Poor body image days.
They happen to us ALL!
But when they hit we end up going into a full-on binge or restriction mode.

Here's the truth, no one escapes bad body image days.
Men, women, young, old, rich, poor,  it doesn't matter.

We are sold the idea by the diet industry that once we get on this new plan it will literally make our entire life perfect.

Once we just lose weight every problem we ever had will be solved permanently.
Riiiiiiight....

In this episode, I am going to share with you real insight into what to expect when ending binge eating and doing body image work and how to navigate these days with less pain and without a full-on relapse.

I also share the 50/50 Rule, which is something I learned from a teacher of mine, and why it is so important in this work.

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#falltreatchallenge is happening NOW!
I break down what it is and how to participate in the episode.
You must enter before November 5th. Be sure to tag me and I might read your post next week on the pod.

Also- healthy eating.

"I feel like I need to tell people I know that I know I shouldn't eat like this all the time. That I know this isn't healthy or ok and that it isn't a daily thing."

This comment was shared with me and I am so glad it was because this highlighted 2 things.

1. How big of a deal our society puts on eating sweets.
2. Where her next layer of work is.

You don't have to earn anything you eat. Period.
You don't have to explain it either.
If you wanted, you could eat 3 cookies a day for the next 5 months and it is no ones damn business but your own.

A big part of the fall treat challenge is to help you OWN what you eat. To really ENJOY it! To take the power away from food in a way.

We are so terrified of eating but what that actually does is drive us to food faster. For many of you, it is your attempt at eating healthy that leads you to binge. That is because you have such a strict or "right" way of eating and living it would be damn near impossible to perfectly adhere to.

In this episode, I give you permission to eat the damn cookie and stop explaining yourself.

Enjoy!

Be sure to share your pic and caption by Nov 5th to be entered in my #falltreatchallenge


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“I was never good enough because I was never thin enough.”

In today's episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kristina Bruce.

Kristina is a Certified Body Trust®  Provider and Integrative Life Coach and specializes in helping people break free from diet cycling and negative body image.

In our interview, she shares her personal story of her own war with food and body.

She discusses how once she had gotten her 'goal body' she actually felt worse and more anxious than ever.

She shares how it was in her romantic relationship that really highlighted just how disordered her relationship to food and exercise really was. 

Kristina takes us through her rock bottom moment with food and how she ultimately got free and her path to where she is today.

Kristina is such a wonderful human and I absolutely loved this interview.

Take a listen and please share as I know so many can benefit from hearing her story.

You can follow Kristina on Instagram HERE.
Or visit her website HERE

She also mentioned Byron Katie a few times, who I also agree is incredible, and you can read more about her HERE

I took a little poll on social media and asked my people,
"What is something you tell yourself that you should be more or less of?"

Here are just a few of the responses:

I shouldn't laugh so loud.
I shouldn't be so blunt.
I should be more outgoing.
I need to play more and work less.
I should be more joyful.
I shouldn't be so bossy.
I should be more patient.

A stream of consciousness running through our brain telling us ALLLLL the ways we just aren't quite good enough.

I don't think we ever reach a point where we are just done improving.

Every year we become someone new.
Every month we learn more about ourselves and our likes and dislikes than we knew last month.

But the problem is:
1: You think you are less than because you have these flaws.
2: You are trying to hate and shame yourself into change.

Who are we even getting these messages from? Because I had very contradictory responses in my poll.
I should be more playful.
I should be more serious.
I should be more outgoing.
I should work harder.

YOU get to make the rules.
And what I see time and time again is when women drop the agenda of how they SHOULD be living, they can actually start living.
Does that mean some friends may fall off? Sure!
But you want people who want the REAL you.
Who appreciates and loves the 'you' that is a work in progress.

You don't have to change a damn thing!
So today, please, be more YOU.


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You can also visit my website where all my podcasts are listed and there is a free guide available for you to grab to help you get over your food and on with your life.

Did you know :

* Nearly 50 percent of people with an eating disorder are also abusing drugs and/or alcohol

* Research suggests that 25 percent of people entering treatment for an eating disorder also meet the criteria for substance abuse problems

* Substance abuse by people with eating disorders occurs at a rate five times greater than what is found in the general population.

While I fully back Alcoholics Anonymous, I have a very different opinion on 12 step meetings for food.

In this episode, I look at the differences between being in recovery from alcohol or drugs and how it differs from that of food.

I also discuss why the 12 step programs tend to fail most people when trying to stop binge eating and often exacerbate their food issues.

If you are sober I think you will get a lot from this episode because I know for me personally, for years I felt crazy because I was able to get sober relatively easy but the food thing was an entirely different beast.

Even if you aren't sober, this episode is sure to open your eyes to some new perspectives and thoughts around food and why previous diets have not worked for you.


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 “Can I track my macros AND practice intuitive eating?” 

