How To Love Your Body

Ep 022 Why focusing on your set point weight is damaging

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Synopsis

In this episode we share with you why focusing on your set point weight is damaging.   As ex dieters and now fully intuitive eaters, we know you cannot become free around food without letting go of trying to control your weight (SPOILER ALERT: you dont have control over it anyway).   Many people think if they stop obsessing over weight loss they will all of a sudden gain a bunch of weight, that is not how it works. Obsessing over it is actually what’s keeping you in the restrict/binge cycle which is actually what has you gain weight overtime.   This is not to say weight gain is bad, but if your main goal is to lose weight, obsessing over it is not the way to go about it!   You may think you are eating intuitively but if you are still terrified of weight gain or thinking about how IE might help you lose weight, you’re not, this is just another diet.   In Intuitive Eating you’ve probably heard of the weight set point, this is discussed in intuitive eating because when you tune into your body instead