Bites & Body Love (v)
Welcome to "Bites and Body Love (v)," the podcast where your journey to full body image and food freedom begins! I'm your host, Jamie (she/her), a passionate registered dietitian nutritionist, specialist in body image and disordered eating and body image recovery, owner of an outpatient practice specializing in disordered eating recovery, and creator of the True Food and Body Image (™) Program. I'm here to provide you with a safe and inspiring space, right on your device, where we navigate towards full recovery, food freedom, positive body image, and true well-being. Together we will navigate topics that include all things body image healing, intuitive eating, food freedom, eating disorder recovery, and more! 🌟
As someone who's walked the path of disordered eating and battled through body image struggles, I intimately understand the challenges you might be facing. No matter where you are in your journey, whether you're just starting out or making strides toward recovery, this podcast is designed for you to be your companion and confidante and get to FULL recovery. So if you want to get to that finish line and put disordered eating and negative body image fully behind you to thrive not only in your relationship with food and body but in life.
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Bites & Body Love (v)
How to Stop Worrying About Your Weight
Worrying about weight can feel constant- like background noise you can’t shut off. In this episode, I share the mindset shifts and practical changes that helped me step out of weight obsession and into a more peaceful, trusting relationship with my body. If you’re tired of weight worries taking up mental space, this conversation offers a gentler, more freeing way forward.
If this resonates, you can explore more support, my signature program to reach full recovery, courses, and resources on healing your relationship with food and your body on my website.
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So, this is how I stopped worrying about my weight and how you can too. So, worrying about weight can feel so constant, like a low-grade hum that you've learned to live with, even though it drains you and it impacts everything. So, for many of us, this worry didn't just appear out of nowhere. It was shaped by those childhood comments, um, diet culture rules that you followed, doctors' visits that left you feeling shameful, social media, and the belief that our worth is tied to just our shape and how small we can be. But the truth is that I've learned personally, and from years of walking alongside clients with this, is that weight worry doesn't have to be the narrator of your life, but we have to do things differently. It can absolutely soften, it can get quieter, and it often starts with just a few intentional shifts in how we relate to our bodies and practicing this time and time again. So, number one, I want you to stop focusing on it. I know that's hard, but let it be. This one sounds simple, but it's it's work. Uh, we've been taught that monitoring, micromanaging, controlling, and checking our weight is uh is a responsible thing, is a healthy thing, is a necessary thing. Many people don't even realize that that constant checking, evaluating, and scanning is just another form of that hypervigilance and a nervous system that is stuck in that protection mode, trying to keep us safe. But the more we fixate on our weight, the more it becomes a measuring stick for every single choice and decision that we make, small and big. And letting it be doesn't mean you sudden you suddenly are gonna love your body or you're never gonna get triggered or you're not worried about body image, but it means you're gonna start to practice and notice the weight worry when it pops up and say, Ah, there it is again. And then you choose not to follow it down that tunnel. It's the practice of allowing discomfort instead of trying to eradicate it at first. And that actually will eradicate it over time. It's holding multiple emotions at once around body image, the fear, the hope, the frustration, the compassion for what you're going through, and staying with yourself, anyways. That's body respect in action. Number two, live life anyways. Say yes anyways. One of the biggest lies weight worry tells us is that you can't live life fully until your body looks differently. You can't have the things you want until you look different. But healing happens in the opposite direction. You want to live now, you want to eat the meal now, you want to go on the trip now, you want to let yourself be in photos now. Your life is not on pause waiting for a future version of your body to be happy. When we shift from how do I look to what do I want to experience, what do I want to feel, what do I want to learn? That's when things change. Life starts getting bigger, better, softer, and more aligned with your values, not with fear. You don't have to feel fully confident to live fully. You just have to be willing. Number three, treat your body with respect. This is the part that changes everything. And I have lots of videos on this. Respect isn't about loving how your body looks, it's about treating it like someone you care deeply about. Even on the days when you don't feel connected to it or you hate it. Respect looks like feeding yourself consistently, learning how to do that, even when the disordered eating voice is pushing back. It means resting without guilt when your body's calling for that. It's moving for joy, not punishment. It's about setting boundaries with people who talk about weight diets or bodies or make you feel not so good about yourself. It's about replacing that self-blame with self-compassion and curiosity. It means choosing curiosity over criticism. Respect is how you build trust with your body. And trust is how you build safety. And safety is what makes worry lessen its grip. And you don't wait for the worry to disappear before you do the work. You do the work and slowly the worry stops being in charge. Wait worry fades, not because it magically evaporates, but because it stops being the place where you return to for control, identity, for safety. You learn to live with your body as it is today, not as a project you need to manage or a problem that you need to solve. Your body becomes a companion, not a battlefield. And if you're ready to stop letting weight anxiety dictate your choices and start treating your body with the respect and tenderness it deserves, there is a path forward, a path grounded in freedom, nervous system regulation and safety, and trust. One that leads to a life bigger than anything weight worry could ever offer. And you really deserve it.