Welcome to the premier episode of the Out of the Cave Podcast hosted by Lisa Schlosberg, LMSW. This podcast is a resource for all who struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, undereating, overeating, mindless eating, weight gain, weight loss and have a complicated relationship to food, eating, and body image.

Topics Include:

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” and how “Out of the Cave” got its name

Lisa's experience as an overweight child and teen

Choosing weight loss and the process of losing 150 pounds

Disordered Eating

First steps to healing

[00:35] Lisa introduces the podcast and how it will the serve the listener in their relationship around food, eating, exercise, and body image

[1:25] The story of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and how it relates to our journey of living in truth when it comes to how to eat, how to move, and how we feel about our own diets and bodies

[6:28] Lisa’s childhood and how childhood obesity and how she lived in denial by being life of the party and over achieving

[12:20] Lisa describes traveling alone at 17 years old at 300 pounds and how that experience led her to choose to lose weight and joining Jenny Craig in New Zealand, and how I went mindlessly through the motions for the next few months and loses 30 pounds

[16:37] Lisa becomes a freshman at the University of Michigan and went of Jenny Craig but after freshman year and a birthright trip to Israel she begins what would become her 150 pound weight loss

[21:09] Lisa is getting a lot of praise for her weight loss and was on a high from the positive attention and her new smaller body but physically was experience dizziness, weight loss, constipation, and sleep problems, and decides to reach out to a nutritionist to help her lose the last stubborn 10 pounds, and the surprising advice she received

[30:40] How Lisa’s weight loss created new problems mentally and emotionally and how she had to reckon with her disordered relationship with food during her study abroad program, “Semester at Sea”

[39:04] Lisa knows she has willpower, her struggles clearly had nothing to do with lack of discipline, so she waves her white flag and concedes that what she is doing was not sustainable and begins to research mind-body techniques to heal her relationship with food and diet and within a couple years finds herself at a Jon Gabriel retreat, an author known for maintaining his 220 pound weight loss through meditation, mindfulness and cultivating a mind-body connection

[42:03] Lisa continues to research and finds the ACE study and learns that health issues are often linked to childhood trauma and Lisa has a new understanding about her weight in childhood, as her parent’s lost a child shortly after birth when Lisa was just 5 years old

[46:27] Lisa describes how when she no longer used food to numb how she awoke to rest of the world and for the first time was feeling deeply

Resources:

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