Stressless Eating – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome back to the Stressless Eating Podcast "Mini-Series" where I am sharing 4 cut-to-the-heart-of-it VIDEO podcasts, designed to be the "quick and dirty" solutions you need to your biggest food and self-image struggles.

These are all the things I WISH someone had told me decades ago about truly healing from the disorder of chronic dieting, and healing my relationship with food and myself...and this is Episode #4.

In this video I cover:

➨ How to have BOTH: stay on a healthy path and feel a sense of freedom WITHOUT going off the "deep end" and feeling out of control.

➨ What the ALTERNATIVE to dieting actually looks like (and no it doesn't mean gaining a bunch of weight or "giving up")

➨ What I wish someone told me DECADES ago, so that I could take my own power back from the food and get my life back!

Welcome back to the Stressless Eating Podcast "Mini-Series" where I am sharing 4 cut-to-the-heart-of-it VIDEO podcasts, designed to be the "quick and dirty" solutions you need to your biggest food and self-image struggles.

These are all the things I WISH someone had told me decades ago about truly healing from the disorder of chronic dieting, and healing my relationship with food and myself...and this is Episode #3.

➨ Why therapy, positive thinking, and mantras DO NOT work if your subconscious brain has been thinking the OPPOSITE forever...and what to do instead.

➨ What your brain ACTUALLY needs so that the work you do 'lands' in your brain, and you actually transform the narrative in your Self-Image.

➨ How to transform the topic of "self-love" from fluffy or ambiguous....and finally take a systematic and scientific approach to earning back your own self-love, trust, and respect.

Join us for a special series of the Stressless Eating Podcast where we are hosting the Stressless Eating Virtual Book Club. On this episode of the podcast, we we walk through the 3rd Chapter!

Grab your free copy of the Stressless Eating Book by going to:

www.StresslessEatingBook.com

And try the NEW Stressless Eating Scorecard, and find out where the 8 Stressless Eating Power Mindsets can pull you out of the food and body prison and set you free by going to

www.StresslessEatingScore.com

Join us for a special series of the Stressless Eating Podcast where we are hosting the Stressless Eating Virtual Book Club. On this episode of the podcast, we we walk through the 2nd Chapter!

Grab your free copy of the Stressless Eating Book by going to:

www.StresslessEatingBook.com

And try the NEW Stressless Eating Scorecard, and find out where the 8 Stressless Eating Power Mindsets can pull you out of the food and body prison and set you free by going to

www.StresslessEatingScore.com

Join us for a special series of the Stressless Eating Podcast where we are hosting the Stressless Eating Virtual Book Club. On this episode of the podcast, we we walk through the 1st Chapter!

Grab your free copy of the Stressless Eating Book by going to:

www.StresslessEatingBook.com

And try the NEW Stressless Eating Scorecard, and find out where the 8 Stressless Eating Power Mindsets can pull you out of the food and body prison and set you free by going to

www.StresslessEatingScore.com

The tables have officially turned, as this week's episode is unlike any that we have ever recorded.

My good friend Kevin Donahue is back on the podcast -- only this time, he is interviewing ME!

It's no secret that my latest book Stressless Eating is a product of my own deepest struggles, biggest shames, and the journey that transpired even AFTER I lost close to 100 pounds.

You would think that AFTER I lost 1/3 of my body weight, I would feel beautiful and happy and free (and all the things the magazines promised me)...

...but because I never addressed the Self-Image and Body-Image that was causing me to think, act, feel, and behave like I was fat, ugly, a failure, or "destined to stay this way forever."..  

...yes, I lost the weight, but I brought all of my old habits, old thinking, and old behaviors with me. 

I was bouncing from one extreme to the other! I would diet and restrict til I couldn’t take it anymore, and then the polar opposite would take over: Carefree abandonment – eating whatever I could get my hands on, and then feeling guilty or trying to out-exercise my overeating. 

And this caused me to LIVE on that up-and-down all-or-nothing 'Results Roller Coaster' that I speak of. 

I was the OPPOSITE of free. 

I was also the OPPOSITE of happy! 

But everywhere I turned to get the help that I desperately needed ...I was simply thrown MORE diet and exercise plans at my EMOTIONAL struggles. 

And the quest towards my own version of Stressless Eating and self-love truly began. 

Tune in to this week's episode where Kevin sat ME down, asked me some really HARD questions, and together we revealed the Truth About Stressless Eating. 

Nowadays where studies show that while less than 1% of American women suffer from anorexia and less than 1.5% of women suffer from bulimia...

Studies also show that 75% of American women suffer with Disordered Eating.

Let me say that again:

3/4 of the women in America suffer from Disordered Eating (and these studies only included Americans, but we also know it's a world wide epidemic).

