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How to Avoid the One Last Diet Trap

You realize that the diets you’ve been on all these years have not served you well. More than likely the weight that you lost found you again. It’s depressing and you feel distraught. You really want to lose this weight once and for all.

But the diets haven’t worked. Well, maybe they worked short term, meaning you did lose weight when you followed them. But that weight loss was short-lived (research shows dieters regain weight within 1-5 years).

You’ve heard about the anti-diet approach to eating. But somehow, that doesn’t sound logical to you. From what you’ve read on the internet, Intuitive Eating means eat what you want, when you want. (Nah, that’s not what Intuitive Eating is at all. I’ll get into that on another blog)

Either way, you’ve decided to look into Intuitive Eating, after all, what do you have to lose. As you consider “trying” Intuitive Eating, the thought of maybe you’ll go on one more diet to lose those X pesky pounds, and then do “Intuitive Eating”. This is what is called – falling into the “one last diet trap.”

What is the One Last Diet Trap?

This is when you decide to give up dieting to learn to become an Intuitive Eater. But your friend, colleague, coworker, mother etc. just called to say they started a new diet and it’s amazing, you should do it too.

You think about it and consider it. Maybe, just maybe, THIS will be the diet that will help you lose the weight. You decide to try this one last diet, then you’ll start Intuitive Eating.

You have just fallen into the trap!

Don’t Ignore the Facts

Falling for that one last diet ignores the facts that:

Diets do not work. For the 3-5% of people that may keep the weight off, they exhibit disordered eating and exercise habits to do so.

The studies are clear. Approximately 95% – 97% of dieters eventually regain the weight they lost and up to 2/3rds gain back more weight than they initially lost.

You will not find one study that shows that intentional weight loss leads to long-term weight loss.

Rebound weight gain is defined as the regaining of weight you lost, plus more. This weight regain has absolutely nothing to do with a lack of willpower, discipline, or not following the rules you were told to follow! The fact of the matter is that your body was not programmed to be restricted. The more you restrict, the greater the rebound weight gain!

Dieting causes your body to go into survival mode. When your body doesn’t get enough fuel, it thinks “Oh my! I need to go into survival mode. There is a threat, a famine is coming!” Your body will do anything it can to “survive” when it is not receiving the proper nutrients. When your body goes into survival mode, your metabolism decreases and you actually gain more weight!

Bottom Line:

The most predictable outcome of yo-yo dieting is weight cycling (losing and regaining the same weight over and over again).

Yo-yo dieting and weight cycling is detrimental to your physical and mental health!

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How to Stop Mealtime Battles

Do you look forward to your meals? Or are they often a battleground?

What about the buffet at a party? Or the smorg at a wedding? Or just plain old Thursday night pizza night?

Do you constantly hear yourself say…

“should I or shouldn’t I?”
“I can have, I can’t have?”
” I want it, but I shouldn’t have it”
“darn, I can’t believe I ate that”

The inner voices of the chronic dieter are constantly shouting rules about what you should or shouldn’t eat. It makes food the enemy and mealtimes a battle ground. All in the name of weight loss!

But it shouldn’t be this way. In fact –

Food is supposed to bring us pleasure!

Yes, we are supposed to walk away from a meal feeling satisfied and happy. But all to often, if a dieter enjoys their meal, it comes with a side of guilt.

Ending the Battle with Food

So, how do you end the battle with food and regain the pleasure in eating?

By practicing food freedom.

Food freedom means YOU are in charge of the food choices you make and what you choose to eat, instead of letting outside food rules dictate this to you!

The goal is simple: decouple the act of eating from the thought that you need to be losing weight.

If you keep making food decisions with the end goal of weight loss, you will not recapture food freedom and experience the ultimate pleasure in your meals.

4 Ways to Start Practicing Food Freedom

1.Decide to commit:

Commit to not following food rules anymore. Commit to throwing them out the window. Commit to doing the best you can at this moment to start taking charge of your eating.

You will have to be tough with yourself on this one. It’s all too easy to fall back to another diet when you’re just not feeling great one day.

Nope. Draw that line in the sand that symbolized that today is the day that you won’t fall prey to the dieting messages anymore. YOU are in charge of your food choices and your eating! YAY!

