Food For Thought: STOP Trying to “Love Your Body”
WHY KEEP MAKING THE SAME RESOLUTIONS YEAR AFTER YEAR? WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Love cannot be compelled. Love cannot be coerced. So stop trying to “love your body. ” stop trying to love yourself. Instead – just stop hating yourself. Stop hating your body. Stop doing all of those millions of little things that you […]
Back to Basics with Happy Calories Don’t Count®
You will never be completely free from the anxiety of food, exercise and body drama – regardless of your current size or shape – as long as your efforts come from within the context of the fundamental base paradigm of the conventional, cultural “diet and exercise” model.
That model is transaction-based, sets up calories as a “currency of exchange” and suggests that you must pay a “price” to eat. The price? Exercise – or weight gain.
And while you are indeed responsible for what you eat and what you do for exercise, the fact that you are responsible for your choices and actions does not mean that you can therefore control the outcome – you cannot control your body through diet and exercise. That is a fallacy. That is the root of your food and body image struggles.
The “diet and exercise” model demands that you disconnect from the wisdom of your body to be “successful.” And it is this attempt to disconnect from your body that causes all of the pain and dysfunction.
By switching from the transaction-based model of “diet and exercise,” to the relationship-based model of Happy Calories Don’t Count® your pain and dysfunction around food and your body is healed – and you can finally create a body you love with sustainable results.
Listen to the full episode for my outline of the 5 Steps of the Happy Calories Don’t Count® Model.
Food For Thought: Your Body Has Its Own Point Of View
YOUR BODY IS A COMPLEX SYSTEM OF LIVING INTELLIGENCE WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Your body is not a “caloric balance sheet” and your body is not an “algorithm. ” Your body is a complex system of living intelligence that has its own wisdom and its own point of view.
Food For Thought: No “Diet & Exercise” Resolution Needed
WHY KEEP MAKING THE SAME RESOLUTIONS YEAR AFTER YEAR? WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Weight loss and fitness top the New Year’s Resolution list year after year after year. Why is that? Well I had heard once that resolution breaks down into “re-solution” resolve “re-solve” So you’re just solving the same darn problem over and over […]
Stop Resolving & Start Creating A Body You Love
What’s the point of losing weight or getting in shape (the top New Year’s resolutions) if you have to resolve to do it year after year?
The week between Christmas and New Year’s means that your social media (and all media) feeds are filling up with ads pitching “new” programs and apps to help you lose weight and get in shape in the coming year.
From diet apps to new fitness methods – psychology based or doctor supervised bots – NONE of these programs are ultimately effective because they are still fundamentally based within the “diet and exercise” model.
To truly create lasting change, you must shift underlying base paradigms. Regardless of which wellness approach you take, changing the based model from the transaction-based framework of “diet and exercise” to a relationship based perspective is critical.
The Fallacy of “Diet & Exercise” and Lettuce Burritos
My guest interview on Erin Keam’s podcast is live!! It’s such a great conversation!! We discuss the body shaming that exists within the body positivity movements, critical components for healing eating disorders, how to transform emotional eating – and best of all – I outline my signature 5-Step approach for creating a body AND life you love!
Rock Your Skinny Jeans Without Motivation, Goals or Diets
What’s the point of losing weight or getting in shape (the top New Year’s resolutions) if you have to resolve to do it year after year? How do you create results that are sustainable? How can you create results on your terms – so that you still enjoy your life?
Episode 19 of the Food Is Not A “Four-Letter” Word podcast discusses the underlying psychology of resolutions, motivation and goal setting and how the 5 Steps of the Happy Calories Don’t Count® Method guide you in creating a body and life you love in any moment you choose.
Influencing Thought & Normalizing Dysfunction
How do you create true freedom from food drama? How do you claim your personal power?
You are allowed, you have the right, you have the freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do and exist how you want to exist – and to want to look how you want to look.
Part of standing in your personal power comes from understanding how other people are trying to influence your behavior, influence your pocket book, influence your mindset – all of those things. When you can stand back and you can really look at a situation eyes wide open, and see what’s going on – then you can decide from a place of empowerment, how you want to engage.
People try to influence behavior all the time. Everyone does it. It’s it’s part of life. What is really important is where it shifts from trying to influence behavior to influence how you think – especially about yourself.
How Diet Culture is Normalized
Are you in charge of your own thoughts and beliefs about your body and yourself?
Are you sure?
This episode illustrates how complex systems – including economic profit motives and slick psychological marketing – influence your thoughts and sense of self like you never imagined.