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Dear Friend,

When it comes to your health and taking care of yourself, do you find yourself living in two different places? Do you have “good days” when you are eating healthy foods and participating in other acts of self-care? And yet there are as many (or more) of those days when you eat foods that taste good in the moment but you know aren’t going to provide the real nourishment you are looking for?

Boy, do I know how you feel.  For 20 years of my life I lived in those two places. After yo-yo dieting and gaining the same 30 lbs ten different times in my life, I came to a place where I had a decision to make: I could spend the rest of my life on the diet rollercoaster, putting off “living” my life until I reached the magic weight OR I could decide to make peace with food.  So, I set out on a journey of self-discovery around the food in my life.

Two degrees in Nutrition helped, but my relationship with food changed completely when I went to Culinary School to learn how to cook WHOLE FOODS.  In learning about foods that nourished me physically that actually tasted good (unlike the cottage cheese and cardboard crackers from dieting days of old),  I really started to look at food differently.  Food lost it’s Good/Bad, On My Diet/Off My Diet status and became just food, and delicious food at that!  In fact, I couldn’t believe how delicious healthy food could be when prepared in certain ways.   During this time in culinary school, I ate as much as I needed without portioning foods or counting calories and even though I was surrounded by food, I was thinking about it less and less.

For the first time in my life, I was feeling GREAT in my body and I began to actually WANT the healthy foods that made me feel alive and energetic.  I was really listening to my body and instead of ignoring it’s signals of hunger and fullness, I tuned into them intently and honored its messages.  I let the goal of losing weight go, and as with so many things in life, as soon as I let go of the attachment of reaching that magic weight, I did.

But losing weight wasn’t the best part.  You know what was?  I got to keep my love of food.  I didn’t have to ‘make food boring’ or adopt the view of ‘food as fuel’ to lose weight.  And this has given me peace: accepting the fact that I LOVE great tasting food AND I also LOVE living in my healthy, vital body.  It isn’t an all or nothing thing—isn’t that great news?

If you are ready to take care of your physical health and still LOVE food, please click on the link below to find out more about my Healthy Meal Planning Service.

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