016: The Secret to Finally Getting Consistent with Exercise
In this episode we'll talk about shifting your goal and mindset in a way that will remove the pressure and dread of exercising, letting go of the all or nothing mindset, learning what works for you, and more...
One important thing I want call out as it relates to getting healthier is that when you exercise, you don't get healthy because you lose weight from the exercise. You simply get healthier just by exercising! So it's not the weight loss that actually makes you healthier. You may lose weight when you start exercising, and you may not, but as far as health is concerned, you're gonna get healthier regardless of what that scale does when you start exercising more! Why does this matter? Because when you remove the scale from the equation and stop measuring your health success on it, it removes a whole guilt, shame, and discouragement cycle that is mostly likely the reason you've given up in the past!
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Hi, my name is Katy Blommer and my passion is helping women learn how to put themselves first, I learned all the tools for success on my own 12 year journey that has led me to finally figuring out how to live my best life. My journey included overcoming body image issues, and yo yo dieting, climbing the corporate ladder to a multiple six figure career, navigating mom guilt through a 60 hour workweek turning around marriage issues and much more. Now, I'm truly living my best life. And I've pretty much become obsessed with teaching others my tried and true methods for creating balance, maintaining healthy habits, improving your relationship, career development, and how to stop tying your value and worth, to the way you look and how you serve others. I'm so passionate about helping others learn this, that I created the working mom happiness method to help you get there too. So if you're ready to learn how to live your best life, pull up a chair or put on your walking shoes and get ready to dive in. This is the working mom happiness method podcast.
Hello, and thanks for listening to the second part of intuitive eating. And if you missed the first part in Episode 14, part one, I recommend going back and listening to that first, because this is just picking up from that episode where we left off in the principles of intuitive eating. And that episode gives you more information about what Intuitive Eating is why I think it's amazing. And so go back and start there at 14. If you already listened to Fort to Episode 14, welcome, we're going to cover principles four through 10. of intuitive eating here. And I'll jump right in as soon as I give my official disclaimer that I am not a doctor or nurse or any kind of medical professional. I'm not a certified Intuitive Eating counselor. And I really am just sharing my own experiences why I like intuitive eating and why it has worked for a lot of the ladies who that who I've worked with and coached. As always, when planning to change the way that you're eating, I recommend consulting with a medical professional. So with that, let's just jump right back into where we left off. We're on principle four, which is challenge the food police so I'll read it and then we'll talk about it. Scream aloud, no two thoughts in your head that declare your good quote unquote, for eating minimal calories or bad quote unquote, because you ate a piece of chocolate cake, the food police monitor the unreasonable rules that diet culture has created. The police station is housed deep in your psyche and its loudspeaker shouts negative barbs, hopeless phrases and guilt provoking indictments. Chasing the food police away is a critical step in returning to intuitive eating. Okay, this is real, right. And in the last episode I mentioned we'll talk about using the term junk for food. Let's jump into the basics here. Fact is that there's no morality when it comes to food. Food is not morally good or morally bad. diet culture has brainwashed us to feel that way. But it's just not true. There's normal you're not a good person or a bad person. If you eat donuts or salad
it's just not a thing. I think in a previous episode I mentioned murderers ate I'm sure doughnuts and salad, right? People who are bad evil people eat all the things just like people who are really amazing, great people eat all the things there is no morality and food. And let me tell you why this matters. Because you might think well, okay, why do Why do you care? Why does it matter if I call it junk food, or I say, Oh, I was so bad, or I was so good based on what I ate. It matters because your subconscious mind is kind of it's like amazing. And it runs the majority of our life, right? It's amazing and complex. And you know, the human brain is just like a miraculous computer. It's amazing. But it's also kind of dumb. It's also very sort of literal. It believes what we tell us, it believes what we tell us. And so if you come back from a weekend where you did not eat the most nutritious foods or you ate foods that didn't make you feel your body feel good or that society defines as quote unquote bad junk, all the negative words we can think of to describe foods and you're in the office and you say oh my goodness, I was so bad. This week, I ate three donuts. I was so bad. When you say I was so bad. Your subconscious mind actually believes you're a bad person for eating donuts actually believes that. And so that is the feeling that comes up for you when you eat donuts guilt and shame. And guilt and shame have absolutely nothing to do with the food that you're eating. really, really great shame is I mean, so guilt is feeling bad about something that we did. And shame is all about who we are, we are a bad person, because we did that thing. And this is what I'm talking about is shame, the shame that we create in our subconscious related to eating, it has to change, I'll tell you why it has to change. Because if your subconscious mind believes you're a bad person, why would it ever steer you in the direction of taking good care of yourself? If you don't value yourself? Why would you ever be motivated to take care of yourself when your subconscious mind thinks you're a bad person and is beating you up and saying negative things to you all the time, which is most of us? I mean, that really is how most of us are it doesn't, that I'm not describing somebody who's like depressed or barely functioning. This is most of us. Our subconscious mind thinks we are bad people who do bad things. And it's mean to us our subconscious mind were mean to ourselves in our own head, right? So, changing being aware, right, it all starts with awareness. As always, being aware of when you use morality words related to food is a game changer for this. Catch yourself. Catch yourself when you when you say, Oh, I was bad. Because of this. This is junk food. Because changing that catching it in the moment and then changing it and eventually stopping it truly can change your life. It can reprogram your subconscious mind. And the awareness is key. Because when we say things out loud, they're so powerful in our subconscious mind. Remember, when we talked about in an earlier episode, the whole cycle of thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits and beliefs, and habits and beliefs are what create our lives. So everything starts as a thought. So if you can catch the thought before you speak something out loud, it's huge and not negatively programming your subconscious. And if you can spin it around, and even something more positive, that's amazing, too. So a more positive example might be, instead of saying I was so bad this weekend, because I ate three doughnuts. You might just say, Oh, I feel sick or my stomach feels sick because I ate three donuts this weekend. That's that's fact that's true. That's not crazy lies that we're telling our subconscious which we do. I'm not I'm not using crazy lies as a judgment. We all do this. But I think it's worth making it that extreme. They're crazy lies. The thoughts in our head are crazy lies most of the time. And it is a crazy lie to say I was so bad because I ate three doughnuts. It is not a crazy lie to say my stomach feels sick or my stomach hurts because I ate three donuts if that is accurate, true if your stomach really does hurt. So try to think about what's really going on with you before just spewing off. society created morality around food. It's It's huge, and it's a game changer. And the other thing that I like to point out here, just as I pointed out in the other episode, in the last episode about never commenting on somebody's body, even when you think it's a compliment. It is also equally important to never comment on what somebody else is eating. Those sort of comments, create, enable, or increase eating disorders. And that is very, very serious because people feel shame about what they're eating. So it is never okay to comment on how much food or how little food somebody is eating or taking or how, quote unquote healthy or unhealthy they're eating, especially children, especially children, hugely important. The other thing I think that's important here is that I like to remove the term unhealthy unhealthy from foods because certain foods are healthy for one person and unhealthy for another person. Think about like allergy type foods or for beans. Beans are a great example beans are a food that diet culture would categorize as healthy, right good fiber, good protein.
