Episode 94: Can You Lose Weight while Eating Intuitively?


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In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah answer the popular question “can I lose weight with intuitive eating?” The girls dive into the three different weight outcomes that can occur when immersing yourself into an intuitive eating-inspired mindset. They also respond to the comment “but I need to lose weight to be healthier.” This episode can be listened to in conjunction with The History and Development of Obesity as a "Disease" episode (coming soon!).

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    hello everyone welcome back to another episode of the upbeat dietitians podcast

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    Hello everybody welcome back to the Pod today we are answering a question that

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    at least I get all the temperatures you do too Emily basically asking if I do

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    this intuitive eating thing can I expect to lose weight or like what's going to happen to my weight if I do intuitive

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    eating so we're going to answer that question today we're going to go through a few different things we're going to do

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    a quick recap on what intuitive eating is if you are just jumping into this episode for the first time we haven't

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    really defined it in a while so we'll kind of give a quick recap of what even is intuitive eating to kind of help

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    explain the process or the the reason behind our answer today

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    um and we'll of course answer the question of can intuitive eating be used for weight loss and kind of talk about

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    maybe what happens if we do have the intentions of weight loss while doing

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    intuitive eating and then kind of end with all the different things that maybe will

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    happen to your way with intuitive eating besides just weight loss to kind of give a little bit of a spoiler because it could be one of three things basically

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    yeah so right off the bat we are going to

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    talk about kind of what intuitive eating it is we reference this all the time and our intuitive eating episode was like

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    years ago if honestly I recommend that you don't listen to it because I'm sure

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    it's we'll have to do a podcast personality we're a little bit different now yeah

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    um we'll have to like do like a recap or some type of yeah we can like revisit it

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    I feel like we should do a bunch of those like revisiting the keto diet revisiting Haze gotta revisit Hayes for

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    sure yeah that Haze episodes whatever you do don't go listen to the haze episode

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    no where much more educated yeah and

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    have a better idea of what's going on so intuitive eating

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    is and there isn't like a strict definition but it's this non-diet approach to health that outlines like 10

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    different principles and all these different principles were developed by two registered dietitians Evelyn tribal

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    that's definitely right once again I don't say things out loud so let's read them

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    yes and Elise Rush yeah that works I'm sorry ethylene and release if you're

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    listening to this I know I want to like have on the podcast listen to this yeah

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    we love you thank you for all that you do yes and essentially the main premise of this

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    intuitive eating movement and framework is to help people get back in tune with their bodies cues to guide their eating

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    rather than rely on like external rules like calorie counting or measuring

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    portion sizes to kind of Define how they need to eat and basically Drive what

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    they're going to eat every day and intuitive reading has nothing to do with dieting

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    it's a nine diet approach anti-diet approach it's going away kind of from that diet

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    culture World which that said before we even get into answering the question of can intuitive eating be used for weight

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    loss or like will you lose weight if you're an intuitive eater I want to First say that first of all if you have

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    like Temptations to diet and like you have desires to lose weight even if you're like in the midst like if you're

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    further on along the lines of intuitive eating and you still have those desires that's totally fine it's understandable you're not wrong for wanting to lose

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    weight it's just like the culture we live in where of course you want to lose weight like being in a larger body is

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    like change so of course you want the alternative so I want to say that first and foremost I

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    should have led with that like if you still feel that way and even if you keep feeling that way as you are learning

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    more about intuitive eating and like working through the principles and all of that that's honestly to be expected like I I'm honestly shocked to people so

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    they don't have that desire anymore like we yeah because we're just so immersed

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    in it like it makes total sense that you would want that to be the result yes I guess while I get the question so

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    much is because of course it's what everyone wants it's when it comes to

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    nutrition that's probably the number one thing people think of it's about can I

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    lose weight what's my weight gonna do with this I don't want to call intuitive eating a diet of course but with this

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    approach what's going to happen to my weight which let's answer just that so I think

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    it's important to note speaking of like the definition of intuitive eating it's not a diet like Emily said there is a

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    thing to do with dieting and that also means that it's a weight neutral approach which means that intuitive eaters need

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    to remove the number on the scale from like their main focus and allow it to be

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    I always say like the side effect or the outcome rather than like the main goal we're focusing on so like your weight

