Channing
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She specializes in treating eating disorders, body image issues, self-injurious behaviors, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
09/20/2022
In my work, I often find that when people begin dieting they develop "fear foods" ( particular food choices they believe must be avoided to obtain a smaller figure).
When a particular food is limited or forbidden, it creates a sense of scarcity or deprivation. Fear food then can turn into binge foods.
Which is so frustrating and often makes people feel super helpless.
This happens when a food has been restricted for a long period of time and then suddenly becomes available. We tend to feel driven to eat as much as possible because we don't know when we will have the chance again.
This is actually one of the ways the body tries to get its needs met. Your body pushes past your mental food rule, because it's lacking nutrients your body needs to survive.
Research studies show that restriction and deprivation increase the "reward value" of food, so that food triggers a higher pleasure response when it's deprived than when its available.
When we're deprived, we tend to eat faster, eat more, and be less connected to our fullness cues.
Now, when food is abundant, we can feel relax knowing it's always available.
If you want to feel calm and relaxed around food, the best thing to do is gift yourself the unconditional permission to eat anytime you want. 🤍
Peeling back the layers of body shame is like peeling the layers of an onion. We have to peel back years (if not decades) of conditioning, false beliefs about ourselves, grief, etc. and reconnect with our hearts.
Reaching body acceptance is not a "fireworks✨️" type of grand moment. The process is so slow that you might not notice it because your focus will no longer be on your body.
Your focus shifts onto other parts of your life and your experience on this Earth. Your time spent with the mirror will shift from disheartening to a simple mundane task.
This shift won't be because you have done something to drastically change your body.. its that you would have peeled back enough layers to actually see yourself, your whole self, multi-faceted & complex being as we all are. When this occurs, you'll be seeing yourself with your heart. 🤍
When you stop exercising to punish your body, you unlock an inner joy that yields hopefulness, connection, and courage.
The human body is meant to move 🤍 By moving you are strengthening your muscles, stability, balance, bones, joints, circulation, coordination, heart, and mental health.
However, diet culture has stolen the joy of movement from many of us. Movement became something we had to do to maintain an "aesthetic". This causes individuals to create rigorous workout routines and schedules, feel guilty for the inability to work out or for rest days, obsess over steps, and ignore their body's needs in hopes to reach that aesthetic.
It is difficult to release this mindset. Here is a gentle invitation to move away from focusing on the number on the scale, and focus more on how your body feels as you do activities that you love.
Learning to move your body joyfully is key to improving your body image. Approach wellness from a place of self-respect and self-love, not self-hate and self-criticism.
There is much more to moving your body than trying to change your body.
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