015 - All Things Body Image

All Things Body Image We know how it can be when you are on a healing journey, you have your good days, your bad days, & your in-between days. We will always include a message, regardless of its content, because everyone is different and can be triggered by various things. No healing journey is the same. Trigger Warnings for this episode: Eating Disorder. At one point, we discuss the notes/strategies we used to achieve the “perfect body.” Suicide. In episode 015, we cover: What it means to actually listen to your body Eating Intuitively “Good Food” vs “Bad Food”, no such thing, food is food Ways we are balancing our food The difference between our mindset when we were growing up and now Numbers related to your body What happens when you start to eat intuitively & why it is okay Self Confidence BMI is BS Resources from this episode: • Articles that the girl Michele works out with had shared on why BMI is BS: https://www.healthcentral.com/condition/obesity-and-body-mass-index?legacy=ew https://www.npr.org/2009/07/04/106268439/top-10-reasons-why-the-bmi-is-bogus • Here is the video where the girl is discussing it as well: https://youtu.be/Bn_QPf8Gn34?si=u45P0J3jX9ZfIqzW&t=521 (it starts at 8:41 in and she discusses it to about 12:00, the link starts right at where she begins discussing it) • Information on muscles and why working out is important, same post Michele sent the group chat about why strength is important: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVMF7iNAVOR/?igsh=dDJ3bXRqYWJqaGJh Corrections: • BMI was “discovered in the 1800s, so more than 50 years ago. • “If cake is wrong, I don’t want to be right.” • The heart beat forms at around 3 weeks after conception. Music for this episode was written and produced by: @angelayala3pla. Follow him on Instagram by simply searching his username: @angelayala3pla