EPISODE 234: When 10,000 Steps Turns Into an Unhealthy Obsession

01/22/24 • 32 min

In recent years, walking 10,000-steps-a-day has become the marker for a 'successful' day of movement.

You can barely walk down the street without someone stomping past you wearing a FitBit. It feels like its become a global obsession, despite the fact that 10,000 steps is a completely arbitrary number, that originated from a Japanese marketing campaign in the 60s ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Join us in this episode as we discuss how step counting can breed an unhealthy obsession and what signs to look for so it doesn't have the ability to harm your physical health, too.

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If you’re struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you’re interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

In recent years, walking 10,000-steps-a-day has become the marker for a 'successful' day of movement.

Join us in this episode as we discuss how step counting can breed an unhealthy obsession and what signs to look for so it doesn't have the ability to harm your physical health, too.

Connect with Leslie:

• Website• Instagram• Facebook

If you’re struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you’re interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

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EPISODE 233: How to Stop Binge Eating in Under 2 Weeks

Binge eaters think that they have an 'eating too much food' problem, and this is why they can't lose weight.

And while there is certainly truth to that, it's not the whole story. We spend only a few hours per week eating, but we spend 168 hours without our thoughts, and it's these same thoughts that cause us to struggle.

Food isn't the problem; it's how we THINK, FEEL, and INTERACT with food that's our biggest hindrance.

Join Coach Steph and me as we drop the hammer on your scarcity mindset and show you how to stop binge eating, once and for all.

Topics discussed:

Why telling yourself "no" keeps you in a perpetual state of feeling restricted and deprived (which leads to binge eating).
The real reason behind your obsessive thoughts about food and how to beat them into submission.
How the 'good food' vs 'bad food' dichotomy is one of the primary reasons why you overeat and why it's critical to your success that you learn how to detach from food emotionally.
Why the "Last Supper" mentality keeps you stuck in a perpetual state of guilt, causing you to self-sabotage.
Actionable steps to help you abandon a scarcity mindset and switch to one of abundance, and lose the food obsession forever.

Check out this week's episode and let us know what you think. If there's a future topic you'd like us to cover, shoot us an email or DM.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you’re struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you’re interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type

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EPISODE 235: How to Delay Instant Gratification for Permanent Weight Loss

Slow and steady wins the race, but dieters crave fast, fierce, and furious for their weight loss programs.

Instant gratification dominates the mindsets of most dieters. They want quick solutions and quicker results.

Consider what causes you to pursue a long-term project - like writing a book, building a relationship, learning an instrument, etc.

With long-term projects, sooner or later, we need evidence that we’re making progress. Without it, it would seem silly to continue pursuing it forever without the reward of accomplishment.

People don’t spend 20 years eating healthy and working their tail off at the gym without pleasure and reward mixed in. And if the goal is to maintain a lean physique for forever, we can’t rely solely on the external validators, like a scale or mirror. Why?

1. Because those results aren’t immediate.

2. Because those results don’t continue changing after maintenance.

Unfortunately, this is where most dieters get stuck. Instead of chasing instant gratification in emotional and compulsive eating, what if you learned how to develop a new reward system? How would it feel to be able to delay instant gratification for permanent weight loss?

Dive into this week's episode as we discuss exactly how to do just that.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you’re struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you’re interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle alongside it, you can get started by taking the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz: Discover Your Diet Personality Type