Why ”Listen To Your Body” is BS Advice

"Just listen to your body, eat intuitively, do what works for you . . . "

Well intentioned advice for sure, but honestly pretty useless in practice. When we hear advice like this we usually think something like "oh ya, I would like to do that, that sounds good".  But then when we actually attempt itwe get super frustrated, we don't know HOW to listen to our body, and it becomes just one more thing we feel like a failure at.  I mean it SEEMS like it should be so simple, and then when it's not, we get discouraged, we feel broken, and it's one more diet strategy that just didn't work for us.  Back to the drawing board.

Don't get me wrong, I actually think the concepts of listening to your body and doing what works for you are critically important skills for your success in achieving the lasting health and weight loss you're after.  In fact, the ability to truly tune in to your body, in my opinion, is the is one of the biggest deciding factors between success and failure in achieving lasting health and weight loss.  The reason the advice is BS is because it's literally impossible to just DO unless you've been taught and have practiced the skills necessary to do it.

After years of yo-yo dieting where we are always "prescribing" a plan and TELLING our body what food it will get and when, we have lost the ability to tune and listen to what IT actually needs.   Think about your last diet - you had rules about the amount and types of food you were allowed to eat and you probably also had a lot of rules about when you were allowed to eat.  That is the opposite of listening to your body.  So in order to regain the ability to tune in to the signals of our body we need to learn the tools and practice them.

We spend  a lot of time honing this skill in the Healthy Mind Healthy Body Program.  If you found the tips in today's episode helpful, I encourage you to hit the link and check it out!

XOXO

Tara

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Ditch the Diets and Finally Make Peace with Food

If you struggle with yo-yo dieting then you know how hard it is to make any real lasting change.  Unfortunately most women get stuck in the belief that being on a diet is the only way to lose weight and get healthy, and when they inevitably fail they’ve destroyed their self esteem, destroyed their relationship with food, and get stuck in a guilt/shame spiral that starts the whole process over again.  

If you don’t understand how reprogram your mind that is sabotaging you, and reprogram your body for health, you’ll never make lasting progress.  

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