Now here's the truth:

While pretty much everyone knows what an Eating Disorder is, most have never even heard of this thing called Disordered Eating (I know I sure hadn't!).

An even lesser known (and talked about) form of Disordered Eating is something called Orthorexia. 

Orthorexia is when someone takes their health to an extreme, and they inhabit an excessive preoccupation or obsession with eating healthy food.

According to The National Eating Disorders Association Orthorexia entails:

Obsessive focus on food choices, food regarded primarily as source of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods ; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs; moral judgment of others based on their dietary choices; body image distortion; persistent belief that dietary practices are health-promoting despite evidence of experiencing malnutrition...and the list goes on, and on, and on. 

And because of all of the misinformation that's being thrown at us, Orthorexia is spreading like a wildfire -- ESPECIALLY in the female population.

The EFFECT of all of this?

An extremely DISORDERED relationship with food.

And if you're anything like myself and all my clients...

You've been exposed to the 'Dark Side' of the health industry for a very long time, and it's super important that you know what to look out for to make sure that YOUR health journey....stays....healthy! 

Laura Lea Bryant is back on the podcast to help me unpack this super-important topic and share her personal experiences....and her experience as an influencer in the health and wellness world. 

★ Watch The Stressless Eating Webinar:
https://www.StresslessEating.com

For years, all Julie really knew was a life of restricting her food intake, dieting, or feeling the incessant need to exercise to “burn it off” or feel in control.  Food and her body were topics that carried a lot of shame and guilt, and she had almost completely convinced herself that this was just the way things were going to be. She truly believed that she was as forgone as you could be, and her skepticism was through the roof when we first connected — truly thinking that she would be the one person this would NOT work for. 

Her relationship with herself was suffering, as her weight had the power to dictate her mood in an instant, which added another level of guilt caused by not showing up as who she wanted to be. Feeling she had tried everything in the book, Julie scheduled a call with me and took a leap of faith to finally commit to herself.

Accepting that the road to peace, love and happiness with herself was a long term game, she began taking steps toward healing her body & mind and reclaiming her life. In this interview she shares her amazing journey, her fears & hesitations, her radical transformation, and what enabled her to finally set herself free.

I've never met a woman that struggles with food or struggles with her body that isn't absolutely sick and tired of crazy, restrictive dieting!

★ She is sick of constantly weighing, measuring, calculating...

★ She is sick of stressing, guessing, and OBSESSING...

★ She is sick of all the judgment, self-criticism, self-loathing, and shame...

★ She is sick of valuing herself based on how much she weighs or how much she ate that day...

★ She is sick of living in a PRISON -- a body prison, a food prison, a prison that she doesn’t know how to get out of...

Yet when we talk about what they are currently doing to address their struggles...

Dieting is the #1 answer I hear. (The restrictive, all-or-nothing kind of dieting.)

★ She is actively voting on the thing she claims to hate.

★ She is actively choosing the thing that's KEEPING her in the prison.

And to boot...

★ She is actively choosing something that she’s identified hasn't worked, isn't working, and (when she gets really honest) knows will NEVER work.

It's one big Catch 22.

There's absolutely no shame and no judgement around this WHATSOEVER -- it's the same cycle that I was stuck on for DECADES, and I have nothing but love and compassion for those stuck on that same up-and-down roller coaster... because it absolutely SUCKS!

That's why I'm here to simply point it out, shed some awareness, and hopefully shine a light on this conundrum that a lot of women don't even realize they have become entangled in...

And I want to make the whole thing EASIER for you! So you can just be done with it and spend your time, energy, heart, and soul on all the things you REALLY want to be spending it on.

That's why my latest podcast episode is dedicated to just that.

★ Watch The Stressless Eating Webinar:

 https://www.StresslessEating.com

When it comes to the diet mentality, body shame, disordered eating, and all the internal stress and chaos that comes alongside all of that, for so many women this is their deepest held secret.

This struggle with food, their body, the war in their head, the fight in their hearts, and the shame. All that shame about their body, feeling so out of control all the time, feeling like a failure….for so many women, no one even knows what's really going on!

★ No one knows how much they are REALLY struggling and suffering.
★ No one knows how much time and energy they are spending thinking about what they should or shouldn’t eat, what they should wear — or what they can wear that fits or doesn’t look tight.
★ No one knows how much time they are thinking about how bad they actually feel.
★ No one knows that they aren’t even fully present in their lives— that even though they are there in the flesh and blood, they aren’t really ‘there’ -- they aren’t fully present.

What’s even worse is: no one is talking about this OR how to get past it. In today’s episode we are not only going to take a look at this overlooked subject, but I also share the “What I know now that I wish I knew then” steps to actually get PAST it.

★ Watch The Stressless Eating Webinar: https://www.StresslessEating.com