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 […]
2 Ways to Get to Food Freedom
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 […]
The Truth About Calorie Counting
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” […]
5 Vital Components to Body Acceptance
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 […]
Dealing with Weight Gain as an Intuitive Eater
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 […]
Feel More Comfort in Your Body With These 8 Focuses!
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 […]
4 Ways to Help You Feel More Comfortable in Your 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 […]
Feel like you NEED to lose weight? 3 Things to Consider
Do you ever feel like you NEED to lose weight? Maybe you feel this way after a doctor or other professional told you that you need to lose weight. Maybe it’s because you have recently gained weight and are more uncomfortable now than you were when you were smaller. Maybe you are dealing with a […]
How Weight Watchers Set me Up to Develop an Eating Disorder
I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on my dieting history and the path I took to developing an eating disorder. What I have realized is how the Weight Watchers program actually really set me up to go down this path. Before I dive into this I will add the disclaimer that: this is my own […]
Emotional Eating Struggles? 3 Things to Check in on!
Something that has been coming up a lot in my DM’s on Instagram lately is emotional eating struggles. Is this something that you feel you are struggling with, or have struggled with in the past? The first thing to keep in mind is that emotional eating is not inherently bad. Food absolutely can provide comfort […]