Life After Diets

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107. But Should I Journal? Aug 02, 2023

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Are you a journal-er? Do you want to be a journal-er? In this episode, we explore the benefits and drawbacks of journaling from the perspectives of Sarah (a journaler) and Stef (an ex-journaler). As you might expect, this is not a black and white issue; what feels helpful for some might not be as helpful for others. We'll look at:

Stef's journaling experiment
Can journaling make us more anxious? And if so, what else can we do?
Rambling, stream-of-consciousness journaling versus intention journaling
What if someone finds my journal??
Sarah pulls out one of her journal entries from the first time she met Stef in NYC
Handwriting versus typewritten
The pressure of journaling
Is it easier or harder to write when you're feeling low/depressed?
Decreasing perfectionism around journaling as a way to decrease perfectionism in general
Art journaling; bullet journaling
The Artists' Way by Julia Cameron
What journal prompt do you need right now?
Meet us in Dublin!

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Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

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YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

106. But How Do I Deal With Jealousy Jul 27, 2023

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Have you ever felt jealous of someone else's body? (Or anything else, really?) Comparison is normal, but if jealousy's got you down, this episode will teach you how to banish it, forever, from your life. Just kidding. But we WILL discuss:

The difference between envy and jealousy
What does jealousy feel like in the body?
A technique for jealousy
Sarah wants Stef's house but Stef wants Sarah's freedom
If we had the thing we were jealous of, it might play a supporting role, but would it really change things at the core?
Are we more prone to jealousy when we have potential to be the thing (or do or get the thing) we're jealous of?
It's not fair!!!
Does gratitude work to help us deal with jealousy? Or is that toxic positivity…
Jealousy is an emotion like anger or sadness; we don't "get rid of it," we learn to ride the wave
What can we learn about our values from jealousy?
What if I was really happier in a smaller body, and that's why I'm jealous of thinner people?

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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

105. Weight & Invisibility Jul 19, 2023

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The intersection of weight and visibility is discussed at length in this episode. Weight can make us feel more visible or less visible because it is something our culture pays attention to. When we lose weight, we are "seen"; when we gain weight, we may become invisible. We discuss this topic from psychodynamic and somatic perspectives; how might our weight be protecting us? Note: this episode is not suggesting that weight is pathological. Body sizes are diverse among humans depending on a multitude of factors, and largely dependent on genetics. This episode looks at weight, trauma, and visibility as one part of a larger picture.

We discuss:

Unwanted sexual attention
Weight loss as a way of being "good" for parents
Weight as a "nice" identity; what if we lose weight and become more threatening to other females?
I have a conflicting desire to be seen and not to be seen
Why would we be afraid of meeting our own needs?
If we are visible – or exposed – what if we can't find safety in our hiding again?

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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

104. But I've Heard That Fasting Is Helpful... Jul 12, 2023

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Fasting is a trend that claims to have health benefits and influence on weight loss. What do we make of the hype? And how does it factor into people who have a history of eating disorders/disordered eating?

Fasting in religion
Fasting for wellness reasons
How restricting – even if it was one time many years ago – gets coded as trauma in the body and "sabotages" our fasting efforts later on.
The 5:2 "lifestyle"
The "big names" that influenced Sarah and Stef's fasting experiences
How do you know if you're fasting for health or fasting for control?
Hunger vs appetite
Is waiting to eat in the morning ever a good idea?
Fasting is not just a physiological event

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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

103. A Conversation with Evelyn Tribole, Co-Founder of Intuitive Eating Jul 05, 2023

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This is the third week in our mini-series on Intuitive Eating, and this week we have Evelyn Tribole (co-founder of Intuitive Eating) on the podcast to talk about her personal stories and perspectives. We discuss:

Most people don't believe IE will work for them
Personal influences on Evelyn's own journey of IE
How do we stay positive when there is so much diet culture all over the place?
TikTok is getting Intuitive Eating wrong
Evelyn's favorite principle of IE (hint: it's not the same as Elyse's, Sarah's, or Stef's)
How do you know if you're doing Intuitive Eating right?
Evelyn's gets personal!
What Evelyn learned from her breast cancer diagnosis
Listener Questions:
- How do we handle food if we are taking a medication that increases appetite?
- How do you know the difference between a rule and intuition?
- Getting ravenous at night!?

Connect with Evelyn: https://www.evelyntribole.com

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Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

102. Intuitive Eating with Co-Founder Elyse Resch Jun 28, 2023

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This week we are talking to one of the co-founders of Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch! Alongside Evelyn Tribole, Elyse developed and wrote the book Intuitive Eating, which has gained popularity for people who have been burned by diets and want to get back in touch with their body's intuition around food. However, this process is more complicated than it sounds. Elyse answers questions from our community and explains many of the nuances of IE for our listeners.

