Life After Diets

Control is an unavoidable theme in the subject of eating disorder recovery. What is your relationship to control and how do you define it? The hosts explore their own experience of the concept and also highlight its important (and at times, healthy) role in navigating recovery. Sarah & Stef discuss:

• Light podcast banter. What podcasts do we listen to?
• The thrill of control/restriction
• Stef feels like control is safety; Sarah feels like control is dominance.
• The role of control in bulimia and/or restriction
• The illusion of control; if we see that it's an illusion, does it break the spell?
• Is control always at the root of EDs? Not true for Sarah!
• Control as related to sense of self or emotional magnitude
• Control and rebellion. We need to know we have agency & choice.
• Surrender: higher power and the inner compass
• We can't control what's hard
• How much control is healthy? How else can we make it productive?

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Website – www.lifeafterdietspodcast.com

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

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

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

What role does food play in grief (around death, breakups, or existential itchiness)? In this episode Sarah & Stef share some personal stories, including a little cry!

• Sarah's loss of her Mum
• Stef's losses of relationships
• The idea of a "revenge body"
• Weight gain as a "sign" of a breakup?
• Stef's loss of a primary friendship in college, and what happened after
• Nostalgia (grief) for places and eras of life
• Searching for food that will take that feeling away
• Existential grief, even as experienced by 11 year olds
• The role of acceptance
• Sarah literally working through a grief moment in real time on the podcast

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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 Foundations - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

In this episode, Sarah and Stef talk about their relationship with food from a recovered perspective. Do we ever feel binge urges? Does a disordered tendency ever really disappear?

• Stef's experience of over-hunger and how it impacts her urge to eat
• Sarah's experience of brunch last Sunday
• Cake as a habit and compulsion (minus guilt) – Sarah's story
• Food neutrality does not mean some foods aren't more appealing
• What about dopamine?
• What about emotional urges to eat? And cravings?
• Do urges to restrict ever go away?
• Binge eating as something we always have to manage, and the difference of opinion on that
• Are there any conditions in which Sarah or Stef feel their binges would come back?
• Are there advantages to having a history of binge eating, once recovered?
• Do urges to eat just turn into other types of urges?

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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

Binge Recovery 3-month Program -- www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Work With Stef -- www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

Happy (almost) 2023, LAD listeners!

This time of year is loaded with resolutions and plans for becoming a "better" version of ourselves. It seems like this is more often than not related to changing our body size or eating in new ways. If you're looking for a conversation about the New Year that can put some of this into perspective and take the pressure off, this episode is for you. We'll discuss:

• Clean Slate syndrome & perfectionism
• Jealousy of other people's diet resolutions (and successes)
• Can the New Year just be a time to reorganize after a long December, instead of a need for extremism?
• Process oriented intentions versus outcome goals
• Stef & Sarah's words for 2023
• Navigating diet talk in January - Sarah & her Dad, Stef & her Mother In Law
• Speaking up in the workplace – should we?
• Being triggered back into diet culture – and seeing it as a window to evolve further
• Stef & Sarah's 2023 offers!

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Stef's Gentle Nutrition Mindset Workshop: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/gn2023/p/gn2023

The intersection of neurodivergence with disordered eating is a relatively unexplored area. Thought hyperactivity, food urgency, and nervous system dysregulation can have powerful consequences on our relationship with food. We talk to Becca King (aka The ADHD Nutritionist) about things like:

• Gender differences in ADHD
• Types and symptoms of ADHD
• Hyperactivity of the brain (hyperactive thoughts)
• Becca's experience with EDs
• Stimulation through food (while watching TV, at night when meds wear off)
• What can we do about impulsivity with food
• How to slow down
• Do you need a diagnosis? How would it help?
• Medication
• Becca's notable sources of dopamine
• ADHD and restriction
• How family and helping professionals can support people with ADHD

Yoga video meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l--Sa_C4bcY

Becca on IG: https://www.instagram.com/adhd.nutritionist/

https://adhdnutritionistllc.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

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

In this episode we answer the following question from a listener: is it possible to hit a wall in recovery and not be able to go any further? How do you know if you're in true recovery? What if our behaviors change but the disordered thoughts remain? We discuss:

• Is full recovery even possible?
• Recovery on a spectrum
• Are Stef & Sarah fully recovered?
• The role of patience
• What comes first: self acceptance or recovery?
• What if we get stuck in semi-recovery
• Are we recovered if we emotionally eat?

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  Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast/

  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

  Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

  Tickets to the Tame Your Inner Critic Workshop: Live in London: Jan 28

Have you ever heard the phrase: the way we eat is the way we do everything? Do you agree? What parallels to you notice between the way you feel around food and the way you feel about other things? In this episode we talk about:

• Food as distraction
• Pace and slowing down (eating fast --> doing everything fast)
• What else did/does Sarah "binge" on?
• Ending the eating experience as another version of loss, ending
• Bingeing information, attention, sex, TV
• Food playing out through self-care, planning, avoidance, trust, boundaries
• If it is, it's hopeful! We can tackle it in areas where there is less resistance.
• Beliefs about self become the relationship with food

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Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast/

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

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

Tame Your Inner Critic LIVE WORKSHOP in London! Jan 28 2023.

It's that time of year again! More food, more parties, more alcohol, more people to see. In this episode we talk about the many topics that come up during a season that can be tricky in a life without dieting.

• How the holidays "ruined" Sarah's Paleo streak
• Alcohol, work parties, and eating
• How Sarah developed her inner alcohol threshold voice
• Drinking as an excuse to eat
• Dealing with getting dressed up after weight gain
• Seeing photos of party pics
• Eating with and/or in front of others
• Takeaways and tips for this time of year

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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

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

LIVE EVENT IN LONDON! JANUARY 28TH

Stef's mom, Donna, joins us on the podcast to talk about what it was like to be a mother to a daughter with an eating disorder, and how Stef & Donna reconcile that period of time in present day.

• Donna's memories of how Stef developed her EDs
• Stef's experience in college and in an IOP
• Stef's favorite therapist
• Binge eating as not serious "enough"
• How an ED impacts an entire family
• How Stef's husband interacted with the ED dynamic
• How Donna reacted to Stef's recovery…and does she realize that Stef is recovered?
• Donna gets emotional
• Donna's advice to Moms

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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

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

Meet us in LONDON! Tickets to Live Event: Tame Your Inner Critic Workshop and Meet-Up

**LONDON LIVE EVENT** Click here for more info and to purchase tickets

Do you feel like you have good intentions for yourself but somehow end up "ruining it"? In this episode we look at why we self-sabotage, including how we might thwart our efforts at weight loss and also how the term itself might be misleading. We'll discuss:

• Why Stef isn't a fan of the term
• Self-sabotage as an identity or confirmation of beliefs
• Sarah's dating story
• Stef's wardrobe sabotage
• The inner child component: are we acting out?
• Are we afraid of our own success?
• Self-sabotage of weight loss efforts

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Connect with the show!

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast/

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

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse