The Harm in Body Talk And Compliments

09/20/24 • 28 min

We often hear from our clients that body and weight have been a topic of conversation from the time they were little kids. Your body and weight may have been criticized, policed, praised, scrutinized, shamed, or complimented early in life and it doesn't stop when we grow up either. Your personal trainer, doctor, friends, or spouse might say something about your weight, especially if it has gone up or down recently.

Receiving critical comments about our bodies can be annoying, discouraging, and damaging to our overall health and well being. Hearing something positive about our body or appearance might feel really good. But is it as simple as people saying negative things about our bodies makes us feel bad and saying positive things makes us feel good? Not quite.

Join Georgie and Christina as we discuss how we help clients navigate body talk and compliments. In the episode, we cover some tips on giving compliments to other people And in the second part of the episode, we talk about how to be on the receiving end of body talk with real client examples. And, as always, if you would like some support or you have a question you want us to answer on the podcast, we'd love to hear from you!

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If you are someone who struggles with binge eating or emotional eating, be sure to check out Coach Georgie's other podcast Breaking Up With Binge Eating.

Connect with Georgie and the Confident Eaters Coaches:

If you are someone who struggles with binge eating or emotional eating, be sure to check out Coach Georgie's other podcast Breaking Up With Binge Eating.

Previous Episode

Research on Food Cravings : A Coaches Chat

When people are trying to change their food patterns, it's not always as straight forward as "just doing it". Why is that? What we see with our clients is that all sorts of things can get in the way like emotions, cravings, and food preferences. Join Georgie, Maryclaire, and Christina as we discuss what the research says about food cravings, what influences them, and how we can help our clients who deal with them.

We cover a range of questions in this episode:

Do food cravings have anything to do with a nutrient deficiency? Are they related to hormones?
Do they have anything to do with your physiological state? Or are they just psychological?
How does marketing play a role in your food cravings?
What is the difference between food "liking" (or preference) and a craving?
What can you do if you are impacted by food cravings?

Many of of the people we talk to are interested in getting to the bottom of their food cravings and we are here to talk about it. We hope you enjoy this episode! And, if you would like some support in your health journey or you have a question you want us to answer on the podcast, we'd love to hear from you!

Connect with Georgie and the Confident Eaters Coaches:

If you are someone who struggles with binge eating or emotional eating, be sure to check out Coach Georgie's other podcast Breaking Up With Binge Eating.

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The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Weight Loss

Could your boundaries use some work? If you've struggled with your health and weight for some time, you might be able to pinpoint it on certain life stressors, a demanding job, an injury, genetics, or the belief that you lack discipline. Sometimes, however, hidden factors like low self esteem and lack of healthy boundaries play a much bigger role in weight gain than people imagine.

Luckily, we can improve these with some intentional work, and it contributes to success in permanently losing weight. That's what today's episode is all about. We coaches at Confident Eaters help our clients choose the most effective skills for each individual so that they get the most results out of their efforts.

How would you know if working on boundaries is worthwhile for you personally? Well, we coaches have to make that determination all the time. In this episode, join Georgie and Christina share not only how we determine which clients could use help with their boundaries, but also a few steps you can take to start practicing today!

And, as always, if you would like some support practicing your own boundaries or you have a question you want us to answer on the podcast, we'd love to hear from you!

Connect with Georgie and the Confident Eaters Coaches:

If you are someone who struggles with binge eating or emotional eating, be sure to check out Coach Georgie's other podcast Breaking Up With Binge Eating.