Intuitive Eating: is it a method for weight loss?
How does IE work if you don't have reliable hunger and fullness cues?
Elyse reveals how she'd change up the principles for a future edition of the book
What is "future deprivation"?
Stef's favorite principle: Respect Your Body and how it applies to this work
What about highly processed foods?
How do you get to Gentle Nutrition (and/or Gentle Movement)?
Interoception: what is it and how do you develop it?
IE is not just instinct! It's "a dynamic interplay of instinct, emotion, and thought." Different parts of the brain are present to give us different pieces of information.
Community Question: What if I binged at night and I'm not hungry in the morning? Will my body think I'm restricting if I don't eat?
Community Question: How to say No to food but not in a restrictive way?
I feel sad when I have to stop eating
Eating without distractions
Did Elyse expect IE to get so big?

Connect with Elyse:

https://elyseresch.com/EResch/

https://www.intuitiveeating.org/our-books/

Stef's Body Image Workshop! Details here

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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Stef's Body Image Workshop! Details here

101. Intuitive Eating Changed My Life! With Sinead Crowe Jun 21, 2023

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This week Sarah & Stef are joined by Sinead of Intuitive Eating Ireland! Sinead is the other half of The Intuitive Eating Hub and a co-host of our live event in Dublin this September. Sinead, the oldest of three sisters, left diet culture and started her own social media account back in 2020 and has become a popular force in Ireland for helping people leave diets behind and find success with Intuitive Eating. She sat down with us to talk about her personal story with dieting, body image, binge eating, and ultimately, recovery.

Sinead's accident as a child and how it impacted her body image
Sinead's body changes during pregnancy
Orthorexia resulting from nutritional training and how it affected Sinead's family
How Sinead and her sisters decided to stop dieting
The role of @intuitiveeatingireland social media account in helping Sinead stay in recovery
How Sinead has created a community of women in Ireland
Stef's client who went to one of Sinead's retreats!
How did Sinead let go of the desire to lose weight?
How did she deal with the actual weight gain that came from not restriction?
Join us in Dublin this September!

Connect with Sinead:

Instagram -- www.instagram.com/intuitiveeatingireland

Website: https://intuitiveeatinghub.com

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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Workshop: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/bodyimageworkshop2023/

100. Our 100th Episode! What We've Learned... Jun 14, 2023

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It's our 100th episode! We sat down at a recording studio in NYC to celebrate 100 episodes and counting. This episode recaps the lessons we've learned doing this podcast, especially from one another, and how that has shaped our professional and personal perspectives over the past couple of years.

The value of a regulated voice
"Regul-eating"
Control as a mechanism of safety
The dynamic of differing opinions
The concept of Self-abandonment (as opposed to numbing)
Sarah's concept of "states" as opposed to "being recovered."
Revisiting boundaries and rules
Vulnerability and self disclosure on the podcast
Stef's episode with her Mom; Sarah's episode talking about her mom
The pee analogy
Visit us in Dublin on 16 September: https://www.lifeafterdietspodcast.com/workshops-and-meetups/

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Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

Body Image Webinar + Workbook: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/get-started/p/bodyimage

99. But My Inner Rebel Sabotages Me Jun 07, 2023

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No conversation about dieting and restricting is complete without talking about the inner rebel! Is binge eating rebellious? Is restriction rebellious? How is our inner rebel at work when it comes to our relationship with food?

Stef grew up as a people pleaser, but deconstructed that when her binge eating became out of control.
Sarah's most important factor in keeping peace with food: feeling like she has choice.
We think of the "rebel" as a bad, naughty thing; but the rebel acts in the name our our very human need for autonomy.
Our baseline understanding of our own autonomy may develop in early childhood. Stef shares how she sees this manifesting with her children.
What about the conflict between safety and freedom? Is is possible to have both? How do we maintain a balance when we need to feel safe and grounded, but also need to feel free and unrestricted? Is that the metaphor for "control" with food (restriction) and "freedom" with food (binge eating)?
Boundaries as an exploration of safety on both sides of the pendulum. We can't understand our own boundaries until we've understood what "too far" feels like.
The rebel as a representative for our unmet needs.
Rebellion in body image. Stef feeling lack of autonomy in body size (rebelling against biology) and in fashion (rebelling against thin privilege).
Sarah LIED (gasp!) as a teenager
How we talk to and about our inner rebel matters. The rebel may need validation.
Diet culture, capitalism, patriarchy, etc is an appropriate place to rebel.

The Body Image Workshop - Stef is hosting a live workshop to learn practical tools and techniques to develop body neutrality. Eight weekly workshops beginning July 5th; presentation of tools followed by group open-forum Q&A for support. Enroll now: https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/bodyimageworkshop2023

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YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse

98. But How Would I Cope Without my Disordered Eating? May 31, 2023

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Most of us develop disordered relationships with food because that food serves a purpose; it becomes a coping tool. So when we no longer have it as a way of comforting ourselves, what happens? How do we deal with that vulnerability and the huge gap it leaves in our emotional support system?

What does the disordered eating help solve?
Stef finds restriction the bigger gap; for Sarah, it's the binges.
How do we make our own cocoons if it's not with food?
Stef's somatic practice for overwhelm
Depression energy coming up without the ED
How yoga helped Sarah go "micro" and anchor into something smaller than existential loneliness and lows
The role of safety in being able to let go of ED behaviors (because we know they work)
The Burnout Cycle (per authors Nagoski)
How does Sarah not panic?
Fear of death (how did we get to that part of this conversation??)

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YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Binge Eating Recovery Course: www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse