Jun 16, 2020
Are you overeating while being stuck in self-isolation? I get it, and so does my guest for this episode, Melainie Rogers, MS, RDN, CDN, CEDRD-S. Those fancy letters after her name means she’s an expert in disordered eating and eating disorders, and in our conversation, she goes over how we get caught in a cycle of overeating when stressed, why diets don’t work, and disordered eating vs. eating disorders. If you are missing connecting with others over food like I am, this episode will help you get through it.
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Key Quotes From This Episode:
“We’re not designed to feel horrendous and overanxious. That’s not a way that we’re designed to exist, so when we are feeling that way, our survival mechanism is to try to bring that down to a more balanced level, and food in this case is seeing a purpose, bu tit also has a side effect, which is more calories than people are used to taking in.”
“This may be a very temporary period and not necessarily disordered or an eating disorder because it’s very specific to the current environment. It’s so out of the norm of anything we’ve experienced.”
“What was our set weight when we were 20 or 25 is a little bit different to when we’re 40 or 50 or 60 because of a multitude of factors.”
“Weight is a range and we may not want to embrace that but there has to be some kind of acceptance around it and moving beyond just body image and weight on a scale even though society tells us it’s so damn important, especially for women.”
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Produced by Creating Space Communications.