Episode 06: secrets to weight loss you don’t already know, and how to (finally) achieve body acceptance
Do you feel like you’ve tried “everything” and just can’t lose weight? Are you struggling to feel confident in your body, or do you feel like you’ll love yourself only when you lose those 10 pounds or get six-pack abs? On today’s episode, Josie sits down with Dr. Adrienne Youdim to put an end to the confusion and toxicity around weight loss for women. Dr. Youdim served as medical director of the Cedars-Sinai Weight Loss Center before opening her own weight loss practice in Beverly Hills. We’ll be discussing why weight loss feels so hard (and how to make it easier), why loving yourself has to come before losing weight, and how to get out of the toxic cycle of diet culture once and for all.
Read Dr. Youdim’s book here.
SHOW NOTES:
In this episode of The Everygirl Podcast, we’re talking all about weight loss, but not in the way you’ve heard about weight loss since the beginning of time. Josie sits down with weight loss expert and internal medicine physician Dr. Adrienne Youdim to discuss her approach to nutrition and body acceptance. This episode begins with a conversation on Dr. Youdim’s definition of nutrition; she explains to Josie that we all need to broaden our cultural characterization of nutrition to include our social media consumption, our consumption of news and media, and even the consumption of the people we bring into our lives. Dr. Youdim then expands on the common pitfalls we face when goal setting, highlighting the importance of breaking our goals down into small, actionable steps. She shares some helpful tips and journal prompts for celebrating the small wins within our larger goal-setting practice, some of which she does herself in herself in her signature purple pen. Josie questions Dr. Youdim on the common perception that body acceptance is incompatible with weight loss, and they have a conversation about how self-love is crucial to attaining any goal. Dr. Youdim tells the story of how she came across a widespread craving for boundary-setting through her clients in her medical practice.The episode closes with a conversation about changing our thought patterns surrounding food in pursuit of becoming our best selves.
Must-Listen Moments:
[8:15] Weight loss in the context of body acceptance
[14:05] Broadening our definition of consumption
[24:03] Setting attainable goals
[33:26] The relationship between self-acceptance and achievement
[46:00] How to set healthy boundaries
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