Speaker 1: I won't lend my body out out everything that I'm
Speaker 1: made do, won't spend my life trying to change. I'm
Speaker 1: learning to love who I am. I get, I'm strong,
Speaker 1: I feel free, I know who every part of me
Speaker 1: is beautiful, and I will always out way. If you
Speaker 1: feel it with your eyes in the air, she'll some
Speaker 1: love to the I am there, say good day and
Speaker 1: time did you? And die out hello and welcome back
Speaker 1: Outway family. Lisa here hoping to kind of set the
Speaker 1: tone for a very noisy holiday season into new year
Speaker 1: when it comes to diet, changing your body, and kind
Speaker 1: of finding you at the time where you feel your
Speaker 1: absolute worst after the holidays. You feel tired, you feel fatigued,
Speaker 1: do you feel run down? Your clothes are maybe starting
Speaker 1: to fit tightly, and this is your chance to change
Speaker 1: it all and to start the year on the right foot.
Speaker 1: I think we all know that you know the new year,
Speaker 1: new body. The new year's resolutions are often centered around
Speaker 1: weight and body changes. So I hope today to just
Speaker 1: be your voice of reason to help you remember what
Speaker 1: we forget when that fear sneaks in, which is the facts.
Speaker 1: The fact is that diets don't work. They throw us
Speaker 1: into a cycle that we ultimately find ourselves back at
Speaker 1: the start again. And I think until we really understand
Speaker 1: see that call it out, get really conscious about it,
Speaker 1: we're going to just be thrown into that cycle, unfortunately
Speaker 1: for some through the rest of their lives. And I
Speaker 1: know that our impact on out way we reached teenagers
Speaker 1: to fifty sixty seventy year old women, And what I
Speaker 1: find fascinating is that the seventy year old women are
Speaker 1: here saying I regret not getting ahold of this situation sooner,
Speaker 1: and I think this speaks volumes to the younger generations
Speaker 1: where we're really just kind of it's hard to see
Speaker 1: the long term picture that this could go on for
Speaker 1: the rest of our lives because the diets always sell
Speaker 1: us on it will be better after this. But when
Speaker 1: we look at people in this community who have been
Speaker 1: through it, who are still going through it, I think
Speaker 1: it really sheds insight into how insidious, how ongoing, how
Speaker 1: the toll that this can take on us if we
Speaker 1: don't kind of take control of it ourselves. So, like
Speaker 1: I said, I know that this is a scary, frightening
Speaker 1: time of year where you don't feel good, you don't
Speaker 1: like the way you look, you don't like the way
Speaker 1: you feel, and this is the time to take action.
Speaker 1: There are discounts, there are you know, so many promotions
Speaker 1: going on to reel you in. So I hope today
Speaker 1: to really again shine light on the science of why
Speaker 1: diet don't work, because I think ultimately we end up
Speaker 1: feeling like the failures, when in reality it's the system.
Speaker 1: So let's just view the cycle real fast, and then
Speaker 1: we're going to go into the scientific reasons that they
Speaker 1: actually don't work and talk about what you can do differently.
Speaker 1: This year, I am hosting again my fourth and noise
Speaker 1: Hunger Fullness course. It's going to begin January nine on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And this course is not a diet. It's about learning
Speaker 1: to listen to your body signals when it comes to
Speaker 1: feeling hungry and feeling full. My approach to ditching diets
Speaker 1: was coming home to my body and its cues. That
Speaker 1: being said, we all know that that's really really hard,
Speaker 1: especially when we've been disconnected for such a long time.
Speaker 1: So for me, these are tools that I use every
Speaker 1: single day to guide me to and away from food.
Speaker 1: How much I need when I need it, which are
Speaker 1: variables that are always changing, and before I learned to
Speaker 1: work in tangent with my body, I didn't believe that
Speaker 1: it could do that. So I was feeding myself the
Speaker 1: same thing every single day, feeling frustrated when I was
Speaker 1: still hungry, finding myself binging constantly full just a nightmare.
