How Peanut Butter Cups Supported My Recovery
At the time my weeks were spent tightly "on-plan" and my weekends were spent binging. The binges were emotionally and physically painful and made me feel absolutely out of control and completely and utterly flawed.
I didn't know what else to do, so each week when Sunday rolled around I'd throw out all my "bad" foods and hop back on my plan.
Snow Storms and Binge Eating
It always fascinates me what happens at the supermarket right before we get hit with a big storm.
Chaos.
Long lines. Bread isles cleared. Eggs sold out.
Justifiably, people stock up because they're not sure how the roads will be and when they'll be able to get out.
Folks are worried and anxious about taking care of themselves and their families. They want to be secure in the fact that they'll have something to eat. Even just in case.
I know you're wondering what this has to do with anything...
Well, the SAMEprincipal applies when we think about dieting.
Considering a Weight Loss Challenge? Read this first.
If you’re reading this you’re probably struggling with food and your body in some way. And if you’re considering buying into one of these programs, you’re probably praying that one of these challenges is your solution.
Ladies, here are my most honest tips:
5 Quick and Easy Tools To Lessen Your Stress
Today I want to give you a few tools to help you cope with stress and anxiety in your day-to-day. Because if you can start dealing with this stuff early on in the day, you’ll be likely to have the weight of the world on your shoulders later at night. And if you don’t have the weight on the world on your shoulders at night, you’ll be less likely to need to numb out with food.
Why You're Binge Eating at Night
It’s a struggle that’s so common for so many people. But it’s not openly talked about because it’s steeped in guilt and shame.
Binge eating at night.
Today I want to help you understand what could be driving binge eating at night and give you a few tools to help you move through it.
VLOG: Weight Loss as Self-Love
Because if 70% of women are already engaging in eating patterns and behaviors that are negatively impacting their emotional well being, masquerading weight loss as self-love is actually manipulating them into believing that it’ll work this time around.
That if they self-love themselves hard enough by skipping meals on the regular, living by a number that My Fitness Pal prescribes, only getting off the treadmill when they hit x number of calories, eating within a 5 hour window that they’ll come into their own and finally feel worthy.
Because #selflove.
Right?
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[VLOG] The Fastest Way to Lose Your Muffin Top
Did you know that there are 13 million people in the world who are perpetually dieting?
Doing everyyyything in their power to lose their muffin top. Amongst other things.
And this time of year articles and blogs promoting ways to do just that in 30, 60, 90 days or less are a dime a dozen.
Because of the hardwired belief that to fit the societal beauty standard that we shouldn’t have one.
According to society thinness = beauty = happiness
But let’s flip this on its head for a minute.
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[VLOG] Take The Sting Out of Body-Judgments
You want to retrain your brain and acknowledge that society has influenced you to view cellulite as “ugly” or your round stomach as “terrible” or your jiggly arms as “disgusting”.
Do you see the power that these types of words carry?
Get really clear on the fact that you weren’t born with these judgements. You were conditioned into believing them. And, if you can back off on that just a little bit and get really clear, really basic, really descriptive and specific things can just be what they are. Without the weight of judgment.
How to Eat Healthy For The Rest of 2017
The parties, the temptations, the triggers, the purchasing of holiday outfits.
All of it.
If only the warm, fuzzy feelings of the holidays outweighed food and body stress!
Instead the season can bring on all the feels.
And often times we turn to our go-to way of soothing those feels- by emotionally overeating to to cope with the stress and discomfort.