3490: Why You Want To Diet by Stefanie Bonastia with Jessi Kneeland on Mindful Eating

Get the 200+ Page Optimal Living Daily Workbook (PDF) - Free. Want to turn today's episode into an actionable plan? Join the Optimal Living Weekly newsletter and I'll send you our 200-page digital workbook immediately. It's packed with the best takeaways from the show, formatted for easy reading and implementation at home. Get your free PDF workbook here: https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3490: Stefanie Bonastia explains why the pull toward another diet usually has little to do with weight loss and everything to do with an unmet need underneath it. She walks through the root causes she sees most often, from a lack of boundaries to feeling unseen or overwhelmed, and shows how dieting works as a temporary distraction from them. Naming what you are actually craving is what makes healthy habits around food finally stick. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.jessikneeland.com/post/why-you-want-to-diet Quotes to ponder: "But weight loss alone is not the whole story." "Unfortunately, diets are only a temporary band-aid for all of these issues." "When we know what it is that we're really craving, we can stop giving so much power to methods that aren't actually uprooting the original problem." Optimal Health Daily is a daily health and wellness podcast where we narrate the best articles on nutrition, fitness, weight loss, and healthy habits, read to you by a professional narrator so you can improve your health a little more every day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices