How To Love Your Body

Welcome to How to Love Your Body. On today’s episode we are going to be talking about how the fear of weight gain doesn’t actually control your weight (lose, gain, stay the same)- even though it feels like it does.  When we say, fear of weight gain, what do we mean?  It means:  -You are constantly aware of what food you are eating. If it’s “healthy” or “unhealthy.” -You always feel like eating food has a reward or consequence - if you eat nutritious healthy “light” food, you will be rewarded with weight loss (or at least not weight gain). If you eat unhealthy processed food / desserts / carbs etc then you face the consequence of weight gain.  -You make choices with the diet brain instead of your intuition.  -Even if you allow the food and you physically are eating it - you have mental restriction, meaning you have lots of shame, judgement, guilt, and a feeling that you shouldn’t be eating what you’re eating.  -There’s an undertone of fear, self hate, judgement, shame rather than love/ peace, self respe