July 29, 2024 • 20 mins
Discover the hidden connection between ignoring hunger cues and primal hunger in this eye-opening episode of Bites and Body Love. Join us as we delve into the consequences of neglecting our body's subtle signals, leading to intense cravings and a feeling of being out of control around food. Prepare to be amazed as we explore the primal drive to find nourishment when the body senses starvation, unraveling the cycle of overeating and subsequent shame. Our goal is to empower you with the knowledge to better manage your hunger cues and develop a healthier relationship with food and your body. Say goodbye to the "hangry" moments and hello to a more balanced approach to eating.
Ignoring hunger signals can have detrimental effects on both our physical and mental well-being, and we're here to shed light on these dangers. In this episode, we uncover how ignoring hunger can trigger compensatory behaviors like binging and an all-or-nothing mentality, disrupting our body's natural hunger signals and fueling an obsession with food. We emphasize the importance of breaking free from restrictive eating practices and introduce the concept of dietary restraint theory. Prepare to have your mind blown as we share a personal story about the host's daughter and her struggles with food restriction, exploring various theories related to dietary restraint and the negative consequences of strict food rules. Get ready to revolutionize your approach to eating and embrace a healthier, more balanced relationship with your body.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Bites and Body Love.
This is going to be a specialepisode, so you are going to be
getting a sneak peek into thelarge program that helps people
through the relationship withfood and body image, all the way
to the finish line no morebinging, no more dieting, no
more restriction, no moredistrust with food.
I mean, it has it all.
(00:21):
So you can learn more aboutthat on jamiethedieticiancom,
but I just wanted to introducethis to you to let you know that
this is part of that program,and the purpose of giving you an
inside peek into the program isso that you can take this tool
that you learned today, thisknowledge that you learned today
(00:42):
, and apply it to your journey.
Learned today, this knowledgethat you learned today, and
apply it to your journey.
And, in addition, if it ishelpful for you, if you have
found that this could reallybenefit for you, it gives you a
little bit of an idea of whatthe program may look like and or
what it does look like and howit can help you.
So, without further ado, let'sdive in.
You're going to be hearing oneof the recordings from the
(01:04):
program.
Enjoy and reach out with anyquestions you may have.
Okay, let's talk about whathappens when we ignore hunger
cues, and I want you to sit backand reflect for yourself what
happens when you ignore hungercues.
Okay, what can happen, forpeople can be very unpleasant.
(01:27):
One thing that happens is this,quote unquote primal hunger and
and what this means, whatprimal hunger can be.
You can describe it as likeurgent hunger, intense hunger.
Um, we're naming it primalhunger because it comes from a
primal drive to eat, because weare ignoring it, and so it's
(01:52):
pushing that urgency, okay,becomes urgent and intense need
to eat.
It's usually accompanied by,maybe like the feeling of
feeling hangry, hungry and angry, and then feeling overly hungry
right Now.
What happens, too, is when wethat combination of that primal
(02:15):
hunger plus the combo of shamewhen it comes to eating,
distrust of the hunger, fear ofhow much we're going to eat,
just afraid of food and having adistrustful relationship with
it.
What happens is we feel thenstart to feel out of control and
we start to eat whatever we canfind, and then shame happens,
(02:35):
which causes us to over, overeatin ways that don't make us feel
good, and our body does this.
Our body has this primal drivefor food because we're it's
interpreting our ignoring itshunger for like starvation, like
there's no food around.
We need to make this the mostimportant thing.
(02:59):
So we go find food, right it?
It interprets us ignoring ourhunger as starvation, so it
leads us to the food, to anyfood that's available and to
foods that are going to provideus the quickest energy to ward
off that starvation.
Right, it's almost like you canconsider this primal hunger,
kind of like when you'reunderwater and you finally come
up and breathe air.
You're like finally breathe air, you're trying to take in all
the air that you can.
It's that primal drive, when itgoes for too long, of ignoring
(03:24):
hunger cues and ignoring thosesubtle hunger cues and getting
to just those big hunger cueslike okay, well, now I'm hungry
because we were ignoring subtleones, because we feel like we
need to make sure we're hungryand get the real, real big
hunger cues to know that we caneat.
