Hungry for Love: Lose Weight After Toxic Relationships

Patience… it’s one of those skills we all want more of, yet don’t really know how to create. It’s also the #1 most important skill when it comes to weight loss.    In church, we’re told to pray for more patients, or simply BE more patient, without any concrete steps as to HOW… other than pray or pray harder. But that’s not helpful.    This is why I believe we can blend prayer / religion with perso...

We often think losing weight or having the “right" size or shape body is going to make us happy. But we’re missing the #1 key factor in what really makes us happy… our THOUGHTS.    Join me on today’s bonus episode of the Body You Crave Podcast where I talk with Hailey Miller, a NYC based Life and Health Coach. Hailey’s mission is to arm you with the tools you need to cultivate true joy and happine...

I spent over a decade as a chronic dieter - constantly trying to lose weight, never being satisfied with where I was, then terrified of food and gaining the weight back again.    Because it’s not just about the weight… it’s the shame, judgement, and self-loathing that comes with it.    Join me as I wrap up my emotional eating story and share how I was finally able to end my war with food, stop hat...

From the time I was 7 or 8 I thought I was fat.    I look back now and my heart breaks for that little girl who thought she needed to be thinner or look a certain way in order to be loved and accepted.    But my story isn’t unique - so many women struggle their entire lives to lose weight, keep it off, love and accept their body, and mistakenly base their value and self-worth on the number on the...

With all the programs about diets, exercise, or even the "standard body-shape" most companies promote, it’s easy for us to get fooled about what having a healthy lifestyle and body can look like.    The truth is, having a healthy body (and one you love) is more than exercising every day or eating the foods you think you “should be” eating. Real health looks at your entire well being, your mind, bo...

No that’s not a typo - I lost 20 pounds in the week following my son’s birth.    I only gained 25 pounds, and I was expecting the last five pounds to magically fall off just like the first 20… but they didn’t. Now couple that with the fact that I was comparing my body’s recovery to that of other women, and had lots of expectations of where I “should be,” and you’ve got a recipe for frustration and...

It’s so easy to talk about pregnancy weight loss, but we don’t often think about how we gained the weight in the first place.    Many in our society today use excuses and justifications to eat more than you need during pregnancy… thoughts like “baby wants a cupcake,” or “I’m eating for two.” Or maybe you dieted so frequently that being pregnant was like your free hall pass to eat anything and ever...

Have you ever woken up in the morning after an overeat or emotional eat the night before and thought to yourself, “ugh why did I eat that?!”    This used to happen to me ALL THE TIME!    And while my overeats are now few and far between, I over ate a couple weekends ago (because sometimes I still overeat or emotionally eat - and it’s ok). NOTHING has gone wrong.   But it’s important that you DO an...

“Transformation only occurs from within; you cannot force it, it requires patience and surrender to something greater than your physical being.” - Jenae Kama    Most of us tend to only focus on creating external transformations, such as losing weight and creating the body we desire. But this is where the diet and fitness industry get it wrong, because they miss the #1 most important piece… your mi...

Believing new things can feel hard and uncomfortable, ESPECIALLY when you don’t have past evidence to support your new beliefs… but that’s exactly what hoses you when you set out to do things you’ve never done before… such as lose weight, or keep the weight off.    We wrestle with belief because we’re looking to past evidence to support our new beliefs, but when it’s not there, and we have evidenc...

If you have kids, you know full well becoming a mother is one of the greatest life changes. But with so many competing priorities as a mom, it can feel hard to prioritize your own mental and physical wellness.    That’s why I have Nicole Norris, owner of FIT4MOM Western Wake County, on today’s bonus episode of the show!   Nicole is a kick@ss mom of three whose life completely changed mentally and...

A perfectionist fantasy is a fantasy about being perfect, because you erroneously believe that if you were perfect, then you’d create the results you want.  So for example if you stick to your diet perfectly then you’d lose the weight and have the body you crave. (And you’d finally be happy, proud, confident - all the feelings you think losing weight will give you.)  Logically we know we can’t be...

There are A LOT of diet rules out there… so many that contradict one another it’s hard to know what to even follow.  Things like, just cut out fat, carbs, sugar, processed foods, animal products, meat, dairy, gluten, cholesterol, salt…    And on and on the well-meaning advice continues, but the reality is WHAT you eat isn’t nearly as important as WHY you’re eating.  This first step to end emotiona...

The diet and fitness industry is FULL of secrets and formulas to lose weight… in fact, one of the most pervasive (and false) formulas is the myth surrounding calories in / calories out.    That’s a whole episode on it’s own, but today I want to share the REAL formula for weight loss, and I guarantee it’s not what you’re thinking…    What’s in this episode: The missing piece in your weight loss for...

We’ve been trained (or brainwashed) to think there’s a “secret formula” and magical set of foods to eat that will have you dropping pounds like nobody’s business, but you never stop to think about how you want to live the rest of your life.  You think you have to suffer, deprive and restrict yourself in order to lose weight, but who wants to live in a world without chocolate, pizza, pasta or wine?...

It would be easy to write this podcast off as being just another diet show telling you to ‘eat this / not that,’ but the reality is, none of that sh*t works. The #1 problem for chronic dieters is that you've only taught yourself how to binge and restrict. You're either “all in” or “all out” - there's no in between.   Over time what you find is that while you can restrict for a little while, that r...