Sep 29, 2026 · 27 min · 12 segments
Do you find yourself thinking about food morning, noon and night, believing that if you can just get your food right, it will finally help you get fit and healthy? But no matter how much you think…
Jessica CookeHost
And the problem with focusing on your food is that you become obsessed with food.
And the problem with becoming obsessed with food is that you keep your blinkers on to all the other stuff that's staring at you right in the face, but you are too fixated on what you're eating that you can't see the actual real problems that are going on.
If you think about it, If fixating on your food worked, if following a meal plan and a diet plan and calorie counting and tracking and weighing your food worked, you'd be exactly where you want to be right now.
Because if you're listening to this podcast, you're most likely a woman who's over 40.
You want to become fit and healthy and you haven't, You're not there yet, but you have, for most of you, gone through dive culture the way I have and the way almost all of my fellow Thrivers in Thrive Academy have gone through too.
So you dig deeper and you say to yourself, you need more discipline, you need more motivation.
And when you get to that point, when you get motivation and discipline with getting really serious about your food, you're gonna crack the code.
So you don't really have the capacity to look at the stuff that actually solved the problems.
And the problem with focusing on your food is that you become obsessed with food.
And the problem with becoming obsessed with food is that you keep your blinkers on to all the other stuff that's staring at you right in the face, but you are too fixated on what you're eating that you can't see the actual real problems that are going on.
If you think about it, If fixating on your food worked, if following a meal plan and a diet plan and calorie counting and tracking and weighing your food worked, you'd be exactly where you want to be right now.
Because if you're listening to this podcast, you're most likely a woman who's over 40.
You want to become fit and healthy and you haven't, You're not there yet, but you have, for most of you, gone through dive culture the way I have and the way almost all of my fellow Thrivers in Thrive Academy have gone through too.
So you dig deeper and you say to yourself, you need more discipline, you need more motivation.
And when you get to that point, when you get motivation and discipline with getting really serious about your food, you're gonna crack the code.
So you don't really have the capacity to look at the stuff that actually solved the problems.
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