If you’re trying to drop a dress size but the waistline just won’t budge, it may be your personality that’s holding you back.
The celebrity nutritionist of Australian actress Margot Robbie has revealed the four types of personalities that could be contributing to your weight gain.
Appearing on the Today show, US nutritionist to the stars Dana James explained her holistic approach to weight loss by looking at how your sense of self-worth shapes behaviour.
Here, the author of The Archetype Diet breaks down the four types of personalities to help you combat emotional eating, lose weight, and become your happiest, healthiest you.
The celebrity nutritionist of Australian actress Margot Robbie (pictured) has revealed the four types of personalities that may be contributing to your weight gain
US nutritionist to the stars Dana James (pictured) explained the holistic approach to weight loss by looking at how your sense of self-worth shapes your behaviours
After observing thousands of women who wanted to lose weight, Ms James saw a common trend – no matter how diligent they were in sticking to their diet and exercise plans, old behavioral patterns and self-doubt sabotaged their efforts.
‘I wanted women to know that it wasn’t just lack of will power that had them falling off their diet. In actual fact, it had very little to do with that… it came down to where a woman sourced her self-worth from because that was going to take her off track,’ Ms James told the Channel Nine network.
THE WONDER WOMAN
The Wonder Woman sources her self-worth from her success and achievements.
‘So if that’s you, and that’s where you get your identity from, how are you going to behave? You’re going to be the one that’s going to pursue this excellence,’ Ms James said.
‘So you’re going to be working those long hours, answering emails at 10pm and you’ve got meetings booked back-to-back.’
Despite planning an ‘amazing diet’ to follow, Ms James said your busy schedule will interfere, making you skip your meal plan because you don’t have time for it.
‘Then at 3pm, you’re in the office kitchen, those brownies that you would absolutely ignore any other time, just happened to look good to you because you missed lunch,’ she said.
‘By the time you get home, you’re super hungry, you need a glass of wine, you’ve got to have that dark chocolate because that’s your reward for making it through the day.’
The Australian actress’ nutritionist breaks down the four types of personalities to help you combat emotional eating, lose weight, and become your happiest, healthiest you
The author said there’s four archetypes: Woman Woman, Nurturer, Femme Fatale and Ethereal
THE NURTURER
The Nurturer – who’s often dependable, loyal and thoughtful – doesn’t like to disappoint anyone – but this can come at the expense of her own self-care.
‘She senses her self-worth from caring and giving to others, and she’s very compassionate and kind,’ Ms James explained.
‘And when she gets tripped up, she tends to people please. She deprioritises herself and everybody else’s needs come before her. So she’s a comfort eater.’
THE FEMME FATALE
The Femme Fatale is sensual, strong, and alluring but can become obsessed with her looks to the point that she develops an unhealthy relationship with food.
‘The Femme Fatale sources her self-worth from her physical body. So it’s all about the way that she looks,’ Ms James said.
‘On the negative side, she gets very obsessed over her body and she tends to be a restrictive eater and then she can binge – but her food is very controlled.’
THE ETHEREAL
The Ethereal is spiritual and intuitive, but highly sensitive to her environment so she tends to eat to numb her reactions to the world.
‘The ethereal is very intuitive and free-spirited, she likes to be different so that’s where she sources her self-worth from,’ Ms James said.
‘And for her, the negative piece is she gets really scattered and she doesn’t tend to have so many issues with weight, it’s more than she’s prone to anxiety, she has bloating, she’s got depression because she has low estrogen levels.’