The Eating Coach

…starring a metronome and a teenage arsonist.

HEADS UP: Go to http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/ to complete the short questionnaire if you feel like you are an empath

In today's show I talk about the real reason that so many people are in a binge-restrict cycle and one client shares her story of getting off this toxic seesaw.

You probably think this cycle is how you control your greed and out-of-control appetite. WRONG.

This cycle does not start with a binge – it starts with deprivation. My name for it is The Metronome, and you can see some images to explain this process at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/metronome/

I interview a group coaching client, Louise, who shares about:

All of the failed unsustainable diets and other solutions she tried

The changes she has seen since starting coaching

"I was the inner critic's teacher's pet, but I am delighted to say that I have freedom from this, and my binges are almost gone".

How the group support helped her

The importance of imperfectionism and sustainable change.

RESOURCES

Coaching information:

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

ADVANCE NOTICE: Upcoming Programme September 2020 for empaths

Give me your thoughts at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/

This is a replay of episode 12 on Robin Williams. 6 years on from his death, one of the world's favourite comedians and actors is sorely missed - but there are also many lessons we can draw from this famously troubled funnyman's death.

The ***mystery magician*** in this episode is Derren Brown. I was reading from his excellent book 'Happy'. Get the audiobook free when you sign up for a 30 day Audible trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach - just search 'Happy' - or any other of the 180,000 titles to choose from for iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player.

In This Episode:

*Stupid Idea of The Week*

This week I tear apart claims like "with added vitamins and iron" you see on children's cereal. All with the help of a chain smoking babysitter and insane PE teacher...

*Robin Williams: A Lesson*

"We would be doing his life and memory a disservice if we did not extract some wisdom from his choice" wrote friend and fellow actor Peter Coyote after Robin Williams' death. But this is not the whole story. Williams' early demise was not actually the result of depression. Find out what actually was (if you don't know already) as well as the unusual teaching from Robin Williams' situation that speaks to eating issues - as well as living a better life.

To think about:

*Is there really always something we can do in the face of our food compulsion, especially when it feels immoveable? Is that not a bit polyanna?

*If so, what would that look like - as well as the mental shift that accompanies it

Special treat: what your ego sounds like. I have an actual recording of it!

RESOURCES

Get your free Hidden Sugars Checklist to print off at

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

Ask a question at:

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

Peter Coyote's beautiful Facebook post:

...Unfortunately I did not know how to copy and paste the Facebook post I refer to in the show - probably because Facebook wants you to share everything within their ecosystem. However I did find his words elsewhere along with that wonderful picture:

https://365daysexpectamiracle.wordpress.com/tag/peter-coyote/

Get your free audiobook at:

http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach

Empaths and binge eating survey:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/

Episode 4: How Sugar Hijacks The Brain

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

Freedom From Sugar programme

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

ADVANCE NOTICE: Upcoming Programme September 2020 for empaths

Give me your thoughts at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/

STRESS EATING

In today's episode, I talk about stress eating through a rather unusual lens and help you do a 180 on how you see it.

By the way, if we are taking about stress eating, we are also talking about binge eating – because they are one and the same thing.

Have you ever considered that stress could be addictive?

I explain how this could be true, and give you a reframe for stress eating

And if so, does this change how you see stress eating? Ould this coping technique be a way to deal with a situation that you yourself have unconsciously created in order to release stress hormones?

I also give you a practical alternative to eating as a stress relief that you can do today. You can't say fairer than that!

RESOURCES

Empaths and binge eating survey:

http://www.theshiftinside.com/survey/

Joe Dispenza's book: Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself

Freedom From Sugar programme

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

Episode 4: How Sugar Hijacks The Brain

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

Christiane Northrup's book is Dodging Energy Vampires

The Eating Coach turns 3 today, so it's time to light the candles on the (sugar-free) cake and listen to some of your favourite bits from the last 150 episodes. Starring Brad Pitt, the Roman empire and a veeeery dodgy prescription courtesy of your local...beautician. You couldn't make this stuff up.

BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY FOR EVERY LISTENER- Ends this Sunday 19th July (Well 8am on July 20th UK time to be precise!)

Find out what it is here

https://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/birthday-giveaway-ends-this-sunday

…plus a brand-new…

Stupid Idea of The Week

One of my group coaching clients, Louise, drops in (digitally, of course) to share her own dieting disaster story: the skinny jab.

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I play extracts chosen by listeners

EXTRACT #1 – The limits of goal setting (and my football knowledge!)

http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-temptation-bundling-and-5-other-ways-to-stick-to-your-new-years-resolutions/

The 14 Days to Freedom From Sugar programme:

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

EXTRACT #2 – How wheat helped build The Roman Empire from episode 53

Starring psychoactive peptides and The Hunger Games

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

EXTRACT #3 – from episode #76 – De-clutter and de-binge

http://www.theshiftinside.com/podcast-de-clutter-and-de-binge/

EXTRACT #4 Stupid Idea of The Week from episode 87

Starring Brad Pitt and a dish of yams!

http://www.theshiftinside.com/sarah/

EXTRACT #5 From The Body Confident Project (episode #124)

http://www.theshiftinside.com/the-body-confident-project-podcast/

Find out more about The Body Confident project itself at

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

RETREAT

If you are interested in seeing what the retreat can do for your compulsive and binge eating, go to

http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/

Contact Harriet at info (at) theshiftinside.com

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CALL FOR YOUR FAVOURITE EPISODE!

On the 15th July this podcast turns 3. I want to hear from you – what was your favourite episode? Email me:

info (at) theshiftinside.com

Or

Record your thoughts to play on the show at

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

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"I binged because I felt like I deserved a treat". I have heard this sentence come of the mouths of clients many, many times.

In today's show I talk about the meaning of treats, and I give you some questions to ask yourself to unpick this mystery.

Mystery??? I hear you cry. Listen on….

BRILLIANT IDEA OF THE WEEK

Ellie Winter from https://www.one2runuk.com/ dropped in to talk about her innovative running buddy service – whether you live near her or not. I love the confidence-building approach for women of all fitness levels that Ellie offers.

LIMITED OFFER – 3 weeks free accountability when you purchase an online plan. Limited to the first 5 who mention they have come via The Eating Coach.

@one2runuk

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Treats are not bad – however they can be used as a hidden tool for self-sabotage.

#1 Treats are cover stories for 'this is the only way I can get pleasure in my life'

#2 Treats offer pleasure – but with a huge pricetag

I offer some really useful questions to help you distance yourself from the possibly perceived dependence on treats as a coping mechanism.

RESOURCES

Coaching info is at

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

What is Cavebrain?

http://www.theshiftinside.com/rum-what-is-cavebrain/

My fabulous junk graphic

http://www.theshiftinside.com/junk/

Real vs Fake Pleasure – episode 26

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

Email me info (at) theshiftinside.com

Or

Record your thoughts to play on the show at

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

http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/

This is a bonus episode which takes an extract from my other podcast, Harry Potter Saved My Life. Although that podcast does not usually talk about eating problems, I do here - and the invisible pricetags of binge and compulsive eating - and how you can stop creating them for yourself.

Next Eating Coach virtual retreat is June 23 - 29th.

http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/

…Starring The Failure of Willpower and a bright red pair of knitted shackles… Have you ever considered that there might be hidden opportunities – hidden in plain sight, no less – to reclaim your life from food – opportunities that are available to you 24/7, but never more so than now, as we start to ease lockdown in many parts of the world.

BRILLIANT IDEA OF THE WEEK

A few days ago, the statue of Edward Colston, the slave trader, was ripped off its plinth and thrown into Bristol Harbour. This is not brilliant idea of the week – why not? And if not, what is? And what has all this got to do with binge eating?

