The Eating Coach

What has the upcoming disruptor of Wimbledon, the conqueror of Venus Williams, got to teach us about giving up sugar?

On the 7th anniversary of me freeing myself from sugar, let me explain. 

Find out about The Freedom from Sugar Programme here:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/

Listen to the 6 Years Sugar Free episode (that is #59) from 2018 here: 

http://www.theshiftinside.com/six/

Happy 4th of July to my friends over the pond...and happy independence from body shame day to everyone!

Find out how you can access some of my Body Confidence Project activities in this episode.

More details are at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/body/

Watch out for another extra episode this Saturday on a different topic.

A quick clarification of something I was not clear about in today's episode: A Calorie Is Not A Calorie

Calorie counting works like gangbusters…as long as you are a simple input-output machine that never experiences stress or someone who has never sat down to a big celebratory meal. All you Tibetan monks can stop listening.

For the rest of you, listen in onto this primer as to why a calorie is not a calorie.

There are two main areas I will focus on:

A - the role of stress

B - food rebellion.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

…is totally brilliant. Just have a listen!

THE BODY CONFIDENCE PROJECT

Listen out for a special bonus episode out in the next two weeks telling you how you can get early access to some of the materials.

RESOURCES

Coaching info is at: http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/

Contact me: info {at} theshiftinside.com

The Bustle Article:

https://www.bustle.com/articles/89191-20-body-image-quotes-for-your-next-bad-day-because-your-body-isnt-the-problem

‘The Slow Down Diet’ is by Marc David

Blade Runner trailer: https://youtu.be/iYhJ7Mf2Oxs

Apollo 13 trailer: https://youtu.be/Y_rkXC9HH9k

Hidden Figures trailer: https://youtu.be/5wfrDhgUMGI

Jonathan trailer: https://youtu.be/V17pEDh6VYw

‘Jonathan’ is available on Netflix

This is a follow on from episode 112 about how useless ‘The Secret’ and its ilk are. Today we look at a viable alternative to that nonsense: the REAL law of attraction.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Come from JP Sears’ video ‘The Law of Attraction Delusion’

MAIN SECTION

If ‘The Secret’ is the fast food version of the law of attraction, then we need a more nutritional feats that will sustain us mentally and see us through the inevitable unpredictability of life.

This episode answers one question: what happens when, despite your best efforts, your affirmations fall on deaf universal ears and your vision board starts going dusty with lack of manifesting?!?

To answer this question we have a orchestra and conductor on hand as well as Carl Jung. We look at the role victim thinking plays here, and what stuck stories are. The role that mystery plays.

RESOURCES

To find out more about one-to-one coaching: http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/

JP Sears’ video: https://youtu.be/k7ibcK1SVZg

Freedom from Sugar Programme:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom

Oliver Burkeman's The Antidote: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13721709-the-antidote

Bonus episode. Nike installs a plus size mannequin in their flagship London store. Cue outrage from certain parts of the media and a backlash from the fat activism movement.

Who is right?

A better question is: how helpful is this marketing move to the average woman and man in the street, who feel bewildered by this controversy. They know the airbrushed perfectionism of size zero is toxic, but they do not know what to do with this opposite conception of beauty.

Join me as I try to find some middle ground in this debate.

The main Eating Coach episode will be out tomorrow.

RESOURCES 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/obese-mannequins-selling-women-dangerous-lie/

Feeling guilty because you read or watched ‘The Secret’ and just didn’t manifest that toned new body well enough? Wonder what in the name of Rhonda you’ve done wrong as your beach body plan turns to binge baddy disaster?

Fear not, for ‘tis not your fault.

In this episode I tell you why I believe the law of attraction (in the form it is presented by books such as The Secret) is 90% drivel, 8% commonsense and 2% pure gold. I see this book as a superficial parody of an extremely powerful set of principles that can be the springboard for you to change your life.

Over the course of the next two episodes, I am going to

#1 Dismantle the nonsense and release you from any feelings of inadequacy you made have been experiencing trying to apply the LoA

#2 Give you an alternative that goes deeper and is far more realistic than the version that you have been attempting to follow – and that will be in the next episode, a fortnight today.

