June 2, 2025 • 28 mins
Ever feel like thoughts about food and your body take up way too much mental space? You're not alone. As a dietitian and body image specialist, I've been helping clients silence this exhausting mental chatter for a decade.
Food noise—that constant mental loop analyzing what you've eaten, what you should eat, how it impacts your body, and whether you're "good" or "bad" because of it—isn't just annoying. It's stealing your peace, your relationships, your presence, and your joy. When your brain is constantly occupied with food math, rules, and shame spirals, you're physically present but mentally elsewhere.
In this transformative episode, I break down what food noise really is, where it comes from, and its profound impact on your life. Diet culture, trauma, family messaging, restriction—these all plant weeds in our mental gardens that grow into overwhelming thought patterns. The irony? The more you try to control food through restriction and rules, the louder the noise becomes.
But here's the life-changing truth: you can completely silence food noise. Not just reduce it by 75%—eliminate it entirely. Through awareness, ditching restriction, addressing root beliefs, and doing the necessary body image work alongside food healing, you can return to a clean slate where food is just food. Where you eat, enjoy, and move on without the mental gymnastics.
My own journey from 24/7 food thoughts to complete food freedom proves this transformation is possible. Now I eat, trust my body, and focus my energy on what truly matters in life. This freedom isn't achieved overnight, but it's absolutely attainable with specialized support and commitment to the process.
Ready to reclaim all the mental energy currently devoted to food and body obsessions? This episode is your first step toward silencing the noise for good. Your brain—and your life—deserve that peace.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Bites and Body Love.
I'm Jamie, a dietitian and bodyimage specialist.
Join me to liberate yourselffrom diets and body shame,
embracing true freedom andconfidence with food and body.
Take your place at the table onthis transformative journey
towards a life of freedom andconfidence.
Silencing the food noise let'stalk about it.
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I feel like food noise is such abuzz word right now, such a
buzz phrase, and yet I've beentalking about food noise with my
clients for about a decade andit's very, very common and it's
very important to addressbecause it really impacts your
life.
So let's get into it.
Let's talk about what foodnoise is, what that can entail,
how we start getting rid of thefood noise and completely
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silencing it, what you can dotoday, right after you listen to
this episode, and how we canstart to change it and why we
want to start changing it.
When I say food noise in thisepisode, you can also think
about this, as we're going tolump body image noise in with it
.
Okay, because if you have foodnoise going on in your head, I'm
sure you have body image noiseas well.
So we're going to lump that allinto one food and body image
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noise, but I'm going to refer toit most likely as food noise,
because that is the buzzwordgoing around.
So if you feel like thoughtsaround food take up way too much
space in your brain, you are sonot alone.
This is so common.
If you struggle with disorderedeating or body image distress,
then you most likely alsostruggle with food noise.
So food noise, defined simply,is that constant mental chatter
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about what you should eat, whatyou already ate, how much of it,
when, whether it was goodenough, what you should eat
later, how it's going to impactyour body, what your body, how
your body, is going to change.
It's exhausting and it'sconstant, right, it's usually is
taken up pretty much a hugechunk of your day.
So, simply, it's just thatmental chatter that is spiraling
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, analyzing, checking,fear-based, anxious, talking
about food and body image.
So what food noise can look like?
Let's chat about that, just incase you are listening and
you're unsure if it's somethingthat you struggle with, although
I'm sure if you, you you know,just hear the phrase food noise,
you're thinking.
If you have it, you're thinking, wow, okay, I just put a name
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to what's happening.
I just didn't know.
Maybe it was as big of aproblem as it is, or I didn't
think, I just thought it wasnormal.
It's not normal.
It's common, but it's notnormal.
It's common but it's not normaland you don't deserve.
You can't have a life free offood and body image, noise, and
that's what we can do when weget to full recovery and what we
can have.
So it's not normal but it isvery common.
Let's talk about what exactlythat looks like in real life.
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That may be obsessive planningof your meals, tracking every
single bite, calorie counting,knowing exactly how much you're
consuming and what you'reconsuming.
It may look like thinking aboutwhat your next snack might be
or your next meal while you'restill eating.
It could be, while you'reeating, constantly obsessing
over that.
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So, by saying things like can Ieat this much?
Should I be done?
Am I full yet?
Am I still hungry?
But like, obsess, likeanxiously with those questions
you know, worried about eatingpast fullness, shaming yourself,
telling yourself, okay, I'mgoing to be eating this now, but
I can't eat this later.
If I eat this now, it could beshaming yourself while you're
allowing yourself to havesomething that you feel is like
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off limits or, quote unquote,bad right.
So if you're eating a cupcakeand usually don't allow that.
You might be saying somethinglike, okay, this is the last
cupcake I'm going to have in along time and I'm not going to
have another one until it'ssomeone's birthday and you know
what.
Have you right?
You're analyzing and planningand shaming, shaming yourself,
while you're allowing yourselfto have it, okay.
Or maybe you're planning yournext exercise, or maybe you are
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thinking about how it's going toimpact your body when you're
eating, or how you're going tomake amends later because of
what you ate, okay.
So that's all differentexamples of food noise.
It could be guilt, this constantlike guilt that you have around
body image and after you'reeating something off plan or if
you don't exercise, I should addexercise noise in there.
It's like disordered eating,body image, shame noise.
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So guilt after eating orskipping a meal plan or skipping
, I'm sorry, an exercise oreating something off plan.
So all that guilt, it's theanxiety and the anxious thoughts
over eating, over eatingsomething that was unplanned,
eating something.
When you go out to eat, eatingsomething off of your safe foods
list, it can be asking yourselfshould I eat this?
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Did I eat too much?
What if I get hungry later andit's just on a loop, right, the
food noise is on a loop, it'snot.
It's normal to have a littlebit of food noise, right?
That's our inner dialogue thatwe have with everything else,
like what feels good to eatright now?
When am I going to eat next?
Should I eat something now soI'm not too hungry later?
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Those are, you know, normal,but they're not on a loop.
Other examples might becomparing in your mind what
you're eating compared to whatothers are eating, comparing
your body to other people'sbodies, exercise to other
people's exercise, and then, ofcourse, body image noise.
So that might be those likebody image checking thoughts,
whether that is.
You know, how's my stomach feelright now?
How do my arms feel?
Do they feel like they gotbigger?
