The Diet Diaries

Today is a fun one! I’m talking with business, nutrition and life coach Ashley Pardo. Ashley was my coach for 6 months and now I am grateful to have her as a mentor and a friend.

At its core today’s conversation today is about body image and how to make peace with how you feel in your own skin.

We both share lots of personal experiences and candid thoughts on:

• What body acceptance actually means
• Why seemingly harmless things like instagram filters create a disconnect between you and your body
• How to find more comfort in your own skin
• Why knowing your values is the foundation of this work
• Why you don’t need to love your body 
• How important time is in this work
• Why body confidence and happiness is never about what you look like

I’m so proud to be creating space for conversations like these where you can get support to live as your truest self. 

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I had a nose job when I was 16 and thought it would make me feel pretty, happy and self confident.

It didn’t.

And I’m today talking about why.

As someone who went to extreme lengths to change something about my body in order to be happier, I want to shout from the rooftops that you don’t improve your body image by changing how you look on the outside. You do it by changing how you feel about yourself on the inside.

In the words of famed meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein, happiness is an inside job. 

In today’s episode I share the specific work I did to finally overcome my body image issues and where you can start from if you’re ready to go through this process.

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My guest today is physiotherapist and post partum expert Surabhi Veitch.

I’m so grateful to have Surabhi here to share so much knowledge and support for woman in all stages of postpartum life. As someone who really struggled after having a baby, the conversation we have today is invaluable.

We break down some of the huge misconceptions around how someone’s body looks vs. how they feel, why strength training is way more important than Kegels and why we need to create more long term post partum support for moms.

There’s so much pressure for moms to “bounce” back and lose weight after a baby and we discuss how harmful this is to the recovery process and why it needs to be about moving forward not “bouncing back.”

Our conversation is about much more than post partum-my son is 10 years old and I really resonated with what Surabhi shared in terms of approachable, sustainable fitness, thinking long term instead of short term and cultivating a more positive body image as a mom.


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As promised, this is the “Optavia” episode.

Many of you saw me talk on IG stories recently about why this diet is so damaging for people. 

And while I always try to coach and teach from a place of what you can do instead of what you can’t or shouldn’t do, this is an exception that I felt I needed to speak out about.

I talk a lot about my experience on Isagenix which is pretty comparable to Optavia-super fast weight loss resulting from extreme restriction, followed by significant rebound weight gain. 

The pull to do diets like these is so strong-the promise of happiness through a “better looking” body in 4 or 8 weeks seems magical.

No matter the cost-physical, mental or emotional. 

Until eating 1000 calories a day of only bars and packaged foods becomes unsustainable and the whole thing unravels. Because being a  human means that food is about way more than nutrition-and when you can’t enjoy what you’re eating or go out with friends or you’re losing your temper because you’re so hungry-then how is that diet really serving you? 

I get into what diet culture actually means, why a lack of education and awareness is at the root of why these diets have become so popular and why before and after photos are totally meaningless. 

This is episode is on fire. Can’t wait to hear what you think.

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Today I’m talking with Boulder, Colorado physical therapist and eating disorder survivor Sarah Ceschin. Sarah and I were connected with a friend of a friend who thought we’d be a great fit and they were right.

Sarah’s perspective on movement and PT aligns very much with mine but our conversation goes much deeper than this.

Boulder, CO is a city where nearly everyone is active in multiple outdoor sports-and we have a really fascinating conversation around how that fits in with exercise culture and some of the underlying issues that this environment creates. 

Sarah is an eating disorder survivor and this has really impacted her approach to treatment in a way that she looks at her patients as whole people rather than just a painful knee or shoulder. 

We talk through much of Sarah’s history with dieting and exercise, which was really rooted in her need to exercise as a punishment and a way to earn food. This experience has informed her work as a PT in terms of helping people reconnect to their bodies in a compassionate way. 

Sarah also shares some of the tools she used during her eating disorder recovery which resonate so strongly with the way I approach nutrition coaching.

And we both talk about our experiences gaining weight as part of the process of becoming fully reconnected to our bodies and creating trust around food.

