Body Energetix: Renew your Mind, Regulate your Emotions, Regenerate your Body

030: You have to STOP dieting Mon-Fri if you want to STOP weekend binges

• Lauren Saracione

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Have you ever felt the weight of precise macro tracking only to find yourself spiraling into weekend binges? In this episode of the Body Energetix Podcast, I share my personal struggles with restrictive diets and the burnout they induce. We dive deep into the mind-body connection, revealing how low self-esteem and disempowered mindsets can lead to unhealthy eating patterns. By reflecting on my journey, we aim to uncover how mental and emotional work can create a more balanced and sustainable approach to diet and wellness, moving beyond the pressure of strict dietary regimes.

Moreover, we examine the deep-seated emotional attachments to food that are often formed in early childhood. These attachments can shape our lifelong struggles with weight, chronic conditions, and self-worth. I explore the transformative power of emotional intelligence and internal certainty, suggesting ways to shift from rigid diet strategies to a more compassionate and balanced mindset. Finally, I introduce my foundational lifestyle transformation program, 3-Month Renovation designed to align mind, body, and lifestyle through weekly coaching, attachment theory training, and more. Join us on this transformative journey to lasting, sustainable change.

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Welcome Body Energetix! I'm Lauren Saracione, 23-year fitness pro. I started my Hero's Journey of reconnecting with my Inner Child to heal my mind-body disorders 14 years ago. In my podcast, I share my 3-step system to renew your mind, regulate your emotions & regenerate your body.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Body Energetics Podcast. I'm your host, 23-year fitness professional, lauren Cerceone. I started my hero's journey of reconnecting with my inner child to heal my mind-body disorders 14 years ago. In this podcast, I share my three-step system to renew your mind, regulate your emotions and regenerate your body. Go to bodyenergeticscom to join my free community where each week, we expand on the theme of the current episode so you can reconnect your mind body to restore your physical health and create your desired aesthetic.

Speaker 2:

So I wanted to share something from experience and how this experience has helped me get to a deeper understanding of what has been going on within my mind-body connection. So a lot of us, especially women, have been super strict during the week because we're in our kind of like boss mode. We want to get things done and we have all of this power behind us, that is the go-getter energy, and we can be really meticulous with everything that we're doing, really narrowing things down to a T, dotting all the I's, crossing all the T's, making everything perfect. But then what happens and we don't understand the reason why this happens is that we get to the weekend and we're so fried from during the week that we don't want to think about food. So if we're measuring calories and we're doing it with a strategy of macro tracking, where we're having to measure things and we're really having with a strategy of macro tracking where we're having to measure things and we're really having to think about what is going into each meal, how many grams of the fat, carbs and protein are going into each and every meal, so that by the end of the day, after we've eaten for every two and a half to three hours, we're not left over with a whole bunch of one macronutrient. There have been plenty of times where I have not measured correctly and ended up eating like 60 grams of carbs in a huge bowl of oatmeal by the end of the day because I didn't get all the carbs in.

Speaker 2:

So there's a lot of meticulousness that goes into tracking macros and keeping track of that during the week. That goes into tracking macros and keeping track of that during the week, and what happens is we reach a threshold of how much our brain can take in. So then, by the time the weekend comes, what the brain is already signaled to do is relax on the weekends, because we've been trained that the weekends are the thing that we live for, where we let loose, that we live for where we let loose. So when we're extra boss mode and we're extra meticulous with our food, by the time that energy of the weekend hits it's fully compounded to where the way that we create the emotional or the stress relief is by taking the thing off the plate, is by taking the thing off the plate figuratively. That is causing us the most stress. But we don't know that it's that thing that's causing us the most stress. We think that something going on in our life or in our relationship is causing us the stress. But we're not understanding that.

Speaker 2:

The reason why we are so attached to doing everything right during the week with the macros and the calories and the tracking, that because there's an energy behind that task that is from a place of unimportance and disempowerment. It's that thing that's going to be relieved first. So if you have like pressure coming out of a valve, like if you're using a pressure cooker, we're going to let go of the diet during the week because that is actually containing the most energetic pressure from our disempowered mindsets and our low self-esteem. And of course this is all under the radar and even as I'm saying it, I'm thinking God, that sounds really offensive to say that we have a disempowered mindset and low self-esteem. But the only reason why somebody would be dieting strictly Monday through Friday and then letting the wheels come off Saturday, sunday, especially doing the cleanup in the kitchen on Sunday, eating everything that's in the refrigerator and cupboard that you are not going to eat come Monday morning, when we're doing that, it's because there's something going on in the unconscious that is in a negative, disempowered state. So I wanna share this with you because I used to do that and when I was strict with my macros and strict with my anti-inflammatory diet, it was very, very easy to stick with it. I had accountability with my training partner and I had accountability with the inflammation symptoms if I went off track. But then what happened is I got this idea on my birthday in 2023. It was last year that I've done so much mental, emotional work. There's actually no reason for me to have inflammation anymore If I follow what the body says about our mindsets and about degenerative molecules of emotion when we have negative mindsets. I really shouldn't have this issue anymore.