We're going to talk about thebig, the larger hunger cues and
smaller hunger cues and whatthere are for you and the
importance later.
(03:46):
So what else happens with thebacklash of hunger.
So I'm sure you can all relateto that first one, or many of
you can, and that's might be abig reason why you are here,
because you wanted to take thisprogram, because you have a poor
relationship with food andmaybe possibly binging and that
primal need, and then it createsa negative relationship with
(04:07):
your body and a distrust,distrusting relationship with
your body.
So we're going to go over thatand we're going to, we're going
to conquer that shortly.
But what else happens withignoring hunger?
Well, what happens is itbecomes this kind of overlaps
with what we just chatted about,but it becomes compensatory,
(04:27):
which doesn't feel good in yourbody and we have a lot of shame
around that and intentions arethrown out the window with
taking care of ourselves in away that feels good because we
just need to eat.
Now we get this all bets offmentality.
When something goes wrong, westart, we start to, um, like
(04:48):
have this start over mentalityor fuck it mentality.
Sorry, I think that was thefirst time I swore on this
course.
I'm not going to edit that outbecause that takes a lot of work
.
There's a lot to do, so I'msorry.
The effort mentality so we havethis start over mentality or
this effort mentality.
Like, oh, might as well, Imight as well eat everything in
(05:10):
the house even though thatdoesn't feel good.
But that's what happens when weignore hunger.
What happens is we get thisbinge.
We binge or overeat.
We get part of this bingerestrict cycle which we're going
to talk about later.
The meals can feel like ourlast when we ignore hunger.
(05:32):
Another thing that happens isit's super.
We confuse our body.
Ignoring hunger confuses ourbody.
It messes with our hunger cues.
Our body starts to like, ourhunger cues start to get out of
whack.
They can stop sending them.
Many times they stop sendingthem because it's like well,
you're not listening to meanyway, so I don't know what to
do.
These signals are not working.
So then we totally screw upthat interoceptive awareness and
(05:56):
being able to understand.
We second guess our needs.
We have distrust the rules ofour mind of these diets and
ignoring hunger.
They conflict with theexperience of our body and the
cues it has, which causes us tofully fall out of tune with our
body's natural mechanisms ofhunger, which already knows
(06:19):
internally what we need to do.
It makes us question our body'snatural drive to fuel our
bodies, while causing us todistrust them and ourselves
around food.
It keeps your mind on food,keeps you obsessed with food
when we ignore hunger, becauseit doesn't want that.
(06:42):
That hunger signal is like I'mgoing to make you keep thinking
about food because you need it.
So even if you're ignoring islike I'm going to make you keep
thinking about food because youneed it.
So, even if you're ignoring me,I'm not going to get that
thought of food out of your head.
It keeps you lethargic, itraises anxiety and it's
disrespectful to us.
It causes us to live in ourhead and we have the deprivation
effect, which we're going totalk a lot about here shortly,
(07:02):
and the dietary restrainttheories which is about to come
up.
So, anyways, why does it matterif we're restricting?
So in case you're stillwondering well, why, why?
Why can't I just continue torestrict if I really want to and
I can still have a betterrelationship with food.
I can still have a betterrelationship with my body.
I can't just continue torestrict if I really want to and
(07:23):
I can still have a betterrelationship with food.
I can still have a betterrelationship with my body.
I don't need to get rid ofrestriction for that.
No, unfortunately we can't haveall of those together.
Restricting impacts yourrelationship with your food and
body.
Completely, completely it's.
(07:44):
I don't know if I've seensomeone move forward without
giving up restriction, and Idon't know if I've seen someone
give up restriction and have abetter relationship with food in
their body or be at the placethat they want to.
They've definitely, if they,you know, when they've reduced
restriction has helped them tohave a better relationship with
food and body, but notcompletely better still holding
(08:04):
them back from life, stillcausing them to not have that
wonderful like fully trustingrelationship with their body.
Sometimes people go halfway andthey rid of some restriction,
but going through all of it isreally scary.
