The BEST KEPT Weight Loss Secrets
How do you lose weight without dieting? Can you lose weight without a calorie deficit? This is the million dollar question now isn’t it? How do you manage your weight, increase your energy and feel better in your body as you age, without dieting and being in a caloric deficit? Is it even possible? Read more to find out.
7 Tips to Ditch The “Summer Body” Goals
It’s May and summer is fast approaching. Everywhere you turn is someone selling you a product or service that promises you that swimsuit ready summer body. I’ve seen it time and again with clients and friends, men and women alike. The desire to obtain that summer body is deeply ingrained within the fabric of our society. It’s a toxic narrative that keeps you stuck in a vicious cycle that gives you permission to neglect your nutritional, health and wellness needs all year long, until you have an aesthetic reason not too.
The Real Reason You're Struggling to Find Balance & Consistency With Your Eating Habits
Ever wonder why you struggle so much to create healthy eating habits? To find balance in the way you nourish yourself and to do so consistently? You’ve probably tried many different diets, eating plans and regiments. Maybe you’ve even signed up for Weight Watchers, Noom or subscribed to the calorie counting school of thought. Yet nothing seems to stick. You’ve most likely given up and tried again more times than you can count and you’re exhausted. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. This is the viscious all in / all out cycle that we get trapped in, thanks to the diet and wellness industry narrative.
Why you Experience food guilt & how to Stop It
In a world obsessed with diets, food rules and restrictions, it’s common to experience food guilt and shame. We’re taught that in order to eat healthy we have to live with a set of food rules and restrictions, and the so called natural, good and clean foods, which drives us to control our food choices to the point of obsession and is the ultimate reason we feel guilt and shame when we eat the foods we think we shouldn’t eat. This frame of thinking about food inevitably causes us to get caught in the all in / all out cycle when it comes to our eating habits and prevents us from finding balance and consistency in the way we nourish ourselves. Reframing the way we think about food is the first step to reducing food guilt and shame.
Breaking The Diet Cycle & My Personal Wellness Story
Have you ever tried to lose weight or adopt better eating habits by following a diet plan, based on food rules and restrictions? How did that work out for you? Did you have trouble sticking with it? Did you succumb to cravings by eating the “forbidden foods”? Did you plan “cheat days” when anything and everything was “allowed” only to find yourself binging and feeling all kinds of guilt and shame? If this narrative sounds familiar, you are not alone. For most women I know, it’s a cycle that repeats itself for years. I know, because I’ve been there myself. I’d like to share my personal wellness story with you today.
Making Healthy Choices vs Dieting
Now more than ever, there’s a collective denouncing of diet culture happening in and around the wellness industry and beyond. People are starting to realize that diets, food rules and restrictions aren’t all they’ve been made out to be and that there is a better way. There's a sweet spot, a happy middle ground, where you can take charge of your health and wellbeing and finally create healthy, mindful and intuitive eating habits that stick, without food rules, restrictions and trendy fad diets.
Why we Overeat and What to do about it
Have you ever had a meal that left you feeling physically full, and yet you still felt the "need" to munch on something afterwards? You likely got up and walked over to the pantry or refrigerator (or holiday dessert table), in search of something more? We’ve all been there!
There are many reasons why this happens, but here are the most prominent ones I see most often in myself and my clients.