Just good, nutritious all of those things. Well, beans wreaks havoc on some people's system and make them feel horrible, so they don't eat beans. Soy beans is a perfect example of why we shouldn't be calling foods good, bad, healthy, unhealthy junk, all the things. What I recommend is just using two simple terms, there are foods that make you feel good. And there are foods that make you feel bad. And sometimes you're going to choose to eat the foods that make you feel bad because they're delicious, or you have cultural celebrations or family celebrations or holiday celebrations around them. And that is amazing for mental health. Remember, mental health is a massive part of overall health, much more than diet culture ever lets on. And in a lot of cases, it's much more a factor in health than our weight is. And so allowing yourselves to occasional allowing ourselves to occasionally eat foods that make us feel bad is great for our mental health. It's just being more aware and more deliberate and reducing those foods that make us feel bad. And one of the things that I've learned over my journey, as I let go of obsessing about my weight and dieting and tracking food and all that stuff. It gave me room to really start to Pay attention to how different foods make me feel. And I mentioned this in the last episode at the beginning, when I was talking about tracking, I'm at the point now where tracking has become a safe thing for me, because I'm using it to educate myself on how different foods made me feel. And here's what's really interesting foods really impact things like mood and anxiety, and all of those things. And I'm going to talk about this a little bit more and one of the later principles so I don't want to dive into it too much in this principle, but I want you to know that you might not even know how bad some foods are making you feel. And as it relates to getting healthier, shifting your focus away from weight loss and over from I don't eat that food because it makes me feel terrible, is a much more mentally healthy, healthy focus area for you. It's a game changer. Alright, let's move on to the next principle. Number five, is discover the satisfaction factor. In our compulsion to comply with diet culture, we often overlook one of the most basic gifts of existence, the pleasure and satisfaction that can be found in the eating experience. When you eat what you really want in an environment that is inviting, the pleasure you derive will be a powerful force and helping you feel satisfied and content. By providing this experience for yourself, you will find that it takes just the right amount of food for you to decide you've had enough. Alright, let's talk through this. Essentially, what this means is Be present. taste your food, experience your food be in the moment. And I think a really good practice for from a healthy habit perspective is when you're eating, be sitting down, have your food on a plate be sitting down, because it honors the experience of the food and really conjure up in your body feelings of gratitude for the food really tastes the food. It's almost like, you know, Marie Kondo the book, The Joy of tidying, I know it's not exactly called that, but you know what I'm talking about the joy of tidying book where she says, you really want to love and have each item bring joy and you think it you think it before you let it go, it's almost like that almost getting really cheesy about it and being super grateful and thank your food and have that gratitude for your food and for each bite as you eat it. Now, I do want to recognize that this can feel diet culture, like a big part of diet culture is like chew each bite 20 times. Now that's all rooted in weight loss here, we're not rooted in weight loss, we're rooted in a pleasurable experience for ourselves really experiencing the food and how often are we you know, shoving and protein bar in on the run. And we'll still have to do that sometimes. And that's okay. It's more most of the time, if you can really learn to savor and enjoy your food, it will lead to better health and studies have been done on this that your body actually absorbs more of the nutrients in food when you slow down and you mentally enjoy the food and the experience. And I can't remember if it's the intuitive eating book or the Health at Every Size book where they really go into detail on those studies, but they do and it's fascinating. So it's just something to think about really pausing and enjoying that food. Alright, so let's keep going. Principle number six, feel your fullness. In order to honor your fullness, you need to trust that you will give yourself the foods that you desire. Listen for the body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Observe the signs that show that you're comfortably full pause in the middle of eating and ask yourself how the food tastes and what your current hunger level is.
This is huge. When I was obsessed with weight loss. I didn't even have the room to think through this because I was always so hungry by the time my tiny little meal rolled around. And it was such a scarcity experience like when I'm talking about scarcity versus abundance mindset, which by the way, we're gonna get way into coming up later in module four. It was it was such a scarcity mindset because I was always so hungry because I wasn't eating enough calories on the diet I was on that I wouldn't I would just scarf it down and I wouldn't have ever experienced like, am I full? Am I not full? Was that enough was my body needs so really just it links to the last principle where we were talking about just being present during that meal and really feel okay, well what is full and experience with different experiment with different amounts of food? Try one amount of food at dinner. And then give yourself 20 minutes let your body sort of process it and just see okay, I had this amount. How am I feeling now? Am I still hungry? Am I just fine? Am I like good between a four and six hunger level? Or am I really still hungry or crazy cuz sometimes cravings are truly caused because we're not eating and our cravings aren't always emotional. Right a craving can happen because your body is hungry and just like we talked about, just like your body tells you when it needs to go to the bathroom. A craving can be your body telling you you actually do need to eat more even if you don't still feel a like stomach growling type hunger. So kind of experimenting with that. Current amounts of food and then how you feel afterwards and maybe jotting those down in notes, game changer in learning how much food and for me this is especially relevant at dinner. I know for a lot of us, we struggle with dinner, because we're trying to not. I mean, I know for me with stress, especially like, like, if they're stressed at work, or you know, arguing with the kids or whatever, I can mindlessly shovel in like three adult sized meals pretty quick at dinner, I really can. And paying attention to this and stopping and seeing what's going on with you. It's just so it's life changing. The reason it's life changing is that when we do that, when we mindlessly start shoveling it in during dinner, we just don't feel good after we're stuffed, we're groggy a lot of times we have guilt and shame, we're trying to get rid of that guilt and shame. But a lot of times we do, we just doesn't feel good, you feel better if you don't mindlessly stress eat during dinner. So it's really just about being present and creating that experience and feeling your fullness and learning what full means for you. Okay, principle number seven, cope with your emotions with kindness. First, recognize that food restriction, both physically and mentally can in and of itself, trigger loss of control, which can feel like emotional eating, find kind ways to comfort, nurture, distract, and resolve your issues, anxiety, loneliness, boredom, and anger, our emotions we all experience throughout life. Each has its own trigger, and each has its own appeasement, food won't fix any of these feelings. It may comfort you for the short term distract you from the pain, or even numb you that food won't solve the problem. If anything, eating for an emotional hunger may only make you feel worse in the long run, you'll ultimately have to deal with the source of the emotion. So I mentioned this a little bit more before, when we're actually I think it was in the last episode, when we're talking about allowing ourselves to eat whatever we want to gain that trust back with our body. That actually can be quite difficult if you do have an underlying emotional issue that you're bearing. And remember, those run the gamut from you're just too bored. And you need to bring more pleasure in your life all the way over to bigger things like you had a death of a loved one that you haven't grieved correctly, you've just buried it down or you're going through a divorce or had a divorce that you haven't processed or you're in a relationship you need to get out of or a job you need to get out of. And those are all big scary things. So I highly recommend working with a therapist through this process if you can.
Along the other lines I was talking about a minute ago. Food actually causes certain emotions food can cause anxiety, grumpiness, moodiness, fog, brain fogginess cause you to be sleepy, it can cause you to struggle to fall asleep different foods. And I never knew this. I never knew this because I was so fixated on diet culture that I never took the time to pay attention to how foods were making me feel. So this is a game changer, just as it relates to knowing your emotions, and knowing what foods cause certain emotions within you. And learning how to stop burying your emotions. And back when we were talking about I believe it was in the meditation that when in fact, there was a whole episode on feeling our feelings instead of avoiding them. And we talked about meditation and a few other things. We went into this where it's like, you come home from work, and you just go straight to the pantry and just mindlessly start putting food in your mouth. And getting that awareness to stop. Go somewhere quiet. Sit down, close your eyes, focus on your breath, focus on your body and just ask yourself what's going on with me? What am I feeling right now? That first it's going to feel dumb, you're gonna have no idea what the answer is. But after you do it consistently over a long period of time, remember small consistent actions over long periods of time, change our lives, trust the process, do it consistently you will get better at it and you'll find that breathing through whatever you're feeling helps you to feel the feeling in your body and processes in your body versus avoiding it with food. And this is a huge part of intuitive eating is to help that emotional eating process and also to give ourselves permission to emotionally eat sometimes it's completely fine to emotionally eat. Occasionally we're going to choose when we do it and we're going to enjoy it and we're not going to have the guilt or the shame about it. Okay, so cope with your emotions with kindness and not beating ourselves up being very kind and treating ourselves like we would a friend.
