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FREE Minicourse- Love (v) Your Body and Achieve ULTIMATE Food and Body Confidence

• Jamie Magdic

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Imagine a life where food is no longer a source of anxiety, and your body image doesn't dictate your happiness. That's the life I dreamed of and finally achieved, and now I'm here to guide you on your own journey to freedom. Join me, Jamie, a registered dietitian and disordered eating specialist, as I recount my personal story of overcoming an eating disorder and finding joy in a healthier relationship with food and body. You'll learn how to reclaim your mental space from the grip of diet culture and focus on life's more fulfilling aspects.

Embark on the transformation you've been waiting for with the True Food and Body Image Freedom Method. Through three key pillars and five comprehensive phases, we offer a personalized, sustainable roadmap to healing. From reflecting on ingrained beliefs to rebuilding healthier practices, this program is designed to align with your unique values and goals. Visualize a future where self-trust and compassion reign, and where you celebrate every step towards a stress-free relationship with food and body confidence. Let's take this empowering journey together and embrace the freedom you truly deserve.

*The (v) emphasizes "love" as an action—actively loving your body, not just a feeling.

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Welcome to Bites and Body Love. I am very excited to bring you a different kind of episode today. This episode is the podcast format of my mini course that I offer and this mini course oh man, I love this mini course because it provides you so much value and understanding and awareness and really helps you to understand where you're at in just in about an hour. So I'm very excited to present it for you. You should be coming away from this mini course with a better understanding of why you are stuck, what you are doing that is, keeping you stuck in the pseudo recovery, quasi recovery continually dieting, obsessive thoughts around food and body image so why you are there, why that is not working and what you need to do instead, and the roadmap for that and how to actually start getting yourself unstuck and get to that place where we want to be, which is full recovery, full freedom, no more thoughts about food and body image, no more distress around it, no more feeling out of control with food, no more hiding our body, but to get to a life where we're unchained from those distressing food and body image thoughts. So I'm so excited for you to listen to this mini course in a podcast version if you are interested in listening or watching it, where you get the slides, you get all those pictures, you get that interactive other way of viewing this content that I think is very helpful. The mini course is going to be linked below so you can actually watch it as well. And also, I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to hear your thoughts, your feedback, what you learned, your aha moments, what you're excited about after watching this mini course. I'd love to hear all about it. So please, again, use the show notes, the links in the show notes, to contact me. I would love to hear from you and talk to you one-on-one. Okay, without further ado. I hope you enjoy it. I know you're going to enjoy it and I can't wait to hear what you came out of the mini course with. Okay, enjoy, welcome to day one of Love your Body and Achieve Ultimate Food and Body Confidence Without Ever Dieting Again. I cannot be more excited to have you here and to dive into this topic my passion, my love and joy in my heart, and I just want to say thank you so much for inviting me into your home and welcome to mine without further ado. Let's go ahead and get started. So you're probably here today because you feel stuck in what you're doing now and I just want to say first of all, that my heart really goes out to you.

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It it's such a hard place to be. So your food, your, your body and your relationship with food and food it's just always on your mind. It's always on your mind and, in turn, you just can't stop obsessing and it steals so much energy. You're constantly working to feel better about, about your body. It's a full-time job and you're just so ready to quit, but you can't. You spend a lot of your time researching the next right diet or miracle solution that will finally change your life and give you body and food confidence. You have no trust in food. You have no trust in your body. You have tried everything to gain that trust and to gain that confidence and know how to eat and to feel good about your body, but you're starting to feel hopeless.

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You keep quote unquote failing these diets. Your life, your plans, your goals are on hold for when you are finally able to acquire your quote unquote ideal body and you are ready to start living, you're ready to start living with more ease and freedom. And stop putting these things on hold. Your days feel the same. It's where you're stuck in this like never ending loop. You wake up and there they are, those food and body image thoughts that you just can't shake and your day revolves around them. You don't know how to eat, you can't stop binging, you can't just let yourself eat normally or eat without guilt. You're analyzing all your choices and your body image is just not good. It's overwhelming. And no matter what you do and no matter what your body looks like, you still don't like it. You might even hate it. You're constantly body checking, jumping on the scale. You have complete distrust with it and you feel this way because you are conditioned this way. It's not your fault.

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We are fed all these messages about food freedom and body confidence and how they're going to be attained through diets, through tracking, through gaining control, keeping foods out of the house, keeping your body in check. We are told food and body are not to be trusted, and it infuriates me. And we're told that if we do all of these things, then we're going to be happy, we're going to acquire our ideal body and therefore our ideal life. But I am here to tell you today that you can break free of this. You can break free from the chains of dieting, from the chains of feeling out of control, distrusting food, body checking and body shame, because I wholeheartedly believe that you can have a life where you, your body and food are friends good friends. I believe you can get to a place where you have a stress-free relationship. Your body and food are friends, good friends. I believe you can get to a place where you have a stress-free relationship with both, where you are thriving in those relationships, with energy freed up to things you really care about and all of your values and the life you want.

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So I'm going to teach you all of that today. You are going to learn that body and food freedom is there for you, that full recovery from body image distress that comes along with disordered eating, eating disorders and chronic dieting is fully possible without the external rules, without eating, saying that you can't eat the foods you love, without shrinking and hiding your body. I don't want people to tell you any different. You should not feel stuck. You should not feel like a slave to food and body and shame doesn't belong as part of those relationships. They should be filled with health, filled with happiness, filled with joy, intuition and freedom. You shouldn't be stuck in that pseudo recovery. You're going to learn that this is not a you problem. You are not broken.