So they might only do half,like go halfway, and they might
feel like they definitely feelsome benefits, some good
(08:26):
benefits, but they're never ableto truly feel what it feels
like to have this mutual respectfor trusting relationship with
our body, cause they didn't gofully.
So we have to addressrestriction fully.
Restriction has a impact on ourrelationship with food and body
.
Just, just period it does.
(08:48):
Now let's go into some of thescience.
I want to go into some theoriesthat are out there and share
those with you.
Okay, let's talk about dietaryrestraint theory.
What happens when we take offwith the table?
What happens when we take offwith the table?
What happens when we take foodoff the table?
(09:09):
I spoke too fast and say thatwe can't have something.
What happens when we mentallyrestrict ourselves and we shame
ourselves with food?
The same thing I'll give you.
That.
I'll give you that.
I'll give you that answer.
Whether it's actually takingfood off the table or shaming
(09:30):
yourself about the food you areallowing on the table, they both
have effects and we're going totalk about that with these
theories that we're going to betalking about.
But before we do, I want to tellyou a story of my daughter.
So when I came into mydaughter's life she is not my
(09:54):
biological daughter, so I cameinto her life at around five
Food, certain foods, were notallowed in the house or just
were not in the house often andI saw this as a problem, like
right away, like Ooh, I wonderhow she's going to interact with
with food, that food when it isaround.
(10:16):
So one time we went to dinnerand we ordered a fried ice cream
.
We ordered it to share.
Oh, my goodness, she couldn'teat that ice cream fast enough.
(10:38):
She was literally taking icecream off our spoons.
She was taking ice cream off ofour spoons.
She wasn't even aware that shewas doing that.
I remember telling my nowhusband after we left, like okay
, did you see that?
Do you know that's from?
That's because she doesn't havefried ice cream enough.
Husband, we need to change that.
(11:00):
Also, one time at christmas shewas just hanging out around the
um, like there are tons ofthings to do, children to
interact with games.
She was hanging out aroundaround the dessert table just
shoveling dessert in, like in away that she might have threw up
later.
I'm not, I don't remember.
She's done that before too.
(11:21):
She doesn't do that anymorebecause now we have all foods in
the house.
But what happens is you, you'llnotice, with the kids that are
not allowed foods, when they are, like when they go to a
friend's house and their friendhas chips, soda, what have you?
(11:41):
They can go, they just want itall.
Right, they might stop doingwhat they usually.
They might be excited to likehang out with friends and and
interact with them.
But when they're at their houseand they know that food is
there, that's all they can thinkof, right.
But for people that have allfood and are taught about all
foods fitting and what makeswhen, when we to, how to listen
(12:04):
to our body, to have a goodrelationship with all of those
and eat in a way that feels good.
That doesn't happen for thosekids.
So why?
Let's go through these theories, okay, so we're going over four
theories.
The first theory, the what thehell effect.
This can also be called therestraint overeating cycle.
(12:26):
So restraint, overeating, or itcan be called the binge
restrict cycle.
Just because I'm so used tocalling this the binge restrict
cycle, you're going to hear mecall it the binge restrict cycle
, even though you might notidentify with binging.
You might call it theovereating restrict cycle, but
(12:48):
this is just what I call it.
It's where you're restrictingfood and then you're having a
lot of it or you're feeling outof control with it, right, okay?
So what this means is success.
You label success as requiring.
Success requires gettingthrough the day without any
(13:11):
violations of your rules, andviolating those rules will mean
that you have blown your diet orblown your way of eating, the
rules that you set and it'senough to trigger you to quote
unquote fall off the wagon andtotally disconnect from hunger
and fullness and binge.
(13:34):
So we're going to go over thiscycle in the future, but this is
when you you say, hey, I'mgoing to only eat this way
during the today, I'm only gonnahave X amount of calories, I'm
only gonna have this kind offood.
So maybe you're saying I'm justthrowing out an example there,
(13:55):
like of a typical diet, like I'monly gonna allow myself 1800
calories, I'm not gonna allowmyself to snack at all, I'm
going to have three meals andone snack and they're going to
contain X, y and Z quote unquotehealthy foods, right?