Speaker 2:

So I started eating everything that I had restricted myself over an 18 month period, that the anti-inflammatory diet I'd stuck with for 18 months. I started to eat a bunch of the stuff that I'm not supposed to eat. Most of it didn't give me any symptoms and I was like, wow, okay, I did it. But then I had a total freak out of now that I don't have a fear mindset around symptoms, there's no stop for me with the food that I want to eat. But then what actually happened is I ended up slowly building up symptoms and then I had to figure out what on my anti-inflammatory list I could tolerate and what I really had to let go of. Long story short, it took months and months and months to find the balance again, to move forward with eating less, move forward with not being as restrictive as I was before because that was no longer working for me, and also finding the balance of not being fearful of going back into my diet mindset that I had years and years and years ago that led me to binging on the weekends and being strict during the week.

Speaker 2:

So, as you know, I've been doing a lot of mental, emotional work and the things that I really discovered is that, when we look at our habit change as a way to access our thoughts and feelings, then, because of the awareness that we end up having about how we think about ourselves and how we think about the world, how we value ourselves and then how we value our place in the world, when we start to look at those things and we change the habits that are associated with the disempowered mindset, the fearful mindset, we're doing the habit change, the lifestyle change that everybody talks about. That has to happen instead of trying to figure out the perfect diet and the perfect workout plan. So the more I've gotten into this understanding that habit change is an access to our thoughts and feelings, the more I've really been able to trim down for me how to approach getting to my dream body, because it's still not 100% there. And then how can I make this so simple for people who are struggling with the statements of I know what to do. I just need to do it. And whenever I'm on a diet and exercise role, something always happens.

Speaker 2:

Whenever I'm on a diet and exercise role, something always happens, because those two things are energetically our protective parts, protecting the vulnerable parts. They are mechanisms that protect the inner child feelings of anything that has happened to us that we didn't understand, that made us feel bad, wrong, not enough, too much or deathly afraid. And it's that deathly afraid contrast of what our desires are and what the fear of actual life is that causes the initial and deep mind-body split. That is the unconscious reason why we struggle with our weight, if we're struggling with obesity and compulsive eating, or we're studying with chronic conditions where we're always getting sick with something or we're always having problems with pain. So in that depth of the work, what it's really coming down to is that when we attach a strict strategy, especially during the week. What we're actually looking for is certainty time at any given time decided that if I check this box or if this thing happens, then I will feel secure and safe.

Speaker 2:

And when things happen, when we're very, very little, especially under four years old, because we have such a low intelligence of understanding what is our shit and what is somebody else's shit, whatever environment that we're in, we just interpret the energy that's in the air. We interpret it through emotions. We name them, their frequencies. You can measure them, but once they're in the body, we no longer associate them as an emotion, as something as objectively measurable as how long your hair is. They become a feeling, and a feeling is something that we create a meaning, and a meaning is how we create a mind-body identity. It's how we create our personality.

Speaker 2:

So anything that has happened under the age of four years old that made us feel bad, wrong, not enough, too much or deathly afraid we're going to be able to do it whatever level of consciousness we had at that moment, which is low then gets applied to every aspect of life as we go through different developmental ages and stages. So that means when we go to school and we need to fit in with the peer group. We're going to adjust and pick up any mindset in that environment that tells us that if we do a certain thing, if we act in a certain way, we won't have these negative feelings. And this is all subliminal, under the radar. It's just a way for us to figure out how to fit into society. Because when we're adults, two things happen we need other people, we're a social species and also eventually our parents and caregivers will die. So we need a new community as we get older and our parents and caregivers get older. So it's a very integral part of our development to be able to have mindsets that figure out, a sense of certainty to fit in so that we survive.

