This episode of Eat Girl Eat kicks off the How to Eat series. This series is intended to help you gain a healthier relationship with your food and your body in a new way. It's about answering questions that come up often for women dealing with their own food-related struggles and the many misunderstandings we have about our bodies and minds.
Changing the way you perceive your life and yourself can have a profound impact on your relationship with food. This episode introduces a lot of the topics that will be discussed during this series in the coming weeks and sets the tone for learning how to eat.
Topics covered in this episode:
- What our decisions create as we make them.
- Who we tend to seek out information from when making our own health decisions.
- A common question people have regarding eating.
- What will be discussed over the coming weeks in this series.
- Why it's important to be open-minded when it comes to food.
- A strategy to help you get the most out of this podcast.
- The most important message you need to take from this series.
- The marketing tactics that play into our ideas of health.
- Common misconceptions in health and wellness.
- Where the BMI (body mass index) scale originated.
- The role that our habitual mind plays.
- The kind of body we are all naturally born with.
- What happened during the Minnesota starvation experiment.
- How going into starvation mode can change your mindset around food.
- An important piece of advice to take away from this episode.
- What our body misses out on when we don't meet our food needs.
- The importance of questioning the rules and restrictions you place on food.
