Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Ready to lose 40 plus pounds without giving up happy hours, weekend brunches, or date nights. Then it's time to uncover the hidden link between binge eating and toxic relationships. And finally break free from both. Welcome to the Hungry for Love podcast with Jillian Scott. Y' all ready? Let's go.
[00:00:24] Hey. Hey. Welcome back.
[00:00:26] All right, so today we are going to dive into the topic of food noise and how do we decrease the food noise, or what I often think about as mind drama with food.
[00:00:37] And this is a piggyback off of this concept around diet trauma. And so what I have realized is that so many of us have been traumatized from diets and the weight loss journey and experience that we have had. And the food noise, I think, is a direct result. And so I think of it as that is one of the key signs that you have diet trauma. The original episode of Overcoming Diet Trauma is from July of 22 and it is episode 55.
[00:01:07] The numbers don't go back that far. So search for the July 2022 era and you will find this episode on Overcoming Diet Trauma. That was my first step into really looking at and addressing this topic. This was before I really woke up and realized all of the trauma that I grew up with that was in my life. And. And so I was starting to see it around food and noticing these patterns. But I have such a more evolved view of it now with the introduction of GLP1s and then this conversation around what we're calling food noise. It has really sparked what I think is actually diet trauma and we need to be addressing outside of just medication. Let me go through though, and just give you some definitions and how I'm thinking about diet trauma and then this food noise.
[00:01:54] So I think of diet trauma as the mental and emotional baggage from trying and failing to lose weight and. Or trying to lose weight and then regaining the weight later, which is almost every single diet that we've ever been on. We've either tried and failed, or we've tried and lost the weight short term, but then regained it. So everyone has really experienced this. And so anytime we have strong thoughts and views about our body and our body not being good enough and we have to lose weight in order to feel better in order to fix ourselves. That's another clear sign that we have struggled with either food trauma, body trauma, diet trauma as a whole.
[00:02:32] Food trauma is when a person experiences one or more traumatic events related to food and develops specific fears and anxieties around eating.
[00:02:42] Hmm. Sound familiar? I know for myself there was a lot of Fear and anxiety around high fat foods, high carb foods, sometimes around sweets. But my binging was more on sweets and sugary foods. But I definitely was restrictive around carbs and to the point where when offered a bite of something, I would feel really anxious. I remember when I was told I should go from trying to literally not eat any carbs at all to eating 6 servings.
[00:03:11] I was like, absolutely not. My brain was just like, hell, no. There is no way I'm gonna do that. And it was because my brain, my nervous system, was not yet on board with it, because I had a running thought of carbs will make me fat. I can't lose weight and eat carbs. I had these stories that my brain had really latched onto and beliefs around different food rules that I had learned from different diets. And a lot of it stemmed around carbs, especially with the early 2000s and the highlight of the Atkins diet, the south beach diet, things like that. And even now, today, we still hear a lot about keto and the keto diet, which is also very similar.
[00:03:49] But I think just about every Western diet would fall into this description of certain foods. Certain things are severely restricted. And then because of that, we have decided that certain foods are bad and now we shouldn't eat them. And so it triggers a lot of guilt and shame and anxiety and fear if we were to eat them or indulge in them, especially if we want to lose weight. Because of the diets, you now feel overwhelmed and uncertain and really uneasy in your body.
[00:04:22] You also likely have obsessive thoughts about food. What you can and can't eat, when you'll eat next.
[00:04:28] This very much ties into food noise. I think about it as mind drama. I think that's how a lot of my clients have thought of it and how we call it in my world.
