No Wellness Wankery

63: So you want to lose weight? Let's chat. (Part 3)

June 06, 2023 Lyndi Cohen
63: So you want to lose weight? Let's chat. (Part 3)
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No Wellness Wankery
63: So you want to lose weight? Let's chat. (Part 3)
Jun 06, 2023
Lyndi Cohen

Lyndi doesn't often talk about weight loss, although it's something clients frequently approach her about. The reason? Trying to lose weight often makes you more obsessed with food, making it harder to be healthy. Plus, pursuing weight loss doesn't actually lead to weight loss.

However, she isn't against you losing weight. She is against you trying to lose weight.

It's a subtle but oh-so-important difference. Weight loss is fine. But don't aim for it. Don’t slay your body, don’t compromise your well-being in order to lose weight. Let it become something that happens as a side effect of making healthier choices.

There is a way we can have a healthy conversation about the desire to lose weight and we are tackling it in this 3 part series. If you haven't listened to episodes 1 & 2, jump into those first so you have the background for the thinking around this nuanced topic.

In part 3, let's look at what Lyndi is actually doing and implementing into her new mother-of-two life. It is time for the practical strategies for achieving a stronger and healthier body without dieting.

Remember the relentless pursuit of weight loss often leads to an unhealthy obsession with food, making it even harder to feel good. Let's do the opposite.

For more support, read Lyndi's book 'Your Weight is Not the Problem'. It’s been ranked #1 on Amazon in women’s health for 10 weeks straight, and for good reason. You can buy it wherever all good books are sold or get the audiobook. Get the deets and access to a free audio sample HERE.

Ps. If you are looking for the episode on the 15 ways Lyndi learned to love her body follow this link

Want to feel more in control around food? Check out my Stop Struggling With Food Guide, currently on sale for 40% off.
You’ll also find 50 of my favourite recipes to get you inspired!

Looking for more support to feel in control around food? I'd love to support you in my Binge Free Academy


Come follow me on the gram at @nude_nutritionist (no nude pics, sorry).

Want to share some feedback or have an idea for an episode, I'd LOVE to hear from you - hit me up at hello@lyndicohen.com

Show Notes Transcript

Lyndi doesn't often talk about weight loss, although it's something clients frequently approach her about. The reason? Trying to lose weight often makes you more obsessed with food, making it harder to be healthy. Plus, pursuing weight loss doesn't actually lead to weight loss.

However, she isn't against you losing weight. She is against you trying to lose weight.

It's a subtle but oh-so-important difference. Weight loss is fine. But don't aim for it. Don’t slay your body, don’t compromise your well-being in order to lose weight. Let it become something that happens as a side effect of making healthier choices.

There is a way we can have a healthy conversation about the desire to lose weight and we are tackling it in this 3 part series. If you haven't listened to episodes 1 & 2, jump into those first so you have the background for the thinking around this nuanced topic.

In part 3, let's look at what Lyndi is actually doing and implementing into her new mother-of-two life. It is time for the practical strategies for achieving a stronger and healthier body without dieting.

Remember the relentless pursuit of weight loss often leads to an unhealthy obsession with food, making it even harder to feel good. Let's do the opposite.

For more support, read Lyndi's book 'Your Weight is Not the Problem'. It’s been ranked #1 on Amazon in women’s health for 10 weeks straight, and for good reason. You can buy it wherever all good books are sold or get the audiobook. Get the deets and access to a free audio sample HERE.

Ps. If you are looking for the episode on the 15 ways Lyndi learned to love her body follow this link

Want to feel more in control around food? Check out my Stop Struggling With Food Guide, currently on sale for 40% off.
You’ll also find 50 of my favourite recipes to get you inspired!

Looking for more support to feel in control around food? I'd love to support you in my Binge Free Academy


Come follow me on the gram at @nude_nutritionist (no nude pics, sorry).

Want to share some feedback or have an idea for an episode, I'd LOVE to hear from you - hit me up at hello@lyndicohen.com

00:00:00:05 - 00:00:24:09

Lyndi

Okay. I would like to tell you, your your weight is not the problem. It really isn't. I know you've been made to think your weight is a problem your entire life, but honestly, it's just been a red herring making you focus on diets that really suck and your weight is not. The problem is the title of my new book and I would really like you to read it if you've ever been made to feel like you need to worry about your weight that you're fixating on your weight is going to help you lose weight, which is nonsense.


