The Scale is LYING to You (& Destroying Your Self-Worth) with Dr. Rachel Goldman
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What is the main focus of the conversation with Dr. Rachel Goldman?
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I'm not joking when I said this is my new favorite place. It is currently where I am at. So you can head on over to substack.drmindypels.com or just search Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pels directly in the Substack app. I'm super excited to have you over there. Please introduce yourself and let's dive in to some really good conversations. Hey, Dr. Mindy here, and welcome to the Live Like a Girl podcast, where I bring you icons, disruptors, educators, scientists, and doctors that show you what can be possible when you love and celebrate the female body you are blessed to live in. Let's dive in. Learning to love your body is no simple task. Most of us have spent our whole lives measuring ourselves against the images we see in movies, on social media, and in magazines.
But here's a startling truth. Only about 5% of women are naturally built like the bodies we see on those mediums. So we continue to effort, we manipulate, we medicate, sometimes we punish, hoping our bodies will finally cooperate. And then there's the food noise. Can we talk about the food noise for a hot second? It's the term that's taken the metabolic world by storm. The relentless, intrusive chatter telling you to eat. Not because you're hungry, because the voice won't go quiet. For some women, it takes over their entire day. Over the last two years, food noise went everywhere. TikTok, the news, Oprah's stage. And it surged for one reason. A new class of weight loss drugs swept the culture. And women started reporting something they had never felt before.
Silence. The voice went quiet. And for so many of them, that quiet mattered more than the number on the scale. And the scale of this is staggering. One in eight American adults is currently taking a GLP-1 drug. One in eight. Among people living with obesity, more than half, around 50%, say that they've been living with this food noise. Not hunger, but actual noise. 58% of women in this country say they want to lose weight. Not wouldn't mind if they lose weight, but they want to lose weight. This is at a far higher rate than men, a gap that's barely budged in 50 years. On average, women sit about 20 pounds from the weight we tell ourselves we should be. Like, think about that for a moment. We are always hoping we are going to lose that weight someday.
And here's where it starts to turn really dangerous because food noise rarely is about food. There's something deeper here for all of us to understand. This noise in our head, it festers. It becomes guilt. It becomes shame. It becomes a voice whispering that you're not disciplined enough. You're not good enough. You're not small enough. And unfortunately, it doesn't stay in the kitchen. It walks into your meetings, sits down with you at a family dinner, and it decides how you feel in the mirror before you even leave your house. So when a woman tells me she wants to care for her health, her energy, her labs, her long life, I am all in. But when a woman tells me that she can't lose weight, she says it with her head down, like there's something wrong with her, like she's failed some test that everyone else has passed.
When she tells me she wants to shrink herself and take up less space because the world made her believe smaller is better, that's when I pull the emergency brake. And that's when we go deeper.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main focus of the conversation with Dr. Rachel Goldman?
0:00–12:05
2
How does Dr. Goldman define and explain “food noise”?
12:05–36:02
3
What’s the difference between body image and self‑image, and why does it matter?
36:02–57:33
4
How can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy help break the cycle of emotional eating?
57:33–1:22:58
Speakers
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