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This is the eat well, think well, live well podcast.
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I'm Lisa Salisbury, and this is episode 134.
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Loving your body equals lasting weight loss with LeAnn Austin.
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Welcome to eat well.
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Well, the podcast for busy women who want to lose weight without constantly counting, tracking, or stressing over every bite.
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I'm Lisa Salsbury, a certified health weight loss and life coach, and most importantly, a recovered chronic dieter here.
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You'll learn to listen to your body and uncover the reasons you're reaching for food.
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When you're not truly hungry, freeing you to focus on a healthier, more fulfilling approach to eating.
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Welcome back to the eat well, think well, live well podcast.
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I'm delighted to have a fellow life coach here, LeAnn Austin.
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We met a couple of years ago at a retreat and she is She's just really such a delight online and which is all I know her from now.
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So it was good to meet her in person a couple of years ago and we reconnected because she has some great things to share here with you today.
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So welcome LeAnn to the podcast.
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Why don't you introduce yourself and tell people what you do and how you came to this work.
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Thank you so much, Lisa.
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Such a pleasure to be here.
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I'm LeAnn Austin, a master certified life coach and teacher.
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I help people create more fun and connection in their relationships with themselves and with others.
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I really love to explore the daughter in law, mother in law relationship.
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And all that we learned from that.
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So I have a podcast and a book called Love My Daughter-in-Law.
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I live in Georgia with my husband.
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We have four adult sons, two daughters-in-law, a grandson and a granddaughter on the way.
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I love to coach, eat, smoked meat and veggies and be outside exercise.
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I love to watch the chosen and connect with family and friends.
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Perfect.
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I love it.
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Um, so I became a mother in law just a little over a year ago and, um, she's wonderful.
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And, um, yeah, so I know that you do really good work on that.
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And it definitely is something that.
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I work on and that relationship.
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So that is really, really valuable.
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But today on this podcast, we, um, LeAnn and I wanted to chat a little bit more about loving ourselves and how that makes a difference when we are eating.
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Because so often we think about food or treating yourself and we get these messages, especially online, like treat yourself like, and that generally means.
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Eat all of the garbage and have that big slice of cake.
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And so we just wanted to talk about how loving ourselves can help us eat the way we want to eat.
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So let's start there.
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What do you think that our self love has to do with the choices that we make?
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yeah, such a great question because I think loving ourselves really does have a deep connection to the way that we eat, um, because our relationship with food often really reflects on how we care for ourselves and how we honor ourselves.
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And this doesn't mean that we have to eat everything quote perfect or whatever we're supposed to eat.
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It just means that, hey, when we're loving ourselves, we're more likely to choose foods that nourish us.
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And not so much out of restriction, but more out of love and respect for our bodies.
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It's more like asking ourselves the question, okay, how is this food going to make me feel rather than, uh, this is good or this is bad, or this is a problem.
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You know, it's more that love for ourselves and our body.
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And I think a lot of people know this, like, from a cognitive level, they're like, yeah, that seems right, but how is that done?
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Because so many times, especially when I do like kind of first interviews or consult calls with potential clients.
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So often I'm like, I'm hearing a lot of judgment.
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I'm hearing a lot of which really is, you know, shame and I think women especially don't know how to get to this self love place because mostly they think when I lose the weight.
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Then I'll love myself.
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So I'm really interested in teaching people how to love yourself right now.
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And in that space, that is where we are making the good decisions.
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But that is very confusing because we think that won't come until we've achieved some sort of perfection with our bodies.
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Right, right.
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Which just even recognizing that perfection with our bodies isn't even a thing.
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Well, yeah.
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know what I mean?
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It's like, what if I were to appreciate that I can see or that I can hear or that I can walk to the mailbox or that I can enjoy some food.
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So it's, I think it's just taking a step back and noticing what are these little things.
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Yes, I may want to weigh a hundred pounds less or whatever it is.
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And what else is there that I could appreciate today?
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If I weren't waiting to get to that ideal weight per se, what could I appreciate in this moment about my body?
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Maybe I like my eyes.
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Maybe I like my smile.
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I know I love to.
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To do and teach the light switch trick.
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So every time I turn a light on, I tell myself something that I love about me.
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I get up in the morning to go to the bathroom and I turn the light on and I'm like, Oh LeAnn, I love your beautiful smile.
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Or, you know, I look out into the sunshine and I'm like, Oh LeAnn, I love that text that you sent.
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And not perfect things, but things that I'm making an effort.
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I, I just really try and celebrate and love and appreciate those about me.
