When you let go of that food obsession, you will actually choose just as much food as you need and you will feel free and more focused on your life. I'm saying this strictly based on my personal experience. Sadly Instagram has become an enabler for food obsession, and as I go less and less on social media, I find myself much more connected with myself and my body.
Just wanted to say I found this super helpful. My mom put me on my first diet at 13, had me buy spanx (whatever the 90’s version was) for my 21st birthday because I had thighs, and at 45 I have been on the yo-yo diet wagon that I’ve gained more weight than lost. I have refused to have anyone talk about my kids, but here I am not realizing the example I project.
Hugs! This can be really hard to navigate, and I'm so sorry you had that experience. But, YOU have the power to break the cycle for your kids. You are an incredible mom to have this realization and there is so much healing in that too! You got this!!!❤
I think I really need to stop going on and off intermittent fasting. Though I do see results when I do it, on days when I skip breakfast, I constantly think about food until lunch.
IF is a form of calorie restriction just diet is renamed. It creates famine and fasting eating pattern which is normal. Yes while on a calorie restrictive diet you lose weight. But you have to maintain to keep weight off. Stop fooling yourself and let go of dieting. Go through the fire to learn and practice intuitive eating. This will include your body gaining back abnormal water lost with IF.
You have to do it with and professional, because skip breakfast works for some people but skip diner works for some people too. The most important if that your hormones are in balance and good.
this video was so helpful. i’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more attention. but this was rlly everything i needed to hear. i’m going all-in and i’m so ready to get a healthy relationship with food.
People have always said sugar addiction is real and I have never felt that way before so I always thought it was fake. I felt like people were saying they were addicted to sugar to put off addressing their serious eating disorder.
Just when I think I can't love you anymore, thank you for sharing your personal experience! I have been told over and over how addictive sugar is. I tried cutting it out, but a life without sugar to me would be sad. I'm so glad to break this food rule 😊
Thank you! I’m only watching this because my parents have mentally abused me a bit. They tell me all the time I need to watch my sugar intake. Whenever I eat something with sugar in it they say I’m going to get diabetes.
Addicts often cite the ritual of obtaining and preparing their drug to be even more "addicting" than the drug itself. This does not imply that heroin, meth, etc. are not addictive; they are. You are describing addiction holistically but then backing away by refusing to call it what it is--sugar addiction. Yes, the rituals, thoughts, and feelings around the actual intake of the drug are just as, if not more so, addictive. Injecting addicts often cite how they will inject water or other non-drug substances just to get that feeling if they are out of drugs. This is not news. Sugar is addicting, that is the narcotic in this instance. You are also going back and forth conflating "food" with "sugar". Food is not addictive. Sugar is. If a substance has been ground up and stripped of its nutrients as to be unrecognizable it is processed "food". These drug-foods have been chemically engineered to light up the centers in your brain the same as alcohol, nicotine, or even harder drugs to keep you coming back, reaching for them and thinking about them uncontrollably--just like any other drug. The (processed) food industry absolutely loves to inject (and fund) ambiguity into the literature. Can't blame them for wanting to maximize profits can we? We don't abstain from smoking because cigarettes are "evil". We do so because it causes lung and throat cancer, COPD, heart disease, stroke, etc. Same for sugar. It is not "evil", it simply causes Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, and all related diseases i.e. type 2 diabetes, type 3 diabetes aka dementia, stroke, heart attack, and on and on. Sugar will become what we have come to learn about nicotine and smoking. It's unfortunate millions have to continue to die slow and debilitating deaths for another 10-15 years. Depends how much long the sugar and farming (grain) industries will be able to fudge the research I suppose.
Your comment is what this video should have said. Then again she could not say this because just like the food companies she needs to worry about maximizing profits. Nobody on here wants to hear sugar is bad.
