Leanna Ellington grew up what she calls a “couch potato kid.” From a young age she was overweight, even attending her first Weight Watchers meeting at just 8 years old. As a young adult, after years under the control of diet mentality and chronic shame, her whole life revolved around how she looked and what she ate. 

Can’t all of us identify with this toxic struggle to enjoy food but also stay thing and look how our inner critics tell us we should look??

Well, near the end of her college years, Leanne hit a breaking point. She did a drastic diet and lifestyle overhaul and lost nearly 1/3 body weight (about 100 pounds) in her early 20s. From there forth, she operated under a “results rollercoaster," leaving her more fit than she’d ever been but also victim to a self-rejecting relationship with her body and habits of disordered eating.

 After several years of nutritional and biological education, teaching, and even starting her own “Not your average bootcamp” business at home in Orlando, Leanne found the body she’d always wanted and a career she’d never dreamed of! She was a huge success, drawing thousands of women to her teaching, studio, and platform under the “fat girl to fit girl” narrative. She even launched a corporate fitness business which afforded her regular spots on CNN and Fitness Rx.

Even still, her whole life felt plagued with imposter syndrome. Externally, she was healthy and killing it. Internally, she was still stuck.

“I felt like a fraud. I had paid the ‘cost of skinny.’ I majorly hurt myself [and my body] and was so focused on being skinny and lean and fit, that I didn’t listen to my body and ended up needing major spin surgery.”

She still didn’t like who she was. “I looked in the mirror and had the body I’d always wanted. My arms were toned; my stomach was flat, but inside, I just knew nothing had really changed.” From here, Leanne started a deep dive into the concept of “self-image” and spent several years studying psychology, behavior science, and neuroscience to better understand how they contribute to body image. Her true crisis wasn’t just with food; it was how her relationship with food was marring her identity.

Now, Leanne’s business and podcast, Stressless Eating, combines philosophies from all of her studies as well as her decade long, personal journey to 3-dimensional health (physical, mental, social-emotional). Her work is a systematic approach, enabling and shepherding women toward the multifaceted health freedom she’s found and guiding them into a new paradigm through which to relate to food.

Leanne reminds us that the eating problem is really "a thinking problem!” Our mindset shifts are everything, and the keys to stressless eating start here!

Free webinar @ www.stresslesseating.com & Stressless Eating Podcast