Ok, my dear friends! Here we are, week one of our 10-Week Intuitive Eating Series and we are chatting about REJECTING the Diet Mentality (I LOVE this topic!). PLEASE leave any of your thoughts, questions, aha moments down in the comments below so we can help support one and other through the next 10 weeks. XO - Dani
Clean & Delicious Hi Dani thank you for this. I think about food constantly and have struggled with my weight all my life. I am ready to go on this journey. I am a little nervous because I feel like I am about to do a diet but I am ready for something different with some guidance.
I am so happy to have found this channel. I came into the world at 9 lbs, 2 oz., and it's been a struggle to lose weight ever since. My mother heard about Weight Watchers and at the age of 19, I began my first "organized" diet. Since then, I've tried countless diet programs, and am a 4-time visitor to Weight Watchers, which I am following now. I've lost 13 pounds but given my history with Weight Watchers, it's hard to forget that what is lost is usually found, and that haunts me. I am, for the most part, also following a Pegan lifestyle, so lots more veggies, fruits, and lean meats. I am not a carboholic, but I do love carbs every once in a while. I smiled when you asked in this video, "How many books do you have on dieting?" lol Two shelves of my bookcase are diet books, not to mention all that I've read online. Ugh! I'm looking for a way to MAKE IT STOP and I believe that God brought me to your videos to do just that. I can't wait to order your book and I will definitely go through this series with you. Thank you.
Great job, Dani! I am 71 and have been dieting since I was 8 years old. I know, even though 10 years ago I finally decided to get off that merry-go-round, I can still be enticed by the thought that I SHOULD be dieting. I almost recently fell for the keto fad, but thankfully realized I had done that many years ago with 0 success. Everything you have said I can relate to and agree with. You are a delightful woman!
Thank you Gram. I completely understand what you mean... I can also still be enticed with dieting but no longer take the bait!! I Appreciate you being here.
Im 66 my mother put me on a diet when i was 6 yrs old. She had a restaurant and i would sneak for even sneak some home and hide it to eat later. O have bee n a yo-yo dieter ever since
I honestly had given up “diets” and beat myself up for decades. I bought the book, opened it, & assumed these Jedi mind tricks wouldn’t work for me. However, having tried it for a few days... I feel free for the first time. I don’t have to constantly be thinking ahead to the next meal. I find that I’m honestly not eating nearly as much just because I’m not constantly feeling half-starved & planning every bite.
THANK YOU! I'm definitely stuck in my head. I've read so much, I know "everything" about diets, foods and what I "should" be doing but even before I start I get super overwhelmed and it ends up with me hating myself for not doing what I know I should do. If I treated my loved ones like I treat myself I would be in jail.
This came at such a perfect time for me - thank you. Earlier this week I reevaluated my diet mentality with regards to social media and was crushed by what I saw. I had followed a bunch of IFBB pros and women whose JOB it is to look good with the thought of "motivating" myself by surrounding myself with what I aspired to - only this "motivation" has gone on for about four with years negative results. Instead of being "motivated" by what I was seeing every day, I was subconsciously fat-shaming myself by what I was NOT seeing in my own journey. I feel like that is one of the pitfalls of this diet culture we live in - what is marketed as positive can actually detrimental to the majority of people without them even knowing it. So, thanks, Dani, for talking about this. Sometimes we need a nice kick in the rear to get our priorities straight and you do that in such a loving way every time.
Im dealing with eating disorder caused by restricting myself and going on many diets,i just saw this video,got really motivated to start listening to my body and start a better relationship with food.your talks are so inspiring❤
I’ve never been overweight but have always felt the need to change my body. No matter what number I see on the scale or how my clothes fit, I am never happy with my body. Everyone tells me my body is perfect but when I share how I feel they think I’m nuts. I just turned 27 and I can remember feeling this way since elementary school.
I purchased the book and look forward to ditching the diet mentality. I have yo-yo dieted for 40 years and put my body through hell. I’m tired and feel defeated and it is time to reboot. I have always respected you and loved your recipes....let’s get started!