So if someone with this kind ofhaving this what the hell
(14:21):
factor binge, restrict cycle,they may feel fully unsatisfied
and hungry and then come homefrom their day, have a Hershey
kiss and then say, oh, I brokethe rule, I'm going to have all
the Hershey kisses, right?
That's an example.
I'm going to have all theHershey kisses, right, that's,
(14:43):
that's an example.
Another theory for the dietaryrestraint theories is perception
.
So what is that?
Is perception overeating orperception binging at even the
perception of breaking a rule?
So that means like you maybinge and overeat just at the
perceived perception of breakingthe rule.
So that means like you maybinge and overeat just at the
perceived perception of breakingthe rule, even if you didn't
(15:06):
break the rule.
So an example of this is aresearch shut up a sneaky taste
testing study and dieters wereonly told that they were having
high calorie foods.
And the mere perception thatthey were having high calorie
foods caused them to a triggeredovereating and binging, right.
So feeling like, let's say, yougo to a restaurant, right, and
(15:29):
you don't know what's in thefood, and then you're starting
to get really anxious about itbecause you are.
You created these rules foryourself and maybe you thought
this, this, this went over yourcalorie limit, even if it didn't
went over your calorie limit,even if it didn't go over your
calorie limit, that perceptionof it going over your calorie
limit and breaking a rule isenough to trigger a binge.
Next one anticipation of foodrestriction.
(15:50):
So, anticipation of foodrestriction.
What happens is and here's anexample of the study when
chocolate restriction wasimposed for three weeks, it
triggered an increase inchocolate consumption before and
after in anticipation to thisdiet, kind of like a farewell to
(16:13):
this food feast.
Restrained eaters do not reallyend up eating less food overall
.
A high restraint eating scoreseems to be more accurately
reflecting eating-related guiltrather than actual food
consumption.
So anticipation of foodrestriction can cause binging
(16:38):
and overeating just at the mereanticipation of that restriction
happening.
Are you seeing the?
Are you noticing howrestriction, in no matter what
form, is always going to get youis never going to be helpful?
An example of this like, let'ssay, you say, okay, after
(16:59):
Valentine's day is done orHalloween, if you celebrate
Halloween after Halloween's done, there's going to be no
chocolate, no candy in the house.
What's going to happen isyou're going to try and get all
the candy you can in beforeHalloween ends and then also it
can trigger you to eat more,even after Halloween.
(17:21):
That's what this theory says,and I'm sure you have similar
experiences.
Okay, I think this is the lastone.
The irony of thought suppression.
The irony of thoughtsuppression.
This is that don't think ofthis.
What are you going to thinkabout?
So if I said, hey, don't youpicture, don't think of an
elephant, what are you going tothink about?
So if I said, hey, don't youpicture, don't think of an
(17:46):
elephant, you probably allthought of an elephant.
Research has similarly shownthat trying to suppress
food-related thoughts not onlyincreases thinking about the
food, but also increases ineating it.
So what's the problem?
Is the problem the food or isit restricting the food?
(18:15):
What are you thinking right now?
Are you starting to see that?
What's the problem?
Is it restriction of the foodor the food?
What came first, restriction orbinging?
Is binging what we need to getrid of first, or is restriction
what we need to get rid of inorder to get rid of the binging?
Okay, oh, there's another onethe forbidden fruit phenomenon.
I think I said that wrongPhenomenon, forbidden fruit
(18:40):
phenomenon.
So think of children for this.
And actually the study shows itrepresents a group of children
and they told them don't eatyellow M&Ms, you just can't eat
the yellow ones.
Eat all the rest, but don't eatthe yellow.
Guess what they ate the most ofYellow?
Because it's a forbidden fruit.
(19:11):
What happens is, when you makesomething forbidden or take
something off limits, you giveit a charge.
It's no longer neutral and youcan make a decision from a
neutral place.
You can make a decision from aneutral place.
It's charged up.
Now you're going to be makingthese decisions based off this
charge.
