The Sneaky Food Rules You Don’t Realize You’re Following

Motivated With Meg

This week, the goal is to work on our awareness around 2 things: diet mentality and diet culture.

Have you ever felt like food has too much power over your thoughts, plans, or self-worth? What if I told you, that might be diet mentality running the show? 🤔

Welcome back to Motivated with Meg! Today, we’re talking about the sneaky ways diet mentality seeps into our thoughts and actions, often without us realizing it. I’ll share personal stories, break down the billion-dollar industry that profits from your insecurities, and most importantly, show you how to spot and challenge the thoughts that keep you stuck in the diet cycle.

If you’re ready to feel more free around food, this episode is for you!

Topics Covered

• The difference between diet mentality (internal) and diet culture (external) and how they work together
• My personal story about eating cake…and the guilt that came with it.
• The billion-dollar industry that profits off your insecurities
• The diet cycle: how restriction, guilt, and bingeing keep you stuck in a loop
• The three most common thinking traps that keep the diet mentality alive
• Why we’re trained to think food choices are moral choices (good vs. bad food) and how to shift that thinking
• And of course, your weekly experiment!

Resources:

• NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association) – Resource for support and treatment for eating disorders.
• Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch – Book resource for breaking free from diet mentality.
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk – Insight on how trauma can shape behaviors, including eating habits.

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