Awesome video. I listened to this book a couple months ago and have fully embraced intuitive eating. It's given me such freedom about food. I'm no longer obsessed with food, nor am I binging on junk food. I don't stuff myself and I honor my body's hunger cues. I have a wonderful husband who has been on a cycle of dieting and then binging for years. He's done keto several times and is currently doing intermittent fasting. I have watched his weight go up and down and up and down. He is constantly trying to get me to watch videos and documentaries that explain why we need to be on these diets. But I am so done with diet mentality. I'm not as skinny as I used to be, but I can honestly say that I am happy with my body. I workout regularly and enjoy lots of healthy food and also give myself permission to have a treat when I really want one. We had our blood and urine tested recently and my numbers are optimal across the board. I'm healthy, happy and full of energy. What I'm doing is working. So how can I get him to stop pushing these restrictive diets on me?
misskellie2 I’m so glad that you have found this new freedom! Maybe have a talk with your husband about where his motivation to lose weight comes from. For every person that diets, there is a core reason that it comes from. The surface reasoning is “to lose weight.” But how we go about it is so telling as to whether or not it comes from a healthy place. It is so much deeper than we realize a lot of times until we stop to explore those feelings and situations that lead us to diet. I hope that he comes to a place of peace in that area of his life❤️
A little while ago I watched a TH-cam Video about a girl which talked about her eating disorders and in the moment she talked about her thoughts and her view on her body I started to realize that something is going extremely wrong with my eating habits... I bumped on this series and hopefully it can change my unhealthy (like I realized after watching the video) eating habits and become more self aware of my own body. In celebration for this video I ate breakfast today... That's literally a big thing for me :D
When it comes to hunger, I've learned that I will eat out of boredom. Eating when I'm hungry was something I was taught as a child and it worked until recent years. I'm finally getting back to the things my parents taught me. Eat to live, feed your body foods that will keep you healthy and when I do that, I find I'm not wanting to eat junk foods. Cooking fresh foods makes me feel better. I have better digestion, no constipation and my mood is better. I'm going to be watching your series to reinforce the lessons taught to me early on. I absolutely love your videos, Dani. I follow you here and facebook just to make sure I don't miss a thing. Thanks for this vid and can't wait to see you again. :)
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for doing this series. I am 43 years old and have been on every kind of diet since I was 16 years old and you know what...I am still overweight and don't feel good. The diet world is truly a money making business. They need people like us to diet, fail, and pay for the diet again because we say, "It worked the first time, I just have to have better will power". I am beyond ready to give up diets and start nourishing my body to FEEL better.
Thank you for doing this. I am BEYOND excited for this series! The 3 steps were so impactful for me. For me, step 2 had me jotting down notes of when "dieting" entered my world and it started as early as I can remember when I would overhear my grandmother talking about her crash diets as she struggled with her weight and struggled with her self-worth all of her adult life, which trickled down to her 3 daughters, and eventually to me, resulting in a genetic predisposition to feel the need to diet & dislike my body and my shape.
Hi Pam. Thanks for sharing this... May I suggest that you don't have a 'genetic predisposition' to dieting and disliking your shape, you have a habit of 'thinking' in a way that promotes this. You picked up the story of your grandma and your mom and it unconsciously became yours... THE GOOD NEWS is, we are free to change our stories. Thoughts are optional and with awareness, practice, kindness, ease and forgiveness you can begin to practice a new story. XXOO
Love this!!! I’m recovering from an eating disorder and trying to learn to do this is SO HARD and I don’t even know where to start. I’m hoping this series helps me get into a healthier mindset and relationship with food!
I am so glad I found your channel. I have been searching for not simply a diet but a life change. I ate completely vegan for nearly 3 years and it really aggravated my psoriatic arthritis and hormone levels. Gained weight and felt terrible. Have been keto for about 2 months. Actually have felt really well physically but, it turna into a diet when you have to worry so much about not putting anything with sugar or carbs in your mouth. So...as of yesterday as my husband was going to buy some local freah corn on the cob, I decided enough! I want to just focus on eating whole healthy foods a majority of the time and not feel beat down if I do decide to have dessert while out and about. I no longer want to associate myself with the food I eat.
