April 8, 2023 • 15 mins
OUTWEIGH: How many times have you felt guilty before or after you ate something? Saying things to yourself like: "I shouldn't have..." or "Should I compensate after eating this...” That inner voice that beats us up before we eat and makes us feel guilty afterward is our worst enemy. Amy shares some ways to calm yourself down when food guilt pops up and stresses you out:
- Something easy that you can do anytime, anywhere......is 4 rounds of the 4, 7, 8 deep breathing technique
- Put on your favorite song….and sing along!!!!
- Take a cold shower!!!
- Practice the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 grounding technique! Acknowledge 5 things you see in your surroundings; 4 things you can tough, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell and finally 1 thing you can taste.
- Find a quiet place to try this calming yoga pose, the legs up the wall pose! Lie down on the floor and let your straight legs rest against the wall. Your butt should be up against the wall so that your body is at a 90 degree angle. If you're able, stay in this position for a full 20 minutes to really let your body reset.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I won't let my body out outweigh everything that I'm
made do, won't spend my life trying to change. I'm
learning to love who I am again. I'm strong, I
feel free, I know who every part of me. It's
beautiful and then will always out way if you feel
(00:24):
it with your hands in the air, shows some love
to the food I am the let's say good day
at time? Did you and die out? Happy Saturday? Outweigh
amy here And something I experienced the other day for
first time in a while was food guilt. So that's
what inspired this episode. If you're someone that also has
(00:46):
food guilt, while you're not alone, because research shows that
food guilt is very, very very common. However, just because
it's common doesn't mean that we have to accept the
thoughts and keep them around. The Guilt we feel only
does harm, and I know that from personal experience for sure.
So how many times have you felt guilty before or
(01:09):
after you ate something? That's something you could think about?
And then I think once you start thinking about it,
you'll become more aware of the guilty thoughts. And maybe
I've had more thoughts lately and I just wasn't aware
of them, but I was aware of one that hit
me this week, and I was like, WHOA, Okay, I
don't really like this. I need to stop it in
its tracks. Almost. I used to live with food guilt
(01:31):
twenty four to seven, but I've been in recovery for
about three years now, and I would say the food
guilt has been at bay, but it rears its head
from time to time. And food guilt is saying things
to yourself like I shouldn't have or should I compensate
after eating this? Or oh, should I continue eating? And
that inner voice that's what beats us up before we eat,
(01:52):
or it's what makes us feel guilty after we eat,
and it is our worst enemy. It's open so deeply
into our minds, or at least it wasn't my mind
for so long. Like I said twenty four to seven,
I had food guilt all the time, and I was
always quote unquote punishing myself from eating whatever it was
(02:14):
or restricting and then that would cause the binge. Anyway,
becomes a natural response because that is how we wire
our brains, especially if we've been dealing with and eating
disorder or poor body image. But again, we don't have
to accept the thoughts even if it's just the natural
thing that's happening to us, and some parts of society
even affirm the thoughts that we should feel guilty, but
(02:36):
we shouldn't feel guilty, and we don't have to we
don't have to live that way. I'm proof that you
can rewire your brain. I said, was like that was
true for me a second ago, about food guilt being
so woven deeply into my mind because I put in
the work the last few years to build new neuropathways,
and so because of that, when the food guilt pops up,
(02:58):
I'm a little caught off guard. However, because I've rewired
my brain, I love that I'm aware of the food
guilt thought being not okay, and I pivot from it
instead of giving into it. So instead of listening to
that lower part of my brain that's feeding me the
food guilt, I tap into the higher parts of my
brain and I shut it down. And for me, it's
not as simple as saying, okay, lower brain, shut that
(03:20):
thought down, you're not welcome here, which I do say that,
but then I go further just to make sure that
I regulate myself, because for me, when food guilt pops up,
it's not just the thought. My body reacts to it.
I suddenly start to feel stressed, So I want to
take myself out of the stress mode and eliminate the
(03:42):
food guilt that just caused that, But the stress is
still showing up in my body, if that makes sense.
