EP 13 - IE Principles 7 & 8: Cope with your feelings without food & Body respect

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In this episode we are covering principles 7 and 8: cope with your feelings without using food, and body respect.

Principle 7: cope with your emotions without using food. 

I fully believe you can use food to cope and when it is your only source of coping it will lead to more misery. 

I shared with you the continuum for emotional eating: from sensory gratification to using food as punishment. And we talked about some of the feelings that you may be using food to cope with.

I shared my solution of compassion and understanding, and dove a little deeper into this. We also discussed other ways you can cope with uncomfortable emotions that don’t involve food. 

Principle 8 focuses on body respect. I share a brief history of the ever changing body ideal and how hard it is to hit a moving target.  I shared how body positivity can be problematic and how shifting to a lens of body respect and body neutrality is much more effective.  I also shared how you can begin to respect your body by making it comfortable and meeting its basic needs. 

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