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Did they change?
I need to go hop on the scale.
Okay, if I gained this amountof weight today, I need to make
sure I lose that tomorrow.
I got to get the scale down tothis.
I have to hide my body.
Can people tell that?
You know I feel bloated today.
All of those thoughts aroundbody image that are also in a
loop and they go hand in hand.
They really go together.
So let's talk about the impactof food noise.
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I think this is a reallyimportant to talk about before
we talk about getting rid offood noise, because a lot of
people downplay how awful andimpactful food noise might be
and you may say, oh no, it'sawful.
I do agree it's awful, butsometimes you can you can name
that it's awful but reallydownplay the impact.
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So I want you, as you'relistening today, to really ask
yourself and be honest withyourself about how it is
impacting you.
Okay, I want you to, I reallywant you to be honest about how
it impacts your daily life, yourlarger goals, how it has
impacted you in the future, howit's impacting you today and how
it may impact you in the future, and how this may not line up
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with your values and your goalsin life.
So, the hidden impact of foodnoise this is not an exhaustive
list, just as in the examples Ijust gave, is not an exhaustive
list, but I think you're goingto relate to a lot of these.
So the hidden impact of foodnoise.
The first one mental exhaustion, decision fatigue and brain fog
.
When you are constantlyobsessing over something, you
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don't have a lot of brain spaceleft right, you only have so
much brain space.
Let's think of it as a piechart and you all know I use
this pie chart example a lot.
But it's very true and it's areally good way to think about
how much energy and space wehave to give.
But when we think about, whenwe think about energy, food and
body image all of the time, it'sgoing to leave little space for
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everything else and it's goingto make you exhausted.
It's going to make you, it'sgoing to make it hard to be able
to be present in other areas ofyour life.
It's going to be hard to beable to think clearly because
we've used all, we're exhaustedand used up all our space for
the noise that's in our brainsabout food and body image.
Next impact it has interferingwith relationships, presence,
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joy and confidence.
Those all deserve its owncategory.
I'm not sure why I put them alltogether.
We'll break them apart a littlebit.
But I want you to ask yourselfhow does food and body image
noise impact my relationships?
Truly write it out the nuancedways it impacts how you interact
with your children, yourpartner, your friends, people on
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the daily, dating, your family.
How does it impact your abilityto be present with them, to say
yes to spontaneous eventsaround food, which are often
Also events around body image.
When you are asked to wear abathing suit, or you want to
wear a bathing suit to the beach, when you want to be present
with your kids, when you'replaying with them, but you keep
thinking about the way yourbelly is sitting, or that you
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are shaming yourself forsomething you just ate, that's
taking you out of the moment.
How is it impacting yourpresence in all areas of your
life Maybe your career, maybethe goals you have for traveling
, maybe the way you just want tofeel in your body and in your
life?
How is it impacting yourability to thrive?
How is it impacting your peace,your joy, your confidence in
yourself?
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It's like I need to take abreath after that, because it's
just thinking about how it hasimpacted me, how it impacts
clients, how it has impactedclients, and it's a huge impact
that we really downplay, that wedon't need.
You do not deserve this, okay.
So the next impact that it canhave it can really mimic and
cause and fuel anxiety,depression, lack of energy can
really mimic and fuel thosethings, and those go hand in
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hand with the first two impactsthat I named.
It really steals your peace anddistracts you from actually
living.
So it keeps you really stuck.
An impact of food noise andbody image noise so it keeps you
really stuck.
An impact of food noise andbody image noise is it keeps you
really stuck.
I was very stuck in my, my ways, my mindset, my ability, my
ways of being able to view myfuture, my possibilities, what I
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was able to move about my life.
It really impacted my abilityto actually live and took away a
lot of my life in a lot ofdifferent ways.
And once I was able to recoverand get to full recovery which
means no more food noise whichwe'll get to in a second then I
was able to man, startrelationships that I was so
excited about friendships,romantic relationships, able to
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be present with my stepdaughter,be present in my life, be
present, advance my career man,the daily, the hobbies,
traveling without anxiety.
And it opened up a ton of doorsIn addition to that just doors
I didn't know that wereavailable, ways I could feel I
didn't know that were availablefreedom.
Another impact it has is itreally impacts your feelings of
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morality and self-worth.
So it makes food and body imagefeel like a moral issue.
It makes food feel like a moralissue instead of just a human
need.
Yeah, the impacts go on and onand on, and I want you to ask
yourself I hope you ask yourself, as I brought you up, each one
how does it truly impact me?
And get detailed, the moredetailed the better, because we
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really want to be honest withthe little and big impacts it
has on our life and how that alladds up.
Okay, and then take a momenthere too, to ask yourself how
else does it impact me?
How else does it impact me?
How does it impact myrelationship with the mirror?
How does it impact myrelationship with travel?
How does it impact myrelationship with exercise and
movement?
How does it impact myrelationship with how I see my
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future and my mindset?
So, where does food noise comefrom?
Where does it come from?
Food noise was not somethingyou were born with.
Food noise is not something youwere born with.
You were born with a clean,fresh slate right.
Food was just food, body imagewas just body image, and I'm
sure you all can pinpoint a timewhen that shifted and some of
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you, unfortunately, have startedhappening when you were really
young.
So it might be hard to recall atime when it wasn't there, but
I want you to recall, if you can, and know, that we are born
with a garden and what happensas we interact with the world
around us and the people aroundus is that things are planted in
our garden that we didn't plantourselves.
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We were too young but thingswere planted in our garden and
we allow, even as we did getolder.
We allow certain things to beplanted in our garden because
it's confusing, and so whathappens is then the food noise
is created, the body image noiseis created.
How is it created?
What comes?
What are those plants cominginto our garden, right?
Who is able?
Who starts to plant theseflowers, or I should say weeds,
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into our garden?
And we need to replant theflowers, but who planted those
weeds?
Who planted those weeds?
That we didn't ask for is goingto be.
Diet culture is one, and thatstarts conditioning us from a
young age, right?
What were, what were some ofyour earliest memories of diet
culture that you experienced?
I mean it is in your books.
Fat shaming, food shaming is inin childhood books, in
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childhood movies, tv shows.
It's all over the place.
I feel like it's getting alittle bit better, but it is all
over the place.
It's in magazines it's.
It is diet culture thatimpacted your family and your
friends that you were.
