Recently I started traveling more because my boyfriend Matt is starting to perform in more comedy shows in Austin, TX. This allows us to break away from Los Angeles and go on a little trip. 

We’ve been enjoying the Austin food scene sooo much and decided to do an episode on making healthy choices while also having those indulgent treats while on vacation!

Eating healthfully on vacation or while traveling

I actually love eating healthy while on trips and vacationing. This might sound surprising. Like… “hey kara isn’t vacation supposed to be full of fun and indulging, treating yourself?” 

I really really truly do believe in treating yourself.

To me, treating myself is a combination of eating mostly foods and drinks, and engaging in practices routines that help me feel my best. Finally, I sprinkle in some of those treat foods that I don’t eat every day and week. 

I LOVE my

specialty cocktailstacos and Tex-mexBelgian waffles

I just can’t picture my life without those things. Honestly, guys. I have a huge sweet tooth and love a savory, satisfying meal.

 

Why do I take this approach?

This is actually a really good moment to explain why using natural sweeteners as a sugar alternative worked so well for me. Because of my sweet tooth, I usually seek out something sweet everyday.

If I end up choosing something with white cane sugar or traditional sweeteners like honey or agave or coconut sugar, high fructose corn syrup, usually I’ll get something called a rebound craving.

Many carb and sugary foods satisfy my palate in the moment, but leave me wanting more in the next few days. I’ve noticed this in a repeating pattern, so I’ll opt for products made by me or in the store sweetened w/ erythritol, allulose, stevia, or monk fruit extract because they sweeten foods like sugar does without the blood sugar spike.

That makes me happy and not focus so much on food. It doesn’t leave me wanting more all the time, which I am all about.  

Honestly guys what really gives me joy and a feeling of truly treating myself, and literally treating myself well is having that balance of whole food choices mostly throughout the day and then having those treats in moderate amounts when I choose.

It’s really been something I evolved to put into practice over the years. I also try to walk a lot and stay active throughout the day so I can promote a healthy cardiovascular system and have better sleep at night.

When you walk from place to place you get more vitamin D from sun exposure, which is helpful for internal stress levels and mood regulation! 

When I put this into practice intentionally while i’m on vacation, I stay happy, feel my best with stable energy levels, feel confident, and most of all I don’t end up feeling sick from just eating only fun, indulgent foods for each meal.

To me, this feels like I’m taking the best care of myself as possible 

Tips for Meals & Eating Healthfully & Mindfully While on Vacation 

Intermittent Fasting. Vacation is a good opportunity to naturally fast. Usually when I’m on vacation I’ll eat a meal between 6-10 pm and then wake up later than usual, maybe around 8-9am and that’s nearly fasting 12 hours. Waiting a few hours even until you eat your first meal gives you that time in the morning to do a routine like prayer, or reading, or getting your most important things on your to-do list done straight away before focusing on food.

Yes, it is an adjustment, but you’ll find you have energy as your body burns fat for energy and produces ketones, which our brains love.

Give yourself a boost by drinking some water with 1/2 a fresh lemon squeezed into it

and even adding a few tsp of apple cider vineg

Happy Monday morning my friends!

Today on the show, we are talking about setting high standards for yourself. And believing that you can do the hard things.

Today I want to share with you 3 key steps to getting into that space of believing you can have something. 

Worthiness and perceived value and how sometimes it doesn’t allow us to take action on it.

Reaching for something that is big and stepping out in bravery and courage to do that. 

We get afraid that if we step out and we fail it will mean something about us.

The real truth, that sadly most people don’t accept is that we are worthy, capable and able to have what we want! 

It’s difficult for me to notice when people around me sound lack-luster and so victim to their circumstances. If we really wanted something, we have what it takes inside of us to get up, do the hard things and work towards it! The difference between people who get what they want, and people who don’t, is that the people who don’t believe and accept that they can’t have it. 

The first key Believing that you can do something, believing that it is possible, is the main thing you need when you want to meet a goal, or achieve something great. #1

Have you ever heard those stories about people who have had an illness which was irreversible, but the patient believed they would get well, and they made a recovery that couldn’t be explained by medicine? 