[00:04:37] But the larger world, the larger diet space as a whole, I think is thinking about it from this lens of food noise. It's the same thing, though. So your body doesn't realize that dieting and this taking away of food is voluntary. So it's thinking, oh, no, there's danger. It sets off this fire alarm in your brain and just like, danger, danger, these big flashing red lights. And now it hyper fixates on not wanting to be restricted, but also not wanting to eat the bad foods. But it's very much trying to keep you alive and keep you safe. So anytime you maybe try to diet again or somebody talks about their weight loss journey, whether it's success or challenges, you feel triggered, you feel anxiety in Your body, this is a normal response. And this is where food noise comes in. And so food noise is the persistent, intrusive and often overwhelming thoughts about food that can interfere with daily life and eating habits. Check definitely had that.
[00:05:39] Constant preoccupation with food, intense cravings and urges to eat, difficulty feeling satiated after eating, overeating or binge eating, and feeling out of control around food.
[00:05:51] Check also had that.
[00:05:54] And I didn't have the terminology for at the time, but I just remember thinking how my brain just seemed to default to constantly and obsessively be thinking about food and exercise.
[00:06:06] While that would fall under the food noise category, I think of that as a type of diet trauma, right? So if you think about the science and physics analogy, right, all physics is science, but not all science is physics. I think about it from that same kind of hierarchy. You've got diet trauma as a whole, and then a subcategory is going to be the food noise. So persistent, intrusive, overwhelming thoughts, this like constant obsession. And often it's the fear of taking away food, it's the past trauma of taking away food that then can drive the binging behavior. Which is exactly what I've talked about over the last couple of months. And specifically in the recent workshop. I posted the replay of it early July. That was one of the big pieces, was recognizing that when I could let go of my food rules, when I could heal my relationship with food, the binging started to decrease without even addressing the emotional side of things, when I just addressed my relationship with food because so much of the bingeing stemmed from me trying to restrict and control during the day and my body was just hungry. It needed food, it needed fuel. These are the pieces. These are the aspects that we have got to address because food is a fundamental need, right? When we look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs, just as an example, one of those basic foundational needs is food. We need air, water, shelter, sleep, food. It's one of those things that we can't live without.
[00:07:30] It's not like alcohol, where we can just choose to not drink and we can decide, I just don't want that in my life anymore. We are constantly reminded and it's constantly brought up because our body physically needs that. When we do these extreme and restrictive diets like most of us have done, our bodies store that as trauma. Just as if you were to have nearly drowned, there would be a point where if you did not get enough oxygen and you were literally drowning your brain and your body would store this memory as trauma. And it would be very normal if you had nightmares, if you didn't like water or pools or bathtubs, if you didn't like enclosed spaces. It would be very normal if you had a lot of anxiety and fear around that.
[00:08:14] Anytime something like a core foundational need to life is threatened, there will be trauma.
[00:08:21] It is very naive to think that we can do any modern day western diet and think that we are not going to have trauma because of it.
[00:08:30] More people experience this than we realize. We're now starting to have more widespread conversations about this.
[00:08:37] But I know when I was out walking my dogs, this was almost three years ago, we passed by a house and there was a dog up on the porch. And the dog came down and started following us. I paused, I looked around and one of the kids came down and was like, trying to get the dog back up onto the porch. And so we paused and then we kept walking. And the person is like, not actually holding onto the dog, which was an issue because every time we start to walk, the dog goes back to follow us. And so I pause and I'm like, all right, come get your dog. And then we cross the street and then there's two dogs. So I'm like, what the hell? So now the parents are coming out, you've got two dogs, and I've got these retractable leashes. I'm just trying to get my dogs. And it's like, everything was fine in the beginning, but then with the two dogs, they kept trying to get them back to the porch, but instead of actually holding on to the dogs and letting us walk off, the dogs kept coming back after us. And because they weren't attacking, they seemed, like, decent. I was like, come get your dogs. Get them back to the porch, and then we'll keep walking. Because every time we tried to walk, they just kept following us. In my mind, I'm like, come get your dogs. Let's figure this out. This is not a problem at that point. Then there's three dogs. One of the dogs is growling, trying to bite one of my dogs. And now I'm getting bit. My dog's getting bit. Like now it's just a big cluster. And these three dogs are trying to attack my two on these retractable leashes. And I'm trying to get them. There's other people and they're trying to get their dogs, and they are finally now finally picking them up and carrying them away. And they're big dogs in the moment. I'm trying to get mine enough to be able to get away. But every time we walked or we would move, they just kept following us. And so I didn't have the capacity to think in the moment to like, oh, I can just outrun these. But I'm getting so frustrated and angry. Anyways, it was very upsetting and a very traumatic incident. I went to the hospital, I was fine. We went to the vet. My little pup was fine, he was okay, but it was very scary. And so after that, every time, for at least the next couple of months, but definitely within the next four to six weeks, every time I heard a dog bark, my heart would race, my stomach would tense, my chest would get tense and would feel tight. Like there was a physical response to a dog barking. I could be in a house, especially if I'm out walking the dogs. Anytime I saw a stray dog, I would get really nervous and really anxious because I had an experience where a dog that seemed fine then attacked. And I was injured and my dog was injured. And it created this ripple effect where I've now worked through that. And I don't startle like that anymore. But it took several months for my body to fully process through that and to have that trauma response afterwards.
