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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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[...]
Have you ever had one of those days... ...where you run around like a mad woman, but you feel like you get absolutely nothing done? I sometimes have days where I feel like a complete mess and I know exactly what my problem is: My perfectionism. I sometimes throw around the sentence “I am a perfectionist!” like it’s no big deal and just some quirky character trait of mine. However, if I’m truly honest, it's the most painful, frustrating and alienating part of being me. What it means[...]
Leslie McDonald is the face behind the social media account @balanced_life_leslie. She is a sound healer, reiki practitioner, and certified holistic health coach with a passion for creating community, sharing recipes, and meal prep tips as well as making wellness accessible to everyone. Her work has been featured in Mind Body Green, Thrive Global, Greatist, and Whole30recipes. Trigger warning: Leslie has suffered from some autoimmune conditions and has found eating Paleo to be very benefi[...]
“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[...]
This will be a quick episode, because I want to get straight to the point today and share my personal experience with fear. In this episode I share: - How my fear of not being enough sneaks into my life and what I do about it- How I channel this fear into courage- What courage feels like and how exactly I build my self-confidence through feeling my fear- How to unleash your inner superhero Links mentioned in this Episode Join my brand-new Self Love Jumpstart course at https://courses.ownit[...]
“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[...]
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[...]
Self-Love | ˈˌself ˈləv/ | noun Regard for one's own well-being and happiness (considered as a desirable rather than narcissistic characteristic). Self-love often gets confused with being a narcissist. “This person is full of themselves, they are just in love with themselves and think that they are IT. Ugh!” However, this character trait i[...]
“Why are you always so mean to yourself?”, Shaun asked me last night as I was dwelling in self doubt and crippling fear. “Because”, I said, “I don’t know how else to treat myself.” He grabbed my shoulders, looked at me and said “where is this coming from? You’re nice to your body now, but you have moved on to being mean to yourself about everything else you do.” He was right. I made peace with food and with my body and I stopped letting my negative body image take over[...]