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03/06/2022

Mindful / Intuitive eating is about having the freedom to eat whatever you want without any rules or restrictions.

To most women this sounds like a free pass to eat all the “bad” foods they normally eat when they are “cheating” “binging” or “off their diet”.

This association of food being good or bad is what perpetuates fear around food.

When food is bad, you have to restrict it and you feel like a rebel when you’re not restricting.

Most of the women I guide through mindful eating find that disassociating food as good or bad is the first step towards food freedom and never dieting again.

I challenge you to look at the rules you have around food and then question what happens when these rules are broken?

📓 Journal Prompts ⤵️
Do you fear any foods?

What foods do you fear?

Why do you fear them?

Does this fear cause you to restrict these foods?

What happens when you eat these foods, do you feel rebellious?

Can you recognize a pattern?

21/05/2022

What does healthy feel like for YOU?
(Let me know in the comments)

I spent my late teens and most of my 20s dieting. All I wanted was to feel what being skinny felt like. I truly didn’t really think about what feeling healthy looked like.

When I was on a diet I felt more energy, saw clearer skin, had less bloating, reduced anxiety and depression, overall less overwhelm and way more confidence.

I thought all these positive feelings were a result of how I looked. I thought my confidence was tied into being skinny. I felt like being skinny was a big part of feeling happy and fulfilled in life.

👆🏻That feeling of confidence is definitely what kept me chronic dieting until my late 20s when everything took a huge shift after I found a big nodule, the size of a grape, in my neck.

When I focused on my thyroid health and let go of my weight, I focused on adding nourishment no matter what!

Even if I ate the “junky” food, I still ALLOWED myself to eat the “healthy” food. I stopped the idea of being “on” or “off” anything.

I just kept asking myself…
What more nourishment can I add?

This approach helped me finally stop binge eating and not think about food all the time.

I began to trust myself around food and was not consumed by dieting and being skinny.

I found that I love all foods and I really love incorporating ingredients that can add more nourishment but not substitute taste.

I also found a better understanding about how I feel and find that my body communicates what I need.

Diets keep us from having a real relationship with our bodies.

Once you experience this real connection with yourself you will never diet again.

**kdiets **kdietculture

05/05/2022

Using food to cope with stress started when I was very young, however diet culture also started creeping into my life when I was very young too.

I was not a slim, skinny little girl, and my Cuban family was not discreet about letting me know it either.

It was pointed out, publicly many times during big family gatherings like birthdays, holidays and weddings.

Sometimes I feel like my social anxieties and fear of public speaking stems from this particular childhood experience.

I always knew my weight would be pointed out. Either I lost weight and was praised for looking skinnier, or I gained weight and had to hear it in front of everyone else.

Finding my identity was a struggle when for so long I thought my value was determined by my body size.

I used to think my self esteem issues came from being fat, but now I realize it’s from the adults in my life making me feel it wasn’t ok to be the way I was.

When I stepped away from dieting and focused on accepting myself the way I was, I was able to make food choices freely.

Focusing on feeling good within my skin, mentally and physically, through choices and actions based off of self care, has helped me understand my worth and value as I am.

Now when I go to family gatherings I have to hear about how skinny I am, and it makes me so angry because I’ve come to realize, that diet culture has influenced my culture in such a way, that when my family sees me, all they see is my body size.

How has diet culture affected your culture?

**kdietculture

05/05/2022

Using food to cope with stress started when I was very young, however diet culture also started creeping into my life when I was very young too.

I was not a slim, skinny little girl, and my Cuban family was not discreet about letting me know it either.

It was pointed out, publicly many times during big family gatherings like birthdays, holidays and weddings.

Sometimes I feel like my social anxieties and fear of public speaking stems from this particular childhood experience.

I always knew my weight would be pointed out. Either I lost weight and was praised for looking skinnier, or I gained weight and had to hear it in front of everyone else.

Finding my identity was a struggle when for so long I thought my value was determined by my body size.

I used to think my self esteem issues came from being fat, but now I realize it’s from the adults in my life making me feel it wasn’t ok to be the way I was.

When I stepped away from dieting and focused on accepting myself the way I was, I was able to make food choices freely.

Focusing on feeling good within my skin, mentally and physically, through choices and actions based off of self care, has helped me understand my worth and value as I am.

Now when I go to family gatherings I have to hear about how skinny I am, and it makes me so angry because I’ve come to realize, that diet culture has influenced my culture in such a way, that when my family sees me, all they see is my body size.

How has diet culture affected your culture?

**kdietculture

25/04/2022

The thing is… this is exactly the cycle I was living in for a long time!

I grew up around a Mom who was always dieting.

So the idea of being on and off a diet seemed like a normal part of life.

Until I discovered I had a thyroid nodule and then everything shifted for me.

I knew that binge eating was really hard on my body and I began to worry about how it was affecting my thyroid.

I set off in search of a sustainable relationship with food.

Only to discover it was more about establishing sustainable relationship with myself!

It’s been quite the journey but I no longer diet and I no longer binge.

I can’t even believe it as I type it!!!

I remember thinking that binge eating was just a part of my life.

I thought something about me was broken and I would struggle with binging forever.

I was wrong!!!

Now I know that if I give my body what it needs to thrive, binge eating fades away, because binging is a coping mechanism.