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I hear this so often. I hear, well, it's just not for me, I just can't do this, it's not meant for me, no, you have been just given all the wrong advice. It's not your fault, and it's leading you and has led you to be stuck in this negative cyclic experience where you are having the same experiences over and over again and you haven't heard about or attempted what I'm going to share with you today that you're going to learn why you haven't been able to change how you feel about your body, despite all your hard work, all of that energy and all the attempts. You're going to learn that motivation and discipline were never, ever the problem and that belief is being sold to you. What you are going to learn is going to open up your mind and save you so much time, energy and heartbreak, I promise you and I am so excited for you. So this is for you.

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If food and body is just always on your mind, it's literally the thing that takes up all your energy and mental space, or too much of it, really, really, even 10% is too much of it If it's this, if it's stressful, so anyways, even 10% is too much of it. If it's stressful, so anyways, this is for you. If you feel super confused and out of control and so, therefore, you just obsess about it because you're confused and you're constantly trying to figure it out, and this is for you. If you go back and forth with this all or nothing thinking due to the stress of it all, your brain only has so much room and we got to get that out. Okay, this is for you. If you're ready to clear out that stuff, if you're ready to clear out your brain, your energy and your and your life, so you can open it up to so much more. And what is so cool is that what it does is it gives you your life back. By by achieving food and body image freedom, you get your life back because it is taking too much of your life up and until you address it, it will continue to do that. So if you're so ready to feel trusting and happy and have a good relationship with these things, I'm going to help you. So who am I talking to you right now?

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My name is Jamie. I'm a registered dietitian, nutritionist, medical nutrition therapist, licensed dietitian educator, disordered eating and body image specialist and founder of a group practice of dietitians who help people in their eating disorder and body image recovery. I'm also a wife, a mom, a teacher, a leader, the helper of the family, lover of animals, outdoors and all things, learning and creating. I used to battle an eating disorder and had severe body image issues that really consumed every thought and action and it really stole a lot of my life. I was constantly burdened, terrified of food and struggled to accept my body, and then I went through my own transformative journey and dedicated myself to the work that I needed to do for myself. I applied the tools, education, behaviors and hard work that I will share with you today and that I walk clients through. This stuff. That completely has changed my life. My relationship with food and body is now stress-free, trusting and loving, and that's something I never thought I would be able to figure out at one point, and I'm so glad I did and I'm so glad I can help others now. So my own journey and, moreover, through helping my clients over the years to help them to see their way to freedom, I became more and more passionate and determined to help as many as I can on their journey. And I'm just obsessed and I want to scream from the rooftops that everyone can have this. Everyone can be here too.

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I struggled for quite some time with disordered eating and eating disorders. For quite some time with disordered eating and eating disorders, restriction, binge eating, hiding my body, constant body checking, body checking. You know how it is. It's terrible. And for half of those years I was in pseudo recovery what I call pseudo recovery, which really sucks because it was where I was not completely in recovery and still about 70% of my energy was given to food and body and it just sucked up too much of my life. But I didn't know there was more, I didn't know there was a better place for me, I didn't realize that there was support, I didn't realize that this was a problem and, of course, it scared me. It scared me that I thought it would keep stealing my life and it would seep into my daughter's life, that it would affect my relationships and, just more importantly, it would takep into my daughter's life, that it would affect my relationships and, just more importantly, it would take away every like, just the day-to-day important moments and hold me back from actually living. But I went through it and it was the best thing I could ever have done.

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I have freedom and joy in my relationship with food and body and and therefore in my life, my daughter is so body positive and has a stress relationship with her body and she's a teen and, yeah, just all the things. So my journey, although stealing so much of my life, I am so grateful for that struggle because it opened up opportunities to guide individuals through healing from eating disorders, disordered eating, body image struggles, chronic dieting. It has pushed me to create the support I wish I had. I can honestly, almost cry just talking right now thinking about this. So, as I mentioned, I formed a team of 12 professionals and together we established a group practice where we provide support to those seeking solace and understanding.

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And as grateful as I am for my group practice and all we're able to do, I have dreamt of a different and unique way of helping others, one I don't see being done really at all Putting all that there is in healing food and body image into one place. With this, with the step-by-step roadmap, all inclusive support to make recovery and the pursuit of full freedom, freedom more accessible, all in one place, quicker. I dreamt of creating a program that would reach more people, foster an environment where individuals would have camaraderie, understanding and that support needed, where people can go at their own pace in the comfort of their own home and have an immense amount of education at their fingerprints to help fingertips to help them to be successful. I jumped up creating what I wish I had and what I know now, and it would have saved me years of my life. So that's what I did.

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I created this and I'm so excited to share it with you today the system that helped me and my and my clients, and how we all have been able to stop putting life on hold, to start trusting, to be more compassionate and respectful and have a more life giving relationship with food and body, because you can't leave any stone unturned on this journey. Really, that's what I've learned time and time again with myself and with my clients, cause when you do that and you don't address everything food and body and the complexities of it you're at risk for falling back into the throes of disordered eating and body shame, and you're at risk for not getting a hundred percent of your life back, but maybe, only, maybe, only 20% or 30 or 50. And both are miserable. They're all, it's all miserable. So I saw what could be done and I did it and I realized that creating this program that I have created, this safe Haven, this, this thing that I always wanted, where people can arrive at the finish line of food and body image freedom and with this my clients are able to stop binging completely, throw the scale out, keep all foods in the house, stop obsessing and love their body. I'm just so obsessed with it because it really sets people free and they can stop the diets, they can stop these behaviors built on external rules. No shame in doing this work.

