How To Quit Obsessing About Health, Eating & Exercise: Dodging The Silver Bullet Of Orthorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

Ever heard of "orthorexia"? It's is an eating disorder characterized by an extreme or excessive preoccupation with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthy. In other words, it's being absolutely obsessed with eating all things paleo, gluten-free, vegan, raw, non-GMO, organic, and fair-trade, and counting every friggin' calorie of it.

Or how about "body dysmorphic disorder?" This one is characterized by an obsessive preoccupation that some aspect of one's own appearance is severely flawed and warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix it. In other words, you must maintain a nice body, at all costs. Unfortunately, it's all-too-common to see eating-obsessed, exercise-obsessed people destroying their bodies and their minds with worrying and an obsessive-compulsive approach to nutrition and fitness.

Heck, I just released a book yesterday about "30 Ways To Reboot Your Body", and while everything in the book is sound advice, you could also stress your brain and hurt your body trying to take an "all-or-nothing" approach and trying to do all 30 reboots all at once! My guest in today's podcast, Devin Burke, takes a completely opposite approach to health: a minimalist approach. He preaches that people are often obsessively looking for that "silver bullet" and unfortunately often miss tapping into the potential that is right in front of them - if they are only inspired, educated and disciplined enough to implement these necessary changes they could take them to the “next level", without an unhealthy obsession. Devin is a wellness educator, and passionate health coach. He is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Personal Trainer by the American College of Sports Medicine. He is the founder of Empowerment Wellness Solutions, a healthy lifestyle coaching business based in South Florida and author of “Healthy Eating in the 21st Century”. And he is also a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the world's top online school for becoming a health, lifestyle and nutrition coach (save $1000 on an IIN certification if you contact them and mention this show).

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-How to completely reset your brain to eliminate an obsession with eating gluten-free, or getting X number of calories, or eating the perfect carb:fat:protein ratios...

-How something called neurolinguistic programming can help you overcome an obsession with food...

-Why you need to branch-out and eat a variety of different foods, even if that includes components such as dairy and gluten...

-What to eat when you're traveling or at a party, and you want to "enjoy" food, but you still want to avoid making yourself sick or unhealthy...

-Why what pop culture tells you is the perfect body completely flies in the face of your natural human ancestry and genetic hardwiring...

-How to create exercise goals that go above and beyond just "getting a better body"...

-How to quit obsessing over WiFi signals, mold, drinking water, personal care products and household cleaning chemicals...

-Why true happiness is not tied to perfect health and how to truly achieve happiness...

-And much more!

Resources from this episode: -The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (save $1000 when you mention this show)... -The gut/DNA/blood testing Ben Greenfield uses to customize his diet... -My previous podcast on how to rewire your body and brain with neurolinguistic programming... Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Devin or I? Do you agree or disagree with what we say in this show? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply!

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