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Wanting to eat healthfully and engage in physical activity for the goodness of your body IS most definitely part of Intuitive Eating, it’s just not the only part. #nourishnotpunish #intuitiveeating #antidiet #balancenotclean #HAES #nondietdietitian #bodykindness #selfcare #selflove #gentlenutrition #nondiet #nondietapproach #health #fit #allfoodsfit #healthateverysize #emotionaleating #dietculture #foodfreedom #ditchthediet #heathynothungry #heatlhyliving #intuitiveeatingjourney #nuancematters
Caring for your health and trying to manipulate your body size are two different things⠀
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Caring for you health might look like: ⠀
- getting enough sleep⠀
- eating a wide variety of food groups⠀
- adding some movement in throughout the day ⠀
- doing things to decrease stress⠀
- drinking water ⠀
- spending time with loved ones ⠀
- creating work/life boundaries⠀
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On the other hand, manipulating body size is often wrapped up in calories, points, macros, and other rules and external value markers. This path often leads to shame, frustration, and further dislike of self. It's not empowering, in fact, it takes the power away.⠀
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If you are truly looking to improve your health, I'd encourage you to take a deep look at what feels good in your body. Let's approach health as an act of self-care kk? (hand raise if you're with me) ♀️♀️♀️⠀
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Emotional eating’. The thing is though - when it comes to body composition, no matter what process you choose and how you execute it, any change which occurs is the result of science (thermodynamics). Whilst we cannot change the course of science, we can change our emotions to influence the scientific process. The feelings we get which result in turning to excess food for comfort can be eradicated by choice. We can literally choose to do this. We control our emotions, they do not control us. We need to be stronger. -
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Take eating a cookie or a moderate amount of ice cream for example. In your head you might tell yourself that eating a cookie or ice cream is bad (but you love them). Now that you’re already bad, why not eat 4 cookies, or a whole tub of ice cream? The reality is though, that this particular cookie is 240 calories and this moderate amount of ice cream is 150. What does that mean for your fitness goal? You tell me. But I estimate that it could absolutely fit into your diet, regardless of your goal.
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Eating this cookie/ice cream is one tiny episode in your life. It’s a small part of your overall lifestyle which defines your goal. Your execution of energy balance, nutrients absorbed, bodily function is science. So is the effect of 240 calories or 960. 150 calories or 1000. You literally make these choices. Be objective.
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The principle of the paragraph above can be used for the asparagus too. Consuming a nutrient dense, healthy food will not automatically achieve your fitness goals alone. Don’t fall into a false sense of achievement - you merely ate a food here. What does the big picture look like? -
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You can’t change science. But you can change irrational, useless emotions into informed executions of educated, rational choices that help you. This choice may be a whole tub of ice cream, but at least you know that it still fits the plan .
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My Sunday’s used to be a ritual of not eating all day & counting down the hours till I would trek on over to whole food in sweats & a hat as incognito as possible. Because these rituals were shameful for me.
I bought the same thing every week: a chicken cesar wrap, big bag of stacy’s pita chips, tub of original whole foods hummus, greek salad from the salad bar + a pint of häagen-dazs coffee ice cream. I went home, shut the blinds, and sat on the couch in front of the TV & ate every last bite of the food I just bought. Usually in tears by the end.
I ate it all because I needed to be “bad” enough to be really “good” on Monday.
I sat there & binged, mindlessly - because another guy I liked didn’t text me back, I no longer looked like or weighed what I did in college, and I was ashamed of what I drunkenly ate the night which I didn’t even remember doing till the next morning.
Not only did I not respect myself, I didn’t think I deserved to respect myself.
After losing and gaining weight SO many times, either restricting or binging & beating up on myself about how I looked & felt every single day, I kinda gave up on ever having a positive relationship with food.
What finally changed for me was letting go of the idea that I needed to change in order to be loved, accepted & worthy. I decided to believe I was good enough just the way I was. I decided to start making choices from a place of self-love & self-respect, not hate.
I looked at what I was eating, not just how much. I looked at my triggers. I looked at what made me happy & what didn’t. I focused on sleep, stress, & self-care. I practiced compassion & forgiveness and gave myself the time, energy & space to find my groove after so many years doing things a different way.
You don’t have to hate yourself, or throw yourself under the bus, or never think you’re good enough ya know. You don’t have to know how to get there yet, you just have to decide you want to get there.
My new self-paced, online program Wellness Babe is available now, and helps guide you through all the things I did to break free from feeling stuck around food & beyond. Enroll through the link in my bio!✨
We’re really quick to go from a decade of struggling with food & our bodies, constantly dieting, feeling guilt & shame around what we eat and what we look like, a battle with our weight & overall struggles in our lives to say, “I want to HEAL.” Or “I want to LOVE my body” or “I want to be an INTUITIVE eater.”
I absolutely love these goals don’t get me wrong. And I think it proves that you’re ready. That you’re sick & tried of accepting the less-than and ready to move forward. And I celebrate that. But I’m also in the business of create permanent change & I often see these 0-60 goals hold us back.
Here’s why - we have to be mindful of the history, fear, & protection that’s wrapped up in those goals.
