Hello friends, and welcome back to the podcast! I’m going to start with a question so obvious that it sounds laughable: how do you know when you have to pee? That sounds wild, right? But can you feel your heart beating? Not your pulse with your fingers, but just the beating of your heart inside you? How can you tell if you’re hungry? Or full? There is an answer to these questions and it’s a topic called interoception. Interoception is your body’s ability to sense its internal states. Hunger, thirst, pain and even needing to take a deep breath. That’s interoception. It’s your body’s way of communicating needs to your brain. And it’s a key component of intuitive eating which is why I’m going to talk all about it today.

When you are better in tune with your internal signals, you are better able to practice intuitive eating. But we live in a culture that encourages us to ignore our body signals in favour of relying on external rules to guide our eating. Things like the “right time” of day to eat, not snacking between meals, and finishing everything on our plates even if we’re full, are all rigid rules we put in place to control our bodies and they effectively make us a lot less aware of our interoception cues than we should be. How can we develop our internal awareness again? How can we learn to step outside of the rules we’ve arbitrarily laid out so we can tune into our own bodies? That’s what I want to talk about. Being aware of interoception is a skill that 100% can be developed with practice. So join me as I share tips, advice, and practices on how to strengthen your interoceptive awareness.

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About Dr. Michelle Tubman:

Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.

She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.

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Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:

• Website: www.wayzahealth.com
• Follow me on Facebook and Instagram
• Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode. Today I really want to talk about something important that starts with a personal story. The story is from when Rob and I were camping a couple of weeks ago and has to do with how I felt about shopping for and trying on clothes in my favorite clothing store in Canmore. I love a certain brand and I know they fit well but I decided to try on a new brand in my size and it did not flatter at all. It was constricting and felt terrible. And I had already felt out of place walking in because I’d come straight off a hike with Rob and was dusty and in hiking gear. All of this culminated in this thought popping into my head: “I feel fat.” And I want to talk about what we actually mean when we think that. I want to break that down and take away its power today.

The truth is that when we say we “feel fat” we are actually talking about something else. Because fat is not a feeling. It’s not an emotion. But the word ‘fat’ does carry a lot of weight in our thin-obsessed society and it is a loaded term. We use it to express feelings of inadequacy or discomfort or, in my case, even failure. So I want us to think about what we’re really saying when we say “I feel fat”. When I said that, I projected all my feelings onto my body. I projected society’s idea of fatness as equal to being undesirable or worthless onto my own body. But my body was not the problem. My emotions were what I needed to deal with. Let me say that directly to each of you. Just because you feel discomfort in your body doesn’t mean your body is the problem. I want to help you shift your focus away from blaming your body and help you build a more compassionate relationship with it. I want to help reframe what we mean when we say “I feel fat”. Join me in this episode as I unpack what’s really behind that sentence and how we can remove our bodies as the target of our emotions.

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About Dr. Michelle Tubman:

Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.

She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.

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Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:

• Website: www.wayzahealth.com
• Follow me on Facebook and Instagram
• Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello again, friends! I want to confess something to you all today. I’m not perfect. The past week was terrible for my intuitive eating practice, I just haven’t been doing it, and I’m only just getting back on track now. That’s what I want to confess. What I want to share is my experience with why I fell out of my practice this week and how intuitive eating is a journey and not a destination. I want you to understand what is important to know about yourself and intuitive eating before you start and I believe sharing my struggles with you will be helpful for all of us. So here it is, how the week from hell made me fall out of intuitive eating.

The week started with my husband Rob and I coming home from camping. When we’re camping, I’m really good at intuitive eating. We have to plan what to bring, I’m not stressed, I can listen to my body, it’s a beautiful thing. But we came home hungry to an empty kitchen. Not a big deal. We ordered pizza. And that’s allowed! Waking up for an early day the next morning is when things got tricky, though. We still didn’t have groceries, I didn’t have breakfast, I had a bunch of meetings and I was driving on an empty stomach. I ended up eating drive-thru and because Rob had a similarly busy day, we ordered pizza for dinner again. That’s how the week went. I couldn’t get on top of my schedule and I was so busy I was far too hungry to listen to my body and instead just grabbed whatever food I could to stop the hunger. This is what’s important to know about intuitive eating: you can’t do it when you feel starving. A hungry brain won’t let your body make intuitively good choices. And sometimes it’s just like that. It’s a journey, not a destination. So join me in this episode as I share what I know we’ve all experienced at some point and I encourage you to keep up with your own intuitive eating just like I’m doing.

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About Dr. Michelle Tubman:

Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.

She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.

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Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:

• Website: www.wayzahealth.com
• Follow me on Facebook and Instagram
• Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com