66. But What's Wrong With Wanting to Lose Weight?

Understanding Disordered Eating

“Why don’t you endorse intentional weight loss?”

This is a question I get SO often – from random people, from clients, and in messages from you guys (by the way, keep the questions coming in my DMs and by replying to the newsletter! I’d love to do podcast episodes answering your questions!).

The entire world has seemed to endorse weight loss, and especially as a means toward health. It’s become so normal and, sadly, is the root of a lot of people’s disordered eating.

To put it plainly, intentional weight loss is counterintuitive to healing your relationship with food. Trying to do both at the same time can’t work.

Sure, you can heal your relationship with food a little bit. You can increase your consistency with food and tap into a little bit more of your hunger and fullness cues.

But really, when we’re looking at healing the last bit of your relationship – like the obsessions, food rules, and food anxiety – that is NEVER going to go away if we are intentionally trying to lose weight. Hear exactly why in this week’s episode!

Tweetable Quotes

“Every single person has a set point, or a range, of weight their body settles at when they’re eating enough food. It’s not what we decide it to be… but it’s what our body decides it to be.” – Rachelle Heinemann

“We know the diet failure rate is so high that we know pursuing intentional weight loss will not work.” – Rachelle Heinemann

“When we’re looking at our health, we really have to take a bird’s eye view… and think about how I can incorporate new things that can help me as opposed to taking things away.” – Rachelle Heinemann

“When we focus on diet and weight loss, we completely miss the point of health.” – Rachelle Heinemann

Resources:

Understanding Disordered Eating episodes:

17. The OG Intuitive Eating Author
18. Basics of Intuitive Eating

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