Have any of you listened to the podcast Food Pysch? What are your thoughts on dieting? Food Pysch takes more of an anti-dieting stance, suggesting that dieting may do more harm than good for our health. Per Isabel Foxen Duke, a diet critic referenced in the podcast, “Anytime you’re eating something while telling yourself you’re not going to do this tomorrow, she says, you’re in peril of mental poisoning. Probably you’re pumping out sickening cortisol, but at the very least you’re pumping out thoughts: What I’m doing now is shameful, horrible, “unhealthy,” and I won’t do it tomorrow. When you do, you deepen your own sense that you can’t be trusted, that your appetites are excessive, thereby interfering with the dynamics of tasting, swallowing, digesting, and even liking food.”
