I Quit My Health MLM Part 3: Weight Gain and Whiplash

After I quit dieting and let go of my old restrictions and rules I rapidly (3-4 months) gained back 40 pounds.  It was a horrible feeling wondering if people were making assumptions about letting myself go, if I was healthy, if I was capable of teaching group ex.  I felt very self-conscious and couldn't seem …

Life is too Short, Wear the Sparkly Dress

Last Fall my husband and I had a wedding to attend and I wanted to go dress shopping... it had been so long since I had a reason to go dress shopping My mother-in-law was nice enough to accompany me to a local store where I tried on a ridiculous amount of dresses before finding..... …

Ditching the Diet Mentality

Ditching the diet mentality isn't easy. Everywhere you look there is a message about healthy vs healthy, scare tactics surrounding sugar/fat/carbs/gluten, and diets promoting avoiding food groups or counting points/calories/carbs/everything but the kitchen sink. How do we create lives of balance, not fear based rules?

A Year of Intuitive Eating Later…

When a picture is worth 1000 words.... A year ago I made a choice to ditch dieting for something called "Intuitive Eating". I was scared. I thought I going to lose control, gain weight and be miserable. It seemed too good to be true that I could have freedom from the control food had over …

The Clean Plate Club

Principle 5 goal: Listen for the body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Observe the signs that show that you’re comfortably full. Pause in the middle of eating and ask yourself how the food tastes, and what your current hunger level is. For the last 3 weeks, when I fill my …

I’m Done Weighing Myself

This morning I made the mistake of weighing myself, and I completely regret it. I think no matter what I would have weighed in at it would have diminished the amount of change that's occurred inside the last 3 weeks.  But, I did it anyway. I'm up 5 pounds over the course of the last …

What Has Happened Since I Quit Dieting

It's been about a week since I quit dieting!  While there have been a ton of good things happening, there have been some issues as well. The good?  I feel free mentally.  I don't obsess over "forbidden" foods. I haven't binged in a week.  I have been enjoying workouts simply for fun, rather than because …

Recognizing the Damage Dieting Causes

In then book I'm reading (Intuitive Eating, 3rd edition) the first chapter discusses acknowledging the damages that occur as a results of dieting- today I'm going to focus on The psychological/emotional harm and the impact it's had on my life.  Welcome to the jungle. Have you ever stopped to consider the mental pressure that occurs …

I Loved My Pregnancy Body Until…

Wednesday nights are normally gymnastics nights at our house but when I arrived to take Miss Aubrey to gymnastics there was a cancellation sign... Commence crying. She loves gymnastics. Instead, I opted to take her swimming since it was $2 day at the local pool and she was completely excited because this was her first …