[00:11:11] And so if we think about it as okay, that wasn't life threatening, the injury was very light, very minimal, but I still had such a physiological response to that afterwards. Of course, we are going to have these responses to the constant chronic dieting that we keep doing. We keep re traumatizing ourselves every time, we keep trying to diet every time, we keep trying to go back to the same diet that used to work, or we try something new. It's like we bring so much of our trauma into trying something new. And that can be very triggering and often why it's then not sustainable and it doesn't work.
[00:11:47] This becomes more of a complex issue. But because food is necessary for sustaining life, your body remembers it and it feels threatened anytime food is taken away.
[00:11:59] And this is why you may have a response where it's like, you go to start a diet and on day one, you can't stick with it. Your brain is like, nope, F no, we are going in the complete opposite direction. We are now going to binge, we are going to overeat. Because it has this memory of when food was taken away and food was restricted. And your brain is like, hell no, we are not doing that again.
[00:12:22] And this is something we have known for decades. We have known some of this for a hundred years. Like some of these approaches we have learned and actually if we go Back to episode 12, it's called Hunger Games, why calories in, calories out, doesn't work. And so this is from, I want to say, July of 21, very early on in the podcast. And I was at a point where so many people just kept saying, it's calories in, calories out. And that's what I heard. That's what my ex would constantly tell me. What's the problem? You just need more willpower. You just need to run more and eat less. Like, this is very simple. This is very basic. But I could not sustain it. It would not last.
[00:12:58] And so that is a great episode to go back to because that is actually probably one of the foundational pieces of diet trauma. So I'm going to talk about some of the parts today, but that episode is a great one. If you have not listened to it or you haven't listened to it recently, that is huge. Because it talks about diet culture and how so often we demonize certain foods. And then you have this anti diet culture now that's like trying to say all foods are good, but we're not addressing the trauma and the stored memory of, no, but I'm not supposed to eat it. And even somebody telling you, no, it's okay, you can eat the food you love. We can have a trauma response, we can get anxious and have that anxiety around the food in order to really be able to implement this of, no food is bad or off limits. We can eat when we're hungry, stop when we're satisfied. We have to heal our relationship with food. So there are some pieces of what I teach that really come in to address the diet trauma in particular.
[00:13:56] Okay. And so it's interesting, right? Because my take is you can lose weight. I am pro weight loss. If you want to lose weight, you can. And let's do it in a sustainable way. Because I'm also anti diet culture. And I feel like the problem is there can be a lot of shame around if you want to lose weight or if you want to change your body. And I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong or bad about that. I think the issue, and where part of the trauma comes from is when we are trying to lose weight from a place of punishment and I'm not enough and I've got to fix myself. That's really what we have to work on and we have to address.