2.Slowly start to eat one “forbidden” food at a time.

You know all those foods you fight with at mealtime? No more! There are no good or bad foods, remember that.

Slowly, begin to enjoy once-forbidden foods again and again until they lose the power they once had over you

This is not easy, I know!! If you need help, just reach out to me HERE.

3.Write a letter to yourself as to why you are choosing food freedom

I’m sure there’s a LOT you could write in this letter. So go ahead and give it a try.

Why are you choosing food freedom now?

Here are some examples to get you started:

“Dieting has never worked for me in the past.”
“I don’t want to spend the rest of my life focusing on food.”
“I might “overeat” once it a while, and that is okay. It’s a choice I am making, and it does not define me”

4. Join us!

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How to Eat Intuitively When Your Partner is Dieting

You’ve done it! You’ve committed to never diet again, to ditch diet culture and to truly learn to trust your inner wisdom as your guide to eating.

Congratulations. I know this was a big commitment!

And I also know how hard this can be if your partner or significant other has decided to jump on the New Year diet bandwagon.

So, how do you stay true to your desires and goals, while your partner is weighing and measuring food, avoiding carbs, and talking about it being a “good” or “bad” day? And worse yet, if they are telling you what YOU should or shouldn’t be eating or doing in relation to your food, body or clothes that you wear.

I’m going to break it down for you in 3 simple steps.

1.Communication is Key!

The success in any relationship comes down to communication and respect. Ask your partner if they can set aside time to speak with you, that there is something important you want to discuss. When that time comes, explain that you want to share some things about your past that they may not know or realize. While your partner may know about your past or present food struggles, they may not know to what extent it has impacted your life.

Be open and be specific. Share about your dieting history, explain how dieting has made you feel, and the shame you’ve experienced each time you’ve regained the weight you lost.

2.Gently Educate About Intuitive Eating:

It’s possible your partner doesn’t understand what Intuitive Eating is. Or, they have misconceptions about it. This is not unusual. There’s a lot of misinformation on the internet about Intuitive Eating. Many people think if you stop dieting and embrace Intuitive Eating, you don’t care about your health.

This is a fallacy.

Explain to your partner that you are actually TAKING CARE of your health, both physically and mentally, by no longer dieting.

It’s important to have compassion for your partner as they have been swimming in the same diet culture toxic waters that you have. Lucky you, you are swimming out of these waters, but your partner may not be ready. At the very least, you’ve planted seeds, and have each agreed to respect each other’s journey.

3.Set Boundaries:

It’s possible that after the conversation, your partner will be convinced to join you on your Intuitive Eating journey. That’d be great! But the reality is, they may not be ready for it. And that’s okay too! The important thing is for you to set boundaries.

Here are some examples:

No talking about good and bad foods
No comments about what I am eating, or what you’re not eating
No diet talk, at all!
No body talk, whether that be body bashing or comments about weight loss

Consider what other boundaries you’d like to make. Make a poster board, and hang it in the kitchen/dining room, or any room where these conversations might happen!

At the end of the day, it’s always nice to have the support of your significant other. Give them time and space to learn, just like you’ve done. My guess is that over time, they will be right along side you eating intuitively!

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How to Change Your Diet Mindset in 3 Steps

Let’s face it, the way we think determines what we do. This is true of most any area of our life à food, weight, relationships, career etc.

In the world of dieting, your thoughts play a big role in the actions you take, or don’t take.

“I’ll never be able to lose weight.”

“I can’t change my eating habits; I’ve tried and always fail.”

“I’m a loser, a failure, not even worthy of spending time and money on myself.”

These are examples of negative self-talk. Very destructive thoughts and words that keep you cycling in despair.

You’re probably all too familiar with the negative self-criticism that perpetuates the vicious cycle of dieting.

The same holds true if you’ve been working on Intuitive Eating.

Each time you think you can’t succeed at learning to be an Intuitive Eater, you are strengthening a self-fulfilling prophecy so that you don’t.

If you think you can’t, you won’t. If you think you can, you will.

3 Steps to Changing Your Mindset

Step 1: Become Aware.

Take the time to consider what your thoughts are relating to food, body, weight, etc. Are you even aware of these thoughts? Is this the first time you’re stopping to think about them? Are these thoughts on autopilot?

