Holiday Weight Gain Is a Lie

In the health world people like to talk about holiday weight gain. It's a lie.

Happy New Year!!!!

The truth is that holiday weight loss can happen just as easily as holiday weight gain. And even if you do gain weight, it's not the 7 pounds average other so-called gurus are trying to scare you with.  Holiday weight gain statistics are not that stark. 

But if your new year's resolution weight loss goals feel at odds with the new year's weight loss statistics, then rest easy. 

I have a different kind of weight loss plan.

This is not like a weight loss challenge, where you try to starve yourself and obsessively watch the scale. This is not a series of weight loss tips that work for a while, and  then someone stop working.  This isn't even really a weight loss program, because there are no rules, nothing to give up, nothing to stop eating. 

This IS an approach to weight loss that works. It is one of the healthiest, easiest, and fastest ways to lose eight that STAYS off. 

This IS a "program" that allows you to eat every single food you love, without restriction or ever feeling hungry. 
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​Don't start at the end

Most health advice is totally backwards. It starts off by telling you what to eat, what not to eat, and counting all kinds of numbers. BORING!

I don't waste your time with any of that nonsense. 

Okay okay, it's not total nonsense. There are times when focusing on specific things in your diet and counting specific numbers are really important. But for the VAST MAJORITY of people who simply want to lose weight and look and feel their best... it is not necessary to count anything, and in fact it will backfire, ruin your so called "Diet" and end up making you eat more junk food in the long term. 

Because it's more than boring to count all those numbers, it's depressing and it is a distraction from what is actually going on in your body and mind. 

​I help my clients forget all that BAD advice and create their own personal whole body connection! 
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Don't Let the Products Guide You

This is actually how we got into such a mess with all the counting in the first place!!!

Food manufacturers have one goal: sell as much as their product as possible, which they do by getting you to eat as much as possible. #sadbuttrue

Just like numbers, reading about the "health claims" on food actually disconnect you from your own desire, and puts some idea about what you "should" be doing into your mind instead. 

Looking at the package separates your from your body and your intuition.

Trust yourself. 

And also buy quality foods with the shortest ingredient list possible, and simply "ingredients" whenever you can as well. That makes it WAY easier to the whole trusting your body thing. 

Forget ALL The Rules & Restrictions

Yup. I said it.

Forget ALL the rules. Because rules and food just don't go together.* 

(*As always, please trust and follow your doctor's medical advice because there are always exceptions to the rules, even the rule that you shouldn't have any rules.)

The truth is that everyone is preaching about what you should or shouldn't eat. 

But no berry from the amazon is going to make you live forever, just as one bag of hot cheetos isn't going to kill you. 

And, worse yet, all the mixed messages and crazy hype about the good and evil foods of the world actually just cause us to feel stressed and overwhelmed, and end up causing us to make BAD decisions.

Again, all this damn information DISCONNECTS us from our bodies! We just can't tune in when we have to think so freaking much!! And when we are disconnected we grab the cookies or the chocolate or the whatever and eat it... and then we feel SO BAD about it!!!

Allowing yourself to eat freely actually FREES you to eat WELL.

Stop FIghting With Yourself

As soon as you tell yourself,

“You can never eat _____” …

it is guaranteed that another part of you will start demanding ____!

This sets you up to sabotage ALL your efforts!

Any approach to health based on all those rules and restrictions we just talked about? This will always lead you to battle within yourself, and when you battle yourself... YOU always lose. 

Oh, also, when you are fighting with yourself? You can't tune in, which we've talked about is really important. 

Also, any time you hear yourself saying "Should" means you are fighting with yourself.  Should with food is always a judgmental statement. 

I should stop eating sugar.
I should choose the low carb/fat/whatever menu item. 
I should not eat that delicious thing.
I should eat that thing I don't really want but think will help me lose wight. 

Those are all ways of telling yourself that you suck and you don't deserve what you want. I know this because I used be in a world of shoulds. I broke free from that kind of approach, and I want to help every woman do the same thing now. When you connect your food to your desire, there is no more should. 

​So, tune in to those shoulds. When you hear yourself saying you "should" then what you "should" do is take a pause and check in with yourself. 

This is the #1 Most Toxic Thing In Your Diet

This is the ONE thing that actually causes us to gain weight, whether at the holidays or any other time of year.

This one thing causes us to...
•Eat more sugar
•Gain weight
•Lose energy
•Feel bad about ourselves

It's not sugar, artificial colors, saturated fat, or any other ingredient. 

The #1 most toxic thing in your diet is guilt! 
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Yup, guilt is at the heart of almost all emotional eating. And it also contributes to mindless eating, too (the close cousin on emotional eating). 

Restrictive programs should be shunned as a miserable way to achieve health goals.

There is room for every food you love when you focus on the joy and not the calories. 

When You Love Every Bite…
You don’t feel guilty when you choose to eat a cupcake or get take out because you know it’s the right thing for you right  then.You are empowered to make EXACTLY the right choice for you.

So stop blaming yourself

Its simple and life changing to stop blaming yourself for the emotional eating and binges. 

Ready to get started??? 

With my quiz it's simple and also FUN. Because now that you know it's not your fault, you get to find out whose fault it is!!!