“Losing weight is simple. All you have to do is eat veggies and lean protein for most of your meals”Sure, that’s true … If you wre an emotionless robot who had a mostly effortless life, with low demands on your time and emotional and mental energy.Any blanket statements around health and weight loss entirely ignore the human experience and place an impossible burden of expectation on the individual.On top of that, when someone fails to adhere to said guidelines, they’re often told that they just don’t want it bad enough.Are you freaking kidding me?Whenever someone makes such a blanket statement,…

One of the biggest obstacles that actually stops people from changing is the fear of what others will say.Yet, that’s something that we have no control over.Which means letting something that you DO have control over … is being stopped dead by something you have zero control over.Trying to control others’ opinions of you is like trying to hit the wind with a baseball bat … you end up exhausted and yet nothing meaningful accomplished.“I want to lose weight, but I’m worried what my partner/family/friends will think about my efforts to get healthy … so rather than come into conflict…

There’s something hugely wrong with conversations around weight loss. ☹️When someone posts that they’re struggling to lose weight, well-intentioned friends will rattle off a list of all the things that they did, that may have worked:“I did keto” … “I went plant-based” … “I cut out gluten” … and so on.What I don’t hear a lot of is “I’d like to hear your story”.It’s easy to throw out simple platitudes: “It’ll get better, I promise …” or “I’m thinking about you …”It’s not so easy for people to open up their heart to truly LISTEN.People don’t just gain 100lbs overnight. It…

I used to hate myself 😲I used to put everyone and everything before myself.When one of my mentors said to me “If you’re tired of the way people are treating you, take a look at how you’re treating yourself” … That blew my mindIt had never occurred to me that the level of respect that I gave myself, would determine the respect I got from others.I always made excuses for why something else was more important than taking care of myself.I would get started on some diet with a burst in motivation, only to burn out in less than 2 weeks.It…

I’m so thankful that diets failed me. I’m so thankful that every time I tried to punish myself into being healthy, that it failed. I struggled for so long thinking that I was the failure, when in fact my body was trying to teach me a lesson. You cannot hate your way into health. It is impossible. And I’m filled with such deep gratitude, because it meant that I had to learn to love myself and love my body. My body was crying out for love, appreciation and gratitude, and I was trying to punish it into submission, to try…

I want to paint you a picture:​​Imagine, if you will, sitting down to a meal and feeling at peace.  Not worrying about if the potatoes are going to make you fat, or stressing about the dessert that might be coming.Imagine walking into the grocery store and feeling at ease.  Not white-knuckling your grocery cart as you dart past the junk food aisle.Imagine feeling so comfortable around food that you never feel guilt, fear, dread or pain.Imagine eating with true enJOYment.  Where you sit down to eat, and you enjoy each bite.  The food is delicious, and at the end of…

I wonder if, when people hear the term “emotional eating”, they picture a broken-hearted ex sobbing into a bucket of ice cream, while binge-watching Bridget Jones’ Diary on rerun? Sure, that qualifies as emotional eating. But, the intriguing thing is, for most people, emotional eating looks nothing like that. Let’s pull up a stump, give each other a knowing nod, as we ponder this age-old question: “Why do pizza and donuts make me fat, when pizza and donuts make me feel good? Life isn’t fair” Ok, not one of the great philosophical debates of our time. But, you and I…

A number on the scale won’t help you love yourself. A flat stomach won’t help you love yourself. And, that’s so incredibly liberating ❤️. You don’t have to wait until some arbitrary point in time to start appreciating how amazing you are And if you think I’m lying when I tell you you’re amazing, I challenge you to hop on a call with me and try to prove me wrong 😃 You might laugh, you might cry, but at the end of the day, I’m 💯 sure I’m right.

When did food become the answer to all our problems? Food is amazing. It represents social life, celebration, culture, history and more. But, I don’t think we’ve ever had such a tenuous relationship with food in human history. For most of history, people were just grateful to have food on the table. And in times of harvest, when food was abundant, people celebrated. So … when did the problems start? I don’t know exactly, but I’m pretty confident that we can see a connection between the rise in mental, emotional and lifestyle stress, along with the increase in cheap, abundant,…