Once you become aware and identify your thought patterns, consider how they have been impacting your relationship with food and your body. How has these thoughts affected your feelings, your behaviors and ultimately your results?

Step 2: Assess Importance.

You are in charge of your thoughts and your actions. No one else. Now that you have become more aware of them, you’ll want to take time to consider if this is something worth your time to invest in changing them.

Is it important to you if you change your mindset? Why, or why not?

Step 3: Do the Work.

Now what do you do with the info you gathered from steps 1 and 2? You do the work to make the change you so desire. And it will take work. But it is work that will change your life. As you practice changing your thoughts, you will see that your beliefs change, your feelings change, your behaviors change, and your results change.

But you’ve got to do the work.

Mind Your Language While Doing the Work

Ever notice how often you say “I’ll try”? “I’ll try not to eat when I’m upset”, “I’ll try not to say “I should have” or “I shouldn’t have”.

Using the word “I’ll try” gives the message that you will less likely follow through, versus saying “I will”.

Replace “I can’t” with “I can”.

Replace “I’ll try” with “I will”.

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6 Steps to a Diet-Free Commitment in 2021

Whoo hoo! We are just about ready to say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021! I don’t think there is anyone who isn’t happy to leave this year behind us.

The only problem is that with a New Year, comes all the pressure to start a new diet! Wherever you turn, you will be bombarded with diet talk- in the salon, supermarket, office, on the radio, newspaper ads etc. It’s sometimes difficult not to fall prey to the New Year diet marketing, even if you’ve already commited to no more diets! That’s how strong those messages can be.

The #1 barrier to a healthy relationship with food and your body is believing that “this will be the diet that works for me.”

And just like that, you hold yourself back from finally finding freedom from the battle with food and your body that you’ve been living with for years.

Busting through the Diet Temptation Barrier

I promise you that dieting is not going to bring you any peace in your life. All that dieting will do is keep you on the roller coaster of restriction – binge eating – guilt – shame.

If dieting was the answer, it would have “worked” a long time ago.

So, how do you bust through this temptation to do “just one more diet”?

6 Steps to a Diet-Free Commitment

First and foremost, I want you to know that I understand the temptation to try that one last diet. I’ve been there before, so I really do get it. Here are 6 steps to help you commit to being diet free in 2021.

1.Take quiet time: Take a few minutes tonight and sit with yourself quietly. Be sure that you are relaxed, not hungry, and tell your family that you don’t want to be interrupted for at least 30 minutes. You’ll need to have a pad and pen handy.

2.Reflect on your dieting history: Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and ask yourself the following questions:

What has been the emotional cost of all my years of dieting? (examples – depression, anxiety, poor body image etc.)

What has been the relationship cost of all my years of dieting? (examples – lost friendships, broken relationships, social anxiety etc.)

What has been the health cost of all my years of dieting? (Example – blood sugar swings, elevated blood pressure, hair falling out, menstrual irregularities, GI trouble etc.)

After each question, open your eyes and begin writing. Don’t edit your words, just write.

3.Review your responses: Read your responses to each question OUT LOUD (this part is really crucial), and now ask yourself this last MOST IMPORTANT question:

If I don’t break this chronic dieting pattern, how will that affect my future, and that of my daughters (and sons) who are watching me and learning from me?

4.Declare your diet-free commitment: “I am committed to never dieting again!”

5.Seek community: Join other women on the journey towards breaking free of dieting in my Intuitive Eating for a Diet Free Life Facebook Group. Click here to request to join! (Please answer the membership questions for admission).

6.Take a leap of faith: Click HERE to schedule a complementary call with me to get started on your intuitive eating journey in 2021.

You don’t need to walk this journey alone, nor should you. We all need support along the way. I’m here for you if you are ready.

Join me for a LIVE TRAINING today at 12:15 pm EST where I will dive deeper into living diet free!

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4 Ways to Deal with Food and Body Comments at Your Holiday Dinner

Why is it that people think they have the right to comment on what you’re eating or not eating? To me, this is synonymous with someone touching a pregnant woman’s belly.

No, this is not okay!

Yet, it happens All. The. Time.