Thank you for sharing this. I’m a chronic dieter and would really like to break out of it. I’m probably going to buy the books to really dive in. I was really moved when you talked about pregnancy motivating you to really take care of yourself. Motherhood is the most beautiful thing on earth. And I’m sure your daughter will feel so happy when she realizes how much she enriched your life even before she was born ❤️
I am so excited about this video and Intuitive Eating. I'm at the my highest weight of my life and can't lose weight no matter what I do. I'm 58 and started to develop all kind of health issues. This couldn't come at a better time. This all makes sense! I'm ready to do this just to feel better! Thanks Dani!
Great video, Dani! I won’t tell my age, but the only “diet” I’ve ever done was Eating for Life. I was working out a lot at that time. I don’t like diets and am grateful that my mom taught me at an early age how to eat well. However, I do enjoy some things I shouldn’t eat, but always in moderation. 😀 If I notice I’m gaining weight, I take a look at my habits and just cut the junk a little to get back on track and feeling good.
I used to be obese. I started to lose weight more than a year ago. The process was hard but I knew that I wanted to do it right, and I did. I ate 1500-1700 calories a day (sometimes less but it wasn't on purpose) and I exercised 5-6 times a week. After losing 30 kilos, I am merely 8 kilos from my life goal. That's when it all went downhill for me. i was so desperate to loose these last few kilos and it has gotten so much harder (mentally) to focus. Truth be told its depressing. For the past three months my weight is fluctuating due to extreme dieting and binging and to this day i haven't lost a thing. Thank you so much for this, I know that many ppl including myself needs to hear this kind of dialogue. I need to be kinder to myself. I need to love myself and understand that I have worked hard the past year and I did make a positive change.
This is fantastic for my back surgery recovery. I’ve had 2 surgeries in the last 13months. I’m on many pain meds, only able to move short amounts & have put on 30kilo’s in the last 24months. It makes me feel sad & like a failure. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and loving energy. Pxxx 😘
Hi Patrice. Thanks so much for watching. I so understand your frustration. Give your body permission to heal and feel good, this is just for now.... xo.
So great. I had just about started the process of listening to my body and reconnecting with my hunger for the first time in about 18 years when I found your account via the meal prep videos. I actually believe that this will be a turning point, and I hope to never teach my daughter to obsess over food the way I have. It is such a waste of time and life. Great job getting this message out in the world!
My aha moment is when you said that you have reached some of your goals when you stopped dieting!’.... i just realised that eating healty/listen to my body can be a daily goal 🤩. Thank you Danie for your excellent channel 😍
I am excited over having found your channel. My family and I have begun to be cautious of what we eat. It is difficult to eat healthy when there are sooo many people who are "experts" which end up being expert liars. Having said that I congratulate you for doing this!! Don't hold back!!
I'm very excited and already love the "freedom" mentality that this is offering. Always beating myself up over indulging and not being able to workout and exercise like I was a year ago. Very excited! Thank you 🌷
Omg, I totally feel what u are saying. Only after 2 pregnancies and a nutritionist guided weight loss I started changing my mind on diets. So many things that u are mentioning as intuitive I started doing naturally after seeing that I can lose weight by actually eating clean most of the time. But this only after 15 yrs + of dieting and not being staisfied with my body. Although I now know how to eat healthy w/out actually dieting or restricting kcal, I oftenly find myself counting kcals again or wanting to lose weight again. My biggest fear is that no matter what I will not be happy with any number. So I need to work on this, to detoxify from numbers and kcals and negative body image. Thanks for doing this serie of videos. They are sooo useful!
I ate intuitively my whole life and was always 5-10 kg overweight, thinking “oh, I guess that’s just the weight my body wants to be at”. Was never into junk food, made all meals from scratch and ate until I was full. In the last six months I lost 15kg counting calories and I’m happier than ever! It wasn’t hard, I don’t feel deprived and I’m finally looking the way I’ve always wanted to look. Intuitive eating is at odds with our food abundance, sedentary lifestyle and our food culture (I’m not American, but even over here serving sizes are larger than they ought to be). Obviously making yourself crazy over anything and running after pseudo science fads is unhealthy as well, but counting calories is simple, straight forward, and it works no questions asked. I’m kicking myself that I didn’t do this 10 years ago...