In this first part, I hope to achieve #1. We look at the two camps that have sprung up when this topic is discussed.

THE LIMITS OF THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

#1 It relies 100% on visionary thinking, which has a shelf life which can be veeeeeery short, depending on how great your resistance is.

#2 The snide and sneaky pressure to feel good 24/7

#3 The ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ language

***Watch out for part two next time***

RESOURCES

Eating coaching here:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/

Wikipedia page on Phineas Quimby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Quimby

The Mark Manson article

https://markmanson.net/the-secret

Cravings Busters – These are ways to divert your cravings and channel them into something more harmless than binge eating. Albert Einstein helped me create them, so they must be good! This episode has more on them:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-how-to-stop-sugar-cravings/

Find out more about The Pauly Principle here:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-better-than-willpower-ec29/

Episode 4 on The Sugar Rollercoaster:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-how-sugar-hijacks-your-brain/

Mark Vernon’s Guardian article on The Secret

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/aug/31/secret-byrne-positive-thinking

Today’s episode looks at 5 anti-compulsive eating actions you can take today – even if you don’t think you can stop yourself turning to food to manage your life.

You absolutely can.

STUPID IDEA OF THE WEEK

…is that natural automatically = good. We all know this is a bit of a nonsense, but  how many times have we unwittingly fallen for the green packaging and exotic sounding ingredients list? Let’s dig into this most spurious of axioms.

MAIN SECTION

The idea for today came from me reading what could be seen as a pretty depressing statistic about eating. But like so much raw data, we can look at the information differently and turn it to our advantage.

Discover

*How many food decisions we make on average a day

*How to reduce the overwhelm of your cravings

*How the supermarket environment can increase the buying of junk

*The devil’s advocate question in the last two minutes that puts a completely different spin on the whole episode

RESOURCES

14 Days To Freedom from Sugar - http://www.theshiftinside.com/freedom/

Article on natural not equalling good: https://effectiviology.com/appeal-to-nature-fallacy/

The Willpower Instinct is by Kelly McGonigal

Pauly Principle episode is here: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-better-than-willpower-ec29/

The episode on bread: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-is-bread-so-addictive-ec53/

What could be on the surface THE most depressing title of any episode I (or any other podcaster, for that matter) have ever put out is, in fact, a reason to feel less guilty, less disempowered and less down about your own binge eating than you might guess. All will be revealed, with the help of some 70’s glam rock! I talk about how modern life is setting the stage for evryone to be compulsive in many areas of life and the specific ways I see that manifesting, with eating and in other areas. And I give you two great reasons to find some gold in this - how you can use this information to empower yourself to truly reclaim your life from food.

RESOURCES

Find out more about coaching with harriet at:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/

Hidden Sugars Checklist http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/ The song that inspired this episode: https://youtu.be/eEv6jy_7PQQ Cavebrain episode is at: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/

Welcome to the first of a 6-part Chocoholics' Survival Kit for The Easter weekend. I help you get through the Easter weekend with all of its cravings without you feeling terrible. If you have ever, like this podcaster, had to replace your kids’ Easter eggs, this one is for you….

Today I tell you the worst approach for compulsives at Easter – which I  funnily enough the most popular one.

It is HFTBing.

Find out what this is and one concrete alternative.

In the rest of this series which you can access at www.patreon.com/eatingcoach, find out….

*How to translate guilt over food compulsion

*How intolerance can be your best friend at this time of year

*How a 1950’s B Movie that you can go and watch completely free on YouTube can help release you from the loneliness you feel about avoiding junk over the Easter weekend

*Ridiculous  ways to spend your money – but ones that are still not as bonkers as buying Easter eggs

*The two things that you absolutely need to acknowledge if you are going to navigate Easter Sunday

*Discount-proofing your craving: how to avoid half-price chocolate

*What the Spanish Armada, Bear Grylls and the roman emperor Caligula has to do with all of this