It’s so amazing, isn’t it?  

So you’re with me so far but now you’re asking “Kara, how do I start to believe?” 

Maybe you’ve never tried to put yourself out of your comfort zone before. You’re afraid of if you fail, and that will mean something about you. 

Maybe you’ve put yourself out there, over and over again and still been let down by what happened or didn’t happen. And you’re feeling discouraged. 

Most people, won’t dare to have dreams. It’s very scary to have dreams and failing. 

Feeling like you failed is a real thing. I’ve failed before. My first product launch didn’t sell a single product. I was devastated and it was my first experience with failure and the emotional distress that can bring you. I was someone who wanted to be the best at everything and to see that not happen for me,  I felt humiliated. 

So you have a vision, a dream, or want to do something you’ve never done before. For some people, that’s losing a great deal of weight, or building a business. How to do you start to believe? 

It’s EASY to stay where you’re at and never try anything hard. But will you be fulfilled? Will you have joy and purpose?

Many people deny themselves that and they just don’t go after those dreams of what they want. They tell themselves no

The other thing is we can’t rely on the support of family and friends all the time. Many times it’s the people closest to us that tell us “you can’t do that.” Or “that’s not a good idea.”

That’s because they don’t have dreams of their own.

I’m not saying don’t ask friends and family for advice. But I will advise that you start looking for influence and advice from someone who has done what you want to do, and ask them for guidance, or read their blog or listen to their words. They get it!

surround yourself with at least one person who gets it. read books that inspire you and get you motivated and in the headspace of believing you can. #2

The right mentality is the thing that’s going to carry you forward when it’s easier to listen to the voice that tells you “you can’t do it”, and helps you shut that voice up!

That brings me to the 3rd part, which is:

Today on the show we have Hillary Woods, an RN sharing with us her experience finding healing with intuitive eating. In this juicy episode we both talk about our experiences with disordered eating habits and how we overcame them! This is an amazing episode for those struggling to find their way to healing their eating disorders, particularly with orthorexia and binge-eating.

Why does a person start to binge-eat?

So this can happen for a few reasons:

When we place restrictions and rules on ourselves over a prolonged period of time, we are more likely to binge. Then stressors in life can push us over the edge, and we can begin to use food and binge-eating as a coping tool to feel better when things get stressful as well. 

Sometimes these “rules” we make that no one else makes by the way can really jack with our heads. We get into a space where just feel like we have to control our food to control the way our body looks or how much we weigh because in that mental space, weight and appearance = amount of worth we have. Which is totally not true because are naturally, always enough and always loved. So much more than I know we can wrap our heads around. And no one gets to take that away from us. But we allow it to be taken from ourselves and we sometimes let our power be taken away. 

2. Super-awareness about your body and a self-imposed need to look a certain way, reach a certain weight, which makes us enforce certain rules in our lives around food, exercise, eating times. We pick these up from our parents, our friends, social media. 

3. Dieting, trying to eat perfect or super healthy all the time can have a negative effect on our health.  Mentally, it can push us over the edge from being so rigid. We thought holding ourselves to this standard for “ultimate health” was the right thing to do. It can truthfully be harmful in reality!

IMPORTANT to note: It’s not wrong to eat healthy and I certainly understand the importance of this. But we have to remember that if we want to eat Cocoa Puffs or a slice of cheesecake, and we tell ourselves “no” over and over and over again in the name of “health”, this is going to make us mentally sick by causing frustration and backfire. Lots of times this results in a binge-eating episode. 

4. Not getting enough of your micronutrients, vitamins and minerals. This also goes for macronutrient groups carbs fat and protein. Restricting any macronutrient group or restricting calories, not eating enough calories in a day actually turns on hormones and neurotransmitters.

to make you crave foods You get the munchies and makes you go into the kitchen and be rummaging through the cupboards and waking up at 2 am to rustle around in the freezer looking for left over Christmas cookies (true story). 