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So I think when we do that with our bodies, whatever it is, if we're talking about our toe, our finger, whatever, like really just finding the, uh, even one thing that we're like, you know what, that might be okay.
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I kind of like how my hair turned out today or whatever.
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That's great.
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just the, the small things is a great place to start, because a lot of people are like, well, I can't love this body in this shape, but I, I think we actually can also even do that.
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Like, I totally agree to start with the small things because that will be, you know, a lower barrier to entry, if you will.
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But.
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We also can be like, this body is good.
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This body is good.
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And it is still healthy enough to wake up every morning and get my kids to school.
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Sometimes, especially when I was a younger mom, um, I would be like, what have I even done today?
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And then I'm like, Oh, that's right.
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I got four children up and fed them breakfast and made their lunches and got them to like all enlist all of the little things You know, I brushed my teeth.
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I made sure everyone had their hair done or whatever And it was, um, it really helped me to realize, like, that's a lot of little things that, um, that are really important, but then, you know, in the, in the grand scheme, it's like, my body allowed all of that to happen.
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And so I think recognizing that at any weight, I was accomplishing those tasks.
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And so, at any weight, I can go to the gym.
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At any weight, I can eat this.
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wonderful breakfast that I made.
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And so this body makes those things possible.
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And so that's worthy of love too.
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Yes.
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A hundred percent.
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And I know for me, I weighed 30 ish more pounds than I wanted to for a long time.
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And it wasn't until I really loved my body where I was at with that extra weight on that I was able to take it off I really think it's so impactful when you know what my only goal right now is to just love me.
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Right where I'm at.
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I'm not going to worry about dropping weight right now.
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I'm going to worry about loving me and doing those little simple things, those, you know, things that may seem small, but really they're pretty impactful.
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And that just doing that is going to get us to where we really want to be.
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So tell me a little bit about that weight loss journey when, so you feel like once you started really loving yourself, how did that change your behavior then?
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Oh, yes.
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And it took me a while to even recognize that, but it was like, instead of like, Oh, LeAnn, you got to be perfect.
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Oh, LeAnn, this is this all or nothing thing.
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Oh, you messed up today.
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So therefore let's wait and start tomorrow or next week or whatever.
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So it wasn't these big dramatic things.
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It was more like, ah.
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I love me.
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I got me.
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Yeah, I ate more than I wanted today.
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And yeah, it felt kind of terrible on my body.
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And that's okay.
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I love me anyway.
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Just like I would talk to my kids or my husband or whoever, some, a friend, I wouldn't be like, what's wrong with you?
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Why did you eat all that?
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You know, it would be more like, ah, it makes sense.
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You had a lot going on.
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Of course, you turn to food for that.
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Totally okay.
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Let's have some compassion because then we can start practicing those skills that are going to move us towards where we want to be.
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And when you have compassion after an ovary, I think this is so, so essential.
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You're so much less likely to continue overeating.
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Yes.
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When you're hard on yourself and you're like, there you go again, then that's true.
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There will, there will you go again, right?
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That was bad grammar, but you know what I mean?
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Like,
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Totally.
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It's, it's the idea of like, well, I overate Friday night, the weekend shot, I guess I'll wait till Monday to really get back on, on the wagon kind of thing.
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Right.
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And so when we have compassion after each overeat, you're so much more likely to practice your very next bite, which is a concept I teach your very next bite is right on plan, because you are kind to yourself.
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And when you're doing that from.
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a place of self love.
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You're not getting back on restriction.
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You're not restricting.
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That's the other way we go after an overeat is to heavy restriction.
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But when you're just coming out of that from a place of, wow, I, you really needed that and showing compassion.
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You're way more likely to just have that very next bite be exactly what you truly want it, which is right on your plan.
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Yes.
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And I love so much that you teach that because that's it.
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It doesn't have to be tomorrow even or next week or whatever.
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It can be, Oh wait, my next bite I put my mouth is going to be something that nourishes me and makes me feel good.
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And it's okay, you know, whatever recently happened or,
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Yeah.
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Um, tell me what you teach.
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I know you have, um, a section in your membership about loving your body.
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Is there anything else that you teach that, um, that would be applicable here?
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yeah, yeah.
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I think one of the big things is curiosity.
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I really think that is like our secret weapon to the body that we want.
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And that's when we're just, we just open up to all the possibilities for me.
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Thinking of things as an experiment.
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I have learned that when I just experiment, Hey, I'm going to try this out for a couple of weeks.
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I'm going to see how this
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different foods or different?
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Different foods, how this fills in my body, how this doesn't fill in my body.
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Sometimes it's different amounts of things.
