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Wellness Check from June 2nd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get the theme music going and get
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  Speaker 1: her on the phone. Here is Elena Wood there, Yes
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  Speaker 1: she is, right, Elena, Elena. Maybe there she is Elena. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: now there you are. How are you today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty well, thank you? How about you all?
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  Speaker 2: I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really interested in this idea of intuitive eating. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us what that means.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, intuitive eating it's a framework for healthy living. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a very specific model that's built around the idea
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  Speaker 2: that everybody, so every person as well as every physical body,
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  Speaker 2: deserves dignity, respect, and it supports the process of eating
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  Speaker 2: that helps us to be more physically and mentally. Well huh,
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  Speaker 2: I know. So if I'm if I craving a donut,
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  Speaker 2: because we've been talking about that today, it is that
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  Speaker 2: listening to my boss. Yeah, so this actually touches on
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  Speaker 2: a couple of the pieces of intuitive excuse me, intuitive eating.
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  Speaker 2: One of these pieces is to honor your hunger, and
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  Speaker 2: that is to say, when you're feeling hungry, you have
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  Speaker 2: permission to eat. A lot of times, some of these
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  Speaker 2: diet plans really want us to limit when we eat
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  Speaker 2: and things like that, and so intuitive eating invites us
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  Speaker 2: to listen to and feel what's going on in our body.
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  Speaker 2: And then the second piece, which is to make peace
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  Speaker 2: with food. This is to give ourselves permission to eat
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  Speaker 2: all foods of course, short of having food allergies. Please
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  Speaker 2: don't eat things that are going to make you sick.
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  Speaker 1: I raise the white flag to food. A long time ago,
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  Speaker 1: I just I gave up. I made peace with you.
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  Speaker 2: You said that this isn't giving up per se, but
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  Speaker 2: it's it's not demonizing specific food. So you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you if you eat one donut and you're like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: that was delicious, and I feel just fine, then huzzah,
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  Speaker 2: high five, and you eat ten donuts and then you notice, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I really don't feel good because that was way too
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  Speaker 2: many donuts in one sitting. That's another piece actually of
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  Speaker 2: intuitive eating, where you say, oh, now I know for
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  Speaker 2: the future that I don't feel good after I eat
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  Speaker 2: that many donuts in one sitting. Right. Yeah, it's finding
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  Speaker 2: that balance with yourself.
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  Speaker 1: So the next one we're going to talk about here,
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to satisfaction. That's really interesting because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times if you're you have a plate of food
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  Speaker 1: in front of you and you you know, you eat,
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  Speaker 1: and if you really think about it. You think, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm full, I've had enough, and there's still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of food on the plate, and so you go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't let that go to waste. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: Oh goodness, I've got to. I guess I'd better finish it,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's like you almost feel
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  Speaker 1: or if somebody else has made it for you, and
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  Speaker 1: you sort of feel obligated, Well, I better eat the
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  Speaker 1: rest of this because they went to all the trouble
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  Speaker 1: to make it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, this is so relatable. And I know a
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  Speaker 2: lot of us have issues with throwing away food or
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  Speaker 2: taking leftovers, and some people don't want to eat leftovers.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of different things going on there.
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  Speaker 2: And I think at the heart of the matter, what
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  Speaker 2: I want to encourage people to do is to pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to their body. You know, if you are feeling full,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important to prioritize that sensation over the
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  Speaker 2: guilt or worry that might be attached to you throwing
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  Speaker 2: food away, taking leftovers, that kind of a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I get you're right. Some people do
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  Speaker 1: have an aversion to leftovers. I don't. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a problem with it myself. If there's some leftover over, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I do too. Actually I like it. That means I
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  Speaker 1: don't you don't have to cook the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Here's lunch exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what else? Is there something else we ought
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  Speaker 1: to figure out about this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, So the next recommendation is to cope with
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  Speaker 2: your emotions with kindness. And this is pretty broad. So
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times I know that we use food
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  Speaker 2: as maybe a method to ignore if we're feeling upset
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  Speaker 2: or sad or angry. And also we attach a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guilt to the ways that we eat sometimes, and
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  Speaker 2: so just practicing in those spaces. If we are tuning
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  Speaker 2: out with our emotions, can we find a healthy way
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  Speaker 2: to connect to them, such as journaling or talking to
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  Speaker 2: a friend. If we are feeling guilty about food, can
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  Speaker 2: we take a step back and just remind ourselves that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, food is not good or bad. It simply
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  Speaker 2: is part of our lives and kind of step away
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  Speaker 2: from that gift.
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  Speaker 1: But Elena, if my mouth is full of food, nobody
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  Speaker 1: will see me crying.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is possible to cry while you're eating.
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  Speaker 2: I've done it, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep my mouth full of food and nobody I'll
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  Speaker 1: still be crying, but people won't notice. They'll just be
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  Speaker 1: noticing my mouth is always full of food.
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  Speaker 2: Oh right, goodness.
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  Speaker 1: I think these are all excellent suggestions, though we do
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  Speaker 1: people develop these weird relationships to eating yeah food, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm certainly among them. Very big takeaway is that it's
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  Speaker 1: not good food and bad food exactly. Any moderation. If
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  Speaker 1: you want a little treat, it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think, Eugena, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'd sort I would not encourage anybody to go out
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  Speaker 1: and eat a big bucket of greasy chicken. I you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to have a whole bucket greasy chicken I want,
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  Speaker 1: but even one is not going to do you real real,
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  Speaker 1: been dreaming about greasy chicken? Just go have a little
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  Speaker 1: greasy chicken. Well, it's like I said earlier today, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to harm Or to Costco, get a rotisserie chicken,
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  Speaker 1: take it home, put it on the kitchen table, and
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  Speaker 1: just eat the whole thing myself one day in the shower.
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  Speaker 1: That would be an interesting cho for sure. H Elena.
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  Speaker 1: These are great, These really are good suggestions. You should
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  Speaker 1: read through these occasionally. Where can people find out more
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  Speaker 1: about this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can learn more about this as well as
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  Speaker 2: Nightingale's amazing programs by visiting Nightingale dot e U.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Elena would thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, have a good one by