[00:14:30] But if we go back to this concept of calories in, calories out, I lay out my argument in episode 12 for why this is not Accurate. Why our body is not an isolated system.
[00:14:42] Why this first law of thermodynamics where energy is neither created nor destroyed, it can only be transferred from one form to another, but it's within an isolated system. People decide and they think your body is one isolated system, but really it's made up of so many different systems and it does not take into account things like insulin levels and blood sugar, your hormone cycles, and things like ghrelin and leptin and sleep and hydration, and how these other aspects impact our hormones, they impact our hunger, they impact blood sugar, they impact all of these different aspects, not to mention an autoimmune disease or if you're diabetic or pre diabetic. So many studies have debunked this calories in, calories out approach, and yet we are still trying to solve for that. We are still thinking, that's the problem. That any diet will work so long as you just cut calories. That any diet will work so long as just eat a certain amount. We really struggle to let that go. So many diets and programs and companies are based on this approach. If you look at the fitness industry, so much of the fitness weight loss industry is really based around this calories in, calories out model. That is not accurate. It is not the full picture. Is it a piece of the pie? Yeah. Let's talk about how much energy you're consuming and how much energy you're using throughout the day. Totally. The problem is often that the diets are so restrictive, it is triggering this trauma response. And we are always gonna regain weight even if we still maintain the diet, even if we still keep our calorie level low, we can still adhere to the protocol and still regain the weight. And that is what's so frustrating. And then that triggers so much shame, so much self loathing, so much frustration.
[00:16:32] As early as 1917, there was a study that showed when you reduced your calorie intake by 30%, it was quickly met by a decrease in your base metabolic rate by 30%, which means you give your body 30% less energy, your body is going to burn 30% less energy.
[00:16:50] It is always trying to find the state of equilibrium. Our bodies are very intuitive. They are designed to keep you safe and alive. And it does that so that you don't starve to death in case there's a famine, in case there's a war. It is so smart. But your body is not designed for weight loss. Your body is designed to keep you alive and to keep you alive at all cost.
[00:17:12] I Want to talk about the infamous starvation experiment by Dr. Ancel Keys between 1944 and 1945. And he did this year long study. And there were drastic changes, drastic results that were created both physically and psychologically. And this was one of the first studies that I looked at and really was able to see not just the changes in weight, but, but here are the psychological impacts of what this did to the people. And so the study was only men, but they were really able to keep them in a controlled environment for a year. The research called for the men to lose 25% of their body weight. They spent the first three months of the study eating a normal diet, which was 3200 calories. Then they had six months of semi starvation, which was 1600. I just want to point this out. 1600 calories a day is semi starvation.
[00:18:06] Most diets out there today, and how many have you tried where you tried to eat? 1600 or less, even for me, and like my size, if I wanted to lose five pounds, for example, most diets would tell me to eat between 1000 and 1200 calories. And I know I've talked with many of you who had been exercising and then followed an 800 calorie diet.
[00:18:26] You are starving yourself of food and then you are exercising on top of it. And then we wonder why. We struggle with food, we struggle with weight loss, we struggle with habits. It's because this is creating trauma in your body. And that is what most diets out there are doing. Probably 99% there was that the diet period, the semi starvation, and then there was a restricted rehabilitation period of three months, which was 2,000 to 3,200 calories. And then an eight week at the very end. So at the end of this year, there was an eight week period where there was no limits on calorie intake whatsoever.
[00:19:03] And so there were some requirements in terms of how much they were supposed to work in the lab. They had to do physical labor, they had to walk, they had to do like mental cognitive things each week, like activities.
[00:19:13] Not only was there a decrease in strength and stamina and energy, but their base metabolic rate, how much energy their bodies burned, also decreased.
[00:19:23] And so a drop in calories by 40% was met with a drop in energy expenditure by 40%.
[00:19:31] Apathy and social anxiety increased and the desire for sexual activity was replaced with an extreme obsession with food.
