I grew up in a household where someone was either on a diet, or about to go on a diet, or had gone off their diet and they were on the emotional rollercoaster of self-blame and shame.

I’ve seen how people go on a temporary diet and lose weight in the short run, only to gain it all back and then some after they go back to eating how they usually do.

To put it succinctly, dieting is a short-term, short-sighted game.

But even I, someone who knows all of this stuff inside and out, have ingested the dieting mindset. It still lives inside of me to this day.

I had a moment earlier this year when I was naked in my bathroom. I saw my reflection in the mirror and wasn’t thrilled with what I saw.

I have been holding on to extra weight for a few years now, and even though I to do all the “right” things, still it remains. (I have much to say about this at another time)

In that moment of looking at my reflection, I heard this voice in my head. It told me I really needed to calorie restrict and exercise more, because that’s the only way to lose weight.

My immediate response was sadness and distress. I felt myself start to spiral into a dark and lonely place of self-hate.

I know what it feels like to be calorie restricting to an extreme and exercising all the time. It’s hard, miserable even.

It comes with this “high” when you do start to lose weight, but the process is a form of slow torture that is completely unsustainable.

After I heard this voice and felt my response, I felt FURIOUS. Because I know better than what this voice was telling me.

But this is how pervasive this thinking is. It’s toxic and twisted. I know very, very few women who aren’t under this spell of the toxic dieting mindset.

Dieting goes against how we are made because our bodies are hard-wired to eat. Eating is necessary for life.

When we calorie restrict, we feel hungry. Hunger is our biological cue to eat. But when we don’t allow ourselves to respond to our biology, the body goes into a stress response.

This is why we so frequently obsess about food when we’re not eating enough.

The outcome is inevitable. In the face of our hardwired biology, eventually our willpower crumbles. We end up rebelling against deprivation. Then we go off the diet and eat until we’re not hungry anymore.

And then we feel badly about ourselves and our lack  discipline and willpower.

But lack of willpower isn’t the issue. The process by which we’re trying to lose weight is the issue.

Most women know how to eat (or not eat) for weight loss. For many women, dieting is like a second language they’re fluent in.

What women (and most men, too) haven’t learned how to do is to eat for every day.

What if you could learn how to eat so that you didn’t need to diet ever again?

Most of us know how to eat for convenience, short term energy spurts, calorie restriction and indulgence. Our entire culture is set up to eat this way – that’s why there are so many drive-thru fast food restaurants, coffee shops and diet fads everywhere we look.

It’s easy to get caught up in yo-yo dieting hell, and never able to get off the rollercoaster.

Very few of us were ever taught how to eat for health, beauty, vitality, longevity, enjoyment and resilience.

Learning how to eat this way is what really makes a difference in long-term weight loss and health outcomes, not just short-term gains and losses.

I’m talking about a different approach to eating. A way to fully acknowledge and nourish yourself for who you are and what you need today.

You may be the smartest, most disciplined, determined person when it comes to weight loss. But until you learn how to eat for your unique body, there will almost always be something that gets in the way of your health and weight loss goals.

I teach a simple but effective approach to releasing weight and keeping it off without the starvation and deprivation techniques that are so prevalent in the dieting world.

There are simple but powerful skills you can easily learn and practice so you can ditch the toxic dieting game and instead free yourself from food and weight loss stress.

It’s life changing.

If you’re ready to come out of the dark spaces that dieting takes you to and learn how to release extra weight in a sustainable way, reach out to me. I’m here to help!