Episode 8: Gone Girl - Perfectionism, Shame, and the Binge-Restrict Cycle in the Plant-Based World

This episode is about how in too many ways, the plant-based world is just another face of diet culture, and how it encourages (and monetizes) the binge-restrict cycle just like everyone else does. I talk about my own lifelong experiences of weight gain and loss and discuss how a singular emphasis on dietary "compliance" misses the bigger picture for those of us who have struggled with compulsive eating for our entire lives, and therefore keeps us hooked in to that endless cycle and all of the self-loathing and self-suppression that comes along with it.

0:27: Acknowledging the dangers of perfectionism in dietary adherence, particularly in the plant-based community.

3:35: Weight gain signals underlying issues, leading to resistance in making necessary changes for attachment and connection.

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