How To Love Your Body

Welcome to How to Love Your Body. On today’s episode we are talking about the infamous “summer body.” Now that summer is almost here you may be seeing a lot of “summer body” promotion - the typical meaning of this comes from diet culture which basically says that the body you have right now is not okay to go into summer because it needs to be thinner in order to wear a bathing suit and summer clothes. We’d like to call BS on that which is why we want to address 4 ways to an UnDieter’s “Summer Body.”  1. Get a new bathing suit for summer that fits the body you have today. Not only something that fits and feels comfortable but something you feel good in! All bodies have the ability to feel confident in a bathing suit - we must release the idea that bodies can only look good in bathing suits if they are a certain size. We know that maybe buying and trying on a bathing suit is not the funnest thing to do but you absolutely deserve to feel good. No more sitting on the sidelines and skipping beach trips/ pool days

Hello! Welcome to How to Love Your Body, today on the podcast we are talking about how to take the big, overwhelming, vague intangible work of intuitive eating and make it more tangible, action based and DOABLE!   A major barrier for most people in UnDieting is that it’s a philosophy or idea that people can generally understand and get behind, they may even want to live that way… but what do I actually DO???   Since they aren’t sure what to do they get stuck in learning, learning and learning more. Soon enough they’ve subscribed to every podcast, they’ve read every book on the topic and they follow every IE counsellor on Instagram, but not much has actually changed in the way they eat, think about food, move their bodies or think about their bodies.   Of course some times will have big aha moments just from listening to this philosophy, and that is amazing!   However, if that isn’t you, and you’re feeling stuck we have a lot of great insights to share with you, because this work CAN be more tangible,

Since this is the final day to join our 21 Day Relationship with Movement Intensive we wanted to address the 3 key areas of a healthy relationship with exercise. 1. Untying exercise and weight loss This is where dieters have a real problem - using exercise as a weight loss tool. When we were dieters we exercised to burn calories, make up for what we saw as "extra food" or even as a way to justify eating at all in many instances. Why is this a problem other than the obvious? For someone who is trying to get out of the diet mentality this leads to either continuing to exercise and really limiting their ability to be intuitive or grow these new skills and new way of thinking OR The person stops exercising at all because they don't want to be focusing on weight loss. These options provide no nuance or balance and that's what we love in this work - having it all! This obstacle is addressed in the Movement Intensive​ 2. Getting out of all or nothing thinking and learning to be flexible with your schedule

This week we are diving into a post we shared on the value of keeping food IN your house. This is something that worries a lot of people and when we posted this we received a lot of great responses: BOTH: People who agree and have experienced the magic of being able to have food in the house and not worrying about it (particularly the desserts and snacks they used to binge on) AND Those who disagree and state that they just cannot keep food in the house without obsessing over it or bingeing on it.   We address both sides of this experience and give you insights into why ANYONE can get to a place of having food freedom and having whatever foods they love in the house and even forgetting the food is there at all!  

Welcome to How to Love Your Body - on today’s episode we are talking about Intuitive Eating Essentials - we are taking it back to the basics today. You can be someone who’s been in IE for a really long time or just starting out - either way this episode will provide value in either giving you a refresh or starting you out powerfully in your IE and UnDiet process.  This episode is brought to you by: Our 5 Day Relationship with Movement Challenge. This 5 day live challenge is to help you find ease with exercise and actually enjoy it again. You can join this live challenge at thebodylovesociety.com/movementchallenge We are not simply just going to go over the IE principles - they are great guidelines to know so if you would like to refresh just type in “IE principles Evelyn Tribole” into Google and you’ll find them.  So in order to be an Intuitive Eater - what are the essentials?  All food is allowed and on an even playing field - ex. The apple and the apple pie are one and the same.  This doesn’t mean the