You were a victim to Dietculture.
Maybe you were a victim toyourself if you were put on a
diet at a young age, right?
The next thing where it comesfrom is it can come from
messages from media, influencers, family, friends, so the people
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in our life that are in ourclosest circle and even our
expanded circle, people atschool.
These messages and weeds getplanted and then we water them.
Where else does food noise comefrom?
Trauma, experiences tied tocontrol, worth or body image All
of these create an environmentfor food noise and body image
noise to possibly thrive in yourgarden, because food is
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something that I mean.
It's already talked poorlyabout, right and told we need to
manage and manipulate it and wecan't trust it.
If we can grab control of thatright, it's something we can
focus on, it's something we canmaybe put our worth into when
we're struggling's a way to beable to cope with our tough
emotions, and many times we werenot given the tools to take
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care of ourselves and understandhow to process emotions, how to
take care of ourselves, how todeal with really hard things
happening to us Sometimes.
You know, the people who aresupposed to teach us those tools
were the ones who were causingthat trauma, and so it is a very
resilient way to cope when wedo not have other tools.
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Food noises food noise and bodyimage noises is a resilient way
to cope.
Right, it could be potentiallymuch better than other things.
Right, because otherwise wewould just yeah, we wouldn't be
able.
It's a way of surviving, it's away of surviving.
It's a way of surviving, and soit comes in, gives us something
to control, gives us somethingto ruminate on, gives us
something to measure based offof.
And it's a way of coping.
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And it's actually a reallyresilient way of finding a way
to cope.
When we don't have a way tocope, where else does it come
from?
It comes from chronicrestriction, even if it's mental
and not physical.
So if you're not physically notallowing yourself sugar, but
you are shaming yourself thewhole way through, even binging
on it, but shaming yourself,this is all chronic restrictions
and it's chronic messaging thatyou are giving yourself as well
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.
So, chronic restriction,chronic malnutrition, chronic
allowing your chronicrestriction around, yeah, really
anything.
Exercise, body image whenyou're restricting your body,
types of foods, rules aroundfood, all of that.
Actually, you know people thinkthat that helps with their
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trust around food and being ableto quiet food noise.
It actually makes it way harder, quiet food noise.
It actually makes it way harder.
The more you try and controland restrict and manipulate food
in your body, the louder foodnoise is going to be, and I want
you to reflect on that.
Think about when you aredieting, when you are trying to
lose weight, when you'reconstantly hopping on scale,
when you're trying to manipulateand manage your body.
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What happens?
That chronic restriction, theconstant shaming, the chronic
control what happens?
Does food noise and body imagenoise go down or does it go up
or does it shift?
What happens?
Because even if it's shiftingforms, if it's still there and
taking up a lot of your time andenergy, it's still food noise.
We shouldn't have that chatterin our brain constantly.
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We should be thinking aboutfood only when we're planning
for it, when we're eating it,when we get hungry right, when
we're excited about it.
Shouldn't take up much brainspace.
Same with body image andexercise and where else it comes
from is, of course.
I mean it's all tied and go asunder this category of unhealed,
disordered eating and bodydistrust and body shame when
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you're in full recovery.
It's a place where I believe infull recovery, you have full,
unwavering trust with all foodsand body and you and your body
being on the same team.
You'll hear me say this timeand time again.
So if you still have food noiseconstantly in your brain and
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you feel like you've gone far inyour recovery, I want to
challenge you that maybe youhaven't gone far enough and you
deserve to see what's in fullrecovery.
Because if you're still, ifyou're able to decrease your
behaviors and maybe eat more,restrict less, feel less anxiety
around it, but you're stillhaving constant food and body
image noise, that means thetrust isn't there.
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You might have been able tochange your behaviors a bit,
which is amazing.
Don't want to downplay that.
But what if you can fully trustfood in your body where you can
absolutely let go of control ofthose thoughts?
Because the only reason thosethoughts are there is because we
feel we need to think aboutthem so we can analyze, spiral
and stay quote unquote incontrol.
So, again, not an exhaustivelist, but those are some of the
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places that and the most typicaland common places where that
food noise comes from and why itcan occur and why it's
developed.
So the truth about this isyou're not alone.
I said it before, I say it onall my podcasts, but you're
really not alone in this.
It's very, very normal for I'msorry, not normal common.
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It's very common for people tostruggle with food and body
image noise.
Me in the past and most of theclients that I work with if not
known all of them that I haveworked with and work with, have
lived with food and body imagenoise for years without
realizing how much it has takenfrom them, without downplaying
it, without knowing how to getrid of it.
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They've really struggled,everyone I've worked with.
So you are not alone and thatalso matters.
It is very hopeful because allmany, many of the folks that I
have seen to full recovery orwho have stuck with the process,
and including myself, have beenable to completely get rid of
food and body image noise bydoing the work that's necessary
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to get there, so you canabsolutely get rid of it.
So it's common and it doesn'thave to be your struggle anymore
.
Okay, so now let's get into thefun stuff how to quiet that
food noise.
How can we quiet that foodnoise.
Number one by listening to thispodcast, right, you are
building awareness.
Continue to start awareness.
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The number the first thing Iwant to talk about is starting
with awareness Listening to thispodcast to start reflecting on
your own individual experienceto this podcast.
To start reflecting on your ownindividual experience.
Notice how food thoughts pop upin different situations and
body image thoughts show up incertain situations and don't
just go with it.
Ask yourself where is thiscoming from?
Do I want this?
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How does it impact my life?
Why do I have these beliefs?
Where did these beliefs comefrom?
What would I rather this looklike?
Start with awareness.
The more you can tap into howyou're feeling, what you're
thinking, where they came from,with curiosity and compassion.
I'm going to say that again,the more awareness you build,
without judgment, but withcuriosity and compassion, the
more you're going to learn aboutyourself and learn about how to
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recover from having constantfood and body image noise,
because it's a great way ofgathering information about
yourself and getting to knowyourself.
Number two you need to ditchthe restriction diet, disordered
eating mindset, but we're goingto call it.
Ditch the restriction mindsetRestriction from certain foods,
restriction calories,restriction of exercise,
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restriction of your life and thethings you want to do.
Restriction around exercise.
We need to ditch therestriction mindset.
Your brain can't let go of foodand body image when it thinks
it's in a famine.