Think back to your last holiday get-together. There you are enjoying the meal when Auntie Mary quietly (or not so quietly) says “Are you allowed to have that? I thought you were on a diet?”

Or your partner gives you “the eyes” as you reach for the holiday cookies at dessert time.

Or, maybe the conversation at the table is all about what diets everyone will start in the New Year!

I recognize that family get-togethers can pose some major obstacles as you navigate your path back towards Intuitive Eating.

Here are 4 ways to deal with these invading comments:

1.Manage your expectations, know your triggers. If you know that your parent, aunt, partner, cousin etc. typically makes these types of intrusive comments, be ready with a comeback for when they open their mouth. Try something like:

“It is not okay to comment on what I’m eating or not eating. Please focus on your own plate.”

Simple, straightforward, firm yet respectful at the same time.

2. Set boundaries. At the start of the holiday meal, set the boundaries that you would appreciate no diet talk at the table. You can say something like:

“I would like to ask a favor of everyone here. I have a hard time hearing about people’s diets, detoxes, plans etc. Those things have caused me to have a difficult relationship with food and my body, and I’m trying to recover. So, let’s keep the conversation “diet-free”.

3. Change the subject. When someone makes a comment that is triggering for you, just change the subject and say, “We haven’t seen each other in so long, what have you been up to lately?” Or, “have you read any new books recently. I’m looking for a recommendation.”

4. Practice self-care. Rest, movement and stress management are essential to calmly managing situations that otherwise might be irritating. Think about it. If you are exhausted, you have less patience and will either take it out on your family member or on the food. So take some time to build in rest, movement and stress management strategies to keep you calm, cool and collected.

What About Food Pushers?

A food pusher is someone who continuously asks you to have more food, even after you’ve stated that you don’t want, or that you’ve had enough.

We all probably know these types of people. But how do you deal with them?

Join me today for a LIVE Training where we will dig deeper into navigating negative food and body talk, AND how to deal with these food pushers.

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Enjoying the Holidays WITHOUT the Fear of Weight Gain

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You love the holiday season, but you also fear the holiday season. You know what I mean. You love the get-togethers (even though this year they will look very different) and you love the food! But you are also worried that you will gain weight over the holidays, well, because you always do.

Why do you gain weight over the holiday season? It’s a question I ask you to think about.

Is it because there is delicious food and pastries constantly around your home and you are eating for what seems like 24/7?

Is it because it’s hard to “resist” your favorite food when everyone else is enjoying it?

Is it because you figure you’ll just enjoy it now, after all “it’s the holidays”, and you’ll get back “on track” on January 1^st?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, it’s your DIET MENTALITY speaking.

(And if you answered no, but there is another reason you gain weight over the holidays, please share in the comments below. I’d love to chat about it.)

Avoiding the Holiday Weight Gain Mentality

It might seem like changing your mindset is difficult. I’m not going to say it’s easy, but it IS possible. Here are 3 ways:

Believe in yourself. If you don’t believe you CAN, you won’t. So, take a moment and ask – “Do I really want to change my mindset?” If you think for one minute that changing your mindset means you will feel deprived, you will continue in the diet mentality. Why? Because restriction, whether physically or psychologically, will lead to deprivation which leads to binge eating.

Commit to removing all thoughts of diets, weight loss/gain, and black and white thinking. Just this commitment alone will change the results you’ll get.

Promise yourself you will NOT start a new diet in January. Oh yes, it’s SO easy to say you’ll start over in the New Year and that THIS year will be the year that you finally lose weight, right? This statement alone gives you the permission you are seeking to eat with abandon during the month of December. But this never works out the way you plan.

This year, promise yourself that you will absolutely not repeat the mistakes of past years. And remember, if there is even a tiny thought in your subconscious that you will in fact start a diet in January, your behaviors around food will be affected. So, make this promise to yourself, both consciously and subconsciously.

Give yourself unconditional permission to eat. You want the apple pie? Enjoy a piece – at dessert time when everyone else is eating it, not later in the kitchen sneaking a piece when no one is looking.

You don’t gain weight by enjoying a holiday meal with dessert. Or even two. But you do gain weight when you deprive yourself and sneak eat later in the evening. Which by the way, then leads you to do the same the next day, and the next, until you “start over”. See how the diet mentality works here?