3 roles YOU play in dismantling diet culture Welcome to this week’s episode of How to Love Your Body We are talking about YOUR role in dismantling diet culture. We all wish diet culture would not be here. We might feel like a victim of it, fair enough. It’s inhumane, it’s unfair, it’s harmful.   People are working hard to dismantle it - through legislation, through education, through activism…. But do we just sit around and wait for the world to change? That doesn’t feel very empowered. So what can WE do to begin dismantling diet culture in small ways in real life?   Show up as you are. Something we see a lot of in The UnDiet Collective and in our own personal situations is a real fear of showing up and being seen in a way that goes against diet culture. For instance today I did some instagram stories and as per usual I was walking and was holding the phone kind of low and talking, not a very nice angle. When I look at those stories before posting them I thought, I do not like the way that lo

Welcome to How to Love Your Body, on today’s episode we are talking about how to address fatphobic family members. We actually get this question a lot which makes sense because most people have been ingrained with diet culture. So once you are trying to do the work to get out of diet culture and learn Intuitive Eating and UnDieting - it may be really challenging to be around family members who are still constantly talking about either their weight / your weight , what diet they are on or commenting on the food choices you make. It’s a lot and can be really upsetting since you are working so hard on not exposing yourself to that.  How can you address fatphobic family members?  -Set Direct Boundaries - “Please don’t make comments about my body or my food.” -Be so strong in knowing that IE is best for you that whatever they say is like a different language you can’t understand - If someone came up to you and was speaking a language you didn’t understand you would most likely just look a bit confused and be un

Welcome to How to Love Your Body - on today’s episode we are talking about Intuitive Eating on your period or during PMS. That’s right, we are going there today. We have seen many women post about feeling guilty with the cravings and amount of food they eat during PMS or while on their period.  We first want to say we are not experts in this area - if you have irregular cycles, PCOS, endometriosis, etc - this is not a replacement for professional guidance. There are amazing resources you can find which we will link - one of those being an expert in anti diet and PCOS, @foodpeacedietitian - Julie Duffy Dillon.  If you do struggle with something in this area we recommend finding an expert who can help you - especially someone who is anti diet.  That being said if you live with the question - should I be eating this much during PMS or during my period? I feel so hungry! I want to eat all the chocolate! Etc … this is what we re going to address in this episode. This episode is for EVERYONE - just know if you

Welcome to How to Love Your Body on today’s episode we are going to be talking about Intuitive Drinking - we aren’t just talking about drinking alcohol, we are talking about drinking anything! We get that in diet culture the only thing “acceptable” is drinking water or low cal/ zero calorie drinks and there are a lot of rules around water too! When becoming an Intuitive Eater and UnDieter there is unconditional permission to eat AND there is also unconditional permission to drink.  We do hear often - “What do I do about drinking soda, I really love it but I don’t think I “should” be drinking as much as I want.” This goes for anything - juice, alcohol, coffee drinks, and water etc.  Note: If you choose not to drink alcohol for any reason- that is a perfectly fine choice and is not about restriction. Alcohol is not essential and for the sake of someone’s mental, physical, and emotional health if it’s best to not have it in your life that’s a personal decision and we absolutely respect that. We did an entir

Welcome to How to Love Your Body, the podcast that guides you out of diet culture, into a lifestyle of intuitive eating and towards a life of wellness without the obsession. A big concern for many people is that the first phase of this work can feel a little “unhealthy” at times. Eating more than usual and often foods that you didn't allow yourself to eat before. Many people take a break from working out as well. All of this PLUS the idea that you’re letting go of the ideal body you've been working towards for the past 10-30 years, that can feel scary and a little icky. So if you’ve started your journey towards intuitive eating but isn’t feeling very good physically this is the episode for you. What is the goal with intuitive eating? What is the end game of undieting? First and foremost it is about letting go of the diet mentality. This is #1 always, it’s about untangling yourself from the harmful messaging that dieting is healthy, that thinner is better and that we have long term control over our weight.