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As promised today’s episode is all about goal weight vs. best weight.

Because learning and taking action on this is the foundation of how you’ll shift away from chronic dieting and find peace and acceptance in your body.

I’m breaking down the key differences between your goal weight which is the restrictive, sacrificial mindset we’ve always been in and your best weight which is about abundance, personal values and skills.

Friends, this is a game changer. 

I use this work personally and professionally every day in how I continue to navigate my own thoughts around food and my body (because remember -the thoughts don’t disappear; we learn to turn down the volume on them and change how we respond) as well as how I coach my 1:1 clients towards a way of life that is deeply rooted in their personal values. 

If this is resonating with you, click here to sign up for my free online workshop Tuesday March 22.

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I am thrilled to have my colleagues and friends Nikki Naab Levy and Isabelle Barter on today to dive into all of the messy, nuanced parts of weight loss, self care and dieting.

The big topic we’re talking about is the statistic that 95% of diets fail. What does that actually mean? What is failure? Why is this happening? And what can we do about it? 

As always, the three of us are candid and personal and have no problem saying the things other people often hesitate to. 

Here’s what we get into:

• The lack of education around the risks of weight loss and how weight loss actually happens 
• Why self trust is at the core of of this work and what that actually looks like
• Why learning internal cues is more important than following external rules
• How to bridge the gap between wanting to lose weight and also learning to eat with intention, awareness and self care
• Your personal history with food and dieting plays a huge role in when and if weight loss is a good choice for you
• Why coaching is one of the best tools for navigating this process
• How to shift away from the urgency around dieting
• The tradeoffs that exist between losing weight and your well being
• How and why figuring out what foods work for you is the foundation of all of this work
• The way you actually make changes around how you feel around food (hint, its not a diet)
  
  
  

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Let’s talk about progress. 

Progress is not about outcomes and end results. It can be. But it doesn’t have to be. Progress can be whatever you decide that it is. 

Progress is also not about instant gratification. Seeing the outcome of your effort in a week or a month. 

Because this work that I talk about here-takes time. A lot of time.

And that’s normal!!!! 

We need a reframe from things happening in 6 weeks to things happening in 6 months. 

And we need a reframe that progress is a living, evolving thing where multiple changes are happening at once. Maybe you’re making progress in one area and not in another. That’s how it goes-that doesn’t invalidate what you’re doing. 

This is such an important topic if you want to make long term changes-as I often say I don’t care about helping you for the next 30 days, I care about helping you for the next 30 years.

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Today I’m talking with personal growth coach (and my friend) Tammy Spiewak.

Tammy and I talk all the time about so much good stuff around food and body image and change and mindset and finally realized we needed to make it public because we both always walk away from our conversations with so much insight and inspiration. 

Here’s what we dive into today:

• Tammy’s journey as a mom, school teacher and yoga teacher to becoming a personal growth coach
• How Tammy and I both walked the path of “your mess becomes your message” 
• How the expectations of motherhood in our society impacts our sense of self 
• The stories we tell ourselves that keep us trapped and stuck
• What true self care looks like (hint: its not about a weekly manicure)
• Why being selfish is a good thing
• A reframe on why you need more boundaries in your life
• Why the work of true change takes way more time than we want it to and ultimately never ends (but that’s not a bad thing!)

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When I was living through years of chronic dieting and disordered eating, I had no idea coaching was a thing. I thought diets (and the occasional nutritionist) were my only options to stop hating my body and feeling out of control around food. 

So I thought it might be helpful to talk about my experience with coaching and the work I do as a coach so that you can feel empowered to make a choice and get the support you need.  

Here’s what I’m talking about today:

• What exactly coaching is and specifically how it helps you create change even after years of chronic dieting
  
  
• The key differences between nutrition coaching and following a diet 
  
  
• Some of the major mindset and behavior challenges coaching addresses
  
  
• How coaching teaches you not just what to eat but HOW to eat
  
  
• Why coaching is the last support you’ll ever need around food and body image

Learn more about my 1:1 coaching program here

Click here to schedule a free discovery call if you think this might be just what you’ve been looking for. 

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