00:00:24:16 - 00:00:43:16

Lyndi

This is the book you need to read. We tackle body image. We help you with practical strategies to feel normal, relaxed, and freedom around food, which are all fabulous things you also deserve. Please go to my website, Lindy Cohen dot com and check out my new book. It's available from all great retailers. Please check it out.


00:00:44:09 - 00:00:53:07

Jenna

Hello. This is a No Wellness Wankery podcast. My name is Jenna D’Apice and we battle the world of weight loss. Wankery Wellness, Wankery each week with Lyndi Cohen.


00:00:53:09 - 00:00:58:22

Lyndi

Hi, everyone. And today we're coming back for a little bit of pot. Three, this is getting excessive. All the parts in this.


00:00:59:03 - 00:01:00:09

Jenna

It's an important topic.


00:01:00:10 - 00:01:12:20

Lyndi

It is a little important topic. And I think today we want it to be a little bit more specific, whereas I think the first two episodes we're giving you the general kind of thoughts around. Yes. Weight, whereas I think you perhaps have a few questions. Yes.


00:01:12:22 - 00:01:33:04

Jenna

So I suppose you've just had your beautiful little girl, Charlie, and you feeling I can have plantar fasciitis. Yeah, that's. I got it. Got it. I've been listening to all the parts and you feeling like I'm not feeling great in my body. It's sore. I can't walk. I think I. I felt better when I weighed less. What was your first steps?


00:01:33:04 - 00:01:52:00

Lyndi

Yeah. So I think I got to the point where I had my six week checkup with my physio and she was like, you. She assessed my abdominal muscles to be like, okay, cool, how much separation you have? And then she was like, You are safe to resume some exercise. And that's the thing I think I did first. So I was like, okay, cool.


00:01:52:00 - 00:02:10:00

Lyndi

So I'm going to add in more movements. I think I knew it could impact my weight, but it's not the reason I did it. I wanted to feel stronger and I wanted to start moving my body so what I did specifically for me and I'm a mum with two kids, one of them's a newborn and I'm like, I don't have much time.


00:02:10:17 - 00:02:29:04

Lyndi

I've rolled out my mat, my yoga mat in Charlie's room, my little baby's room, and there's no cot in there yet. So it's kind of just like a blank room. And it's messy as hell. And I think previous me would have been like, I can't exercise until I'm in this perfect space.


00:02:29:04 - 00:02:32:13

Jenna

Yes, I can't exercise until this room is clean. Yes, you can.


00:02:32:13 - 00:02:49:01

Lyndi

You can. And that's what I'm doing. And I think I used to be like, okay, I'm going to take my mat down to the beach and I'm going to do like some like no contract. I'm in a bit of, you know, this dog hair everywhere. And I'm, you know, and I do vacuum often, but I, I've got I've got a dog that molt a lot.


00:02:49:01 - 00:02:53:17

Lyndi

Anyway, this dog everywhere there is just like bags that need to be unpacked. But I'm not.


00:02:54:12 - 00:02:56:11

Jenna

Prioritizing yourself over the mess.


00:02:56:11 - 00:03:13:23

Lyndi

Yeah, I'm letting it be imperfect, and I'm also just keeping the mat there. I'm lucky enough that I can just keep the mat there. And I don't know what it is psychologically, but just having the mat there, it's like the room set up. It's like, I don't have to do much. It's also like if she's sleeping, I can just pop off and do 10 minutes.


00:03:13:23 - 00:03:23:14

Lyndi

And I think that's the other thing that I'm doing. My aim is I like to do 20 minutes of politeness every day. That's what's making my body feel good, and that's what I've been doing since six weeks.


00:03:23:14 - 00:03:25:12

Jenna

And you could be doing that in little chunks.


00:03:25:17 - 00:03:45:21

Lyndi

Yeah. And sometimes she'll wake up and it takes me an allergy to 20 minutes that I'm like, you know, feeding her and fluffing and all this kind of stuff that I'm, I'm, I'm doing my little 20 minutes and sometimes I want to do 50 minutes and sometimes I'm like struggling through the 20 minutes, but I'm doing my 20 minutes.


00:03:45:21 - 00:04:07:00

Lyndi

I'm doing it with joy and I can't wait to do my 20 minutes. It's like so exciting to me and I think that's what's really important here. And I'm just I'm just getting it done because every day I'm doing it, I'm feeling stronger. I can see my body has shifted. I feel so much stronger that my body shape is changing as a result of doing all this.


