Ep 129 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 9: Feeling Your Fullness
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
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🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 9 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 10 of this series will drop on Friday 5th Feb!
In today’s episode, Laura gives us the run down of Chapter 9 of How to Just Eat It - Feeling your Fullness. Laura gives some useful tips on how we can reframe our negative thoughts when we start to feel uncomfortable with feelings of fullness, as well as why ‘what I eat in a day videos’ need to get to fuck!
In this episode we talk about:
- Feelings of fullness
- How Diet Culture has distorted our idea of how much food we really need
- Why ‘what I eat in a day’ videos are problematic
- How we can reframe fear mongering language around feelings of fullness
- Tips on what to do when struggling with feelings of fullness
Laura explains how learning about fullness is a process and something that we don’t need to get ‘perfect’ every time. She reiterates that throughout this journey, self-kindness and compassion are key.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't Salt My Game |
| 0:02.0 | Hey team, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist, director of London Center for Enchated 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, |
| 0:21.3 | and some other things thrown in for shits. In this episode, we're talking about feeling your |
| 0:26.0 | fullness, which is chapter 8. So in this episode, it's just me checking in with you on the topic |
| 0:31.7 | of fullness. I'm actually not going to say all that much on it, because focusing on fullness in and of itself, I don't |
| 0:38.7 | think is super helpful because when it comes to respecting our body's cues for fullness, most of the |
| 0:44.7 | time we're not going to be able to do that unless we've really integrated the other principles |
| 0:50.4 | of intuitive eating. If we focus on fullness too early on or too much, this can end up |
| 0:57.4 | feeling a lot like restriction and deprivation. So when I'm working with someone in clinic at |
| 1:03.1 | London Centre for Intchutivating, if someone comes to me saying that they can't stop eating, |
| 1:08.4 | it's actually a clue to me that something might be off elsewhere |
| 1:12.6 | with intuitive eating with one of the other principles. And the work is to unpick where the issue |
| 1:18.2 | might be. Usually it's rooted in not eating in response to hunger or still having forbidden foods on the |
| 1:24.9 | shit list. Of course, that's not for everyone, but a lot of |
| 1:28.2 | the times that is the root of the issue. The other thing that I see a lot is that people have a |
| 1:34.4 | really distorted idea of what portion sizes are. We have been primed to believe by diet culture |
| 1:40.7 | that we're monsters if we ate what by my standards is actually a totally |
| 1:46.1 | reasonable amount of food. We tend to underestimate how much food we actually need to eat |
| 1:50.7 | and then label it as overeating. Not because our bodies are telling us that we've eaten an |
| 1:56.1 | uncomfortable amount, but because diet culture has. So there might be some adjusting and experimenting with the |
| 2:03.2 | amount of food required to actually fill you up and satisfy you. Unfortunately, diet culture |
| 2:09.4 | teaches us that if we allow ourselves to fill up our bellies, that we've blown it, that fullness is |
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