Speaker 1: But now that I've become in touch with these cues
Speaker 1: that I've reconnected with over time and work, it's an
Speaker 1: amazing guide that has freed me to live my life
Speaker 1: and just simply return to during times of chaotic periods
Speaker 1: where I find myself disconnected. I found the route home
Speaker 1: and I want to hopefully share that with you. So
Speaker 1: that's going to start January nine. I'll link that below
Speaker 1: and discount code for anybody who is interested. But let
Speaker 1: me jump into the contents of today, which is why
Speaker 1: diets don't work. So we we know the cycle. Let's
Speaker 1: just take a good overview from the top. When we
Speaker 1: go on any sort of diet or plan, we make changes,
Speaker 1: and that feels really empowering to take control. After a
Speaker 1: period of feeling really out of control, we actually might
Speaker 1: find that they work. We're losing the weight, our pants
Speaker 1: are starting to fit, things are going really well. We
Speaker 1: don't even feel two trapped by whatever type of restrictions
Speaker 1: or rules that we've put into place. This could be
Speaker 1: a day, this could be a week, this could be
Speaker 1: six months to a year, until suddenly it's not working anymore.
Speaker 1: We realize that our lives have been shrunk in, or
Speaker 1: we're starting to want other foods and feel restricted, we're
Speaker 1: starting to think about food more and more and more.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is, we're having that that place where suddenly
Speaker 1: it's not so easy to not eat this or just
Speaker 1: eat that or whatever rules are in place, and then
Speaker 1: we break. We have our what the heck moment where
Speaker 1: we say, what the heck? I already at up. I
Speaker 1: might as well continue because this feels so good, and
Speaker 1: this could look different depending on the diet that you're on.
Speaker 1: For restrictive diets, just having an abundance of calories or
Speaker 1: energy come back in is going to feel really good
Speaker 1: because your body is physically looking physiologically in need of
Speaker 1: more calories. So when it feels you giving it to them,
Speaker 1: it can say more and more and more and more
Speaker 1: and more so that they can store it for the
Speaker 1: times when there are deprivation. If you're on a type
Speaker 1: of diet, plan where you are eating sufficient calories, but
Speaker 1: certain foods are off limit. Your psychologically being hacked because
Speaker 1: you know that you're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: have that food come tomorrow or whenever your diet restarts.
Speaker 1: So again you're in that more and more and more
Speaker 1: and more and more scarcity mindset. You know you're going
Speaker 1: to start over again. And as soon as that cycles over,
Speaker 1: where you you know, get over that high of enjoying
Speaker 1: whatever you allowed yourself to have, you find yourself back
Speaker 1: in the feeling crappy, feeling guilty, feeling like a failure
Speaker 1: place where you start all over again. We make the changes,
Speaker 1: they work, we feel empowered, and we then you know,
Speaker 1: go right back into that what the heck moment to
Speaker 1: find ourselves right back here again and to wash rents
Speaker 1: repeat cycle that happened a million times throughout our lives.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a thirty three year old now, I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many times I went through this
Speaker 1: cycle in my early twenties. But in order to break free,
Speaker 1: we need to see the cycle from that bird's eye view.
Speaker 1: So let's look at our lives and see how many
Speaker 1: times we've been in that cycle and failed to realize
Speaker 1: that perhaps we're not the problem, but the plan is.
Speaker 1: So do you know why weight Watchers is such a
Speaker 1: successful business while it's still in business, despite being so
Speaker 1: old and dated. It's so successful because it is built
Speaker 1: on customer failure. They know that you will fail and
Speaker 1: do you know what that means? For weight Watchers? It
Speaker 1: means that you will come back again and again and again.
Speaker 1: And do you know what else that is? That is
Speaker 1: a sign of a profitable business. So this is literally
Speaker 1: part of their business plan. They are, like any other
Speaker 1: type of business, making money on your return, but in
Speaker 1: this business it means your failure means being a return customer.