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I have seen clients body image distress and food distress go down as their body image, confidence and their food freedom increase, and it's, it's just so great. I'm so, I feel so grateful for it and I'm so glad you're here so I can share it with you. I just hate that people's life is stuck in this pie chart where most of your life is body image and food and all the distress that comes up it comes with it, leaving you very little of that pie chart of life to do what you want with it. I want you to decide what that looks like and until we get rid of food, your food and body image distress. We can't fill our pie chart because we don't have any space, and you deserve for your pie chart to look like how you want it to look. So this is for you.

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If you're so ready to give up dieting, distressing body image thoughts, the scale, all that misery. If you're ready to stop canceling plans, dates, fun, activities all due to poor body image or not knowing how to eat. If you're so ready to stop comparing yourself to others, others' ways of eating, their ways of exercise, others' bodies. I'm a firm believer that we can have all foods in the house, that you can have intimacy with your partner and not hide your body, that we cannot hold ourselves, that you don't have to hold yourself back from relationships, outings, hobbies, big goals hiding. I believe you can have that. I believe you don't need a scale. I believe you can be your own best nutritionist and the expert of your own body. Be your own best nutritionist and the expert of your own body.

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So in case you're already really eager to learn more, I do have a bonus training that's not only going to walk through my proven five-part system to body love and food freedom, without diets, body obsession or weight shame, but also in this training, I share how my team and I can get you started where we're able to provide you that tailored support and how, and to get you to you started where we're able to provide you that tailored support and how, and to get you to a place where you know how to eat, you enjoy food and you love your body. So, just in case you're ready to just do the damn thing, after listening for a few minutes, this resonates with you. You've been waiting for this, you feel like I would be a good fit for you and you just want to do this already. You can go ahead and apply with the link below at any time, and I would just love to have you apply and hear from you. So, anyways, let's talk about what we're doing right now, what we are being told.

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To get body confidence, to get food freedom, we are told we need to make our body the project rather than our life. We need to put our energy into making our body the project. We need to shrink, we need to hide our body. We are told it's our fault that the 18th diet attempt didn't work, that it's not the diet's fault, it's our fault, we're told. We just need to try fasting, keto tracking, this diet pill cut foods completely out.

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We're told that we just failed and we need to try a new diet. We just haven't found the right diet yet we're told we need to try this magic fix. We are told that we are the problem, our body is the problem, our self-control is the problem. Shame, shame, shame. We're told we just need more willpower. We're told we need to give up the pleasures and joy in life, like rest and enjoying food. We're told that we will not be lovable in our here and now bodies. We're told we can't have the ideal life of ours without this quote unquote ideal body. So of course we keep trying. Of course we don't want to give up on ourselves. We don't want to give up on these, these ideals, these goals. How else are we going to reach a place with food and body where we can feel free? We don't want to be trapped in this forever. So we keep trying what we're being told.

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So we continue this and we are in this vicious cycle of distrusting our body, this vicious cycle of dieting, and it's really just this hamster wheel. We try a diet to feel better and initially we have progress quote unquote progress and weight loss. And then what happens? Is it plateaus, or we have setbacks in that, in that quote, unquote progress, which leads, of course, to frustration, self-doubt, restriction, deprivation due to the cravings binging, due to the cravings binging, due to the strict dieting, because restriction never works. It would have worked right If it. If it works, it would have worked your body. Your body literally does everything to fight back against it. It does not know that you're starving it intentionally with this diet versus starvation, by being stranded on the desert, it aims to fight for food and to fight for you. You stand no chance against your body.

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So, anyways, so there's binging, feeling out of control, and of course, this brings a lot of emotional distress and negative self image, confusion. And then we, we abandoned the diet due to this physical and emotional toll and this feeling of failure. And we awake, we have weight regain, plus more feelings of failure, just more baggage. And then it just repeats as we try, as we attempt this new product, new diet, new quote, unquote lifestyle, it just doesn't work and what we end up with is a lot of baggage. We don't have something sustainable. We never got these false promises that we paid for, plus some baggage.

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We still very much or more often compare our bodies to others and compare our behaviors to everyone around us because we're more confused and we're more obsessed with food in our body and diets. We're still unable to, and we're still. We still don't have that education or understanding of how to appropriately, respectfully and compassionately respond to our body, take care of it. Take care of it with food. We still don't have trust in our bodies, body image, thoughts still take up so much of our mind and food takes up so much space and if our body changes, it still never feels good enough and it's not lasting. Research has found that, on average, 95% of diets fail and 95% of dieters regain the weight they had lost within one year. This is called weight cycling or yo-yo dieting. There are several factors that contribute to this. We're just. We're not going to go into huge detail on it, but some of those are slowed metabolism, hormonal changes, psychological factors like a growing harmful relationship with food and distrust with it.

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Lack, lack of sustainable changes, inescapable environmental and social influences that that caused us to quote unquote fail right. This one's. This one's funny to me because environmental and social influences, like social events, family gatherings those should not cause us to fail. We are. We want those things in our life. We shouldn't be avoiding them. So these just do not fix the root problems and they create more, more problems, and it's just absolutely missing the mark completely in making things work. Even in those good hearted programs, they still don't have it all and they're missing the mark about root problems, mental health and the complexities of your relationship with food and body and all the ins and outs that need to be explored.

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So, anyways, why are we being told this? Why are we being fed this when it's so, when it's so awful and it doesn't work? This, this is like a revolving door and it's meant to be a revolving door. That is how the business is built. This unsustainable product keeps us stuck in this with this no long-term, with no long-term solutions, really stealing our joy. And we are told this because of profit, because of societal norms, creating misunderstanding, biases, fear, fear around food and body. A not so fun fact I want to share with you is that the diet industry is worth over $60 billion, largely due to the 95% failure rates that I just explained of these diets.

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Diet culture is this never ending cycle of promises and disappointments, making making big claims about quick and lasting results and it actually thrives on these empty promises and constant disappointment, profiting from the never ending uh, the never ending search for these results, for these quick results, feeding off your shame, and they trap you in this vicious loop, always searching for the next fix. Diet cultures, constant letdowns, actually help it thrive. It's a good business model because it creates repeated customers, but it's an evil business and none of these work and you should be pissed off about this. You should get pissed, get mad, demand better. We write it down.

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Okay, so let's talk about some myths and misconceptions about where we want to go and what we're told. Okay, so we are told that if we change our body, we can change our body image, and that's what body image work work is. But this idea that change your body, change your body image, um, and that altering one's physical appearance where will automatically lead to a positive relationship with your body, that is false because in reality, body image is complex. I work with so many people on body image. Changing their body does not work. Body image is super complex, it's multifaceted and it encompasses so much more than physical appearance. It requires body image work. Okay, body image to heal body image requires body image work, not changing your body.

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Research constantly shows that individuals body weight does not correlate with their level of body satisfaction or self-esteem. People of all different shapes, sizes love, hate and feel all the ways in between about their body. Identical twins can have completely different relationships with their body, despite them looking the same. One can hate their body and have a super horrible relationship with it, and some and the other one can have a very loving relationship with it and love their body and have body confidence. So that proves that wrong. In just so many experiences I have been through myself and with clients prove that to be wrong. True body image work goes beyond physical appearance. It focuses on so much more, so much about your relationship with your body and your relationship with food, both very complex issues and not quick fixes If you want long-term results.

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The next myth food freedom comes from being able to be in control of food and have that willpower. Hello, if that were true, we would be there, and yet no one has gotten that quote unquote willpower down. Have they, your body will win every time against willpower. Thank God that is a good thing. You have to address the root causes and do things differently and actually heal your relationship with food and build trust with food. And that takes a lot of work, that takes work, that takes doing things differently. And lastly, this myth that it is not possible to have this ideal, intuitive, trusting, compassionate relationship with food and your body, that you need to always be on the lookout and manage them False. Did it? Done it with others, done possible. That is there for you. Don't let these myths keep you stuck and continue to lie to you. Don't let that be you.

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I don't want you to get stuck in pseudo recovery, because full recovery from binge eating, restrictive eating, food distress, body image distress it's there for you, despite what some may say and despite your experience so far. And unfortunately, it is hard to escape your experience because the, the, or even get trapped in that in the first place, because we live in diet culture. It's everywhere. So of course we're super confused and it makes sense to be confused. So society bombards us with mixed messaging, encouraging quote unquote healthy, even eating and and quote unquote recovery, while promoting disordered eating and body dissatisfaction at the exact same time.

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And I'm going to give you some examples of this and what they say. They say, hey, recover, but don't get too cozy and don't get caught off guard. Or hey, stop those eating disorder behaviors but continue those diets. Hey, love your body, but only if it looks like this. I'm here to scream from the rooftops that you don't have to be stuck here and you can go to this place. That feels really good and feels free. I want you to know that's there for you, that is a possibility. I want you to continue moving forward fully to the finish line, because that is where freedom is at.

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If you take anything away from today, it is that open up your mind back to that possibility, because it is their full recoveries within your grasp. There's so much waiting for you. I don't want you to settle. With the right prescription, the right plan of action, doing this right, you can live this life that is free, without constant body assessment, body checking, no more diets that don't work, no more punishing yourself at the gym. You can be on the same team as your body, and that feels so good. You can focus on anything and everything else, everything and everything else other than body image and food, and stop spending 95% of your life trying to weigh 5% less. You can take your power back and go after your dreams unchained and grounded, because you're no longer in the shackles of food distrust and body image distress and you can be the expert of your own body.

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The truth behind body image is that to fix your relationship with food and body, you cannot do this with shame and fear with you versus your body, with methods of distrust like dieting and external rules, because what it's going to do is just lead to more of that. It's going to lead to more shame, distrust and fear in your relationship with food and body. That is not the correct foundation. That is not the thing that we. It's not going to get us there. It's just going to get us more of shame and fear. Another truth is that true food and body image freedom is just not a quick fix. It's not going to be found in this magic cure you're being sold. It is not going to be found by being told to you by someone else with these external roles and diets, and it's just not a miracle solution.

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The nature of body image work is complex, it's nonlinear, it's messy. You're the nature of food work with your relationship with food. It's complex, it's nonlinear and messy and it's not this quick fix being sold to you. But it is absolutely possible and I love seeing people through it. It's just amazing. I feel so grateful.

