Life After Diets

Food guilt is a popular theme in the disordered eating community. How often has food guilt been linked to your own behaviors of binge eating and/or restricting? In this episode, we look at:

• Guilt induced by food excess
• How understanding the primal brain's role in binge eating can help reduce guilt
• Is "permission to eat" alone enough to reduce guilt?
• Guilt about the health impact of binge eating
• Reducing guilt by seeing nutrition as a part of health
• Challenging guilt by understanding the belief underneath it
• Does guilt help us learn?

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And announcing the initiation of our new Patreon membership community, accessible here: LIFE AFTER DIETS COMMUNITY PATREON

February Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-after-diets-community-live-event-tickets-264063941357

Does intuitive eating and not dieting anymore sound good – but you're afraid that the alternative is to "let yourself go?" In this episode, we discuss:

• What does it actually mean to "let yourself go"?
• Love from others vs approval from others
• Creating your own template for existing in a larger body in this culture
• Admiration VERSUS connection & love
• Inherent worth (we go down the rabbit hole)
• What is the role of the ego in being afraid to let yourself go?
• Judgment as other projections

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Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

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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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February Event! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-after-diets-community-live-event-tickets-264063941357

Have you ever felt like you don't want to start eating because it actually makes it harder to stop? Why do you think that is? In this episode, we discuss:

• The desire to put off eating to reduce "out of control" eating
• The psychology of the ego in diet mentality, and how that sets up expectations and perfectionism with food
• The "Eat When You're Hungry" downfall of some Intuitive Eating mindsets
• What state are you in when you start eating?
• Biofeedback & self-talk during rapid eating periods
• Black & white mentality (either eating "well" or eating it all)
• Pleasure and dopamine withdrawal (is it boring to just eat "normal" amounts?)

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Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

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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

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

FEBRUARY EVENT:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-after-diets-community-live-event-tickets-264063941357

Have you ever thought: "I've gained weight and now I don't want anyone to see me?" In this episode, Sarah & Stef talk about:

• Stef & Sarah's family reactions to weight changes
• How it feels to see ex-partners
• The opinion of the collective versus the personal
• How our brains recalibrate weight changes
• Do you like someone less when their weight changes?
• The power of appearance based hierarchy systems
• Seeing people at your own pace

Connect with the show!

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Email – [email protected]

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist

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

Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

FEBRUARY EVENT LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-after-diets-community-live-event-tickets-264063941357

All the self-help input in the world feels like it makes sense until the moment a binge urge presents itself – and then what? In this episode, we discuss:

• Announcement: More live Zoom Community events!
• Is the point of recovery to get rid of binge urges or to manage them?
• Permission to binge as a binge management tool
• Are there different kinds of binge urges?
• What do binge urges feel like physically?
• Binge urges as rebel urges
• Boundaries and honesty with the self for binge prevention

Connect with the show!

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Email – [email protected]

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist

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

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

Have you ever looked at a photograph of yourself and moved into a bad body image spiral? What is it about photos that feels so triggering? In this episode, we discuss:

• Why Sarah changed the topic of this episode at the last minute
• The difference between intellectual body image and emotional body image
• How a photo feels in the moment vs how it feels a few days later
• Stef's photo shoot experience
• Anticipating an emotional reaction to photographs
• Should you avoid looking at photographs if it feels triggering?

Connect with the show!

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Email – [email protected]

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist

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

Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

GUIDED MEDITATION TO RESET AFTER OVEREATING, BINGE EATING AND/OR EMOTIONAL EATING – Sarah shares her guided meditation to help you find balance after an episode of out-of-control eating.

Compulsive eating is a cycle and sometimes the place to break in the cycle is how we treat ourselves AFTER we have binged by shifting our emotional state and setting an intention that will help to restore balance.

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Connect with Stefanie Michele binge eating health coach

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

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Connect with Sarah Dosanjh psychotherapist

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

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

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

Have you ever felt like you might be truly addicted to food? Have you been told that food is addictive and you have to avoid certain foods in order to have control over your eating? In this episode, we discuss:

• Is food addiction about the food or the behavior?
• The role of the addiction model in OA
• The withdrawal effect of a post-binge day
• Do "hyperpalatable" foods automatically mean they are addictive?
• How your emotional state may trigger an addictive behavior
• Rebellion looking like addiction
• Is it harder to stay in the addiction cycle if you don't eat vegetables?

Connect with the show!

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

Email – [email protected]

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist

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

Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

We would also like to thank everyone who attended our monthly Live Zoom Community Event.

This week, Sarah & Stef answer a listener question: is there hope for healing even after having an eating disorder for decades? We discuss:

• The role of social media in recovery
• Is recovery a real thing, anyway?
• The emerging role of somatic experiencing
• The difference between younger clients and older clients in therapy and coaching
• Readiness that comes with age

References:

Somatic Experiencing

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

Connect with the show!

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

Email – [email protected]

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist

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

Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

LIVE Q&A EVENT! December 19th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-after-diets-community-qa-live-event-tickets-210649407047

Has dieting been center-stage for so long that you don't know who you would be without it? In this conversation, we discuss:

• Dieting, body image, and the pursuit of recovery as an identity
• The Diet Personality vs the Restricting Personality
• How our identities can feel black and white in a dieting mentality
• Why is dieting "bad" if it helps us create a sense of purpose?
• How dieting behaviors show up in other parts of our lives
• How Sarah & Stef's self-perceptions have shifted post-recovery
• The role of capability in identity formation

Connect with the show!

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

Email – [email protected]

Connect with Sarah Dosanjh

Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist

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

Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

JOIN US FOR A LIVE Q&A ON DECEMBER 19TH: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-after-diets-community-qa-live-event-tickets-210649407047