Speaker 1: And I want you to think about that, because I
Speaker 1: know not everything is structured like weight Watchers. There's new
Speaker 1: and all these other types of paid or unpaid type
Speaker 1: of things. But think about what it means for a
Speaker 1: business to be built on your failure. And I hope
Speaker 1: that that sticks with you in some way because it's
Speaker 1: it's really really powerful and it says a lot, and
Speaker 1: I hope it gets you a little bit frustrated as
Speaker 1: to where you possibly have been giving your money if
Speaker 1: weight Watchers is something for you, but where you've invested
Speaker 1: your time I should say for those of us who
Speaker 1: have no connection to weight Watchers, that wasn't one that
Speaker 1: I ever did. But I just find that so so
Speaker 1: so fascinating, as many of America spends hundreds thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars into this company that's rooted in their success, I
Speaker 1: put in quotes, which is actually their failure. So yes,
Speaker 1: they'll take your testimonials when you're six months out or
Speaker 1: a year out and you've lost all the weight, but
Speaker 1: do they follow up after two years or three years?
Speaker 1: And a lot of the research in nutrition and weight
Speaker 1: loss does the same exact thing. They track the success immediately,
Speaker 1: but they don't look at the long term picture of
Speaker 1: six months, a year longer. And we know that diet
Speaker 1: don't work. We know that they don't lead to sustained
Speaker 1: weight loss over time, which leads us back into that
Speaker 1: cycle that we need to break free from in order
Speaker 1: to live our freaking lives. Like if this pandemic has
Speaker 1: taught us anything, which I would really love for it
Speaker 1: to go away, and I think the lessons have been learned,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, coronavirus um. But if it has
Speaker 1: taught us anything, I think it has taught us about time.
Speaker 1: What we care about how little time we get on
Speaker 1: this earth and how much of it goes to soul
Speaker 1: sucking activities and thoughts. So I hope by now we
Speaker 1: are starting to at least wake up to the idea
Speaker 1: that we deserve and we need to make a life
Speaker 1: that's better for ourselves with more freedom and more peace.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about why diets don't work. And I
Speaker 1: won't get into any and crazy here. I want to
Speaker 1: keep it brief because I want you to just hear
Speaker 1: me in your mind. As soon as the thoughts start
Speaker 1: to trickle in, you have these light bulbs going off
Speaker 1: that say, wait, no, I'm not going to do that
Speaker 1: because I know what happens, or I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do that because I know how it really works. So
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Reason number one is we need
Speaker 1: enough calories to survive. Lots of diets are rooted in restriction,
Speaker 1: oftentimes restriction of calories food energy. That's what calories means.
Speaker 1: All it is is the energy that we obtain from food.
Speaker 1: That's the energy that we need to feel good in
Speaker 1: our bodies. I call it the life force juice because
Speaker 1: when you are energizing your body with calories, energy you
Speaker 1: feel energized, but you're not going to feel very energized
Speaker 1: if you're not putting enough calories into your body. But
Speaker 1: the calories aren't just for that energy that we know
Speaker 1: and love and want. It's also necessary for our bodies
Speaker 1: to perform it's vital everyday functions. So every thing, every
Speaker 1: single second of the day, our bodies are fighting to
Speaker 1: work create for cells are working incredibly to support us,
Speaker 1: and it needs the calories the energy to do that.
Speaker 1: So when the body notices that it's not getting enough
Speaker 1: energy coming in, it's going to do what it can
Speaker 1: to protect you. And protecting you means it's going to
Speaker 1: become more efficient with the limited energy that you're giving it.
Speaker 1: That means, stay with me for a second, that your
Speaker 1: metabolism is actually going to slow down. So your body
Speaker 1: working more efficiently with less calories available means a slower metabolism.
