How To Love Your Body

This week’s episode is brought to you by our free masterclass we are hosting, TODAY Tuesday November 12th at 5:30 pm pacific and Thursday November 14th at 5:30 pm pacific - its called: “The 3 Ingredients you need to become an intuitive eater and find wellness without the obsession (even if you still want to lose weight)” you can grab your free spot at bit.ly/undietmasterclass for which ever time is most convenient.    We will be sharing:   The 3 ingredients who must combine in order to find the balance in this work.  We will be going over what they are and how to begin implementing them into your life. At the end of the masterclass we will also be sharing more details about The UnDiet Academy (PLUS some bonuses for those who come on live).   Now back to today’s episode: You’ve probably heard many people in the diet industry start talking about “the healthy holidays” and “how not to splurge during the holidays” and “Holiday workout challenge” and all the things that make you fear the holidays and all

This week on How to Love Your Body we are talking about weight loss and the expectations we have from it.   Before we begin we are THRILLED to share with you a free masterclass we are hosting Tuesday November 12th at 5:30 pm pacific and Thursday November 14th at 5:30 pm pacific called “ The 3 Ingredients you need to become an intuitive eater and find wellness without the obsession (even if you still want to lose weight),” you can grab your free spot at bit.ly/undietmasterclass for which ever time is most convenient.    We will be sharing:     The 3 ingredients you must combine in order to find the balance in this work.  We will be going over what they are and how to begin implementing them into your life. At the end of the masterclass we will also be sharing more details about The UnDiet Academy at the end of the class (PLUS some bonuses for those who come on live).   You can grab your spot at bit.ly/undietmasterclass Now let’s dive into today’s episode: The reason we have these hi

This week on how to love your body we are talking about the two key ingredients that make UnDieting work and help you find balance with food. But before we dive into that we are here to announce a really exciting giveaway. We will be giving away a spot in the UnDiet academy this fall to one lucky winner. To enter all you have to do is rate and review the podcast on itunes, unfortunately only those in Canada and the US are eligible solely because we cannot see reviews from other countries. To do this just scroll to the bottom of the page when listening to our podcast on itunes, click the 5 stars to give a rating and then click where it says write a review and leave a couple sentences about the podcast. Once you’ve done that you are officially entered! We will be choosing the winner on Friday November 1st so be sure to do the rate and review before then. Thank you so much for helping the podcast AND entering to win the spot in the Academy! So lets dive into today's episode - dont forget to grab this week

This week on How to Love Your Body we will be discussing the #1 fear and concern on this journey - fear of weight gain and wanting to lose weight. Don’t forget to grab your worksheet - you can get it at thebodylovesociety.com/77   We have done some polling lately on the one thing holding you back from fulling embarking on your UnDieting journey and 100% of people said they are afraid of gaining weight or they still want to lose weight AND we get it… In this work we’re supposed to “not care at all” about weight anymore, but it just isn’t that simple, we still live in a world that cares about weight and after focusing on weight loss for so many years it can feel scary to stop FOCUSING ON IT. And here’s what we’re really talking about when we talk about weight in Intuitive Eating and UnDieting, it’s about redirecting your FOCUS away from the way your body looks and towards the way your body feels. In this episode we will go over WHY we don’t focus on weight loss, the effects of focusing on weight loss, an

This week on How to Love Your Body we will be tackling the complete UnDiet process so you know what to expect the journey to look like. There are 5 phases of the UnDiet process - the first you are likely well aware of and most of you are probably swimming around in it and the following 4 phases might sound familiar but their sequence and details are vital to getting to a place that is intuitive, free from restricting and dieting completely but still feels good - wellness without the obsession. Next week we will be tackling the #1 fear on this journey - and that is weight gain or not losing weight… but for now we will be demonstrating the phases of the undiet process and these phases are HOW you can find balance in the end. There is a worksheet that goes with this episode so you can track the 5 phases and take notes on where you are and what your next steps might be. You can grab this at thebodylovesociety.com/76   Phase 1: The Initial Exit    It looks like this - First you’re swirling around the diet

Welcome to How to Love Your Body, this is Jenna and Lauren, your UnDiet and Body Love Coaches. Today we are going to be talking about why trying to heal the relationship with food and your body may be a lot harder when you’re going at it alone. You can grab your worksheet here - https://theundiet.lpages.co/support-worksheet/ Of course you are an amazing and capable woman who CAN achieve being an UnDieter and finding freedom from food and there is no shame in getting support in what most find a challenging process.  You may have been struggling with this from 10-30 years - no wonder you can’t just heal with the snap of your fingers … but we are here to tell you that this is absolutely possible and getting support in this area is one of the best things you can do to honor yourself.  You may be in one of these 2 places…. You’ve been at this a long time and it still feels far away. No matter how many podcasts you listen to, how many books you read, how many body positive and intuitive eating instagram acco

