#199: STOP FIGHTING FOOD, WITH ISABEL FOXHOVEN DUKE

STOP FIGHTING FOOD, WITH ISABEL FOXHOVEN DUKE EPISODE #199 In this week’s episode of #ConfidenceOnTheGo, we’re chatting about: * How to stop thinking like a dieter and start finding more pleasure in your relationship with food and with your body * Breaking binge eating or emotional eating patterns for good * A free video series that you ABSOLUTELY will want to catch Just a quick hello to all of my Keep the Faith listeners out there – thanks for being part of the community of contagious encouragement. SPONSORSHIP NOTE: I am proud to be an educator and consultant for Beautycounter, a B-Corp company on a mission to get safer products into the hands of everyone.   The lack of regulation in the personal care and cosmetic industry is astounding and it is harming our health in very serious ways. We need more voices to join up on our mission. If you want to put your passion to purpose while being generously compensated, then I would love to start a conversation with you about what it means to be involved in the #saferbeauty tribe that is Beautycounter. Join the movement of #betterbeauty and message me via email to make your voice really resonate for a cause.   Shop for your own Beautycounter collection at www.beautycounter.com/trishblackwell ABOUT ISABEL FOXHOVEN DUKE: www.trishblackwell.com/isabel  Isabel slowly started to peel off old diet-brain thinking patterns that were leaving her frustrated, obsessed with her weight watchers calculator, and inevitably plunged into a pool of brownie batter by the end of the day. And after years of various treatments for emotional eating, binge-eating and countless failed attempts at “intuitive eating” that she was never able to implement because her “crazy-brain” always got in the way, Isabel realized she was never going to be able to change my behaviors unless her thinking was radically changed first. When she finally stopped thinking like a dieter (which to be clear, is much deeper than simply “not dieting”), she finally started eating “normally.” She stopped bingeing on weird food combinations in the middle of the night; Every emotional or physical trigger didn’t send her straight into a box of thin mints; eating at restaurants no longer stressed her out; and she stopped spending all her time googling paleo recipes (which opened up significant brain space to think about things that actually mattered – things like feminist politics, or what it means to be a good daughter, sister, mother, or friend.) Her body arrived at the weight that it’s supposed to be — that’s appropriate and natural for her unique disposition. No yo-yo dieting, no drastic swings; just Isabel, having a life, and not letting food ruin it. (And just for the record, her swings used to be dramatic; she fluctuated almost sixty pounds between her highest and lowest weights when she was on the diet-binge-rollercoaster. It was really painful.) Now what Isabel cares about most is giving the gift of sanity around food to as many women as possible. And letting women everywhere know: Your life does not need to revolve around food. In fact, a life which revolves around food (and weight), is statistically most likely to be that which ends up leaving you weight-cycling and feeling “out of control” around cookie dough… not to mention bored, miserable, and probably wishing on your deathbed that you had spent all that diet-time focused on more meaningful life goals. If attempting to control your body through dieting (or other forced behavioral modifications) is working for you,