I'm going to say that again Ifyou do not ditch the restriction
and work to ditch therestriction, your brain isn't
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going to let go of food becauseit's in a place where it feels
it is unable to get therestriction.
Your brain isn't going to letgo of food because it's in a
place where it feels it isunable to get the food.
It doesn't have enough food, itcan't have all foods and if it
feels restricted, it is going tokeep those thoughts in your
mind.
It doesn't matter if you'reallowing yourself a cupcake
every day.
If you don't have trust aroundthat cupcake, your brain is
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going to want two cupcakes andthree cupcakes and never be able
to get rid of that.
We need true trust and norestriction, and I know when I'm
saying that you're thinking, ohmy gosh, that sounds scary or
how do I get there?
Go listen to my other podcasts.
Eme is absolutely a way I 100,200% believe you can get to a
place where you're notrestricting.
It just is multi-layered and itincludes body image work and
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oftentimes support andspecialized support.
Very important there,specialized support.
But you can absolutely get awayfrom restrictive mindset.
I know it feels very impossiblebecause restriction shifts and
we might get rid of somerestriction but we feel like we
can't get rid of all restrictionright and it's very
uncomfortable and oftentimes ourbody reacts to that.
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We start feeling out of control.
We might feel like we startovereating or our weight gets
out of control.
That is normal.
That is it rebalancing itself.
That's why support is reallyreally, really helpful.
So you're not stopping theprocess because you're scared.
It's scary, it's uncomfortableand your body doesn't want to
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overeat or feel uncomfortable.
It wants to get to a placewhere it's eating in a joyful,
respectful way.
And when you build that trustwhich means you need to stop
restricting it and starttrusting it and do all the work
around that you can absolutelyget to a place of full recovery.
And again, if you don't starttrusting food and body image,
you're not going to quiet thatfood noise.
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You got to build trust.
You got to go through theprocess of trust and all the
intricacies of that.
Next thing unpack the rootbeliefs.
So why are you really trying tocontrol or soothe with food and
body manipulation.
We need to get to the corebeliefs, planted in your garden
and watered over time for years,of why you are really trying to
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control and soothe with food.
Where does it come from?
How is it tied to your worth?
How is it tied to your safety?
How is it, how is, what are theunconscious root beliefs around
why you feel you need tocontrol food and why you feel
you need to control body?
Next one do the body image work, not just the food work.
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It is labeled and often youknow how it's talked and spoken
about.
Is food noise.
However, you're not going toget rid of the food noise if you
don't.
You don't also work to get ridof the negative body image noise
.
Don't also work to get rid ofthe negative body image noise
and the body image noise, theconstant thought of body image,
whatever it might be negative,neutral.
We need to get rid of all thatnoise.
So, do the body image work.
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If you do not also do the bodyimage work, along with the food
work, you are going to remainstuck in pseudo recovery, and I
see this all the time, andthat's why in my program there's
so much focus on body image,work as well as food, because
you will backslide and not getto full recovery where you truly
feel free and can let thesethings behind and think about
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all the things in your lifeother than food and body.
You cannot get there if youdon't do the body, and the last
thing to start doing to get ridof food noise is get support.
Get support.
Get help from someone who isspecialized, who's walked people
through this, who know whatthey're doing.
It will get you to recovery alot faster and help you get to
recovery.
Work with someone who'sstrained in this.
This isn't about willpower,it's about rewiring.
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It is about re-educating.
It's about doing all the work,no stone unturned, to get to
full recovery and gettinguncomfortable and doing things
differently.
Okay, one last thing I want toname and also, of course, side
note.
If you have any questions aboutthis, let me know.
Dm me at jamierd underscore andlet me know what questions do
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you have about food noise?
What did I not cover that youliked here?
I can always do a part two or apart three or a part four.
I'm happy to keep chattingabout this.
This is so common.
I have spoken about this foryears in many different contexts
and I absolutely believe youcan quiet it, a hundred percent
quiet it.
Okay, I want to leave you withthis and that is the to scream
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from the rooftops or scream outon this mic for this podcast is
yes, you can fully get rid offood and body image noise Fully.
No more, not just half of them,not just a quarter of them, not
75% of them, but back to aclean slate where you think of
food in a respectful, joyful,healthy way.
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I have I want to share a littlebit about my experience and
I've worked with tons of clientsto help them quiet.
Quiet their food noise, butfood noise.
But I'll speak to myself.
No journey, two journeys arethe same, right?
No one, no journey is the same.
But I want to name this becauseI used to think about food and
my body 24 seven, 24 seven.
I'd be physically present withpeople, but mentally stuck in
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food, math rules, shame spiralsconstantly.
It took up so much of my energy.
Now, oh my gosh, food is justfood.
I trust my body, I trust food,I trust movement.
I eat, I move on.
I enjoy food out.
I move on.
I make a meal full of veggies.
I move on.
I go get ice cream afterwards,I move on.
I trust my body, I trust it'son my team and this kind of
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peace with food and body imageis a hundred percent possible.
I would not be doing this workIt'd be very hard, sad work if I
didn't believe it was a hundredpercent possible and I do.
I believe that for you.
Okay, now I want to normalizethat this journey is not an
overnight journey, but it'sabsolutely worth it and you
absolutely deserve to investfully in yourself.
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Think of that.
Why is it important to invest,to do this work and get
uncomfortable?
Because people don't like toget uncomfortable.
They don't like to invest inthemselves.
They don't until they like hita rock bottom right Potentially,
or they've exhausted thedieting option which, even
though they've seen their last20 diets didn't work.
They still don't want to investin doing something different.
And that's because it's scary.
Okay, but think of what itgives you back when you truly
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seek full recovery and invest inthat.
What does it give you back forrelationships?
What does it give you back foryour values?
What does it give back in yourcareer?
What does it give back in yourdaily life?
What does it allow you to do.
It's completely transforming ofyour life.
Yet we invest in these otherthings that don't give us
anything back, and yet it's hardto get uncomfortable and invest
in ourselves, in this, this, inthis way, and so I want you to
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sit with that as well.
If you are having anopportunity to invest in
yourself and invest in fullrecovery.
What's happening when you sayit's not the right time, no, I
can't, I can't, it's not for me.
I'm telling you, it is for you.
You can get there with theright tools specialized support,
education, mindset.
Yes, you can, you can get there.
