In May of 2023, I took my teenage daughters to NYC for a few days on a vacation and we walked all around New York City together. This would not have been possible 2 years before, when I weighed 306 pounds and my body was in pain. This trip to NYC with my girls was very special.

Laurie is on a non diet culture mentality fitness journey at 43 years old after years of struggling with eating disorders, abuse, addiction and mental health struggles. She speaks her truth loudly to empower you to know you are not alone and that you can also heal and create your best life.

Are you a plus size woman who is also on a weight loss journey or fitness journey and healing your past to finally create the life you want to have? Laurie is here to share her experiences and tips with you so you know you can heal and achieve success on your fitness journey.

Laurie Somma is a fitness empowerment coach on her own fitness journey and has overcome a lot in life. On her fitness journey, Laurie is healing from her past of addiction, eating disorders and mental health struggles.

Listen in as fitness empowerment coach, Laurie Somma, talks about her experience and empowers you.

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*Trigger warning* Eating disorder talk

"Whatever you are doing, keep doing it". In 1996, when I heard someone say that to me, I was deep in an eating disorder. I was eating between 200-500 calories a day, hating myself, restricting foods and completely miserable. This just shows how people don't care about if you are losing weight in a healthy way, they just care that you are losing weight.

Laurie is on a non diet culture mentality fitness journey at 43 years old after years of struggling with eating disorders, abuse, addiction and mental health struggles. She speaks her truth loudly to empower you to know you are not alone and that you can also heal and create your best life.

Are you a plus size woman who is also on a weight loss journey or fitness journey and healing your past to finally create the life you want to have? Laurie is here to share her experiences and tips with you so you know you can heal and achieve success on your fitness journey.

Laurie Somma is a fitness empowerment coach on her own fitness journey and has overcome a lot in life. On her fitness journey, Laurie is healing from her past of addiction, eating disorders and mental health struggles.

Listen in on this episode as fitness empowerment coach, Laurie Somma, talks about her experience.

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After losing over 60 pounds, I stood in the pit for a Suki Waterhouse concert at 43 years old with my teenage daughter and her friend. This would not have been possible two years ago, at my highest weight and when my body hurt so badly. I had the best time attending this concert with my daughter and I am so proud of what my body is capable of.

Laurie is on a non diet culture mentality fitness journey at 43 years old after years of struggling with eating disorders, abuse, addiction and mental health struggles. She speaks her truth loudly to empower you to know you are not alone and that you can also heal and create your best life.

Are you a plus size woman who is also on a weight loss journey or fitness journey and healing your past to finally create the life you want to have? Laurie is here to share her experiences and tips with you so you know you can heal and achieve success on your fitness journey.

Laurie Somma is a fitness empowerment coach on her own fitness journey and has overcome a lot in life. On her fitness journey, Laurie is healing from her past of addiction, eating disorders and mental health struggles.

Follow Laurie on Instagram @laurie_somma or search the hashtag #nourishedwithlaurie on IG to follow!

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In this episode of the Nourished With Laurie podcast, Laurie talks about how her husband is home for the next 2 weeks and how her body gets into a fight or flight kind of situation when he is around and how she is going to deal with not using food for comfort and self sabotaging her fitness journey.

Laurie is on a non diet culture mentality fitness journey at 43 years old after years of struggling with eating disorders, abuse, addiction and mental health struggles. She speaks her truth loudly to empower you to know you are not alone and that you can also heal and create your best life.

Are you a plus size woman who is also on a weight loss journey or fitness journey and healing your past to finally create the life you want to have? Laurie is here to share her experiences and tips with you so you know you can heal and achieve success on your fitness journey.

Laurie Somma is a fitness empowerment coach on her own fitness journey and has overcome a lot in life. On her fitness journey, Laurie is healing from her past of addiction, eating disorders and mental health struggles.

Follow Laurie on Instagram @laurie_somma or search the hashtag #nourishedwithlaurie on IG to follow!

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Listen in as fitness empowerment coach, Laurie Somma, talks about how diets don't work and how restricting foods can actually make you binge more later.

I know people always think diets work because you lose weight while you are on them. But, the truth is you need something that is sustainable that will help you maintain your fitness journey and that just isn't dieting.

If you are always feeling like a failure with dieting and losing weight, please know it's not you. Diets just aren't sustainable and set you up to "fail" so that you keep coming back to them.

Laurie is on a non diet culture mentality fitness journey at 43 years old after years of struggling with eating disorders, abuse, addiction and mental health struggles. She speaks her truth loudly to empower you to know you are not alone and that you can also heal and create your best life.

Are you a plus size woman who is also on a weight loss journey or fitness journey and healing your past to finally create the life you want to have? Laurie is here to share her experiences and tips with you so you know you can heal and achieve success on your fitness journey.

Laurie Somma is a fitness empowerment coach on her own fitness journey and has overcome a lot in life. On her fitness journey, Laurie is healing from her past of addiction, eating disorders and mental health struggles.