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There's no good or bad.
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There's no, and that, that I like to make really clear.
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There's no good or bad food.
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It's just seeing what resonates with our bodies because every body is different.
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Every food is going to feel different to us.
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And so really listening and experimenting, if I think of it as an experiment instead of like, I have to, or a diet or whatever, I'm so much more open to, Oh, I'm just seeing how this is, I'm going to try this for a couple of weeks and see how I feel.
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And then, you know, and maybe keeping some data so I have some information of what felt good and what didn't, and then trying something different.
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Just that curiosity and that experiment is really, is really key.
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In, in what I teach as well, you know, and then the perfectionism, like we mentioned before, you know, it's really hard to love our bodies when we think they need to be perfect.
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And again, that's not, it's not even a thing.
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We all have unique, beautiful, amazing bodies and when we can learn to love and appreciate them right where they're at.
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So impactful.
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It really is like, we're kind of saying the same thing over and over, but I just don't think it can be overstated.
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Loving your body is the way.
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Like, it's the way.
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Because we take care of the things that we love.
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And It matters.
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I last week and I'm not sure that when I say last week on the podcast, sometimes it's ends up being a couple of weeks until I publish.
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But in any case, episode 132 where I was, talking about prevention of Alzheimer's, which is such a long term prevention situation.
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We really came down to just saying.
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It matters because it's, it's hard to stay focused on something that we're like, we don't know if we won until 30 years later.
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And so it is sometimes hard to stay focused.
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And we, we were just saying the one thing that really helps is right now is just to say, this matters, this choice matters.
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And I have really been expanding that after I had talked to her.
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Because we were talking about like going on this walk matters and choosing to have some vegetables today matters, but I've really been realizing like I matter and I've been switching it to not just this matters.
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It matters like these outside things I'm doing, but like.
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I matter.
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And I realized like, Ooh, I'm really turning this into like loving myself more that this, that, you know, all of those prevention things are also things that make us feel amazing right now.
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And I'm like, I matter right now too.
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And so I'm like, that's so fascinating that even that conversation comes back to this conversation, which is.
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You matter and loving yourself actually will change the way that you eat.
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100%.
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I love that.
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What are some of the thoughts that, that you use like that?
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Like that's, that's kind of one that's really been working for me.
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I mean, it's only been a couple weeks, I have to admit.
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Um, but it's been really impactful for me.
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any other thoughts that you feel like are really helpful with this?
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Yeah.
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One of my favorite thoughts and, and this is something I like to say, I got this.
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And Jesus has got me.
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So for those who believe in Jesus or whatever, God, universe, nature, whatever they choose to choose that light, like pick something.
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I got this and Jesus has got me or the universe has got me or whatever it is to be like, Oh, I do.
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I have this.
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I'm figuring this out.
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That's another one.
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I'm figuring this out.
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I'm getting one step closer.
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I, like you said, I matter.
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This matters in this moment.
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So many great things that, you know, I think that's just again playing with what resonates with me.
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What's a thought that kind of lights me up and is like, Oh, wait a second.
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You know, this is really important to me.
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This.
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I know one thing that was keeping me from moving where I wanted to go was Oh, it doesn't matter.
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It doesn't make a difference.
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That was a big thing.
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Oh, this really doesn't matter.
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This really doesn't make a difference.
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And so whenever my brain offers me those thoughts, I'm like, wait a second.
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It does make a difference.
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This little tiny thing that I'm starting to question right now, it will make a difference.
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So just bringing awareness to that, I think is super helpful.
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Yes.
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to your point about the higher power, that can really help, especially our love for ourself to believe in something bigger than ourselves.
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And so.
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just thinking about, I've heard things like the universe is always conspiring in your favor.
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Like if, if you're not strictly Christian, you can believe in, in the universe and that spirit.
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I also really love to think about this body that I am taking care of is the vessel for my soul.
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And.
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She, that soul, she deserves to live in a, body that is functional and can run up and down the stairs and can, you know, do all, do all of the things.
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And so connecting with Your soul and with a higher power can also really help to love yourself.
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I know that LeAnn and I grew up in the same faith where we were taught you're a child of God and that that really, you know.
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That does help.
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It does help me to think and there's, um, a new song, a new, um, gospel song out that I've heard it's, you know, like kind of gospel rock and it's called daughter of light.
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And I really love that, imagery, You are a daughter of light and again, whatever you believe.
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Believe that that light is inside of you.
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And if that helps you to make the next right step, like grab onto that.
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And just know that there is a higher power that loves you and believes in you.
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Oh, I love that so much,
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