Restriction is damaging - yes always. Before we get started you can download a worksheet that goes along with this episode at www.thebodylovesociety.com/74 This episode was inspired by one of our clients that posted in the current group of The UnDiet Academy.  The topic was about restriction and if you could do it in a healthy way (for your mind, body, and soul)- someone out in the IG world was claiming that there is something called Restriction Love.  While we respect the opinions of others - we also like to fiercely protect our community from very misinformed and harmful perspectives. We want to let you know our 2 cents on restriction and what it really means - which also doesn’t mean you have to eat endless amounts of sugar just because you allow all food and don’t restrict yourself.    Note: restriction doesnt just cover meal plans and counting calories. Even things like “Watching what you eat”, “just trying to eat healthier” … these ways of eating are restrictive. There is something that is trying

Welcome to How to Love Your Body we are Lauren and Jenna your UnDieting coaches. On this podcast you will get weekly coaching that is straightforward and actually useable on your journey to food and body freedom.  Today we are going to be talking about willpower, what it really is, why you think you don’t have enough of it and why it's all complete BS! There is a worksheet that goes with today’s episode that you can find at thebodylovesociety.com/73. This worksheet will help you work along with the episode so instead of just listening and nodding your head you can actually begin implementing some change in your mindset and your life. So what is willpower really? The most accurate definition we found was this: control of one's impulses and actions; determination; self-control. So what kind of things do we use willpower (self control, controlling our impulses) for? What dont we use it for? We use willpower when: We refrain from yelling at our children We are kind to our partners when they forgot to pi

On this week's episode of How to Love Your Body we combined a very loaded question that we have gotten over the years, so we decided to put it all into one episode. We are going to be addressing: How to be an UnDieter even if you have food allergies that cause restrictions/ medical restrictions. Also touch on a question that we get often “if it’s safe to go vegan/ vegetarian without spiraling back into dieting even though there are many restrictions.” Lastly one of our listeners left us a review (thank you!) - and asked if we could touch on how to navigate food restrictions that are ethics based (and still follow IE/ UnDieting). Here's a worksheet you can download- "How to make sure your medical/ethical restrictions don’t become a slippery slope back into the diet mentality!"- Get it here.   Before we begin- we are not licensed dietitians so anything we share is solely from our own experiences and opinions - Take what resonates, leave what doesn’t, and always, always, always consult a professional i

It’s not that they are bad - it’s that we think they're bad and we judge the heck out of them -- and they can most likely send us spiraling into body image thoughts with lots of shame and judgement. So we would like to share how to cope with them so they don’t take you down. Here's a worksheet you can download to help you with the process. http://bit.ly/tblsbadphotos We have all had those days when you are going about your life- maybe scrolling on social media, you see a memory/ timeline share on Facebook, or you're going through your camera roll on your phone and BAM you see a photo that makes your stomach drop followed by lots of judgement and mean comments about yourself. You zero in on the photo and pick apart every body part that you don’t like, every squish, everything… and that may lead you into a spiral of catastrophic thinking… You start to think you need to lose weight, if you should start a diet, what you should stop eating, how you can start exercising more… it never ends. So here’s how we wan

We want to talk about a question that comes up a lot in the UnDiet community. Is the way to UnDiet to just eat everything? Before we get started we do have a worksheet you can download that will help you get curios and figure out how to find wellness without the obsession without feeling like you need to eat EVERYTHING. Get it here. There is going to be a phase where you just ALLOW, it doesn’t need to be crazy but it definitely is part of the process after years of restriction. Your body has got to learn to trust you that you will allow yourself to eat the food you want - and that it won’t return to the restrict/ binge cycle / feeling like it’s in a famine. So consider this the “gaining trust” stage. ENJOY! Once you really get the hang of allowing all food and realizing it’s okay to eat and these foods don’t have power over you - you MAY start to feel like you’re in this place where you are okay with allowing all food but you just don’t feel too great in your body… and you don’t know how to have a balan

On today’s episode we are going to be talking about "is weight loss is bad?" The focus on Weight loss is the number 1 thing that women who embrace UnDieting have trouble giving up and it’s almost one of the most misunderstood topics in the UnDiet world. We have a worksheet that you can download that goes along with this episode. It will help you with how to navigate desiring weight loss AND wanting to become an UnDieter. - You can grab it here. NO. Weight loss is NOT bad, it’s also not “good”, it's just something that can happen. There's no morality tied to it. What non diet people are always harping about isn't that weight loss is bad, it's that the pursuit of weight loss is harmful both mentally and physically and most people are actively pursuing this because we were told to!!   WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO PURSUE WEIGHT LOSS? Track food, calories, macros Weighing yourself Wanting something and not eating it because you are focusing on losing weight right now (usually pursuing weight loss is short li

Compare and Despair   4 ways to stop comparison TODAY Welcome to another episode of How to Love Your body- on today’s episode we are going to be talking about something that is a very natural thing for humans to do but really doesn’t feel great. We are talking about compare and despair… we’ll be sharing 4 ways to stop comparison TODAY. We have a worksheet you can download at www.thebodylovesociety.com/68    Have you ever been on social media and scrolled by a picture that made your heart drop? That gave you an icky feeling of comparison? Were you feeling pretty good and after you saw “the picture” you immediately went into spiraling thoughts about what you don’t have that you wish you did?    This is a classic case of compare and despair- and don’t you worry this is a very normal human thing to do - especially in our new age of social media. We are able to see into way more people's lives than we ever have just by the tap of a phone screen or click on your laptop. It’s too easy! And it can be very ov

