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Episode 2463:
Jill Coleman of JillFit.com shares her personal journey and strategies to overcome food FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), emphasizing the importance of attitude and choice in managing food anxiety. Through relatable anecdotes and insights, Coleman invites readers to shift their perspective towards food, urging them to take control of their eating habits by choosing satisfaction over succumbing to environmental temptations.
Read along with the original article(s) here: https://jillfit.com/2013/11/09/food-fomo/
Quotes to ponder:
"FOMO is a choice. Let other people be swayed by their environments. You make choices, for your own healthy lifestyle without circumstantial considerations."
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[00:01:40] up candy, only to backtrack and also night HBO show with my Reese's. And here comes my partner holding their hand out for my Reese's.
[00:03:02] Are they insane?
[00:03:04] Don't they know I only do this once a week?
[00:03:06] I'm actually not knocking on every once in a while indulgence. But when it snowballs into feeling like you're missing out every single day on some potentially yummy food item, then you're actually being 100% ruled by your environment.
[00:04:23] No wonder you, ironically, feel no sense of satisfaction
[00:04:27] when you eat whatever it is you feel Friday night after a long week of work and watch everyone else devour bread, cheese, pasta, and tiramisu and make the choice not to. Or I can choose to not feel left out. I can actively choose my eating habits. I can choose to feel satisfied by my choices and actually take pride in the fact that I
[00:05:41] don't let my environment dictate my choices.
[00:05:44] In this way, I am go more in-depth about food anxiety and what drives us to eat out of stress, or because we think it makes us feel better. We think comfort food is supposed to comfort us when in actuality,
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[00:10:47] bite of one of their churros. They graciously agreed. I carefully broke off about an inch of fried dough from the top and savored it and felt perfectly satisfied. I didn't need
[00:10:54] any more than that little bite. So all of this to say that even if you experience food
[00:10:59] FOMO, it doesn't mean you have to indulge completely. Sometimes one or two bites are