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Body image and food freedom. It's just not what we're told. It's not that tip of the iceberg that we're being sold with diets. It is so much more underneath that iceberg that needs to be addressed and is there for you to filter through, to move through, to leave no stone unturned and to finally conquer it. You have tried, essentially, a lot of the same things so far, so you've put a lot of energy into it and tried quote unquote, different things, but essentially it's the same thing these rigid and restrictive diets, these shaming tactics, shaming your body into submission, into submission, controlling food. But we're not controlling food here, it's controlling us. What does this really do for us? We really need to get honest on where this journey has brought us or we're gonna keep going down the same path. We have to get honest with ourselves and open up our eyes. Our body doesn't know how to diet or to handle restriction. Because we are on the same team. It doesn't wanna be shamed. We need to work together. All you get from these diets, all you get from this distrust, is more distrust, distrust, disconnection, a slowed metabolism, weight regain, not knowing how the heck to feed your own body and body hate.

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There's so much science behind all of this, but I really want you to sit with your experience right now and ask yourself what is your truth? What is my experience so far? You don't need another person telling you what to do or what your experience is. I want you to ask yourselves right now. We aren't settling If you still feel overwhelmed and trapped in food and body image thoughts. You aren't there yet. You deserve to keep going. We just don't want to settle.

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It goes for the same thing, like our, our personal relationships. If we settle in our personal relationships, it leads to the same thing, as settling in our relationship with food and body leads to disappointment and frustration, strain and conflict, lack of intimacy and connection, diminished self-esteem, decreased relationship dissatisfaction or decreased relationship satisfaction. So what is the point of settling? What is the point of setting ourselves up for failure and unintentionally and unconsciously choosing more suffering? I want to show you how you can be free, how you can be empowered in your relationship with food and body and leave this once and leave this behind once and for all. I want to show you how to eat intuitively, with joy and trust. I want to show you how to love your body. I want to show you how to take your life and energy back from those chains of food distrust and body distrust.

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You need something that actually gets you there, that is for you, that gets you across that finish line. Race over time to celebrate. Don't accept the struggle and these lies as the end game and the final chapter of your story. This is not where your story ends. Don't accept this as truth. The truth is that you just have been misguided, trying your damnedest and haven't had that opportunity yet. So if this is you, if you are so ready to feel worthy, comfortable, confident in your relationship with food and body and you're ready to reach full recovery, if you really want this, but you just haven't had that aligning opportunity that has worked yet, if you are ready to go out in the world confidently pursue those goals, passions, those relationships and be present in every moment, and you want to do things differently, then this is for you and you need to come today too. If you have resonated with that. We're going to talk about how to do this, the right way to finally be free, and I'm going to be giving you the step-by-step roadmap to leave negative food and body image, thoughts and behaviors behind once and for all and finally live with trust and compassion for your body and open up your life for what is meant for you.

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So day two we're going over the roadmap. I cannot wait to see you there. I will see you soon. Oh my goodness, welcome to the roadmap. I cannot wait to see you there. I will see you soon. Oh my goodness, welcome today too. I am so excited. I am so excited to show you this roadmap. We are going to be walking together today through the step-by-step roadmap to leave negative food and body image, thoughts and behaviors behind once and for all, and it's going to change your life. It's what I use, it's what my clients use to reach full food and body image freedom, to stop binging, to throw out the scale, to keep all the foods in the house, to stop obsessing and to just love their body and their reflection. So I can't wait. Let's dive into this roadmap.

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Okay, so in day one, we discussed the old way, what we were taught, what we are being fed and all the messages surrounding this constantly, day in and day out. That we need to make our body the project rather than our life. That it's our fault that the 18th diet attempt didn't work. It's not the diet's fault, we just need to try something different. We haven't found the right diet. We need to fast try keto. Haven't found the right diet. We need to fast try keto track. Cut foods completely and if we failed again, it's our fault. Try this new pill, try this new product. We're told we need to give up pleasures and joy of life and we just can't trust food in our body. We need that magic fix to help us be the expert and to listen to these experts rather than be the expert of our own body.

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And the problem, of course, is that this old way has led us to be where we are now completely obsessed, exhausted, not present, binging, not able to have foods in the house, having to say no and cancel plans, having no idea how to feed our body, have a hugely distrusting relationship with food in our body and to have an immense amount of body distress, just not liking our body and not knowing how to be comfortable in our body. We've tried everything and have felt defeated, wasted time. We've regained the weight back, we are binging more, we feel more out of control and more confused. I have been there and this is just so hard to be stuck here while you are trying so hard, and it was just so hard to feel like I didn't know what to do, and so my heart really goes out to you. So you're probably thinking that you can't be fixed and that is just not the case.

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What is the cases that you are just on this vicious cycle, this vicious dieting cycle, this hamster wheel of body distrust, where you're trying to diet to feel better. You get initial quote, unquote progress or weight loss, but it plateaus setbacks, there's frustration, more, more binging due to the restriction You're. You're blaming yourself for failing the diet. You have so much emotional distress around it and so you try again and you just continue this hamster wheel and it does not work that old way, the way you are attempting to build food and body image freedom right now. It doesn't work and you need a new plan. And I'm guessing you are here because you know you need a new plan and what you're doing doesn't work and you are ready and you feel so fed up. You need a new plan.

