The Diet Diaries

I’m back with a guest today, my neighbor, colleague and friend Janine Flannery who is the founder of the Allergy Aspect, which creates awareness and advocacy for people living with food allergies and EOE (a rare esophageal disease associated with food allergies).

Janine shares what it was like when her infant son was diagnosed with multiple anaphylactic food allergies and how it transformed her life. She went from working full time in brand management to being home, working through his diagnosis and preparing almost all of his food for the last 15 years.

As the mom of a teenager with food allergies, there is SO much to consider around nutrition, social life, schedules and more. 

And beyond this, the impact to Janine personally has been significant. She dives into how her son’s allergies impacted the way she was eating and her own relationship with food. 

One of the most amazing things I learned was how Janine and the rest of their family have been able to keep food in their house that their son is allergic to, so that they can get what they need nutritionally and for pleasure.  

Whether or not food allergies directly impact your life, we all know someone who lives with a food allergy and I am grateful to have the opportunity to create awareness around this so we can all be more educated and compassionate.

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Here is the link to Just Like You Films to find the upcoming documentary about living with food allergies. 

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Today’s episode is like a mini coaching session around the core skills you need to be working on to feel at ease around food and in your body.

I break this down into three categories: what, why and how.

What focuses on the nutrition part of eating-learning how to choose a protein, carb and a fat. Knowing what foods are what and how much you need of each.

Why focuses on learning the difference between hunger and cravings, understanding the physical sensations of hunger and fullness and then learning how to take action on what you feel.

How is all about the way that you eat-prioritizing eating, sitting at a table, eating without distractions, creating time to eat, choosing foods that you enjoy. 

These are the skills that allow you to break up with dieting forever-because when you have these skills you no longer need to rely on the rules of a diet. You are able to make intentional choices around what you know works for YOU, not what some random diet or meal plan tells you to do. 

We’ll be learning these skills in Eat with Ease-so if you feel like you’re reading for some support in making this change, I’d love to have you join us for my signature 6 week group coaching program.

If you're listening before 9/21, click here to add your name to the waitlist! If you're listening after, email me ([email protected]) and I'll send you the link to register. 

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We’re back! (Apologies in advance I forgot to shut off my window A/C unit, so theres a little intermittent background noise).

And today’s episode is all about what, how and why I ate and moved/exercised in Greece.

I share my thought process and the skills I used to choose what to eat throughout our trip. And as probably will come as no surprise, these are the same skills I use everyday at home.

There is no “magic” vacation way of eating. There is you, showing up for yourself and taking action on how you want to feel so you can enjoy every moment of the trip.

One of the big ideas I talk about is that no food is good or bad…its about the reason WHY you are eating that food in any given moment that reveals what’s really happening.

And ultimately there’s one key principle that guides how you eat in any place, any time. I talk through what that it is and how it works at home and on vacation.

I also go through how I approached exercise and movement over the course of the 2 weeks.

Thanks for being patient during the time off!

Click here to join the waitlist for Eat with Ease, my 6 week group coaching program that starts October 3. You'll learn all the skills I talk about in this episode so you can stop coming home from vacation and starting a juice cleanse.

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Two important announcements to start: 

The Movement Diaries is taking a 2 week vacation while I’m away in Greece! New episodes will pick back up Monday, September 12.

The waitlist for my 6 week group coaching program, Eat with Ease, is open. This is a skills based program to help you find more acceptance, ease and trust when it comes to food, eating and body image. Click here to join so you get first access and a 20% discount!

Today’s episode is inspired by a conversation I had with a client during a coaching call-and what we discussed felt so powerful, that she suggested I do a podcast about it. Brilliant idea. 

She asked me if accepting her body is settling. 

Phenomenal question.

And this podcast captures the conversation we had as the answer.

I talk about self compassion as a tool for identifying the things we CAN control and the things we can’t-and using that framework as a way to figure out the difference between accepting and settling (because there is a HUGE one). 

I go through specific examples of what we can and can’t control so you can start to shift the way you’re thinking about effort and results. 

This is one of my favorite episodes to date because it really gets to the heart of how change happens and what you can do right now to start making it happen. 

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Let’s talk about time.

How much time we need to make lasting changes.

How long the coaching process takes

How much time you’ve spent living in the chronic diet cycle and why accepting that is a key part of setting expectations.

How long it takes to learn, practice and get proficient at the skills you need to find ease around food and in your body. 

How much time it takes for your body to respond to your actions. 

How long it takes to lose weight. 

How long it takes to rebuild trust with yourself (a lack of self trust is a big reason you’re always on a diet). 

