Ep 127 - How To Just Eat It: Chapter 7 - Neutralising the Inner Food Critic
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 8 of this series will drop on Friday 29th Jan!
In today’s episode I’m talking to Devinia Noel, a cognitive behavioural therapist and certified intuitive eating counsellor. In this episode we’re talking about unhelpful thinking styles that show up when we’re working through the intuitive eating process, how we can recognise them and how we can begin to shift them towards more flexible ways of thinking.
In this episode we talk about:
- Black and white, all-or-nothing thinking
- Mental filters
- Catastrophization
- Emotional reasoning
- Jumping to conclusions
- Compare and despair
- Labelling
- Should and must statements
Dee shares how we can notice when unhelpful thinking styles show up and how we can begin to reframe them towards thinking patterns that move us away from diet mentality and towards self-compassion.
Finally catch another definition for your glossary on page 35/36 of HTJEI - this time from Eliza Khinsoe on ‘healthism’.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't Salt My Game. |
| 0:03.7 | Hey team, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist, director of London Center for Enchase of Eating, an author of Just Eat It, as well as my new book, How to Just Eat It. We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, food, body liberation, and some other things thrown in |
| 0:21.6 | for shits. In this episode, we're talking about Chapter 7, neutralizing the inner food critic. |
| 0:27.9 | So you might be coming to terms with that idea that there's no such thing as good food or a bad |
| 0:33.7 | food and that there's no such thing as a perfect diet. You might be working on food |
| 0:38.3 | neutrality and trying to come to terms with unconditional permission to eat. But then you hear |
| 0:44.4 | that familiar voice in your head telling you that something is unhealthy or that you need to make |
| 0:50.7 | up for the cookie that you ate by doing an extra workout. I call this the voice |
| 0:55.8 | of the inner food critic. Basically it's our critical voice or maybe even the voice of an eating |
| 1:01.1 | disorder and it seeks to sabotage our relationship with food and undermine food freedom by making |
| 1:07.9 | a second guess all of our food choices and shit talk ourselves when we break a food |
| 1:13.4 | rule that we held for ourselves. The inner food critic is the antithesis of our nurturing voice |
| 1:20.1 | who helps build us up and give ourselves more compassion. The critical voice can really be another |
| 1:26.8 | way that we stop ourselves from giving ourselves |
| 1:28.6 | unconditional permission to eat the foods that we love and that are satisfying. |
| 1:33.3 | So although we may actually be eating the food in the moment, if our food critic is talking |
| 1:40.0 | shit about that food or about us, we make an unconscious vow not to eat that food again. |
| 1:48.5 | In other words, we are threatening to restrict ourselves, and even the threat of restriction |
| 1:54.0 | and deprivation fuels food preoccupation and feelings of being out of control around food |
| 1:59.4 | and perhaps even binging. The food critic also |
| 2:03.2 | tells us that we're garbage humans and makes us feel guilt and shame for eating foods that diet |
| 2:08.7 | culture deems to be bad or to not fit into its nutritional standards. The food critic is of course |
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