My Weight Loss Was My Worth

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you would have seen me post this week regarding a memory that came up from five years ago. A time when I felt like I was at the peak of my success. The FB memory that came up was a video clip of me on a big […]

What to do when you just feel so uncomfortable in your body right now

One thing that I hear a lot, and that I have also experienced myself, is people who say they just feel so uncomfortable in their body the size that it is right now. This is where that feeling of desperation to lose some weight can come from and where we are at when we end […]

When You Love Yourself You Are Able to More Fully Love Others

I used to be a very judgemental person. I look back at the person I was previously (like up until just a few months ago) and just feel like I used to be in a very dark place – mentally and emotionally. I was easily hurt because I was actually very insecure and my response […]

Emotional Eating as a Non-Dieter

I speak with people quite often regarding emotional eating and emotional binge eating. They describe exactly what I have experienced as well – turning to food to deal with a certain emotion or situation, and then feeling totally out of control with that food at that moment. I used to get so focused on trying […]

The Reason You Feel Out of Control Around Certain Foods

Do you ever feel like there are certain foods you just can’t be trusted around? Do you have certain foods that you just can’t keep in the house because you will just eat all of it feeling out of control around it? Are there times that you feel totally out of control around food? If […]

The Emotional Side to Emotional Eating

This is the other (not often talked about) side to emotional eating…. Learning to actually feel through your emotions, instead of trying to numb them out and push them down further. Am I the only one that feels like in society we are being taught how to avoid our negative emotions more? You hear things […]

Why We Should Stop Complimenting Weight Loss

Can we please stop praising and complimenting weight loss for a second? Telling someone how “great” they look since they lost weight. You don’t always know what’s actually going on and given the fact that weight loss is a very real symptom for most serious diseases, you may very well be complimenting them for being […]

Can You Exercise Without Pursuing Weight Loss

One of the first things I noticed when I decided to ditch dieting and pursuing weight loss, was how prominent those dieting thoughts were in my mind around exercise. What became very clear to me quite quickly was that exercise, although I did quite often note to myself all the other benefits of it, was […]

The Weight Loss Struggle

I came across an old blog of mine recently. It’s the first blog I ever did and it was right in the midst of my weight loss journey. There were a few things that struck me from scrolling through these posts. First, I kept struggling with the exact same things over and over again!! Every […]

Your Healthy Eating Plan is Probably Not Very Healthy

Have you ever committed to a certain eating plan with the goal of better health? I feel like most people have. I know that most people when pursuing weight loss, they do typically say their goal is to “be healthier“. Have you ever actually broken down what exactly “being healthier” means? Does it mean weighing […]