Evelyn Tribole

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We Can Do Hard Things · What Is Intuitive Eating? Evelyn Tribole on Trusting Your Body · 16 Jan 2025 podcast

So yes, you trust yourself in your decisions, but now you have more ease, ease in living, ease in eating. You're present at conversations. I can't tell you the amount of patients I've worked with where yeah, they were there at the dinner with their girlfriend or their partner or their family, but their mind was somewhere else. Their mind was calculating how they're going to compensate.

And so they're not present in the relationship. So that's the other thing that ends up happening. There's more presence in the relationship, which is incredible.

Well, and I'll tell you what, I've worked with a fair amount of elite athletes who then retire. And what ends up happening many times is, well, many people take them as size, like, well, you better watch it. You can't eat the same amount of food you've been eating now. And it creates this doubt and it creates this vigilance about the eating when this person never had an issue with food before.

But because of all of this mistrust, here we're back to the fear again, you start second guessing yourself, you know?

And you're right, it is a conditioning. It's a social conditioning. And if you want to really trace back the roots, we can get into slavery, fear of the black body, misogyny, capitalism. There's all kinds of things. And there's this fascinating framework called Bobby Harrow's Cycle of Socialization. And it shows how we are born into this world, you know, innocent. We're not hating our body.

But as we start getting these messages from our trusted family, caregivers and so on, as it gets into our institutions, in our schools, in our policies and so on, then there are rewards and punishments. If you, you know, conform to what they consider the norm and people don't want to be treated badly.

You know, if you're in a larger body, it's awful and stressful to wonder, am I going to be able to fit on that airplane? Is that seatbelt extender going to work for me? If I go to a roller coaster ride and amusement park with my kids, will I be able to go on the ride with them? Because the world was not built for people in larger bodies.

So the anti-fat bias is unfortunately alive and well, and it's in healthcare. And it just, oh my gosh, the medical fat phobia that creates even bigger problems and gatekeeping in terms of getting care. It's a very, very big issue. Huge. Yeah.

And someone says, I don't want to be treated that way. So I'm going to conform as if we can mold our body like it's clay. And that's the shocking part to a lot of people. They get sucked into all these diets thinking, well, this one's going to work. And yet there's a body of research showing it doesn't work. It predicts actually more weight gain.

If there's anything wrong with that, it predicts weight stigma. It predicts eating disorder risk, predicts weight cycling, which in of itself has its own health risks in terms of cardiovascular mortality and all kinds of issues around there. And sometimes I think it's like a form of virtual signaling. Look how good I am. Yes.

Because I eat this way. You know, it's like the day I don't remember when this was because now it's happened so much. It's a sad norm that you go to have a meal with family and friends and someone's apologizing for what they're eating or they're explaining. You don't need to explain to anyone why you're eating or why you're not eating.

Let's just break bread and enjoy the conversation and catch up with ourselves and so on. So it's a cultural neuroses that we have. It's global. I see it all over the place.

Yeah. And denying your exhaustion. And, you know, Abby, you mentioned this earlier about primal exhaustion, because another trend I see a lot with people who are especially overexercising. And one of the ways I ask about this is, you know, if you're feeling an injury coming on, can you take a break? If you're feeling sick, can you take a break?

And if the answer is no, no, no, then I will ask, do you have a fear that if you stop working out, you're never going to work out again? Yes, how did you know? And I said, well, because I think your body's exhausted. And I see you smiling, Abby, with that. And what I see is if someone's had the love of sport or the love of movement, it will come back, but your body just needs this big old rest.

There's nothing wrong with you. It's just you're exhausted.

Yeah.

Yeah. And so aiming for satisfaction is a great way to center your, your eating. Um, And by the way, I want to also say, you know, I've had some people think that eating has to be a 10 every time. The meal has to be Nirvana. It's like, no, sometimes it's a pair of boring, sensible shoes. It's going to get the job done and that's okay.

But when you can eat to the point of satisfaction and you know, you can have that food again. I knew that wasn't not going to be the last time I was going to have cake. It's not a big deal. And sometimes, honestly, I feel a little sad. It's like, oh, I'm by the way, I forgot to mention, I'm here in Hawaii working remotely so I can surf and you might be hearing waves in the background, but

And there's a restaurant here that I love. It's got my favorite desserts. It's hula pie. It's macadamia nuts, ice cream with chocolate fudge. And I get sad when I'm full because like, oh, it tastes so good, but I'm not willing to feel uncomfortable to eat the rest of it. And I know I can have it again whenever I want to. And I realize there's privilege in that as well.

I want to state that as well.

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