May 17, 2021
#234
Join the Facebook Group for Men: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatManWithin
Whenever a man requests to join the Great Man Within Facebook
Group, he’s required to answer an intake question that asks him
about the most important area of inner work he’s focused on right
now.
For months, I’ve been seeing an uptick of men joining this
community who are navigating weight loss, body image and body shame
issues.
These have also been more recurring topics of conversation in
our respective masterminds, so it was high time to have a
conversation about this on the podcast.
This Is Your Episode If You’ve Ever
- Felt uncomfortable taking your shirt off in front of
others
- Gone through countless cycles of gaining and losing weight
- Hitting your ideal weight and knowing its only a matter of time
before you self sabotage
- Thrown food away, only to pick it out of the trash later and
eat it
- And on some level, feeling unlovable
Our Guide for Today’s Discussion: Mordechai
Weiner
- Coach for people learning to love their bodies and lose weight
sustainably
- Founder of the Reclaim Your Body Summit: interviewed 30
world-renowned guests such as James Clear, Gay Hendricks and Dr.
Mark Heyman
- Host of the Feeling Full Podcast, which focuses on weight loss,
body image and self love
Mordechai is also a close personal friend of Bryan and I, as
he’s in our men’s group.
In this Episode
- How Mordy went from 350 pounds at his heaviest to 215 today,
sustainably
- How a lifetime of losing and gaining weight finally shifted
when he stopped focusing on weight loss, and instead focused on
“shame loss”
- Why Mordy says losing weight is fragile and unsustainable if
you still identify as the “fat guy”
- How “Shirtless Therapy” was crucial in reducing shame and
tapping self love
- Why visualizing your future body is a powerful practice for
re-inventing your self-concept
- Why Mordy pulled the plug on body surgery in 2015 – which felt
like it was driven by secrecy and shame – to publicly documenting
his surgery in 2020 as a radical act of self love
- The surprising similarities of food addiction and sex
addiction
Stick around to the very end for a bonus 5 minutes:
A strategy to implement when you’re feeling the overwhelming
urge to indulge or binge.
RESOURCES
The Feeling Full Podcast
Mordechai on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr.mordechai