[00:19:41] And this I think is wild to look at because when I look back on my marriage, I think there were some. There was a lot of emotional disconnection and that I Think stemmed into why I had a really low sex drive for probably most of the marriage, especially after the first year.
[00:19:58] But there were also. There was a lot of dysfunction that first year. There were a lot of issues and incidents.
[00:20:03] And I also was really struggling with diet trauma and with food noise. And so I'm also like, oh, yeah, it's no wonder I wanted ice cream over six, because not only was I with a partner where I didn't feel loved and valued and respected, but I was also. And I kept feeling like I had to try to earn it and prove it and achieve it, but I also had a lot of food noise. I also had a lot of extreme diet trauma that I was dealing with. And so I can see how it's created this perfect storm. And it's. It wasn't just him. I can't just blame him. It was also partly me and my psychological challenges with food and body image.
[00:20:44] And it would not have saved, like the. It would not have saved the marriage. My sex drive would not have been fully restored just by healing the food noise. But that was a significant player in that because anytime there's relationship trauma or betrayal trauma, it is going to take some work to build the intimacy and the emotional connection to feel the desire for sex. So I'm going to do some more podcasts on this. I actually am planning to have a guest on later this year as well to talk about this because this is really important and really impacts what so many of us have been through.
[00:21:19] My goal is to help you have a healthy, thriving, fulfilling life. And that's in all areas, in all regards.
[00:21:27] Okay, but let's keep going. That's a little side tangent. So the semi starvation, the extreme hunger made the men obsessed with food. Mealtimes became the highlight of their day instead of normal activities. And participants savored each and every flavorless bite of food both during and after the diet.
[00:21:46] I think I mentioned this on a previous podcast recently, where the men would hoard cookbooks and look at them as if it was porn and it was just food.
[00:21:55] There were men who were sent to the emergency room. They had to have their stomach pumped afterwards because they were just binging and gorging themselves on food.
[00:22:03] It created such psychological ramifications. It created such food trauma.
[00:22:10] This is one of the pieces that we miss. And so I think while this was helpful in creating a baseline to really challenge this calories in, calories out approach, we really can underestimate the impact on our psychology and how that continues to this day. And so if you are struggling with this. If you find that you have this constant obsession, this food noise, this mind drama where you're constantly thinking about food and exercise, this is normal. This is a sign of diet trauma. And this means we need to solve it differently. And this is important because just another diet isn't going to fix it. We've got to heal the trauma just like we would need to heal trauma from a traumatic incident. If you were at war, if you, if there was a true famine, if there was, if you were physically beaten, emotionally beaten in a relationship, anything like that. Like there needs to be time where there is true healing.
[00:23:10] And when you can heal your relationship with food, decrease the food noise, decrease the trauma. Like actually heal that trauma part. Now weight loss becomes so much easier because your brain is not constantly obsessed and overtaken with anxiety and overwhelm and worries about food and body. And like we just, we cleanse so much of that mental emotional weight that we're carrying.
[00:23:35] That was one of the biggest things for me. I had lost £25, but I really lost £125 of mental and emotional weight that I carried for years, for the entire time that I was binging.
[00:23:51] And really at the core of that was feeling like I wasn't good enough.
[00:23:55] That is what we have to do. We have got to redefine our self worth and our self value and our self concept and we've got to transform that from the inside out. And when you do this work of revamping your relationship with yourself, when you up level your self concept and how you see yourself, how you think about yourself while working on your relationship with food and with exercise, that is when you can really create a life that's so amazing and so unstoppable. A life where you can lose the weight and keep it off. No matter what life circumstances come your way. Whether you are dating or divorced or single, whether it's the holidays or summer vacation or whether you're sick or you're taking care of an ill parent or an ill child, right? It's like no matter what happens, no matter what curveballs come your way, nothing is going to throw you off your game.
