Releasing Restriction: A Guide for the Type A (feat. Paige Harris)

Do you notice the calories on a menu? Do you have food rules for yourself? Time to release the restriction! This week Jenn and her guest Paige Harris are talking through how to navigate leaving restrictions behind and healing your relationship with food. Tune in to learn more!

This week, Jenn is talking with trainer and holistic health coach, Paige Harris. After going through her own struggles of restrictive eating, binge eating, and an unhealthy relationship with food, Paige was able to learn to eat for her body and now helps others heal their relationship with food. During this episode, Paige talks about calming the chatter in your mind, uncovering the root cause of your thoughts, and how to manage expectations of ourselves as we progress. This is such a great episode with tangible tips and takeaways so you can start developing a healthier relationship with food. Tune in to learn more! 

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. 

IN THIS EPISODE: 

[5:16] What led Paige to become a trainer and a holistic health coach? [14:51] How can people identify if they fall into restrictive eating?[19:29] What can we be influenced by when it comes to our habits?[21:32] How can you calm the chatter in your mind and start healing food restriction? [28:00] Where can you start with unlearning the restriction habits? [32:53] How did Paige sit through the discomfort of releasing control around others cooking her food? [34:53] How do you get to the root cause of your thoughts? [37:26] How do you know if gut discomfort is a result of your digestive system or if it's anxiety around food? [40:08] What is Paige’s recommendation for progress and then regress? 

KEY TAKEAWAYS: 

To come away from restriction, start by adding a little extra of the food that you typically eat so that your body can adjust and your mind can release the anxiety that comes with change.It’s ok to not be perfect, you may regress to past habits, but keep going. Be consistent and remember that the next day is a new day. Be aware that you will have ups and downs on this journey. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable as you reintroduce foods. Evaluate your thoughts, ask yourself why certain things are affecting you, and take small steps! 

QUOTES: 

[16:29] “I didn’t feel hungry, I didn't even like the taste of the food by the time I got to the end of it. It was just like, I needed to compulsively do that. In reality, it’s because my body was starving for food and it was going to get it anyway that it needed to. I think for a lot of people, they’ll see these things and then have a binge episode and go, oh my god, see, I don’t have any control over myself, so I have to restrict even harder.” - Paige Harris[22:37] “Learn to sit in discomfort. It absolutely sucks because this little voice inside of me is saying I need to eat XYZ, and I’m going against that, and now I have to sit with the fact that these little voices inside my head are calling me a bad person, you don’t have any willpower, how dare you do something like that to me. But really from a logical standpoint, you should have eaten that full meal of protein and carbs, fats, and veggies because you needed it.” - Paige Harris[39:29] “A lot of times when you start to reintroduce things, the gut bacteria start to come back, the digestive enzymes start to come back, and it actually is easier for you to digest the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. time than it was the first time. So counting something out the first time, probably not your best idea.” - Paige Harris"Consider if your personal rules are truly serving you and perhaps it's time to release the restriction for truly holistic health." - Jenn Trepeck

RESOURCES:

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GUEST RESOURCES

Imperfectly Paige Wellness Website

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Paige Talks Wellness Podcast - Spotify

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GUEST BIO

Paige Harris is a personal trainer and holistic health coach with her Master’s of Science in Human Nutrition & Functional Medicine from the University of Western States.

She specializes in helping women release restrictive dieting mindsets so they can optimize their health and heal their guts, hormones, and relationships with themselves and their bodies.

Paige is also the host of the Paige Talks Wellness Podcast, where listeners learn how to take control of their health in a world of information overload. She digs into all things nutrition, fitness, and mindset so listeners can learn how to truly heal from digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, chronic stress, and more, all without obsession or restriction.