Thank you so much for doing this series. I am reading the book and am looking forward to following your series each week. Even though there are so many comments about how this did not work for others, I am diet weary from thirty years of diets that I can’t stick to because I am constantly weak and hungry or bored to death of eating the same things over and over. The unending chatter in my head about every food, what to eat, when to eat it, how to eat it, and beating myself up because I had a piece of pie on my birthday is robbing me of time I could use to do something worthwhile or even fun! I am ready to get off the diet roller coaster and start being as kind and compassionate to myself as I am to others.
Thank you, Dani! I’m just starting to read chapter 5 and so very interesting. I’m so looking forward to letting go of ‘dieting’. My biggest feat w/letting go is I’ll continue to eat more of the wrong foods and gain additional weight. Working on changing my mindset and listening to my body. Thank you for doing this!
I just came across your channel. Good stuff. This series title stuck out for me. About 5 years ago my DO told me that people fail at diets, but succeed with a healthy eating lifestyle. I had trouble with eating when the love of my life was diagnosed with colon cancer and passed away. Really threw me into a dietary tailspin. So, I'm getting myself more in line with healthy eating. Your positive, upbeat presentation is most welcome.
Hi Dani, I want you to know you have a uruguayan fan!. I started dieting when I was around 10 or 11, and I only stopped until recently, Last year graduated from college and one thing I remember from the day I presented my tesis was that I did not allowed mysef to eat any food that day because I wanted to look 'good' for the pictures. Your videos are amazing, keep up educating more people about nutrition and health.
1) Conversation with myself: I made myself feel very guilty if I could not follow a diet. I felt really broken when all the hardships did not lead to anything. 2)Past relationship with dieting: •could never stick to one •unsustainable •hard to fit into life •thought about food all the time •Anxious about breaking habit •never worked •Overate because I thought it's a last chance •Felt guilty •Felt really hard •confusing and stressful •Learnt about it from youtube when I gained weight as a teen. Dad told me to eat less lest I get obese (He just advised) 3) Detox: done :D
So happy about this series! I eat healthy whole foods but struggle (fight) everyday as I am overweight. It's nice to hear I am okay no matter what my body shape. I can't wait for what's to come!
I LOVE this video! I had an abusive childhood and was put on diets starting at 8. Even though i wasnt big. All my life i put my value in the number on the scale. Ive bee. A yo-yo dieter since i was little and this video is my ah ha moment. Thank you so much!
Kate The only problem i found for myself was i wasnt eating enough always counting im going to start tomorrow and lose weight some kind of fasting it only made me so hungry that i binged and felt like sheet
Thank you for sharing this information. For me, part of my journey, has been to stop making "diet" a bad word. A diet is the food you eat. The danger comes in when you are eating in a way you can not sustain for a lifetime. As I move into a more whole food, plant based diet, I find I feel better in my body, and about myself. I am learning to listen to my body more and to society less. I am a ballet dancer and teacher, there is a constant bombardment of being thin/small/petite in the dance world, especially classical ballet. It's been hard for me for the past several years, since I had my daughter, to learn to love my body. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm getting there. Thank you for sharing this information, I am hoping to learn some principles I can apply to my own life.
Wow.....game changer! I never thought about diets in this context before. I've been doing Keto and losing weight on it but I feel so torn....I'm losing weight which I'm happy about but the diet is all consuming of my life and very restrictive plus it seems so unhealthy 😒😞Everything you are saying makes so much sense....
I am so happy to have found this channel. I came into the world at 9 lbs, 2 oz., and it's been a struggle to lose weight ever since. My mother heard about Weight Watchers and at the age of 19, I began my first "organized" diet. Since then, I've tried countless diet programs, and am a 4-time visitor to Weight Watchers, which I am following now. I've lost 13 pounds but given my history with Weight Watchers, it's hard to forget that what is lost is usually found, and that haunts me. I am, for the most part, also following a Pegan lifestyle, so lots more veggies, fruits, and lean meats. I am not a carboholic, but I do love carbs every once in a while. I smiled when you asked in this video, "How many books do you have on dieting?" lol Two shelves of my bookcase are diet books, not to mention all that I've read online. Ugh! I'm looking for a way to MAKE IT STOP and I believe that God brought me to your videos to do just that. I can't wait to order your book and I will definitely go through this series with you. Thank you.
