recognizing and
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anticipating your body's needs. This is also an example of
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kind of that planned hunger that we discussed in our last
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episode, where we kind of identified the different types of hunger.
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Number nine, I'm anxious about this interview. My mouth
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is feeling dry and my stomach is feeling uneasy, so I'm going to
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skip breakfast today. This
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example highlights some of those physical sensations that you're
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experiencing in your body that are associated with anxiety.
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The dryness of the mouth, the feeling
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uneasy in the stomach. But what's
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happening in this example is that the anxiety is masking that
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biological need for nourishment. It's masking those hunger
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cues, but the appropriate self care action
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would be to go ahead and eat something in this scenario. That
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wouldn't make the nausea worse, but it still allows
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you to get the nourishment that you would need to support your body throughout the
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day, especially with something kind of big,
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like an interview or a presentation or a meeting that, you
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know, may have your anxiety at a higher level. The last thing you would want
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to do is go into this meeting or going into this interview or this
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presentation undernourished. And then, you know, you have these,
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like, hunger cues going off in the middle, all of it. And you're. Because
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you haven't adequately nourished yourself, your brain's not really
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functioning as well as it could. So despite the fact that
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you're feeling this anxiety, it's good to know that your
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anxiety can often mask those hunger cues. So you
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need to be able to choose foods that are
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going to allow you to nourish your body, but that aren't going to make the
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nausea worse. And number ten, I don't feel
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very hungry for dinner. I will eat something light, but
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satisfying. Okay, so this is kind of a trick
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scenario, and it's important to get
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curious with a thought like this. So
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is with this this thought or with this statement, is there an underlying
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form of dieting that's going on because you're trying to
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plan to eat something light? Right? Like, is there this. This thought? Like,
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I'm not feeling very hungry, so I'm just gonna eat something light, and it's kind
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of like this sneaky diet culture thought that's popping through of like, okay,
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well, I'm only gonna eat a little bit of. Or is this thought
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an attempt at matching your nourishment to the energy
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requirement that you are feeling in your body? Right. You're not
00:22:04
feeling very hungry, and so you are going to eat something
00:22:07
that's light and satisfying, because
00:22:12
what you are feeling in your body is that you are not very hungry.
00:22:16
We can see how diet culture can still be sneaky in our thoughts, and so
00:22:20
it's just important to get curious about these things, because it takes
00:22:24
practice to be able to distinguish the difference between diet culture
00:22:27
thoughts and self care thoughts, especially if you've been made to
00:22:31
believe that dieting and weight loss
00:22:34
efforts was the quote, unquote right way to care for
00:22:38
your body. And so one of the best tools, one of
00:22:42
the best things that I can offer to you is to get
00:22:45
curious about the thoughts that you're having or the
00:22:49
behaviors that you're engaging in. A
00:22:53
really helpful way to distinguish the difference between some of these thoughts and
00:22:57
these behaviors would be to look at what is the tone of this
00:23:00
thought. Is it condemning or causing you to feel shame
00:23:04
in any way? And if it is, we know that that is not from
00:23:08
God and it's not willing our
00:23:12
good. It's not moving us towards something that is good
00:23:15
for us. Then we also can ask,
00:23:19
where would following the advice of this thought
00:23:22
lead? Is it leading to something that's helpful
00:23:26
or something that is promoting my overall health and
00:23:30
wellbeing? Or is it leading to something that may not
00:23:33
necessarily be harmful, but it really isn't serving
00:23:37
the best interest of your health? And so
00:23:41
this exercise was just a way to really
00:23:44
highlight some of these common thoughts that come up as we
00:23:48
start some of this intuitive eating journey. And it's help
00:23:52
you begin to be aware and distinguish when you're experiencing,
00:23:55
you know, maybe some of these diet culture thoughts and how that would differ
00:23:59
from a body sensation. And then how we can use self
00:24:02
care as an important part of this healing journey to
00:24:06
get our needs met when we are experiencing those
00:24:10
body sensations. And so I want to kind of leave you
00:24:13
with a little bit of a reflection on a piece of scripture.
00:24:17
So, it comes from Galatians, chapter five, verse one. It
00:24:21
is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm,
00:24:25
then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of
00:24:29
slavery. So diet mentality and
00:24:32
diet culture has really enslaved many
00:24:36
of us for years. It's kind of a little
00:24:40
bit of a gut punch to think about that diet culture and that
00:24:44
diet mentality as really being
00:24:48
something that we've been enslaved to, because it's been
00:24:51
distorted and masked as looking at something good, something that's going to
00:24:55
be helpful. It's something that's going to promote our health. But
00:24:59
the more we dig into this, the more that we see that so many of
00:25:02
these thoughts are really not of God. They're really thoughts of the enemy
00:25:06
that are keeping us in that
00:25:10
yoke of slavery. To diamond and diet
00:25:13
culture. But I want you to know that you no longer have to
00:25:17
choose those thoughts and those behaviors that
00:25:21
have kept you captive. Instead, you
00:25:25
can choose, and you can embrace God's good design of
00:25:28
your body and find that
00:25:32
freedom that Christ won for us by dying on
00:25:36
the cross, by learning to honor and respect
00:25:39
our body and the way that God designed it to work.
00:25:43
So just know that you no
00:25:47
longer have to be held captive by
00:25:51
this diet culture and diet mentality and that there
00:25:54
is, that God offers us this freedom by
00:25:58
learning to embrace our good and true
00:26:01
design. And so I just want to give you a friendly reminder that
00:26:05
I'm offering that free wellness audit
00:26:09
session, that faith led wellness audit. And in this
00:26:12
session, we're going to work together to help you map out, you know, what are
00:26:16
your health goals? What does health look like to you? What does
00:26:20
overall well being look like to you, mind, body, and
00:26:24
soul. And then we're going to identify any
00:26:27
obstacles that are standing in your way. What are some of these deep rooted beliefs
00:26:31
that you have that are keeping you captive? What are some of these thoughts that
00:26:35
we need to do work on to help you, you know, analyze them and
00:26:38
hold them up to God's truth? And see, you know, is this, is this really
00:26:42
promoting your health, or is this keeping you stuck in kind of that
00:26:45
enslaved pattern of behavior? So we're going to
00:26:49
identify those obstacles, and then together we're going to put an action plan together of
00:26:53
what this would look like, what you, what tools you would need, what resources you
00:26:57
need to help you overcome these obstacles so you can meet those,
00:27:00
those health goals, and you
00:27:04
can book this free session using the link that is in the show notes. It's
00:27:08
a calendly link. It's highlighted real big on the show notes, like
00:27:11
book your free faith led wellness
00:27:15
audit. The spaces are filling up, so I encourage you
00:27:18
to book the session today.
00:27:22
Book it now before they fill
00:27:26
up, because I won't be doing it. As we get into the
00:27:29
holiday season, I just know everybody gets busier.
00:27:33
So if you're eager to, you know, stop this obsessing
00:27:37
over food, if you're really wanting to love the
00:27:41
person that God created you to be, if you're wanting to look in the
00:27:44
mirror and really embrace that,
00:27:48
that person that God created you to be, and you want to align your
00:27:51
eating habits with your faith, then the first step for you to take is to
00:27:55
book this session. So find those in the show notes, book your session. And I
00:27:59
can't wait to get started with you and help you get that clarity and
00:28:03
help you break free of that diet culture
00:28:06
slavery. Once again, thanks for joining me for
00:28:09
this week's episode of the Nurse to Bloom podcast. Be sure to share it with
00:28:13
a friend and go out there and
00:28:17
bloom. We will talk soon, and I'll see you next
00:28:21
week. Bye.
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