If the goals feel too big, or overwhelming (right now!) considering where you’ve come from (maybe you feel you’ve “failed” lots before) you actually may sabotage getting there, or never start, or give up - because you just can’t picture it. Make sense?
So what if you broke it down a little. What if instead of I want to HEAL. You focused just on exactly how you want to feel day to day. Better energy? Focus? Balance? Less pain? More movement?
What if instead of I want to LOVE my body. You focused on accepting, meaning not punishing, forcing or hating. Letting down the fight. Celebrating yourself. Some gratitude. Some self-care.
What if instead of becoming an intuitive eater who can all of sudden eat when she’s hungry and stop when she’s full...you just woke up with the intention to eat as close to real food as possible, see what you like, what you don’t, what keeps you full, see what makes you feel more calm, less obsessed. What if you just started by gathering information & experimenting not trying to be perfect with another eating style, you took a break from that and just WERE. Knowing there will be major ups & downs in the process and that’s totally OK and NORMAL.
I think we all have some perfectionism in us. I see it even with mindset. And health. And food. And our bodies. I’m a big proponent of taking it slow. Giving yourself the time & space to figure it out. Of breaking things down. What do you think? Let me know below♥️
Peeling away the layers. So many layers of ideas and things that no longer serve me. I find myself digging, searching, re-emerging and ridding myself of far too many given fucks.
It might be maturity (finally) or something else but more and more I am feeling at home in my own skin.
I have been letting go of all and everyone that no longer serves me. Purging my body of negative self beliefs, my closet of ill fitting clothes and my life of ill fitting people.
The one thing that I keep coming back to is ownership of the world that I create for myself.
Your autobiography has the power to alter your biology. Meaning that your thoughts can alter entire processes in your body. You can create a stress response out of a pure thought. You can also reverse the harmful effects of stress just by focusing on love, gratitude and programming yourself to be a lighter being.
Repeat after me
I am confident.
I am beautiful.
I am love.
I am loveable.
I am light.
I am hard working.
I am determined.
I am successful.
I am protected.
You control this life gf. Don’t let a bad day, ruin an otherwise perfect existence. Be proud of how far you’ve come and know that this is only just the beginning.
Are you an emotional eater? ♀️
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On some level we all are! Food SHOULD be pleasurable. We should be able to enjoy the process of eating and allow it to bring us happiness on some level. What food SHOULD NOT do is be the only thing (or the main thing) that brings us joy. Food is not something that we should use to distract ourselves from emotions or as a coping tool for tough feelings. When food is used in this way, we begin relating unwanted emotions to food, leading to even MORE hard feelings to deal with like guilt, shame, and not to mention a tummy ache and possibly other physical problems. .
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If you consider yourself a stress eater or an emotional eater, then you need to check out my ✨NEW and FREE✨Emotional Eating workbook and toolkit! .
If Emotional Eating is a barrier to fully trusting your body and getting out of the diet mindset, then get your free workbook and toolkit by heading over to the link in my profile! .
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THE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY OF EATING. Varför valde jag min utbildning?
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En av de största anledningarna till att jag började plugga är för att jag själv haft utmaningar med mat, med kropp, med prestation, med perfektionism. Det jag dock insett är att det aldrig har handlat om varken mat, kroppen eller prestation. Det har bara blivit ett uttryck, ett beteende, för något mycket djupare som funnits inom mig men det har gett uttryck i: emotionellt ätande, underäta, överäta, kontrollera - you name it. Slutsatsen: Det har inte spelat någon roll hur jag ätit, om jag haft ett 6-pack på magen, om jag blivit matchens lirare eller hur mycket kärlek jag fått från någon annan för det har inte varit den grundläggande orsaken och därmed inte lösningen. Mina beteenden har bara varit distraktioner och strategier för att undvika att möta den verkliga orsaken inom mig
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Det fina med den här utbildningen är att den tagit hela människan i beaktande. Hur yttre faktorer men framförallt inre faktorer påverkar vår relation till mat, kropp och oss själva. Hur det påverkar våra beteenden, som i slutändan blir vår vardag, vårt liv. Exempelvis, många säger att övervikt endast handlar om viljestyrka och disciplin, hur mycket vi tränar, kalorier in och ut - till viss del absolut, men övervikt kan också vara lagrad energi eller ett skydd. En annan anledning till att vi inte går ned i vikt kan vara för att vi upplever stress inom oss. Det kan vara flera olika faktorer. Det emotionella, det fysiska, maten vi äter, miljön vi lever i - alla delar har en påverkan på varandra.
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Det fina är att numera ser jag det så tydligt, så klart: våra utmaningar är våra största lärare, de är meddelanden, det är sätt att få oss bli mer connected med oss själva, det är vår största spiritual practice om vi väljer att möta det vi står inför
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Att läka handlar om att göra jobbet inom oss. Att skifta från det yttre till det inre, det är lösningen
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Do you find yourself reaching for food when you’re feeling down, upset or stressed?
Food may help to ease emotions initially, but addressing the feelings behind the hunger is important in the long run.work to fine alternative ways to deal with stress like exercise and peer support and start practising mindful eating habits .
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