Finding a Healthy Balance with Food and Exercise with Shohreh Davoodi

Today's interview is with Shohreh Davoodi, body positive and weight-inclusive wellness coach.

Shohreh is certified in personal training and nutrition. She is a proponent of intuitive eating, joyful movement, and body respect.

If you're struggling with finding balance with food and exercise, think you may be addicted to food, can't way your way out of overeating, and are always way too hard on yourself (although you may not even notice this!), you're going to love today's interview.

Here are the timestamps for this interview:

1:25 Shohreh introduces herself

3:15 How Shohreh's big career change and starting her health business

6:25 How Shohreh helps people getting over of body obsession

8:25 Why body love and body respect are different things and how to create better relationship with your body

10:20 How Shohreh is helping people to break free from obsessive food and exercise cycle

12:25 Why and how many people engage with dieting behaviours without even realizing it

15:15 How most of our talk around food is actually diet talk, and how to talk about food in a neutral way instead

17:45 Shohreh's thoughts on training and eating for physique

19:50 Healthy reasons for training

24:40 Where should someone who has been over exercising, under eating and is suffering from health issues, start her recovery

29:30 Food addiction

35:20 How to treat yourself kindly while going through recovery from binge eating or overeating

36:20 What to do if you want to stop dieting but are terrified of weight gain

37:30 What questions to ask yourself if you're scared to put on weight

38:45 Why it's important to let go of the scale if you want to learn to eat intuitively

41:20 Three diet and/or fitness myths that Shohreh wish died or good

43:45 Shohreh's perfect day

45:00 Something that Shohreh is excited about right now

 

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Thank you so much Shohreh for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us!

If you have any questions for Shohreh, please leave them here in the comments or comment on Instagram!

 

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