Bites & Body Love (v)
Welcome to "Bites and Body Love (v)," the podcast where your journey to full body image and food freedom begins! I'm your host, Jamie (she/her), a passionate registered dietitian nutritionist and an expert in body image and eating disorder recovery. I'm here to provide you with a safe and inspiring space, right on your device, where we navigate the landscapes of self-acceptance, food positivity, and the pursuit of true well-being.
🌟💪🌸 As someone who's walked the path of disordered eating and battled through body image struggles, I intimately understand the challenges you might be facing. Together, we're on a mission to light up the road toward healing and transformation. 🤝💖 No matter where you are in your journey, whether you're just starting out or making strides towards recovery, this podcast is designed to be your companion and confidante.
Through heartfelt conversations and insightful solo episodes, we'll dive deep into the realms of ditching diets, shedding destructive behaviors, and fostering a genuine sense of food and body confidence. Our goal is to empower you to take bold steps toward opening up your life to more joy, fulfillment, and authenticity. 🌈✨
From practical tips to uplifting anecdotes, "Bites and Body Love (v)" is your go-to source for inspiration and guidance on your journey to living a life unrestricted by societal pressures, the promises of diets, and unrealistic beauty standards.
Together, we'll build a community grounded in support, understanding, and growth. Tune in regularly as we embark on a transformative adventure that redefines how we view ourselves and our connection with nourishment. It's time to embark on a new chapter—one of empowerment, acceptance, and the celebration of your unique self.
So, whether you're driving, on a walk, or simply unwinding, let "Bites and Body Love (v)" be your virtual companion on your journey toward a more loving relationship with your body and the food that nourishes it. Remember, there's hope, there's healing, and there's a world of possibilities ahead. Welcome to your new beginning! 🎙️🌟💕
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Bites & Body Love (v)
The #1 Ingredient to Becoming an Intuitive Eater and to Build Body Confidence
In this episode, we explore the essential steps to achieving body trust and fostering a positive connection with food. We'll uncover how letting go of fear, shame, and control, and embracing respect and mutual understanding can lead to a healthier and more intuitive approach to eating. By making small, consistent changes such as honoring our hunger cues and allowing all foods into our homes, we can pave the way towards trusting our natural weight set point. This journey, likened to building trust with a friend, is attainable through repeated positive experiences and a commitment to respectful self-care.
We'll also tackle the pervasive influence of diet culture and body image distress, and how these factors erode trust in our relationship with food and our bodies. For those ready to embark on this transformative journey, I introduce my group program, True Food and Body Image Freedom for Everyone. This program offers dedicated support and resources to help participants develop a peaceful, intuitive relationship with food and their bodies. Tune in to learn practical advice and gain the encouragement needed to take the first steps towards body trust and ultimately, a more harmonious life.
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Welcome everyone. I am excited about today's podcast. It's completely impromptu and I usually every time create some notes here, but I'm just going to go with the flow and talk about something that's so important in really establishing such a strong relationship with food and body, where you are just vibing, not needing to think about it, feeling confident, feeling comfortable, and that is body trust. That is the role of having trust with your body and having trust with food and I don't mean just a little bit of body trust, I mean really, really grounded, full body trust and trusting all foods, really having that relationship with your body where you you know it's taking care of you. You also have education around what it's doing thing while you're working together with it. And trust with food where you are not afraid of food, where you are an intuitive eater, where you really know what you want and what you like, where you're not afraid of foods, where you can keep all foods in the house and you are so not afraid or have any desire to binge or overeat or distrust the food that you have in your house and you're just making choices from a place of health and happiness and feeling good. So those are things that might feel so foreign and unattainable to you and once upon a time that absolutely felt that way for me as well. I felt like there is no way I can trust food in my body. I have to hold the reins here. I have to make sure I am white knuckling it. I have to make sure I have control over everything that happens and I felt totally out of control right. We oftentimes feel completely out of control the more control we try to grab, because we cannot gain trust by distrusting right, which is a wild thing that people believe and are told. We are told that we aren't to trust our body, we aren't to trust food. We really need to get a handle on it and manipulate it in order to be able to have a good relationship with it. So how can we have trust with these things ever and feel calm and cool and collected around these things if we are using distrust to get there Same with shame, same with disrespect by disrespecting our body, by not listening to it or restricting or shaming it. There's just no way those things equate to each other and I have seen for myself and so many clients that this just leads to more and more shame, distrust, not knowing how to eat, not trusting our body and just feeling completely out of control and lost and scared around food and our bodies. So, the role of trust how the heck do we gain such a thing that feels maybe so foreign to us and so far off, when we feel like there's no way I can trust it in my body? Let's talk about that today. I want to talk about the role and the importance Now.
Speaker 1:Gaining trust means we need to establish a new relationship and I want you to think about this as a relationship with another person. Okay, how do we gain trust with another person? Well, we need to have a foundation of respect. We need to be open, we need to have time and experiences with that person to understand, if we can, to have those built up of experiences to see if we can trust. We need to learn about that other person, and those are the exact things we need to do with food and our body. We need to be able to lean into learning more about our body, learning more about food, working together and practicing mutual respect, and this is the door and the pathway into building trust and respect building respect with food in our body.