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You need something that's individualized, that's for you, something that's sustainable to give you long lasting results, something that is made for you, with you in mind and doesn't's for you. Something that's sustainable, to give you long lasting results, something that is made for you, with you in mind and doesn't feed on you, but that sets you free and opens up your life to so much more. You need something for you as a whole person, with your unique body, with your unique relationship with food, your body deserving of respect and compassion. You need something where you are set free, where you wake up with a renewed sense of body confidence, shedding the burden of self-doubt and judgment, where you fearlessly pursue your goals, your dreams, and you're unburdened by this relentless, constant stream of body image and food thoughts. You need a relationship with food where you enjoy food, you know how to listen to your body, you know how to eat thoughts. You need a relationship with food where you enjoy food, you know how to listen to your body, you know how to eat intuitively, you know how to honor its cues and trust it through and through. You need to have a relationship with food in your body where your relationships can thrive and you can be fully present and engaged in every moment of your life.

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I want this for you, and the old way ain't going to cut it. It's not going to get the get you there. You need a new way. So this is what I want to show you today and is what the plan that my clients have implemented that have gotten them through all the way to food and body image freedom and compassion. And this is called the true food and body image freedom method for everybody, and so let's talk about it today.

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It's a three pillar and five phase system. In the first pillar, this is where we recognize, reflect and rewire. We jump right into the deep work by doing a really deep dive in your body image journey so far, your thoughts, your beliefs about your body all that are unconsciously guiding and impacting your relationship with your body and how this impacts your relationship with yourself. So we do a lot of thorough investigation, assessment and reflection and we need to first create a roadmap and this like compass for you in this program to help you move forward and what you can use to help you move forward and to guide you in a way that aligns with your values and your goals, with practices of acceptance and compassion, and this is really a must to a solid foundation of our months together, working together and for the rest of your journey as well. So in pillar one. There's two phases. I'm going to go really briefly through these. If you go through my bonus training, you'll learn more, which you will get if you apply. I'll talk more about that later, but I'm just going to go briefly through these phases.

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In phase one, we're really setting the groundwork and building this vital foundation for a healthy relationship with food and body. You're going to grasp the core principles of the program. You're going to learn about the support. You're going to align the goals of the program with your own aspirations and personal goals and assess where you are at now. We're going to create a safe space for exploration and learning, outlining what lies ahead and ensuring your well-being. We're going to go over all the bonus therapeutic tools in our toolbox of the program and we're going to have some guest therapy work here to help guide you through some different techniques that are going to help you throughout the program. We're going to assess readiness for change and all these domains that we're going to go through when it comes to food and body image. So you know where you're at in every different aspect. This phase doesn't just offer information, but it really constructs a foundation for your personal growth and your guaranteed success in the program.

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Now, in phase two, we're going to deeply explore body image what it is, what is body image work? What is body image? What are our knowledge of it now? What's our education on it thus far? What are our expectations and intentions in body image work and body image in this program? What are our expectations and intentions in our relationship with food? Where are we there? We're going to lay the foundation for a profound shift in our self-perception again to really help guide us to where we want to go and not lead us astray because we didn't create this foundation that's so sturdy in the beginning. So in phase two, we're going to navigate your personal expectations, clarify the starting point, define the complexities of body image, question the beliefs and the significance of those beliefs that you have now, where they came from, walk through your journey thus far, engage with the body image spectrum so we fully grasp the fluidity of it. It's a crucial perspective for moving forward. We're going to uncover your core values and do magic, wand fantasies, map intentions and goals to shape your path, conduct a deep dive into your relationship with your body image experiences and timeline, revealing body image's multifaceted nature. It's multifaceted nature.

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Okay, in pillar two. This is where we rebuild, rewire and repair. Here's where the hard work and the magic happens. In pillar two, we start processing, understanding and unlearning the current behaviors and thoughts and beliefs, all really impacting our relationship with food and our relationship with our body. That's holding us back in life. And then, after we learn about those and start to get rid of those, we start relearning and rebuilding with new choices and putting new behaviors into action. So this is the phase where we're going to be putting our new thoughts, beliefs into practice and we're going to practice, practice, practice. We're going to be getting uncomfortable with doing things differently, choosing to do things differently, grounded in those decisions, after we have thoroughly understood and explored the science, the experiences thus far and where you want to go, and we're going to be getting different results. We will be going through the research behind these new practices, creating a plan that is best for you, for where you are. We're gonna learn how to tune into your body. We're gonna build body trust. We're gonna understand food wisdom and your wisdom. We're gonna go through nutrition education. You're gonna find your compassionate self and start to rebuild your relationship around body and food with that, promoting respect, understanding and trust. We're gonna be saying goodbye to distrusting our bodies, goodbye to diets, goodbye to those obsessive thoughts and hello to body trust, body freedom and body love.

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And here in pillar two, where all that work happens around food, around body, around all of those behaviors, all that education, all that science, this is where you really begin to feel differently, feel like a different person, have different behaviors. All that education, all that science, this is where you really begin to feel differently, feel like a different person, have different behaviors and your mind is just blown in this pillar. So in this pillar there's phase three. Again, I'm going to go really quickly over here, but this is where we go through all the research and the intricate landscape of what body image is and your body image, and what food is in your relationship with food. So we do a deep, deep, deep dive into the education, the science, the history, the research. We start breaking down and building up all new beliefs, behaviors centered around your relationship with food and body. And, with the combination of this knowledge and building new experiences and doing that work, choosing to let go of the old behaviors after those are thoroughly explored. This is where the transformation happens.