Speaker 1: You eating less means a slower metabolism. Okay, because your
Speaker 1: body doesn't know when you're going to feed it again
Speaker 1: or when it's going to have enough, so it starts
Speaker 1: hoarding onto what it has and it slows down all
Speaker 1: of its processes. It says, we can't work as fast
Speaker 1: because we don't have enough energy, so we are going
Speaker 1: to work more slowly. So then your food comes in
Speaker 1: and it working more slowly, not digesting and breaking it
Speaker 1: down as fast. Right, So by restricting, and again you're
Speaker 1: not going to notice this in a day or a
Speaker 1: week or maybe a month, but after you have that
Speaker 1: initial weight loss, you're going to find yourself plateau ng
Speaker 1: or even gaining weight. And that's because your body has
Speaker 1: gotten smarter. And I do mean smarter. You can't outsmart
Speaker 1: your body. It's gotten more smarter because its job is
Speaker 1: to keep you alive, so it's doing what it needs
Speaker 1: to do. In addition, your hormones are going to work
Speaker 1: to support your body working more quote unquote efficiently. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean supporting your weight loss. So one of the
Speaker 1: things that happens is we have a hormone called leptin.
Speaker 1: So leptin is the hormone that lets us know when
Speaker 1: we are full, when we've had enough. So when leptin
Speaker 1: is high, we are all good on energy. When leptin
Speaker 1: is low, it's triggering the body that we need more
Speaker 1: to eat. It's going to trigger your appetite to increase.
Speaker 1: So when we don't eat enough, our body is becoming lower,
Speaker 1: less efficient, our metabolism is slowing down, and our hormones
Speaker 1: are sending signals out to eat more. So we're working
Speaker 1: against ourselves with this new system that we've created effectively
Speaker 1: because we're going up against exactly what we need. So
Speaker 1: restriction is not going to work. It's going to slow
Speaker 1: your metabolism down and make you feel hungrier, frustrating you
Speaker 1: thinking that you're the problem when really you're not. And
Speaker 1: your body, by the way, is working on your side,
Speaker 1: not the side that you wanted on to shrink your
Speaker 1: body or change it, but keeping you alive and well
Speaker 1: the best that it possibly can. Reason number two is
Speaker 1: because restriction leads to muscle breakdown. So when your body
Speaker 1: isn't getting enough energy from you're not feeding it enough,
Speaker 1: it's going to get resourceful all around our body. In
Speaker 1: our muscles, we have usable energy that we can break
Speaker 1: down and used to perform those vital functions that we
Speaker 1: talked about. Now, the body is smart, so it's going
Speaker 1: to go searching for your body and go into those
Speaker 1: muscle pocket and convert the muscle into that usable energy.
Speaker 1: Now that might be like, Okay, that's cool, but that's
Speaker 1: going to mean less muscle tone for you. And while
Speaker 1: you may not care about that if you're listening in
Speaker 1: your teens or twenties, as you get older, having muscle
Speaker 1: feeling strong, having your body feel good in daily activities
Speaker 1: is really really key. And I speak to somebody who
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have cared about this in my early twenties,
Speaker 1: but in my thirties not such a huge leap away
Speaker 1: from that. I know I need to feel strong and
Speaker 1: feel good in my body in order to perform daily
Speaker 1: functions like picking my daughter up, reaching down, and I
Speaker 1: want to be able to chase her and run after
Speaker 1: her and all these things. And I think most of
Speaker 1: us would agree that we want to build muscle. And
Speaker 1: we have to realize that we're tapping into these these
Speaker 1: stores when we don't feed ourselves. So you don't want
Speaker 1: your muscles withering away. It's not just for aesthetic reasons,
Speaker 1: but for you living your life. We need to nourish
Speaker 1: our body. These are muscles are bones. We have to
Speaker 1: move away from the idea that health means just losing
Speaker 1: weight and recognize all the various physical destruction that's actually
Speaker 1: a really good word to use here that happens when
Speaker 1: we chase this one end goal. Reason number three that
Speaker 1: diets don't work, or because our bodies are not calculators.
Speaker 1: We can't treat them like a car where we put
Speaker 1: x amount of gas and we know exactly how far
Speaker 1: that gas is going to get us. Bodies are incredibly
Speaker 1: complex and there are a ton of factors that affect
Speaker 1: how many calories we absorb. The body is in a
Speaker 1: constant state of flux, so that means how many calories
Speaker 1: you are taking in from a food may change over time.