You are such a good influence on me and are helping in lots of ways. Just wanted to let you know! where others haven't understood, I feel like you are reading my mind with the videos you make :) I really struggle with counting calories, as I wanted to lose weight and to do this is involves kind of obsessing over the numbers and keeping myself 'in check' when I was watching calories. I am not sure what else works for me though, I feel out of control if I don't. Would love to see a video from you on this subject
When I obsessively watch what I eat, I am a healthy weight. When I don’t I’m 50lbs heavier and tired all the time (not healthy). I can’t believe you when you say otherwise because I don’t drink alcohol or smoke, I sleep 8+ hours a night, do light exercise 60 minutes a day, drink 100oz of water a day… but I am not healthy when I’m 50lbs overweight. My environment (USA) requires me to be disciplined or fat. Those are my two choices. I am a cactus living in a rainforest. And now I’m supposed to feel bad about the “discipline“?
well, no one said youre supposed to feel bad about discipline. no one is attacking you. But for some people, when they obsess over what they eat, they end up only thinking about food and maybe even eating more than if they didnt diet at all. for people like this, they need help. Nothing works for everyone
@@foreveraweeb242she does have more nuance than "just don't worry about it" if you watch some of her other content. Her fundamental point is that stressing out about every little calorie isn't a particularly healthy alternative to the occasional indulgence. Her more drawn out point is that if you let yourself relax and eat intuitively, then you can enjoy things like sugar and carbs in reasonable amounts, instead of depriving yourself and overindulging. Essentially, her argument is that you can have healthy habits without guilt. Instead of "I can't eat an entire sleeve of oreos because it'll make me fat and sluggish", its, "I'll have a few Oreos, because I want some, but not too many, because it'll make me feel bloated".
Hi Colleen, thank you for your great advice. My therapist really wants me to eat more meals a day. I have a normal weight and I don‘t think that it is necessary. She is angry because she thinks it is the source of my exhaustion that I experience from time to time. I binge because I am so stressed from anxiety sometimes. But I dont feel hungry and don’t blame hunger for it. What do you think about this? Can you make a video about your thoughts on regular eating patterns?
I am absolutely not a professional so please do not just take my genral purposes advice as medical advice, but weight is not the only consideration when it comes to your health and well-being. Maybe speak to your primary care doctor about it? Or maybe try working in an extra snack or two into your day for a few weeks and see how it makes you feel. Something easy to work into your day, like trail mix, dry cereal, or an orange.
I see you are making an academic argument for how sugar addiction is arguably not real, but my personal experience after doing several elimination diets like ketogenic and AIP is that my cravings actually go away the longer I stay on those ways of eating. If I relapse, I do so without too much guilt, and back onto the diet. I will say that AIP is an extremely difficult diet for just about anyone and do agree it builds an urge to binge. However, AIP diet helped me heal my body from autoimmune disease. I really need help figuring out how to eat intuitively when most of the foods I crave cause inflammation for me:-(
Growing up, I would sneak and eat as many sugar cubes without my mum noticing! I would eat spoonfuls of sugar. I constantly wanted chocolate all the time. There were many tantrums, when I wasn't allowed chocolate! In my adulthood (a short-lived) disgust for chocolate, due to pregnancy. But, I still crave chocolate to this day. And if you don't want me to eat your chocolate, then don't leave it out for me to see it (I will eat it). I've had at least 4 blocks of chocolate this week (Australian sized). I cannot just have one serving size, it'll end up being the whole thing. I also still have a spoonful of sugar sometimes when I make my coffee. So, when people say, just have a small amount and don't fully cut it out, DOESN'T HELP!!! It's either a none, or all mentality 😭. So, I have to go on periods of banning myself from chocolates... I try and replace the "sweet tooth" craving with delicious watermelon, pineapple, mandarin, grapes, carrots, etc... I do struggle with processed junk food as well, the usual; Macca's (McDonald's), Hungry Jack's, pizza, hot chips, meat pie... But, I atleast have more self-control over meals. I definitely comfort eat, as well as, snack when I'm bored. Thankfully I love my veggies and fruits. I would have to disagree with "HAES." No one who weighs 300kg (661lbs) is healthy...
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When you let go of that food obsession, you will actually choose just as much food as you need and you will feel free and more focused on your life. I'm saying this strictly based on my personal experience.
Sadly Instagram has become an enabler for food obsession, and as I go less and less on social media, I find myself much more connected with myself and my body.
Yes!! I limit my social media now and it's such a huge difference
Just wanted to say I found this super helpful. My mom put me on my first diet at 13, had me buy spanx (whatever the 90’s version was) for my 21st birthday because I had thighs, and at 45 I have been on the yo-yo diet wagon that I’ve gained more weight than lost. I have refused to have anyone talk about my kids, but here I am not realizing the example I project.
