Aug 18, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 11 segments
**When does a healthy relationship with food start to become something else?** This week we're having a really important conversation about food, body image and the things we can sometimes normalise…
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But I think if you personally recognize that you've just noticed some things that are entering into somewhat of an unhealthy space in your relationship with food, I think some of the signals can be like you become quite preoccupied with it.
There's a lot of that thought and obsession and it's on your mind a lot about what am I eating? When am I eating? What should I be eating? Exercise is part of that, you know.
When am I exercising to manage what I'm eating? When it starts to become quite a focus, yes, quite consuming, that's when I think you want to have a little bit of a radar.
Okay, what's happening for me? And then when we're talking about tips, I think that's when I start to talk about, okay, well, what disordered behaviors are now showing up as a result? And so clinically, as psychologists, you know, we talk a lot about what's maintaining the issue, so perpetuating factors.
And some behaviors that can really keep that obsession going, they naturally follow the obsessive thoughts or the preoccupation rather.
I would start to say look at those behaviors and see if you can start to shift them.
And that's a really foundational tool that we introduced from the very beginning.
If you can really focus on adequate regular eating, you're setting yourself that really baseline in terms of protective behaviours.
Yeah, of course, it can feel quite scary, especially if you're in that state of mind of either needing to eat at certain times of the day or in restriction to then increase those calories or increase those eating windows can be very uncomfortable.
Exactly.
Or even going from some people might not have
those three meals, having one to two meals a day and they're like, now you want me to eat five times a day? Yeah, yeah.
So that can be really overwhelming too, I can imagine.
Exactly.
That jump, which doesn't seem... for someone like us that seems probably okay that's not doable that's really doable but for some people that might be the biggest overhaul of a lifestyle for them exactly right
especially too when eating disorders can really come down to that element of control and they feel as though they're able to then control that food intake and they feel like they're achieving by not eating meals to then suggest increasing the meals it would almost feel like people are then losing that control
Yeah.
But I think if you personally recognize that you've just noticed some things that are entering into somewhat of an unhealthy space in your relationship with food, I think some of the signals can be like you become quite preoccupied with it.
There's a lot of that thought and obsession and it's on your mind a lot about what am I eating? When am I eating? What should I be eating? Exercise is part of that, you know.
When am I exercising to manage what I'm eating? When it starts to become quite a focus, yes, quite consuming, that's when I think you want to have a little bit of a radar.
Okay, what's happening for me? And then when we're talking about tips, I think that's when I start to talk about, okay, well, what disordered behaviors are now showing up as a result? And so clinically, as psychologists, you know, we talk a lot about what's maintaining the issue, so perpetuating factors.
And some behaviors that can really keep that obsession going, they naturally follow the obsessive thoughts or the preoccupation rather.
I would start to say look at those behaviors and see if you can start to shift them.
And that's a really foundational tool that we introduced from the very beginning.
If you can really focus on adequate regular eating, you're setting yourself that really baseline in terms of protective behaviours.
Yeah, of course, it can feel quite scary, especially if you're in that state of mind of either needing to eat at certain times of the day or in restriction to then increase those calories or increase those eating windows can be very uncomfortable.
Exactly.
Or even going from some people might not have
those three meals, having one to two meals a day and they're like, now you want me to eat five times a day? Yeah, yeah.
So that can be really overwhelming too, I can imagine.
Exactly.
That jump, which doesn't seem... for someone like us that seems probably okay that's not doable that's really doable but for some people that might be the biggest overhaul of a lifestyle for them exactly right
especially too when eating disorders can really come down to that element of control and they feel as though they're able to then control that food intake and they feel like they're achieving by not eating meals to then suggest increasing the meals it would almost feel like people are then losing that control
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