The Body Love Binge - Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this empowering solo podcast episode, Victoria courageously shares her personal journey with overcoming body shame and reconnecting with pleasure and intimacy. Listeners can expect raw vulnerability as Victoria guides us through the tools and mindset shifts that enabled her to fully embrace her sensuality.

Main Discussion Points:

- The extreme lengths Victoria went to in order to hide her body and avoid intimacy

- The journey of healing her relationship with her body and sexuality by hiring a coach and committing to the work

- Practical tips for building body confidence like naked mirror work, focusing on sensations over appearances, and giving herself permission to receive pleasure

- The importance of open communication with her partner about her feelings and challenges

- Adopting the attitude of "he really doesn't seem to be giving a shit about what I'm worried about in my head right now"

- Allowing herself and her partner to see the real, authentic her

- How embracing herself transformed intimacy from a performative act focused solely on her partner's pleasure into a mutually fulfilling, deeper connection

Key Quotes:

"I would fake noises. I would fake moaning." (03:04)

"I was basically performing during intimacy." (03:36)

"Relaxation is the gateway to pleasure." (05:57)

"I would literally pretend that he absolutely loved pleasuring me." (07:24)

"Women take longer ❤️ and that is okay." (04:13)

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This podcast episode features life coach Victoria Kleinsman interviewing her former coaching client Iruka. They discuss Iruka's decades-long struggles with disordered eating, body image issues, restrictive dieting, and compulsive exercise.

Listeners can expect to gain insight into Iruka's journey to recovery, including what finally enabled her to break free of restrictive dieting for good.

Main Discussion Points

- Iruka first started dieting around age 9-10 when she had negative thoughts about her body after wearing an ill-fitting PE uniform

- She suffered from years of restrictive eating, "good food/bad food" outlooks, calorie counting, over-exercise and recurring cycles of bingeing

- A realisation that even her attempts at moderate eating plans kept failing her was an "aha moment" that doing more of the same wouldn't cut it

- Working with Victoria taught her that stopping restriction is key to ending binge urges and finding balance with all foods

- Exercise was previously compulsive and led to injury; now she works out for mental/physical health without tracking or calories goals

Quotes

"It's not about any bullshit, quite frankly, which is all short termist and temporary, and external...This is about, you know, what feels good inside." [00:39:16-00:39:36]

"I truly didn't believe that it was possible to be at this point where I'm at now." [00:28:21-00:28:29]

"The cost at the beginning of recovery, this was my experience anyway...that cost isn't as it doesn't feel as big now as it did when you made that decision of, like, right. I'm gonna go forward with Victoria, and then these things might happen as a consequence of that." [00:47:07-00:47:25]

Bios

Iruka is a 44 year-old general practitioner (doctor) and mother of two. Victoria Kleinsman is a certified eating psychology coach who helps women heal their relationship with food and body using a non-diet, Health At Every Size® aligned approach.

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In this podcast episode, I answer a listener's question about finding balance with food and eating intuitively after recovering from an eating disorder. I provide compassionate, in-depth guidance on overcoming restriction, fear of weight gain, and learning to nourish oneself physically and emotionally.

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Key Discussion Points:

- Why the body loses the ability to restrict food after prolonged restriction or starvation

- Identifying and overcoming "emotional restriction" around food

- The importance of full acceptance and surrender to your body's needs in order to recover

- Overcoming fear of weight gain through deep inner work - Choosing foods from a place of self-love and nourishment

Notable Quotes:

"You want what you need. And so at some level, you need the food you're currently eating in the way you're currently eating it." (00:04:54)

"When you fully accept and surrender to whatever it is that you eat, however you eat it, you will then be able to focus on things other than food." (00:12:15)

"It takes courage, support, and commitment to full food freedom and self love to find authentic and easy balance with food." (00:15:51)

Tips on how to survive Christmas around food & body...  

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I have Sabrina with me today!

Sabrina Magnan is a Food Freedom & Intuitive Eating Coach, helping chronic dieters heal their relationship with food & their bodies, and develop realistic health-promoting habits that stick.

Through her own battle with orthorexia, disordered eating, body dysmorphia and yo-yo dieting, she deeply understands what it’s like to have your entire life revolve around food & your body.

After discovering what actually works to stop feeling out of control around food, feel at peace in your body and create a life you’re in love with, Sabrina now works with women all over the world to help them stop dieting and rediscover a way of eating that’s enjoyable, guilt-free and rooted in nourishment and self-love, instead of restriction and punishment.

What to expect in this episode:

Can you share your story and how you ended up becoming a food freedom coach?

What are the symptoms of orthorexia and how can someone start to come out of that?

What is body dysmorphia and how does one know that they have it?

Can body dysmorphia ever be fully healed?

How can one handle bad body image days?

And much more!

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Waitlist to my group coaching program: https://sabrinamagnan.com/academy

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I'm answering a listener question for today's episode and the question is... "hi, Victoria! I was wondering if you could do a podcast episode on imposter syndrome with eating disorders. I have been struggling a lot with regard to whether or not I deserve help or actually fall under the label of having an eating disorder because I’m not physically sick. I guess I feel like because I binge eat, I feel like I’m not malnourished or physically sick so how can I fall under the category? I'm not thin either so it’s hard to feel like I can actually use the title or accept that I have an eating disorder."

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Welcome to another special edition of my Client Interview Series!

I have one of my previous clients - and this time bestie - joining me for a conversation today so she can share her honest experience of coaching and her own journey to food and body freedom.

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Robin (they/them) is a writer and body-liberation activist. They write about their experiences with eating disorder recovery, challenging anti-fatness, body liberation, health, and wellness. Robin is currently a Health and Wellness Feature Writer for Health Digest. Their work has been published in The Tempest, The Establishment, Bedsider, Scary Mommy, and Kinkly.

The questions I asked Robin

Can you share your story and how you ended up in the professional anti-diet space?

Why do you call yourself fat?

What was it like to recover into a fat body?

What barriers do fat people face?

How can people confront their own anti-fatness in recovery?

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1. Jo – Something I am really struggling with is comparing what I eat. I even do this with my husband. I feel totally greedy for what I want and amounts. I get really moody and annoyed if he leaves anything and I slow my eating so that he finishes first so I can work out what I can have. I even get stressed when he exercises. I know this makes me sound dreadful but unless I am honest I won’t get these thoughts rewired. Please help x

2. Marie-Kristen – I always feel guilty when others leave food, don’t eat or when I eat more than them.

3. I have to leave what my husband leaves. I can’t finish my plate if he hasn’t. – client Julia.

Let's dive in, shall we?

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Tabitha Farra is an eating disorder recovery coach. Despite being a robust and confident teenager, she developed an eating disorder at age 17 and this devastating illness took pole position in her life until, at 25, Tabitha finally started her recovery journey. Tabitha successfully recovered from Anorexia Nervosa and the complicated matrix of obsessions and habitual eating disorder behaviours that came with it.  

In the episode:  

- The genetic component of anorexia and the migration response  

- How do people with anorexia eat when their biology is screaming at them not to?  

- How to navigate being paralyzed when it comes to food choices.   

- Should you eat every time you think about food, even if it’s worrying about it?  

- Why didn’t my anorexia gene get switched on again when I was in energy defect again after I had “recovered” from anorexia?  

- Why binge eating disorder is a restrictive eating disorder   

- What about people in larger bodies… should they still follow their mental hunger?   

- Can you explain how we teach our brains to be fearful of weight gain and then how we can do the opposite… let go of our fear of weight gain?   

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