Are you sick of yo-yo dieting?
Do you weigh yourself once a day
(or more)?
Do you spend more time thinking
about food and diet then you spend thinking about your life?
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Weight loss
battles (and I DO mean battles) create a major energy drain
and can prevent you from living your best life.
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For many
women, making peace with food is a crucial step in getting
on with their life and creating the life they want to live.
I work with people to create their
best version of their life and for some that means
addressing the food craziness.
I help people get off the diet-weight loss
roller coaster and create a mindful, conscious
relationship with food. When people do that they can move
on to the really important things.
Diet's don't work—they
just keep people dieting (and gaining and losing and bingeing
and miserable). Making peace with food not only allows
people to begin eating normally again, it really allows you to
get on with your life without food and weight and eating
decisions swallowing way-too-much of your energy.
Mindful eating is a term
used to describe a way of eating which uses internal cues about
hunger, appetite and fullness to guide our relationship with
food. We listen to our body to know what and when we need
to eat. Dieting, restricting and counting calories or fat
grams and focusing on weight are not components of
mindful eating.
Mindful eaters eat when they
are hungry and stop when they are satisfied. They eat the
foods that they are hungry for. There is no list of "good"
or "bad" foods.
Mindful eating is how people
who have a healthy relationship with food, who don't struggle
with weight, and who don't diet have been eating all along.
Starting with mindful eating creates a
ripple effect--like throwing a pebble into a pond
If we can learn to slow down
and be mindful of our eating, learn to
recognize and respond to our hunger cues and cravings (no small
tasks!), we realize that most of the time when we are obsessing
about food, we aren't really hungry. When we can figure out what
to be mindful of and what to do instead of focusing on
food, the ripples lead most people to lives where food takes up
so much less time and energy and our minds are freed up to do
much more powerful things.
I see people who tackle mindful eating grow and expand in so
many different ways when they are no longer trapped in the
food-diet craziness. It’s so powerful that it’s become a major
area in which I work with people.
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