What have I been up too lately?

Hello,

Today I would like to catch up a little bit of what has been happening in my life. Since there has been a little bit of a gap in blog posts I would like to state that I am still going down the rabbit hole of intuitive eating and life coaching. I am more passionate  then ever about the importance of managing our thoughts and trusting our own bodies. I am reading everything I can about intuitive eating and I am listening to life coaches and podcasts and following Instagram accounts and following Facebook groups etc etc. The point is I am learning everything I can with a SECRET goal in mind.................Shush! This is for your eyes only!! The SECRET IS:

I want to teach and help others who might be struggling with food disorders, Self worth issues, or lack general lack of self care. Its a big deal for me because for way too long I truly believed that the solution to all my self worth problems, all the negatively I surrounded myself with about my body and my worth as a human being could all be solved if I were able to reach the "Correct Weight". I NEEDED TO BE THIN and I was failing at it miserably. Because I was "failing" at "eating healthy" and because I hated exercise (Truly despised it more on that later) I believed I was a weak person. Truly Weak. I also believed that my weight was completely my fault which of course brought on a lot of shame. But then I learned that my thoughts control my feelings and actions and that I could change how I felt about basically everything (thank you life coaching). Then I went further and thought about my beliefs toward my body. One day I read something that was really hard to hear and still hard to believe..."If you fail on a diet, its the diets fault not yours".

There is out there right now an entire underground of medical professionals fighting against diet culture and the societal belief that everything with your body comes down to your own will power. That false statement is dangerously untrue. Its also making everyone miserable. But how can you fight a billion dollar a year industry, its hard. The truly messed up part of this whole equation is that the "health and fitness" industry has known for decades that the likelihood of humans to sustain long term weight loss is very minimal.  AND THEY LOVE IT! they actually thrive off of it. Here a quote that proves this point:

"When asked how WEIGHT WATCHERS is considered successful when only 16% maintain their goal weight for 5 years the former finance director of weight watchers Richard Samber said: Its successful because the other 84% have to come back and do it again. That's where our business comes from." (source mollybcounceling)

So here is my contribution to the fight. I am hear writing my own story, ready and willing to help anyone else that might need some encouragement. I know I do....daily!

I am talking specifically to just you. Yes YOU! You are fine, your body is good, and you are needed and cared about. Right now in that amazing brain of yours is a truly amazing, creative, and crazy idea....or you know maybe a million crazy, awesome ideas. You are the only person standing in your way. So here is your permission to get out of your own way! You got this!!