Escape Diet Prison by Anne-Sophie Reinhardt

In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, Deb and I talk about the recent rebranding of Weight Watcher's and how "Wellness that Works" will effect millions of people around the world.

We also discuss the way the diet industry has adopted the fat acceptance movement in order to help their own motives in ways that are not supportive of health or true body neutrality.

Instead of focusing on health in all forms (including mental health), the diet industry is using terms such as self-care in order to disguise their real message. They have turned self-care and wellness into just another box of you needing to lose weight.

The Diet Industry's New Path is Truly Dangerous for People's Health

It's a dangerous path and it's one that thankfully many of us are not prepared to go down anymore. However, there are millions of people who still believe that weight loss is the holy grail of health and feel like a massive failure for not having achieved their goal weight just yet.

It's easy then to be enticed to go back to a program that tells you to count points and add labels to certain kinds of food. It almost makes sense track your fitness in the name of being allowed to eat more. It's so easy to mistake these kinds of behaviors for true wellness and self-care if a whole company (being backed up by a giant industry) plays on your extreme insecurities that they implanted in the first place.

What Wellness is Really About

Wellness, feeling and being well, is not about starving your body and putting food into certain boxes, labelling it as good and bad. It's not about earning points for going to the gym or stepping on a scale every day to obsess about the weight you may have lost by being "good".

Wellness is about empowering yourself and making your own choices based on how you want to feel and the messages that your body is telling you. It's about having fun in your body and being in communication with your inner most desires at all times. It's about balance and paying attention to your current circumstances, allowing food and movement to support you in living life on your terms.

You cannot achieve this kind of wellness if your goal is to lose weight - whether your body is on board or not.

Wellness is about detaching from the idea that your weight determines your worth.

And although Oprah tells you that weight loss is the path to unleashing the immensely powerful woman that lies deep within you, you know that you know that you know that this goddess within can surface right now - no weight loss needed, thank you very much.

No, the new Weight Watcher's approach has nothing to do with wellness. It's just another way of making sure that women stay small, dependant on their products and unable to truly own their significant power to change the world in their own ways.

Check out Deb’s blog “We are more than good enough” here.

Love and light,

 

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You deserve a life that is about more than food and your body but you also have to be willing to make the sacrifices to go GET that life.

(Post 5/5 - read post #1 here, post #2 here,post #3 here and #4 here)

When Teresa stumbled over FALLing into Body-Love, she had an instant hit of "knowing" this was "it".

She knew that this was the change she had been waiting for. This was the step she needed to take to break the cycle of dieting and begin to live into a new understanding of being in her body and "doing" food.

She knew that this was the first step on her path to body-love.

While she felt she wasn't ready for deep 1:1 coaching, FALLing into body-love felt safe AND challenging, the right program at the right time.

She took the leap and allowed herself to be guided to a better, more loving understanding of who she was, of what body-love meant, of how to let go of fear, guilt and shame and of opening up to transition into a life without obsessing over food and the scale.

She took the step and she never looked back.

Here's what will happen when YOU join FALLing into Body-Love:

You'll Begin to Embrace Your Body

You'll Ease Into Being At Peace With Your Weight

You'll Release Shame, Fear and Guilt

You'll Tap Into Balance with Food

You'll Have More Fun IN and WITH your body

You'll Find a New Way of Being in Your Body

And here's what we'll be covering in FALLing into Body-Love:

Cycles of Weight and Allowing Yourself to Surrendering to Change with Ease

Letting Go of the internal weight that is keeping you down

Transitions and Transformations

Finding Your Inner Light

New beginnings: Fall is the PERFECT time to step into a new way of living INTO body-love

Comfort and Balance

How to Have Fun IN Your Body in this special Season

Feels good?

It does, doesn't it?

Oh, I canNOT wait to go through this transformation with you.

We'll start on October 3rd.

Want to FALL into Body Love? Ready to tune into these beautiful seasonal energies to create transformation and let go of the pain you've been holding?

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That includes 1 call each week for the next 3 weeks leading up up to the program, the program, and then 2 more calls after the program to integrate the change.

Do you feel the transformation starting already?

I can feel it, I know, I am so ready to support you through it. Are you?

Send me an email at [email protected] if you want the 1:1 support.

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#fallingintobodylove

(Post 4/5 -read post #1 here, post #2 here and post #3 here)

Love, with the world getting more colorful and the promise of another year coming to an end, you have the power to turn your life around.

You have the chance to begin anew.

You have the opportunity to balance out your inner darkness by cultivating your own light.

You have the option of choosing comfort over fear, balance over obsession, transformation over remaining in the same old pattern of body-shame and body-hate.

You have the power to fall deeply into self-respect, body-love and a new experience of your life.

Teresa, the woman who deeply despised her body, who was trying to hide her pain and shame behind her obsession with food and her body, woke up one day and knew, she knew, that she couldn't continue living this way.

Her last diet had failed her yet again and she was done.

She knew that she wanted to live a better life, she didn't know how, but she felt that change was imminent.

It was fall and she was ready to learn to love her body and let go of her need to numb her pain with food.

This time, she promised herself, it was going to be radically different.

INTRODUCING FALLing into Body-Love - 21 Days to really dive into the symbolic nature of fall: letting go of painful beliefs and body-shame while you sink into the luxurious comfort and relief of soft blankets and transition into a new way of being with food and your body.

Feels good, doesn't it?

Feels like a breath of fresh air, no?

The relief you've been waiting for -

not just since the beginning of summer but since the beginning of time,

the first time you binged,

the first day of your first diet,

the first time you looked into the mirror and hated on your thighs, your belly, your imperfect breasts.

