Ep 149 - How to Stop Caring What People Think

<p>Welcome to how to love your body, today we are talking about how to stop caring what people think. </p> <p>This is a big part of what keeps people stuck in the diet cycle - worrying about what other people think can really fuel the fire.</p> <p>People will say, I’m doing this for me, it’s not about what others think but since we live in a culture that is so obsessed with thinness and looks it’s almost impossible to untangle what YOU really want from what our society has taught us we are meant to want.</p> <p>Firstly let’s tackle this idea that “i just want to lose weight for myself”</p> <p>-cannot remove yourself from diet culture</p> <p>-its too engrained</p> <p>-external validation</p> <p>-cannot escape the deep core message that we are accepted by our body size</p> <p>-yes of course you want external validation - 100s of years ago that’s how we survived - but now we are evolved enough to think critically about that and shift that way of thinking.</p> <p>This is just to say - question your thoughts and beliefs when you think “It’s not about what others think, I just want this for me”. Can that really be true?</p> <p>Now moving onto when we KNOW we care what people think (again, which is so normal and it’s only human, but when it rules how we live, it’s something we can work on).</p> <p>Here are three things you can do to begin putting what other people think lower on your priority list:</p> <p>1. Get logical about it.</p> <p>This is something you can journal on:</p> <p>Imagine a scenario with someone who you are worried about seeing - play it out. You’re walking down the street, you see Claire, she says hi, you ask how her mom is, she asks about your partner, and you both go on your way. What she thought about you really had no effect on this situation.</p> <p>It’s more about what WE think they’re thinking than what they’re actually thinking.</p> <p>Most of the time you will never know what people are thinking.</p> <p>And yes of course there will be insensitive people who sa