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noise and you noise and tofinally feel completely free
around food and body, I'd loveto help you get there.
If you'd like to work with meto uncover all those root causes
, to change those behaviors, torecreate your relationship with
food and body and get back tothat garden that was a clean
slate and plant a bunch ofbeautiful flowers in there, I
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noise for good.
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can work with me and how we canget you to full recovery and I
can't wait to get you there Ifit's not the right time for you
yet.
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and others, and I can't wait tosee you next time.
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Silencing the food noise let'stalk about it.
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I feel like food noise is such abuzz word right now, such a
buzz phrase, and yet I've beentalking about food noise with my
clients for about a decade andit's very, very common and it's
very important to addressbecause it really impacts your
life.
So let's get into it.
Let's talk about what foodnoise is, what that can entail,
how we start getting rid of thefood noise and completely
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silencing it, what you can dotoday, right after you listen to
this episode, and how we canstart to change it and why we
want to start changing it.
When I say food noise in thisepisode, you can also think
about this, as we're going tolump body image noise in with it
.
Okay, because if you have foodnoise going on in your head, I'm
sure you have body image noiseas well.
So we're going to lump that allinto one food and body image
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noise, but I'm going to refer toit most likely as food noise,
because that is the buzzwordgoing around.
So if you feel like thoughtsaround food take up way too much
space in your brain, you are sonot alone.
This is so common.
If you struggle with disorderedeating or body image distress,
then you most likely alsostruggle with food noise.
So food noise, defined simply,is that constant mental chatter
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about what you should eat, whatyou already ate, how much of it,
when, whether it was goodenough, what you should eat
later, how it's going to impactyour body, what your body, how
your body, is going to change.
It's exhausting and it'sconstant, right, it's usually is
taken up pretty much a hugechunk of your day.
So, simply, it's just thatmental chatter that is spiraling
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, analyzing, checking,fear-based, anxious, talking
about food and body image.
So what food noise can look like?
Let's chat about that, just incase you are listening and
you're unsure if it's somethingthat you struggle with, although
I'm sure if you, you you know,just hear the phrase food noise,
you're thinking.
If you have it, you're thinking, wow, okay, I just put a name
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to what's happening.
I just didn't know.
Maybe it was as big of aproblem as it is, or I didn't
think, I just thought it wasnormal.
It's not normal.
It's common, but it's notnormal.
It's common but it's not normaland you don't deserve.
You can't have a life free offood and body image, noise, and
that's what we can do when weget to full recovery and what we
can have.
So it's not normal but it isvery common.
Let's talk about what exactlythat looks like in real life.
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That may be obsessive planningof your meals, tracking every
single bite, calorie counting,knowing exactly how much you're
consuming and what you'reconsuming.
It may look like thinking aboutwhat your next snack might be
or your next meal while you'restill eating.
It could be, while you'reeating, constantly obsessing
over that.
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So, by saying things like can Ieat this much?
Should I be done?
Am I full yet?
Am I still hungry?
But like, obsess, likeanxiously with those questions
you know, worried about eatingpast fullness, shaming yourself,
telling yourself, okay, I'mgoing to be eating this now, but
I can't eat this later.
If I eat this now, it could beshaming yourself while you're
allowing yourself to havesomething that you feel is like
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off limits or, quote unquote,bad right.
So if you're eating a cupcakeand usually don't allow that.
You might be saying somethinglike, okay, this is the last
cupcake I'm going to have in along time and I'm not going to
have another one until it'ssomeone's birthday and you know
what.
Have you right?
You're analyzing and planningand shaming, shaming yourself,
while you're allowing yourselfto have it, okay.
Or maybe you're planning yournext exercise, or maybe you are
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thinking about how it's going toimpact your body when you're
eating, or how you're going tomake amends later because of
what you ate, okay.
So that's all differentexamples of food noise.
It could be guilt, this constantlike guilt that you have around
body image and after you'reeating something off plan or if
you don't exercise, I should addexercise noise in there.
It's like disordered eating,body image, shame noise.
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So guilt after eating orskipping a meal plan or skipping
, I'm sorry, an exercise oreating something off plan.
So all that guilt, it's theanxiety and the anxious thoughts
over eating, over eatingsomething that was unplanned,
eating something.
When you go out to eat, eatingsomething off of your safe foods
list, it can be asking yourselfshould I eat this?
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Did I eat too much?
What if I get hungry later andit's just on a loop, right, the
food noise is on a loop, it'snot.
It's normal to have a littlebit of food noise, right?
That's our inner dialogue thatwe have with everything else,
like what feels good to eatright now?
When am I going to eat next?
Should I eat something now soI'm not too hungry later?
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Those are, you know, normal,but they're not on a loop.
Other examples might becomparing in your mind what
you're eating compared to whatothers are eating, comparing
your body to other people'sbodies, exercise to other
people's exercise, and then, ofcourse, body image noise.
So that might be those likebody image checking thoughts,
whether that is.
You know, how's my stomach feelright now?
How do my arms feel?
Do they feel like they gotbigger?
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Did they change?
I need to go hop on the scale.
Okay, if I gained this amountof weight today, I need to make
sure I lose that tomorrow.
I got to get the scale down tothis.
I have to hide my body.
Can people tell that?
You know I feel bloated today.
All of those thoughts aroundbody image that are also in a
loop and they go hand in hand.
They really go together.
So let's talk about the impactof food noise.
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I think this is a reallyimportant to talk about before
we talk about getting rid offood noise, because a lot of
people downplay how awful andimpactful food noise might be
and you may say, oh no, it'sawful.
I do agree it's awful, butsometimes you can you can name
that it's awful but reallydownplay the impact.
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So I want you, as you'relistening today, to really ask
yourself and be honest withyourself about how it is
impacting you.
Okay, I want you to, I reallywant you to be honest about how
it impacts your daily life, yourlarger goals, how it has
impacted you in the future, howit's impacting you today and how
it may impact you in the future, and how this may not line up
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with your values and your goalsin life.
So, the hidden impact of foodnoise this is not an exhaustive
list, just as in the examples Ijust gave, is not an exhaustive
list, but I think you're goingto relate to a lot of these.
So the hidden impact of foodnoise.
The first one mental exhaustion, decision fatigue and brain fog
.
When you are constantlyobsessing over something, you
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don't have a lot of brain spaceleft right, you only have so
much brain space.
