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A quick practical minisode about how to deal with what is an unusually challenging day for recovering food compulsives. But never fear! The number 0.274 is here to save the day. Listen and find out why...

 

Resources: The Celebrate Without Overeating episode: Audio: How To Celebrate Without Overeating   Find out about 1 to 1 coaching here      

 

In today's Holiday Survival Kit minisode, I give you some practical tips on how to deal with being given junk like chocolate during the holidays - and how to deal with your children being given it as well.

 

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1 to 1 Coaching: http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/

Welcome to the first part of The Holiday Survival Kit: daily minisodes to help you navigate eating challenges at any big holiday and feast time, published every day between the 23rd December and 1st January

This is a mix of inspiration, thought experiments and practical strategies.

Today: 6 Words to Avoid.

Want to reduce holiday overeating? Expunge these 6 words from your vocabulary now. Warning: you already overuse this phrase - and so do I.

Today I look at chocolate: why it is so magnetic, if it is even addictive, how you can eat less of it - and how to deal with the huge amounts of the stuff around at Christmas and other holidays. All with the help of Jim Carrey...

At last it's time to dismantle some of the mystique around chocolate, so allowing you to reduce you consumption without feeling deprived - but instead being empowered. I went from 4 bars a day to zero for the last five years.

*Stupid Idea of The Week*

The whole debate on whether chocolate is addictive, because it is often a backdoor way to downgrade the compulsive's fixation to not-so-bad-as-drugs-so-what-are-you-complaining-about?

*Main section*

Why this substance is so magnetic to us. The answer is NOT about the so-called magical properties that you can never pronounce - a 2007 study debunks that myth - but something far more basic...yet far more interesting and complex. Discover what our cavedwelling design has got to do with it, and...

A reason for the extra layer of compulsion that people with eating issues often feel around chocolate: It comes down to the difficult relationship between guilt and pleasure that food compulsives have.

How to eat less or give up chocolate using The Jim Carrey Test...or should I say The Jim Carrey VS Jon Hamm Test. Find out which one represents YOUR ideal relationship (or non relationship) with chocolate. Plus the power of experimentation and how it will empower you. The three other strategies at your disposal.

How to deal with chocolate during the holidays - realistically

 

RESOURCES

The Holiday Survival Kit is coming to your ears this Saturday 23rd December (until 1st January). 

 

The Science Daily article on addiction:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070911073921.htm

 

The quote about fat and sugar:

http://www.cleveland.com/fighting-fat/index.ssf/2010/04/humans_are_genetically_hard-wired_to_prefer_fat_and_sugar.html

 

Eating Coach Episode 19 - Me Too: Trauma Release is at:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-me-too-release-your-trauma-and-put-food-out-of-a-job-it-was-never-meant-to-do/

 

Eating Coach episode  20 on cravings:

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

 

Sound effects by Zapsplat

Produced by Beth McGowan

The Jim Carrey Clip: https://youtu.be/Ovh2ziXtUqE

The Bridesmaids clip: https://youtu.be/g2iWVWVSb6Q

 

Is it possible to dismantle your eating issues without living in misery-fuelled deprivation for the rest of your life? YES – but to achieve this, you need to understand the difference between real and fake pleasure. *Stupid Idea of The Week*

From the annals of the history of diet literature comes this episode’s mini guide on how to be miserable around food. I actually found a book advising us to make a list of foods we prefer but to avoid! There is pleasure denial screaming from this. Even though this book is 40 years old, this idea is still very prevalent today.

 

*Real VS Fake Pleasure*

Food, and sugar in particular, was for decades my main source of pleasure.

So many people think that lack of pleasure is par for the course with health goals. Why is this? Instant gratification seems to be the only source of pleasure for many people, and then they try to claw back their willpower using calorie counting.

So what can we do instead?

We need to understand that our brains are wired to seek pleasure, and feeling naturally good is the reward for doing something good for your survival: eating, mating, exercising. our cavebrain wants to earn the feeling of pleasure - it is designed for it, because its ultimate goal of pleasure is to orient us to activities that promote our survival.

A really good way to navigate this inbuilt pleasure-survival mechanism is to distinguish between real and fake pleasure, which I explain in this episode, and the one simple question you can ask to identify if it is real or fake pleasure (yes, honestly!)

RESOURCES

Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/

 

How Sugar Hijacks Your Brain - episode #4:

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

 

Ask a question at:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast/

Get your free audiobook at:

http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach

Sound effects by Zapsplat

Produced by Beth McGowan

Today I have a thought experiment for you: what would really happen if you could instantly have the perfect, movie-star ready body of your dreams? And some ways that can actually start to like your body more.

Today I have a thought experiment for you: what would really happen if you could instantly have the perfect, movie-star ready body of your dreams? And some ways that can actually start to like your body more. *Stupid Idea of The Week*

Not one, but a whole host of stupid ideas, courtesy of my favourite new podcast Dexter Guff is Smarter Than You.

*Main section: The Celebrity Body Thought Experiment*

Some things to think about:

*The adoration of celebrity body shape masks a harsh perfectionism that makes us more miserable than we need to be

*Why daily weigh ins don't help

*What disembodiment and airbrushed perfectionism is

*How to use your experience with relationships to challenge your own perfectionism

*What self criticism in this area

*What a protective fat suit is

I end with some very down-to-earth ways you can start to actually like* your imperfect body.

*No gushing adoration required 

 

RESOURCES

The Stuff You Should Know episode:

https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/head-transplant.htm

The article about Sergio Canavero:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5092769/World-s-human-head-transplant-carried-out.html

Dexter Guff is at http://dexterguffband.com/

Eating Coach Discussion Group is at

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1594950873896541/

Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden/

Ask a question at:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast/

Produced by Beth McGowan

Sound effects by Zapsplat

Get your free audiobook at:

http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach

In today's podcast episode, I take two very different books that explain weight and eating issues, and put this issue down to one thing. Can we be so reductionist? I don't think so - but listen to this episode and learn how to get the best out of everything you read.

In today's podcast episode, I take two very different books that explain weight and eating issues, and put this issue down to one thing. Can we be so reductionist? I don't think so - but listen to this episode and learn how to get the best out of everything you read.

 

*Stupid Idea of The Week*

...is watching the film La La Land,  and most specifically listening to the soundtrack. What on earth has that got to do with compulsive eating? Listen and find out.

*Main section*

Two books - two different POVs. But who is right? Can we ever ascribe our eating issues to one factor - and if not, then how can we use these approaches? I discuss Mike Dooley's Infinite Possibilities as it regards eating and weight issues, then do the same for Steven Pressfield's War of Art.

I discuss the limits of spirituality and the specific problem it creates for recovering food compulsives, as well how both books fail to address some very common root causes of eating problems - and why it doesn't really matter who is right, because the only important thing is....... (and you'll have to listen to find out how that sentence ends).

RESOURCES

The Piano theme from La La Land

https://youtu.be/8zscp5a7gk0

 

Jazzman from The Fast Show

https://youtu.be/uCymAH6r2Tc