So I'm going to share with you some ways to
calm down when you're stressed. And you can use these
things even when food guilt isn't the issue. You can
use them for any type of stress, or when your
nerves just feel shot, which completely sets off your nervous
system and it causes whole chain reaction of problems. So again,
(04:06):
here are some ways to calm down and get yourself
regulated before it gets out of control. And something easy
that you can do anytime anywhere is the four seven
eight deep breathing technique. Big fan of that my whole
household is sometimes I just pause and I do four
rounds of four seven eight, and that's in for four,
hold for seven out for eight. Repeat that a handful
(04:28):
of times, four times, five times, maybe six times, maybe
two handful if you need to, and that breathwork will
calm your body even if you're thinking it's not really
doing anything it is, but I also want you to
have a positive mindset about it. You could also put
on your favorite song and sing along. Something that we've
(04:48):
been singing in my house a lot. This week is
a song by Blessing Offer and it's called Brighter Days,
and it's like, I know there's gonna be some bad day.
I mean, I can't sing, but look at that song.
Listen to it. It is so powerful it will move you.
He performed it on the Bobby Bones Show this week.
(05:10):
Chris Tomlin came in and he brought Blessing and my
son is obsessed with that song and so we often
listen to it. But ever since Blessing came into the
Bobby Bones Show, we've been listening to it a lot more,
especially since Blessing made Stevenson a cute little video. But
whatever the song is like something maybe that one would
get you too emotional, but maybe you do need to cry.
(05:33):
Sometimes you can use music to have an emotional release.
Maybe it's a fun song. Whatever it is, just put
it on and sing along. Something that that does inside
your brain and your body will help you feel better.
If you have the option to take a cold shower,
that could do the trick practice the five four three
(05:53):
two one grounding technique. Talked about this one before. It's
really really good. It's something that my sister started doing
and she saw a notice when I saw she noticed,
excuse me, that it was helping her significantly when she
was having some anxiety and stress. And pretty much what
the five four three two one grounding technique is is
you acknowledge five things that you see in your surroundings,
(06:16):
four things you can touch, three things you can hear,
two things you can smell, and finally one thing that
you can taste. You could also find a quiet place
to try this calming yoga pose that's really easy. It's
nothing crazy. If you've never done yoga before, some may
(06:37):
not even consider this to be yoga, so don't freak out.
Try the legs up the wall position. It's the legs
up the wall post which can reduce stress. All you
got to do is lay down on the floor and
let your straight legs rest up against the wall. Your
butt should be right up against that bottom part of
the wall so that your body is at a ninety
(06:59):
degree angle. And then if you're able to stay in
this position for as long as possible, like twenty minutes
and your body will reset. Maybe you don't have twenty,
do five, do ten. Maybe you double up on some
of these and you lay up against the wall on
the wallpost for twenty minutes and you do some four
(07:20):
seven eight breathing. You start to make a list in
your head of all of the different things that you're
thankful for. I feel like gratitude is often something that
slows me down if I take time to journal and
think through all of the things that I appreciate in
life and all that is working out for me. And
(07:40):
don't make things worse by judging yourself. If you have
food guilt and then you beat yourself up about the thoughts,
it's so important to well not do that. It's only
going to make things worse. I kind of love what
Taylor Swift shared in her documentary about changing the channel
and her brain when these kind of thoughts would pop
up for her. I love it. She just said, you
(08:01):
know what, I can't listen to that anymore. I got
to change the channel. So if you notice the guilt,
change the channel in your brain. That's what you're doing.
When you're rewiring your brain, You're building a new neural pathway.
You're changing the channel and the more you change it,
the easier it will get. And I don't want any
of us of us to feel guilty about food. I
want us to enjoy food. Which I actually saw a
(08:24):
study that was interesting and asked people if they associated
chocolate cake with more guilt or celebration. And you would
think chocolate cake equals celebration, but the results showed that
the people who said the chocolate cake was associated with guilt,
they felt less in control around food and they were
more likely to overeat. And the majority of the people
(08:46):
felt the guilt, which the overeating thing and the guilt
it's because the chocolate cake was made to be bad
in our minds. So then when we assign a moral
value to food, we talk about this off in But
I even still catch myself doing it when I'm trying
to explain things to my kids, like oh, I don't
want us to eat fried chicken nuggets every day or
(09:08):
whatever it is, because that's bad for you. But then
they're like what why is it bad? And then like, shoot,
I just assigned a moral value to the chicken nuggets.
So then I tried to walk them through the process
of fried foods and how sure we can enjoy those,
but when it comes to our body, we need to
be cautious of how many times we're putting the fried
(09:28):
foods in our body. And then I explain like heart
and cholesterol, like I actually had Alexa. I pulled that
up and said, hey, can you explain why fried foods
might not be the best choice to have every single day?
