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Imagine a graph with two lines. One indicates happiness, the other tracks how you feel about your body. If you’re like millions of people, the lines do not intersect. But what if they did? 

It’s normal to feel and experience an array of emotions which sometimes trigger a downward spiral. What if instead of reaching for food we practice Body Kindness. From downward spiral to upward spiral, Rebecca Scritchfield, RD teaches us to use radical self–acceptance and Body Kindness to never diet again! 

In this episode I discuss 

• Why you should focus on well-being, not weight
• The real reason why we keep searching for the solution that will fix our “body”
• What’s wrong with some of the popular diets
• What is Body Kindness?
• The concept of Spiral down versus Spiral up

Last episode of Ask Me, I answered a question from a Facebook follower, “The more I focus on losing the last X pounds the harder it becomes. Why?” In this powerful episode,  I discussed the #1 reason why the more we work hard on getting rid of something or change what we think of as negative about us just becomes bigger and hard. You wouldn’t wanna miss! Check it out now!

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Food, color, and Chakra. All intermingle with the word energy. The food we eat brighten us than just calories, but also an energy level that contributes to our mood, mindset, and thoughts. Ancient medicine refers to these energy center as chakra and modern medicine as our endocrine system. Dr. Deanna Minich teaches us how to use color in our food choice to balance our mind and emotions. What if the solution is to eat the energy we want to become?

Chakra

Chakra is derived from Sanskrit and essentially means “wheel.” It relates back to Ayurvedic medicine and many mystical East Indian traditions in which they noticed that there were a lot of activities in the body in certain places. If you look in Western medicine, you would see that the Chakra system is very much aligned with the neuroendocrine system.

We’ve got the Root Chakra or the Adrenal gland, the place of fleeing or being frightened. Then, the Sacral Chakra which is all about reproduction that is the ovaries and testes. The Solar Plexus Chakra is the pancreas which is an endocrine organ that fuses out a lot of enzymes that help us digest and transform. Another one, the Heart Chakra which is connected to the thymus. The Throat Chaka is connected to the thyroid gland. Then, we have the Third Eye Chakra which is the pituitary gland which hangs in the middle of the head. We also have a small gland called the pineal gland which I associate with the Crown Chakra. It’s the center of light and how our body regulates light in the finer energies of the day, of the seasons, of the planet. Dr. Deanna Minich calls them the 7 systems of health.

Color 

When people eat a certain way, it separates them from other people. Diets seem to be dividing. They are not unifying. What is unifying no matter what our eating preference is? Color is a unifying force. Color is creativity. It’s around us and serves as an environmental stimulus. It impacts our physiology and psychology. Color is physical and psychological. It’s powerful and has the ability to change people’s patterns. 

Hence, if we eat food of different colors, our different bodily systems will catch on with the vibration of that color and feel better as well. 

Last week’s episode, Jamie Lerner taught us how to reinvent ourselves by changing our storyline to change our lives. I suggest you check it out! You can listen to the episode here. 

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Advance nutrition course: http://deannaminich.com/rainbow-foods-supplements/ 

The Rainbow Diet Book: http://deannaminich.com/meet-deanna/the-rainbow-diet/ 

Going Beyond the Food Academy: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/academy/    

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Statistics reports that only 10% of new year resolutions stick all year. We chase goals outside of ourselves: weight on a scale, cars, promotions, etc. and that’s where we surely guarantee to fail plus we chase the goals with the same attitude as we did the year before… Another sure guarantee to fail. We must reinvent ourselves in the process of desiring new goals, otherwise, we will only repeat the same results as before. Jamie Lerner has a completely different perspective on how we can do just that… Reinvent ourselves by changing our storyline, so that we can change our life… Changes that can be done from the inside that will impact the outside!

Reinvent Yourself

How do you reinvent yourself? That is the question that would normally pop up after hearing and knowing that reinventing is the key to changing our lives the way we want it to be… It all starts in the mind.

It’s our thoughts that can fix our problem. When you quiet the mind, you’ll hear those messages. You’ll feel those messages. Hopefully, you’ll allow yourself to trust them. People generally get an inkling and a signal, and they don’t listen to themselves.

We create everything with our thoughts. We are the most amazing manifesters. Hence, wanted or unwanted thoughts create our reality. If we could be conscious of creating what we want with our thoughts – only what we want, we would be having the most glorious lives. How can we choose our thoughts and direct them to create and manifest today? That’s part of the whole reframing to eventually reinvent yourself.