00:04:07:00 - 00:04:14:22

Lyndi

And I my plantar fasciitis is getting so much better because I'm building up my muscle. And I also think this is just I always want to do Pilates. Yeah.


00:04:14:22 - 00:04:16:00

Jenna

You enjoy it. Yeah.


00:04:16:07 - 00:04:30:12

Lyndi

And the other day I got the go ahead to go and start running again from I went to my 12 week physio appointments and she said, Yeah, you can start doing some jogging. What does that look like? Well, she's like, Look, you should start with maybe a kilometer slow jog.


00:04:30:12 - 00:04:30:19

Jenna

Yes.


00:04:30:20 - 00:04:46:22

Lyndi

Okay, cool. This is not ten ks. This is not me killing myself. So I went for a a I said I won't say a run, but it wasn't a run. It was like a slow jog and it cut in some nice music. And I was so happy to be out there doing it. So this isn't something I feel like I have to do.


00:04:46:22 - 00:05:04:09

Lyndi

No one's telling me I have to go and start running. I'm just really excited to start running again. So that's one more. So you think about places, level one, that was kind of going where I was going to rebuild my core. It's not about how many calories I'm burning, but I'm just kind of like, that was level one.


00:05:04:09 - 00:05:24:02

Lyndi

Now I think about me adding in some slow jogging. This feels like level two. Yeah. So I think sometimes what we do is we go from zero to here. I'm just kind of like, Oh, we're going to build up these set and levels. And then in several months time I will have reached a point where maybe I'll, you know, maybe after a year I'll be fitting back into my pre maternity clothes again, but we just adding in those levels.


00:05:24:02 - 00:05:50:20

Lyndi

So that's something tangible that I've been doing is very much the exercise thing on a daily basis. But the other thing I've been doing and it talks about it in part one, is the kind of discomfort that I be feeling where I don't even know if discomfort is it is discomfort in the way I talked about the discomfort of actually feeling like either there's discomfort in feeling pain in my legs when I wake up or this discomfort in me turning up to do my politesse every day, which requires some kind of level of discomfort.


00:05:50:20 - 00:06:12:20

Lyndi

But I also just think there is choice in it. I know that any time I want to eat anything I want to eat, I'm allowed to eat it. And as a result, that changes how I feel about it. Yes. And now I'm choosing to eat things that maybe allow me to feel a sense of hunger. So this is kind of an interesting kind of.


00:06:12:20 - 00:06:15:08

Jenna

Idea, like allowing yourself to feel hunger.


00:06:15:09 - 00:06:29:24

Lyndi

Okay. So let's talk about ensure the beatings and the beatings, this idea that actually hunger is not scary or awful and hunger's Albury's way of letting us know that it needs more energy. I think when you've been dieting for many years, you can really be scared of hunger because.


00:06:30:14 - 00:06:33:15

Jenna

You don't really know what hunger even feels like. Yeah.


00:06:33:19 - 00:06:52:12

Lyndi

Or you've given no an extreme hunger. And as a result of knowing that that causes binge eating or you know, that it's a very uncomfortable feeling. But I think there is a degree of comfortable hunger where ideally you should feel hungry before every time you eat. Yeah. So that's all I'm doing. It's. It's kind of just me going around.


00:06:52:12 - 00:07:09:08

Lyndi

Let me come back to that principle of going. I'm just going to wait until I feel hungry again. And then I'm eating. So that means that I'm not just waking up and eating because it's breakfast time. I'm going, okay, when I'm going to when am I going to eat or after dinner if I've eaten my dinner? And I'm like, okay, well, I'm hungry, so I'm choosing not to eat.


00:07:09:21 - 00:07:30:01

Jenna

What would you say would be the tip for someone who isn't currently a stay at home mom? So you don't have that much flexibility to wait until you feel hungry. So like, say example, you wake up and you're going to work but you're not hungry but you know you're not going to could have meetings. Yeah. So you know you can eat.


00:07:30:05 - 00:07:33:06

Lyndi

Yeah, I would do lots of experimentation.


00:07:33:09 - 00:07:34:00

Jenna

Yes.