Speaker 1:It's a big thing. There are a lot of little things in there that we need to do to actually establish that respect fully. Because respect for our food and our body means respecting how we talk to it, respecting how we are going to go about feeding ourselves, and listening to our bodies when it's hungry, and moving our bodies in a way that feels good and not hurting our bodies, ditching diets, learning to be intuitive eaters, learning to keep all foods in the house, to trust our body around all foods right, to trust our body around the size it's meant to be, to allow it to do its thing. And that is a lot. Those are a lot of different practices and if we don't have any of those, this is going to take a lot of practice to get to true trust with our body Right, so, and with food, and so there's a lot of little things to practice and we have to practice it over and over and over again to have all of those experiences to get to that trust, get to that trust.
Speaker 1:And so when we get started and when I get started with my clients so often I'm sorry, and so so often, um, clients who start with me and for starting when I started myself it is a very, very, very scary thing to lean into distrust, because that means doing things completely different. That means building. I'm just going to take an example. If we are distrusting of carbs, that means we have to engage with all carbs and build our trust around being able to have those things again which also brings work into body image and really working on trusting that our body needs to do what it needs to do. It's going to land where it needs to land, and that is a whole ton of work.
Speaker 1:Even as I'm starting to talk about this so freely, rather than having a script, I'm just thinking, wow, there's just so much to building that trust. There's so much to building. There's so much trust to build when we have none of it. We need to be able to trust that our body is not going to lose complete control and that it has a weight set point. We need to lean into trusting its cues that it sends us as well and that it's going to send us those hunger cues. It's going to send us those fullness cues and that we're going to trust that. We're going to listen to that. We have to trust that we can be an intuitive eater. We got to trust that we are not going to binge on the Oreos and ice cream. We have to trust that we're going to want to eat healthy foods if we allow ourselves to have everything. We have to trust that we're going to want to engage in joyful movement. There is so much trust to be built and so we're not going to talk about how to build that trust. There's so much to it. There's other podcast episodes on that and if you're interested, you can work with me in my program, which I'll talk about at the end.
Speaker 1:But I want to talk about why, the why behind. Why is trust so important? Why is this so important? Why can do we have to have that trust in order to get to that place we want to be with our relationship with food and body. Why can't we just follow diets forever? Why can't we just manipulate and control, control? Well, there's no way we can get to a place with food and body that feels so good if we are trying to gain control, because control doesn't come from trust, and trust is what gives us the foundation to not need to control, grab the reins, have anxiety around it and constantly be assessing and nervous and researching the next best diet and relying on external things.
Speaker 1:Trust is built internally, with food and body and with ourselves. And so once we built that, then we can have a foundational, healthy, happy relationship with food and body. So let's go back to our relationship with another person when we're thinking of our relationship with a significant other. So foundational is trust, and without the trust we would always be anxious, we wouldn't be making decisions from a good place or a place that's supportive to us or the relationship. We would be constantly confused. We would probably want to jump in and out of different relationships because it doesn't feel good for us or we would stay in something that just doesn't feel good and overall it's a ton of anxiety. It takes us away from our life. It's just there's no foundation there. So we have to have the foundation of trust.
Speaker 1:And what happens when we have trust in a relationship with someone? Well then everything becomes easy, intuitive. We don't have to struggle. We have open doors for enjoying each other, for love, for our hobbies, for doing things together. We can. It's easy to respect and give love. It's easy to listen to each other. And that is the same thing that happens with our body. When we have that foundational trust and we build that, we're able to listen to our body. Our body is able to listen to us, we're able to work together, we're able to enjoy each other, we're able to act from a place of respect and compassion, which means we can eat from a place of intuition and health and what feels good and happiness, because it's easy, because we have that foundational base of trust.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to end there. I can go on and on and on, but I just wanted to speak to that really non-negotiable. So if you are in a place where you do not trust food or all food, or you don't trust your body or you don't trust your body completely, whether you're jumping on and off the scale, you don't want to lead into intuitive eating. You have a lot of body image distress, you are restricting and jumping from diet to diet. You will not give up food rules. You're overexercising, you're nervous if you miss a gym day. All of this distrust is going to continue to lead you further and further and further into anxiety and a relationship with your body, just as it would be a person that is not right, that doesn't feel good and it's not going to give you the life and relationship that you deserve and want. And so, if you're ready to build trust. If you're ready to lean into discomfort and build trust and do all the things necessary to do that, I have just the thing for you and you got to be ready. It's got to be a good fit. If you're not ready, it's not for you, but if you're a hell, yeah, let's do this.
Speaker 1:I want to invite you to True Food and Body Image Freedom for Everyone, a group program where we work together with a ton of internal support and a ton of internal resources to get you to that finish line so you can have trust and intuition, which is absolutely available for you. And I just want to, with every episode, want to scream that from the rooftops that you can be there. I remember having so little hope when no one was saying that and I'm. It's just such an important thing for me to name every time so you can absolutely be there. Feel free to email me at hello at jamierdcom to learn more.
Speaker 1:Dm me the word freedom at jamierd underscore to receive a free mini course and apply on JamieRDcom and I'm sorry, jamiethedietitiancom and I can share more about the program and see if you're a good fit. We would love to have you if you're ready and ready for a wonderful, wonderful transition into an easy, peaceful relationship with food and body. Okay, I'm going to let you go. I hope you have a wonderful day and today try and practice a little bit of leaning into body trust and tell me how it goes. I believe in you.