Life After Diets

Depression and anxiety are common partners with binge eating, overeating, restricting, and other forms of disordered eating. What do we make of this intersection? How can we have more influence over our relationship with food if we are also dealing with these conditions? In this episode, we discuss:

• Definitions of depression and anxiety (and spectrums of each)
• Stef & Sarah's experiences of how depression feels
• Nervous system theory of depression: the freeze state
• Shame as part of the freeze/depression state
• The impact of depression and anxiety on the eating cycle
• Sarah asks Stef if she'd prefer her depression or anxiety?
• Strategies
• The "threshhold of influence"

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

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When we reject diets, there is often a period of weight gain that follows. But what if it feels like you'll just keep gaining weight and never stop? How long does this go on for? In this episode, we discuss:

• How long it took Stef to reach her weight set range
• Periods of rapid weight gain
• Weight gain as the body's insurance policy
• Doesn't it make sense that if eating stabilizes, we should lose weight?
• Do you have to love yourself to make peace with your body?
• Being in our bodies in the present moment vs fearing its future
• Weight gain as a result of disordered eating masked as intuitive eating
• Is it worth it?

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

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Part Two in a two-part series about hunger and fullness: what about the fear of fullness? Last week we discussed why feeling hungry can be triggering for some people, and this week we are looking at how fullness can activate belief systems and automatic behaviors. We explore:

• Sarah's experience of fullness with spaghetti bolognese
• Fullness and guilt
• Fullness and feeling like we "should" stop
• Fullness and being in the body
• What if I eat and never feel full?
• Delayed fullness cues and extreme hunger
• Discomfort tolerating even slight fullness
• What was fullness associated with growing up?
• What if I stretch out my stomach by getting too full too often?

AND PSST! We will be hosting a live event in London on January 28 2023! Details to come.

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

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What is your relationship with hunger? Do you ever eat to prevent the feeling of hunger? What do you think this is about? In this episode, we talk about:

• Stef's internal hunger "alarm bell"
• The difference between hunger and deprivation
• What if we have hunger AND anxiety?
• Eating prophylactically to avoid hunger
• What does hunger actually FEEL like for you
• How somatic awareness helps us feel safer with hunger (or safer to experiment with it)
• Sarah's phobia of wasps (and what this has to do with fear of hunger)
• Beliefs about hunger

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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

To weigh or not to weigh? This question can interrupt many an intuitive eater's journey, so we dedicated a whole episode to the topic. We cover questions like:

• Do Stef & Sarah know their weights?
• Can weight just be data?
• What stories do we attach to numbers
• What about getting weighed at the doctors office?
• How to decline being weighed at the doctor
• Why do we need to know our weight?
• Hard evidence over self-trust
• Does weight tell you how to feel?

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

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

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Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

Sarah and Stef share the lessons they learned through their recovery from disordered eating.

Join our growing support community. This community is for you if you want to improve your relationship with food and become more comfortable in your own skin. Community membership includes invites to live episode recordings (online), support meetings, a private Facebook group and monthly Q&As. For more information go to: https://www.patreon.com/lifeafterdiets

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

This episode features a guest -- not an expert -- who is still working through her relationship with food and body image and doesn't have it all figured out. We hope you find it helpful to hear from someone who might be exactly where you are, and can relate to the parts of this process that don't feel like they have answers. We discuss:

• Where food and body issues started for Nicole
• Feeling stuck between "I can't diet anymore" and "I can't deal with my weight."
• Photographs & mirrors as triggers
• Difficulty assessing fullness
• What is intuitive eating? What's the goal?
• Worth, safety, and weight
• Fearing continued/future weight gain
• Guilt about doing this work and still struggling with body image and obsessive thoughts
• Separating parts of the self

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

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

Connect with Stefanie Michele

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Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

Having a disordered relationship with food can erode our sense of self-trust. Not only do we learn to trust outside voices over our own hunger, but we also can't seem to keep the promises we make to ourselves about food. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:

• What is self trust
• How promises to "not binge today" erodes our self-trust
• Shame, authenticity, and values
• What does our ego have to do with it?
• Consistency as a self-trust builder
• Stories of laziness, flakiness, and irresponsibility showing up as a lack of self-trust
• The relationship between self-esteem and self-trust

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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

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

Stress is a common trigger for eating, overeating, and binge eating. If you're someone who experiences increased urges to eat when you're stressed or anxious, this episode explores the following topics:

• What does stress look like?
• The stress of transitions
• What if stress is not something we can reduce?
• Challenging beliefs about how stress and coping interact
• Stress, anxiety, and the window of tolerance
• Tips for coping with stress
• Is food something we CAN use when we're stressed?
• Why don't we use coping strategies that we know make us feel better?

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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

Guilt can be a huge barrier to feeling peaceful with food. What do we do with the feelings of guilt that remain around what we eat, how we eat, and how much we eat? In this episode, we discuss:

• Guilt, defined
• Two layers of cognitive belief systems
• Can guilt be useful?
• Reframing guilt as disappointment
• Regulating guilt in the beginning of recovery
• Separating guilt from shame
• Deconstructing guilt relates to self-esteem, sitting with feelings, expectations, etc.
• Somatic experience of guilt
• What does guilt have to do with people pleasing or boundary work?
• Guilt reframed as confusion

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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