Episode 17. Do You Need to Lose Weight for Your Health?

08/29/23 • 48 min

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The health messages we constantly get are all about "lose weight to be healthier." This is the system that has been in place for a long time but it seems like the more we try, the worse our health becomes.
Let's chat about the difference between focusing on weight loss for your health and focusing on supporting your body with health habits.

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Episode 16. Thirteen Ideas for Trading in Calorie-Tracking for Getting to Know Your Body Better

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Tracking certain things, like calories for example, reduces your food and body to numbers and cuts off—literally blocks—your mind's connection to your body. That's why we usually don't recommend tracking things!
Shifting from a diet mentality to an Intuitive Eating approach to health and nutrition is hard, so there are a few things that may actually be helpful to explore and keep track of.
Let's chat about trading tracking calories (or similar things) for learning more about your body.

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Episode 18. Which of These Nutrition Beliefs Are Really Myths? Part I

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We get it...there is SO much nutrition information out there it's hard to tell what is actually true and what is misinformation.
Let's chat about the tea on some common nutrition beliefs like:

"This worked for me, so it will work for you!"
Calories in must equal calories out.
There are good and bad foods.

Self-Care Cafe - Episode 17. Do You Need to Lose Weight for Your Health?

Transcript

[Music]
hey it's Carrie and Ashley we welcome you to the self-care Cafe we are both
health professionals and moms and nature lovers and food lovers and love helping
women get over dieting and just start living we think that talking about
bodies and perfect bodies and dieting is just
boring did we put you to sleep there Carrie yes so if you are ready to ditch
dieting and get to living and talk about more important things then you are in the right place we don't put shame and