We're going to talk more aboutcharged foods in a little bit,
okay, so all right, as you cansee, there were some parts cut
(19:32):
out and it was cut off early,and that's because this is just
a really big part of the program.
It's all.
There's a lot to it so we can'tinclude all of that, so it's an
edited down version.
But I hope you took a lot awayfrom today's episode, from that
sneak peek.
If it's something that you'revibing with that you feel like,
wow, that has helped you.
(19:53):
We have tons more of where thatcame from that can help you
through your recovery journey toachieve that full freedom,
confidence, respect andcompassion with food and your
body.
You deserve it.
It's there for you.
I can't wait to hear from you.
If you feel like you might be agood fit for this program, you
can email us at hello atjamierdcom or visit
(20:16):
wwwjamiethedieticiancom.
I look forward to seeing youthere and I wish you all the
best until next time.
Welcome to Bites and Body Love.
This is going to be a specialepisode, so you are going to be
getting a sneak peek into thelarge program that helps people
through the relationship withfood and body image, all the way
to the finish line no morebinging, no more dieting, no
more restriction, no moredistrust with food.
I mean, it has it all.
(00:21):
So you can learn more aboutthat on jamiethedieticiancom,
but I just wanted to introducethis to you to let you know that
this is part of that program,and the purpose of giving you an
inside peek into the program isso that you can take this tool
that you learned today, thisknowledge that you learned today
(00:42):
, and apply it to your journey.
Learned today, this knowledgethat you learned today, and
apply it to your journey.
And, in addition, if it ishelpful for you, if you have
found that this could reallybenefit for you, it gives you a
little bit of an idea of whatthe program may look like and or
what it does look like and howit can help you.
So, without further ado, let'sdive in.
You're going to be hearing oneof the recordings from the
(01:04):
program.
Enjoy and reach out with anyquestions you may have.
Okay, let's talk about whathappens when we ignore hunger
cues, and I want you to sit backand reflect for yourself what
happens when you ignore hungercues.
Okay, what can happen, forpeople can be very unpleasant.
(01:27):
One thing that happens is this,quote unquote primal hunger and
and what this means, whatprimal hunger can be.
You can describe it as likeurgent hunger, intense hunger.
Um, we're naming it primalhunger because it comes from a
primal drive to eat, because weare ignoring it, and so it's
(01:52):
pushing that urgency, okay,becomes urgent and intense need
to eat.
It's usually accompanied by,maybe like the feeling of
feeling hangry, hungry and angry, and then feeling overly hungry
right Now.
What happens, too, is when wethat combination of that primal
(02:15):
hunger plus the combo of shamewhen it comes to eating,
distrust of the hunger, fear ofhow much we're going to eat,
just afraid of food and having adistrustful relationship with
it.
What happens is we feel thenstart to feel out of control and
we start to eat whatever we canfind, and then shame happens,
(02:35):
which causes us to over, overeatin ways that don't make us feel
good, and our body does this.
Our body has this primal drivefor food because we're it's
interpreting our ignoring itshunger for like starvation, like
there's no food around.
We need to make this the mostimportant thing.
(02:59):
So we go find food, right it?
It interprets us ignoring ourhunger as starvation, so it
leads us to the food, to anyfood that's available and to
foods that are going to provideus the quickest energy to ward
off that starvation.
Right, it's almost like you canconsider this primal hunger,
kind of like when you'reunderwater and you finally come
up and breathe air.
You're like finally breathe air, you're trying to take in all
the air that you can.
It's that primal drive, when itgoes for too long, of ignoring
(03:24):
hunger cues and ignoring thosesubtle hunger cues and getting
to just those big hunger cueslike okay, well, now I'm hungry
because we were ignoring subtleones, because we feel like we
need to make sure we're hungryand get the real, real big
hunger cues to know that we caneat.
We're going to talk about thebig, the larger hunger cues and
smaller hunger cues and whatthere are for you and the
importance later.
(03:46):
So what else happens with thebacklash of hunger.
