How To Tell if Your Relationship with Exercise is Disordered.

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Another fiery episode today where we talk about the tell-tale signs of overexercise as well as some tips for getting back into movement, after a long period of absence.

Untangling weight loss and movement is one of the hardest parts of rebuilding our relationship with our bodies. For many of us, coming from a disordered eating background, it can be all too easy to replace restriction with overexercising. We're still maintaining that felt sense of 'control' over our bodies. We can cope with listening to our bodies' hunger cues, as long as we can also do the calorie-burning classes and manipulate our bodies through movement.

Our takeaways:

• After a long period of restriction/ disordered eating and punishing exercise, you may need to step away from organised exercise for a while.
• Coming back to movement gives you the opportunity, to get curious about what you'd actually LIKE to do and what feels good in your body.
• You don't have to subscribe to joyful movement. If you simply don't enjoy movement, you're not doing anything wrong and you are not alone.
• Start with 5 minutes and get it into your routine. Once embedded, add another short session each week until you're able to do more, without feeling triggered by old diet culture thoughts or beliefs. EVERY LITTLE TINY BIT OF MOVEMENT COUNTS
• Find a coach, who you relate to. A coach who listens to you and can write a program for you that will spark your interest and give your flexibility to adjust your workouts according to your energy levels and capacity.

Have a listen to this episode and let us know what you think.

The movement piece of rebuilding trust with our bodies is arguably the toughest, especially if you've always used it as a way to earn your food. You are not alone in this fight and our wish for you, is that someday you will find true strength and empowerment in movement.

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