Speaker 1: Your needs change over time. You might need more or
Speaker 1: less per day, per week, per month, per year, especially
Speaker 1: over your life cycle. Ourselves are constantly turning over, bones
Speaker 1: lose and gain calcium, our hormones fluctuate up and down
Speaker 1: to support us, and all of this. It takes energy
Speaker 1: to make this all happen. You and I could eat
Speaker 1: the same thing every single day, but we won't take
Speaker 1: in the same amount of calories, which goes to show
Speaker 1: and one of the reasons why eating a certain amount
Speaker 1: of calories based off the nutrition fact panel is just
Speaker 1: a waste of time. You don't know exactly what you're getting,
Speaker 1: even though they give us this nice panel of information
Speaker 1: that tells us that this food has two calories of
Speaker 1: carbs eight grams of sugar. That's not a hard fact.
Speaker 1: That is a guestimate at best, and it can be
Speaker 1: off by up to to still be in f DA regulations.
Speaker 1: So recognize that you're not a calculator. Your body is
Speaker 1: in a constant stage of flux. It changes over time,
Speaker 1: and the best thing that you can do to support
Speaker 1: it is to listen to it. Before we wrap up episode,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we talk about what
Speaker 1: you can do to feel really good this year, and
Speaker 1: I want to give you some tips to spot a
Speaker 1: diet in disguise, so things that you can do to
Speaker 1: feel good this year. I'm not here to say that
Speaker 1: you feel like crap today and you should continue feeling
Speaker 1: like crap and there's no way out of that. I'm
Speaker 1: here to help you work in tangent with your body
Speaker 1: and your health if that's something that you want to pursue,
Speaker 1: and show you that health is not reduced to eating
Speaker 1: less or a diet. Health We need to start looking
Speaker 1: at from a full picture view point here, and that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that we abandoned food. I think food can
Speaker 1: be a beautiful part of this conversation, but we need
Speaker 1: to really shift the way we think about food. So
Speaker 1: I want you to focus, perhaps on the quality of
Speaker 1: the food that you're eating. And i'd also want to
Speaker 1: remind you that some of the healthiest foods are the
Speaker 1: highest in calories. So thinking about things like avocados and
Speaker 1: nuts and seeds, these are all packed with neutral riant
Speaker 1: and fatty acids, which are so important for making hormones
Speaker 1: and lubricating our joints and helping us produce neurotransmitters in
Speaker 1: the brand I mean everything. A lot of these high
Speaker 1: calorie foods that we might be afraid of because of
Speaker 1: what previous diets have told us are actually incredibly nourishing
Speaker 1: and healthy for us. So I want to remind you
Speaker 1: that quality of food is not synonymous with calories in
Speaker 1: the food. I want to empower you too. I know
Speaker 1: that it's winter for a lot of us here and
Speaker 1: this might be a little bit more difficult, but eating
Speaker 1: foods as close to the source that we can without
Speaker 1: being dogmatic or going overboard here. So I'm not here
Speaker 1: to say cut out every source of processed food, packaged food,
Speaker 1: or anything, but can you take a little bit of
Speaker 1: time to prep your food in the beginning of the week,
Speaker 1: thinking about things that you like. Do you like rice
Speaker 1: and potatoes? And can you cut your vegetables so that
Speaker 1: they're easy to grab from the fridge. Can you buy
Speaker 1: fresh apples or fruits or whatever is available for you
Speaker 1: so that you're eating lots of food that is quite
Speaker 1: literally alive from nature. And I say that with a
Speaker 1: huge asterisk. Again, that doesn't mean going overboard with it
Speaker 1: like I have in my past. That means just filling
Speaker 1: your plate with goodness, without a sense of restriction, and
Speaker 1: connecting to what nature has provided for us. I'm a
Speaker 1: huge believer in food is close to nature because I
Speaker 1: believe that it's specifically designed for our human consumption and
Speaker 1: our bodies know exactly what to do with it, and
Speaker 1: it makes us feel really really good and also just
Speaker 1: interacts perfectly with our bodies, like it's meant for us
Speaker 1: to eat. And I just think, I feel so grateful
Speaker 1: that food can do such amazing things for us after
Speaker 1: for so long thinking that food had, you know, little
Speaker 1: to no purpose, and my job was just to eat
Speaker 1: as little of it as possible. Other than food, let's
Speaker 1: talk about sleep. Sleep is so, so, so so important.
