Fitness Confidential With Vinnie Tortorich

Isabel Foxen-Duke is a Brooklyn-based Life Coach who teaches a master class called “Stop Fighting Food” that focuses on food and our mindset around food. She discusses the physical and emotional reasons that diets and calorie restriction actually encourages binge eating. Join Anna and Isabel and learn about a new attitude toward dieting and food. We Live in a Diet Culture Look at diet from the evidence-based standpoint that “the degree to which we have restriction in our lives is the degree to which we tend to lean on food for emotional comfort” Emotional eating is impulsive and a craving that is out of our control We are taught to use willpower to actively fight our body’s needs Why People Fail at Diets Dieting is deciding what your body needs by some external plan rather than our individual needs In “calorie deprivation”, the need for food now - our biology - will win in the attempt of getting our blood sugar back up There are two parts: The physical aspect and the emotional aspect Emotional Aspect There is