So I'm sure you can all relateto that first one, or many of
you can, and that's might be abig reason why you are here,
because you wanted to take thisprogram, because you have a poor
relationship with food andmaybe possibly binging and that
primal need, and then it createsa negative relationship with
(04:07):
your body and a distrust,distrusting relationship with
your body.
So we're going to go over thatand we're going to, we're going
to conquer that shortly.
But what else happens withignoring hunger?
Well, what happens is itbecomes this kind of overlaps
with what we just chatted about,but it becomes compensatory,
(04:27):
which doesn't feel good in yourbody and we have a lot of shame
around that and intentions arethrown out the window with
taking care of ourselves in away that feels good because we
just need to eat.
Now we get this all bets offmentality.
When something goes wrong, westart, we start to, um, like
(04:48):
have this start over mentalityor fuck it mentality.
Sorry, I think that was thefirst time I swore on this
course.
I'm not going to edit that outbecause that takes a lot of work
.
There's a lot to do, so I'msorry.
The effort mentality so we havethis start over mentality or
this effort mentality.
Like, oh, might as well, Imight as well eat everything in
(05:10):
the house even though thatdoesn't feel good.
But that's what happens when weignore hunger.
What happens is we get thisbinge.
We binge or overeat.
We get part of this bingerestrict cycle which we're going
to talk about later.
The meals can feel like ourlast when we ignore hunger.
(05:32):
Another thing that happens isit's super.
We confuse our body.
Ignoring hunger confuses ourbody.
It messes with our hunger cues.
Our body starts to like, ourhunger cues start to get out of
whack.
They can stop sending them.
Many times they stop sendingthem because it's like well,
you're not listening to meanyway, so I don't know what to
do.
These signals are not working.
So then we totally screw upthat interoceptive awareness and
(05:56):
being able to understand.
We second guess our needs.
We have distrust the rules ofour mind of these diets and
ignoring hunger.
They conflict with theexperience of our body and the
cues it has, which causes us tofully fall out of tune with our
body's natural mechanisms ofhunger, which already knows
(06:19):
internally what we need to do.
It makes us question our body'snatural drive to fuel our
bodies, while causing us todistrust them and ourselves
around food.
It keeps your mind on food,keeps you obsessed with food
when we ignore hunger, becauseit doesn't want that.
(06:42):
That hunger signal is like I'mgoing to make you keep thinking
about food because you need it.
So even if you're ignoring islike I'm going to make you keep
thinking about food because youneed it.
So, even if you're ignoring me,I'm not going to get that
thought of food out of your head.
It keeps you lethargic, itraises anxiety and it's
disrespectful to us.
It causes us to live in ourhead and we have the deprivation
effect, which we're going totalk a lot about here shortly,
(07:02):
and the dietary restrainttheories which is about to come
up.
So, anyways, why does it matterif we're restricting?
So in case you're stillwondering well, why, why?
Why can't I just continue torestrict if I really want to and
I can still have a betterrelationship with food.
I can still have a betterrelationship with my body.
I can't just continue torestrict if I really want to and
(07:23):
I can still have a betterrelationship with food.
I can still have a betterrelationship with my body.
I don't need to get rid ofrestriction for that.
No, unfortunately we can't haveall of those together.
Restricting impacts yourrelationship with your food and
body.
Completely, completely it's.
(07:44):
I don't know if I've seensomeone move forward without
giving up restriction, and Idon't know if I've seen someone
give up restriction and have abetter relationship with food in
their body or be at the placethat they want to.
They've definitely, if they,you know, when they've reduced
restriction has helped them tohave a better relationship with
food and body, but notcompletely better still holding
(08:04):
them back from life, stillcausing them to not have that
wonderful like fully trustingrelationship with their body.
Sometimes people go halfway andthey rid of some restriction,
but going through all of it isreally scary.
So they might only do half,like go halfway, and they might
feel like they definitely feelsome benefits, some good
(08:26):
benefits, but they're never ableto truly feel what it feels
like to have this mutual respectfor trusting relationship with
our body, cause they didn't gofully.
So we have to addressrestriction fully.
Restriction has a impact on ourrelationship with food and body
.
Just, just period it does.
(08:48):
Now let's go into some of thescience.
