Once I tasted ice cream for the first time in years, all flood gates opened and I couldn’t stop eating. After quitting my extreme fitness lifestyle, I went through about a year of eating upwards of tens of thousands of calories every single day.
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Intuitive Eating
This episode is part of a Q and A series that I have started through my Instagram account @ownitbabe and I have picked out 5 questions to answer today: 1. How do you get rid of the black-and-white mindset around food? 2. How long did it take for your weight to stabilize and what were some helpful steps you took to accept your weight gain and natural body shape? 3. How do you overcome the mentality of having to exercise every day? 4. Do you ever catch yourself thinking “Life wi[...]
Spoiler alert: This is not one of those articles that tell you how to avoid eating the food you crave. In fact, it is the exact opposite. But I am getting ahead of myself, so read on to understand what I mean. I was craving chocolate yesterday, so I ate a few squares and was completely satisfied. Then I remembered how I used to react when a chocolate craving hit back when I was severely restricting food and calories: 1. Panic mode: WHY AM I CRAVING CHOCOLATE OMG I MUST BE DEFICIENT[...]
This episode is for you if you feel like you might have taken your exercise habits too far. We are always told that exercising MORE and eating LESS is the secret to being healthy, right? Well, in my case and many other cases, this couldn’t be further from the truth. In this episode, I am going to break down the 5 biggest symptoms of over-training and how you can reverse the damage and create a peaceful, balanced relationship to exercise and movement. Links mentioned in this e[...]
“Do you actually enjoy these flourless spinach-pancakes you made for our Sunday brunch?”, Shaun said to me with a cheeky smirk. “If you enjoy them that’s great, I’m just making sure you actually prefer them over real pancakes.” I shrugged my shoulders and said: “Babe, I’m not on a diet. This is a lifestyle! I actually don’t mind these and they’re healthy”, as I kept choking them down on a Sunday morning back in 2016. When I tasted real pancakes for the first time[...]
“Deprivation (noun): the lack or denial of something considered to be a necessity.” Deprivation gets glorified, especially for us women.Whether that is depriving ourselves of food, depriving ourselves of other basic self-care needs or even depriving ourselves of our wildest dreams in life, so that we can take care of everybody else’s needs first. Have you ever thought about that? In this article, I want to dive a little bit deeper and explain: - How food deprivation harms our bo[...]
The episode everyone keeps asking me about is finally out!I am interviewing my husband Shaun and we are having a very juicy and honest conversation about body image, diet culture for men, supporting a loved one through an eating disorder, mental health, sex and much more! Some of my favorite topics we covered - The “movie-version” story of how we met and why we didn’t start dating until 18 months later - My rock-bottom moment and eating disorder from his point of view - Men and diet[...]
Here is a big myth about being recovered from an eating disorder that I always thought was true: ”Your life is full of rainbows and unicorns and you will be forever free!" (and here are some more myths in case you are curious) I always thought that once I am recovered and free of my food- and body obsession I will be happy. Why? Well, because for so many years the only thing weighing me down was my issue with food and my body. Once that was gone, everything was going[...]
I used to be team all-or-nothing. Either I would eat “clean” and train 6 days a week - sometimes twice a day - for months on end OR I would “fall off the wagon” and use this as an opportunity to eat unbelievable amounts of foods I wouldn’t normally allow myself. The binge-restrict cycle was my life for many years. To the outside world, I was the “healthy girl” that was so “dedicated”. Behind closed doors, I was isolating myself, hating my body and eating myself s[...]
Raise your hand if you’ve been on some kind of diet or “lifestyle” before and it didn’t work for you. Now raise your hand if you blamed your “lack of willpower” and “lack of self control” for this. Okay. Now, raise your hand if you loved this “lifestyle” or diet at the beginning until the first “cheat” happened and you either binge ate or overate on something that was "off limits". I am over here raising my hand at all of this. We think that the diet[...]