Even though nutrition and diet are topics I barely cover in my content, 70% of the questions I still get are diet and weight-loss-related.
And 95% of them are asked by women, and often girls in their early teenage years.
Every time, a part of me feels sad.
I remember my old days of intense dieting and extensive exercising, weighing myself with clothes and then without, hoping I would be a bit lighter after hours of starving.
Over the years, in healing my eating disorder, I finally realized that my fear of food represented itself in so many aspects of my life; it was not limited to fitting in smaller-sized clothes but also prevented me from taking bigger spaces in my life.
I know so many women who fucked up their hormones & metabolism due to the following things:
→ A 1200-calory diet (that’s not even enough for kids)
→ Undereating for an extended period
→ The long window of intermittent fasting (too much stress for an already stressed body)
→ Over-exercising with not enough recovery time
My wish for you in 2023 is to:
1/ Shift your focus from losing weight to learning more about your body, increasing your capabilities, and doing movements that make you feel freaking strong.
I also want to remind you that being skinny won’t make you more beautiful, feminine, or empowered; taking full responsibility for yourself and your body will.
2/ Prioritize health over weight loss, and when you focus on health over the false standard of beauty and look, you start diving deeper into what works and what doesn’t for your body.
You begin trusting yourself and your body more than the next trendy restrictive diet and, most importantly, feeling empowered by your choices.
3/ Stop measuring your worth with the size of your clothes; let’s not pass this on to the next generation of our daughters. Instead, let’s remember the sacredness of the feminine body and what she’s capable of.
Let us help our daughters see themselves and their bodies with adoration and love.
And if you want to dive deeper into practical insights on how to improve your nutrition, watch our nutrition workshop with amazing Natalie Mccrae.
Be Mov〰ful,
Hedi