Although I will say, if you're in the early days
of recovery, like when I was, the pendulum swung so
(09:50):
far the other direction, that all foods were a okay
all the time, as they should be right because in
my brain, if I start to say that a food
is not a okay, that's when I give the food power,
like the chocolate cake, and then I overeat it. But
I had to swing so far over. Now I feel
like my pendulum is balanced out and I can appreciate
(10:10):
the good foods and I can appreciate see I just
did it there, See how natural it is for our
brains to do that, because woo, I caught myself. Though,
I can appreciate foods that are really high in nutrition
and are going to give my body some loving care
and vitamins and nutrients and minerals that it needs, and
then I can appreciate the other types of food that
are going to bring me joy and make me happy
(10:33):
and create memories and enjoy with people, or bring me comfort,
whatever it is the foods need to do. They're in
their place. But again, they're not good or bad. And
I love that. I just gave you a perfect, real
life example of me calling a food good when I'm
sitting here telling you and myself. By the way, again,
i'm not the expert. I'm just here with y'all to
not make foods good or bad. Because then with the
(10:56):
chocolate cake, that's back to that example. It's like, oh,
if there's guilt associated with the chocolate cake, more guilt
than celebration, then that's when, oh, you feel bad or
oh I'm going to eat this just this one last time.
So you see the cake, you're trying to celebrate something,
You're like, Okay, I'm just going to eat all the
cake I can right now because I'm never going to
(11:16):
eat this cake again. That's what happens when we give
food power like that. At least that's what happened for me.
I also did a meditation recently that really helped me
feel connected and in tune with my body. So sometimes
we just feel out of alignment, and I feel like
you could go to YouTube. Maybe meditation is not your thing.
(11:37):
Seems a little woo woo, but I have seen such
a difference. So I've been doing a meditation challenge this
month and I'm seven days in at the time of
me recording this, and I've really really enjoyed it. It
doesn't take tons of time. Even if you've just got
five minutes, you could do that. The meditations I'm doing
(11:57):
right now are averaging about ten minutes. If you've got twenty,
that would be great. Maybe you lay and do a
meditation with your legs on the wall like earlier. But
there's so many resources and tools out there on YouTube
where you could just click a video and have it
run and they'll it's a guided meditation, and they'll be
saying mantras that are good for you to hear, and
(12:18):
you can try to just repeat them. And I have
tons of other thoughts that enter my brain when I'm
trying to meditate, but that's okay. I acknowledge them, I
set them aside, and then I try to continue with
the guided meditation. The mantra that I have going on.
I am only able to do guided ones at this point.
I'm not someone that can just sit there and meditate
all by myself with nothing around. But whatever is going
(12:41):
on with you and your body right now and the disconnect,
whether it's over eating or under eating, or maybe you're
drinking too much, or maybe it's just that you're not
getting enough sleep, or maybe it's just you don't want
to get out of bed, you want to just lay
around and sleep all day long, or you feel out
of sync with your workouts or your movement or whatever
it is, you're just not vibing with it. Try one
(13:05):
of these meditations that you can just search up. I
would just do you know, a I want to feel
connected with my body meditation, See what pops up, play
around with it, listen to them, see what resonate with you,
and then set an intention with yourself while you're doing it,
to forgive yourself for the guilty thoughts. Because again back
(13:27):
to what we talked about earlier with the judgment, I
know I have it right away, and then that can
snowball and spiral with negative thinking. But if we forgive
ourselves for any negative actions, for any guilty thoughts, for
any judgments that we've placed upon ourselves or our body.
I truly believe we're going to be in a better
place with ourselves. And you can say something like this
silently or out loud, but you can say I'm willing
(13:50):
to forgive myself for judging my body and the food
guilt that I had today, and or the actions I
have taken against my body, whatever is. You can just
say that over and over. I am willing to forgive
myself for this food guilt. I'm willing to forgive myself
for these thoughts. I am willing to forgive myself for
judging myself and maybe others. But this is us focusing
(14:14):
on our minds on our body. You've only got one,
and the more you feel connected to it, the more
you're going to be aware of the thoughts that you're having.
And so that's another reason why I like tying meditation
into this as well, because that's something you can bring
into your daily routine that'll help you feel more connected,
(14:36):
more aware. You got to be aware of the thoughts.
If you have the food guilt and you're not even
aware of them, that's just going to start eating you alive.
There you go. That's my little talk today on food guilt.
So if you're having it, you are not alone. But
there is another way. Okay, hope y'all are having the
day that you need to have. I will see you
on Tuesday for the fifth thing over on the Four
(14:56):
Things podcast. That's the one I host with kat de
Fada at You Need Therapy, which actually I want to
close out with a quote that I saw on You
Need Therapy podcast Instagram page. It says here, it's not
hard to be who you are. What's hard is trying
to stop being who you think others want you to be.
