5. The Aftermath of Restrictive Eating

Coach Dylan & Coach Sam dive deep into the world of fitness and restrictive eating. They explore whether or not you can get to a placed of being fully "healed" - a question posed by their lovely friend, @helenejafine.

*WARNING* For the love of all things good and holy, please do not misconstrue this as medical advice. We are in no way shape or form experts in this field - we are merely speaking from our own perspectives. We are also *not* talking about clinically diagnosable eating disorders, and if this is a category you fall into, we highly encourage you to work with a professional (read: not a health or fitness coach - rather a therapist and/or medical practitioner) Should you be triggered by this topic, PLEASE tune out for this episode.

We covered:

1. Roses and Thorns: Sam's grief, Dylan's dissociation, navigating relationship conflict and celebrating progress.
2. Restrictive eating impacts people across a broad spectrum, and you can't tell who based off of appearance.
3. Dylan's story: the binge restrict cycle, emotionally regulating with food, patterns in behaviour & coping mechanisms
4. *Brain fart: ignore the use of the word calamity :)
5. The broadened spectrum of disordered eating being acknowledged as problematic vs. the binary boxes of clinical eating disorders
6. Sam's story: orthorexia, body dysmorphia, under-eating & over-training.
7. Acknowledging & identifying body image triggers: comments, scales,
8. Being honest with yourself: is my behaviour serving me?
9. The impact of stress: stress eating & stress restricting
10. The practice of acknowledging a thought, and not reacting to it
11. How education can help teach you the consequences of your behaviour
12. Making better promises to yourself & keeping them
13. The danger of "I'll be happy, when..."
14. The power of vulnerability, sharing & community
15. Relapses, food fear, exposure and building self-trust
16. The things you miss out on while nurturing restrictive eating habits
17. The difference in behaviour in isolation vs. in habit
18. Your mind decides, your body follows
19. THERAPY, psychology & the impact of childhood
20. Where Sam's at today: acknowledging the voice in your head as a red flag & something to pay attention to, but not to act on
21. Where Dylan's at today: compounding complex emotions into the simple box of "feeling fat"
22. From fitness experts, clients and friends: being recovered doesn't necessarily mean being healed

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Recommendation for disordered eating/athletes: @reneemcgregor

Post-production, music, & overall wizardry by @gonathanjavin in deep gratitude