Principle number eight, respect your body. Accept your genetic blueprint, just as a person with a shoe size of eight would not expect to realistically squeeze into a size six. It is equally futile and uncomfortable to have a similar expectation about body size, but mostly respect your body so you can feel better about who you are. It's hard to reject the diet mentality if you are on realistic and overly critical of your body size or shape. All Bodies deserve dignity. This one is huge. And we've talked about this a number of times already in past episodes and will continue to throughout the program. Because most women deal with this. Most women feel negative about their bodies because society has programmed us to do so. The goal here is not to love how your body looks. The goal here is to appreciate and accept and respect your body for all that it does for you. For the fact that it carries you through life, for some of us for the fact that it birthed children. For us. It's just learning to reprogram your subconscious, instead of having a negative connotation with your body having either a neutral or a positive connotation with your body, it doesn't mean you have to look in the mirror at your naked body and think it's beautiful, that takes time and effort and work. And that actually doesn't work for everybody. Some people feel more comfortable with a body neutrality focus, which I like to think is more like most men. And I do want to recognize that some men struggle with body image, I realized that it's just not on the same level as women as we think of overall percentages of people. But when I think about my husband, for example, very body neutral, when he puts on an outfit, he may look in the mirror just to see if like things are tucked in correctly, or you know, whatever that it's not, that it just looks nice that it's not wrinkled, or it looks good together. He's not thinking about his body at all. That's body neutrality, the ability to look in the mirror and not thinking about the way your body looks specifically is about a neutrality and a lot of men that comes naturally to them because they are raised in a society that doesn't place their value in their worth on their bodies. It does in some regard, just not to the extent it is as it is women and they are taught that they get value and worth in other places. And so they don't place so much emphasis on the body. But that's, that's more of a body neutrality feel. I believe body neutrality is extremely advanced. I think when you have a negative body image and a negative sub subconscious programming about your body, I think you first have to try to bring some positive to that to move yourself over more towards neutral on the scale, I think it's really difficult to go from negative to neutral, there's like a journey where you have to be more positive, and catch the negative things you say about yourself. So we talked about this a couple of times, I'll give a reminder, because it's super important and it's life changing. Same the same as you're going to focus on catching the morality about food. When you say junk food or bad food or all that, let's start catching it about how we talk about our bodies. So anytime you get the urge in your mind, or especially out loud, to say something negative about your body, something you would not say to a friend, something that it would be considered mean to say to somebody else, we got to catch that. Gotta catch that. And we got to flip it into something positive. So you flip it into you catch it, and then you say something nice about yourself doesn't have to be related to your body or the thing you were thinking it could just be, I'm a great friend, I'm good at my job, I'm a good mom, something positive about yourself that you believe, replace it with that, and it will change your sub program, your subconscious programming. And when you're starting to get good at this a sign is you'll know when you start to notice other people saying bad things about your body, you'll know. And I'm to the point where it makes me extremely uncomfortable. Because I don't really know if I should correct it or say something because I've offended people beforehand by telling them they shouldn't speak negatively about their body. It sort of is none of my business. I shouldn't say that. But I'm so passionate about it. So you'll you'll see you'll notice it and you'll get uncomfortable. And that means you're getting really good at this when you notice other people speaking negatively about their bodies. Okay. So let me think Is there anything else I want to cover? Oh, the genetic blueprint, except your genetic blueprint. They mentioned just like you wouldn't try to change your shoe size? Why would you try to change your body size, genetics are more impactful in the size of our body than anything else. And the reality is, and I know I said this in module one, we're gonna say it again, gotta drive it home. fitness models are fitness models, because of genetics. Now they do work hard. I'm not saying they don't work