Ep 123 - Fearing Weight Gain Does Not Control Your Weight

<p>Welcome to How to Love Your Body. On today’s episode we are going to be talking about how the fear of weight gain doesn’t actually control your weight (lose, gain, stay the same)- even though it feels like it does. </p> <p>When we say, fear of weight gain, what do we mean? </p> <p>It means: </p> <p>-You are constantly aware of what food you are eating. If it’s “healthy” or “unhealthy.” -You always feel like eating food has a reward or consequence - if you eat nutritious healthy “light” food, you will be rewarded with weight loss (or at least not weight gain). If you eat unhealthy processed food / desserts / carbs etc then you face the consequence of weight gain. </p> <p>-You make choices with the diet brain instead of your intuition. </p> <p>-Even if you allow the food and you physically are eating it - you have mental restriction, meaning you have lots of shame, judgement, guilt, and a feeling that you shouldn’t be eating what you’re eating. </p> <p>-There’s an undertone of fear, self hate, judgement, shame rather than love/ peace, self respect/ acceptance, and trust surrounding food and your body. </p> <p>So - what does this fear actually do? </p> <p>It blocks you from truly getting to a place of peace and freedom around food and your body. It blocks your intuition. </p> <p>Using your intuition is such a big part of this work in IE and UnDieting - and the fear of weight gain is standing right in the way - your intuition is just on the other side. Knocking on the door asking to get in - </p> <p>Opening the door releases the fear of weight gain and not only does your intuition flood through the door so does everything else that comes along with being intuitive. </p> <p>Trust, peace, freedom, love - A LIFE. A sustainable life of wellness without the obsession can finally be cultivated. </p> <p>What does releasing this fear of weight gain mean? </p> <p>It doesn’t automatically mean that you will gain soooo much weight just because you release this fear - reminder that fearing weight