5. Stress in our lives. Think work, school, a full schedule, financial worries, relationship troubles or anything really that causes you to worry and start becoming anxious, thinking thoughts of “what if __X happens or..” and just ruminating. 

Kara: I used to try to lose weight all the time. What’s interesting is I began binge-eating when I was about 16 years old, and started purging around that time as well. This is what happened:

I lost weight at first when I began this. but over time my body began responding by storing more fat as I was in this irregular way of eating. It wasn’t sure when it would be getting the nutrients it needed and I put on weight.

With the binge-eating habit I was taking in a lot of calories and our bodies actually digest and metabolize these calories and nutrients very quickly. you end up ingesting massive amounts of calories even if you’re doing something like purgin

Today’s episode discusses the power of reducing stress and cortisol inside our bodies to improve your internal peace and bring harmony to your life. Stress management is an important topic today. We all need to pay attention due to the way we’re experiencing politics, the social climate, social media, the news networks. When you really prioritize and learn how to decrease stress in your life the way that is best for YOU — You truly have the key to your ultimate health, wellness and vitality. The power of our subconscious mind will take you any which way. We have to intentionally manage our stress to be able to live in peace daily. Which is so worth it!

How do we manage stress so you have the lowest possible amount? 

Stress is almost a nebulous, mysterious topic, isn’t it?

Like, is it a thing? A state? A phenomenon? 

I think the way we talk about stress in modern, mainstream society gives us only the basic, surface-scratching introduction to something most of us have no idea how to manage. If you are an American and working full-time, have a pet, a relationship, a family, like so many of us, you have a lot on your plate.

Cortisol is the internal stress hormone of our bodies. It secretes naturally and helps us do things like wake up in the morning. Internal and external stress impact cortisol levels and how much they elevate. Our goal should be to nurture our bodies to decrease stress, internally and externally.

An example of external stress reduction is meditation or exercise.

An example of internal stress reduction is eating whole, unprocessed foods and decreasing toxins and chemical ingestion. It also means healing our gut.

It’s almost like we feel like we have to do everything, and especially us people pleasers.

We have to to remind ourselves that we literally cannot please everyone. This episode will serve as a helpful tool and reminder to decrease stress, be mindful of your priorities, be at peace and heal your body in the process. 

I’m in a course right now that teaches you how to take care of your hair so it can grow thick and long. As it turns out, stress-management internal and external is the cornerstone to having healthy Lucious hair.

In addition:  

We can look at any other thing in our body. Whether it be our minds, our skin, our reproductive system, hormones, digestion: Expect that the same to be true for that. 

The ultimate truth that I’ve been reminded of recently is that if you manage the stress, your health becomes managed. Your body has the incredible ability to heal itself. It is constantly is working towards achieving that natural balance that it’s programmed to do called “homeostasis”. 

Stress interrupts homeostasis. We have an internal alarm system that involves our nervous system and endocrine hormonal system, which helps us in the case of stress.

To give you an idea of where we came from, humans used to live in more physically dangerous circumstances. We had to run from danger, like animals. Our body is designed to give us a cortisol and hormone and blood sugar boost to give us the super charge we need to outrun the lion. 

The issue that presents itself in 2021 – we don’t have to outrun a predator anymore. 

We are flooded with media, technology, emails. so many stimuli and notifications, obligations and responsibility and if we are not mindful of managing stress that places itself on us, we can build it up and really it can get out of control and if we allow it to keep piling on. When something pretty stressful hits, like a financial change, or a breakup, or some sort of loss or other stressful time, we can go into a complete fight or flight mode internally. We can exp

What is diabetes? Why do we hear about it so often when it comes to our health?

In today’s episode, I talk to you about Diabetes type 2 and how it relates to bulimia and binge-eating disorders. We cover what it is, and what happens when blood sugar stays elevated for a long period of time.

I share the answer to the common question I hear from my patients: “why is high blood sugar bad?”

