Life After Diets

Eating is more than just eating. It's also all of the things surrounding eating -- like thinking of what to buy; actually going out and buying it; bringing it home, unpacking it, cooking it. What do we do if it's all too much? This episode also looks at:

• Stef's attitude to food changing through having a family
• Black and white thinking/perfectionism getting in the way of food preparation
• Sarah's digital nomad lifestyle and recipe boxes
• Exploring resistance
• Cooking as an act of 'adulting'
• Sarah's quick and easy go-tos
• Intentionality in preparation
• Decision making for family meals
• What did Stef make for the first time?
• MEET US IN DUBLIN!

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Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

When we stop trying to control food and body size, it can feel unfair. It's not fair that some people are smaller and others aren't. It's not fair that some people can "eat normally" and others can't. In this episode, Stef & Sarah talk extensively about their feelings of resistance around various topics related to their bodies, plus...

• My body isn't small – it's not fair!
• My body can't work like it used to – it's not fair!
• Would you rather be at the top-of-the-bottom or the bottom-of-the-top?
• Sarah's relationship with her body pain and yoga
• Stef's relationship with her body image
• What if rejecting your body was the first place you learned to say NO to something?
• "Being human is the process of learning and forgetting and remembering again."

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Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Are you a journal-er? Do you want to be a journal-er? In this episode, we explore the benefits and drawbacks of journaling from the perspectives of Sarah (a journaler) and Stef (an ex-journaler). As you might expect, this is not a black and white issue; what feels helpful for some might not be as helpful for others. We'll look at:

• Stef's journaling experiment
• Can journaling make us more anxious? And if so, what else can we do?
• Rambling, stream-of-consciousness journaling versus intention journaling
• What if someone finds my journal??
• Sarah pulls out one of her journal entries from the first time she met Stef in NYC
• Handwriting versus typewritten
• The pressure of journaling
• Is it easier or harder to write when you're feeling low/depressed?
• Decreasing perfectionism around journaling as a way to decrease perfectionism in general
• Art journaling; bullet journaling
• The Artists' Way by Julia Cameron
• What journal prompt do you need right now?
• Meet us in Dublin!

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Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Have you ever felt jealous of someone else's body? (Or anything else, really?) Comparison is normal, but if jealousy's got you down, this episode will teach you how to banish it, forever, from your life. Just kidding. But we WILL discuss:

• The difference between envy and jealousy
• What does jealousy feel like in the body?
• A technique for jealousy
• Sarah wants Stef's house but Stef wants Sarah's freedom
• If we had the thing we were jealous of, it might play a supporting role, but would it really change things at the core?
• Are we more prone to jealousy when we have potential to be the thing (or do or get the thing) we're jealous of?
• It's not fair!!!
• Does gratitude work to help us deal with jealousy? Or is that toxic positivity…
• Jealousy is an emotion like anger or sadness; we don't "get rid of it," we learn to ride the wave
• What can we learn about our values from jealousy?
• What if I was really happier in a smaller body, and that's why I'm jealous of thinner people?

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Join the LAD Membership

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Website – www.lifeafterdietspodcast.com

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

The intersection of weight and visibility is discussed at length in this episode. Weight can make us feel more visible or less visible because it is something our culture pays attention to. When we lose weight, we are "seen"; when we gain weight, we may become invisible. We discuss this topic from psychodynamic and somatic perspectives; how might our weight be protecting us? Note: this episode is not suggesting that weight is pathological. Body sizes are diverse among humans depending on a multitude of factors, and largely dependent on genetics. This episode looks at weight, trauma, and visibility as one part of a larger picture.

We discuss:

• Unwanted sexual attention
• Weight loss as a way of being "good" for parents
• Weight as a "nice" identity; what if we lose weight and become more threatening to other females?
• I have a conflicting desire to be seen and not to be seen
• Why would we be afraid of meeting our own needs?
• If we are visible – or exposed – what if we can't find safety in our hiding again?

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Website – www.lifeafterdietspodcast.com

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

Fasting is a trend that claims to have health benefits and influence on weight loss. What do we make of the hype? And how does it factor into people who have a history of eating disorders/disordered eating?