Let's think of it as a piechart and you all know I use
this pie chart example a lot.
But it's very true and it's areally good way to think about
how much energy and space wehave to give.
But when we think about, whenwe think about energy, food and
body image all of the time, it'sgoing to leave little space for
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everything else and it's goingto make you exhausted.
It's going to make you, it'sgoing to make it hard to be able
to be present in other areas ofyour life.
It's going to be hard to beable to think clearly because
we've used all, we're exhaustedand used up all our space for
the noise that's in our brainsabout food and body image.
Next impact it has interferingwith relationships, presence,
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joy and confidence.
Those all deserve its owncategory.
I'm not sure why I put them alltogether.
We'll break them apart a littlebit.
But I want you to ask yourselfhow does food and body image
noise impact my relationships?
Truly write it out the nuancedways it impacts how you interact
with your children, yourpartner, your friends, people on
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the daily, dating, your family.
How does it impact your abilityto be present with them, to say
yes to spontaneous eventsaround food, which are often
Also events around body image.
When you are asked to wear abathing suit, or you want to
wear a bathing suit to the beach, when you want to be present
with your kids, when you'replaying with them, but you keep
thinking about the way yourbelly is sitting, or that you
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are shaming yourself forsomething you just ate, that's
taking you out of the moment.
How is it impacting yourpresence in all areas of your
life Maybe your career, maybethe goals you have for traveling
, maybe the way you just want tofeel in your body and in your
life?
How is it impacting yourability to thrive?
How is it impacting your peace,your joy, your confidence in
yourself?
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It's like I need to take abreath after that, because it's
just thinking about how it hasimpacted me, how it impacts
clients, how it has impactedclients, and it's a huge impact
that we really downplay, that wedon't need.
You do not deserve this, okay.
So the next impact that it canhave it can really mimic and
cause and fuel anxiety,depression, lack of energy can
really mimic and fuel thosethings, and those go hand in
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hand with the first two impactsthat I named.
It really steals your peace anddistracts you from actually
living.
So it keeps you really stuck.
An impact of food noise andbody image noise so it keeps you
really stuck.
An impact of food noise andbody image noise is it keeps you
really stuck.
I was very stuck in my, my ways, my mindset, my ability, my
ways of being able to view myfuture, my possibilities, what I
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was able to move about my life.
It really impacted my abilityto actually live and took away a
lot of my life in a lot ofdifferent ways.
And once I was able to recoverand get to full recovery which
means no more food noise whichwe'll get to in a second then I
was able to man, startrelationships that I was so
excited about friendships,romantic relationships, able to
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be present with my stepdaughter,be present in my life, be
present, advance my career man,the daily, the hobbies,
traveling without anxiety.
And it opened up a ton of doorsIn addition to that just doors
I didn't know that wereavailable, ways I could feel I
didn't know that were availablefreedom.
Another impact it has is itreally impacts your feelings of
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morality and self-worth.
So it makes food and body imagefeel like a moral issue.
It makes food feel like a moralissue instead of just a human
need.
Yeah, the impacts go on and onand on, and I want you to ask
yourself I hope you ask yourself, as I brought you up, each one
how does it truly impact me?
And get detailed, the moredetailed the better, because we
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really want to be honest withthe little and big impacts it
has on our life and how that alladds up.
Okay, and then take a momenthere too, to ask yourself how
else does it impact me?
How else does it impact me?
How does it impact myrelationship with the mirror?
How does it impact myrelationship with travel?
How does it impact myrelationship with exercise and
movement?
How does it impact myrelationship with how I see my
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future and my mindset?
So, where does food noise comefrom?
Where does it come from?
Food noise was not somethingyou were born with.
Food noise is not something youwere born with.
You were born with a clean,fresh slate right.
Food was just food, body imagewas just body image, and I'm
sure you all can pinpoint a timewhen that shifted and some of
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you, unfortunately, have startedhappening when you were really
young.
So it might be hard to recall atime when it wasn't there, but
I want you to recall, if you can, and know, that we are born
with a garden and what happensas we interact with the world
around us and the people aroundus is that things are planted in
our garden that we didn't plantourselves.
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We were too young but thingswere planted in our garden and
we allow, even as we did getolder.
We allow certain things to beplanted in our garden because
it's confusing, and so whathappens is then the food noise
is created, the body image noiseis created.
How is it created?
What comes?
What are those plants cominginto our garden, right?
Who is able?
Who starts to plant theseflowers, or I should say weeds,
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into our garden?
And we need to replant theflowers, but who planted those
weeds?
Who planted those weeds?
That we didn't ask for is goingto be.
Diet culture is one, and thatstarts conditioning us from a
young age, right?
What were, what were some ofyour earliest memories of diet
culture that you experienced?
I mean it is in your books.
Fat shaming, food shaming is inin childhood books, in
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childhood movies, tv shows.
It's all over the place.
I feel like it's getting alittle bit better, but it is all
over the place.
It's in magazines it's.
It is diet culture thatimpacted your family and your
friends that you were.
You were a victim to Dietculture.
Maybe you were a victim toyourself if you were put on a
diet at a young age, right?
The next thing where it comesfrom is it can come from
messages from media, influencers, family, friends, so the people
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in our life that are in ourclosest circle and even our
expanded circle, people atschool.
These messages and weeds getplanted and then we water them.
Where else does food noise comefrom?
Trauma, experiences tied tocontrol, worth or body image All
of these create an environmentfor food noise and body image
noise to possibly thrive in yourgarden, because food is
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something that I mean.
It's already talked poorlyabout, right and told we need to
manage and manipulate it and wecan't trust it.
If we can grab control of thatright, it's something we can
focus on, it's something we canmaybe put our worth into when
we're struggling's a way to beable to cope with our tough
emotions, and many times we werenot given the tools to take
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care of ourselves and understandhow to process emotions, how to
take care of ourselves, how todeal with really hard things
happening to us Sometimes.
You know, the people who aresupposed to teach us those tools
were the ones who were causingthat trauma, and so it is a very
resilient way to cope when wedo not have other tools.
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Food noises food noise and bodyimage noises is a resilient way
to cope.
Right, it could be potentiallymuch better than other things.
Right, because otherwise wewould just yeah, we wouldn't be
able.
It's a way of surviving, it's away of surviving.