Intro

In the hospital, I’ve taken care of thousands of patients over the past 8 years that have diabetes. Ive seen a pattern with patients in the hospital and have learned in the years that when you have diabetes, it increases the inflammation and affects the immune system, which puts the inside of your body in a mores stressful state, which in turn makes it so your immune system and cellular networks be so focused on the battle inside that it’s difficult to amount a full response to defending yourself from things like Covid, the flu, and other viral and bacterial infections. 

 In this episode, when I refer to diabetes, I’m talking about diabetes type 2, which is the kind that you get over time from your lifestyle habits with food choices, and means that you have insulin resistance and high levels of blood sugar.  More details on this later. 

The types of diabetes, like type 1 and diabetes insipidous, have other diseases processes and have some major differences, so if you have either of these kinds of diabetes, this podcast is oriented specifically towards people at risk and have actually been diagnosed w/ Diabetes type 2.  

And just to inform you, the info shared inside this podcast today is purely for informational purposes only and should not be taken as or considered personal medical advice. 

Pre-diabetes

 is typically diagnosed when you have a Hgb A1C  between 5.7-6.4%, Diabetes Type  which is when your blood sugar levels are at the beginning to rise more consistently. 

When looking at blood sugar, someone who has a fasting glucose of 101-125 (8hours fasting with no food), this is considered to be a pre-diabetic reading. Doctors usually get 2 of these readings in combination with a Hgb A1C to diagnose someone w/ pre-diabetes. 

In 2017, I was pre-diabetic. This was around a time that I was stressed out, planning a wedding, and binge-eating and purging everyday. I was so surprised to learn that I was struggling with this! I ended up focusing on gut-healing, changing my food choices little by little, wnhci is really difficult when you struggle with an eating disorder…. But I got myself down into the normal range and I celebrated! 

Diabetes type 2

Diabetes type 2 ,An A1C level of 6.5% or higher on two separate tests indicates type 2 diabetes, and a fasting blood sugar reading of over 125

TESTING: 2 different tests, the Hemaglobin A1c, which is a test that measures the level of blood sugar over the past 2-3 months ( a great test)

In general: An A1C level below 5.7% is considered normal. An A1C level between 5.7% and 6.4% is considered prediabetes. An A1C level of 6.5% or higher on two separate tests indicates type 2 diabetes. 

And serum blood sugar, which measures the amount of sugar in your blood at that given instant in time. These tests are routine health screenings, and are commonly checked because it gives helpful information on how each person manages their blood sugar. These are the 2 tests that doctors use when when diagnosing so they can confirm twice that your body is dealing with high blood sugar and it wasn’t a one time error or fluke. 

As I’m talking to you about this, I realize that many of you loyal listeners are living in oth

How to feel better immediately? What are you supposed to when you’re feeling lost or inadequate? You’ve got a lot of responsibilities and sometimes this feeling sneaks up on you during a time of stress, or if other things aren’t going right. I personally have gone through MAD feelings of feeling like I’m “not enough” many times in the past few years. During these times when I notice a particular heavy weight of this feeling, I pray. Inside today’s episode, I’m praying and affirming you in my favorite ways that I use to lift myself out of that low place any time I’m feeling low.

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In today’s episode, I have a huge, huge surprise I’ve been waiting to tell you about! I released my free Ebook “4 Steps to Creating Habits That Change Your Life”. This guide is TIMELY as heck because it’s right around this time that people give up on their New Year’s Resolutions. I released it now and not at the beginning of the year so you can get your 2nd wind, and get back out there.

What makes me the most excited about this resource I’m giving you is that I used the exact tips, strategies and goal-setting mindset to

-Heal from 11 years of bulimia, in less than 2 months. I’ve been in permanent remission for 3 years-Lose 30 lbs-Pay off 50K of debt-Create an online business that resulted in 30,000K in my pocket after the launch.

I want you to have this guide so you can do things on an INCREDIBLE scale too! Head to the show notes for the link to download your free ebook on creating the habits that will get you the life you dream of. You can also head over to my IG:

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-Kara

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I know that sometimes it’s not the actual THING that makes the difference, but how it makes you feel when you’ve healed, and saying:

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The 5 Top Reasons Why You Are Experiencing Unshakeable Cravings

I don’t think cravings are bad. I do get some cravings once In a while but they are mild compared to what I used to have! Now, I feel like I have a normal appetite!! 

