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Episode Description

It is Halloween, so we are talking about candy, but this is way bigger than Halloween. This is about how you handle every quote trigger food in your life without guilt, without shame, and without feeling like you are about to lose control every time you eat it. I want you to hear this. If you want the candy, eat the candy.

In this episode I explain why restriction is not the answer and why you cannot out logic emotional fear around food. You might be telling yourself that certain foods are off limits because you think that is what you are supposed to do on a weight loss plan. You might even be trying to convince yourself that you do not actually want the thing you obviously want. I am telling you to stop doing that to yourself.

I walk you through a process that sounds scary at first, but will change the way you relate to food long term. Buy the candy. Eat the candy. Keep eating it every day until you get to the point where it is not even that special anymore. When you allow yourself to have the quote bad food without sneaking, without punishment, and without a rebound plan to quote fix it, you take its power away. You build trust with yourself. You learn that you can have these foods and move on.

We also get into why most fitness and weight loss plans actually keep you in fear. A lot of coaches tell you that you can never have certain foods again, and they dress that up as lifestyle. But you do not like that lifestyle. Most of them do not even like that lifestyle. They are either trying to get you fast transformation results at a high price point, or they are scared of those foods themselves. I want something different for you.

My goal for you is a forever active lifestyle that you actually enjoy. Not white knuckling. Not rigid on and off rules. Not living in fear that one slice of pizza or one Reese pumpkin means you blew it. You should like how you eat. You should like how you move. You should feel like you are in charge of your life, not the program, not the coach, not the scale, not some all or nothing list of allowed and not allowed foods.

We also talk about why you cannot just stack habits and try to out discipline emotion forever. If you never work through the emotional charge around a quote off limit food, you will eventually end up face down in that food again. Could be months from now, could be years from now, but it will happen, and when it does you will call yourself out of control and go right back to restriction. I want you to break that loop.

You are allowed to enjoy food, including holiday food. You are allowed to go all in on your goals and still eat something fun. You are allowed to build your process around your preferences. That is how you build something you can actually do for the rest of your life.

I also invite you to email me and tell me what candy or food still feels off limits, and what your Halloween costume was. Yes, really. I want to know.

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