What's your relationship to the scale??
Love hate?
Not great?
Abusive?

I know a lot of you weigh yourself.
You may not even think about it before you do it either, it just happens. Like breathing.

Wake up, go pee, strip down, weigh.
That's ok, I'm not here to shame you, I am here to open your eyes to another possibility though.
Another way of existing on this planet.
One that does not revolve around food and weight.

Because here is what I believe to be true about you.
You are smart. You are motivated.

When you set your mind to something, you do it.
But the food piece, damnit, why does it feel so hard?

I'm here to disrupt that cycle.
I am here to help you make it so much easier.
I'm here to hopefully put a little pause, if not a complete halt on weighing yourself.

I know you think it helps.
I know you think "it helps you stay on track" or some of you don't even really know why you do it, you just "need to know."

If what you want is an easy relationship with food.
To just be able to eat when hungry, stop when full, and trust yourself, does the scale REALLY help you in that process?
Weighing yourself is likely just another tool that is used against you.
It keeps you pushing against yourself instead of trusting yourself. 

I hope you enjoy this episode as I talk about the in's and out's of weighing yourself.

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"I started dieting at age 22 and from that point on it has been a struggle. I have been a binger, I've lost weight, I've gained weight, I've tried everything and I got to the point of being really scared about my health.
I was also at point of hating food. I wished there was just a pill I could take.
Then I reached out to you.
I don't think about food or weight 24/7 and it is just a miracle. I can keep bread and sugar in my house and not eat it all.I really didn't think this was possible for me. Do not wait to do this work."

I hope you enjoy this episode with Lyn as much as I did.
 
She is a current coaching client and we have only been working together for a couple months and food really just isn't a problem for her any more. And that is after 55 years of dieting, bingeing, restricting, killing herself in the gym, and just all around obsessing about food and weight.

She's now able to show up and be present in her life. She is more social now, she feels hopeful for her future and she is happy with who she is today.

I hope you enjoy this episode with Lyn and find some inspiration from her because I sure do.

(There were a couple of times where her mic went out but we got it figured out so just keep listening.)

(love you Lyn<3)

PS.
If this episode strikes a cord with you and you are ready to stop having food and weight control your life, you can email me at [email protected] to schedule a free call and we can dig into what coaching could look like for you.

Safety Net:a safeguard against possible hardship or adversity.

What is your safety net?
What is the thing in the back of your mind that you think "if this doesn't work, I will do that."

Is it really helping?

I have noticed something within my clients and just humans in general. When we have one foot in and one foot out, the odds of us achieving our goal is not great.

This makes sense, right?
But have you ever thought about how that shows up in your relationship to food and body?

When you decide to give up dieting.
But at the same time think, "ok, but I'm only one click away from ordering that new plan if this doesn't work!"
How committed will you really be to ending the war with food?
How committed are you in finding a way to make this work?

What will you do on the day where your food is shit and you feel BLAH
DIET!

Duh! It is already on the front of your mind because you have been batting the idea around for weeks.

How differently would you show up if you had no back up plan. If you KNEW this was the way and just because you had a bad or off day, it didn't mean you were failing, it just meant you were doing it. 

Is your safety net really keeping you safe?

In this podcast I explain why the very thought of having a diet or new plan in your back pocket could  keep you from making progress you want.


I also mentioned a 5 day live series I am doing in my facebook group starting tomorrow at Noon EST/9 am EST and you can JOIN THAT HERE

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“But what if I really need to lose weight?”

Most of the clients that come to me wouldn't be mad if they just HAPPENED to lose weight some.Or they will outright say, "I really want to lose X pounds."

Some are hesitant to tell me this because they feel like it is "the wrong thing to say."There is never a "wrong" thing to say.The fact that you would want to lose weight isn't surprising at all considering the culture that we live in.

We are all fighting our own battle with fatphobia and weight discrimination.You wanting to lose weight doesn't make you bad or a failure and it isn't something you need to be ashamed of.

The part I want to open your eyes to and really get clear about is the HOW?
How to you plan to lose weight?
What would you do different?

Often it’s “I’d exercise more , I’d eat a few more vegetables, I’d take better care of myself”
Ok, honestly it’s usually a bit more extreme and harsh which is why it’s not sustainable.

When you reach the point of “this is enough, I MUST lose weight!!” You think you need a plan as intense as the hate for your body. 

So you reach for something extreme.
And it works...for a month or two or even 6, but you inevitably end up where you started or worse.

