Love Yourself Towards Healthy

05/07/2024

Over 9 years of teaching group fitness and finally getting to wear COLORS instead of all black! It might seem like no big deal but it’s so weird…and oh so freeing! 🌈🎉💪🏼

04/15/2024

What happens if I just start posting pics of my food again like it’s 2013? 🤭

This summer salad is the best! High in protein & fiber.
-chickpeas
-diced veggies (I did zucchini, bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, red onion)
-kale
-grilled chicken and/or hard boiled egg
-tossed in EVOO & red wine vinegar

Holds up so good in the fridge throughout the week too!

08/09/2023

Another beautiful day 🏖️☀️

03/25/2023

Happy 3rd Birthday, Laila! 🎉🐶

10/02/2021

Pop Quiz: Do you order the item you actually want? Or settle for the low-calorie version?

When you order what you actually want the first time, things go A LOT better and healthier. Read what happens when you don't.

09/21/2021

When your hair hasn’t been straight in 6 mos feeling!

If you need me, I’ll just be running my fingers through my hair.

09/09/2021

This hierarchy puts for-profit insurance first.

Yesterday I spoke to a potential client. She shared with me that she desperately wants to heal from years of dieting and become an intuitive eater. BUT. She needs surgery to improve her quality of life and insurance won't cover it until she loses 30 lbs. Her P*P even wrote a letter to fight it because she is of utmost health in organ functionality, bloodwork, A1C levels are of zero concern for pre-diabetes, etc.

But they overruled and denied it. Until she's out of the “obese” category on the BMI scale.

So she's now taking appetite suppressants, severely undereating, practicing disordered eating habits, not sleeping well, and feeling anxiety.

Essentially forcing herself to be UNHEALTHY so she can appease the “health” insurance company to get the surgery she needs.

This breaks my heart for her and enrages me!!!

This is NOT about health. This is about weight stigma. Fatphobia. Money. Power. And a damn numbers game that ignores actual health. Overruling medical doctors’ treatment plan!

This 👏 is 👏 not 👏 okay 👏 !!!!!

09/03/2021

Because IIFYM & carb cycling are restrictive diets.

It genuinely felt like food freedom. After years of anorexia and orthorexia, to be told to eat more food in general and a lot of carbs half the week, it was freeing!

But bodies aren't supposed to be restricted of carbs the other half of the week. Food isn't supposed to be micromanaged down to the gram. Food scales aren't meant to be a constant resident on your kitchen counter. Owning 4 sets of measuring cups & spoons isn't a sign of self-control around food. And destroying your mental health in hopes of losing inches isn't a badge of good health.

If you're realizing that your quest for better health has just resulting in a messed up relationship with food, fitness & body image...join my next group coaching session of Diet-Free Academy. We begin on Tuesday! 12-weeks to quit dieting and start healing.

09/02/2021

Blame diet culture for the confusion.

Physical appearance cannot reveal health & physical health is only part of your wellness.

Your physical appearance is diet culture’s calling card. Before/after photos, weight/fat loss advertising, inches loss brags, fitting into a smaller dress size and using words like ‘shred.’

But those visuals reveal NOTHING about a person’s health. A person may have intentionally starved themselves to lose weight and are dealing with a full-blown eating disorder. Or may be suffering through a major illness that destroyed their appetite. Maybe they’re undergoing treatment, like chemotherapy, that resulted in dramatic weight loss. It’s also possible they committed to an unsustainable, short-term fat loss program despite how it negatively impacts their mental health and physical health.

In other words, just because a person has lost weight, it doesn’t automatically mean they’re now healthy. Just as, a person who is naturally thin isn’t automatically healthy either. Because there’s so many other important factors when it comes to your health.

Your physical health is how well your organs are functioning to keep you alive. Blood panel stats like your hormone levels, vitamin levels, cholesterol, platelet counts, blood cells, etc. It includes your stamina, strength, balance, flexibility and mobility. How well your 5 senses are functioning (taste, smell, sight, touch & hearing.) Your physical health is impacted by hydration, sleep patterns, digestion, s*x drive, elimination frequency, and yes, the nutrition and frequency of the foods you choose to eat. But even with all of these important health factors listed, it still doesn’t capture the full scale of what health and wellness includes.

Diet culture hopes you'll continue associating weight/fat with health. They got $72B proving this method of confusion works and they want to keep growing. The question is though…will you keep supporting them?