Nutrition and Workout Update

I’m still following a Paleo nutrition program Monday – Friday evening and then after that I tend to loosen up.

The workouts have changed a bit.  I have some early morning clients now so I haven’t been working out early in the morning these past 2 weeks.

I’m coming up on Week 12 of my current program so there will be a change soon.  I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet.  I’m sure it will come to me.  One of my goals in the next 5 months is to be able to do 3 unassisted pull-ups so that will be part of the program!

Geneen Roth Workshop this week

 

This week I am doing Something that scares me.

I am going to a LIVE Geneen Roth Workshop  about Ending Obsession with food.

Geneen Roth is one of the leading voices when it comes to Eating Psychology.  She’s the author of some of the most impactful books when it comes to Emotional eating and body image such as:  Breaking Free from Emotional Eating and Women Food and God.

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom. – Geneen Roth

I’m scared because I know this is going to have me face a lot of my own personal truths when it comes to my eating habits and food issues.

My purpose in going is to learn about myself and also to learn strategies that I can use with clients who struggle with emotional eating and help them experience breakthrough.

This matter of food is so intensely personal to go to a workshop to start questioning and analyzing your eating habits feels overwhelming but I know that this is invaluable.

Geneen Roth is an authority on this subject and I believe there is nobody better to learn from than those who have not only studied their subject but has also lived it and if you’re a fan of her work, then you know she has lived the experience of what it is like to experience emotional eating, disordered eating, and suffer with body image.  Her recounts of her experience with food, dieting, and body image are so familiar that sometimes  when I was reading I felt like she had been in my head recording what I was experiencing.

What I hope to learn at this workshop

I’m sure this will be an intense and emotional experience but I don’t  want this to be an experience that is simply emotional

  • I want this to be an experience that will help me further grow as both a student and also a coach.
  • As a student I want this to help me continue to experience my own transformational breakthroughs when it comes to food freedom and body image.
  • As a Coach I want this to help me develop even more compassion and empathy for those struggling with food issues.
  • I also want to learn more effective strategies to help women who suffer with emotional eating issues.  I know that Eat Less/Move More does nothing to address the most important component of fat loss:  Mindset.

May the Odds be Ever be in my Favor

I’m a huge Hunger Games fan and so whenever I have to do something that scares me or where I want to win (which is nearly everything) then I watch Katniss Everdeen unleash her greatness on Panem in the Hunger Games.

So far I’ve watched Mockingjay and I will watch the other movies the rest of this week!

I compare it to the obsessed Star Wars Fans.  I’m the same way about those movies. There’s nothing like watching a heroine unleash her power and kill all of her opponents. and take them out of the game.

That’s my goal when it comes to the disordered eating and horrible body image issues that this society places upon women.

May the Odds Be Ever in Our Favor!!