The actual food plays about a 4% role in this work.

If you are someone who wants to lose weight, you know diets don't work but also feel lost as to what your next step should even be, Ep 18: ‘so you wanna lose weight’ is for you!

Interview time!

You may know Shana better as @thenutritiontea from Instagram. She kinda blew up on social media, more than she ever expected and she discussed in the interview, during the #amplifymelanated voices movement online.

We cover topics such as:
-> How working in the fashion industry contributed to her ending up as a dietitian
->What it was like changing careers "later" in life
->Her own experience with basically being applauded for having eating disorder
->Why she ended up falling into more of the "antidiet" side of nutrition and MORE!

You can find Shana on Instagram HERE
Or visit her website HERE

I see women all the time get trapped by this imaginary net.
They feel stuck. They think they can't escape. They think they cannot move or do anything differently until someone comes over and takes the net off.

But......there is no net.
The net is the imagined limit you have put on yourself.
The net is your level of belief in yourself.

We all operate from a current set of beliefs.
And we all have goals we want to achieve and most of us desire to continue improving as a human.
But where the net is keeping us stuck is believing we need some THING to get what we want or reach those goals or be that person.

We think:
"I just want to be the person who likes who I am"
"I just want to be more confident"
"I just want to be enough"

And we believe before this things can happen, something in our external environment must change.
NOPE!

The women you see who are larger than you rocking their full figure without a doubt.
Others taking risks because they just know they will succeed.
The person who shows up to the party exuding confidence.

They are no different than you.
They have just decided that is who they are. 

Stop waiting for x,y, and z to change before you can start liking who you are.
Before you start filling your true role in life.

Start today.

Life gets chaotic.
Life gets stressful.

I am currently packing up my childhood home, closing the sale on it, and moving across the country.

It's been a bit chaotic at times!

In this episode I talk about how to take the edge off and also survive big moves, life changes or just stressful weeks, without having to binge your face off.


Women with a history of dieting or emotional eaters tend to first jump to food for a coping skill but food is also the first thing they think is their problem. (See the connection there)

If out of no where you notice yourself snacking more or feeling the urge to binge, instead of jumping to a new diet plan to better control your food or restrain yourself, let's look at what is REALLY going on. Get curious as to WHY your food is feeling weird right now. What else has been happening in your life? One of my favorite sayings is "curiosity over judgement."  It is easy to fall into the shame and blame spiral but it is not useful.

All of my clients are go getters, high achieving, bad ass women.
And when they set their mind to something they GET IT DONE.

But we cannot operate at 100% all of the time.
We cannot constantly be giving, doing and creating.

You need time to rest. To relax. To recharge. To not be the most productive and sometimes to just not do it at all( like workout, meal prep or plan everything) Some weeks you just need several nights of take out food and chicken burritos to make life easy :)

This podcast covers ways I have personally been managing chaos without relapse and I offer new ways of handling uncertain times in your life.

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Body image work is a critical piece when breaking up with binge eating and just general sanity around food.

If you think back to your first diet, you probably started it because you felt like something was wrong with how you looked. So hating our body came before the dieting piece. And then for many of us, after years of dieting our body image continued to get worse and our food continued to get more out of control.

Body acceptance does NOT mean giving up. Body acceptance does not mean you stop taking care of yourself. In fact, if may mean for the first time EVER you START taking care of yourself.


I give you specific exercises in this podcast to help you start building a better body image and working on body acceptance.

Here is the FACEBOOK GROUP I mentioned in the show.

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In this episode I am digging into setting boundaries.

This sounds simple, right? Like something we should have learned in grade school!
But so many of us have such a hard time expressing what we need.
We get stretched too thin. We don't speak up.
We pretend everything is ok.
We think what we are feeling is dumb and brush it off.
Then it shows up in our relationship with food.

We get anxious or angry and take it out on ourselves by eating, restricting or some other behavior.

This episode I give you several examples on HOW to set a boundary, why it is important and one thing most people miss when doing so.

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I look forward to connecting with you!

Exercise.

All or nothing.

You are either crushing it at life or life feels like it is a dumpster fire.

How many times have you thought, "15 minutes isn't even worth it!" or "If it doesn't hurt, I must not be pushing hard enough."

This all or nothing thinking doesn't only impact your relationship to food but also exercise.

In this podcast I am going to help you see fitness/exercise/movement in a different light.

To view it as something helpful and enjoyable and not something you HAVE to do or punishment for what you ate.

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