Want to know more about FALLing into Body Love? Ready to tune into these beautiful seasonal energies to create transformation and let go of the pain you've been holding? Send me an email at [email protected] for more information.

#fallingintobodylove

(Post 3/5 - read post #1 here and post #2 here)

Yesterday, I shared how easy it is to abuse the special energies of fall in a way that make you hide your own magnificence.

This desire for a new body, a better body, that Teresa "instinctively" related to the beginning of fall is obviously picked up by the weight loss industry.

As Teresa looked around, all she could see were weight loss programs urging her to get rid of a few more pounds before the holidays.

All she noticed were the messages telling her to shrink, become less, in order to soon be MORE.

She believed it, without really knowing that she did.

She believed it, without really questioning it all.

She knew it was the truth as it was all she had ever heard.

Do you see these messages too? Well, of course you do.

And I urge you, obviously, to not fall for the marketers who are trying to make you live in fear, who are wanting you to stay oh so small.

I urge you to instead allow yourself to come back home to yourself, to choose body-acceptance over more body-shame.

I urge you to use the arrival of this new season for deep reflection and true inner transformation.

I urge you to lovingly use this time to turn inward and get to know yourself, your life's purpose, your goals more and more.

Because, when the leaves are turning and the air has that distinctive feel of fall, you can easily and effortlessly FALL into body-acceptance.

So, take a breathe with me, inhaling the last rays of the summer sun and exhaling all your weight and food fears, letting go of what is holding you back from loving your body and arrive in fall with me. Hand in hand. Eyes locked in trust.

That is exactly what Teresa did.

I have something special coming for you that is so special, I can hardly stand not telling you right now. It brings tears to my eyes and for a few women, it is going to change Fall forever.

#fallingintobodylove

(Post 2/5 - Read the first post here)

So, are you breathing easier?

Are you already dancing to that slightly (or very) different beat?

Well, if you do, you've tapped into something truly special. You've instinctively noticed fall's healing opportunities that go way beyond covering yourself up more again.

Fall is the time of the year where transformation happens easiest, quickest and in the most profound ways.

Fall has mystical energies that can accelerate your journey to deep, lush body-love tremendously.

Just like it did for Teresa.

She has, as I wrote, always been a huge fan of fall.

Despite being a child of the summer, fall was always the time she looked forward to. She felt that when the days got shorter and the temperatures fell, she was more at "home" again.

Looking back now, she knows that this feeling of coming "home" again was just another way of hiding. Of course it was.

Fall, for her, meant just another diet.

After the freedom of summer, she went back to her weight loss craze, so that she could sport a new, thin, super awesome body on Christmas Day...

She (ab)used the special energies of this coming season to recoil into her fears, to shrink once again, to build a life on the terror within and to commit to another lifetime of being stuck in diet prison.

With her favorite TV shows being back, with the days getting short and with her favorite ways to numb herself in arm's reach again, it was easy to stay in pain and to hide behind a mask of sadness.

That mask that made her feel comfortable and safe. And yet, it caused a world of pain inside of her, a world that was only kept in check by, well, bingeing and dieting.

Yes, fall was a special time for Teresa, but she didn't know how much more special it could actually be, if only she allowed herself to be who she truly was.

Imagine if there was another way to FALL into Fall that created more peace and love in your body instead of more abuse and self-loathing.

Well, love, there is.

#fallingintobodylove

(Post 1/5)

The story of Teresa. A story of falling into body-love.

Fall is in the air.

Teresa can smell it, she can sense it, she feels it in every part of her body, mind and soul.

The morning temperatures are crisper, the days are noticeably shorter and the distinct energies of the changing season have arrived.

Some may be sad as the summer months are coming to an end, but Teresa is excited, she's breathing a sigh of relief.

Teresa, who has been fighting her body and food for as long as she can remember, is ecstatic that summer is over.

Summer, for her, means excruciating pain: showing more "flesh", wearing clothes that feel anything but "safe", finding excuses not to go to the beach, to the pool, to bbqs that she's inevitably being invited to, comparing herself to those that are blessed with bodies that are thin and "simply" feeling ashamed, less than, too much and being confronted with all of herSelf in ways she just can't cope nor does she want to.

For me, as a coach, summer offers amazing opportunities to step into body-confidence.

For Teresa, who is still learning to love her body, summer is the time of the year she fears the most.

Things are changing, of course they are. But it's a process.

Now, however, fall is coming.

Now, however, relief is imminent.

Now, however, comfort is almost here.

Teresa can feel it.

How about you?

Can you breathe easier?

Do you already dance to a different beat?

#fallingintobodylove

Here's something really, really, REALLY important (and a little coach-y kick in the butt):

STOP apologizing for your body, your weight AND your food choices.

You do NOT have to comment on the fact that you're eating a burger AGAIN.

You do NOT have to make jokes about having to buy new pants AGAIN.

You do NOT have to find excuses for having missed a workout AGAIN.

Even if you gain 50 pounds, eat 20 pieces of cake, never workout ever again, you DO NOT have to MENTION IT or APOLOGIZE about it to ANYONE.

OWN your choices, OWN your life, OWN your body and weight and stop living in fear of other people judging you.

Guess what?!

People judge.

That's what they do.

Most of them anyway.

If we all lived in fear of judgements all the time, we'd not be able to live at all.

So, instead of apologizing for doing what you do, just DO IT.

And let others believe and think whatever they chose to believe and think.

It's YOUR life. Live it the way YOU want to to.

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