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Mindset
How to Like Your Body More
Image credit Unsplash Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or listen on iTunes. The brain is an amusing organ. We frequently put it to use in a manner we think is helpful and productive, but is actually the opposite. Like at Thanksgiving when your brain prods you to keep piling more tasty, only-get-it-once-a-year foods on the plate. We can totally eat …
How About Disliking Your Body a Little Less
Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download the MP3, or listen on iTunes. “Ugh, I hate my thighs.” “I hate seeing this flab on my stomach.” “I need to work out more because I hate how my arms look in tank tops.” Ask almost any woman if there’s a part of her body she’d like to change or improve and you’ll likely receive an immediate reply. Perhaps you’ve said …
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Disordered Eating No Longer Controls Me, But That Doesn’t Mean I Never Struggle
Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download the MP3, or listen on iTunes. I’m no longer captive to disordered eating. But that doesn’t mean I never struggle or feel the tug of old, destructive habits. Like a scar from a sutured wound leaves a permanent reminder of the event, so too did my stint with obsessive eating habits create a lasting mark on me. It fades …
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The Nocebo Effect: Are You (Unknowingly) Thinking Your Way to Failure?
Image credit to BD Hypno Plus Would you like to listen to this article? Use the player below or download on iTunes. A patient taking part in an experiment is told her new medication may have symptoms such as nausea, stomach pains, and loss of appetite. Four weeks later when she revisits her doctor for a checkup she complains of nausea, stomach pains, and loss of appetite. “The side effects …
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Screw Fat Loss
Would you prefer to listen to this article? Use the player below or download on iTunes. The goal of fat loss isn't (usually) the problem. It's the mindset that often evolves from a seemingly never-ending fat loss pursuit. Fat loss isn’t executed as a simple objective, structured process that lasts for a designated time -- it gradually morphs into a definitive, emotionally-fueled, …
The Huge Problem With Guilty-Pleasure Foods
Would you prefer to listen to this article? Use the player below or download on iTunes. “What are your favorite guilty-pleasure foods?” the interviewer posed. “I don’t have ‘guilty pleasures,’” I retorted before continuing, “I refuse to experience guilt or shame from eating food.” My answer was received with a stunned silence. Clearly this wasn't a response she'd ever received to the …
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You Owe It to Yourself to Give Fewer Shits
Would you prefer to listen to this article? Use the player below or download on iTunes. The best lesson I committed to learning last year was to give fewer shits. I don’t mean “give fewer shits” in a live with reckless abandon or do whatever you want without regard to how it will affect you or others selfish, and stupid, sort of way. I mean “give fewer shits” in the I’m going to do my …
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