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    you might lose weight we'll get to this later but you might lose weight but if your main focus is weight loss that's

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    going to make it really really tough to get in tune with hunger and fullness and make peace with food and respect your

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    body and all the other principles that are gonna be what like actually makes you an intuitive eater so to speak

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    yeah there's a lot more factors going on but it's going to be really tough at

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    first because that's what we're kind of taught to focus on all the time yeah

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    and one of the largest issues like

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    with trying to use intuitive eating as a weight loss approach is like it takes away those cues that Hannah was talking

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    about and the weight is one of those external factors that we defined kind of

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    earlier that is the biggest difference from intuitive eating whereas like maybe like you focus on like the calorie

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    counting and Portion sizes and you're like oh my health is not great because I

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    weigh x amount I'm not going to eat breakfast today because of that into

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    dating we'll focus on those internal cues and it's a lot easier said than

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    done it's going to take a lot of time but one of the biggest things is just kind of removing the two

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    and understanding that like your weight is not do we have a weight episode no we

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    have I think it's next week or the week after we're doing obesity as a disease

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    okay so perfect so stay tuned then yeah I think Amanda we also talked about

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    weight a little bit oh yeah she came on so we'll link her episode as well I think it was called like is weight the

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    problem problem yeah that was the episode so we'll link that as well but the biggest thing is just kind of separating the two

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    so then let's kind of talk about how actually like weighing yourself might

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    make a little bit more harder or more difficult to eat intuitively when we're

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    looking at this number on the scale potentially every day and I I kind of gave this example before

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    if like say your number is higher than usual and then you're gonna ignore you're like oh my gosh I weigh a little

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    bit more I need to eat less today I'm gonna skip my I'm gonna ignore my Hunger cues and

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    maybe you're not thinking about it the exact way you're kind of going about your day and like in the morning you have a really bad headache or you have a

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    really hard time focusing you're like I'm just gonna drink some coffee and push through one maybe like

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    a banana and toast and like a hard-boiled egg might make you focus and

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    do a little bit better whatever you're doing in the morning or are in kind of the opposite side of

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    that maybe like you see the number go up a little bit and then you're like oh my gosh I nothing I'm doing is worth it and

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    nothing matters and then you go bingy and then you're pushing past those fullness cues where like you start to

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    kind of feel your stomach feels a little bit Fuller you start to feel a little bit more tired and you just kind of push

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    past that and you continue to eat in that sense yeah so that's kind of example is like

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    the weight's a little bit higher maybe we go the starvation or like binge route right and then we have the other end too

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    where if the scale is lower it's it's going down you might feel like this is a

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    great thing you want to celebrate and so you've earned it and you're gonna eat past fullness because it's a cheat day

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    you've earned it you deserve it all those internal monologues you'll be having or it could be the opposite you

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    keep ignoring your hunger and doing this diet because you want that number keep going down and you feel like if you eat

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    when you're hungry then you're just gonna gain weight and you should be ignoring your hunger because the diet says you should only eat I don't know

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    from five to eight pm if you're doing intermittent fasting for example so basically with either of these

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    scenarios if the scale is up or down and we're using that to determine when and what we should eat we are tearing down

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    any trust that we have with our internal wisdom telling us when we should eat

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    so that kind of just all illustrates how using the scale as a determinant of your

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    food choices likely won't be sustainable long term I say that all the time like the scale can't be what tells you what

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    to eat neither should like MyFitnessPal or I don't know it's another diet tool

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    I don't know things like that'd be like smart watches a smartphone yeah it's a good one like

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    how many calories you've burned you wanna counteract that like

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    those are all external things like Emily said external sources that were using and they likely won't match up with your

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    internal cues and that can lead to just a whole lot of confusion yeah they don't know what your physical activity levels

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    are like maybe the watch does a little bit but we are we've already talked about the one

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    when did we talk about that we definitely have to talk about this tracker episode we'll link that as well

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    um but those aren't that accurate it doesn't know kind of like what you have going on maybe you're like really kind

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    of more staying at home that day maybe you're on the run and you have to go between places

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    these different factors don't take that into account so like

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    they're going to give you kind of one number like the weight's not the weight is not trying to tell you anything

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    besides some yeah what your mass is that day right it's not trying to persuade

