Summary: -----------------------------------<br> ♦ A Journey into Food Freedom ♦<br> -----------------------------------<br> <br> This episode explores how our perceptions shape reality. Scott illustrates how personal and cultural expectations shape the standard of perfection and influence our own body images.<br> <br> <br> ♦ We nurture what we love and we love what we nurture ♦<br> <br> • People perceive what they see based on their perspectives. Scott illustrates this by using audience participation, showing a series of pictures and asking the viewers what they see.<br> <br> • Personal perceptions apply to how we view food and diet.<br> We see what we want to see.<br> <br> • If a person is disgusted by their own body, they will often sabotage best efforts at weight loss.<br> We disrespect what we find disrespectful.<br> <br> • Scott asks: Are you working from a place of self-acceptance or self-rejection?<br> <br> • The “thin cage” is as much a prison as the “fat cage.” If a person’s lost a lot of weight but still worries about calorie counting, macros, etc., they’ve traded life in one cage for another.<br> <br> • Physique transformation success Ange Golding achieved permanent weight loss by setting a realistic, achievable goal: to look feminine and be able to wear pretty clothes. She achieved her goal and now lives in food freedom.<br> <br> • Cultural imprints are powerful and may not reflect realistic body image expectations.<br> <br> • Ideals of beauty change. Beauty contest winners from the mid-60s were curvier and fuller-figured than ideals who followed.<br> <br> • Twiggy—with her “streamlined androgynous appeal”—replaced Marilyn Monroe as an ideal body shape. The ideal then went further. The new term became “anorexic heroin chic.”<br> <br> • Are these ideals realistic and achievable, or unrealistic and unhealthy?<br> <br> • Women today often want a six-pack, where that would have been unheard of years ago.<br> <br> • The beauty industry markets products by establishing impossible standards and making consumers feel inadequate. Food and eating issues are often the result.<br> <br> • Body image and food issues go together.<br> <br> • Change is a process, not an event. Scott’s new Food Freedom course provides helpful guidance for dealing with body image.<br> <br> • The first module of Food Freedom is free!<br> http://foodfreedomcourse.com/free/<br>
