99. But My Inner Rebel Sabotages Me

Life After Diets

No conversation about dieting and restricting is complete without talking about the inner rebel! Is binge eating rebellious? Is restriction rebellious? How is our inner rebel at work when it comes to our relationship with food?

• Stef grew up as a people pleaser, but deconstructed that when her binge eating became out of control.
• Sarah's most important factor in keeping peace with food: feeling like she has choice.
• We think of the "rebel" as a bad, naughty thing; but the rebel acts in the name our our very human need for autonomy.
• Our baseline understanding of our own autonomy may develop in early childhood. Stef shares how she sees this manifesting with her children.
• What about the conflict between safety and freedom? Is is possible to have both? How do we maintain a balance when we need to feel safe and grounded, but also need to feel free and unrestricted? Is that the metaphor for "control" with food (restriction) and "freedom" with food (binge eating)?
• Boundaries as an exploration of safety on both sides of the pendulum. We can't understand our own boundaries until we've understood what "too far" feels like.
• The rebel as a representative for our unmet needs.
• Rebellion in body image. Stef feeling lack of autonomy in body size (rebelling against biology) and in fashion (rebelling against thin privilege).
• Sarah LIED (gasp!) as a teenager
• How we talk to and about our inner rebel matters. The rebel may need validation.
• Diet culture, capitalism, patriarchy, etc is an appropriate place to rebel.

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