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And then the final pillar super important is going to be strengthening, making sure we're sustaining and then celebrating. So this is what I call like the replicate, reinforce and start to relax pillar. So here we begin to kind of sit back a little bit more. We did a lot of heavy lifting in pillar two and with what we got from pillar two we can come here to pillar three with newfound practices that are going to aid us with where we are and we really want to hone those skills and also learn more to about body image and food to sustain what we did. So we're going to be pushing through those last pesky barriers and those last hidden bad body image behaviors, bad food food behaviors, and we're going to be getting more comfortable with the uncomfortable.

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So all when we, when we create change in pillar two right, it's uncomfortable, it's change, it's something different, even though we're choosing it. When we do something different, we're rewiring. It's going to be uncomfortable. Don't worry, we're there to cheer you on every step of the way and support you. Huge, huge, huge part of it when they go and get stuff and celebrate all the wins you start experiencing as soon as you enter.

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But anyways, you're you in this pillar. You are going to be getting more comfortable with the uncomfortable, because you have practiced, you have become more grounded, you have more experiences, you have rewired your brain and actually change your belief and thoughts and you're and you're starting to see all the benefits from these changes. So you're going to feel more grounded in your relationship with food and your relationship with body. That is now built on trust, compassion and mutual respect. And here's where we really turn the corner. And I love turning that corner in pillar three because when you turn the corner, you really when you, when someone turns the corner, that means they don't want to turn back, and that is what I see happening, because they're so grounded in it. They have the education, the experiences, the knowledge and the support to be grounded enough and in a new place that they didn't know they could go where they're like wow, I have no reason or desire to turn back now that I know what I know.

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Okay, so in pillar three there's going to be two phases phase four and phase five. In phase four, we celebrate the body appreciation, functionality, flexibility. We're really embracing that lasting transformation. You'll begin to progress and solidify all these newfound practices. You're going to confront the remaining barriers. You're going to cultivate comfort with this discomfort. This really grounds you in a healthier relationship with your body. We're going to do a social media cleanup, go over beauty concepts all of the start, practicing appreciation, understanding and practicing functionality and flexibility. And this phase really marks the turning point, as I mentioned, where you truly start to internalize and embrace this transformed relationship with your body and food, paving the way for this lasting change. And in phase five, where we wrap it up, this is where we are going to go over the also ever important conversation and topic that I go over with my clients all the time that I feel is so mandatory for your relationship with food and body, which is self-compassion. We're going to go over the misconceptions, um, the current practices, why it's so important, and we're going to start practicing it and see it transform. Okay, so we're going to be going over positive acceptance what is inner beauty, what is body compassion, self-compassion, and this is the radiant culmination of your transformative journey. It's very empowering as we dive deep into nurturing those things. All right, so why are these pillars also important?

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I want to talk about the necessity for all three pillars and why I created the program the way I did and didn't just build the program on one of these programs. They're all so, so essential. The first part, so the first pillar exploring mindset, expectations and intentions is so important because you need to recognize, reflect and rewire. This is essential because it's gonna create a foundation for the entire program. What it does is it builds awareness, which is necessary to understanding where you currently are. It's going to help you understand your unconscious patterns. If you don't understand those, as you move, if you skip pillar one and go into pillar two, those unconscious patterns are going to guide you, and so we need to explore those to reveal these hidden influences on our perception. So we understand it thoroughly and we don't we're not led astray.

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Okay, it's also very important to personalize the program for your unique needs. We need to set the direction of the program to be aligned with what you want, and we're building that solid base. To be aligned with what you want and we're building that solid base. Okay, this really as well, it's going to create that long-term impact by creating that foundation that goes beyond the program, because you're ensuring that your progress is going to start from the beginning as something that's aligning, sustainable, that you're aware of, that you have the knowledge, for that's going to be able to transform your relationship with food and body. So, so essential.

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It's the next pillar relearn, rebuild and repair. It cannot be skipped, of course. I mean this goes. I don't even know if I need to talk about this. This drives the profound change. Once you have that foundation, then you have the ability and the tools to start unlearning these old patterns that are hindering progress and establish these new, positive habits. This is where you are, just you are I don't want to say bombarded, that's like a negative word but you really are just filled with all of this newfound information and you're giving all the new tools and we go through all the new practices and activities to start establishing new, a new relationship with food and body. This demands action and consistent practice. It offers research back practices, creates a personalized plan for you. You develop that awareness in those behaviors, you start to build body trust. Oh, my goodness, how freaking awesome is that. It starts to initiate this liberating shift from these harmful behaviors and really sets the stage for all of this change. So it's really pivotal. This is super important pillar that cannot be skipped because, of course, it facilitates this deep change, empowers a and establishes this healthy relationship with food and body. Skipping of this would deprive you of essentially the process needing for that lasting transformation.

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Okay, and finally, strengthening, sustaining and celebrate. We don't have anything if we can't sustain it. Right, why do phase one and phase two if we're going to skip phase three? This builds on our previous progress. It addresses the lingering barriers and behaviors that can pull us back to our old way. It challenges you to overcome the discomfort and actually become comfortable with it again, which really grounds you in the trust in your new behaviors, the comfort in your new behaviors, your belief in the new behaviors. It strengthens your trust, your self-compassion and it makes a significant turning point. Like I said, it's not until pillar three where we can really turn the corner, because of all the practice, because of ironing out all the last steps, where you feel like, all right, this is, this is, I don't want to go back now. It enhances mutual respect for your relationship with your body and food, and pillar three allows for more relaxation and more grounding and this ensures that your efforts, all of these efforts, translate into lasting transformation and a healthy relationship with food and body, far beyond the program. Okay, this step is crucial for building progress, addressing remaining challenges, establishing a strong and solid relationship and if you, and of course, skipping this is going to hinder the consolidation of all your efforts and prevent you from fully embracing that finish line and 100% of those changes, and of course we don't want that. So, all really, really important.