I share my personal experience and what I’ve learned so that other women don’t have to keep suffering through the cycle of dieting and then binging anymore.

Diets f**k things up!

Want to stop the cycle? Stop dieting!

Do you struggle with ?


**kdietculture

18/04/2022

“Moving our body is a privilege.”
What if we stopped looking at our bodies from how people see us perspective and started focusing on how we’re feeling in our own bodies?

When was the last time you felt good? Like really good?

We can sit here and blame all day, and I will continue to point the finger in that direction, but let’s redirect our focus to ourselves for a moment.

What makes YOU feel good?

Powerful, alive, joyous, and full of energy to take on the next and the next, type of good?

For me it didn’t feel good to deprive myself, or try and “control” myself like it did when I was dieting.

It also didn’t feel good to look in the mirror and compare myself to other women.

For me feeling good came from being kind to myself, going through the process of getting to know my own body and finding a community of women I could talk and listen to.

No longer looking at exercise as a way to make up for calories, and focusing on how it makes me feel has made fitness something I look forward to and genuinely enjoy.

Want to talk about topics like these with other women like you, DM me to join in on one of my group calls. It’s ✨FREE✨ and no commitments. Just women talking real life.

**kdiets **kdietculture

11/04/2022

While taking the time to chew food and eating slowly is good nutritional practice, I would say chewing it until food becomes liquid is probably a little extreme, and quite unappetizing.

Do you know of any interesting diet trends?

**kyourdiet **kdietculture **kdiets

04/04/2022

Don’t allow for a number on the scale or your dress size to set the standard for your life.

Workout for the benefits (there are many) and not the sole outcome of weight loss.

Want to talk to other women who are already putting themselves and their needs in front of diet culture standards?

DM me to drop in on one of our group calls where we discuss the female perspective on diet culture and the effect it’s had through generations.

**kdietculture **kyourdiet

31/12/2021

“YOU ARE SO GROSS RIGHT NOW❗️”
- me
Have you ever put yourself down in order to get “back on your diet” or “start the gym on Monday”?

I remember when my goal every New Year was to “lose weight”.

I remember being really determined 💪🏻

I would decide what diet…
🤔 low calorie (tracking macros)
🤔 keto
🤔 paleo
🤔 fasting
🤔 no meat

Then I would do groceries, and map out what my meals would look like for the first week.

I would set some workout goals like, “I’m going to do 60mins of cardio 6 days a week no matter what!”

The year would start and I’d go hard!

I would start to feel great!
I would see the number on the scale, % of body fat, and measurements dropping and even see results physically.

This worked beautifully until something would “throw me off” and then I found it really hard to “get back on”.

I would then enter an era of…
“I’m being good” or “I’m being bad”
And… I would stay there in diet limbo, until I would force myself to step on the scale.

Seeing my weight go up would cause enough anger to beat myself up.
“You have no will-power”
“Are you ever going to be able to wear cute clothes?”
“You’re fat, gross, ugly, sad… etc”

I’m so glad I woke up one day and realized that I would never be able to achieve the body, life, and goals I wanted if I approached myself with so much negativity!
And this 👆🏻 brought me to the understanding that mindset (or the way we approach our goals) is everything!

I no longer diet, go extreme, or beat myself up.
I focus all my energy on improving myself through self🧡

Loving 🥰 yourself is about being in the moment and asking,
“How do YOU feel?” &
“What do YOU need?”

This approach helped me step off the scale and into my life.
I strive for health and don’t restrict anything.
I focus on feeling good from the inside, physically and mentally.
I take steps not extremes.
I accept myself as I am in this moment, right now.
I use my past as a guide and approach my future with a positive mindset.

I 🧡 feeling healthy and strong
I 🧡 seeing my body constantly improving. 💪🏻
I 🧡 my reflection in the mirror.

in 2022 and step away from dieting and diet culture.

What are your goals for 2022?

28/12/2021

We’re about to let go of 2021 and I’m about to enter my 3rd year of no eating restrictions.

This is the easiest it’s ever been for me to maintain a body I’m truly happy with and not fighting to hold on to.

This is is the longest I’ve ever gone without using phrases like…

“I’ll be good”
“I’ve been bad”
“I’m off my diet”
“I have to get back on my diet”
“I can’t eat that because I’m on a diet”
“I’m on _________ diet”
“It’s my cheat day”
“I’ve gone over calories today”

This is also the longest I’ve gone without weighing myself.

And the best part is that by no longer having to abide by some diet rule or focus on a number on the scale, I can now focus on…
👉🏻How I truly feel
👉🏻Healthy choices for the sake of health and not “weight loss”
👉🏻My strength
👉🏻Keeping up with my kids
👉🏻Enjoying my life
👉🏻Loving myself

I love eating what I want, and not feeling on edge with some stupid diet❗️

I love that I can listen to my body and adjust my workouts to my needs, not feel like I have to be on a “challenge” in order to “stick” to it❗️

I love that I’ve developed habits that are a part of my life, not a pain in the ass to maintain because they require extreme effort all the time❗️

I love that by no longer focusing on some number on the scale or some “diet rule” I now focus on self improvement and life goals❗️

I don’t want results that go away when I “get off my diet”‼️

I want results that not just last but that I keep building on over time❗️

My purpose is to show women how to never diet again❗️

Who’s with me?
What do you hate the most about dieting?