The Imperfect PT Podcast

The Imperfect PT Podcast: SHOW NOTES Season 5, Episode 2 – Healing your Relationship with Food (Part 2 – “The How To…”)  Having laid ourselves bare in part one by highlighting the many ways in which our own relationship with food has been complicated, bordering on toxic, we return with part two to talk tips and strategies!   Opening with a discussion around the contributing factors to disordered eating patterns, including emotional eating and the binge restrict cycle, we explore potential strategies to help you evaluate, improve and enhance your behaviours around food.   From ditching diet culture and restrictions to Intuitive Eating and practicing unconditional permission to eat, we hope this episode provides some level of hope that balance can be achieved while honouring your health goals, even at this chaotic and indulgent time of year.   If you live close to the Bishop’s Stortford area and would like to discuss your training or nutrition needs, please contact us at:   [email protected] [email protected]

Welcome back to the start of our fifth season of recordings and how we’ve missed you! A brand-new season deserves a weighty subject and so we launch with the multi-faceted and potentially contentious issue that is healing a negative relationship with food. In fact, such are the complexities that we deemed it worthy of a two-parter!   It’s with frightening regularity that we speak to both male and female clients who have experienced an unhealthy relationship with food at some point in their lives. This could encompass anything from compulsive calorie checking to demonising certain foods that, if consumed, are accompanied by feelings of huge shame and guilt.   But food can’t be avoided – we need it for our very survival and therefore the relationship we have with it can affect our health, well being and happiness. With the often-damaging messages fed to us from a deeply pervasive diet culture, a careful consideration of what we put in our mouths can so easily cross over to obsessive or dangerously restrictive practices.   In part one, we delve into our own historical struggles with food, discussing their deep-rooted origins and its changing patterns in more recent years. We highlight what behaviours and habits can contribute to a poor food relationship and why it’s so important to challenge these in the pursuit of the ultimate goal….food freedom!   If you live close to the Bishop’s Stortford area and would like to discuss your training or nutrition needs, please contact us at:   [email protected] [email protected]

In drawing another fabulous season of recordings to a close, we return to our now traditional concluding format of a guest interview. We had the privilege of recording our season four finale with one of Amy’s long-standing clients, Jayne Devine who talks us through her own journey to improved strength and fitness as a female in her mid sixties. She is proof that age and physical impairment is no barrier to making positive change.   In a wonderfully candid and honest exchange, Jayne discusses how she overcame her own mental and physical limitations to embrace regular strength training and explains the numerous ways it has enhanced her life. She is a huge inspiration to anyone out there who has allowed fear and intimidation to stand in their way.   If you live close to the Bishop’s Stortford area and would like to discuss your training or nutrition needs, please contact us at:   [email protected] [email protected]

It is often under appreciated that genuine diet success is only achieved if you can maintain the fat loss results. Losing ‘X’ number of pounds in ‘X’ number of weeks is only beneficial to your long-term health if you don’t regain that weight six months or a year down the line. Achieving results and then maintaining those results for the rest of your life should be the only goal that truly matters.   Most people don’t have a weight loss problem – they have a weight loss maintenance problem. And not surprising when this is undoubtedly the toughest part of the journey. Losing fat isn’t the hard part; most people listening to this Pod will have successfully lost fat before but have most likely regained the weight over time. There’s an even greater likelihood this pattern has been repeated time and time again, otherwise known as the yo-yo dieting saga. Sound familiar?   So, in this episode, we give our suggestions for how you can best navigate the challenge that is diet maintenance.   If you live close to the Bishop’s Stortford area and would like to discuss your training or nutrition needs, please contact us at:   [email protected] [email protected]

As American author and happiness expert Gretchen Rubin says, “September is the other January”. In the sphere of diet and fitness, the “September reset” is often embraced and longed for more than the “New Year, New You” phase. Summer holiday indulgences alongside a lack of routine with the kids at home can play havoc with daily eating habits and activity levels, leaving us less at peace with ourselves and the bodies we’re in.   It’s therefore the time of year many of us will contemplate dieting with all the challenges and pit falls that can bring. So, what better time for Amy to reflect on her recent dieting experiences - the highs, lows and everything in between! We also impart a few simple dieting strategies, alongside some cold hard truths, that might well help your diet succeed.   If you live close to the Bishop’s Stortford area and would like to discuss your training or nutrition needs, please contact us at:   [email protected] [email protected]