Lisa speaks with group coaching alum, Abby. Abby reflects on how normalized and unquestioned toxic fitness and diet culture was in the 80s and 90s, as well as the mental impact of constantly feeling like a failure when the newest plan, diet, or program didn’t end her struggles around food and eating for good. She shares how she used food emotionally and her experience swinging from diet culture to anti-diet culture, to ultimately landing in Out of the Cave’s 14 week group coaching program.

Topics Include:

[3:00] Abby recalls dieting with her mother at around 8 years old, after finding comfort in food, while her parents worked through their contentious on and off again relationship, being a plus sized child, and 80s diet culture

[11:30] Abby talks about feeling guilt and shame about food and her body and even so, didn’t believe she “had a problem,” but, in fact, she was the problem

[20:00] Abby reflects on the emotional experience of always dieting and giving so much attention to her size during all her school age years

[30:00] Abby moves to New Orleans, takes a stressful job, and indulges in the drinking and food scene, and for the first time in her life put on a significant amount of weight and begins trying to out diet her emotional eating

[36:00] Abby is diagnosed with Psuedotumor Cerebri (a pseudo brain tumor) and is prescribed weight loss

[40:00] Abby starts to become aware of emotional eating and her weight continues to yo-yo during her 20s and 30s, loses her home and job during Hurricane Katrina, and divorces her first husband

[45:00] Abby has two children and for the first time dieting wasn’t working, not even short term, and in her frustration finds the anti-diet movement and also winds up “failing” and believing something is wrong with her

[56:00] Abby finds Lisa and joins Out of the Cave group coaching and learns that unlike both diet culture and anti-diet, there is no promise to ever be “done”

[1:00:00] Abby reflects on her experience during her 14 weeks group coaching and shares how her biggest changes came after graduation, and how the work expanded so much further than food, eating, and body image

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