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    you to do anything but like the calorie amounts and like the watch um those might have a little bit more

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    influence there definitely the calorie counting exactly

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    oh if we shouldn't be focusing on weight you're like yeah okay I get it whatever

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    we'll stop weighing ourselves great you might still be wondering like what's going to happen to my weight when I

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    start incorporating this intuitive eating framework there's basically three scenarios or kind of a combination of any of them really but we could have

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    weight gain weight loss or weight maintenance we're going to kind of describe how and when each of these might happen

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    um we did recently repost the throwback episode on set point weight Theory so go

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    give that a lesson or listen to the OG episode way back when it's the same thing either way um but that could help describe kind of

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    how our bodies tend to navigate or uh what's the word migrate to the set point weight

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    um whether it's above or below wherever it's it's at from dieting what

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    kind of we'll use that phrase set point weight as we're describing these scenarios so if you're like what is that

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    go listen to that episode so let's talk about the first potential

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    outcome which is weight gain which people always the thought of weight gain

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    can be really scary feeling that out of control that's kind of what a lot of people are trying to

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    avoid and some people might gain weight if they

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    try to if they start to incorporate these this intuitive eating framework and

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    this doesn't mean you're doing something wrong or that you're getting less healthy and that you should quit and

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    stop listening to your body and trying to show and listen to your internal appeals

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    and you might just jump back to calorie counting when you see this if you gain weight it's likely because

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    your body needed to there's a really great example

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    I think we've talked about this before we're like say someone is drowning we don't love

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    that and they're like they're the only thing on their mind is getting air like

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    nothing else matters like your body is like oh my gosh I need oxygen

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    if your body is severely depleted of calories it's in that stressed State

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    like your body's drowning very different mechanisms but the example is there and

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    when you start to give it that those calories like the oxygen in the drowning

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    situation it starts to like meet homeostasis and level out and calm

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    down so oftentimes when people are like have a long history of dieting or they're

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    severely just depleting or like limiting calories

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    and you start to eat a little bit more it's very natural for your body to gain

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    some weight and that's okay yeah it was meant to do that it's your body isn't trying to

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    punish you you very well could be and that could be

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    your set point weight like you're constantly going against your body and then you start eating a little bit more

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    or maybe eating a little bit more frequently and then your weight went up

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    has very normal and okay yeah I always add to that example too that like say

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    you are like drowning or it's putting more positive spin up so you're just like swimming a long distance like

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    you're a competitive swimmer you're going from one to the pool to the other if you haven't like gotten a good breath

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    in a while you probably will like be gasping for air once you finally get access to oxygen again and it's kind of

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    like this people always say like when they're working on making peace with food they end up overeating a little bit and I don't love the term overeating

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    because it defines or makes it seem like there's a certain amount that we should be eating but eating past funnels will

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    say um because you finally have access to calories and food again so of course your body's Natural Instinct just to

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    like again like over consume in air quotes those Foods because you finally are able

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    to eat them just like you'd be gasping for air if you haven't breathed in a while so with this I don't want to say

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    that you're gonna gain weight and then you're gonna lose it again to kind of get that false hope of still having some

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    kind of weight loss but some people do end up eating past fullness or overeating a

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    little for a little while after they ditch the diets and all of that and then they might go back down a

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    little bit if there's a point where it was still lower than that because they were just not used to eating those foods

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    and so they over ate them for a little while so honestly with these three outcomes we

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    could have just one of them or we could have kind of a combination of them it just totally depends but I like to always that add that in there that

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    just like you would gasp for air you likely are going to be not likely some

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    people do overeat for a while when they finally allow themselves to do so

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    so that's weight gain which is highly likely not everyone experiences it many do

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    especially the people who were likely under eating with their previous habits

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    versus like we'll get to the weight loss one in a second but people who lose weight are often the ones who were in

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    some capacity eating more than their calories needs so it just makes sense like if you were eating less than your

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    body's needs and you were below your set point weight you likely are going to gain weight in some capacity but I want

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    to go over weight maintenance first some people don't experience weight changes once they become an intuitive eater

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    or it's very minimal we discussed in the set point weight Theory episode that it's normal to have like 10 15 pound

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    fluctuations like even like day to day for some people so you might even just like gain or lose