Law of Attraction

We attract everything into our experience vibrationally through our thoughts and our feelings. It’s a really interesting concept when you wrap your mind around this because you can begin to understand how you can use the contrast. Contrast is everything that you are not wanting so that you’re launching all these rockets of desire. You know want you don’t want and you know what you do want. It’s how you focus all of that attention to create just that.

Last week’s episode, I shared with you the Mastering Your Food Craving talk that I did at the Low Carb Universe conference held in Mallorca, Spain. It was voted #1 and most appreciated talk in the conference, so I suggest you check it out! You can listen to the episode here. 

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Website for Jamie: www.jamie-lerner.com 

Free chapter book: http://www.jamie-lerner.com/media/The_Ever-loving_Essence_of_You-Ch4-Alignment.pdf 

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We shouldn’t avoid emotional eating because when we turn emotional eating into something to avoid as much as dieting, we fall in the trap of diet mentality and all its negative side effects such as overeating and binging. Isabel Foxen Duke is a brilliant leader in the Health At Every Size movement and this interview will rock your world! Must listen!

The Reason Why We Overeat and Binge

Perfectionistic expectation will absolutely lead to rebellion. When applied to food, it will lead to binging and overeating in the same way that perfectionistic expectation to work will lead to burnout. We cannot uphold those expectations. It’s impossible to keep it up all the time, so we end up crashing. We crash in proportion to how rigid we were trying to hold on. And it’s important to understand this concept if we really want to understand the reason why we overeat and binge. 

The more you attempt dieting, the less you are likely to stick to one.  Historically, we’ve always been emotional eaters. When we look at the evolution of the human being, we’ve eaten emotionally, socially, so we cannot cut it off. So, when we try to cease emotional eating from existing, we end up being on the wagon, off the wagon, on the wagon a.k.a. yo-yo dieting. The problem with most people is that they haven’t addressed the diet mentality that’s why they fail to understand the reason why we overeat and binge. 

This is the reason why I developed a program to help women like you and me to put an end to emotional eating called Conquer Emotional Eating. This online program is designed to provide you the education to understand and transform why you emotionally eat and to put a stop to being the victim of your food urges.

Looking from the Inside

Diet mentality goes more than just a relationship with food. It’s the way we approach life in general. We often look at our happiness through a solution that is external to us instead of looking at finding happiness, joy, and fulfillment from inside. In the same way we relate to diet, we think that controlling our external environment a.k.a. our food will lead us to happiness instead of looking from the inside. If you think that you are going to find happiness by eating a certain way, not only you aren’t going to find it there, but you are probably going to fail at it, to begin with. What’s interesting is that, when we put perfection to our food, chances are we also apply perfection in many other aspects of our lives because we lack trust in ourselves.

What does your body want you to eat? That only solves half the problem. The other half of the problem is how we think. It’s how we talk to ourselves. Are we living in diet mentality? Are we approaching food like is a thing that we should be careful around?

Body Image Issues

I’m overweight, but I’m healthier than 90% of the people out there. The reason is because it has nothing to do with weight. Weight is not a causal effect of health, just a by-product. This desire for weight loss beyond health is what we call the body image issue.

Ninety-nine percent of food issue boils down to body image issues. Majority of disordered eating behaviors start
with “I don’t think my body is enough and I feel like I should try and change it by restricting my food.” If you never had the thought, “I wish I was thinner,” you would never have gone on a diet, you would never deal with this binge eating, emotional eating problems. Emotional eating is heavily correlated with dieting. The more you diet, the more you restrict, the more you’re going to turn to food for comfort and that clearly gives us a better perspective on the reason why we overeat and binge. 

Health at Every Size

“It’s a lot easier to stop obsessing about food when we feel good about ourselves.”

There is a whole movement that is trying to demonstrate that beautiful people come in different shapes and sizes. There’s a ton of evidence that if you are exposing yourself to body diversity visually on a regular basis, it will actually start to change your brain. It will change the way it looks at bodies including your body, thereby, transforming how you tackle body image.

Ready to deep dive into the process to transform your relationship to food and body so you can take control of your life and live confidently right now? Join the Going Beyond the Food Academy today.

Links mentioned in this episode:  

Stop Fighting Food : a free 3 part video series from Isabel Foxen Duke: http://stopfightingfood.com/ 

Health at Every Size book: http://amzn.to/2kyNVlB 

Going Beyond the Food Academy: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/academy/    

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