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This episode begins by discussing how one of my group coaching clients, Helen, used one of our strategies to discover some unexpected and empowering changes in her life.

However, the period that many of you are entering now – the easing of lockdown restrictions – presents some incredible opportunities to reclaim your life, not just from food, but from all the burdens you are carrying that really don't belong to you.

This is a discussion that encompasses slow eating, the limits of willpower…and a bright red pair of knitted shackles.

Next Eating Coach virtual retreat is June 23-29th. More details below.

RESOURCES

Retreat details here

http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/

You can see the knitted shackles if you go to

http://www.theshiftinside.com/hidden-opportunities-ec151/

More details on the Colston statue here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-52962356

Q: When is an operation not actually an operation? And when does an operation have some rather unexpected consequences? A: Listen and find out.

In 2011, I had a hypnotic gastric band. In this episode I explain what happened and the events that surrounded it. In this episode, I tell you all about it.

This experience was the beginning of my recovery from compulsive eating. But the $64,000 question was: how much of that was down to the hypnotherapist, and how much was down to what I did with the experience?

In this episode I share:

*What is a hypnotic gastric band

*The extra (some would say OTT) prep I did outside my sessions to make the 'operation' as real as possible to my subconscious mind (I don't think anyone has ever been so committed as I was!)

*The odd thing that happened immediately after the 'operation'

*The turning point two weeks afterwards – and the landmark three words that changed everything for me

*What Bear Grylls and a Victorian dwarf have got to do with all this

RESOURCES

Find out more about coaching here:

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

Email: info (at) theshiftinside.com

Instagram @eatingcoach

6 Years Sugar Free Episode

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

Better Than Willpower episode

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

Sound effects by https://www.zapsplat.com

Watch that your earbuds don't burn off with the heat of this week's show! Yes, it is the the (ever so slightly bonkers) chilli challenge - and this is the woman who - up until last summer - would no more eat spicy food than retrain as an astrophysicist . I also talk about body hacking and biohacking.

*Hilarious Idea of The Week*

Ever wondered what to do if you were unfortunate enough to lose half a finger in a motorbike accident? Why, turn your misfortune upside down by transforming said missing digit into a USB stick. Yes, ladies and gentlemen.

*Main section: The Chilli Challenge LIVE!!!*

A finger USB stick is bodyhacking - optimising (and I use term loosely) your body using technology. Biohacking is more about optimising your body using medical, nutritional and physical advances. The big, extreme biohacking invetions make big news - but I want to focus in this episode on much more basic, simple biohacking techniques you can implement today for virtually nothing.

The Chilli Challenge is one such technique. The point is that you eat more chilli than is comfortable for you in order to get an endorphin rush.

Listen as I take you through the discomfort and safe-for-compulsives high of the chilli challenge. Is it worth it? Only you can decide.

See the photo of the stir fry at http://www.theshiftinside.com/feel-amazing-challenge/

This is a replay of episode 39.

RESOURCES

Find out more about coaching at http://www.theshiftinside.com/coaching/

The Virtual Retreat: http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/

Real vs Fake Pleasure episode

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

The Bulletproof Blog article on biohacking: https://blog.bulletproof.com/beginners-guide-to-biohacking-101/

http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/

Today we are going to use Back To The Future to help you eat less compulsively in lockdown, and start shifting to a more empowered way of handling stress and food at this time.

I introduce you to the concept of the internal and external locus of control. This is rather like the introvert/extrovert divide – just as most people are not one or the other (they are ambiverts on a continuum), I believe that we live on a sliding scale between the internal and external locus of control. The trick is to shift towards one as much of the time as possible.

In the second half, I discuss how you can move from having an external towards an internal locus, using some real life examples from my recent virtual retreat.

Next retreat: 4 – 11th May. Find out more at

http://www.theshiftinside.com/retreat/

RESOURCES

The Back to The Future clips :

https://youtu.be/95_DB6GgLQs

https://youtu.be/zZJ7cq6T3v4

Instagram: @eatingcoach

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