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    around that amount versus like a more drastic amount we'll say

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    um but some people don't really experience any weight changes at all and this is just because they likely in whatever way were eating what their body

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    needed and they were at their set point weight previously but I want to point out that even if your weight didn't

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    change there were likely so many mental shifts and improvements that were happening gosh my voice is like turning

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    into like a rocking chair like a squeaky one um even though weight didn't change we

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    know that weight does not equal health you likely were still experiencing many mental shifts and an improved

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    relationship with food when going from that deity mindset hating your body fearing food to embracing intuitive

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    eating there's a lot else going on besides the weight I know this is the topic of

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    today's episode but it's important to remember it's more than just that yeah

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    so then the last outcome that could occur is weight loss with intuitive

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    eating and like Hannah mentioned this is very much likely or more likely to

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    happen if someone was overeating or not overeating eating more than

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    their body's needs and this is I think a little bit more some common examples might be like binge

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    eating or emotional eating or just eating in any way that you're just kind

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    of eating past those fullness cues and at the time it probably doesn't feel like you're eating past your fullness because

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    it just it might be a coping mechanism it might be

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    I mean you may not even half fullness cues at this point yeah you may not even know what those feel like for you yeah

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    so you're just kind of eating a little bit more so then and let's say that like

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    someone does lose weight while incorporating to defeating that doesn't

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    mean that it was the goal like Hannah said weight is more of a side effect or how

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    it might change and this might be just kind of part of your intuitive eating

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    journey to understand kind of where are my fullness cues what is a hunger cue

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    even feel like um and this isn't to say that intuitively will tell you like how much

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    you need to eat every single day because that just kind of brings us back to that diet culture mindset of you are a robot

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    and you need this many calories every single day it'll just kind of help you gauge what a

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    hunger and fullness cue feel like so a lot of people don't experience so

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    it could potentially happen and sometimes like maybe you stop eating

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    as much because you're trying to gauge these excuse but then sometimes maybe you'll go back to your old behaviors

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    because that's what was comfortable to you like maybe a stressful event comes up or something at

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    work happens and then you end up eating a little bit more might fluctuate

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    so basically if anyone ever like if you see a YouTube thumbnail I see this all

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    the time that says here's how I used intuitive eating to

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    lose 30 pounds like run far away no one should ever be using intuitive eating to

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    sell weight loss because like we said it's a weight neutral approach and you might lose weight with it but if you're using it to sell weight loss it's still

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    a diet yes it's they're they're adding some type of diet

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    rules into that those no and it's like it's promising that you're gonna lose weight too if you eat

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    like them which of course is not the case like even if they are eating intuitive

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    like eating intuitively however that is for them and they lost weight that doesn't mean that if you two eat

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    intuitively likely by their definition which may not be your definition that you're going to lose weight too so

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    basically if you see weight loss promise from intuitive eating just run far away from that because it yes it may happen

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    but it also likely could not yeah too scary stuff scary stuff on the

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    internet it just stinks because we finally get something that like is what we're supposed I don't know what I

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    suppose but what we are born to do like we're born intuitive eaters and then of course diet culture just takes it and

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    like rips it and shifts it and all that it's kind of like when people in a small body

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    like mine are trying to like take over the fat Liberation kind of

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    thing like it's just not the right people talking about it like it's great like I I do talk about these things

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    which I try to but I should not be like the main voice you're listening to when it comes to

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    fat Liberation and all of that kind of stuff yeah yeah

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    well that's actually another good segue look at us we're just so just natural podcast at this point

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    I don't want to go too much into this although I have like four huge paragraphs on it written on our outline

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    at this point be asking I get this all the time like I've described our whole Spiel of what we just said and they're

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    like well I need to lose weight for health reasons though so if you're saying that if you've heard all of our

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    thoughts so far and you're like I Gotta Lose It for health reasons is intuitive eating a good fit for me if that's the case I want to go over we want to go

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    over a few things there but like we said we're gonna go over this I think a lot more in detail next week

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    um talking about obesity as a disease if it even is one TBD on that

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    um but to briefly we'll say hopefully answer this question of like what if I

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    have to lose weight for health reasons we've already kind of answered it I guess

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    contrary to popular belief weight is not a good indicator of Health I know that's

