Here’s my honest answer…

The desire to lose weight is totally normal, that’s what we have been taught- thin equals healthy/good/valuable. Weight loss isn’t bad, but it can get in the way of healing your relationship with food.

I will invite you to spend 2 weeks focusing on establishing a healthy relationship with food, instead of weight loss. Just to try it out and see how it affects your relationship with food.

By the time women are 45 years old, statistics show that they have tried at least 61 different diets and food plans. As a result, the dieting industry is a 71-billion-dollar industry that has women doubting themselves and their bodies.

After a lifetime of trying to shrink your body, don’t you think it will be a welcome relief to spend two weeks focused on healing your relationship with food and your body?

In this program, some people lose weight, some gain weight. Both of those results may be healthy for each body.

This is a weight-neutral program, weight loss is not the focus. Remember that thin does not equal health. Health is defined by each individual. Health is evident in different shapes and sizes of bodies.

Applying a weight-neutral approach to your life is freeing. It allows you to focus on healthy behaviors in your control. It’s a powerful shift.

Instead of focusing on weight loss, in this program, we will focus on health behaviors and the thoughts and emotions behind them. We will begin to unpack the Restrict-Rebel-Guilt cycle of chronic dieting that so many people are stuck in.

Along with health behaviors, we will address the root causes of emotional eating patterns. The program is grounded in the principles of Intuitive Eating which are research and science-based. I believe that all bodies are good bodies. The pursuit of weight loss is more damaging mentally and physically to the body.

The recipes do not follow a directive nutrition plan that eliminates whole food groups. In case you are wondering, there are plenty of vegan and vegetarian options.

Instead of eliminating food groups, we will work to grow your inner attunement to hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues, along with rejecting the diet mentality with food. We will practice perceiving all foods as neutral, rather than good and bad foods. This is one of the critical mindset shifts to ending emotional and binge eating, along with anxiety around food.

No, not in the typical diet sense. I believe in body autonomy. This process is about you trusting your own body rather than looking towards external rules. An important part of detaching from diet culture is learning what works for your body. I will guide you through a process to learn more about how you feel when you eat different foods and what best supports your body. We will focus on including foods that will satiate you, give you energy throughout the day, and support your mood.

No, mindful eating is an important tool used in Intuitive Eating (and this program), but we will go much deeper.

We will dismantle diet culture so you’re able to understand how it has impacted how you think and feel about food. This is the often missing piece to healing your relationship with food.

In this program you will:

• Start to break the cycle of dieting so you can trust yourself with food.
• Identify root causes of any emotional eating you may experience, so you can reduce stress and emotional eating (without relying on willpower).
• Rediscover the pleasure and satisfaction of food again - because food is meant to be enjoyed.
• Learn what foods satiate you and sustain your energy levels throughout the day, so you feel more alive to enjoy your life fully.
• Stop counting calories and start eating with ease and freedom.
• Begin to make peace with food and your body, finally, so you can experience greater joy and fulfillment with food and in your life.
• Start to heal your relationship with food, so that you can focus on what’s truly important to you.

There are 5 live coaching calls that will last about 60 minutes. You can always watch the replays, if the times don’t match your schedule.

The daily assignments will take 10-30 minutes a day, depending on how much time you want to put into it. Many of the assignments don’t take any extra time - they are simply inviting you into greater awareness and mindfulness around food, eating, emotions, and your relationship with your body - so you can shift them.

Noom, Paleo, and Whole30 all have elements of restriction - where certain foods are forbidden and villainized or where the goal is to restrict calories.

This is the “old” way of approaching health and wellness.

I created this program because the old ways of “good” and “bad” foods and restrictions were not working for my clients. It only created a more stressful relationship with food.

I knew my clients needed a different approach, and I’m guessing you’re probably looking for a plan that offers a fresh path.

This program is based on an innovative, highly-effective, evidence-based approach that allows you to experience more peace, joy, and fulfillment with food and in your life.

This is a unique departure from what’s been traditionally offered in health and wellness.

This program is based on the principles of Intuitive Eating, where all foods fit. There are no food rules to follow.

This program allows you to prioritize your physical health, along with emotional and mental health. - which allows you to experience an easeful relationship with food and your body.

Yes, it’s great that you already have a start, let’s build on it! I love when my clients have read the book, Intuitive Eating (but it’s not required!). There’s so much power in practicing a non-diet approach to food with a coach (that’s me!) to support you - along with a like-minded community. Ditching dieting can feel isolating at times, like you are the only one in the world on this journey. I hope you will join us for community, connection and deepening of your Intuitive Eating practice!

While I encourage you to participate on the live calls as much as you are able, recordings will be available, so you can listen on your own schedule.

You don’t have to be ready, just open minded to a new approach.

It’s totally normal that you may feel a sense of safety and security in the world of dieting. All of us have been raised in a diet culture and thin ideal obsessed society, so it’s only normal that dieting feels comforting to you.

One of the first things we will work on in this program is uncovering the lies you’ve been taught by diet culture.

Thinking you need to have the perfect body or have food all figured out to start this process is one of the many lies of diet culture.

I hope you will put your trust in yourself to start this healing process. I will be honored to guide you.