It's a way of surviving, and soit comes in, gives us something
to control, gives us somethingto ruminate on, gives us
something to measure based offof.
And it's a way of coping.
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And it's actually a reallyresilient way of finding a way
to cope.
When we don't have a way tocope, where else does it come
from?
It comes from chronicrestriction, even if it's mental
and not physical.
So if you're not physically notallowing yourself sugar, but
you are shaming yourself thewhole way through, even binging
on it, but shaming yourself,this is all chronic restrictions
and it's chronic messaging thatyou are giving yourself as well
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.
So, chronic restriction,chronic malnutrition, chronic
allowing your chronicrestriction around, yeah, really
anything.
Exercise, body image whenyou're restricting your body,
types of foods, rules aroundfood, all of that.
Actually, you know people thinkthat that helps with their
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trust around food and being ableto quiet food noise.
It actually makes it way harder, quiet food noise.
It actually makes it way harder.
The more you try and controland restrict and manipulate food
in your body, the louder foodnoise is going to be, and I want
you to reflect on that.
Think about when you aredieting, when you are trying to
lose weight, when you'reconstantly hopping on scale,
when you're trying to manipulateand manage your body.
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What happens?
That chronic restriction, theconstant shaming, the chronic
control what happens?
Does food noise and body imagenoise go down or does it go up
or does it shift?
What happens?
Because even if it's shiftingforms, if it's still there and
taking up a lot of your time andenergy, it's still food noise.
We shouldn't have that chatterin our brain constantly.
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We should be thinking aboutfood only when we're planning
for it, when we're eating it,when we get hungry right, when
we're excited about it.
Shouldn't take up much brainspace.
Same with body image andexercise and where else it comes
from is, of course.
I mean it's all tied and go asunder this category of unhealed,
disordered eating and bodydistrust and body shame when
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you're in full recovery.
It's a place where I believe infull recovery, you have full,
unwavering trust with all foodsand body and you and your body
being on the same team.
You'll hear me say this timeand time again.
So if you still have food noiseconstantly in your brain and
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you feel like you've gone far inyour recovery, I want to
challenge you that maybe youhaven't gone far enough and you
deserve to see what's in fullrecovery.
Because if you're still, ifyou're able to decrease your
behaviors and maybe eat more,restrict less, feel less anxiety
around it, but you're stillhaving constant food and body
image noise, that means thetrust isn't there.
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You might have been able tochange your behaviors a bit,
which is amazing.
Don't want to downplay that.
But what if you can fully trustfood in your body where you can
absolutely let go of control ofthose thoughts?
Because the only reason thosethoughts are there is because we
feel we need to think aboutthem so we can analyze, spiral
and stay quote unquote incontrol.
So, again, not an exhaustivelist, but those are some of the
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places that and the most typicaland common places where that
food noise comes from and why itcan occur and why it's
developed.
So the truth about this isyou're not alone.
I said it before, I say it onall my podcasts, but you're
really not alone in this.
It's very, very normal for I'msorry, not normal common.
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It's very common for people tostruggle with food and body
image noise.
Me in the past and most of theclients that I work with if not
known all of them that I haveworked with and work with, have
lived with food and body imagenoise for years without
realizing how much it has takenfrom them, without downplaying
it, without knowing how to getrid of it.
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They've really struggled,everyone I've worked with.
So you are not alone and thatalso matters.
It is very hopeful because allmany, many of the folks that I
have seen to full recovery orwho have stuck with the process,
and including myself, have beenable to completely get rid of
food and body image noise bydoing the work that's necessary
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to get there, so you canabsolutely get rid of it.
So it's common and it doesn'thave to be your struggle anymore
.
Okay, so now let's get into thefun stuff how to quiet that
food noise.
How can we quiet that foodnoise.
Number one by listening to thispodcast, right, you are
building awareness.
Continue to start awareness.
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The number the first thing Iwant to talk about is starting
with awareness Listening to thispodcast to start reflecting on
your own individual experienceto this podcast.
To start reflecting on your ownindividual experience.
Notice how food thoughts pop upin different situations and
body image thoughts show up incertain situations and don't
just go with it.
Ask yourself where is thiscoming from?
Do I want this?
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How does it impact my life?
Why do I have these beliefs?
Where did these beliefs comefrom?
What would I rather this looklike?
Start with awareness.
The more you can tap into howyou're feeling, what you're
thinking, where they came from,with curiosity and compassion.
I'm going to say that again,the more awareness you build,
without judgment, but withcuriosity and compassion, the
more you're going to learn aboutyourself and learn about how to
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recover from having constantfood and body image noise,
because it's a great way ofgathering information about
yourself and getting to knowyourself.
Number two you need to ditchthe restriction diet, disordered
eating mindset, but we're goingto call it.
Ditch the restriction mindsetRestriction from certain foods,
restriction calories,restriction of exercise,
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restriction of your life and thethings you want to do.
Restriction around exercise.
We need to ditch therestriction mindset.
Your brain can't let go of foodand body image when it thinks
it's in a famine.
I'm going to say that again Ifyou do not ditch the restriction
and work to ditch therestriction, your brain isn't
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going to let go of food becauseit's in a place where it feels
it is unable to get therestriction.
Your brain isn't going to letgo of food because it's in a
place where it feels it isunable to get the food.
It doesn't have enough food, itcan't have all foods and if it
feels restricted, it is going tokeep those thoughts in your
mind.
It doesn't matter if you'reallowing yourself a cupcake
every day.
If you don't have trust aroundthat cupcake, your brain is
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going to want two cupcakes andthree cupcakes and never be able
to get rid of that.
We need true trust and norestriction, and I know when I'm
saying that you're thinking, ohmy gosh, that sounds scary or
how do I get there?
Go listen to my other podcasts.
Eme is absolutely a way I 100,200% believe you can get to a
place where you're notrestricting.
It just is multi-layered and itincludes body image work and
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oftentimes support andspecialized support.
Very important there,specialized support.
But you can absolutely get awayfrom restrictive mindset.
I know it feels very impossiblebecause restriction shifts and
we might get rid of somerestriction but we feel like we
can't get rid of all restrictionright and it's very
uncomfortable and oftentimes ourbody reacts to that.
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We start feeling out of control.
We might feel like we startovereating or our weight gets
out of control.
That is normal.