Speaker 2:

But the problem is because we have not really been taught emotional intelligence. The certainty, the need for certainty becomes external instead of internal. So if our society was more based on how do you create emotional certainty within yourself, to know yourself, to be able to listen to your body, to respect your values, to like yourself, we would then approach the world with a sense of certainty that, no matter what we got ourselves and we would be contained in our boundaries, that we wouldn't word vomit all over people and we wouldn't be needy and that we would have our protective boundaries in place, where we knew what was safe for us in an uncertain world. But because we didn't have that emotional intelligence training, we had external intelligence, survival training. When we want the body to look a certain way so that we will feel good about ourselves, that we will feel that if we follow a diet to a T, we will have a guaranteed outcome. That guaranteed outcome is going to give us validation, validation that we aren't bad, we aren't wrong, we are good enough and we aren't too much and there is nothing to be afraid of. So we think that following the strategy is going to give us the certainty that if we follow it, we have the guarantee that we're going to reach the outcome. And reaching the outcome means that we are not all these things that we are unconsciously running from.

Speaker 2:

When we create this understanding that this is what's happening on the mind, body level, then when we have a goal, that we want to look a certain way, we can hold that vision in our mind. We can hold it as yes, this is my ideal, but I'm not attached to it. What I am attached to is understanding that, how, whatever I think about when I look at myself in the mirror is a reflection of where I don't feel good in my mindset, where I have created disempowering meanings based on the emotional slash, energetic environment I was in at those ages, under four years old. And then when we look at the food and we pick whatever diet strategy we're going to use so that we can trim off a little bit of fat, the experience that we have with the diet strategy is going to show us the attachment that we had in those ages under four with our parents or with our caregivers or any significant emotional event, any core memory that we have that haunts us.

Speaker 2:

So when you can start to look at the reflection in the mirror as the disempowered mindsets that make you feel worthless because you don't like the fat on your thighs, you don't like the cellulite on your stomach, and when we can look at how we're feeling about the diet strategy if we're frustrated with tracking the macros, if we're irritated that we don't have freedom, if we want to just give up on the weekends, we get to actually look at that using attachment theory to say why am I so attached to the food? Why am I making the food the problem? And I realized this with attachment theory and the food and emotions. Because when I was irritated with learning the macros because there is a learning curve with the macros to figure out how you space out the macronutrients fat, protein and carbs how much of each nutrient is going to make you feel good, because sometimes when you don't track, you don't know, hey, I actually really feel good when I'm higher carb, lower fat or vice versa.

Speaker 2:

So there is a way that you're getting used to being with the macro strategy and in that time of learning it and having to create space to be observant of how you're feeling and make time to plan your meals and make time to measure. That is where we get the negative feelings and that's where we put all of the insecure attachment styles and the ways that we have felt bad because of our caregivers. So, because we have now projected these feelings onto the food, we make the food the perpetrator, as it was whatever happened with our caregivers. So then the food becomes the enemy, the diet becomes the enemy. And when that becomes the enemy, we can't follow through with it and we never reach our goals.

Speaker 2:

And I was realizing this of how deep it was and how it was our caregivers, personified in the food was because I took a step back and I thought you know what? There are millions of people all over the world that track macros effortlessly. It gives them discipline. It gives them a framework so that they can be more free, because to them it feels like I have objective data on my app so I don't have to overthink my food. I just know I'm hitting my marks and I'm going to have the outcome. So when I realize that some people feel release when they're tracking macros and some people feel like it's a burden, the only reason that is happening is because of what is happening in the unconscious how we are creating importance, how we're creating empowerment, how we're creating our place in the world, how we feel about ourselves.

Speaker 2:

So in the renovation, in the three-month renovation, what I'm going to share with you is how to approach food and exercise as a way to understand more about yourself, of what your mind, body and your emotions created at four years old and under, because it's those things that are the reason why you're strict during the week. All the wheels come off on the weekend. They're the reason why you know what to do. You just need to do it. They're the reason why you're afraid to start trimming back some calories because you don't want to slip into an old disordered eating habit. And they are the reason why, as soon as you're on the roll of diet and exercise, all hell breaks loose in your life or you get sick, or you get injured, you get into a car accident.