[00:24:52] It's like you, you're steady because you've released the trauma and the anxiety. And a lot of times we have to heal our self talk. We have to heal the patterns and the behaviors of how we think and talk to ourselves.
[00:25:05] Episode 12 really dives into more examples of why this calories in, calories out doesn't work and how even after years of dieting somebody's base body mass index will be the exact same five years later, even in a controlled reduced calorie setting. Like, it does not actually change the parameters that we're typically looking for.
[00:25:25] And it's because calories alone is not the only thing it is. Let's say it's 1/10 is like the how much you're eating, but you can restrict calories. Like, I was restricting calories throughout the day, but then I was binging at night to make up for it. Not intentionally, not on purpose, but my body was just. It was hungry, it was starved. And at times it was starved for food. And at times it was starved for my own love and praise and affection and attention. And I kept seeking it outside of myself. I kept seeking it from men, and I kept seeking it from other people and their validation. I kept seeking it in my body and how I looked.
[00:26:04] This is the work. When you do this work, life will never be the same. I promise.
[00:26:11] And that is one of the things that I have gotten to experience, is so much peace and ease and freedom around food to where I can go on vacation and still lose weight. I can go through the holidays and still lose weight. I can enjoy parties and cookie swaps and Thanksgiving and Christmas and travel, and I can enjoy my life because food is not at the center of it. Food is not my primary source of joy and comfort and pleasure. And food is not the primary thing that's constantly on my brain. Couple of episodes here as a reminder. Episode 12, Hunger Games. That's a great one to go back and listen to if you haven't recently. Episode 55 is Overcoming Diet Trauma. That was the first trauma podcast I did, and that is from July of 22. So go back and listen to that one. Because this is such an important thing that we address, and this is real. And so many more people were realizing are struggling with this. And we have different terms, different ways of thinking about it. And I would say there's even some slightly different solutions for it. Right? Some people are just going to be anti diet. And I also was at a point where I wasn't comfortable just eating whatever and gaining weight. And I think sometimes we get caught in these extremes and these dichotomies of it's this or it's that, and it's okay if you want to lose weight. Just like I said at the beginning, I will never shame you if you want to lose weight. We always want to like our reasons, though, and we always want to question. And if it's I want to lose Five pounds. Where is it that constant? I just want to lose five more pounds. I want to lose five more pounds. And this is why we have to do the self concept work of loving ourselves and loving our body so that way we're not in that constant game right now. In my maintenance range, I weighed that at various points in college, I think I weighed that in high school at times and I felt fat and overweight and I hated my body and I was always trying to lose weight and now I'm at that weight and I'm like, oh, I actually like my body, I like my composition. I'm not constantly trying to lose five more pounds. I'm very happy in this range and I know that I can maintain it and I can maintain it with the lifestyle that I want to have.
[00:28:19] So there's nothing wrong with wanting to lose weight. But we really want to question why. What's happening underneath the surface and are you trying to lose weight from a place of punishment and not enoughness? And something's wrong with me, something's wrong with my body. I need to fix myself. Something about me is flawed that I need to fix. We really want to question, is that the place that we're coming at from where it's, I can't love myself now, so I'm going to try to hate and punish myself. Skinny and girl, let me tell you, that does not work. And I know you know it doesn't work.
[00:28:49] Weight loss can be done from a place of love so that you're not terrified, trying, struggling, needing to earn and achieve your worth. With the weight loss, you're not weighing your self esteem and your self value with the number on the scale. You're also not terrified continuing to live in diet hell while in maintenance, because that was the worst part, was like never ever fully enjoying it. So this is what we want to change is like what it looks like to lose weight from a place of self, love from a place of being healthy, from a place at addressing the internal coping mechanisms where we're reaching for food to feel better. We're reaching for food to be the highlight of our day, to give us something to be joyful about.
[00:29:28] Because in part it's the emotions and it's what's going on around us, but in part it stems from diet trauma. And when food was severely restricted or food groups were severely restricted.
