My friend and Wellness Coach, Jen Baucom, who specializes in thyroid + PCOS hormones shared why taking care of hormones is SO important, how you can find the imbalances, and 3 great tips on what you can do about them. If you want to feel energized and great all the time right, make sure to watch the video!

I shared information about Japanese culture that didn’t serve me for having a healthy body and mindsets, some differences between emotional eating and eating disorders,, and how emotional eating looks like, what to watch for, and what to do about them.

Excited to hear about your takeaways!

Kanna

In my mindful eating support community, there're many who have challenges with sugar addiction. Are you one of them?
I sure was and it was controlling my life, but I'm happy to say that I have a healthy and fun relationship with sugar now.

If you have problems with sugar, here are a few things you can dig to start breaking free from the addiction.

What does your sugar addiction look like? Needing to eat doughnuts first thing in the morning throughout the day? Or a box of cookies at 8 pm?

Is there a pattern for the sugar craving? Maybe every time you talk with a certain friend, you'd crave for a muffin?

Why do you want to stop eating sugar (yes, health reasons, but deeper reason, like "I want to lose muffin tops so that I'm confident going on a date again")

Add some healthy nutrients (like green juice, smoothie, veggies, nuts etc) in your system, focus on ADDing to avoid having scarcity mentality (this deprived feeling tend to evoke "I...

Who here believes walking away from junk food is all on your strong wills?

I did and so did my clients for mindful eating support for a long time.  Can you guess what happened to us? 

Binged on what we restricted on. 

So, all the efforts - starvation (haha, it felt like it), mind-games, (unhelpful) disciplines only worked so long but took us to the worst place than where we started.

This is why I dive deep into WHYs you want to buy junk food.  Not to restrict you from buying it against your will.

It's so important to know the reason why you need to do the habit that you want to change.  There's an underlying reason for it and unless we address that, you'll repeat the same act. If you ignore it and force it to change the unsupportive behavior with your strong will, it'll only last so long and you'll binge on the food you deprived.

So, it's a good day to think about WHY you want to buy junk food. 

a). Write down the why

Example...

We tend to focus on WHAT we eat, but HOW we eat is also very important.

We wouldn't really put all 24 Oreos on a plate and spent 20 minutes at a dining table for truly indulging them, rather gorge them in from the bag in 5 minutes in your room....at least it was my case.

So today, I have a challenge for you.
Put one meal (or snack) you are to eat on a plate, nicely display with a placemat, add a candle or flowers if possible (just grab some from the street or park, lol), use knife and fork if the food is supposed to be eaten with them. Maybe put down your cell phone and play calming music, like jazz or Spanish guitar!

It doesn't matter what the food is to me at this moment. If they need to be Oreos, put them nicely on your favorite plate, and sit at a dining table, and chew 20 times instead of swallowing. ENJOY them.

By doing this, it will makes a huge difference on your soul satisfaction level.

Remember, whatever the food is, it's ok.
You don’t need to pretend that you are...

A black pair of riding boots was the origin of my long journey of eating disorders.

I belonged to a horseback riding stable, where many kids were really good and I practiced with them for competitions.

At the age of 13, I was skinny, but had bigger calves than other riders around.  One day, my instructors made fun of me having a hard time getting into my new leather boots, and said “You are the worst rider anyway, so do something about the calves at least!”......

It was also around the time I started feeling insecure about my body. 
It was also around the time I discovered that I didn’t want to compete, but didn’t know how to say it to everyone.  The rest of the riders were grabbing all the prizes and I felt like I "needed to want" the same.  My heart wasn't in the competitions, hence; no good results for many times. I started to feel like...

“I’m just a burden”
“I’m not worthy, I’m not good...