hard, they work hard. They they're very disciplined about their food and about their exercise. Not taking that away at all, not minimizing that at all. But the reality is, you could live with a fitness model, and do exactly all the things she does eat the same, move your body the same, same exact day, like follow her around the essentially attached at the hip. And number one, your body would not look like hers. Even if you did it for years, your body would not look like hers, unless you already do have that genetics. But for most of us we don't. Your body would not look like hers. And you would she would be like bubbly and happy and having a good day most times and you would be hangry and miserable because it wouldn't be enough food for your body. That's real. That is that is actually real. And society has tried to make us believe and successfully made us believe that we all should look like fitness models and we just don't all have those genetics and guess what? It's okay. The beautiful thing about it is you don't have to look like a fitness model to be healthy. You can be in the overweight and obese categories and still be healthy. This very real you might think that's crazy, crazy talk Go read Health at Every Size, the science proves it, it's in there, you might have this mindset where you think you are not healthy because of your weight. That might not be the case, I encourage you to go get the blood stats taken. And if there is a health issue, they'll come up in the blood stats. And or if you're not feeling good, that sort of thing. And that's a great thing to use as motivation aside, outside of Wait, okay, so these are all very huge, I could talk about this one for like, two hours, so I better move on. Okay, principle nine movement, feel the difference. Forget militant exercise, just get active and feel the difference, shift your focus to how it feels to move your body rather than the calorie burning effect of exercise. If you focus on how you feel from working out such an energy such as energized, it can make the difference between rolling out of bed for a brisk morning walk, or hitting the snooze alarm. We're actually going to go into this in I think it's maybe even the next episode very soon, I have a whole topic on sustainable body movement that follows this, so I'm not going to spend too much time on it now. But one of the benefits for me of going through intuitive eating and letting go of weight loss as my goal is it freed up my mental space to figure out what types of body movement I don't hate. And the reason I don't say what types of body movement I enjoy is because I'm just not a person who enjoys exercise, never have been probably never will be, I always would rather not do it. But in focusing on what I don't hate, I am way more likely to do it. And I actually have found I usually enjoy walking even though I would rather stay in my bed. Once I get out on a walk, I usually enjoy it. But society has conditioned us to just keep doing exercise that feels awful. And we hate I mean, for years I ran and I hate running. But I thought I had to run to burn calories to lose weight. And ironically, when you run more, you get hungry and want to eat more. So you don't typically lose weight when you run. But that's sort of beside the point, figuring out what body movement is sustainable for you. And sustainable equals you don't hate it, you're not going to sustain something you hate. So we really have to get out of that mentality. And the truth is you don't need that level of vigorous exercise that a lot of us hate in order to be healthy, you just really absolutely don't. But you do need body movement to be healthy. In the studies they've done on the blue zones. You've probably heard of the the places in the world where the people live the longest and healthiest lives. The two main the two items that come out on top and all the studies number one is relationships. We have to have human interaction, it doesn't mean you have to be like married but you have to have sense of community relationship. And number two, it's body movements moving the body. Isn't it interesting that body size and weight is not in the top nutritions up there, what you eat is up there, but it actually follows this eating foods that make your body feel good weight is not really in there up in the very top. It's relationships and body movements. So and I like to call it body movement because the health benefits truly are in moving your body and getting your blood flowing. You don't have to do the vigorous exercise we all think and there's a book by Alisa Vitti called in the flow. And she even talks about with women. If we do vigorous exercise at the wrong time of our cycle. It's actually detrimental to our health. And so it's really interesting book, I highly recommend checking out I think I talked about it in a different episode too. And maybe even linked it there, but I can link it here too. So really, really think about this and we're going to talk about sustainable body movement more. Okay, principle 10.