Hugs! This can be really hard to navigate, and I'm so sorry you had that experience. But, YOU have the power to break the cycle for your kids. You are an incredible mom to have this realization and there is so much healing in that too! You got this!!!❤
I think I really need to stop going on and off intermittent fasting. Though I do see results when I do it, on days when I skip breakfast, I constantly think about food until lunch.
I hear this all the time. IF is best done when restricting carbs to 100grams or less in a day and even lower if you still have cravings
I feel this comment in my soul. I've fasted 28 days straight, intermittent fasted, did OMAD. Then I binge for weeks after losing weight.
Oh my gosh yes!! I prefer intuitive eating 💯
IF is a form of calorie restriction just diet is renamed. It creates famine and fasting eating pattern which is normal. Yes while on a calorie restrictive diet you lose weight. But you have to maintain to keep weight off. Stop fooling yourself and let go of dieting. Go through the fire to learn and practice intuitive eating. This will include your body gaining back abnormal water lost with IF.
You have to do it with and professional, because skip breakfast works for some people but skip diner works for some people too. The most important if that your hormones are in balance and good.
this video was so helpful. i’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more attention. but this was rlly everything i needed to hear. i’m going all-in and i’m so ready to get a healthy relationship with food.
Just subscribed! I'm trying to build a healthier relationship with food and you are definitely helping me with my journey 💕
Welcome, Emily! So glad you're here!
People have always said sugar addiction is real and I have never felt that way before so I always thought it was fake. I felt like people were saying they were addicted to sugar to put off addressing their serious eating disorder.
Just when I think I can't love you anymore, thank you for sharing your personal experience! I have been told over and over how addictive sugar is. I tried cutting it out, but a life without sugar to me would be sad. I'm so glad to break this food rule 😊
Way to go!
Thank you! I’m only watching this because my parents have mentally abused me a bit. They tell me all the time I need to watch my sugar intake. Whenever I eat something with sugar in it they say I’m going to get diabetes.
Well, sugar just on its own, doesn't cause diabetes!
Addicts often cite the ritual of obtaining and preparing their drug to be even more "addicting" than the drug itself. This does not imply that heroin, meth, etc. are not addictive; they are. You are describing addiction holistically but then backing away by refusing to call it what it is--sugar addiction. Yes, the rituals, thoughts, and feelings around the actual intake of the drug are just as, if not more so, addictive. Injecting addicts often cite how they will inject water or other non-drug substances just to get that feeling if they are out of drugs. This is not news. Sugar is addicting, that is the narcotic in this instance. You are also going back and forth conflating "food" with "sugar". Food is not addictive. Sugar is. If a substance has been ground up and stripped of its nutrients as to be unrecognizable it is processed "food". These drug-foods have been chemically engineered to light up the centers in your brain the same as alcohol, nicotine, or even harder drugs to keep you coming back, reaching for them and thinking about them uncontrollably--just like any other drug. The (processed) food industry absolutely loves to inject (and fund) ambiguity into the literature. Can't blame them for wanting to maximize profits can we? We don't abstain from smoking because cigarettes are "evil". We do so because it causes lung and throat cancer, COPD, heart disease, stroke, etc. Same for sugar. It is not "evil", it simply causes Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, and all related diseases i.e. type 2 diabetes, type 3 diabetes aka dementia, stroke, heart attack, and on and on. Sugar will become what we have come to learn about nicotine and smoking. It's unfortunate millions have to continue to die slow and debilitating deaths for another 10-15 years. Depends how much long the sugar and farming (grain) industries will be able to fudge the research I suppose.
Your comment is what this video should have said. Then again she could not say this because just like the food companies she needs to worry about maximizing profits. Nobody on here wants to hear sugar is bad.
You are such a good influence on me and are helping in lots of ways. Just wanted to let you know! where others haven't understood, I feel like you are reading my mind with the videos you make :)
I really struggle with counting calories, as I wanted to lose weight and to do this is involves kind of obsessing over the numbers and keeping myself 'in check' when I was watching calories. I am not sure what else works for me though, I feel out of control if I don't. Would love to see a video from you on this subject
I’m so glad you covered this!!!! 😍😍😋
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Thanks for the video!