• Fasting in religion
• Fasting for wellness reasons
• How restricting – even if it was one time many years ago – gets coded as trauma in the body and "sabotages" our fasting efforts later on.
• The 5:2 "lifestyle"
• The "big names" that influenced Sarah and Stef's fasting experiences
• How do you know if you're fasting for health or fasting for control?
• Hunger vs appetite
• Is waiting to eat in the morning ever a good idea?
• Fasting is not just a physiological event

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Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

This is the third week in our mini-series on Intuitive Eating, and this week we have Evelyn Tribole (co-founder of Intuitive Eating) on the podcast to talk about her personal stories and perspectives. We discuss:

• Most people don't believe IE will work for them
• Personal influences on Evelyn's own journey of IE
• How do we stay positive when there is so much diet culture all over the place?
• TikTok is getting Intuitive Eating wrong
• Evelyn's favorite principle of IE (hint: it's not the same as Elyse's, Sarah's, or Stef's)
• How do you know if you're doing Intuitive Eating right?
• Evelyn's gets personal!
• What Evelyn learned from her breast cancer diagnosis

  Listener Questions:

  • How do we handle food if we are taking a medication that increases appetite?
  • How do you know the difference between a rule and intuition?
  • Getting ravenous at night!?

• Connect with Evelyn: https://www.evelyntribole.com

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Email – [email protected]

Website – www.lifeafterdietspodcast.com

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

This week we are talking to one of the co-founders of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch! Alongside Evelyn Tribole, Elyse developed and wrote the book Intuitive Eating, which has gained popularity for people who have been burned by diets and want to get back in touch with their body's intuition around food. However, this process is more complicated than it sounds. Elyse answers questions from our community and explains many of the nuances of IE for our listeners.

• Intuitive Eating: is it a method for weight loss?
• How does IE work if you don't have reliable hunger and fullness cues?
• Elyse reveals how she'd change up the principles for a future edition of the book
• What is "future deprivation"?
• Stef's favorite principle: Respect Your Body and how it applies to this work
• What about highly processed foods?
• How do you get to Gentle Nutrition (and/or Gentle Movement)?
• Interoception: what is it and how do you develop it?
• IE is not just instinct! It's "a dynamic interplay of instinct, emotion, and thought." Different parts of the brain are present to give us different pieces of information.
• Community Question: What if I binged at night and I'm not hungry in the morning? Will my body think I'm restricting if I don't eat?
• Community Question: How to say No to food but not in a restrictive way?
• I feel sad when I have to stop eating
• Eating without distractions
• Did Elyse expect IE to get so big?

Connect with Elyse:

https://elyseresch.com/EResch/

https://www.intuitiveeating.org/our-books/

• Stef's Body Image Workshop! Details here

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Join the LAD Membership

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Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Stef's Body Image Workshop! Details here

This week Sarah & Stef are joined by Sinead of Intuitive Eating Ireland! Sinead is the other half of The Intuitive Eating Hub and a co-host of our live event in Dublin this September. Sinead, the oldest of three sisters, left diet culture and started her own social media account back in 2020 and has become a popular force in Ireland for helping people leave diets behind and find success with Intuitive Eating. She sat down with us to talk about her personal story with dieting, body image, binge eating, and ultimately, recovery.

• Sinead's accident as a child and how it impacted her body image
• Sinead's body changes during pregnancy
• Orthorexia resulting from nutritional training and how it affected Sinead's family
• How Sinead and her sisters decided to stop dieting
• The role of @intuitiveeatingireland social media account in helping Sinead stay in recovery
• How Sinead has created a community of women in Ireland
• Stef's client who went to one of Sinead's retreats!
• How did Sinead let go of the desire to lose weight?
• How did she deal with the actual weight gain that came from not restriction?
• Join us in Dublin this September!

Connect with Sinead:

Instagram -- www.instagram.com/intuitiveeatingireland

Website: https://intuitiveeatinghub.com

Connect with LIFE AFTER DIETS:

Join the LAD Membership

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Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Workshop: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/bodyimageworkshop2023/

It's our 100th episode! We sat down at a recording studio in NYC to celebrate 100 episodes and counting. This episode recaps the lessons we've learned doing this podcast, especially from one another, and how that has shaped our professional and personal perspectives over the past couple of years.

• The value of a regulated voice
• "Regul-eating"
• Control as a mechanism of safety
• The dynamic of differing opinions
• The concept of Self-abandonment (as opposed to numbing)
• Sarah's concept of "states" as opposed to "being recovered."
• Revisiting boundaries and rules
• Vulnerability and self disclosure on the podcast
• Stef's episode with her Mom; Sarah's episode talking about her mom
• The pee analogy
• Visit us in Dublin on 16 September: https://www.lifeafterdietspodcast.com/workshops-and-meetups/

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Email – [email protected]

Website – www.lifeafterdietspodcast.com

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage