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001 Do you have an open or fear-based mindset?

 Let's jump right into this- your mindset towards food needs to be positive.  If the idea of even talking about food makes you shut down, get mad, get defensive, or makes you want to click away from reading, then that's the first recognized mental block.  Please stay with me.  Our society puts so much stress on perfection and then bombards us with way too many choices, all of which are proven wrong by other options.  There's no way to be perfect with too much confusion and way too much criticism for your decisions. 

How do you change your attitude towards food then?  You become confident in your choices and you don't worry about the criticism and judgments from society (easier said than done, but don't worry, that's what I'm here to help fix, you don't already have to know how to do that).


This was a disgraceful ad on my Facebook the other day.  Now exercise is bad advice and it's all about hormones?!?!  What they are not telling you is that exercise creates those good hormones they are talking about.

Clearly they are selling something and trying to get you to believe this dramatic sudden finding that exercise is bad advice. What if you had just started exercising and then saw this... now you feel bad and begin to doubt your choices because somebody wants to sell something.  This all-or-nothing effect that you must choose ONE thing to make you lose weight, or be healthy is ridiculous. The body is very complicated, it's never just one answer you are searching for, but someone that wants to sell you something will certainly make it appear that way.  Do not let them get you down.

Before we can break through, we have to recognize the walls that are up and the frustrations that are present with the topic of nutrition.  It's fine to be mad, frustrated, unsure, annoyed.  I am going to help you make that shift towards having a positive attitude and an open mind.  It starts by being willing to listen. You cannot be so hard on yourself.  You are not aloud to say terrible things to yourself about food.  You can totally learn how to do this!

Yes you can!

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