And a lot of times the pressure we put on
ourselves with our body and our self image, it's coming
(15:18):
from outside sources. So we're thinking we need to fit
the mold of whatever X y Z. But that's really hard.
So it's not hard to be who you are. What's
hard is trying to stop being who you think others
want you to be. So shout out Katifada and you
need Therapy for that quote. All right, see you later
by
I won't let my body out outweigh everything that I'm
made do, won't spend my life trying to change. I'm
learning to love who I am again. I'm strong, I
feel free, I know who every part of me. It's
beautiful and then will always out way if you feel
(00:24):
it with your hands in the air, shows some love
to the food I am the let's say good day
at time? Did you and die out? Happy Saturday? Outweigh
amy here And something I experienced the other day for
first time in a while was food guilt. So that's
what inspired this episode. If you're someone that also has
(00:46):
food guilt, while you're not alone, because research shows that
food guilt is very, very very common. However, just because
it's common doesn't mean that we have to accept the
thoughts and keep them around. The Guilt we feel only
does harm, and I know that from personal experience for sure.
So how many times have you felt guilty before or
(01:09):
after you ate something? That's something you could think about?
And then I think once you start thinking about it,
you'll become more aware of the guilty thoughts. And maybe
I've had more thoughts lately and I just wasn't aware
of them, but I was aware of one that hit
me this week, and I was like, WHOA, Okay, I
don't really like this. I need to stop it in
its tracks. Almost. I used to live with food guilt
(01:31):
twenty four to seven, but I've been in recovery for
about three years now, and I would say the food
guilt has been at bay, but it rears its head
from time to time. And food guilt is saying things
to yourself like I shouldn't have or should I compensate
after eating this? Or oh, should I continue eating? And
that inner voice that's what beats us up before we eat,
(01:52):
or it's what makes us feel guilty after we eat,
and it is our worst enemy. It's open so deeply
into our minds, or at least it wasn't my mind
for so long. Like I said twenty four to seven,
I had food guilt all the time, and I was
always quote unquote punishing myself from eating whatever it was
(02:14):
or restricting and then that would cause the binge. Anyway,
becomes a natural response because that is how we wire
our brains, especially if we've been dealing with and eating
disorder or poor body image. But again, we don't have
to accept the thoughts even if it's just the natural
thing that's happening to us, and some parts of society
even affirm the thoughts that we should feel guilty, but
(02:36):
we shouldn't feel guilty, and we don't have to we
don't have to live that way. I'm proof that you
can rewire your brain. I said, was like that was
true for me a second ago, about food guilt being
so woven deeply into my mind because I put in
the work the last few years to build new neuropathways,
and so because of that, when the food guilt pops up,
(02:58):
I'm a little caught off guard. However, because I've rewired
my brain, I love that I'm aware of the food
guilt thought being not okay, and I pivot from it
instead of giving into it. So instead of listening to
that lower part of my brain that's feeding me the
food guilt, I tap into the higher parts of my
brain and I shut it down. And for me, it's
not as simple as saying, okay, lower brain, shut that
(03:20):
thought down, you're not welcome here, which I do say that,
but then I go further just to make sure that
I regulate myself, because for me, when food guilt pops up,
it's not just the thought. My body reacts to it.
I suddenly start to feel stressed, So I want to
take myself out of the stress mode and eliminate the
(03:42):
food guilt that just caused that, But the stress is
still showing up in my body, if that makes sense.
So I'm going to share with you some ways to
calm down when you're stressed. And you can use these
things even when food guilt isn't the issue. You can
use them for any type of stress, or when your
nerves just feel shot, which completely sets off your nervous
system and it causes whole chain reaction of problems. So again,
(04:06):
here are some ways to calm down and get yourself
regulated before it gets out of control. And something easy
that you can do anytime anywhere is the four seven
eight deep breathing technique. Big fan of that my whole
household is sometimes I just pause and I do four
rounds of four seven eight, and that's in for four,
hold for seven out for eight. Repeat that a handful
(04:28):
of times, four times, five times, maybe six times, maybe
two handful if you need to, and that breathwork will
calm your body even if you're thinking it's not really
doing anything it is, but I also want you to
have a positive mindset about it. You could also put
on your favorite song and sing along. Something that we've
(04:48):
been singing in my house a lot. This week is
a song by Blessing Offer and it's called Brighter Days,
and it's like, I know there's gonna be some bad day.