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    if you haven't heard this before like you might be Shell Shocked right now but weight is not a good indicator of Health

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    there is no evidence that shows that being at a higher weight causes conditions like heart disease diabetes

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    or cancer which again look that might be blowing your mind and you might be like very skeptical and trying to like leave

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    this episode because we're quacks because you've likely heard so many times that like diabetes is caused by

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    being at a higher weight heart disease is caused by being at a higher weight but the word cause is kind of the key

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    word there there's nothing that shows that a equals b or a causes B like weight

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    causes diabetes there could be a correlation between a higher weight in these health health conditions but as

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    anyone who understands research knows there is a difference between correlation and causation they're not

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    the same thing no and there are a lot of other factors that go into this genetics it's always

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    the one we hit weight stigma is very prevalent

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    um chronic dieting environmental social factors access to food Access to Health

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    Care safe places to exercise it's not just weight and

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    whenever people talk about like oh you're gonna make us all have diabetes or

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    you're trying to give us all heart disease when like someone says like

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    it's okay to gain weight or your weight is not the like your

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    soul mean like it's not your defining Factor

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    there are a lot of factors going on that a lot of

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    articles whenever they talk about this fail to incorporate so

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    I I don't know how much I want to go into this because I know we're going to talk about it next week yeah I feel like

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    the overall messages wait is not a good indicator of Health and we could leave it at that

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    and then you might have to stick back around I think it's good I think we should we've got a lot more thoughts like literally our outline we always

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    have our episode we take little notes and I took a lot of events yeah

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    um yeah we'll talk more about like weight stigma and how maybe that is the bigger issue versus like obesity

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    epidemic obesity disease welcome to all those things next week so tune in then the biggest thing here we

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    want to say if you do have the question of I know that intuitive eating shouldn't

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    be used for weight loss I heard all that that you said but like I need to lose weight for health reasons that's not a

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    thing like you can be very healthy without losing weight and also you don't owe anybody Health like you don't

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    no it's okay if you're not healthy like that's fine like yeah I say this all the

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    time too like your body is not this project you have to like constantly be working on and a lot of things are out

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    of your control too like if you have an autoimmune disease like sure there's certain things you could maybe possibly

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    do to help with that but a lot of times these things are largely out of your control and you don't you're not a

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    better or worse person if you are more or less healthy so to speak air quotes

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    there if you're listening and not watching yes okay I have a lot more to say but I'll

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    bite my tongue for a week yes well save it for next week yeah so that they'll have to come back [Laughter]

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    so kind of this is talking about that a

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    little bit more and I don't know if I feel like we might say this as well

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    kind of like letting go of the desire for weight loss yeah so I wanted to like end this with like some takeaways like

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    yes like okay I know that I shouldn't be worried about losing weight I can't focus on that with intuitive eating

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    but like how do I stop worrying about it I had some tips on our outline but we'll save it for next week too actually we

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    could we could ask questions okay I'm thinking I don't think yeah okay let's do it and then they can come

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    back so couple ques we're not going to give you the tips yet you're gonna have to come back like here are some

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    self-reflection questions to ask yourself if you have this desire for weight loss

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    if you feel like you need to lose weight for health reasons or for a Civic

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    reasons or or whatever it is first question

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    is what are your beliefs about weight and body size

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    obviously we've told you ours we wanted we want you to actually think about though like what where am I at what do I

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    actually think about these two and where did you learn these beliefs were they from

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    the TV show were they from parents use you've observed family members were they

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    from friends around you where did this come from

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    next question to ask yourself is has pursuing weight loss ever worked for you long term and long term we're going to

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    make past like one to two years not like six months

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    we're gonna a couple years how has that been working next question to ask yourself is how has

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    pursuing weight loss made you feel yeah I feel like this is a very good

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    question and think about that like write them down write down all of your feelings if

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    that helps you it was a great place yes exactly that

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    how has it made you feel throughout kind of wherever you're at in your weight loss your weight loss journey is there

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    anything else you had to compromise to reach your quote-unquote goal weight and this could be like what

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    this could be like time with family food

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    and this is like maybe like going out for a celebration or going out to dinner with someone

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    time sleep stuff like that and then what emotional and physical

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    harm did you experience while dieting we're going to include emotional is

