274. Reclaiming Body Trust with Amber Romaniuk

Yeah.

Yeah.

And same, we're very grateful that you're in this business too because- yeah, these, these, not your exact story, right.

Cause our stories are so unique to us, but just the amount of women I've worked with hundreds and hundreds of women over the last few, you know, decade and, um, similar stories coming through.

Right.

And, and what I'm also, I want to thank you for sharing your story.

Cause I think it is so helpful for people just to hear, um, you know, we're not, we're not over here, like perfect beings ourselves.

We've, we've had a host of trauma and experiences too.

Um, and so, um, Yeah, what I'm really hearing is like emotional eating necessarily is not about the food, right? It's so much deeper than that.

It's like, as you mentioned, sometimes it's often those emotions that we're trying to avoid, we're trying to soothe, we're trying to regulate our nervous system through food or cope through food.

And yeah, I really like that you mentioned too, it's not just about like the sugary things.

I think that was something that I came across in my own journey, right? It's like to, I can just have one and it's okay.

I want, I like the wanting the more, the more than one, whether it's, it's right, right now I'm like in a Kiwi phase.

Um, and so it's interesting.

Um, yeah, it's just interesting to like really, really get specific around your relationship with food.

Um, mindful eating is we've had guests talking about that on the show even, but, um, yeah, Yeah, I want to get a little bit deeper, I think, into the self-sabotage behaviors because let's talk about like what does self-sabotage actually look like for a person when it comes to food in our bodies?

Yeah, and there's both spectrums.

There's a spectrum of restriction.

And using restriction as a punishment and then using overconsumption as a punishment.

And a bonus third would be using exercise as a punishment.

I overate,

I overdid it, now I'm going to go punish myself and try and compensate with burning calories, right? So, yeah, with sabotage, you know, the root drivers, a big one is...

Often we'll have several or maybe something really significant going on in our life that feels out of control.

And so a way for us to try and grip for control is using food to cope.

We think if I can control what I eat, I can control what I pick to have, I can control how much I eat and what kinds of food I get, and that I can control that I start eating it and I feel really good.