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So, now that we concluded and chatted about what is in the program, I want you to ask yourself is what I have been doing? Is it working for me? Where is it taking me, if I have these two paths ahead, to either continue what I want to do or try something different? And I'm at a fork in the road. Let me actually envision and walk myself down those two different paths. We must truly look at this choice and look at both paths and open our eyes up to the realities of where the paths have brought us and the realities of choosing one over the other.

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And that path to true food and body image, freedom for everyone, that is the path I want you to take. I want you to get to the finish line, open your life up to more and stop just being a slave to the distressing, distressing, distressing relationship with food and body. It, it, it steals so much joy, it, I mean, so near and dear to my heart, having experienced it. Having gone through this journey with so many folks, I don't want this to be your. I don't want your finish line, that last chapter, to be continuing that distressful, distressing path. I why can't I pronounce that today? I don't know. Anyways, I want to invite you to apply to the program true food and body image freedom. The benefits of this program is that, once and for all, you're going to have that trust, understanding in your relationship with food and body, where you can just love your life, love those relationships, move forward with your relationships that have been put on hold, your career, your hobbies, all that time and energy spent with your relationship with food and body. In this program you can heal and overcome once and for all. You can befriend and even love your body. You can trust food and you can take your damn life back.

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What's the problem is is that we think we need something that we don't really need and we don't really look at what we really want. We think we need a different body, but really we need comfort to find comfort and confidence in our body. We think we need a diet to trust. Really we need comfort to find comfort and confidence in our body. We think we need a diet to trust, but really we need to be able to trust ourselves and actually be educated with appropriate actual science and research around diets, food, nutrition, our body weight size, all of that stuff Okay, which which is in the program. We think we need rules and discipline, but we need understanding. We need to build a trusting relationship with our food and body and go through the complexities of gaining that back. We think we need control, but we actually need freedom. So we don't feel like we need to control and I wanna help you find this, because with less anxiety and confidence around food in your body, you get less anxiety and you get more confidence and joy in your life.

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I want to help you find freedom from dieting, compulsive exercise and rigid rules, because I know it's going to bring you flexibility and freedom in your life and make room for more meaningful things. And I want to help you find no more obsession no more diets, rigid exercise, no more obsession over body, because I know it has the ability to open the doors to experience all that is meant for you in life. You have already spent so much time on the things that didn't work, and here's what I need you to know. I need you to know that I really don't want you putting these pieces together forever. It took me years and years, and years, and years and years to find these pieces and put them all together, so that I didn't leave any stone left unturned, and I don't want you searching everywhere for that. There definitely are programs that do a little bit of all of this, but I don't want you to need 15 programs. I want you to go all the way. I want you to have a one-stop shop supportive environment to get you there quicker, faster, more securely grounded, with the correct support and and in a way that just where you don't have to be guessing or thinking about am I missing something? Why don't I feel there yet? What's my next step? I want you to have all the steps in one place and I don't want you to take the long route. You already have spent so much time, so much energy on this and it, and it hasn't worked. Those diets have not worked. The way you have been doing, things have not worked.

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So again, I want to invite you to the sheer body image freedom for everyone program. You're invited to apply If this has resonated with you, if that is what you want, if you are finally ready, you can apply using the link below. Now, not everyone is accepted and I just want to make sure I communicate that. I want to make sure that every student is successful in the program and therefore we do have a semi-thorough application process to make sure you are happy and ready in this program. So, if you are one or more of these in the mirror consistently, um, if you're checking it with clothes, you're dressing the new, you try on 10 different outfits. If you're hiding your body, so if you just have a hard relationship with your body. So if you're that self-critic body shamer have a lot of body image distress. If you are, um, if you tried everything and you feel like you're losing hope, so you really feel like you filtered through all of these different things and you feel ready for something different and you're losing hope, I want to say I'm holding so much hope for you here in this program.

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Trust in food are in your. If you're in the last parts of your eating disorder recovery. If you have disordered eating. If you just don't know how to eat, if you need to keep foods out of the house. If you have a lot of shame and guilt after you're eating. If you're constantly analyzing and tracking. If you're one or more of these, this is a perfect fit for you.

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So, again, it's your time. It has been your time. Let's be real. It has been your time. You never deserved any of this. So apply with the link below to go through the application. And, of course, I also want to invite you to please DM me on Facebook or Instagram, at JamieRD underscore, for a no pressure conversation. If you have any questions whatsoever, we're happy to walk you through and we are just so excited for you. We are so excited you found us. We cannot wait to see your application and we cannot wait to see your DM. Have a good rest of your day and we can't wait to chat with you very soon. All right, and there you have it. I hope you enjoyed the mini course. I'm so excited to hear from you, and that wraps up our unique episode today of Bites and Body Love. I will see you on the next episode and, until then, keep empowering yourself to go after that relationship with food and body image that you deserve. That is there for you, 100%. Okay, see you next time.