Thank you Dani for this series! I’ve been on the yo-yo diet train most of my teen life and well into my adult years, I’m 44 now and started doing what you are talking about, about 6 ish months ago and I feel amazing! Keep doing what you are doing and being a guide and inspiration to us! 😊
Thank you for your help Dani. This is an idea that I have been thinking about for a little while: trying to see weight loss or even just better health as my own individual journey with many baby steps along the way instead of drastic, catastrophic changes. I look forward to your next video, and thank you for the heads up and the support. :)
I started intuitive eating a month ago and since then turned to a mostly whole foods plant based diet and oh my god my mental Health feels so much better already. Im no longer fighting my body, trying to meticulously count calories or other nonesens. I used to fail every diet on the third day or so. I used to be so stuck in perfectionism that if my day wasn’t going the way i had planned i’d go crazy and binge on everything cause the day was ruined anyway (or so i thought). I used to crave so much sweets. Now i follow my body, today i ate dried prunes , (my new favorite snack) maybe a bit too much of them and you Know what? I enjoyed it and im not feeling guilty at all. I did’nt skip dinner in order to make up for the extra calories, i did’nt feel deprived and i’m learning that its okay. Im a human being and i have the right to enjoy myself. I managed to lose 10lb this last month without feeling deprived. I’m never going back !
In all my many years of trying different diets it never once occurred to me to think about nourishing myself. I never got that message from anything I tried, it was always presented as a way to lose weight.
Hi Dani, I enjoyed this very much and look forward to the rest of the series! A few months ago, I felt the urge to get serious about dieting again, but then I realized I just don't I have the strength to keep fighting against myself. I recognized years ago that the battle against my bulge is very destructive and creates a rift between me and those I love most, so my aim has become to sit down and eat with my family and enjoy the food we eat together! Since doing that, I've discovered that we all eat a lot more healthily since I'm preparing the same thing for the whole family, desserts and all! Yes, it's a bit of a rocky road, but one I think is worth traveling because my children are watching and they need a mom that models health to them, in every area.
I'm so glad you are doing this series! I read this book a few years ago (I'm pretty sure I have read everything out there). I am currently bouncing from TrimHealthyMama and Weight Watchers. Then the weekend hits and any "progress" vaporizes. So tired of the diets that say they are all about food freedom and then back up that claim with rules to follow.
I literally just started following my intuition when it comes to food... it's really difficult to think abt ur meal in a non-caloric way. I've been switching diets then binging since the age of 14 , but this video and everything u said are really helpflul.... I guess I'm gonna watch and rewatch it for a while
Thank you Dani! This is such a great and positive mindset. Love the way you put things into an easier way of understanding. Along for the journey. Looking forward to the next installment! 💕
Looking forward to watching all of these... i used to think I knew what healthy eating meant for me. But now I am so conflicted due to information overload.... vegan, vegetarian, paleo, Keto, gluten or no gluten, dairy or no dairy... and it goes on and on! I’ve lost touch with what makes my body feel the best 🤷🏻♀️
I have issues with feeling that I might lose control. Even though I have a healthy weight I still have the need to see a nutricionist every month; I am afraid of not having the knowledge to create my own meal planning. Thanks for the video, so useful 😊
This was like a breath of fresh air. I can relate so much to this. In my mind I'm and trying to get out of the diet mentality and diet culture. Right now the Keto diet is all the rage and I feel it is too rigid and draconian. I like the idea of eating intuitively . Looking forward to this series!!
I love your talks , I really need this . and I think you are helping alot of people . with your talks and your healthy recipes . Thank you so much for spending so much of your time helping others !
Hi Dani! I love your videos so much and you have taught me so much about healthy eating and respecting and treating our bodies the best and I have to say you have inspired me to completely change my attitude about food and I stopped putting it off until tomorrow and started living this way in the NOW mindset and I feel so great every morning when I get up! Thank you so much for all you do to teach us these valuable tools for a happy and healthy life!!!
Thank you so much for doing this. I am not a dieter at all I hate the idea moreover. But I have been going through a lot of confusion and frustration maybe regarding food for about 2 years now. I really want to be healthy, nourish my body and connect with myself but I really don't understand what I should be eating, when , how, where. It's like there is so much information as you said that I just don't understand what is right and what's wrong.
Love this series! I just ordered the workbook, the IE book to be delivered tomorrow (using library copy now). So appreciate you taking time out of your busy life to do this series. 😉😍
As soon as I heard you mentioned doing this series, I knew it was for me. I got both books to learn more about it and myself. I grew up hearing about dieting through my aunt and my mom. Mostly my mom though. I am obese according to the bmi chart but that started happening since I was a kid. I had a seizure when I was 1 year old. So I was on medicine for years and slowly got bigger even though I was a very active kid running around. My parents and I believe that the medicine was the cause that started it all. When my mom was younger she got addicted to diet pills but lost all her weight and now she has MS and still to this day she thinks shes fat and needs to lose weight even though shes underweight. I have done weightwatchers and it worked when I started but then I stopped cause I didnt want to pay anymore. Overall, I feel like I need this for myself because I am in the mindset that I dont like how I look. I do want to lose weight so I can be healthy bmi-wise and no longer obese. I am hoping that with this and changing how I feel about myself. Might get me there even if it takes years.
Love to watch your videos! MY dietitian wants me to eat this way ,I did order Evelyn Trouble book on Intuitive Eating,so I am just starting and hope to remember to watch your videos every Tuesday. Thank you!
When I was in my early twenties, I was very thin. My husband at the time had gotten into exercise and took a mail order course in nutrition. He started commenting on my little belly and while it was subtle, it chipped away at my self esteem. I turned to Susan Powter (I might be spelling that wrong). The only benefit I got from her books and philosophy was I learned how to cook. But that was the beginning of a long history of never feeling enough.
Just after starting meditating with affirmations about beeing good to me and embrace my soulmate, my body, I start finding these videos and the mentioned book. I'm dieting started decades ago as I was about 12 and I learned to hate my body more and more with every "failure" I found mor peace as I started to make my own clothes, because shopping as an overweight person is a nightmare. You can find potatoesacks for a ton of money but nothing pretty and sexy - just huge tentlike rags. Four years ago I started with fasting and Keto/LC because I was having huge health problems and wanted to get rid of them. In that process I lost 25kg as well - nice bonus - but the moste important thing was, that I got rid of my health issues. Now I'm starting to include more whole carbs again and want to learn to trust the wisdom of my body - boy, that's harder than I thought. When you ruled your body without sense - only with willpower - for decades, developing trust in your senses is kinda frightening. But finally I want to be at peace with myself and now going on this journey to a better life.
They say, it all starts in the brain. I snack a lot and when things are explosive I will EAT. I usually don't think about what I am putting in my body when I am eating but I do know I love to eat sweets and salty foods which are horrible to eat. Hope this series will help me out. Thanks!
This lady is amazing.Are you also a psychologist. i find your tips amazing. it hit me in a way that made be beautifully tearful and i think I will now finally lose the 8kg i have been wanting to lose for years. sometimes we all just need a little bit of help.
Thanks for sharing this new project videos, very interesting, revealing and useful. You just described ALL of the problems I have with relationship with food, diets, mentality. I'm always tracking macros, worrying about food, meal plannings, it's very exhausting and time consuming, plus difficult for my family and social circle to understand it or incroporate them to it. I've used IIFYM and then followed to Flexible Dieting, which allowed me to incroporate 80-20% healthy and not so healthy food respectively, but still, I have to track macros and meal plan. I was planning on following to the next step, and I think I found it in intuitive eating. You're completely right and true, I wil continue watching and following these videos/series, you have all my support, love from Mexico!
I find having a mentality that revolves around not looking at myself as soft or fat, like I will end up that way because of age, gravity etc helps. I can't stress enough how attitude can change almost anything. Get back on track and enjoy the ride. Remember, the spiral effect works both ways, something a lot of people forget.
Love! ❤️This book changed my mindset when I first read it a couple years ago. Feeling good with my weight and body has still been up and down but this book provided a great base for everything I have learned!
