Episode #36: Belonging, The Holidays, and Weight Loss

Summary

The desire to belong, fit in, and be like the people around us is normal. However, for so many people, the only way we know how to mesh our uniqueness with others is to try to conform. This means not paying attention to what we love and want, only paying attention to other people’s desires. This is particularly a problem during The Holidays. 

The Holidays don’t just last a few days sprinkled throughout the end of the year. When you really think about it and count them all up, special occasions are a substantial portion of our calendar. So, understanding how a desire to belong and please other people in these situations is impacting you and your weight-loss goals is going to be incredibly valuable.

Tune in this week to discover why acting from a desire to fit in may have made life easier in the past, but it isn’t serving you as an adult. I’m sharing the impact that discomfort around being authentically yourself has on your weight loss, how to recognize where you’re making food decisions based on how others are eating in social settings, and most importantly, how to separate your desire to belong from the way you eat during the Holiday season.

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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• A story from my youth about my strong desire to belong.
• The deep desire we all have to belong, and how we have intertwined food with our natural desire to belong.
• Why a strong desire to fit in leads to us not paying attention to what we actually want.
• How belonging and conforming are reinforced by our society all throughout our lives, leading to our personal identities becoming diminished or blurred.
• Why this skill of adjusting to conform or belong may have served you as a child, but it isn’t serving you as an adult.
• How to see the ways your desire to conform and fit in is impacting your weight loss, especially around The Holidays and special occasions.
• The one realization that will set you up for freedom and success this Holiday season.
• How to start separating your emotional desire to connect from the way you eat, so you can be your authentic self around food.

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