00:07:34:00 - 00:07:55:20

Lyndi

So what do you mean by that? Okay, cool. So let's say you're going. I'm not waking up hungry and it would be more convenient if I ate when I was hungry. Right. So you can adjust what you eat at nighttime. So let's say you had dinner and then you didn't have snacks at night because you went hungry and then maybe you'd wake up hungry that in the morning.


00:07:55:20 - 00:07:57:23

Lyndi

So that's an experiment that you continue to play.


00:07:57:23 - 00:07:59:10

Jenna

Around with the rest of the day. Yeah.


00:07:59:10 - 00:08:10:24

Lyndi

How does that make me feel in the morning? Oh, you could go. Right. Well, what if I don't eat my breakfast and then I wait until after those meetings? Am I ravenous and crazy? And you might do an experiment and be like, either was or I wasn't.


00:08:11:01 - 00:08:12:15

Jenna

I was fine. Yes, I was fine.


00:08:12:15 - 00:08:28:15

Lyndi

But I think we need to kind of go so think about this is a phase of experimentation to see how things are going to be feeling differently for you, of course, is something you can do is where you just have like a small snack because you like but but if you're not hungry, do you need to have your entire full breakfast that you normally would if you're not actually that hungry?


00:08:28:22 - 00:08:36:00

Lyndi

I think sometimes if it makes you feel restricted in any way to go, I feel like I'm not allowed to. Have you brought your latte? Whatever you want.


00:08:36:08 - 00:08:52:15

Jenna

Yeah, because there's so much that's still stuck in my body of my brain. I'm like, you have to have a proper breakfast. Like what? I didn't know what a proper breakfast is, but sometimes if I just get have like a banana or something and then I'm like, Oh, I haven't really had breakfast. And then that plays in my brain be like, Then I have to have breakfast.


00:08:53:11 - 00:09:02:22

Jenna

But it's like I also randomly could be having a not so hungry day, so I could have a banana and then I'm fine until lunch for randomly. That's just what's happened for that day.


00:09:03:06 - 00:09:22:11

Lyndi

I think becoming aware of those thoughts is really, really key. That's so interesting to know and just challenging that idea of going well and sometimes what might happen is if you don't have your breakfast in the morning, you might go, I'm really hungry at lunch. And your lunch becomes like a brunch. Yes. And that's cool too. So what?


00:09:22:11 - 00:09:39:11

Lyndi

That might mean is if let's say you have a bigger lunch, maybe what you eat for dinner is slightly less because you're not as hungry for dinner. Or maybe I'm more hungry. I guess all I'm saying is think about this is like a period of going, I'm going to experiment, but we're not going to be scared of feeling a little bit comfortably hungry.


00:09:39:11 - 00:09:42:07

Lyndi

I'm not talking about I want to punch someone in the face.


00:09:42:07 - 00:09:43:22

Jenna

Hunger. Yeah. We're not getting hangry.


00:09:43:23 - 00:10:07:19

Lyndi

No hangry. No, thank you. But just like, oh, I'm ready to eat. I would like to eat now. As opposed to just eating by the clock. And for me, I was noticing that I was doing a lot of non hunger eating after dinner simply because it was delicious. And it is. And I know I could eat ice cream any time I want or whatever, but I just find like after dinner I'm like, well, I'm not actually hungry, so let's not do that.


00:10:08:04 - 00:10:26:09

Lyndi

That already makes a big difference in my life for my body. But I can relate do that because I don't feel restricted by the idea of not eating that. And I think that's what's so important. And what I think my fear about talking about this is if that someone is too early in the stage, they haven't created that healthy enough relationship with food and their body yet.


00:10:26:09 - 00:10:40:18

Lyndi

And they go, Oh, okay, well, I'm just not going to eat after dinner. No, that's a diet rule. The difference between a diet rule and something that feels supportive and enjoyable and like a choice, it's hard to tell. Where does that stop or start? But it's how does it make you feel in your body?


00:10:40:18 - 00:10:56:13

Jenna

Yeah. I was gonna say is how you make yourself feel from what you're doing. Because, like, I know, for example, me, there's a lot of times if it's like the weekend or I'm out or even sometimes during the week, it doesn't matter just because it's the weekend, any day of the week. Sometimes I just feel like an ice cream after dinner.


00:10:56:13 - 00:11:06:14

Jenna

I'm not hungry, but I want the ice cream. But cheesy to eat when you're not hungry is something you can do at any time, but it's something you don't need to choose to do every day. Yeah.