Follow Laurie on Instagram @laurie_somma or search the hashtag #nourishedwithlaurie on IG to follow!

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In June of 2021, I took my teenage daughters on our yearly trip to Florida to see family at my highest weight ever, 306 pounds. I was at a very low point of my life and so deep in binge eating. My body hurt at that weight and I wasn't able to walk around much with my kids without stopping and sitting for a bit to recover, then keep walking. Listen in on this episode as fitness empowerment coach, Laurie Somma, talks about this experience.

Laurie is on a non diet culture mentality fitness journey at 43 years old after years of struggling with eating disorders, abuse, addiction and mental health struggles. She speaks her truth loudly to empower you to know you are not alone and that you can also heal and create your best life.

Are you a plus size woman who is also on a weight loss journey or fitness journey and healing your past to finally create the life you want to have? Laurie is here to share her experiences and tips with you so you know you can heal and achieve success on your fitness journey.

Laurie Somma is a fitness empowerment coach on her own fitness journey and has overcome a lot in life. On her fitness journey, Laurie is healing from her past of addiction, eating disorders and mental health struggles.

Follow Laurie on Instagram @laurie_somma or search the hashtag #nourishedwithlaurie on IG to follow!

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Were you also raised as part of the Clean Plate Club too? Where you were taught you had to finish all the food on your plate before you were able to stop eating? If you were, you weren't taught to respect and listen to your hunger and full cues and that could mean you might be really confused by if you are hungry or full, or you still don't respect your hunger and full cues today. Listen in on how Laurie Somma, a fitness empowerment coach, talks about being part of the clean plate club as a kid and how she is overcoming that.

Laurie is on a non diet culture mentality fitness journey at 43 years old after years of struggling with eating disorders, abuse, addiction and mental health struggles. She speaks her truth loudly to empower you to know you are not alone and that you can also heal and create your best life.

Are you a plus size woman who is also on a weight loss journey or fitness journey and healing your past to finally create the life you want to have? Laurie is here to share her experiences and tips with you so you know you can heal and achieve success on your fitness journey.

Laurie Somma is a fitness empowerment coach on her own fitness journey and has overcome a lot in life. On her fitness journey, Laurie is healing from her past of addiction, eating disorders and mental health struggles.

Follow Laurie on Instagram @laurie_somma or search the hashtag #nourishedwithlaurie on IG to follow!

Join the NOURISHED fitness challenge membership at https://www.patreon.com/lauriesomma

Have you ever bonded over food with anyone? Most of my life, food has been what I use to comfort and numb and this has translated into my marriage and relationship with my husband. When we first started dating and into our marriage, we have bonded over food and have never worked through disagreements. We have just always dealt with the bad times by going out to eat or making a meal and pushing it all under the rug.

I have been working on not doing this anymore and it has been a life changing experience. Definitely not easy though!

Laurie is on a non diet culture mentality fitness journey at 43 years old after years of struggling with eating disorders, abuse, addiction and mental health struggles. She speaks her truth loudly to empower you to know you are not alone and that you can also heal and create your best life.

Are you a plus size woman who is also on a weight loss journey or fitness journey and healing your past to finally create the life you want to have? Laurie is here to share her experiences and tips with you so you know you can heal and achieve success on your fitness journey.

Laurie Somma is a fitness empowerment coach on her own fitness journey and has overcome a lot in life. On her fitness journey, Laurie is healing from her past of addiction, eating disorders and mental health struggles.

Follow Laurie on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/laurie_somma

Get into the NOURISHED fitness challenge membership at https://www.patreon.com/lauriesomma

*Trigger Warning*

As a kid, I went through sexual abuse that made me scared to live in a smaller body. When I had a smaller body and felt good about myself and was working on being the healthiest I could be, I got a lot of whistles and attention from older men, when I was a kid.

That made me always feel unsafe to lose weight. But I am working on feeling safe to lose weight right now at 43 years old and here to share my truth with you and empower you.

Laurie is on a non diet culture mentality fitness journey at 43 years old after years of struggling with eating disorders, abuse, addiction and mental health struggles. She speaks her truth loudly to empower you to know you are not alone and that you can also heal and create your best life.

Are you a plus size woman who is also on a weight loss journey or fitness journey and healing your past to finally create the life you want to have? Laurie is here to share her experiences and tips with you so you know you can heal and achieve success on your fitness journey.

Laurie Somma is a fitness empowerment coach on her own fitness journey and has overcome a lot in life. On her fitness journey, Laurie is healing from her past of addiction, eating disorders and mental health struggles.

Follow Laurie on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/laurie_somma

Join the NOURISHED fitness challenge membership at https://www.patreon.com/lauriesomma

Looking for some really incredible songs to add to your workout playlist? These 25 best workout songs are absolutely incredible and are great to keep you motivated throughout your workout!

What songs are your favorite to workout to?

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