218//: Are you body shaming yourself or others?

Whole Health Empowerment Project- healthy eating, weight loss after 40, weight loss motivation, food freedom, nutrition, womens health, healthy life hacks, women’s health and wellness · Jul 20, 2023 · 26m

Episode description:

In today’s episode we talk about body shaming - self-criticism of your body or someone else’s - in relation to a recent experience I had in which body shaming led me into a shame spiral. Some examples of body shaming include: “I’m so fat; I hate my fill in the blank; I feel so fat today”, and “I shouldn’t have eaten that.”

Research shows that women have as many as 13 negative thoughts per day about their body, with 91% of women being overall dissatisfied with their bodies.

We talk about some of the negative impacts such as decreased self-esteem, anxiety and depression, as…