There is way too much drama about food and weight loss. In fairness, I think there’s too much drama surrounding pretty much everything, but I see it every day related to food and weight loss.
How many of you have worked yourself into unpleasant emotion with thoughts like:
I’m totally out of control! I can’t get back on track!
I binged all weekend! What is wrong with me? Why do I keep doing that?
I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to lose the weight! I just can’t stay motivated. It’s too hard for me!
Are those thoughts helpful? Are they productive?
No.
They are a choice. They are a decision to manufacture drama and negative feelings.
Here’s what they do: they make you feel like crap.
When you feel like crap, you make crappy choices.
When you feel amazing, you make amazing choices.
Why are you repeatedly choosing to focus on things that make you feel like crap?
It.is.holding.you.back.
I’m not saying you need to deny fear and doubt. I’m not saying you have to turn off frustration.
But, your fixation on it has got to change.
“He who indulges empty fears earns himself real fears” ~ Seneca
For as long as you find yourself perseverating on what you’re worried about or where you’ve dropped the ball, you will stay there.
In a perfect world, I want you to practice winning in your own mind. You know, I want you to see yourself waking up and feeling fit, strong & vibrant. I want you to see yourself joyfully choosing a fat loss friendly meal over the bagels and donuts.
But at a bare minimum, please don’t practice losing in your own mind!
That’s what you’re doing with these dramatic thoughts.
It’s a dress rehearsal for losing and you’re rehearsing over and over and over.
YOU get to choose your response to frustrations. YOU get to choose your response to where you are and where you’re going.
Sure, you can continue to choose frustration, fear, drama, complaining and doubt.
Or, you can ask: does this response help me?
Does it move me forward?
How does responding this way make me feel?
Instead of thinking about things, is there something I could be doing?
Is there one small thing I can do right now to move me in the direction of my goals?
In today’s episode I’m sharing the CliffNotes & takeaway of a white paper written by Dr. Philip Maffetone about the three stages of carbohydrate intolerance. To download the free whitepaper for yourself, click here.
Carbohydrate intolerance not only encourages weight gain, it impairs fat loss, damages the metabolism and triggers the development of illness and disease.
Most importantly, after we assess the three stages of carbohydrate intolerance, we’ll talk about what you can do about it.
Carbohydrate intolerance not only impairs fat loss and reduces energy – it also predisposes you to illness and chronic disease.
Dr. Philip Maffetone outlines how carbohydrate intolerance develops in the below model and then goes on to describe three stages of carbohydrate intolerance.
Dr. Philip Maffetone’s Model of Carbohydrate Intolerance
The three stages of carbohydrate intolerance can initiate in utero, in infancy, childhood, adolescence or adulthood and get worse until we choose to make dietary and lifestyle changes to improve carbohydrate tolerance.
Stages 1, 2 and 3 are detailed in the podcast so listen to the full episode to get all the details & the recommendations for making positive changes!
Cheat day. Overeating. Binge eating. Call it what you want.
The bottom line is – overeating has an immediate, negative effect on your metabolism!
In today’s episode, we are talking about the physical, hormonal, and metabolic impact of overeating or binge eating.
I want you to know and understand that your body does not “reset” the following day simply because it’s a new day and your fat burning potential doesn’t go unaffected.
In today’s episode we’re going to dive into the relationship between overeating and your metabolism. We’ll get into specific impairments to your hormone balance, metabolism and fat burning potential that happen almost immediately.
We’ll answer the following questions:
What are the consequences of overeating on your metabolism?
Your body goes into storage mode
Your fat burning potential is suppressed for days
You trigger hormonal imbalances
You experience an increase in hunger and cravings
Your body burns sugar instead of fat while at rest and during workouts
How long do the negative effects last?
Practically speaking, how can you change your habit of overeating?
I’d also bet that you might not even realize that your lies are in fact lies.
One of the most common lies I see (and I used to tell myself) is that indulging, overeating and binging are what you want, they make you feel good and you like it.
I would argue that when you overeat, it doesn’t work for you. You don’t like it and it doesn’t make you feel good.
I have a client who is trying to overcome a long-held habit of overeating after dinner. The other day in our private Facebook group she was struggling with the desire to indulge in that habit. Here’s what she said:
Urges, I can feel you and let you pass. I am stronger than you. I am taking a vigorous walk after a night without sleep. I am going home to shower and get myself some true downtime. Urges you don’t know the real me!
So basically, the urge to overeat was there. She wanted to. She was tempted.
One of the other women in the group had such a powerful response, calling her out on lies she has believed about these urges to overeat:
Can I add something? “Urges, you say you’ll make me feel better if I indulge. That’s a lie. Experience has shown me that I feel crappy, exhausted and stressed when I give in to you.”
Isn’t that so true!?
Maybe you tell yourself you want to overeat. You want to “let go” and indulge. You tell yourself that you need it. You’re stressed, you’re tired and you just don’t care.
But isn’t that a lie?
Isn’t it more true that the overeating makes you more tired?
Isn’t it more true that the overeating makes you more stressed?
Isn’t it more true that you are NEVER glad you did it?
Isn’t it more true that if you reflect back on your experience, it’s never worth it?
Start to look for those lies you’ve been telling yourself and challenge yourself to find what is real.