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When I obsessively watch what I eat, I am a healthy weight. When I don’t I’m 50lbs heavier and tired all the time (not healthy). I can’t believe you when you say otherwise because I don’t drink alcohol or smoke, I sleep 8+ hours a night, do light exercise 60 minutes a day, drink 100oz of water a day… but I am not healthy when I’m 50lbs overweight. My environment (USA) requires me to be disciplined or fat. Those are my two choices. I am a cactus living in a rainforest. And now I’m supposed to feel bad about the “discipline“?
well, no one said youre supposed to feel bad about discipline. no one is attacking you. But for some people, when they obsess over what they eat, they end up only thinking about food and maybe even eating more than if they didnt diet at all. for people like this, they need help. Nothing works for everyone
@@catiehenderson Then her advice is clearly not for everyone 🤷
@@foreveraweeb242she does have more nuance than "just don't worry about it" if you watch some of her other content. Her fundamental point is that stressing out about every little calorie isn't a particularly healthy alternative to the occasional indulgence.
Her more drawn out point is that if you let yourself relax and eat intuitively, then you can enjoy things like sugar and carbs in reasonable amounts, instead of depriving yourself and overindulging.
Essentially, her argument is that you can have healthy habits without guilt. Instead of "I can't eat an entire sleeve of oreos because it'll make me fat and sluggish", its, "I'll have a few Oreos, because I want some, but not too many, because it'll make me feel bloated".
Hi Colleen, thank you for your great advice. My therapist really wants me to eat more meals a day. I have a normal weight and I don‘t think that it is necessary. She is angry because she thinks it is the source of my exhaustion that I experience from time to time. I binge because I am so stressed from anxiety sometimes. But I dont feel hungry and don’t blame hunger for it. What do you think about this? Can you make a video about your thoughts on regular eating patterns?
I am not in any way a professional but perhaps you might be missing out on hunger cues other than stomach ones.
I am absolutely not a professional so please do not just take my genral purposes advice as medical advice, but weight is not the only consideration when it comes to your health and well-being.
Maybe speak to your primary care doctor about it?
Or maybe try working in an extra snack or two into your day for a few weeks and see how it makes you feel. Something easy to work into your day, like trail mix, dry cereal, or an orange.
Been watching your videos since the end of 2019! They are always soooo helpful!💕
I'm so glad!!! XOXO
I see you are making an academic argument for how sugar addiction is arguably not real, but my personal experience after doing several elimination diets like ketogenic and AIP is that my cravings actually go away the longer I stay on those ways of eating. If I relapse, I do so without too much guilt, and back onto the diet. I will say that AIP is an extremely difficult diet for just about anyone and do agree it builds an urge to binge. However, AIP diet helped me heal my body from autoimmune disease. I really need help figuring out how to eat intuitively when most of the foods I crave cause inflammation for me:-(
How did you get the help for it?
I'm addicted to bathing. Maybe sugar as well lol
LOL. Tub boi.
Could they do a double-blind study using sugar pills and other drugs to see who was more addictive? Placebo addition study.
Haha it's funny because the placebo is always sugar pill
Growing up, I would sneak and eat as many sugar cubes without my mum noticing! I would eat spoonfuls of sugar. I constantly wanted chocolate all the time. There were many tantrums, when I wasn't allowed chocolate!
In my adulthood (a short-lived) disgust for chocolate, due to pregnancy. But, I still crave chocolate to this day. And if you don't want me to eat your chocolate, then don't leave it out for me to see it (I will eat it). I've had at least 4 blocks of chocolate this week (Australian sized). I cannot just have one serving size, it'll end up being the whole thing. I also still have a spoonful of sugar sometimes when I make my coffee.
So, when people say, just have a small amount and don't fully cut it out, DOESN'T HELP!!! It's either a none, or all mentality 😭. So, I have to go on periods of banning myself from chocolates... I try and replace the "sweet tooth" craving with delicious watermelon, pineapple, mandarin, grapes, carrots, etc...
I do struggle with processed junk food as well, the usual; Macca's (McDonald's), Hungry Jack's, pizza, hot chips, meat pie... But, I atleast have more self-control over meals. I definitely comfort eat, as well as, snack when I'm bored. Thankfully I love my veggies and fruits.
I would have to disagree with "HAES." No one who weighs 300kg (661lbs) is healthy...
so informative, thank you for this! 🙏❤