00:11:06:15 - 00:11:19:05

Lyndi

And if you want to do it every day, do it every day. You choose that you'd like to go through a phase where you don't do it every day. This is all your choice. No one cares what you eat. Okay, well, in case I think, you know, all this time you're like, Oh, I shouldn't have an ice cream.


00:11:19:05 - 00:11:32:05

Lyndi

If you if that's what's in your mind. I shouldn't in ice cream, then you know what? That sounds like a diet rule to me. Yeah, I know what I'm saying is so blurry. And the key, because it's all about how you relate to that idea in your mind.


00:11:32:05 - 00:11:33:16

Jenna

So it is blurry and murky.


00:11:34:03 - 00:11:52:23

Lyndi

And let's allow a little bit of blurry, murky, cause I know food rules are very easy because they tell us what we're allowed to do. We're not allowed to do. But I'm not like, Oh, I'm going through a phase where I'm not eating sugar. No, I know. Any time you see my freezer, it's filled with ice creams. That because I know any time of the day I can, like, stroll on over to my freezer and grab an ice cream.


00:11:53:14 - 00:11:56:20

Lyndi

I know it's always there for me, so I'm just choosing not to.


00:11:57:03 - 00:12:11:09

Jenna

So in terms of food and eating, have you just kind of eaten the same way through your whole pregnancy and now you're just doing the same thing now or now that you're feeling like you want to lose a little bit of weight, are you changing what you're eating at all?


00:12:11:09 - 00:12:33:11

Lyndi

Yeah, I think I certainly have. I think I was doing a bunch of just like eating stuff because it was in front of me. I think I've just become a bit more mindful about what I am eating. So like, I don't want to jog a whole day on a plate kind of thing, but I'm just like, What do I actually need to feel satisfied and full in this meal?


00:12:33:21 - 00:12:52:01

Lyndi

Not and I think, like, let's say I go out to a restaurant and I'm like, all right, what am I going to eat? I am going, Well, what has the most vegetables and what's going to make me feel good? Okay, so that's the question. Okay. When you're doing intuitive eating, give a choice of what do I feel like eating?


00:12:52:01 - 00:13:05:22

Lyndi

That's question one. And question number two is knowing I can eat anything I want, but what's going to make me feel good? Yes. So the perfect fusion is when both of these questions can kind of fall in love and they meet and they have a baby. And the answer.


00:13:05:22 - 00:13:06:17

Jenna

You had a baby?


00:13:06:21 - 00:13:23:20

Lyndi

I did have a baby. And then you end up with the outcome as a result. I'm kind of getting to the point where I'm going to like order something. I'm like, I do feel like the salad. I feel like the salad because it's what I want to eat because it's going to help me get my vegetables. But it's also what's going to leave me feeling best after this.


00:13:23:21 - 00:13:33:12

Jenna

Okay. That's two really good questions. It's not about what I need to take away from my food or take away from the meals. It's what do I feel like eating, but also what's going to make me feel good.


00:13:33:16 - 00:13:34:17

Lyndi

And what can I add in?


00:13:35:01 - 00:13:36:03

Jenna

Yes, adding in.


00:13:36:04 - 00:13:41:06

Lyndi

Okay. So I'm very much in a bit of like a veggie crusade now. I'm like, okay.


00:13:41:06 - 00:13:42:08

Jenna

Cool, I love this crusade.


00:13:42:08 - 00:14:03:08

Lyndi

So thank you. I kind of like looks at what I was eating and I was like, I don't have enough whole grains, I don't have enough legumes, I don't have enough vegetables, and I don't think I'm hitting my free time yet. So this is like, okay, cool. So let's try and get those things. And so what ends up for me is I tend to like, I like to have a really big hearty salad for lunch, but like lots of veggies, lots of it.


00:14:03:08 - 00:14:05:22

Jenna

Is such an easy way to get it all in. It is.


00:14:05:22 - 00:14:07:05

Lyndi

But it's frickin tasty.


00:14:07:05 - 00:14:10:16

Jenna

It tastes delicious because we have beautiful salad dressing.


00:14:10:16 - 00:14:11:19

Lyndi

We have the fun ship, we.


00:14:11:19 - 00:14:12:21

Jenna

Have fun stuff in that.