 Welcome to How to Love Your Body - on this week’s episode we are talking about Intuitive Eating Burnout. How to handle it. And what to do if you are feeling the overload. Let’s first start off by discussing what Intuitive Eating burnout is- this is when you feel like your life feels consumed by trying to listen to your hunger signals, figure out if the diet mentality is talking or if it’s truly your intuition. It’s listening to every IE podcast, reading every book, and ingesting as much IE content as possible to “fix” yourself.  Although it’s not dieting it may just feel like another obsession - although it may feel much better than dieting and constantly trying to lose weight - it still keeps your mind really busy, like it’s now the only thing you can think of - you still aren’t free.  When you feel this - you may think - well, I better read ANOTHER book, listen to ANOTHER podcast, focus even more acutely on my hunger signals- do anything and everything to learn, learn, learn in the hopes of finally “fixi

Welcome to this week’s episode of How to Love Your Body. Today we are discussing the worry so many people are having about going back into the world as the pandemic restrictions begin to ease in many places. Firstly, don’t feel guilty if you’re feeling uneasy about getting back into the world because you’ve gained weight, because we’ve all been taught to think this way our whole lives BUT isn’t that horrible, that our society is so fatphobic that we are more worried about surviving a pandemic and being seen instead of celebrating that we made it this far?  Regardless, we know that people are worried and we want to support you to get back into the world feeling a little better than you might be feeling right now. You can download our free Post Pandemic Body Image Workbook at bit.ly/pandemicworkbook  How to Overcome Pandemic Weight Gain Negative Thoughts: #1. Acceptance and appreciation   It’s important to appreciate any coping mechanisms you had, saying thank you and moving forward . Don’t try to “fix”

Welcome to how to love your body, today we are talking about how to stop caring what people think.  This is a big part of what keeps people stuck in the diet cycle - worrying about what other people think can really fuel the fire. People will say, I’m doing this for me, it’s not about what others think but since we live in a culture that is so obsessed with thinness and looks it’s almost impossible to untangle what YOU really want from what our society has taught us we are meant to want. Firstly let’s tackle this idea that “i just want to lose weight for myself” -cannot remove yourself from diet culture -its too engrained -external validation -cannot escape the deep core message that we are accepted by our body size -yes of course you want external validation - 100s of years ago that’s how we survived - but now we are evolved enough to think critically about that and shift that way of thinking. This is just to say - question your thoughts and beliefs when you think “It’s not about what others think,

Today we are rating and reviewing the 3 worst diets disguised as intuitive eating in 2021. Lets dive right in because we have lots to discuss: Coming in third place:   2B Mindset This is a diet (yes a diet) from Beachbody. The creator has her own weight loss story and uses this to sell the program.  A lot of the messaging does sound so appealing – never be hungry and still lose weight, live your life and still lose weight, it sounds so good. Honestly even when I read it I have a moment of hope. But then the truth comes crashing in. Here are some other things that it says:   What to eat first at every meal to lose weight  What to order first at a restaurant to lose weight  “Dozens of my proven weight loss secrets” , if anyone ever promotes their weight loss program or tips as secrets – they lying. Anything that actually worked would be such big news it would not be a secret.  Then it says “results may vary based on starting point, effort and following Beachbody’s exercise and healthy eating

Welcome to How to Love Your Body - on today’s episode we are going to be talking about “weight loss for health / weight loss to relieve physical pain.” We get this question a lot - It seems as though people want to justify their weight loss if it’s for health - so let’s talk about this.  No matter what the reason is for wanting to lose weight - dieting/ pursuing weight loss doesn’t work for 80-95% of the population. This means that if you are focusing on weight loss to improve blood work or reduce knee pain you have the same chance of losing weight and keeping it off as you do if you were pursuing weight loss to change your body size. Your body can't tell the difference if you are dieting to get a smaller waistline or dieting for health. Even though this is the case about the pursuit of weight loss - we want to share 3 points on why pursuing weight loss isn't the answer but what you can do instead. 1. No one is saying weight loss wouldn’t help BUT how will you do that? Just because we aren’t in favor of