I mean, I can't sing, but look at that song.
Listen to it. It is so powerful it will move you.
He performed it on the Bobby Bones Show this week.
(05:10):
Chris Tomlin came in and he brought Blessing and my
son is obsessed with that song and so we often
listen to it. But ever since Blessing came into the
Bobby Bones Show, we've been listening to it a lot more,
especially since Blessing made Stevenson a cute little video. But
whatever the song is like something maybe that one would
get you too emotional, but maybe you do need to cry.
(05:33):
Sometimes you can use music to have an emotional release.
Maybe it's a fun song. Whatever it is, just put
it on and sing along. Something that that does inside
your brain and your body will help you feel better.
If you have the option to take a cold shower,
that could do the trick practice the five four three
(05:53):
two one grounding technique. Talked about this one before. It's
really really good. It's something that my sister started doing
and she saw a notice when I saw she noticed,
excuse me, that it was helping her significantly when she
was having some anxiety and stress. And pretty much what
the five four three two one grounding technique is is
you acknowledge five things that you see in your surroundings,
(06:16):
four things you can touch, three things you can hear,
two things you can smell, and finally one thing that
you can taste. You could also find a quiet place
to try this calming yoga pose that's really easy. It's
nothing crazy. If you've never done yoga before, some may
(06:37):
not even consider this to be yoga, so don't freak out.
Try the legs up the wall position. It's the legs
up the wall post which can reduce stress. All you
got to do is lay down on the floor and
let your straight legs rest up against the wall. Your
butt should be right up against that bottom part of
the wall so that your body is at a ninety
(06:59):
degree angle. And then if you're able to stay in
this position for as long as possible, like twenty minutes
and your body will reset. Maybe you don't have twenty,
do five, do ten. Maybe you double up on some
of these and you lay up against the wall on
the wallpost for twenty minutes and you do some four
(07:20):
seven eight breathing. You start to make a list in
your head of all of the different things that you're
thankful for. I feel like gratitude is often something that
slows me down if I take time to journal and
think through all of the things that I appreciate in
life and all that is working out for me. And
(07:40):
don't make things worse by judging yourself. If you have
food guilt and then you beat yourself up about the thoughts,
it's so important to well not do that. It's only
going to make things worse. I kind of love what
Taylor Swift shared in her documentary about changing the channel
and her brain when these kind of thoughts would pop
up for her. I love it. She just said, you
(08:01):
know what, I can't listen to that anymore. I got
to change the channel. So if you notice the guilt,
change the channel in your brain. That's what you're doing.
When you're rewiring your brain, You're building a new neural pathway.
You're changing the channel and the more you change it,
the easier it will get. And I don't want any
of us of us to feel guilty about food. I
want us to enjoy food. Which I actually saw a
(08:24):
study that was interesting and asked people if they associated
chocolate cake with more guilt or celebration. And you would
think chocolate cake equals celebration, but the results showed that
the people who said the chocolate cake was associated with guilt,
they felt less in control around food and they were
more likely to overeat. And the majority of the people
(08:46):
felt the guilt, which the overeating thing and the guilt
it's because the chocolate cake was made to be bad
in our minds. So then when we assign a moral
value to food, we talk about this off in But
I even still catch myself doing it when I'm trying
to explain things to my kids, like oh, I don't
want us to eat fried chicken nuggets every day or
(09:08):
whatever it is, because that's bad for you. But then
they're like what why is it bad? And then like, shoot,
I just assigned a moral value to the chicken nuggets.
So then I tried to walk them through the process
of fried foods and how sure we can enjoy those,
but when it comes to our body, we need to
be cautious of how many times we're putting the fried
(09:28):
foods in our body. And then I explain like heart
and cholesterol, like I actually had Alexa. I pulled that
up and said, hey, can you explain why fried foods
might not be the best choice to have every single day?