Tell yourself you can eat what you want; the key is to stay tuned in and present while you are eating. This way, you savor and enjoy it, without any guilt.

I will be delving deeper into these ideas today on a free training: How to Avoid the Weight Gain Mentality. It’s happening in my private Facebook Group, so join us here!

3 Signs You’re Ready to Stop Dieting (and What to do Next)

“I’m planning to start a diet again after the holidays, but something in me is resisting. I’m not sure what to do, I’m so confused.”

This is a question I got recently from a woman who reached out to speak with me.

As the end of the year approaches and a New Year begins, it’s not uncommon to start thinking of the new diet you will start on January 1^st. But there might be that little voice inside you that is saying “no, not again. I don’t have it in me to do this AGAIN!”.

This is actually a good sign! It’s a sign that you’ve hit “diet bottom” where you don’t have the bandwidth or energy to track another calorie, count another point, measure another morsel of food etc.

You want OUT of this diet game.

But you don’t know what to do instead.

In the video below, I’ve laid out the 3 signs that you’re ready to stop dieting, and 3 steps to take to start creating a healthier relationship with food and your body.

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If you’ve been dieting for years, and even decades, please know that you CAN learn to trust yourself, your body, and your decisions around food.

After watching the video, pop your name and email below to Break the Spell of Diets in 3 Days. It’s free, and you will have clarity of your next steps.

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3 Ways to Create A Home Environment to Support Intuitive Eating

Among some of the challenge’s clients express as they move along on their Intuitive Eating journey is creating a home environment that encourages mindful eating. Many homes are set up in a way that promotes easy access to food, prompting mindless eating and snacking.

External Cues that Trigger Mindless Eating

Look around your house. What do you have at arm’s reach that you find yourself mindlessly snacking from?

Cookie jar on the counter?

Dish of nuts on the living room coffee table?

Cereal boxes lined up on the counter?

Growing up, my mom always had a dish of nuts on the living room coffee table. Come to think of it, she still does. And my grandmother always had a candy dish on her living room table. I guess that’s where my mom got it from. I always used to think that this is the “proper” way to set up a home.

The only problem with this is that it encourages “refuse-not” unconscious eating. What does this mean? Let’s explore.

Refuse-Not Unconscious Eating

The “refuse-not” unconscious eating style is just as it sounds. You eat what you see regardless of whether you are hungry or not.

Consider a work meeting. You and your colleagues are sitting around the conference room table and centered in the middle are plates of mini danishes and cookies. As the meeting is going on, you reach for a danish, and then a cookie and then another etc. You don’t even consciously realize you are doing it. Until you do.

The same thing can happen at home. You walk in the house and into the kitchen. Your daughter had started to eat a muffin, but left some over on the kitchen table. As you open the mail, you start nibbling on the muffin. When it’s gone, and you’ve finished reading the mail, you realize you just ate the muffin, mindlessly.

Mindful Eating as Part of the Intuitive Eating Journey

Mindful Eating and Intuitive Eating are different. Yet, mindful eating is a part of the Intuitive Eating journey.

Here are 3 tips to set up a mindful home environment:

Put All Foods in their Designated Places

While you may not literally have a cookie jar on the counter, look around your kitchen and home and see where you have food “hanging out”. Then make a plan to put all foods away in the cabinet. This will cut down on the mindless picking and snacking. And when you’re hungry for a fuel snack (or even a fun snack), you know where to go.

Remember, it’s not about the food. It’s about the how of eating.

Store Leftovers in Opaque Containers

I always advise my clients to store their leftovers in opaque containers. Why? If those leftovers are in clear containers front and center of the fridge, you may feel tempted to “take another forkful” as you remember how yummy it was at dinner. Therefore, once you’ve enjoyed the food mindfully at dinner, go ahead and store them away in opaque containers towards the back of the fridge, and know that they will be there for you tomorrow to enjoy.

Here’s something to think about. If you eat when you are not hungry, you don’t have as much pleasure from the food as when you do when you are comfortably hungry.

Create an Inviting Eating Space

I have a client who would eat her meals at the kitchen table in between piles of newspapers and mail of the day. This led to lots of distracted and mindless eating for her.