Honor your health, gentle nutrition. make food choices that honor your health and tastebuds while making you feel good. Remember that you don't have to eat perfectly to be healthy, you will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency or become unhealthy from one snack, one meal or one day of eating. It's what you eat consistently over time that matters. progress, not perfection is what counts. So I feel like we've covered a lot of this because really, this is about learning and paying attention to what foods make your body feel good versus what foods make your body feel bad. And for human bodies, when we really get good at noticing and paying attention to that. It's typically going to be eating the majority of your food that have good nutrients for the human body is what's going to make you feel the best. I mean, that's pretty much across the board because our bodies are meant to run on certain types of foods that are more nutritious Whole Foods. I struggled to say whole foods because I don't want to make this sound diety I don't. I don't mean that. But typically once you get through trusting, figuring out your emotions, getting over the binge cycles and the cravings for the foods that make us not feel so good. The foods that typically make us feel good are the more whole foods but when you go through the process that we've talked about here, it's not as hard to eat those whole foods as it is when you're restricting yourself and you haven't worked on all the emotional parts of this. So I love how they say honor your health gentle nutrition. This is absolutely 100% about health and getting to your healthiest, happiest self. Okay, so those were the 10 principles. Just a reminder, this is a terrifying process it really genuinely is. So if you need support, reach out to me, spend time with a therapist have a support group, as you go through this process, if you're if you're going to dive in because it is a roller coaster ride, our subconscious programming is very strong, and it's going to resist a bunch of this. The only other thing that I really do want to mention, and I probably should have called it out in one of the principles, but I forgot is the fact that the it's about like the BMI scale and the medical industry and the money machine that that is. So what I want to start by saying is, doctors are amazing, what I'm about to say is not meant to put doctors down at all. I mean, doctors save lives every day, if you get into an accident, you have some sort of acute issue or illness, doctors absolutely save lives. And they are trained to do that. And the majority of them are good people and are very skilled at doing that. And it's amazing. The tricky part as it relates to all of this stuff Health at Every Size stuff is that doctors only get about 27 hours of nutrition guidance in their 12 years of medical school. So doctors really aren't the best trained on weight and nutrition and preventative type medicine, Western doctors at least, and some are starting to be in really diving in here. And I think that's amazing. And so the moral of the story here is that there is discrimination at the doctor's office based on your weight. So if somebody who is more on the heavier side goes into the doctor with an issue, the doctor will typically tell them they need to lose weight. If somebody who is not so heavy in a smaller body goes into the doctor with the same issue, the doctor will run tests on that person. And that is not okay. Because just because you're overweight doesn't mean you're not healthy or that you don't have you don't need the test run that the smaller person does. And this happens all the time. People who are in larger bodies who go into the doctor are just told to lose weight and the tests aren't run, there's just an assumption made. And this is a problem. And so what I strongly recommend is that you stop getting weighed at the doctor's office. And I know that is terrifying. I have done it. It was scary at first because it was weird. Luckily, my doctor had absolutely no problem with it. And the truth is there are very few medical reasons where they actually need your weight, they do need your weight if they're going to give you a new dose of medication to get you the right dose, they do need your weight for some certain heart conditions that are quite rare. Otherwise they really don't need your weight. And I would recommend challenging that because weighing ourselves especially when we're going through the intuitive eating process can be very triggering. So if you're working hard and then you go to the you're not weighing yourself and you see the scale at the doctor's and then you you could go into a spiral and really backtrack and so I just I highly recommend challenging yourself to ask to not be weighed unless absolutely medically necessary and in the book Health at Every Size. She has some things you can read to your doctor about that if you want some support that are very interesting a lot of the ladies in my group have tried it too. But the truth is your weight and your health are not as linked to society would have us believe and that's an important part of this intuitive eating process and believing that and shifting your focus over to health and the way from weight loss. Okay, all wrap us up. I
went a little over on that one. So thank you so much for listening. And as always, if you have any questions reach out to me on Instagram at Katy Blommer If you want to work with me one on one check out my website women's best life University click on courses. And I would love to work with you one on one we can dive into your your own very specific things that you're working on. I just love that process so much. And as always, please recommend the podcast or the YouTube however you're watching it or listening to it. If you're getting value out of it. I would very much appreciate it. All right, I'll talk to you in the next one.
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