How becoming healthy on the inside can change everything on the outside

This week’s episode is one I have been wanting to do for a while. If you have followed my journey you may have heard me talk about my struggle with disordered eating and body image. I use this episode to dig into my relationship with eating, my road to recovery, and how, although I still care about how I look on the outside, it was time to focus on the inside.

Listen to this episode to hear about the program, process, and road I have been on since October 2019, the resistance I had to starting it, and how much my life has ultimately changed and improved since I made the commitment to myself to follow through with it.


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Feeling good on the outside starts on the inside

I start this episode by digging into my history of disordered eating, the different and many forms it took throughout my life, and my ability to manipulate my mind and body to bring the outcome I wanted.

I share the terrifying turn my health took three years ago, how my body shut down and how I literally began planning my own funeral. When I finally uncovered the truth, I promised myself that I would honor and appreciate this gift of my body from then on out.

Keeping commitments to yourself

I discuss how I finally found the program that has changed my life, and how the scariest part was making a commitment to myself and following through. I outline the 5 things this program has you do every single day, and how the things I thought I would dislike the most became the very things that helped me evolve and thrive, the things that brought me into my healthiest self.

The power of healthy

I talk about the different enneagram types and how they react to obstacles and challenges, and the things that hold each of us back. When you are healthy and happy inside, it impacts how you show up in your spiritual and emotional life, and when you are showing up for yourself every day, beautiful things happen.

Quotes:
“I know especially because we’re in quarantine and have been now for over 6 weeks that some of these [eating/body image] habits have come to the surface.” 1:06

“I remember when I stopped drinking that the food stuff was the justifiable addiction that I had.” 1:20

“Even though a lot of us attack a health journey for the outside, it really is an inside job, and that’s why most diets and health journeys don’t work because we’re doing it for what shows up on the outside.” 2:16

“I was completely sobbing because it was this harsh realization that keeping commitments to myself was something I’ve never done.” 17:25

“How you do anything is how you do everything.” 20:42

“Number 1 is to follow a diet or a nutritional program.” 21:06

“Number 2: you must complete two 45-minute workouts a day. One of those must be outside.” 22:11

“Number 3 on the list for 75 Hard was absolutely no alcohol and no cheat meals.” 23:21

“Number 4 is taking a progress picture every day.” 24:30

“The other thing on the list is drinking a gallon of water every day.” 25:20

“That gallon of water is so important for how you feel.” 26:08

“The last thing on the list was reading 10 pages of a book a day, and audiobooks did not count.” 26:17

“Once I remove sugar from my body, I can do anything.” 28:43

“By about day 10, I knew that this was going to be something that I would do for the rest of my life.” 31:06

“5’s, they want to study, they can have analysis paralysis that will keep them from doing self-honoring things.” 33:45

“7’s they just get bored and want to move on to the next thing.” 34:06

“This doesn’t end at day 75 for me; this is the greatest self-honoring thing I’ve ever done.” 39:14