Speaker 2:

And the reason why for that piece, that something happens in your external world to prevent you from following through with your habits, is because emotions, which are in your subconscious mind chemically, are also in your subconscious mind vibrationally. And we know this from the quantum theory split test, where waves act like particles and particles act like waves. It is the subjective observation of the energetic wave that determines how it's going to act, how it's going to materialize. So that subjective thought that's unconscious, is vibrational. So as soon as we want to have something different for our life or our body and we start to have the physical change because we've been able to be working out for two to three weeks we have this new lifestyle within our body but we haven't changed anything in our physical life. Like we have a new body but we haven't changed anything in our life the unconscious vibrational aspect of the mindsets and feelings under four years old will create chaos to prevent you from moving forward, because there could be some bad wrong not enough, too much or deathly afraid things that could happen to the four-year-old and under within you. If you keep following through Whatever you have made your dream body mean to other people judging you, you're selfish, you're too sexy, you look pornographic, something will happen in your life to prevent you from actualizing your dream if, unconsciously, you have these fears when you are self-actualized.

Speaker 2:

So in the three-month renovation I'm going to take you step by step by step. There's two tracks that you can do. You can do mindset and body, where every single week I'm going to take you through a progressive exercise program. So every week for three months I'm going to lead you through exercise. It's going to be a group exercise, but you're also going to get journal prompts and we're going to stay on after the exercise session to talk about any thoughts and feelings that came up during the movements, because the movements are designed to go deep into your body and all your body parts have an energetic function. Energy just means emotion, emotion just means feeling, feeling just means meaning and meaning means your mindset. So we're going to go through that every single week You're also going to get trainings, pre-recorded trainings, about the mind-body, about the ego, about the shadow, about the inner child, about how your body is doing things chemically, unconsciously, to prevent you from actualizing your dreams.

Speaker 2:

The second track is, if you want to do, feelings and food. So this is where we are going to rewrite your food rules and you're going to repair the relationship between you and your inner child, you and your caregivers, all through food. So when we take this approach to go into your mindset through your body, through physical exercise, and go into your emotional state through the food, through the food, then we're going to regulate your nervous system while your body is physically changing. But we're moving from two ends of the spectrum holding that vision of what you might want to look like and feel like in your body, but not being attached to it. That in three months, this is what you're going to look like. The three months is going to give you a foundational level understanding of what's going on in the mind, body and how it's reflected in your habits. And when you create this understanding, whatever you do beyond the three months, that's going to require more effort and more strategy and more focus and more inner work and more strategy and more focus and more inner work, it will become easier. So this is a foundational level to creating the effortless lifestyle.

Speaker 2:

I just changed my program to where I'm not going to the gym on the weekends, so that means I'm only lifting three days a week. I have been lifting weights five days a week for seven months and you know what? It was effortless because when that weekend came, instead of thinking oh man, I have to go to the gym and it's the weekend, I should be relaxing. That was my time to relax and reflect and put some time into me, think about my week, think about what I want to create, notice what's happening in my shoulders, notice what's happening in my glutes, and then taking all that information and carrying it over to my clients, as always, of course, but it was effortless. Five days a week, I'm like can I count? Three days a week? I'm like can I count three days a week working out with my mom? Two days a week on my own or with a friend? That was effortless.

Speaker 2:

So I want you to think about if you have in your head that it's really hard for you to exercise one day a week or two days a week or at all and you would love to work out five days a week, but that sounds like such a steep mountain to climb. It is possible, it is a thousand percent possible. But it is impossible if you're doing it from the outside, in that you're just going to do something for a certain amount of time to reach your dream body, because you think once you're there, you're magically going to be there forever and you can go back to working out less. It won't stay that way. You have to bring your mind, body, your nervous system and your lifestyle to that vision you have in your head. That's the only way it's going to last. So I'd love for you to join. You can DM me on any social media, lauren Cerceone. You can email me, lauren, at laurencerceonecom.

Speaker 2:

We start on August 19th. We are still in pre-sale. If you want to do just mindsets and body or just food and feelings, each one of those separately is $600. When we do the food and feelings, you also have the prerecorded trainings because you need to understand that stuff. You're also going to understand I'm sorry I said that wrong. When you do the food and feelings, you're going to be having trainings about attachment theory and with the food track we meet once a week for hot seat coaching. If you do the body track, we meet once a week for group exercise and hot seat coaching. So the body is a little bit longer of a meeting than the food one.

Speaker 2:

If you do both, you could do both, and that is $850 if you do both. And if you do both, we'll be meeting together twice a week. So let me know if you have any questions. As we get closer to the date oh my gosh, we're a month out. As we get closer to the date, you're going to have more details about the schedule and what platform we're going to be using to connect in between calls. But as more information comes out, the pricing will go up. So if you know you want to do it and you know you want to save some money, sign up for it now, because it is not going to stay this low and when we get started it's going to be in the thousands. So make sure that you get it now If it sounds like it's a good fit. Dm me, email me if you have any questions.

Speaker 1:

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