The Paul Dermody Podcast

My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

If you feel like overeating or restrictive undereating is running the show, it can feel daunting to let go of the very rules you feel are trying to help you. If you want to get your best outcomes, consider:

• You diet to feel like someone who doesn't need to diet
• When you feel too little, you'll eat too much
• Increase your emotional capacity to get your best results

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My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

How do you deal with the guilt and shame of regaining weight after losing a substantial amount? The compliments, the approval, the self-belief. Looking to people for the kind of validation they can't possibly offer.

Some perspectives:

• Can you love the version of you who gained the weight?
• Meet the shame, don't eliminate or bypass it
• Hold two truths at once
• Using the right tools to solve the right struggles
• If you couldn't lose weight, what would you do differently?
• Weight gain might reveal where love was conditional
• Can you find the wisdom in the setback?
• Food stuffing your stomach
• Overestimating exercise expenditure

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My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

These are the calmer, kinder skills to make getting lean feel more natural.

And no, it's not a protein target or step count.

• Tolerable hunger vs phantom hunger
• How to read your body's subtle cues to stop overeating
• Stop using food for all non-food emotions
• Stop using dieting to fix a bad body image day
• Master the skill of leaving some food behind
• Stop moralising your choices
• Master the skill of "a little now or a little later"
• Recognise that if it challenges the role of your suffering, it won't feel natural, but forced
• Have non-food things to be excited by
• Take weight loss off the pedestal

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My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

Healing your relationship with food doesn't mean giving up. It means letting yourself win. It means allowing compassion to drive your choices. It means recognising that the hard thing and the right thing are usually the same thing.

Client Monica, an attorney from the USA, opens up about her journey to lose 100 pounds. It has been anything but smooth. But those conflicting feelings are normal. And she wanted to share them with you. We talk about shame, self-love, the fear of being the bigger person eating food. Everything.

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My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

If you're sick of counting calories and exhausting diet rules because you press the f*ck it button whenever you stop, this is for you. Your body has a wonderful system that sends signals, but gets blunted over time the more you rely on external metrics.

Let's explore the difference between trying to force yourself to eat less versus changing how you relate to food. Changing the desire for how much you want. Changing your whole perspective.

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My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

Many people don't just want to lose weight. They unknowingly use their weight, shape and appearance as a measure of their worth, confidence and success. A bad photo, a fluctuation on the scale or a moment of self-consciousness can have an enormous impact on mood and behaviour.

We'll discuss how to reduce the importance of weight and shape without pretending appearance doesn't matter. Topics include body checking, tying self-worth to appearance, the subconcious fears beneath weight gain, and why constantly monitoring your body keeps it at the centre of your life.

My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

Many people don't just want to lose weight. They unknowingly use their weight, shape and appearance as a measure of their worth, confidence and success. A bad photo, a fluctuation on the scale or a moment of self-consciousness can have an enormous impact on mood and behaviour.

We'll discuss how to reduce the importance of weight and shape without pretending appearance doesn't matter. Topics include body checking, tying self-worth to appearance, the subconcious fears beneath weight gain, and why constantly monitoring your body keeps it at the centre of your life.

My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

Many people don't just want to lose weight. They unknowingly use their weight, shape and appearance as a measure of their worth, confidence and success. A bad photo, a fluctuation on the scale or a moment of self-consciousness can have an enormous impact on mood and behaviour.

We'll discuss how to reduce the importance of weight and shape without pretending appearance doesn't matter. Topics include body checking, tying self-worth to appearance, the subconcious fears beneath weight gain, and why constantly monitoring your body keeps it at the centre of your life.

My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

Body image doesn't improve by trying to think about it less or forcing confidence.

For most people, it is not a thinking problem, but an attention problem. When most of your mental space is taken up by weight, shape, and appearance, body image naturally feels all-consuming.

In part 1, we discuss how to increase the importance of other things in life so that body image takes up less space in your mind.

My No.1 bestselling book, FULL: THE EMPTINESS OF OVEREATING, is available here.

From optimising everything, fat-shaming masquerading as care, moral panic about diet drinks and alcohol, the obsession with clean-eating, and much more, it's no wonder people are getting sick of the wellness industry.

Let's bitch about it together.