Guys, I’ve come to the place where I know that intense cravings are NOT a normal thing.  So…Instead of viewing cravings as a bad thing or something to be afraid of, it’s more of like a clue. Like a little thing that grabs our attention like “hey I’m not getting enough of ___” sometimes we can think that cravings are just this thing that happens to us and then we become victim to whatever it causes us to want and then eat. 

Like candy or donuts, sweets, pizza. It lead us to make decisions we wouldn’t normally make, and also causes us not to feel our best because maybe we binged on the food we craved – which is sometimes really easy to do — and now we feel really full and bloated, and maybe it even takes more than a day or so to feel back to normal. And then your digestion is just messed up.. ugh. Not fun, right? 

The Odd Thing About Cravings

Have you ever noticed that cravings are usually for really high calorie foods? Notice not nutrient dense…calorie dense. 

Your body is so smart, that it is literally trying to override your decisions by making you crave something. Also, isn’t it freaking annoying when you want to eat something calorie dense and you come across something BS like “just eat an apple”.

 First of all, don’t eat the apple. Unless you really want to. Eat a reasonable portion size of what you really, truly want guys. That was something I still had trouble with though, so I’m going to gvie you some tips. 

Here we go with the reasons you can be dealing with Strong AF cravings that have to do with your nutrition! 

You’re not actually eating enough calories in general. I get that I used to restrict myself to certain foods and never let myself eat certain foods and it would backfire! The issue was I was kind of aware of this but when you’re living a life that this is all you know, you kind of lose sensitivity to the awareness of it all. Like for example if you feel kind of terrible everyday but you’re still functioning, you kind of think you might not be at your best but you don’t really remember a time you felt better because it’s been so long, that kind of thing. So you’re functioning there, suboptimally and just kind of existing. This is not a place that we want to stay, right? We want to heal our impulses, our triggers. So kind of circling back to that clue idea. This could look like trying to follow a really stri

Today’s episode is close to my heart, because it is about hitting rock bottom. 

I think I’ve hit rock bottom like….sooo many times. Like the 

When like the first time I tried to recover from bulimia during nursing  school and I had to drop out..knowing I wasn’t better yet and I had bills to pay…Or the many breakups I experienced that were painful during college. Or the many times I realized that my business plan wasn’t working and I had hired yet another coach and still didn’t reach the results I desired. Even after doing the work. Last year I had a moment where I had told God I was ready to be in a relationship with the man of my dreams. I hadn’t been in a relationship in a year and a half…my last one had ended in a divorce. That’s a whole other story.

But I started to open myself up to what I call “a serious connection”. Someone I didn’t jsut want to have fun with and say “I had a good time with you” to. No. I was ready t

I spent 5 months liking someone who didn’t like me back. It was almost like they pretended to like me to get my attention. I was into some spiritual stuff at the time that I ended up walking away from. I was feeling very low when I realized this man was not going to come around. And I walked away. I weeped every day because prior to liking him, I had prayed to God for that special someone, and to meet them and fall in love. 

See, when we pray for something, we are heard.

But we are never guaranteed a timeline. Or an instantaneous result

We have the opportunity to get frustrated, to get mad at God and cry all the time. Become afraid that it’s never going to happen….but we also need to remember the truth .

The truth is that he is listening. And he will answer your prayer. He is with you EVERY single step of the way. And there is one thing that is completely true and that’s we need to remember to tell God that we trust him and that we know the result is going to be even better than expected.

God loves you. And you are royalty. 

I used to try to use manifestation and the LOA to get what I wanted. I wanted a lot of money and wanted pretty much a very specific life. I was just focusing on me and I was not in alignment with the intention behind my purpose.

The intention needed to be on helping other people. Because if we help other people get what they want, we will eventually get what we want to. The beautiful thing about this method is that we change our hearts in the process.