Speaker 1: I know that this is a stressful time of year,
Speaker 1: but focusing on sleep and sleep hygiene, so what you
Speaker 1: do around bedtime, what you do in the morning are
Speaker 1: all going to really add up to your quality of sleep.
Speaker 1: It's not about quantity in hours, It's about the depth
Speaker 1: of sleep, which is so important for your brain and
Speaker 1: your hormones. So much happens. I talked about the glimphatic
Speaker 1: system all the time, which is kind of like this
Speaker 1: waste removal system that happens but only when you sleep.
Speaker 1: So by thinking, by me doing this podcast, I'm accumulating
Speaker 1: waste in my brain, and in order to take that
Speaker 1: trash out, I gotta go to sleep. I mean, we
Speaker 1: all know that we feel better on a good night's sleep,
Speaker 1: but how many of us are actually prioritizing it. I
Speaker 1: personally like to, for the most part, stay away from
Speaker 1: the television as long as I can put my cell
Speaker 1: phone in the bathroom instead of right next to my bed.
Speaker 1: I like to read a book before bed. I'd like
Speaker 1: to spray my pillow with some pillow spray. I really
Speaker 1: set the mood um somebody who comes from a history
Speaker 1: of not sleeping for most of my life, so sleep
Speaker 1: is incredibly, incredibly important and when it comes to wait cravings,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Sleep plays are really important role. Not
Speaker 1: to mention mood, which we all know how cranky we
Speaker 1: can get when we feel like we are sleep deprived,
Speaker 1: and we might not realize that that crankiness is coming
Speaker 1: from a state of sleep deprivation. But I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times it really is relationships we are born
Speaker 1: to connect with other people. Oftentimes diets isolate us. We
Speaker 1: can't eat certain foods, so we don't attend certain things,
Speaker 1: or we're just too consumed in our own mindset of
Speaker 1: thinking about what we should eat that we forget to
Speaker 1: check on other people. But perhaps this year, take a
Speaker 1: moment to really think about the relationships in your life.
Speaker 1: Think about who you're grateful for, Tell them that you're
Speaker 1: grateful for them. Take time to nourish those relationships. They
Speaker 1: are key for our health and well being. I would
Speaker 1: love to recommend cell phone free time or social media time.
Speaker 1: I am a huge proponent and believer in taking time
Speaker 1: off of your phone. There that's leaving it behind when
Speaker 1: you go for a walk, or taking if you can,
Speaker 1: oh day or week off. I've gone weeks at a
Speaker 1: time before I had a baby that was certainly a
Speaker 1: lot simpler. So to anybody who has a life that
Speaker 1: may allow for literally powering off, I highly suggest that.