[00:29:38] I would say the final little piece here that I've already touched on is one aspect of diet trauma is how we talk to ourselves.
[00:29:45] If we don't lose weight fast enough if we regain the weight, it's that shame, judgment and self loathing. And it's also any shame, judgment, criticism we received from maybe it was a parent or a friend or a spouse or somebody else in our life that insulted or criticized your body based on what size you were, especially if you gained weight. It might even be fat phobic comments that aren't necessarily directed at you, but at other people that still can trigger your own shame, your self consciousness, your fear, your not enoughness. And I felt this with my ex. Even when he was commenting on his own body, he would pinch his skin together and be like, look at this fat.
[00:30:28] And I'm like, that's called skin number one. And my fear was like, oh, if he's judging himself that severely, how is he judging me? Because if he's thinking he's fat with that, surely he must think I'm fat and that's bad, that's not good. He's going to stop loving me. He might leave me. So I really need to lose some weight. And there was really this dysfunctional level of I've got to lose weight in order to keep him from abandoning me. There were some abandonment wounds that were getting triggered even around weight loss and my body. But you are not the problem, okay? It's not that you're lazy or you don't have enough willpower or enough self discipline.
[00:31:06] It's that this protocol, this diet culture, and sometimes even the anti diet culture hasn't addressed the real emotional and psychological things that we need to work on. I hope that you can take away and notice, oh, it's not that I didn't work or something's wrong with me. It's that this diet didn't work for me, it didn't work for my body, it didn't work long term and that's okay. Now I am convicted and hell bent on creating something that is sustainable, on something that is going to last long term.
[00:31:35] And that's exactly what I'm gonna help you do.
[00:31:37] So when you're ready, I'd love to schedule a free consultation with you and share more about how I can help you heal from diet trauma and relationship trauma. So that you can create the life and body you crave. So that you are no longer turning to food for comfort and as a coping mechanism. So that food can be really neutral. So that you can forget about it. So that you can put Girl Scout cookies up in the cabinet and forget about them for months.
[00:32:03] So that you can put chocolate in your purse and forget about it for Weeks.
[00:32:07] I can't tell you how often I find candy or a snack or something, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot that was in there.
[00:32:14] And that never would have happened. I knew where everything was hidden.
[00:32:19] This out of sight, out of mind doesn't really work if you're constantly thinking about food and where it's at. You have to heal the diet trauma first. You have to heal the food trauma, and then when it's out of sight, it can be out of mind. But just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not constantly running through your brain all the time. And that's what I'm gonna help you work through.
[00:32:40] So if you found yourself, if you can relate to what I've been saying here about the food noise and the mind drama with food, about this diet trauma, I wanna help you heal that. And you can do that. Over the next six to 12 months, everyone's gonna be a little bit different. But this is exactly what I'm gonna help you with.
[00:32:58] Schedule your free consultation. You can visit bodyucrave.com schedule find a day and time on my calendar, and we will get to work, really starting to evaluate and flesh out. Okay, here's what the process looks like. Here are the things that we work through, because this is what no one else is talking about. And when you heal this, weight loss becomes easier. Emotional eating and addressing that, or binge eating becomes easier to address and to end. I went from binging for 14 years. I was a binge eater, and I have been binge free over five years. Now we're going on six years, which is. It just blows my mind. You can create this too. You can stop emotionally eating. You can stop binge eating. You can stop turning to food. You can stop thinking and obsessing about food all the time. And I can help.
[00:33:45] All right, this was a great episode. I hope y' all enjoyed it. I will be back to talk a little bit more about trauma later this week. And then we're gonna start diving into some things around the holidays and how holidays and even other aspects of trauma can trigger desires for food. It can trigger binging. And so we'll be diving into more of this topic, especially as we come up on the holidays. And maybe things look a little bit different than they used to. All right, that's it for now. Have a fabulous week. Here's to creating the life and body you crave.
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