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

And the best way I've ever heard described by a researcher was, you know, imagine you're falling in love for the first time with somebody. And at some point they say, I love you. And it's amazing. It's magical. You're floating on air. But five years later, you're in a committed relationship. They say, I love you and it's wonderful to hear, but it's not that same magical feeling.

And so with making peace with food, it's about having the habituation process because when you're constantly on some food plan, some dieting plan, some restriction, food stays exciting and food stays scary. The habituation process hasn't taken place yet. And then there's this whole other area.

It's known as the restraint theory, but what it's known as its nickname, it's the what the hell effect of eating. And that is when someone has a lot of restraint around eating, they have rigid rules, something comes along to break that restraint. And it could be an event, it can be an emotion, it can be a food. And all of a sudden, it's like, oh, I'm never gonna eat that food again.

So I'm gonna get it all now while I can. And it ends up becoming an all or none kind of food feast. So making peace is really about the psychology of having ease with your eating, whatever that food happens to be. It's amazing in that process. Yes.

Well, and you know what? We can get into the weeds on food addiction theory. The interesting thing is, is when you look at what are the causes and conditions that might create this? It could be a belief system. I shouldn't have sugar or I shouldn't have too much sugar. I can have a quote moderate amount if I follow just the portion size.

And then the moment you have like two cookies instead of three, then what happens? If you haven't been getting enough to eat, that's going to increase the intensity of desire for sweets because our body survives by carbs. I've never met anyone who's contacted me and said, Evelyn, I have this issue with kale. I can't stop eating it.

It's usually a carb thing and often sugar because that's what the body needs in order to survive. In fact, we even have a carbohydrate storage form in the brain. We have glycogen in the brain. It's so important. So biological deprivation can feel that sweet desire. Psychological deprivation, meaning I can't have it or I shouldn't have it too much. And these things can cause you to cross the line.

And then there's also just patterns of eating. Some cultures have a sweet or sweets after finishing a meal. And there's actually really nothing bad with that. But if you believe that what you're doing is wrong, that you're one bite away from a sugar binge, that creates kind of a scarcity mindset to some level.

So, Abby, can I ask you? Yes, please. You know, appetite, speaking one athlete to another, former in my case. Marathon training, I had tremendous appetite. People used to tease me. I've had people say, oh, my God, you're eating a lot of food. And my response would be, I'm an athlete. I need to train like one. And so...

My experience has been people not seeing a woman eat, first of all, and to eat in quantities that can rival what a man's eating, because I'm training like a lot. And so I'm wondering when you talk about your appetites, if that's also a byproduct of your training. Yeah, it's normal. In other words, to have the appetite.

Yeah, so I want to offer a suggestion just for you to think about. And it's been my experience that the people I work with who engage in intermittent fasting has been the stepping stone into problematic eating. I've seen a lot of binge eating. There's been studies now with binge eating correlated with that. You lose muscle mass when you do that. At least that's what some of the studies have shown.

So it's just something to think about. And then remember I was saying earlier about anti-fat bias being in healthcare and institutionalized. When you start looking at all the research around weight, it's all of this epidemiological research, meaning it's association, not causation.

And when you start getting into the weeds on this, which is a hobby of mine, they don't control for really important things like social determinants of health, like trauma, like weight cycling, like weight stigma, this all can have an impact on that. And then having this fear quote of weight gain because of health, that gets you into diet culture, but now it's holy, it's noble, you know?

And regardless of the reason to be concerned about weight, it doesn't change the outcome data. So those are some things I'd have you just take a look at. And I'm not your, you know, nutritionist or anything, but that's something I would be wondering if that's kind of feeling a little bit of the sugar desire. The desire is there. I love sweets, by the way.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying sweets, but the fear is what I'm hearing there. You're one bite away from mayhem. Yes.

Yes.

That's the big question, isn't it? You know, there was a study published, oh, my God, over 20 years ago, kind of looking at this focus that we have on this desire for health and protection and this desire to not be killed by what we eat. That's my paraphrase. And the researcher didn't say it that way.

But one of the things the researcher said that really to me was really ahead of his time was like, you know. We're so worried about what's going to kill or cure us in terms of the food. We need to start looking at what is the impact of this worry or this anxiety? That's not healthy on our body. You know, that increases stress, which is not a positive thing also.

And I think we really need to get back to enjoying our food. And one of the things I see is that there seems to be... oh my gosh, every decade, almost every year, even there's always a new food that's going to save you. And there's some food that's going to be demonized. We certainly saw it with the low fat craze. Then we saw it with the keto, all those kinds of things.

And now it's like, oh my God, watch out for ultra processed foods and all those kinds of things. And yet in those conversations of fear mongering, we don't hear how most vegetarian foods are actually, are one of the highest categories of ultra processed foods. So are vitamins, so are supplements. And so there's a lot of hypocrisy that I see or one-sided arguments on this.

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