While you may not have a formal dining room table, you likely have a table somewhere in your home that you sit down to meals at. Take the time to reserve this eating space for only eating, and not doing work or piling the days mail. A cluttered space takes away from eating enjoyment and creates a distracted eating environment.

The Intuitive Eating journey is all about listening to your body. There are things that can disrupt that attunement process. Creating a home environment that supports your journey is an important step you can take and is key to success.

5 Ways to Ensure a Thanksgiving that Honors Your Body AND Tradition

It’s November which means soon enough it will be time for turkey and all the delicious side dishes you enjoy on Thanksgiving. Many people who are starting the Intuitive Eating journey, and even those who have been on it a while, struggle with this holiday. The whole day is centered around eating, leaving you uncomfortably full by the end of the evening. No wonder it’s a challenge for so many people!

I want you to know it doesn’t have to be this way. Thanksgiving does not have to be a source of anxiety at all. It can be a day full of love and gratitude for all the things in your life that you are thankful for.

Here are 5 Ways to ensure a Thanksgiving that honors your body and tradition

Reframe Your Beliefs

If you go into Thanksgiving Day thinking you will “blow” it, then it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your thoughts/beliefs inform your feelings, which inform your actions which inform your results.

Maybe in years past you went into the holiday dieting, and with the first bite of a food you deemed “bad”, you figured “I blew it, I’ll just start again after the holidays”. Well, now you are going into the holiday as an Intuitive Eater, or an Intuitive Eater in training. Therefore, changing your self talk can greatly impact your beliefs and ultimately your actions.

Try saying this to yourself: “I am capable of enjoying the Thanksgiving feast while honoring my inner signals of hunger, satiety and satisfaction.”

Eat Breakfast and Lunch on Thanksgiving Day

It can be tempting to skip breakfast or lunch when you know that you have a holiday dinner ahead of you. However, this is forcing your body to ignore its hunger cues earlier in the day and when you finally sit down to dinner, you will be ravenous. Then what happens? You eat past the point of comfortable fullness!

Instead, enjoy a well-balanced breakfast and lunch and you’ll see how much more you enjoy dinner.

Hint: Skipping meals to save calories for a big dinner is part of the sneaky diet mentality. What other ways is the diet mentality sneaking back into your thoughts? Let me know in the comments below!

Be Aware of Competition Eating

Family dinners with lots of people can be challenging! You might find that you take extra or larger helpings of food out of a fear that there won’t be anything left if you are still hungry. This is a form of “rebound eating”. Just the thought of being deprived leads you to “overeat”.

Here’s the thing! Even if you have a big family, there’s likely going to be enough food for second helpings should you still be hungry (who doesn’t have Thanksgiving leftovers!)

Try to resist the urge to overfill your plate. When you first sit down to dinner, assess your hunger level, and take the amount of food you think will fill your hunger. Keep in mind that if you are not quite satisfied when you finish eating, you can always take more. YOU are in charge!

Create A Colorful Balanced Plate

Some people think that nutrition is not considered in the Intuitive Eating philosophy. That is the farthest thing from the truth! Gentle Nutrition (Intuitive Eating Principle 10) takes into consideration taste and nutrition when making food choices.

When filling your plate at your Thanksgiving meal, consider whether most of the food groups are present. Protein, whole grains, veggies, and healthy fats all make for a balanced plate that will leave you feeling satisfied, energized and will keep your blood sugars stable.

Check-in with Yourself

Being around the family at holiday time can be a source of stress for many people. And this stress can be a disruptor to attuning to your hunger and fullness signals. Take the time before the big dinner to center yourself and focus on you. Then throughout the meal, take some time outs to check in with yourself to assess how you are feeling. If you are feeling overwhelmed, take a few breaths to refocus your attention on your meal and to check in with your fullness cues.

Thanksgiving is a time to think about all the goodness in our lives. While this year has been challenging for all, we can probably find something we are thankful for. Best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!

By the way, if you want to try some new and delicious recipes for Thanksgiving, check out my cookbook, Enjoying Food Peace.

Recipes from the cookbook that I’ll be making include: Roasted Chestnut Soup, Pomegranate-Orange Glazed Turkey, Moist Stuffing, Crunchy Brussels Sprouts and Pumpkin Muffins!

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