I want to go into some theoriesthat are out there and share
those with you.
Okay, let's talk about dietaryrestraint theory.
What happens when we take offwith the table?
What happens when we take offwith the table?
What happens when we take foodoff the table?
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I spoke too fast and say thatwe can't have something.
What happens when we mentallyrestrict ourselves and we shame
ourselves with food?
The same thing I'll give you.
That.
I'll give you that.
I'll give you that answer.
Whether it's actually takingfood off the table or shaming
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yourself about the food you areallowing on the table, they both
have effects and we're going totalk about that with these
theories that we're going to betalking about.
But before we do, I want to tellyou a story of my daughter.
So when I came into mydaughter's life she is not my
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biological daughter, so I cameinto her life at around five
Food, certain foods, were notallowed in the house or just
were not in the house often andI saw this as a problem, like
right away, like Ooh, I wonderhow she's going to interact with
with food, that food when it isaround.
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So one time we went to dinnerand we ordered a fried ice cream
.
We ordered it to share.
Oh, my goodness, she couldn'teat that ice cream fast enough.
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She was literally taking icecream off our spoons.
She was taking ice cream off ofour spoons.
She wasn't even aware that shewas doing that.
I remember telling my nowhusband after we left, like okay
, did you see that?
Do you know that's from?
That's because she doesn't havefried ice cream enough.
Husband, we need to change that.
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Also, one time at christmas shewas just hanging out around the
um, like there are tons ofthings to do, children to
interact with games.
She was hanging out aroundaround the dessert table just
shoveling dessert in, like in away that she might have threw up
later.
I'm not, I don't remember.
She's done that before too.
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She doesn't do that anymorebecause now we have all foods in
the house.
But what happens is you, you'llnotice, with the kids that are
not allowed foods, when they are, like when they go to a
friend's house and their friendhas chips, soda, what have you?
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They can go, they just want itall.
Right, they might stop doingwhat they usually.
They might be excited to likehang out with friends and and
interact with them.
But when they're at their houseand they know that food is
there, that's all they can thinkof, right.
But for people that have allfood and are taught about all
foods fitting and what makeswhen, when we to, how to listen
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to our body, to have a goodrelationship with all of those
and eat in a way that feels good.
That doesn't happen for thosekids.
So why?
Let's go through these theories, okay, so we're going over four
theories.
The first theory, the what thehell effect.
This can also be called therestraint overeating cycle.
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So restraint, overeating, or itcan be called the binge
restrict cycle.
Just because I'm so used tocalling this the binge restrict
cycle, you're going to hear mecall it the binge restrict cycle
, even though you might notidentify with binging.
You might call it theovereating restrict cycle, but
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this is just what I call it.
It's where you're restrictingfood and then you're having a
lot of it or you're feeling outof control with it, right, okay?
So what this means is success.
You label success as requiring.
Success requires gettingthrough the day without any
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violations of your rules, andviolating those rules will mean
that you have blown your diet orblown your way of eating, the
rules that you set and it'senough to trigger you to quote
unquote fall off the wagon andtotally disconnect from hunger
and fullness and binge.
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So we're going to go over thiscycle in the future, but this is
when you you say, hey, I'mgoing to only eat this way
during the today, I'm only gonnahave X amount of calories, I'm
only gonna have this kind offood.
So maybe you're saying I'm justthrowing out an example there,
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like of a typical diet, like I'monly gonna allow myself 1800
calories, I'm not gonna allowmyself to snack at all, I'm
going to have three meals andone snack and they're going to
contain X, y and Z quote unquotehealthy foods, right?
So if someone with this kind ofhaving this what the hell
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factor binge, restrict cycle,they may feel fully unsatisfied
and hungry and then come homefrom their day, have a Hershey
kiss and then say, oh, I brokethe rule, I'm going to have all
the Hershey kisses, right?
That's an example.
I'm going to have all theHershey kisses, right, that's,
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that's an example.
Another theory for the dietaryrestraint theories is perception
.
So what is that?
Is perception overeating orperception binging at even the
perception of breaking a rule?