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    physical I feel like people might talk a little bit people are talking about a little bit more so he might be a little bit more aware of those emotional harm

    29:54

    being a dive into that next question to ask yourself is what did you miss out on while dieting and

    29:59

    pursuing weight loss this kind of can go back to the compromise question but missing out

    30:05

    could be more than just like the dinners and celebrations it could be

    30:11

    your mental health maybe like happiness stuff like that plenty of sleep I feel

    30:19

    like that something is well that Mike has sacrificed and then ask yourself who is Ben is it

    30:26

    who is benefiting from making you feel like your body does not deserve love unless it's smaller

    30:32

    and then who profits from telling you that you need to change diet culture

    30:40

    so take some time yes take some time think about all these you don't have to

    30:46

    answer them all at once because it might be a little bit overwhelming but luckily you have a week between our episodes so

    30:52

    you've got some time to maybe do one a day I mean there's probably more

    30:58

    than I think there's more than seven here maybe do like one and a half a day two a day

    31:03

    and then and maybe if you've been that's overwhelming you don't have to do all these before no

    31:10

    different yes do one that'll be your goal yeah just

    31:15

    pick one of those and like we said if you still have like these weight loss

    31:21

    and dieting thoughts like lingering you can still start to work on intuitive

    31:27

    eating relationship with food all of that and these thoughts will likely keep

    31:32

    popping up like even like 15 years down the road when you're like how you would

    31:38

    Define yourself to be a full-blown intuitive eater like you will still have friends and family and ads online and

    31:45

    whatever kind of making you think that you'd be better off trying to lose weight

    31:51

    um so that shouldn't stop you from jumping into this or I guess maybe more so

    31:57

    slowly tiptoeing into it if jumping feels a little too scary um

    32:02

    so anyway it's okay if you still have those thoughts lingering that shouldn't be what keeps you from starting to work

    32:10

    on these things yeah it's exciting stuff scary yet exciting

    32:17

    we're excited for you excited for you so we'll go into the tips next week

    32:23

    more about obesity yes because I feel like we can't we can talk so much about

    32:29

    that so we'll talk about it next week because we should not get started or unless I'm not going to work

    32:35

    the whole thing so tune in next week but think about these questions kind of

    32:42

    think about everything we've talked about today and maybe hopefully you learned something new because I feel

    32:48

    like oh if there's one thing you've learned from this I want to go back to what Hannah said if someone says they used

    32:55

    intuitive eating to lose weight and they're going to help you do that run far away that's my take-home message

    33:02

    it's like the biggest red flag like with intuitive eating it's literally just dye culture hacking

    33:09

    a non the non-diet approach the non-diet world

    33:14

    yeah bill boo shame on them like I feel like that

    33:21

    used to be us like two years ago that was us yeah we didn't quite understand

    33:27

    intuitive eating Haze which is why we say don't go back and listen to old episodes we're gonna I'm begging you

    33:33

    we're gonna revisit it if it wasn't bad for like our sequential numbering we

    33:39

    would delete those terrible episodes I don't say terrible we were just um we

    33:44

    were in a learning phase which you are too yeah so maybe if you're like maybe if you want to hear more from them who

    33:51

    might be more have a similar mindset to you oh my gosh yeah maybe we're more

    33:57

    relatable back then than we are now yeah I hope not I guess you pick but just know that you

    34:04

    have the options and which version you wanted it was different yeah so we hope you guys enjoyed today's

    34:12

    episode we cannot wait to chat with you next week we've already spoiled it we're

    34:19

    gonna talk about the whole discussion of obesity being a disease and where that comes from

    34:27

    and weight stigma it's going to be wild so definitely come tune in

    34:34

    but we appreciate you guys listening and we will see you next week yes and if

    34:42

    you're tuning in for the first time in this season you're like where's the bonus question okay sorry go join our we

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    need to find a name for it still please let us know what we should name this because subscription bonus question membership

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    35:02

    what we have a little place for all rona's questions now if you want to just tune in for the the more silly stuff

    35:08

    relating to the upbeat dietitians podcast

    35:14

    okay we'll see you there hopefully otherwise we'll definitely see you next week talking all about the Obesity

    35:19

    epidemic yeah yeah all right bye guys bye thank you so much


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