00:14:13:17 - 00:14:31:20

Lyndi

The good salad dressing with the yummy oil and the sugar added to it. I have all the stuff loaded. There is the carbohydrate in my salad, there's all this kind of stuff and that's kind of that's kind of what I'm doing. And if I get hungry in the afternoon, I'm having a snack. But I'm just I'm waiting until I get hungry.


00:14:31:20 - 00:14:38:15

Lyndi

I'm like, Oh, it's snack time. And this is when I eat. And as a result, sometimes I don't have a snack in the afternoon and sometimes I have two or three snacks.


00:14:38:24 - 00:14:39:20

Jenna

Yes. Okay.


00:14:39:22 - 00:14:56:03

Lyndi

I want to talk about this idea that I think a lot a lot of people end up doing is they don't eat proper meals. They just snack. So it's like lunchtime and snacks away. Yummy. Are then eating a meal can sometimes be there as so much easier. And so I'm also in this habit of I'm eating meals.


00:14:56:23 - 00:15:06:19

Jenna

Yeah. Sometimes if you don't like feeling lazy, snacks are a lot easier to leave together. Yeah. Grab then. Like thinking about what am I committing to a full meal?


00:15:06:24 - 00:15:27:11

Lyndi

And research is showing us that we are eating more snacks and people aren't cooking and they're not doing meals. So that is something I'm doing. I'm like, Well, what am I? I'm actually preparing myself solid meals and I'm eating enough at those meals. Yes. So like waiting until I'm get hungry, then I have something substantial and satiating and then I wait until I feel hungry again.


00:15:27:11 - 00:15:38:21

Lyndi

And that might be dinner time if I've had a big lunch, right? Yeah. There's a big difference in what we do and we go on a diet is we go, this is how many calories I'm allowed at this meal. I'm allowed 350 calories.


00:15:38:21 - 00:15:43:20

Jenna

And then you stand there and watch the clock until the time that you've allowed for your next snack.


00:15:43:20 - 00:16:03:24

Lyndi

Yeah. Because that, that, that lunch that you allow yourself to have wasn't nearly enough to take away that hunger, to make you feel emotionally and physically satisfied. And therefore you can't wait till those afternoon snacks come around. You're thinking about them watching the clock, as you said, and then you're allowing yourself to have 100, 200 calories. You have an idea of how many calories you're allowed.


00:16:03:24 - 00:16:04:12

Lyndi

No.


00:16:04:23 - 00:16:07:08

Jenna

No, not that. No, no.


00:16:07:16 - 00:16:22:17

Lyndi

What we're doing is we're waiting until we feel hungry. We're eating something truly substantial that's making our hunger mute, that's helping us feel emotionally satisfied. And then you simply waiting until you get hungry again and becoming curious about when that actually is okay.


00:16:23:00 - 00:16:29:05

Jenna

I think I've got the steps here and I think the biggest thing is, well, you're doing all this without loathing the body you're currently in.


00:16:30:04 - 00:16:31:02

Lyndi

So important.


00:16:31:02 - 00:16:32:10

Jenna

So important.


00:16:32:11 - 00:16:56:01

Lyndi

I find that we have this idea that we can hate ourselves into a version of ourselves that we like. We absolutely can't. I think we take better care of something that we like and love. And I especially I'm heavier now than I have been in a long time because just gave that a beautiful baby. But I don't look in the mirror and hate the cellulite.


00:16:56:08 - 00:17:16:06

Lyndi

Yeah, I can see where I'm thicker and juicier and I got my bits. But am I hating on her? I'm like, okay, cool. You're you're lovely. And I'm just practicing, reminding myself that that's not my work. It's a lot. You can go listen to the episode. I think it's 13 Ways of Loving Your Body. It's a podcast episode.


00:17:16:06 - 00:17:17:03

Lyndi

We have a wellness wank.


00:17:17:03 - 00:17:18:12

Jenna

We go put it in the show notes.


00:17:18:12 - 00:17:30:20

Lyndi

Yes, because that is a very handy thing. I'm definitely practicing those skills whenever I feel like I'm doubting my body. It's a really important key. Any other questions that you have about specifics that I'm doing? Oh, I'm not drinking alcohol.


00:17:31:05 - 00:17:32:13

Jenna

Yes, this is another part.


00:17:32:13 - 00:17:44:18

Lyndi

Yeah, that is another thing that I'm doing. And that is totally irrespective of weight, like all these other things, they are irrespective of weight. But I'm doing it because of my anxiety. We're going to have another podcast episode about that.