So that means like you maybinge and overeat just at the
perceived perception of breakingthe rule.
So that means like you maybinge and overeat just at the
perceived perception of breakingthe rule, even if you didn't
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break the rule.
So an example of this is aresearch shut up a sneaky taste
testing study and dieters wereonly told that they were having
high calorie foods.
And the mere perception thatthey were having high calorie
foods caused them to a triggeredovereating and binging, right.
So feeling like, let's say, yougo to a restaurant, right, and
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you don't know what's in thefood, and then you're starting
to get really anxious about itbecause you are.
You created these rules foryourself and maybe you thought
this, this, this went over yourcalorie limit, even if it didn't
went over your calorie limit,even if it didn't go over your
calorie limit, that perceptionof it going over your calorie
limit and breaking a rule isenough to trigger a binge.
Next one anticipation of foodrestriction.
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So, anticipation of foodrestriction.
What happens is and here's anexample of the study when
chocolate restriction wasimposed for three weeks, it
triggered an increase inchocolate consumption before and
after in anticipation to thisdiet, kind of like a farewell to
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this food feast.
Restrained eaters do not reallyend up eating less food overall
.
A high restraint eating scoreseems to be more accurately
reflecting eating-related guiltrather than actual food
consumption.
So anticipation of foodrestriction can cause binging
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and overeating just at the mereanticipation of that restriction
happening.
Are you seeing the?
Are you noticing howrestriction, in no matter what
form, is always going to get youis never going to be helpful?
An example of this like, let'ssay, you say, okay, after
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Valentine's day is done orHalloween, if you celebrate
Halloween after Halloween's done, there's going to be no
chocolate, no candy in the house.
What's going to happen isyou're going to try and get all
the candy you can in beforeHalloween ends and then also it
can trigger you to eat more,even after Halloween.
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That's what this theory says,and I'm sure you have similar
experiences.
Okay, I think this is the lastone.
The irony of thought suppression.
The irony of thoughtsuppression.
This is that don't think ofthis.
What are you going to thinkabout?
So if I said, hey, don't youpicture, don't think of an
elephant, what are you going tothink about?
So if I said, hey, don't youpicture, don't think of an
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elephant, you probably allthought of an elephant.
Research has similarly shownthat trying to suppress
food-related thoughts not onlyincreases thinking about the
food, but also increases ineating it.
So what's the problem?
Is the problem the food or isit restricting the food?
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What are you thinking right now?
Are you starting to see that?
What's the problem?
Is it restriction of the foodor the food?
What came first, restriction orbinging?
Is binging what we need to getrid of first, or is restriction
what we need to get rid of inorder to get rid of the binging?
Okay, oh, there's another onethe forbidden fruit phenomenon.
I think I said that wrongPhenomenon, forbidden fruit
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phenomenon.
So think of children for this.
And actually the study shows itrepresents a group of children
and they told them don't eatyellow M&Ms, you just can't eat
the yellow ones.
Eat all the rest, but don't eatthe yellow.
Guess what they ate the most ofYellow?
Because it's a forbidden fruit.
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What happens is, when you makesomething forbidden or take
something off limits, you giveit a charge.
It's no longer neutral and youcan make a decision from a
neutral place.
You can make a decision from aneutral place.
It's charged up.
Now you're going to be makingthese decisions based off this
charge.
We're going to talk more aboutcharged foods in a little bit,
okay, so all right, as you cansee, there were some parts cut
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out and it was cut off early,and that's because this is just
a really big part of the program.
It's all.
There's a lot to it so we can'tinclude all of that, so it's an
edited down version.
But I hope you took a lot awayfrom today's episode, from that
sneak peek.
If it's something that you'revibing with that you feel like,
wow, that has helped you.
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We have tons more of where thatcame from that can help you
through your recovery journey toachieve that full freedom,
confidence, respect andcompassion with food and your
body.
You deserve it.
It's there for you.
I can't wait to hear from you.
If you feel like you might be agood fit for this program, you
can email us at hello atjamierdcom or visit
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wwwjamiethedieticiancom.
I look forward to seeing youthere and I wish you all the
best until next time.
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