Why are you hiding under clothes or a cover-up?
Is it because you told yourself that in order to reveal your body in a bathing suit you have to be X size or lose X amount of pounds?
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I was really enjoying my workout. She started talking about all of the drinking and eating that happens over the summer. Summer is over now, so of course it’s time to start thinking about how we can improve our bodies for next summer!!?!?!
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People don’t want to hear they may gain weight. But here’s the thing. If you are underweight or holding on to a weight that is not natural for you body because you’re restricting, once you stop restricting, weight gain may happen as a way for your body to recover, be healthy, and function properly.
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When you’re not eating enough and working out so much it drains you. It steels the fun side of you. All you can think about is food. You worry all the time that you will “get fat” or that you are not “thin or fit enough” even though you just lost a bunch of weight.
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For many, accepting our body as it is RIGHT NOW is difficult. What if you’re not happy with the way your body feels? What if you feel toxic? Unhealthy? What if you are faced with medical issues such as a new diagnosis or threat that a disease is lingering?
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Your healthy weight is one you can maintain with no stress. Eating food that you find satisfying, nourishing, that doesn’t make you feel sick, that energizes you. It’s one you can maintain with exercise and movement that feels good and not torturous, forced, or painful.
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Whether you have an eating disorder or are so deep in disordered eating from chronic dieting, I recognize how difficult it is to cut the cord with the diet world. If you agree, then this blog post rant is for you!
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When you are so knee-deep in disordered eating, controlling every morsel of food that enters your mouth, and never straying from a rigid exercise schedule, you can’t just take a vacation from that when you’re on vacation. I know this because I couldn’t do it.
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We need to be honest with ourselves that there is something else driving us to turn to food when realistically there is something else in our life we need to figure out.
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Interested in reading more about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every size? Check out my list of some great ones you should get to reading or listen to on your audible.com account!
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So many ridiculous ideas to keep you from eating when what your body wants IS NOT a damn cup of coffee… it WANTS FOOD! You really want chips, but eat carrots instead. Let me know how that works for you.
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95% of all dieters will regain the weight they lost. That’s crazy! It makes you wonder why we are all so obsessed with diets, cleanses, and insane workouts. If we do lose weight, the odds are stacked against us.
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It’s hard enough to plan one meal. Don’t subject yourself to making multiple meals every night until your kids move out of the house. This can also feed into picky behaviors and mold your picky child into a picky teenager and possibly grow into a picky adult.
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We can talk about ways to move our bodies, how food fuels our bodies, foods to ADD to our diet rather than foods we should be AVOIDING or taking away. There is absolutely NO reason a child of any age should be micro-focused on their body shape and how they eat.
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….. we may not think our little ones are listening or have any clue what we’re talking about. After all, what does your four-year-old know about feeling fat and needing to lose weight? The sad thing is children are all too familiar with diet talk and it’s happening earlier in age than we can imagine.
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I don’t know many people that restrict themselves from eating broccoli or apples … Most people eat broccoli or apples when they want and without guilt. They are not “bad” foods in your mind. Do you binge on these foods? Probably not because you don’t restrict them.
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Keep in mind, exercise SHOULD NOT be a form of punishment from eating that sleeve of cookies and downing a few glasses of wine!!! (eh-hem)
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We believe we are supposed to be eating a certain way, looking a certain way, exercising a certain way. Most of it is fueled by media and the diet/weight loss industry. Much of it is NOT backed by scientific evidence.
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