The Eating Coach

"Old angry white guys are not a core demographic for Nike" - but what has this got to do with reclaiming your life from food? Listen and find out.

RESOURCES

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/04/protesters-burn-nike-trainers-company-reveals-colin-kaepernick/

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Today's Saturday Question is for you if you ever get that post-coffee anxiety (and no, it's not 'Bring me another to calm my nerves!') but you love the smell of coffee and it still has treat connotations in your mind.

Listen to episode 33 for more on this topic: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-does-caffeine-make-binge-eating-worse/

Intermittent fasting presents some unique challenges for you if you have a difficult history with food – so how can you approach it without slipping back into a deprivation-binge-guilt cycle? This episode has some practical ideas.

Stupid Idea of The Week

Oh dear. One of the most stupid mistakes I have made in a LONG time. Yes this week’s slice of idiocy is brought to you by The Eating Coach herself!

My Intermittent Fasting Experiment

I have been trying out IF for about a month now and I today hope to cut through some of the myths and mistruths peddled by certain bloggers parading their individual experience as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

What’s in this episode:

*What exactly IS intermittent fasting?

*Health benefits

*Why an experimental approach is essential

*Which of the 2 types of IF you should experiment with

*Why I am doing this experiment

*My results so far

RESOURCES

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/intermittent-fasting-guide

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/intermittent-fasting-surprising-update-2018062914156

‘The Blood Sugar Solution’ is by Dr Mark Hyman

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

Free hidden sugars checklist: http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/

Today's minisode is a 2-for-1 special! It's all about binge eating triggers and everyday superpowers. That's it! 

Today's Saturday Question asks you to imagine how helpful it would be if you had to ban yourself from using 2 of the most common words in the English language. Find out what they are today. 

Is that phrase – feel the fear and do it anyway – mere words to you? What if applying it seems as doable as unicycling backwards through a hedge, while taking the MENSA entrance exam?

I have some ideas for you - or rather, Veruca Salt does.

Quote of The Week

…is ‘I can handle it’ from Susan Jeffers' classic mentioned above. This is a key component of being able to face your resistance…and the rest of this episode explores exactly how you can get to the ‘I can handle it’ state.

The key here is…Veruca Salt. Ah yes, everybody’s favourite spoilt brat from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.

Confused? Well just listen in and all will be revealed.

How to Really Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway

Feel the fear and do it anyway is so often used that it has become an axiom, one of those self-evident truths that we should be able to use to spur us to action. But what if you feel unable to FTFADIA? This is relevant to compulsive and binge eating because food is often used as a way to manage the fear that we are not processing by seeing it through to its logical conclusion.

Discover what the Veruca salt reframe is

Find out what sort of fears the Veruca Salt reframe will work for and how you can use her as a resilience training programme.

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In Matt Haig's account of his recovery from depression How To Stay Alive, he calls the brain 'worryingly magical'.

But can anything magical be simultaneously worrying?

That is not this week's Saturday Question. Listen in for what is.

“Brian Wong is NEVER, EVER wrong!” David Walliams’ fictional know-it-all not only lives between the pages of his book The World’s Worst Children, good ol’ Brian is also living in our heads – he is our ego.

Today’s Saturday Question gets us to challenge our inner Brian.

No maths homework required for this minisode you’ll be delighted to hear...

Clean eating is neither good nor bad.  However, when it gets used as a tool for some perfectionist search for 110% health, the chances of it backfiring are about 110%. In this episode, I tell you how to make it work for you by approaching it differently.

PODCAST OF THE WEEK

…is Species, hosted by Macken Murphy and my absolute favourite podcast discovery of 2018.  Listen to this to de-stress and take a break from your self-help podcast addiction. Funny, dramatic and full of NO REALLY?!? moments.

MAIN SECTION: AN ALTERNATIVE TO CLEAN EATING

You cannot apply the 2D idealism of detoxes and so forth to something as multi-faceted with so many meanings (social, pleasurable etc) as food is.

In this episode….

*I give you my alternative to clean eating – one that is sustainable and involves one single syllable!

*The real reason many people try clean eating (you won’t like this one!)

For more on my thoughts about this, listen to my interview on The Simplifiers podcast at https://thesimplifiers.com/podcast/022-harriet-morris/

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RESOURCES

Species: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/species/id1334821500

Episode 26: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-real-vs-fake-pleasure/

Episode 35 http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/

Today's Saturday Question you will have heard many times before, but never in this context. Listen to this minisode and discover a brilliant 5-word sentence that will make eating as a family - or with anyone - more enjoyable.