Results in 30 days has become normalized-because its sexy and dramatic and fast. But the reality is that is completely unrealistic if you want results that last. So we need a reset on this.

Dieting has always been about urgency and instant gratification. And thats a BIG reason why diets don’t work.  The more urgency you put behind something, the less permanent those changes will be. 

Today’s episode is a reset on how to think about progress, time and the results you really want. 

My new 6 week group coaching program, Eat with Ease, is coming in October.  Click here to join the waitlist so you can get first access and 20% off when registration opens in September!

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This might be one of my favorite episodes. Because it gets to the core of how I approach coaching and what really creates change that lasts for life. 

Today I’m talking about values and why using a values based approach to reworking your relationship with food and your body is the key to long term success.

This is really about shifting our choices from being driven and motivated by external pressures and expectations to acting from a place of internal character and integrity. 

Because let’s get real-crazy restrictive diets, yo yo dieting and extreme workouts are very likely not in alignment with your values.

And when you learn how to take action around food and your body from your core values, you will find your happiest and best weight for life.

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Today I’m talking about one of the most common and damaging words we use to talk about ourselves-and that is the way we use the word fat.

We have weaponized the word fat to be the absolute worst possible thing we could ever be. 

And until we learn to strip away the emotion we’ve assigned to that word, we won’t be able to change anything about how we feel about our bodies. 

One of the simplest ways you can begin to improve your body image is to stop using the word fat to talk about yourself in a negative, judgmental, critical way. 

We’ve taken something that is 100% normal (body fat) and transformed it into something that is a problem to be fixed. 

I share a couple of specific skills you can start practicing and also invite you to join my free online workshop Body Image Reboot where I’m going to talk through why negative body image is such a pervasive problem and what you can actually do about it, without feeling like another diet is your only shot at happiness.

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Tuesday, August 2 @7pm EST
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Today’s guest is Pilates teacher and studio owner Allison Skewes. 

Allison comes from a place similar to many of us, which is that exercise is was about weight loss and changing your body. So when she found Pilates and discovered how amazing it felt for her, it became not just a form of exercise but also her career.

As a woman living in a bigger body, Allison’s focus is on creating an inclusive experience and making Pilates accessible to all types of bodies. We have some real talk about connecting with students and how to help them find their own experience with movement. Learning about how to use Pilates as a way to feel more at home in your body rather than trying to shrink it. 

We also talk through what it is like to run a studio and Allison’s self empowerment and approach to running a business is raw and inspiring. For everyone who listening who has ever gone to a small, privately owned fitness studio this will give you a whole new appreciation for the service the owner is creating and providing to you. Spoiler alert, its way more complex than you can even imagine. 

Click here to sign up for my free online workshop Body Image Reboot: Tuesday August 2 @ 7pm EST. Join us live on Zoom or get the replay.

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Solo episode today talking about what happens when you make the choice to break up with traditional dieting and begin figuring out how eat in a way that is sustainable everyday, all the time. Forever.

You have to totally redefine what it means for what you’re doing to be working. 

Because we’re used to a drop on the scale to be the way we measure if what we’re doing is working.

But when you choose to relearn the skills of how to eat so you can stop being stuck in the binge/restrict cycle and jumping from one rigid diet to the next, results look very different. 

Ultimately this is about making sure that the metric you use to measure progress lines up with the action you are taking. 

I talk through what those metrics are so you can begin to realign your expectations. This will make a HUGE difference in feeling like you can keep moving forward, being consistent and showing up for yourself day in and day out. 

I also talk about how fat loss fits in with this and when during the process you an expect that to show up.

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Today I’m talking with body neutral strength and fitness coach Christine Chessman. Christine is an eating disorder survivor, mom of 2 girls and an amazing advocate for women finding acceptance in their bodies through exercise.

As a body neutral coach, Christine places no focus on weight loss/aesthetics through exercise-its all about relearning how to incorporate movement into your life in a way that you truly like and can stick with long term. Essentially focusing on what your body can do rather than what it looks like. 

This podcast is full of so many conversations that you will really connect to along with useful, usable ideas to begin making changes: 

• The process of figuring out what you actually enjoy for exercise vs. following rules of what you “should” do. 

• How to shift from thinking about your body as something to be seen and looked at to something that enables and allows you to live your life 

• How to find the balance between structure and intuition when it comes to movement and food. 

• Managing your expectations around how long it takes to create lasting change

• Why managing your thoughts is a huge part of this work

• How you use social media plays a massive role in your body image

• Tips for helping kids manage body image and their relationship to food

• What to do you when you don’t like going to the gym

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