Life After Diets

Do you find yourself eating when you're bored? In this episode, Sarah & Stef interrogate the feeling of boredom and how it relates to eating urges. We cover things like:

• What is boredom, really?
• Why Sarah dislikes terms like "tolerate" and "sit with" when it comes to emotions.
• What do you DO to cope with an emotion like boredom?
• Boredom, eating, and watching TV
• If you eat when you're bored, can you still feel the emotions?
• Structure as support
• Do we have to fix it?

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

1. But What If I Need to Diet For My Health?

In this episode, Sarah and Stef discuss the idea of dieting for health reasons. Do you believe weight loss will improve your health? Are there foods you need to avoid and feel guilty for still having them? We take a look at:

• How linked are weight loss and health?
• Food intolerances and bingeing
• Dealing with guilt about the impact of our eating on our health
• Stef's experience with IGG tests
• Self-sabotage and rebellion

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

In this episode, Sarah and Stef talk about the difference between food rules and food boundaries. Have you ever felt like you don't want food rules, but you feel lost without some kind of structure?

We talk about:

The definition of rules vs the definitions of boundaries

Why rules feel good at first

Stages of setting boundaries

When are you ready to set a boundary?

Sarah's morning video technique

Stef's "go-to" list technique

Why can some people follow rules and I can't?

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

In this episode Sarah and Stef talk about bad body image days. Do you look in the mirror and hate what you see? It's a big subject, so this week we are focusing on

• What it's like to have poor body image
• Creating a more neutral response to body dissatisfaction
• Cognitive dissonance
• Body acceptance
• How we handle a bad body image day

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

In this episode, Sarah & Stef discuss the different ways hunger can show up and different ways of responding to it. Does it matter if hunger is physical, mental, hormonal, or emotional? How should we handle each kind of hunger? We discuss things like:

• Should we listen to hunger signals when we're not physically hungry?
• Why Sarah gets triggered to eat when she's cold
• Symptoms of hunger
• Why our brains won't stop thinking about food
• Why you can last so long without feeling hungry and then feel it all at once
• Why making "mistakes" are good experiments
• The difference between Sarah & Stef's hunger regulation strategies during their recovery process

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

In this episode Sarah and Stef delve into the idea of self-compassion. Can self-compassion be a tool for changing your behaviour, or is it a way to let yourself off the hook? Tune in to hear us talk about

• Common misunderstandings about self-compassion
• Why it's easier to have compassion for others
• Shame around binge eating and our bodies
• Improving negative self-talk
• Kindness vs compassion
• Never feeling good enough

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

Have you ever tried Intuitive Eating (IE) and thought: this doesn't work for me? Sarah & Stef discuss some of the reasons why this might be happening, including:

• Is IE the gold standard?
• Turning IE into another set of rules
• Allowing foods versus permission to binge
• Approaching IE as another way to lose weight
• Permission to take what you need and leave the rest
• Fullness as a trigger vs fullness as a positive experience
• Wanting to lose weight before starting IE

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

In this episode we look at that all-important question many of us have asked ourselves – why can't I stop eating? In an attempt to answer this question Sarah and Stef discuss the following:

• Compulsive and trance-like eating
• The role of biology and the nervous system in our eating behaviours
• Physical restriction vs mental restriction
• Brain hunger vs physical hunger
• Binge-restrict cycle
• Overeating post dieting
• Keeping busy to eat less

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

Welcome to the second episode of the Life After Diets podcast. This week Sarah and Stef talk about the desire to lose weight, even after giving up dieting. We deep dive into topics like:

• Is weight loss incompatible with giving up diets?
• The reasons why we decided to stop pursuing weight loss
• Weight set point theory
• How we deal with friends talking about weight loss and dieting
• Why we feel like we need others to approve of our bodies
• Why giving up weight loss isn't just a vanity issue
• Acceptance/approval versus love
• The relevance of body size in authentic relationships
• Feeling insecurity around male friends
• That feeling of: wait, I look like THIS??
• What does your insecurity really mean?

Connect with the show!

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

Email – [email protected]

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele

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

Welcome to the pilot episode of the Life After Diets podcast. This week Sarah and Stef share their own stories of eating disorder recovery and body image healing. Tune in to hear them talk about the lows and highs of their journeys, including

• When they realised their disordered eating was a problem
• The swing between dieting and binge eating
• Binge eating disorder vs bulimia nervosa, eating disorders vs disordered eating
• The many ways they tried to 'fix' their eating problems
• Hitting rock bottom (again and again)
• Turning points, hope and finding freedom

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