Nourish

01/27/2024

Weekend reminders:

The scale is only a small portion of the data.
Are you building muscle? How do your clothes fit? How do you feel? Have your mental struggles decreased? The same weight on different bodies looks and feels different. How you feel & body composition are better guides than weight alone.

⚖️You can’t thrive in a constant deficit.

While technically a calorie deficit causes you to “lose weight”, you can still shift your body composition while consuming “weight maintenance” energy if you’re lifting weights & building muscle. We’ve all heard “muscle weighs more than fat” and while this is not true because a lb of anything is a lb, muscle DOES take up less space & take energy to maintain (which means it burns more calories than fat). We can look at fat as stored energy to use later and muscle as actively needing to be fed energy to be maintained. They are not equal.

🛑Stop planning “cheat meals” and live your life.

A nourished body can handle treats. Eat a balanced diet & allow that to include the “forbidden” foods sometimes too. You can even fit these into your macros & move on with life, guilt free. Using “balance” as an excuse to go hard AF until you feel like s**t bc “cheat daaaay!” Is WAY less balanced than nourishing your body all day than stopping for ice cream with your family on Friday, making cinnamon rolls (WITH EGGS) on Saturday morning and homemade meatball subs on Sunday. (This is a version of my honest weekend plans 😂).

🍝Carbs aren’t making you fat but they ARE fueling your muscles.

You need them. Especially when you’re exercising. You also can get them from various sources- fruits, veggies, bread, pasta, rice. You don’t know what you’re getting too much or too little of unless you track it. Even if you only track macros for a week (honestly tracking though- with weights/measurements), you’ll get an idea of where you’re landing nutritionally & what needs to be tweaked.

🏋️‍♀️Your healthiest body likely weighs more than you expected.

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07/23/2021

☕️ SO WHAT DO WE KNOW FOR SURE? ☕️ (continued from last post because the caption was too long)

🍳Coffee cannot replace food. If your body is under-nourished, the energy you are getting from coffee is only further depleting you

😴 coffee cannot replace sleep. if you are not getting adequate rest, coffee is only further depleting you.

💧 coffee is not a successful means of hydration. It can often flush out more than it hydrated, taking nutrients with it. It doesn’t replace your water, electrolytes, broths etc that nourish and hydrate the body. A gallon of coffee doesn’t equal a gallon of electrolyte water/broth.

🧋there is no one way to drink coffee that works for every single body. And only YOU know how your body feels at any given time. It is your responsibility alone to listen and respond to your body’s cues. Be the scientist of your own body.

🍵 there are many alternatives to coffee (I love , , cacao and matcha to name a few) but that doesn’t mean they have to fully replace coffee for you. Find your personal balance.

🤍 life is meant to bring you joy AND nourishment. When we make conscious decisions, out of love for ourselves and respect for our human bodies, we are able to truly find balance outside of our weaknesses or restrictions that we so often allow to control us. Be honest with yourself though- don’t pretend something is out of love when it isn’t.

🙃 Personal Side note 🙃

The drink pictured in the first photo is actually dandyblend, which tastes exactly like coffee, but is so nourishing, particularly to your liver.

I like to mix it in with my morning cup of coffee, as well as have a second cup of only to re-hydrate fluids the caffeine will flush out, give my liver a little love and neutralize some of the “negatives” aspects coffee can have on my body.

The drink in the second photo in this series is which is a wonderfully nourishing afternoon pick me up filled with adaptogens.

For my personal body, this feels like balance.

What’s your balance? What are your experiences with coffee? Life? Nourishment? Share below 👇

07/23/2021

☕️ COFFEE ☕️

The drink that is either demonized or idolized, with very little balance between the two.

We have health experts telling us it’s amazing for us and others telling us it is detrimental to hormonal health.

Some of us swear it off as the sip of satan and others drink it all.day.long. To simply function.

⚖️ But here’s the thing: i believe we can find BALANCE, joy and nourishment without extremes.

While one cup of coffee in the morning may feel like a hug, if we are reaching for it regularly, in place of nourishment or rest, we are CHOOSING to create an imbalance. We are choosing to deplete our bodies, leading to a spiraling slew of health problems and hormonal imbalances that can wreak havoc on our physical AND mental AND emotional health.

🕯 BODIES VARY

Each body’s individual needs and way of metabolizing is also a variant to consider.

Some health experts insist we must add fat/protein (butter, ghee, coconut oil, gelatin/collagen) to coffee in order to slow the process of metabolizing the caffeine, leading to a more stable/longer lasting energy vs a jolt and crash.

☕️ HOWEVER ☕️

Some bodies are slow metabolizers to begin with (👋🏽 me!). When we add fat and protein to the coffee, it takes so long for the caffeine to hit that we may not even feel it until the afternoon and it keeps us up at night because we still haven’t burned it off by bedtime.

So that “superior” method of drinking coffee that is considered more nourishing? It doesn’t work for all bodies.

🙃 CONTINUED IN NEXT POST (because the caption is too long)

07/15/2021

The NOURISH program and meditations are for ALL identifying women who want to connect with their bodies and heal what lives there and is asking to be seen.

The rhythms, cycles and archetypes that live within our bodies do not require a menstruating uterus. We all possess these within our Divine Feminine side.

Having a bleeding uterus or carrying a baby is not what make one a woman.

It’s bigger than that. Deeper than that. And even more magical.

Have you grabbed the free Meet Your Cycle Archetypes meditation and journal prompts yet? ( https://www.nourish-she.com/free-archetype-meditation or link in profile)

We’d love to hear what came up for you there that’s asking to be seen 🤍

07/07/2021

How do you adjust your workouts for your cycle?

Do you want do the same things all month long?

Do you workout for an hour or more each time?

Do you take intentional rest time?

Do you break for your period or “push through” it?

How do you honor your body’s rhythms with movement?

07/06/2021

What does it look/feel/taste like to TRULY be nourished with food?

Where are our fears keeping us from feeling our best?

What restrictions have we put around food that may not actually be serving us in the nourishment of our bodies?

What does being nourished mean to you?

07/02/2021

🍊 FOLLICULAR 🍊

This is often when you begin to feel your energy return after your menstrual phase rest and it feels like spring personified 💐

Your body is heating up (hello spring!) so more cooling foods (and switching from hot tea to iced) can feel wonderfully serving!

This is also when your body doesn’t need as much to thrive so it’s a great time for fresh, light foods, plenty of citrus fruits + taking a break from adaptogens and unnecessary supplementation (obvi follow drs orders here though). You may even find yourself craving all of that juicy vitamin C goodness!

It’s also a perfect time to frolic like a maiden (grab the free meditation + journal prompts for more on the archetypes: https://www.nourish-she.com/free-archetype-meditation )

What’s your favorite part of the ?

06/30/2021

I am so excited that something that has been cooking up over here is now coming to fruition! Satya Mama Wellness is now NOURISH!

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Our goal here is to encourage the complete mind, body and spirit nourishment for all identifying women. To bring us back to our bodies & her rhythms with the reminder that the whole world benefits from your overflow.

03/24/2021

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