Audra Baker

Do you know there are strategies to stop weight loss sabotage? These strategies are crucial for addressing food-related habits and behaviors that hinder progress. 🥺

In this episode, I emphasize the importance of awareness as the first step in changing these habits. 🤯

Understanding the intricate role of the nervous system and its unique response to stress from past experiences can be a game-changer in your journey towards healthier food habits. It can shed light on why you might turn to food as a coping mechanism. 🤩

I’ll dive into:
✔️The only advice you need to achieve your goal.
✔️Understanding the deep-seated reasons behind food habits.
✔️How to make incremental changes for sustainable weight loss.
✔️Why it is vital to normalize seeking pleasure over pain.
✔️Setting realistic expectations in a weight loss journey.

As you embark on the journey of changing long-standing behaviors, it's crucial to be prepared for the discomfort that might arise. 😩

You don’t want to miss this episode as I’ll provide insights into managing this discomfort and advocate for a compassionate, step-by-step approach to achieving your health goals. ❤️🔥

Listen here: https://audrabaker.com/how-do-i-stop-weight-loss-sabotage/ 💋

A clue that food might be a coping strategy is if it feels scary or impossible to stop.

Food is the best solution for physical hunger...
..because there is a FINITE amount of food that solves physical hunger.

It looks like this:

✅ You’re physically hungry
✅ You eat
✅ You feel satisfied
✅ You stop eating
✅ You move on with your life

Coping strategies are things that help us numb out or disconnect from our dysregulated inner experience.

So when we use food to cope…

…there is an INFINITE amount of food we can eat because it never really works to solve the dysregulated inner experience that’s creating the “using food to cope”.

It looks like this:
✅ Something triggers you
✅ It doesn’t feel good because the trigger dysregulated your inner experience
✅ The protective strategy (that you learned a long time ago) to help you stop feeling the intensity in your body is to eat

The way out of this loop is through engaging in regulatory resources.

These are anything that help you feel present, calm, and safe in the present moment.

Taking a walk, get into nature, call a trusted friend, play with your pet, shake, dance, etc. are a few ideas.

The more you engage in regulatory practices, the easier it becomes to not choose food to cope.

If you’re looking for more support on how to do to this and how to untangle eating as a coping strategy....

Comment CHALLENGE and I’ll set you up in my Food & Body Freedom Challenge so you can start feeling more peace around food this week!

A long time ago before you had words to describe the overwhelming emotional intensity pulsing through your body, you learned that food made you feel better.

And it did make you feel better. It was a way to change your inner experience and maybe even eat so much that the fullness numbed out whatever else was there.

The wisdom of your nervous system took over and you learned that food worked as a coping strategy. What a gift our nervous system gives us with all these protective layers!

The problems start when the thing we learned to do to feel safe and protected starts getting in the way of our health and vitality.

Then the problems become exacerbated because we think we can just “diet & exercise ourselves down”, will power and think our way to “fixing our body”

Except that our autonomic nervous system is like 500 million years old and will always win over our thinking mind when it comes to feeling safe.

The way we gently untangle food and feelings is to practice regulating the nervous system and teaching it safety...and this happens at the body level.

If you’re ready to truly be free from overeating, binge eating, mindless eating, stress eating... and all the other ways you use food to cope, Comment “CHALLENGE” below and I’ll send you to my totally free 5-day challenge that addresses these deeper reasons why you’re likely struggling with your body, weight, and relationship with food.

Freedom around food and your body is truly there... I’ll show you how in my Food & Body Freedom Challenge.






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At the heart of all the ways we use food to cope, is a dysregulated nervous system trying to regulate itself with food.

Stressed out =
dysregulated nervous system =
stress eating to cope.

The problem here is that unless you’re physically hungry, using food doesn’t regulate the NS or process the emotional experience….

But a long time ago, when you didn’t have the healing tools to soothe and regulate your nervous system, you learned that food worked...and it did work!

It was the way your wise nervous system learned how to protect you from icky painful feelings...by stuffing them down with food.

Unfortunately, too many of us ignore the root cause of emotional eating...

—which is a dysregulated nervous system—
..and decide to go on a diet, hit the gym, and double-down on willpower.

This is a mistake.

This is like putting a bandaid on a bullet hole.

It will never work in the long run, which is likely why you either can’t lose weight or you gain it back.

The way to untangle
stress eating
anxious eating
mindless eating
overeating
bored eating
comfort eating
habit eating
binge eating...
..is to regulate your nervous system.

The more time you spend in the nervous system thriving state of regulation, the easier it is to untangle food and feelings.

It is your #1 ally to a healthier relationship with food and a sustainable weight loss journey that you never have to go on again once you learn how to process the emotional and dysregulated ns reasons for eating.

If you’d like to spend a week with me pulling apart the science and learning the step-by-step path out of food hell and body jail and into freedom...

Comment “CHALLENGE” below and I’ll send you over to my totally free 5-day Food & Body Freedom Challenge.

If you’ve been on the struggle bus 🚌 with overeating, stress eating, or your weight loss journey....⁠
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Well, I’ve got some good news for you. ⁠
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(in fact, they make way more money if you stay on the weight-gain-weight-loss merry-go-round, so why would they want you to ultimately succeed?) 🤨⁠
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This 5-Day Free Challenge is going to help you learn:⁠
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✅ The mindset you have to cultivate before you’ll be successful with habit change and weight loss 🧐⁠
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