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Have you ever felt like you need to lose weight in order to increase your confidence and feel good in your body? I know that I have! This is because diet culture sells us this idea that weight loss will ultimately give us more confidence and happiness! Basically, weight loss is presented as this cure-all, […]

Let’s talk about binge eating. I know it can be such a huge struggle for so many people. If you’re familiar with my story, you know that I struggled with binge eating for years. At the peak of my Binge Eating Disorder, I was binging every single day. It was such a dark time of […]

I spent years trying to achieve food freedom and weight loss at the same time. I realized a long time ago that: Whatever I did to lose weight, I would have to be able to maintain it for the rest of my life in order to keep the weight off. If I wanted to have […]

What do you think of when you hear the term “food freedom”?  For the longest time, food freedom seemed like something I could only ever dream of achieving! As someone who used to think about food all day, every day – the concept of food freedom appeared really far off and unattainable. I tried to […]

Do you struggle to let go of calorie counting?  I struggled with calorie counting for a long time. After I quit dieting, I was still adding the calories up in the back of my mind. I re-downloaded my fitness pal a couple of times since quitting too. Every time, I’d excuse it to having “awareness” […]

Body acceptance can be a tricky thing to achieve. We are shown in the mainstream, that your body is easier for you to accept if it looks a certain way or is a certain size. But what if your body is just not meant to be that size or type? Are you doomed for a […]

A lot of people end up struggling with weight gain when they decide to quit dieting and embrace Intuitive Eating! Especially if you have recently lost weight on a diet, it makes sense that when you quit dieting that weight will likely come back right? I know that it can be a really difficult thing […]

Have you ever tried changing your body to try and create more comfort in it for yourself? When it comes to healing your body image, finding comfort within can be the biggest struggle of all! In the mainstream, diet-culture-infused, world that we live in we are taught that if we are uncomfortable in our body […]

One of the biggest things I hear that people struggle with is feeling uncomfortable in their bodies after they’ve quit dieting. This discomfort tends to trigger them to want to go back on another diet, but that typically ends up being just a temporary fix. “Is this discomfort physical pain or just a general sense […]