Honoring fullness: We get many people who say I can’t seem to honor my fullness, I often go past being full and I just cannot seem to control myself! What is going on? These people often are allowing all food, honoring their hunger and they are doing the work so what is going on? Why does this piece feel so difficult?  There are a few reasons this could be happening and we will go through them today and chat about what you can do to take steps in the direction of being at ease with fullness and having it feel much more simple. The top 3 reasons you might not feel like you can honor your fullness is:   Reason #1: We say this all the time but it is the sneakiest part of this work - mental restriction.   What does mental restriction sound like: It's thoughts like:  “oh i really shouldnt be eating bread again”   “I’ll just try to be more intuitive tomorrow”  “I shouldn’t be hungry already!” All of these judgements can lead to overeating because your body reacts almost the same to mental restriction a

Welcome to How to Love Your Body - I’m Lauren and this is Jenna. On today’s episode we are going to be talking about eating at night when you’re alone. We wanted to talk about this because this specific theme has come up a handful of times in our community in The UnDiet Collective Intuitive Eating App.  We get why eating at night when you’re alone feels like a “habit” you want to stop. Maybe there is even some shame that comes up around night time eating - it might feel secretive and like you’re getting away with something that is “bad” and “wrong.” First, it’s not bad, it’s not wrong, and by no means do you need to guilt and shame yourself every single time this scenario happens. We want to share ways in which we can help alleviate this situation and make you feel like it’s okay to eat at night but also maybe help you get to the bottom of why this feels like such a problem for you - here are different areas you can explore that you may find helpful. 1st - What do you make “night time eating” mean? What i

Welcome to How to Love Your Body - this is Lauren and Jenna - on today’s episode we are going to be talking all about our Body Image and Intuitive Eating App that is officially LIVE as of Feb 1st, 2021 called The UnDiet Collective! We want to share the elements of the app and how it will help support you 365 days out of the year. There are 4 levels of support.  1st level - UnDiet Dailies 2nd level - Community Support groups  3rd level - Living Coaching  4th level - Monthly bonuses and guest expert speakers  We’ll share more about each level so you can get a feel for what this type of support entails.   1.UnDiet Dailies.   The intention of the UnDiet Dailies are to give you quick/ simple UnDiet action steps and tips every single day of the week. This is long term work as UnDieters and we want to make it valuable content without the overwhelm. No more feeling “behind” in a course with lots of content to dive through each week. This is about small daily action steps that you can choose to take on or n

Welcome to How to Love Your Body - on today’s episode we are going to be talking about WEIGHT. Yes, a topic that brings up a lot of controversy due to so many intertwined beliefs that have been created from diet culture, self worth, value etc…  We get why this would be such a tender topic and we also want to address it head on as we had a lot of drama this past week after posting a couple different posts on Instagram on @thebodylovesociety    We are going to go through 2 common misconceptions around weight and also share how to shift your mindset in order to see weight in a different way and have it all - wellness and freedom.  Common misconception #1 - Losing weight is an accomplishment  The reason losing weight, fitting into your “goal weight” pants, and posting a before and after picture on social media are not accomplishments is because it still puts ALL the focus on your body - all the focus on weight loss, all the value as a person into the size of your body. It still focuses on thinner is “better.”

4 Common Barriers Preventing You from Becoming an Intuitive Eater Hi Welcome to How to love your body. I'm Lauren McAulay and this is Jenna Free and we are intuitive eating counsellors from The Body Love Society and the app The UnDiet Collective. This podcast is for you if you are working to take action in becoming an intuitive eater and undieter instead of just constantly learning about it and listening to 100652 interviews. This podcast is brought to you by our NEW intuitive eating quiz that you can take at bit.ly/undietquiz Take the quick quiz to know what your barrier is in the way that you’re tackling this journey. Lets dive in to todays episode. We are talking about 4 barriers that can hold people up from finding food and body freedom. We are talking about the WAY that you’re going about it. UnDieting is SO different than dieting that we really need to tackle it in a different way and this might not even occur to a dieter because its just the way we think! 1. The first barrier is: Consistency a