Craving Food Freedom

• Heightened vigilance and stress
• The experience of food is tainted
• Food loses its innocence
• Role of mindfulness in regaining peace

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

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• How scarcity mindset affects how we eat
• The power of abundance mindset
• Psychology of trigger foods

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

WHAT DID YOU THINK?

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• It's ok to want to lose weight
• The impact of focusing on weight vs behaviors
• History of BMI
• What really matters when it comes to health

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

WHAT DID YOU THINK?

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What's in this episode?

• Pros of diets - can sometimes cultivate more awareness/mindfulness
• Cons of diets
  • Your body's WANTS goes up against what you SHOULD be doing on a diet
  • 2/3 of dieters end up gaining more weight than what they started with
  • ~30% of dieters end up having a disordered relationship with food
• Diets and dating
  • Just like adjusting to new partners, each phase of life brings with it different stressors and circumstances. And you adjust. Diets don't adjust along with you.
  • Learning how to be an intuitive eater is like learning how to be a good communicator in a relationship.

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

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What's in this episode?

• My journal entry during a binge eating season
• Reflections
• How to reset/ground yourself

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

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What's in this episode?

• How intuitive eating affected my own binge eating
• The 3 characteristics of intuitive eating
  • Eat for physical rather than emotional reasons
  • Rely on internal hunger and fullness cues
  • Unconditional permission to eat in the setting of being in tune with body
• How each principle of intuitive eating can be applied to binge eating!

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

WHAT DID YOU THINK?

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Let's explore all the reasons why you may bingeing.

What's in this episode?

• Restriction causes primal hunger
• Bingeing may become a habit
• Emotions can be the triggers
• Attachment to food from a young age
• Pure pleasure and that's ok!
• Study on Minnesota Starvation Study from the 1940s

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

WHAT DID YOU THINK?

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Let's dive into what you can do to stay grounded.

• How body image develops in childhood
• Value and success being tied to appearance
• Easy to control our food/bodies in adolescence
• Growing sense of self helps solidify values and lessen importance of the body
• Beauty standards are like trends, exhausting to follow
• Know who you are and what you want in life instead of being swayed by trends
• Get clear on your values

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

WHAT DID YOU THINK?

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How does a therapist approach eating disorders and food therapy?

In this episode, I interview one of my dear friends who's had more than 20 years of experience as a therapist, having worked w/ eating disorders, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, and more.

What's in this episode?

• Eating disorder work as a therapist

• Restricting, bingeing are just tools to cope

• Can you endure your distress/anxiety

• The power of slowing and quieting the mind down

• Tools to spiral up instead of spiraling down

For a free 30 minute consultation with Archana Aragon, please text or call her at 408-913-3542

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

WHAT DID YOU THINK?

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For some, anxious energy causes loss of appetite or intentional restriction. For others, anxiety causes more eating as a means of comforting the anxious energy.

In this episode, I highlight the connection between anxiety & food AND what to do about it.

What's in this episode?

• Anxiety - fear of the future and loss of control
• Food - easily controllable
• How to channel that anxious energy elsewhere

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing)
• Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise
• Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com

WHAT DID YOU THINK?

If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.