Ever wonder why Weight Watchers and other popular diets don't work? You can go right to the podcast episode. LISTEN HERE. This episode includes a free worksheet that you can grab here We had an amazing conversation on our Instagram the other day. It was all about weight watchers and it started because a woman reached out to us and said she was a researcher for WW and wanted to know what intuitive eating means to those who subscribe to it. NOTE: They are clearly trying to coop intuitive eating language so they can seem like they’re teaching a healthy food relationship when in fact they are just selling another diet. Women were sharing their WW (weight watchers) stories and the reason it was so powerful was because we were also receiving messages like this… “While reading these comments and crying I finally understand that I’m not a failure!”   YES! We all have stories like these but we just don't share them enough so we think we’re all alone. Here's just one of many stories we received...   So why

Normalizing Sh*t Days! So you may be in the UnDiet World - getting into this Intuitive Eating thing. It may even feel freeing. You are so happy to be done with dieting and it’s exciting to be able to allow all food and not feel constantly judged, shamed, and guilted for the food you eat.  There are so many perks to UnDieting and a lot of the time it feels so peaceful. You wonder why you didn’t find this earlier because you feel like you could have skipped out on a lot of suffering in the past with the diet days.  You may even have found yourself in a groove - having good feelings around all of this-  tuning into your body and having wellness without the obsession- of course you are still learning so much and this is still very new to you but you know it feels right!  And now we want to bring the human into all of this---  We want to let you know that there WILL be some hard days on this journey to fully embracing being an UnDieter.  One day you may feel free and the next you may be completely blind side

Today on How to love your body we are talking about something that was brought up in The UnDiet Academy - what do you do if you don’t know WHAT you feel like eating?? "Something I’m having the most trouble with lately is knowing what I feel like eating, because I have difficulty tuning into what I actually want to eat. Sometimes I just dont eat at all or  I find myself asking what’s the “healthiest” option and after that question I just kind of give up, in an effort to stop labelling food, and I grab the quickest thing to eat (cereal, muesli bar) even if it’s not necessarily what I want."   This is a classic case of being too rigid with intuitive eating which then just turns it into another diet.   If your body is hungry, eat. It doesn’t matter if it’s not exactly what you want in this moment but choose from what is available, what sounds good and you think would feel good (note this doesn’t always mean the “healthy” option!). Cookies can feel amazing!   If you think you have to know exactly what you w

When your partner doesn’t understand intuitive eating or undieting   This is a common concern we get.  Many partners are still in the diet world OR they have an easy relationship with food. So they don’t get the struggle of trying to get OUT of the diet mentality.   The first step: Knowing they don’t need to GET IT for it to be the right thing for you. It is not your job to educate them on this or get their permission or support.  I know it’s nice to have your partner be on board but that is just not always possible. If they are genuinely asking questions (without judgement) there are absolutely things you can share with them including the cheatsheet you can download from this episode at www.thebodylovesociety.com/64   But if their questions seem judgemental, "Why did you buy so many cookies?", this can be a slippery slope to a difficult argument. Someone who wants to keep their viewpoint will not be swayed otherwise. There is a really great video that shares about how arguing with someone makes

This episode is brought to you by our FREE training coming up on Thursday July 18th at 12pm pacific - we’ll be giving you tools to help end binge eating and find wellness without the obsession. You can sign up for that by clicking HERE - bit.ly/undietfreetraining   I’ll just lose weight first then I’ll do intuitive eating... This is a comment we get from quite a few women when they’re inquiring about The UnDiet and Intuitive Eating. And we get it - it does seem to make sense to get to the size you want to be and then start listening to your body and then you’ll be free AND thin right?? Unfortunately that is not the way our minds or bodies work. Getting deeper into the dieting mindset and the diet cycle by focusing on weight loss will never bring you to a place of balance.  The only way to do this work is to stop what you’re doing now (even if youre not in your dream body), THEN you work on healing your relationship with food and your body. THEN you find yourself in a place of balance and ease with fo

The causes of binge eating and how to escape them:   Physical  Mindset All or nothing thinking    The physical reasons behind binge eating are :    not eating enough all together, your body has an animalistic reaction when it is hungry and needs food, eventually the willpower has to wear off so your body can get sustenance BUT IM EATING ENOUGH FOOD, I eat tons of chicken, brown rice and broccoli! It’s about allowing all foods physically as well, if you cut our or restrict any food groups etc your body will fight to get these foods into it, our bodies hate being restricted Satisfaction - after you eat if you’re still thinking about food or counting down to the next time you get to eat, you were not satisfied by your last meal. This might mean you need to add satisfying foods to your meals (eX a piece of bread with butter to your bowl of soup) or you needed to allow yourself to have MORE of what you were eating   Solution:   Eat more Eat more variety and do not restrict certain foods et

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