Episode 9: Why Dieting Makes Us Eat More, Not Less (Part 2) | The Undesirable Consequences Of Food Restriction

In this episode I talk about the thinking attached to dieting that causes you to eat more, not less.

AKA diet mentality.

Diet mentality is a fear-based restriction of food that looks like:

-Food rules

-Thoughts about "good" food & "bad" food

-"Right" eating and "wrong" eating.

-On track and off track

It's also the mental chatter that results from dieting:

I shouldn't eat this.

That food is fattening.

I wonder how many calories this has?

This is a good food, and that is a bad food…

...and so on.

In this episode you learn:

-Why diet mentality is so problematic and how it causes us to overeat.
-How dieting and diet mentality can make emotional eating worse.
-How the chatter in our minds while eating will block our brain's ability to feel satisfied by food... so we eat more.
-The body-mind connection and why mind nourishment is as important as body nourishment.
-How lasting weight loss is really achieved.
-How to gauge if you are ready to let go of dieting behaviors and the dieting mindset.
-What to do if you are afraid of letting go of dieting practices.
-All the benefits that come with letting go of dieting practices and ways of thinking.

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