This is a question I was recently asked and I decided to do a podcast on my answer.

Macros are everywhere now.
It claims to be a way of eating that allows you to eat whatever you want and isn’t “a diet.”

I decided to include fitness trackers into this episode because really, they are quite similar. 

I was recently reading an article and it went over the top diet trends from today, which are Keto and Intermittent Fasting,  compared to the 1980’s, which was Slim fast.

Ultimately, I see macros as just another fad, not to mention a headache.

In the episode, I finished up by turning this back on you. For you to check-in with yourself and see macro tracking and Fitbit tracking are really serving you? Is this helping you get to the relationship with food and body that YOU want? 

There is no one way to eat, live, workout, or do anything.
You are the one who gets to make the call.

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Emotional eating is often a symptom to anxiety and control.
But so many try to solve this "problem"  by adding in MORE control.
Cutting out food groups, restrictions in amounts and time.
More of the problem is NOT the solution.

You do not need more control.
In fact, your attempt at control, at making your food fit into this perfect box, that is what is resulting in you to feel out of control.

There is a fear though, that if you do not control and manage your food, you will never stop eating or never stop gaining weight, right?
But....when you feel like you've messed up your day around food, you usually eat more faster.
"Already effed up the day. Might as well just end it with a bang!!"

The solution is to begin to loosen the grip.
To stop fighting food and yourself.
To address anxiety and get to the root of what is actually making you feel out of control because I promise it is NOT the food.

And this is such critical work because, and I've seen this happen a lot and also experienced it in myself, that anxiety you feel around food will just switch lanes.

Your food might begin to feel ok but now you are stressed about work, feeling inadequate, working long hours, obsessed, frantic, trying to prove your worth on the verge of a complete mental breakdown.

The same way you were with food.

I hope this episode opens your eyes to some ways you can practice loosening the grip, easing into life and actually enjoying it a little more instead of always hustling, pushing and burning out.


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In this episode I had the great pleasure of interviewing Katharine Jeffcoat.

Katharine is a Registered Dietitian with over 22 years of experience in the field of pediatric nutrition. She worked 8 years at Emanuel Children’s hospital in Portland, Oregon as a clinical and outpatient pediatric dietitian, part of the feeding clinic team, and provided nutrition classes at the eating disorder day hospital.

She spent 9 years in the pediatric allergy and prevention industry with Nutricia and Nestle.
With a goal of returning to her passion for working with families and pediatric nutrition, she opened her private practice Portland Pediatric & Family Nutrition in the Fall of 2015 and has an office in Portland and Vancouver.

The majority of her work is around supporting families with picky eaters, eating disorders and ARFID.Her mission is to help families nourish their children to have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies.

Katharine has overcome her own feeding challenges being a mom of two girls, who are now 6 and 11.

In this episode we answer several questions from listeners ranging from, "What to do if my kid doesn't eat vegetables?" to "I'm worried my teen eats too much junk food" and "is dessert an ok reward?"

I personally learned a lot from this episode and I hope you do too!

If you would like to connect with Katharine you can connect with her:

In her private facebook group 'Raising Confident Eaters' HERE.

The resource page on her website offers links to all her favorite books for families, including the 3 Ellyn Satter books. You can visit that HERE.

And be sure to link up with me on Instagram right HERE

Dealing With Dieters.

You know, the person telling you how great she feels after cutting out food groups.
The person telling you how this isn't a diet, but a lifestyle change.
The individual going on and on about how much they just need to lose weight and starting next month things will be different.

It is triggering.
I still don't enjoy spending time people that want to talk about their food or how much they hate their body or want to lose weight.

So how do you deal with them? Are you just supposed to listen? Are they right? Is it THE magic plan?
This is actually something I didn't discuss in the podcast but you MAY have this feeling. You may wonder for half a second if they DO have the new magic solution.
That's normal.

But then your logical brain will come in and remind you "I've done that 100 times in the past. That isn't is."

Dieting is sneaky because companies have discovered how to add in words and angles that make it SEEM like it's not a diet because we as women, and society, are catching on that diets really DON'T work.

Companies like Weight Watchers have rebranded and Noom tries to sell you on the idea that it is about "habit change".

It is a diet.
Don't be fooled.
And fine, by all means, diet if you want.
But let's be honest and call it what it is.

In this episode I discuss what exactly a diet is, how you can still be dieting despite eating more than enough calories and how to handle friends, family or peers that won't stop talking about their diet or weight.

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Overwhelm.
Have you experienced it lately?
Feeling like you have so much to do and have no idea how you are going to do it. 
And then you find yourself eating to "take the edge off."To quiet your brain.

How about anxiety?
Starting ALL the things at once but then not getting any of them done?

In today's podcast I give you 3 tips to help you combat overwhelm and manage your time and energy.

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