I am going to affirm you today.

I am going to affirm that 

God’s miracle is coming for you. The Almighty God who can breath in your direction and change your situation.

Don’t worry about how it’s going to happen. 

May you have the courage and the confidence to step forward and boldly declare “fear you have no place here.”, and evil flees before you. 

No one can stop, steal, take, or change the miracle that God has in store for you. Yes, it’s his timing but it is DIVINE timing. And it sucks to wait but guess what…. Ask god for patience, joy and delight during the waiting. And to help change your heart for the better. 

See our life completely changes the second we choose joy and a different focus instead. I challenge you to go away from this podcast not focusing on the challenges that you’re facing.Perhaps you’ve lost a loved one or just experienced a breakup. Maybe your business just went under.

Listen. It might not seem like it right now but God has got you!!!!

2021 he is going to lift you up higher than ever before.

All you gotta do is say, I accept you as my Savior and I belief that you have the power to change my situation.

And I Know you will. 

Tell him how you feel.

Praise his name.

Ask him your desires.

He WILL hear you.

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We need to remember that the health of our body when we want to heal from binge-eating, depression or anything, is that we need to get our whole system on board. It wouldn’t make sense to start a journey on an airplane with part of it damaged or under construction, would it? Not at all. It’s weird when we talk about these thing in tangible, relatable terms. We would never, with out good judgement, start a journey on a plane that was not fully functional. So why do we often think we should make different choices with the health of our bodies? 

If you’re not sure what I ‘m getting at, I’ll share a little more with you. 

My Story

I was 16 years old when I began throwing up my food. At first it was because I wanted to prevent weight gain when starting to work at a fast-food restaurant. 

Unfortunately, this was not a phase for me. My habit evolved and I became addicted to food to cope with my emotions over time.

I graduated high school and began college. If you’ve ever been through college classes, you know it’s a committement. You have to be mindful about how you set up your life when you are in a college course work. 

I became stressed out as I was working, living in my aunts basement, and working towards completing my nursing degree. I would often drive past 2-3 places to pick up food on the way home from work or class. I’m ashamed to admit it, but this was my way of decompressing. Destressing. 

I began therapy for the first time when I was in nursing school as well. It would be a challenge to heal while focusing on so much at once. I was thinking “I’m worth it, and this part of my life has to go”. They didn’t require me to be hospitalized or placed in an Inpatient program. Part of me wished it had so I would have had the accountability. 

I dropped out when I I became unable to pay the therapy bills. They were wracking up and I was still paying tuition and rent and other living expenses. I thought to myself…I’ll have to try this again when I am more on my feet. I felt so defeated but also happy in a weird way. I could still use my comfort and stress management technique. Food.. and then heading to the bathroom. 

I was so embarrassed about this. It was my deepest, darkest secret that I would only tell people I profoundly trusted. I am not even telling you the darkest parts that my family walked through with me together. 

the Re-Do

In 2016 I decided to head to therapy again. I was in a serious relationship and we were planning to get married. Knowing that I wanted to heal this thing once and for all, I became more mentally and financially prepared. I went back to therapy and a different facility. Outpatient, with a psychiatrist, a therapist, a physicians assistant, a dietician…how could I fail this time?

8 months in and I found myself on the highest dose of prozac I’d been on, ever. X3 the amount I had been started on by my doctor the year prior. I had gained more weight from my bingeing habits, and poorly managed stress, and no self-control or seeming capability to shift my lifestyle and my behaviors. Why was it that I was failing therapy again? The bills were still over my financial means and…and with a wedding to pay for and what seemed like no progress whatsoever…..I dropped out again. I was not over it, but I was over THIS WAY. 

Why wasn’t it working for me?? I am a problem-solver and someone who never gives up, but at this point I was praying for a miracle from God, but believing that I would always be stuck with this in some sort of way. I believed it would get better, and then come back…my entire life. 

I couldn’t have been more wrong. In less than a year from dropping out, I had healed with complete remission for the first t