That is it rebalancing itself.
That's why support is reallyreally, really helpful.
So you're not stopping theprocess because you're scared.
It's scary, it's uncomfortableand your body doesn't want to
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overeat or feel uncomfortable.
It wants to get to a placewhere it's eating in a joyful,
respectful way.
And when you build that trustwhich means you need to stop
restricting it and starttrusting it and do all the work
around that you can absolutelyget to a place of full recovery.
And again, if you don't starttrusting food and body image,
you're not going to quiet thatfood noise.
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You got to build trust.
You got to go through theprocess of trust and all the
intricacies of that.
Next thing unpack the rootbeliefs.
So why are you really trying tocontrol or soothe with food and
body manipulation.
We need to get to the corebeliefs, planted in your garden
and watered over time for years,of why you are really trying to
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control and soothe with food.
Where does it come from?
How is it tied to your worth?
How is it tied to your safety?
How is it, how is, what are theunconscious root beliefs around
why you feel you need tocontrol food and why you feel
you need to control body?
Next one do the body image work, not just the food work.
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It is labeled and often youknow how it's talked and spoken
about.
Is food noise.
However, you're not going toget rid of the food noise if you
don't.
You don't also work to get ridof the negative body image noise
.
Don't also work to get rid ofthe negative body image noise
and the body image noise, theconstant thought of body image,
whatever it might be negative,neutral.
We need to get rid of all thatnoise.
So, do the body image work.
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If you do not also do the bodyimage work, along with the food
work, you are going to remainstuck in pseudo recovery, and I
see this all the time, andthat's why in my program there's
so much focus on body image,work as well as food, because
you will backslide and not getto full recovery where you truly
feel free and can let thesethings behind and think about
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all the things in your lifeother than food and body.
You cannot get there if youdon't do the body, and the last
thing to start doing to get ridof food noise is get support.
Get support.
Get help from someone who isspecialized, who's walked people
through this, who know whatthey're doing.
It will get you to recovery alot faster and help you get to
recovery.
Work with someone who'sstrained in this.
This isn't about willpower,it's about rewiring.
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It is about re-educating.
It's about doing all the work,no stone unturned, to get to
full recovery and gettinguncomfortable and doing things
differently.
Okay, one last thing I want toname and also, of course, side
note.
If you have any questions aboutthis, let me know.
Dm me at jamierd underscore andlet me know what questions do
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you have about food noise?
What did I not cover that youliked here?
I can always do a part two or apart three or a part four.
I'm happy to keep chattingabout this.
This is so common.
I have spoken about this foryears in many different contexts
and I absolutely believe youcan quiet it, a hundred percent
quiet it.
Okay, I want to leave you withthis and that is the to scream
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from the rooftops or scream outon this mic for this podcast is
yes, you can fully get rid offood and body image noise Fully.
No more, not just half of them,not just a quarter of them, not
75% of them, but back to aclean slate where you think of
food in a respectful, joyful,healthy way.
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I have I want to share a littlebit about my experience and
I've worked with tons of clientsto help them quiet.
Quiet their food noise, butfood noise.
But I'll speak to myself.
No journey, two journeys arethe same, right?
No one, no journey is the same.
But I want to name this becauseI used to think about food and
my body 24 seven, 24 seven.
I'd be physically present withpeople, but mentally stuck in
(25:00):
food, math rules, shame spiralsconstantly.
It took up so much of my energy.
Now, oh my gosh, food is justfood.
I trust my body, I trust food,I trust movement.
I eat, I move on.
I enjoy food out.
I move on.
I make a meal full of veggies.
I move on.
I go get ice cream afterwards,I move on.
I trust my body, I trust it'son my team and this kind of
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peace with food and body imageis a hundred percent possible.
I would not be doing this workIt'd be very hard, sad work if I
didn't believe it was a hundredpercent possible and I do.
I believe that for you.
Okay, now I want to normalizethat this journey is not an
overnight journey, but it'sabsolutely worth it and you
absolutely deserve to investfully in yourself.
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Think of that.
Why is it important to invest,to do this work and get
uncomfortable?
Because people don't like toget uncomfortable.
They don't like to invest inthemselves.
They don't until they like hita rock bottom right Potentially,
or they've exhausted thedieting option which, even
though they've seen their last20 diets didn't work.
They still don't want to investin doing something different.
And that's because it's scary.
Okay, but think of what itgives you back when you truly
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seek full recovery and invest inthat.
What does it give you back forrelationships?
What does it give you back foryour values?
What does it give back in yourcareer?
What does it give back in yourdaily life?
What does it allow you to do.
It's completely transforming ofyour life.
Yet we invest in these otherthings that don't give us
anything back, and yet it's hardto get uncomfortable and invest
in ourselves, in this, this, inthis way, and so I want you to
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sit with that as well.
If you are having anopportunity to invest in
yourself and invest in fullrecovery.
What's happening when you sayit's not the right time, no, I
can't, I can't, it's not for me.
I'm telling you, it is for you.
You can get there with theright tools specialized support,
education, mindset.
Yes, you can, you can get there.
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So if you're ready to quiet thefood noise and the body image
noise and you noise and tofinally feel completely free
around food and body, I'd loveto help you get there.
If you'd like to work with meto uncover all those root causes
, to change those behaviors, torecreate your relationship with
food and body and get back tothat garden that was a clean
slate and plant a bunch ofbeautiful flowers in there, I
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want to help you clear out thatfood noise and that body image
noise for good.
If you're interested, dm me atjamierd underscore about how you
can work with me and how we canget you to full recovery and I
can't wait to get you there Ifit's not the right time for you
yet.
I hope you enjoyed this podcast.
Let me know how else I cansupport you around this topic
and others, and I can't wait tosee you next time.
You're doing great.
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This is not an overnightjourney.
You're doing fabulous.
I believe in recovery for you.
Okay, until next time, have agreat day.
Thank you for tuning in toBites and Body Love.
Ready for true food and bodyfreedom?
Apply to join my program TrueBody Image Freedom for Everybody
, where we will guide you everystep of the way.
Dm me at jamierd underscore onInstagram or Facebook for a no
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pressure conversation so we canlearn more about you and your
fit for the program.
Remember, every step towardloving your body is a victory.
Subscribe and leave a review tosupport our message of body
liberation.
Stay awesome and see you nexttime You've got this.
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