Why Dieting is the Problem, Not Binge Eating with Isabel Foxen Duke

Healthy At Any Size

Isabel Foxen Duke is a Certified Health Coach and Emotional Eating Expert. She helps women make peace with their bodies, so they can stop obsessing about food and get back to living awesome lives!

In our interview, Isabel gives an amazing account of her own personal experience with disordered eating, an the downward spiral she went on before she was able to heal herself through intuitive eating. Isabel’s experience in the healthcare system, and therapeutic settings, speaks to some of the shortcomings that lead to many women suffering for much longer than they need to with self harm and mental illness related to weight management.

Ultimately, Isabel’s story is incredibly empowering and inspiring, because she’s made her mess her message, and she’s applied her own experiences to becoming a coach who helps other women heal their own relationship with their bodies, food, and themselves. She drops so much wisdom and insight throughout this conversation that can help all of us take our relationships with our bodies to the next level!

Key takeaways:

• Isabel’s own journey with disordered eating

• The ways that Isabel’s eating disorder flew under the radar of the healthcare system

• How food was controlling Isabel’s life for many years

• Why bingeing isn’t the start of the binge eating cycle...deprivation is!

• The fact that binge eating is a normal, healthy, biological reaction to deprivation, not your lack of discipline

• The importance of releasing your expectations around what your food and your body should look like in order to heal

• Isabel’s attempts to control her behavior around her food and how it backfired, every single time

• Isabel’s “rock bottom” moment with dieting and weight control

• The period of “allowing” that followed, and what it’s like to eat an entire jar of Nutella in a day!

• How food stopped being a big deal for Isabel, and what that translated to in terms of her body and her life today!

Mentioned in this episode:

DC NEDA Walk, March 25, 2018

Isabel’s website

I AM.Creative

Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

Geneen Roth

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