Healing your relationship with food and your body doesn’t mean that you never have those old dieting thoughts pop up or have a bad body day. Doing this work allows you to not buy into that story anymore and gives you…
All Bodies Are Good Bodies
Something I started doing last year is changing up my social media feed to show more diversity in body sizes and unfollowed accounts that I was comparing my body to in a negative way. One of my favorite hashtags is #allbodiesaregoodbodies to…
Ditch the Scale
How often do you weigh yourself in the morning and that impacts your day, either positively or negatively? Stop doing that to yourself. Today’s tip is to ditch the scale. Most people have a pity party if the number went…
Wear Clothes That Fit
Another body image tip that really helped me is buying clothes that fit my body NOW and not some future body that I wished I had. Be comfortable now. It’s very hard to have a positive relationship with your body…
Body Image Thoughts
Changing my thoughts around my body has been a work in progress for about 4 years now. I want to share some of the things that has really helped me in my journey. Some questions to start thinking about this…
Think Small This New Year
How often do you make new health goals in the new year but stop shortly after starting? You probably get frustrated with yourself and feel like you’ve failed. You always end up self-sabotaging your great intentions and you go…
Power of Mindfulness
Emotions fascinate me. I’ve been exploring my own emotions more and the ways I habitually react and how that can cause myself or those around me to suffer. I went to a silent meditation retreat over the weekend through…
I was so good today…
Have you had these thoughts or maybe even said these out loud? I’m going to be good today order a salad. I’ve been so bad lately, I should eat the salad and not the hamburger. Those brownies look delicious but…
Emotional Eating
I always thought Emotional Eating was WRONG and something BAD, but it’s actually OK. It’s perfectly ok to eat when you are not hungry for emotional reasons as long as you are aware you are doing it and you choose…
Measuring Success
Measuring success when it comes to a non-diet approach looks very different than the conventional diet and weight loss approach. It can be a little uncomfortable at first because you don’t feel like you are doing it right if you…