Culture Wars: Body Shaming vs Fat Celebration
The conventional cultural “diet and exercise” model is the root of all pain, shame, drama and dysfunction surrounding food, exercise, your body and your weight – AND it is the source of the confusion and acrimony in the “culture wars” surrounding health, obesity and fat pride.
The diet and exercise model suggests that your body’s size and shape is simply a result of what you eat and what you do for exercise. But the fact that you are responsible for what you eat and what you do for exercise, does not mean that you can therefore control your body’s weight and shape through diet and exercise – that is a fallacy.
Both sides are using the diet and exercise model and a framework and both sides get stuck. One side gets tripped up on the control fallacy side of the coin. And the other side gets tripped up by not accepting the responsibility that they DO have to honor and respect their bodies by working to create optimized health and well-being. And this side gets all twisted by rejecting of the cultural standards of health – without rejecting the diet and exercise model. So everyone remains stuck.
The key to finding freedom from food and creating true healing and transformation is to reject the “diet and exercise” model and embrace a relationship-based, body-centered approach.
Time To Move & Shake with Zibby Owens
My guest episode for Zibby Owens’ podcast. In this podcast, I teach actionable strategies to create more time for busy moms who deal with food, exercise, and body-image issues. Sharing personal insights gleaned from my own painful and life-threatening struggles surrounding my body and my weight, I outline a path for optimizing health, vitality, well-being, joy — and time!
Food For Thought: Your Body Knows How To Create Results
YOUR BODY IS YOUR GPS WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Your body is a complex system of living intelligence that knows how to optimize its state of health vitality, well being, beauty and joy, and it is always guiding you in that direction. All you have to do is take a beat, take a breath and […]
Food For Thought: Acceptance Creates Transformation
ACCEPTANCE IS GIVING UP THE PAIN WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW So many people struggle with acceptance – accepting their bodies and accepting themselves – because the “diet and exercise” model says that you can’t. Within the context of the “diet and exercise” model, it suggests that to accept something means that you wouldn’t necessarily have […]
Food For Thought: “Diet & Exercise” Does Not Work Long Term
YOUR BODY KNOWS BEST WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW The “diet and exercise” model demands that you disconnect from your body in order to be successful. And that is one of the many reasons it never works long term.
Food For Thought: Exercise Is NOT About “Burning Calories” Or “Losing Weight”
THAT’S “DIET DRAMA” THINKING!! WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Exercise is not a penalty. It is not a punishment. It is not a “price” you pay to eat. That is “Diet Drama Land” thinking! Exercise is about a relationship with your body. Use exercise as a way to heal your relationship with your body and watch […]
Food For Thought: Your Body Is NOT A “Caloric Balance Sheet”
YOU KNOW THIS – BUT DO YOU EMBODY THIS? WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Your body is not a caloric balance sheet. You know this – but do you?? Do you really?? Think about all the unconscious – or perhaps conscious – judging you do about food and exercise. You’re constantly thinking is it “good” food? […]
The Inspiration & Insanity of “Fat Pride”
It is my contention that all of the pain and dysfunction surround food, exercise, weight and well-being can be traced back to the core, conventional, cultural diet and exercise model.
This discussion illustrates that argument by comparing and contrasting Lizzo’s reality show “Watch Out For The Big Grrrrls” with a practical joke perpetrated by Steven Crowder. This episode also demonstrates the differences in responses to physical conditions society deems “medical” versus conditions popularly seen as a result of consequences of choice. True healing and transformation – both on an individual level – and collectively – is possible.
Food For Thought: Your Body Has No Idea What A Calorie Is
CALORIES ARE A HUMAN INVENTION WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Your body is a complex system of Living Intelligence that knows how to optimize its state of health, vitality, well-being, beauty and joy. AND it has no idea what a calorie is. This is because calories are an invention of mankind. They are made up units […]
Food For Thought: If You Could Have, You Would Have By Now
THE “DIET & EXERCISE” MODEL KEEPS YOU STUCK WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW If you could have, you would have by now. The reason you can’t is because you’re stuck in the “diet and exercise” model. Switch from a transaction-based model of “diet and exercise” to a relationship-based model of health and well being and you’ll […]