I know how you feel, I´ve been there

I understand you completely as I had so much experience with food struggles. 

In my 20s it was destructive cycles of restriction and binge. I didn´t care about healthy eating at all. My only interest was how to eat less and burn more calories.

Later I learned about nutrition (even got a Nutrition and Diet Advisor certificate) and at some point, it became an obsession with the quality of my food.

Sometimes it was simply feeling like I would never be enough that drove me to eat emotionally.

In my 30s I felt overwhelmed by all the responsibilities (work, children, household) and used eating to release stress.

I could say I experienced almost the full spectrum of food struggles.

But it all started to change when I had to watch someone I love to go through hell due to a mental illness. It made me realise that it´s not enough to look after our body, it´s also vital to look after our mental health.

I bring this up because I know there are so many of you caught in that same cycle of struggle with food and your body.

And I want you to know that, while I think eating mostly healthy food and living a healthy lifestyle is important to prevent lifestyle-related illnesses and enjoy a long, healthy life, we should also care about our mental health.

Food struggles are always related to some emotional issues that need to be addressed. When they´re resolved, the food struggle and body issues disappear too.

The extra weight is often not about what you eat but about what´s eating you.

Life is too short to keep feeling like you aren’t good enough. Too short to miss out on dinners with loved ones because you’re scared you’ll ruin your diet. Too short to obsess about that dessert you ate earlier.

I´m 50 now, and I finally managed to figure out how to stop emotional eating and lose weight WITHOUT diets. 

I want the same for you.