Speaker 1: But if that's too much for you, social media breaks
Speaker 1: are incredibly important in tuning into yourself. Nourishing your nervous
Speaker 1: system is something I talk about. Our phones cause us
Speaker 1: to spike in adrenaline and cortisol, all the uppity uppity
Speaker 1: hormones that make us feel really stressed, and we might
Speaker 1: not realize that that's happening. By the way, and most importantly,
Speaker 1: social media can be really noisy this time of year,
Speaker 1: So perhaps taking some time to just focus on you
Speaker 1: and reduce that noise around you, Maybe reading some books
Speaker 1: for pleasure. When is the last time you allowed yourself
Speaker 1: to indulge in a fiction novel? I love fiction. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's not your thing, but reading a book is so
Speaker 1: good for us, good for that nervous system, good for
Speaker 1: our hormones, and sin is a relaxing message to our
Speaker 1: body that we are safe, that we are okay. Taking
Speaker 1: a break from that hustle hustle bustle, especially after the
Speaker 1: busy holiday season, and I would love to encourage you
Speaker 1: to focus on movement that feels good. Notice what feels
Speaker 1: good for you day to day, and notice what doesn't,
Speaker 1: and anything that doesn't, just ditch. And maybe that means
Speaker 1: you rest for the day, or maybe it means you
Speaker 1: pick up a different activity. But I want you to
Speaker 1: really take a moment here to check with yourself what
Speaker 1: feels good and if it doesn't feel good, why am
Speaker 1: I doing it? Okay? I encourage you, please please, please
Speaker 1: please please. That's a huge one because movement is so so,
Speaker 1: so so good for us in a way to tune
Speaker 1: into our body's wisdom. But it could also be a
Speaker 1: way that we abuse our bodies and become more disconnected
Speaker 1: to them than ever before. It's a fine line there. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave you with how to spot a diet
Speaker 1: in disguise. So there's lots of diets out there that
Speaker 1: aren't as obvious as weight watchers. And as time goes by, uh,
Speaker 1: there's always more and more popping up. So I feel
Speaker 1: like giving you a list wouldn't even be helpful. Instead,
Speaker 1: I'll provide you with just something to think about as
Speaker 1: you are thinking about starting this new plan that worked
Speaker 1: for all of your friends or your family or a coworker,
Speaker 1: how do spot a diet in disguise. If it doesn't
Speaker 1: provide tools for you to listen to your own body's wisdom,
Speaker 1: it is a diet. If it mocks the idea of
Speaker 1: mindful or intuitive eating, it's probably a diet. If it's
Speaker 1: a prescriptive in the amount of food you should eat
Speaker 1: per day, per meal, or snack. So if you're literally
Speaker 1: out there counting your almonds, measuring a food, weighing it,
Speaker 1: it is a diet. If weight loss is the primary
Speaker 1: goal of how they will define your success on it,
Speaker 1: but they're calling it a health plan or about or
Speaker 1: a lifestyle, it's probably a diet. If they perpetuate the
Speaker 1: idea that a smaller body is better for all bodies,
Speaker 1: it's probably a diet. If they emphasize that eating certain
Speaker 1: foods will make you feel full verse actually help you
Speaker 1: be satisfied or actually nourished, it's probably a diet. If
Speaker 1: they're looking for ways or providing tricks for you to
Speaker 1: trick your body, it's probably a diet. If there are
Speaker 1: certain foods that you need to eat with every single meal,
Speaker 1: it's probably a diet. If the portion sizes are arbitrary
Speaker 1: and the same for every single person. It's probably a diet.
Speaker 1: If it cuts out or demonizes whole food groups, carbs, fats, proteins,
Speaker 1: it's probably a diet. Anything that doesn't feel good is
Speaker 1: probably going to be a diet. And again, it might
Speaker 1: feel good in the beginning because it's providing you with
Speaker 1: that sense of control after a season of feeling really
Speaker 1: out of control, but that control is an illusion. That
Speaker 1: control quickly becomes captivity. That captivity sends you back into
Speaker 1: the cycle of dieting that takes you right back to
Speaker 1: the beginning again, where you jump back again and think
Speaker 1: that you're the problem. So I hope, so so so
Speaker 1: much that this helped you remember that you're not the
Speaker 1: problem that the diet is. I hope it provided you
Speaker 1: with hard reasoning as to why diets don't work. I
Speaker 1: hope that it provided you with some tools for other
Speaker 1: things that you could focus on to take good care
Speaker 1: of yourself and feel good. And I hope it reminded
Speaker 1: you that you matter, and your time on this earth matters,
Speaker 1: and what you do with it is far more important
Speaker 1: than how you shrink your body. Thank you for joining
Speaker 1: me on this episode. I'm wishing you all a happy,
Speaker 1: happy New Year and sending you my love, and Amy
Speaker 1: sends her love as well. Thanks for joining, and we'll
Speaker 1: see you next week. On that way,