00:17:44:18 - 00:17:45:24

Jenna

Yes, about that next week.


00:17:45:24 - 00:17:54:08

Lyndi

And that is a change that can have an impact. So all these little things that you're doing that you're adding into your life to making your health better, these can all have a natural flow on effect to your weight.


00:17:54:08 - 00:18:00:09

Jenna

Everything sounds like this. All little micro habits, not some big food group that needs to be removed.


00:18:00:14 - 00:18:11:09

Lyndi

And so ultimately, can I do it for the rest of my life? Absolutely. Allowing a comfortable level of hunger, not counting calories, not controlling what needs to go in every meal. Can we just quickly talk about like the protein obsession?


00:18:11:18 - 00:18:12:09

Jenna

Yes, it's.


00:18:12:09 - 00:18:22:01

Lyndi

Like a bit of obsession about like how perfectly you need to balance every single meal so people like you have to have your protein, your carbohydrate and your your fat in every single meal. And I think.


00:18:22:07 - 00:18:32:17

Jenna

That takes away from that. What do you feel like and what will make me feel good? Yeah, because not always you feel like this huge hunk of chicken breast in everything.


00:18:32:17 - 00:18:58:12

Lyndi

Yeah. An experiment. What do you come back to? This idea if I ate this for lunch. A sandwich for lunch, for example, of salad and no protein. How does that make me feel? If I ate some tofu noodle thingy, how does that make me feel? We're just running micro experiments to be like, Listen, if I had a high protein, if I had a high carb, whatever, what makes your body feel good to go through a phase of becoming curious about all of these things?


00:18:58:18 - 00:19:19:17

Lyndi

I don't think we need to follow arbitrary rules. I think, you know, of course, there is certainly some people who are maybe not getting enough protein, but I don't think going for these highly processed protein powders is the way I think you just to be honest, if you're adding that in on top of your diet, you're kind of just adding in calories.


00:19:19:17 - 00:19:22:05

Jenna

Yeah, you probably already have enough protein.


00:19:22:05 - 00:19:30:11

Lyndi

Yeah, exactly. It's like people like I have to have a protein shake after I exercise. Well, you can just just have a glass of milk or, you know, just wait until you get hungry.


00:19:30:12 - 00:19:31:02

Jenna

Get this first.


00:19:31:06 - 00:19:38:00

Lyndi

Event athlete, go for it, have a bit of a protein shake. But I don't know about you. I'm not an athlete anymore. That's not.


00:19:38:00 - 00:19:51:09

Jenna

Likely. Thank you so much for answering those questions. I feel like it is a hard topic to talk about in terms of wanting to lose weight and the steps to to lose weight, but not needing to lose weight.


00:19:51:13 - 00:20:17:01

Lyndi

Yeah. Yeah, once. And can I just end with saying if anything I'm suggesting feels restrictive to you wherever you are in your relationship or food? Journey, ditch it. Effort, screw it. Your body is the master. I really want you to go. What? Sometimes. What? Because restricted to some person doesn't feel restrictive to another. So you need to be the gatekeeper on doing only things that does that, that don't feel restrictive or controlling to you.


00:20:17:01 - 00:20:17:24

Lyndi

That's very important.


00:20:18:00 - 00:20:34:13

Jenna

And it's very important. Thank you so much for listening as always. If you like to like the podcast, leave a review. We'd love to hear from you or message Lyndi @nude_nutritionist and we'll chat next to her. Hey everyone.


00:20:34:13 - 00:20:52:15

Lyndi

And before we get started in the podcast episode, I just want to tell you a little bit about how I might be able to help you if you want to get a healthy relationship with food because oh my goodness, there's a whole lot of stuff that's working against us all the time. Hello, diet culture. So if you ever wanted a little bit more personal support, check out my program.


00:20:52:15 - 00:21:08:04

Lyndi

Keep it real. Especially if you're struggling with binge eating. If you feel like every Monday you're starting from scratch, if you feel like you know what you should be eating, but you just can't stick to it if you feel like you want to eat healthier. But honestly, it just feels like you're out of control through your face planting into the fragile pantry.


00:21:08:12 - 00:21:25:13

Lyndi

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00:21:25:13 - 00:21:46:21

Lyndi

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00:21:47:06 - 00:21:59:06

Lyndi

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