Although I will say, if you're in the early days
of recovery, like when I was, the pendulum swung so
(09:50):
far the other direction, that all foods were a okay
all the time, as they should be right because in
my brain, if I start to say that a food
is not a okay, that's when I give the food power,
like the chocolate cake, and then I overeat it. But
I had to swing so far over. Now I feel
like my pendulum is balanced out and I can appreciate
(10:10):
the good foods and I can appreciate see I just
did it there, See how natural it is for our
brains to do that, because woo, I caught myself. Though,
I can appreciate foods that are really high in nutrition
and are going to give my body some loving care
and vitamins and nutrients and minerals that it needs, and
then I can appreciate the other types of food that
are going to bring me joy and make me happy
(10:33):
and create memories and enjoy with people, or bring me comfort,
whatever it is the foods need to do. They're in
their place. But again, they're not good or bad. And
I love that. I just gave you a perfect, real
life example of me calling a food good when I'm
sitting here telling you and myself. By the way, again,
i'm not the expert. I'm just here with y'all to
not make foods good or bad. Because then with the
(10:56):
chocolate cake, that's back to that example. It's like, oh,
if there's guilt associated with the chocolate cake, more guilt
than celebration, then that's when, oh, you feel bad or
oh I'm going to eat this just this one last time.
So you see the cake, you're trying to celebrate something,
You're like, Okay, I'm just going to eat all the
cake I can right now because I'm never going to
(11:16):
eat this cake again. That's what happens when we give
food power like that. At least that's what happened for me.
I also did a meditation recently that really helped me
feel connected and in tune with my body. So sometimes
we just feel out of alignment, and I feel like
you could go to YouTube. Maybe meditation is not your thing.
(11:37):
Seems a little woo woo, but I have seen such
a difference. So I've been doing a meditation challenge this
month and I'm seven days in at the time of
me recording this, and I've really really enjoyed it. It
doesn't take tons of time. Even if you've just got
five minutes, you could do that. The meditations I'm doing
(11:57):
right now are averaging about ten minutes. If you've got twenty,
that would be great. Maybe you lay and do a
meditation with your legs on the wall like earlier. But
there's so many resources and tools out there on YouTube
where you could just click a video and have it
run and they'll it's a guided meditation, and they'll be
saying mantras that are good for you to hear, and
(12:18):
you can try to just repeat them. And I have
tons of other thoughts that enter my brain when I'm
trying to meditate, but that's okay. I acknowledge them, I
set them aside, and then I try to continue with
the guided meditation. The mantra that I have going on.
I am only able to do guided ones at this point.
I'm not someone that can just sit there and meditate
all by myself with nothing around. But whatever is going
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on with you and your body right now and the disconnect,
whether it's over eating or under eating, or maybe you're
drinking too much, or maybe it's just that you're not
getting enough sleep, or maybe it's just you don't want
to get out of bed, you want to just lay
around and sleep all day long, or you feel out
of sync with your workouts or your movement or whatever
it is, you're just not vibing with it. Try one
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of these meditations that you can just search up. I
would just do you know, a I want to feel
connected with my body meditation, See what pops up, play
around with it, listen to them, see what resonate with you,
and then set an intention with yourself while you're doing it,
to forgive yourself for the guilty thoughts. Because again back
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to what we talked about earlier with the judgment, I
know I have it right away, and then that can
snowball and spiral with negative thinking. But if we forgive
ourselves for any negative actions, for any guilty thoughts, for
any judgments that we've placed upon ourselves or our body.
I truly believe we're going to be in a better
place with ourselves. And you can say something like this
silently or out loud, but you can say I'm willing
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to forgive myself for judging my body and the food
guilt that I had today, and or the actions I
have taken against my body, whatever is. You can just
say that over and over. I am willing to forgive
myself for this food guilt. I'm willing to forgive myself
for these thoughts. I am willing to forgive myself for
judging myself and maybe others. But this is us focusing
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on our minds on our body. You've only got one,
and the more you feel connected to it, the more
you're going to be aware of the thoughts that you're having.
And so that's another reason why I like tying meditation
into this as well, because that's something you can bring
into your daily routine that'll help you feel more connected,
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more aware. You got to be aware of the thoughts.
If you have the food guilt and you're not even
aware of them, that's just going to start eating you alive.
There you go. That's my little talk today on food guilt.
So if you're having it, you are not alone. But
there is another way. Okay, hope y'all are having the
day that you need to have. I will see you
on Tuesday for the fifth thing over on the Four
(14:56):
Things podcast. That's the one I host with kat de
Fada at You Need Therapy, which actually I want to
close out with a quote that I saw on You
Need Therapy podcast Instagram page. It says here, it's not
hard to be who you are. What's hard is trying
to stop being who you think others want you to be.
And a lot of times the pressure we put on
ourselves with our body and our self image, it's coming
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from outside sources. So we're thinking we need to fit
the mold of whatever X y Z. But that's really hard.
So it's not hard to be who you are. What's
hard is trying to stop being who you think others
want you to be. So shout out Katifada and you
need Therapy for that quote. All right, see you later
by
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