Took the notes and am going to do the homework but it will probably take more than a week to unpack everything, and that is okay. Trying to love myself even if I don't meet the weeks timing.
Good video, lots of good advice. I have heard it said that we get healthy to loose weight, not loose weight to get healthy. I think different people have different gut flora which affects what they can eat and still not store fat. Different eating patterns work best for different people. Didn't say the word "diet" !!! Love your videos!
So excited for this series! You always deliver such great information and you’ve taught me so much. This channel has been the biggest help to me as I’m learning to lead a healthy lifestyle. Can’t wait to see what’s next!
I think the thing that gets me most is when someone who is overweight and goes to the doctor to get help, most doctors say go on a low carb or low fat diet and reduce the amount of food you eat. I even had a doctor tell me i was lying when i told him how little i ate every other day. He said the only way to gain weight was to eat too much. He and i parted ways after i informed him he was firesd and i would find another doctor. I made sure the waiting room that was filled heard me. The first time i heard this from a medical "professional" was when i was 16 and only topped the scale at 125 pounds. I was only 5'3". I finally gave up and started eating once every 3 to 4 days and one simple word describes my issue now....malnutrition. i have just recently been diagnosed with diabetes but as i had even gotten to a point and still am only eating every 3 days or so one meal. The readon is 2 parts, firsti eat about 1/2 of a kids meal size meal. Second, i simply forget to eat. Please remember that malnutrition is just that, large or just skin on bones or anywhere in between, if we are not taking in the what our body needs and make sure those foods are good for us....then we are mal-nurishedperiod.
I’m on the opposite side of the spectrum. if I eat intuitively and listen to my body I don’t feel the need to eat at all and therefore hardly eat anything... interesting stuff though, hope this will help a lot of people.
Thank you for this Dani. I just grabbed an audio book copy of the book you recommended for this series. I'm really excited to take some time to journal through the steps you suggested. These prompts have already started a flood of thoughts for me. I'll be looking forward to your next video. :)
Hi Dani really enjoyed your video thank you for doing this yes I was one of those people that was always on diets but no longer I am a vegan and I enjoy what I'm eating. Loving this series thank you
Hi, I really like this video and looking forward for the next. What was most interesting for me was the way I talk to myself, I really have to be more kind to myself. Thank you so much for doing this. 👍
Thank you, Dani! I love your videos, your wisdom, your knowledge and passion for nutrition. I look forward to the next 9 weeks. Is there a Facebook group I could join?
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this series! I can't wait to take on each week. I really think this could help me finally win my battle with my weight!!! I am so excited to finally divorce and bury my relationship with dieting.
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Ok, my dear friends! Here we are, week one of our 10-Week Intuitive Eating Series and we are chatting about REJECTING the Diet Mentality (I LOVE this topic!). PLEASE leave any of your thoughts, questions, aha moments down in the comments below so we can help support one and other through the next 10 weeks. XO - Dani
Clean & Delicious Hi Dani thank you for this. I think about food constantly and have struggled with my weight all my life. I am ready to go on this journey. I am a little nervous because I feel like I am about to do a diet but I am ready for something different with some guidance.
Clean & Delicious will it help me to lose weight
I am so happy to have found this channel. I came into the world at 9 lbs, 2 oz., and it's been a struggle to lose weight ever since. My mother heard about Weight Watchers and at the age of 19, I began my first "organized" diet. Since then, I've tried countless diet programs, and am a 4-time visitor to Weight Watchers, which I am following now. I've lost 13 pounds but given my history with Weight Watchers, it's hard to forget that what is lost is usually found, and that haunts me. I am, for the most part, also following a Pegan lifestyle, so lots more veggies, fruits, and lean meats. I am not a carboholic, but I do love carbs every once in a while. I smiled when you asked in this video, "How many books do you have on dieting?" lol Two shelves of my bookcase are diet books, not to mention all that I've read online. Ugh! I'm looking for a way to MAKE IT STOP and I believe that God brought me to your videos to do just that. I can't wait to order your book and I will definitely go through this series with you. Thank you.
"Speak to yourself the way you would speak to your daughter."
Wow.
Gut-check
Great job, Dani! I am 71 and have been dieting since I was 8 years old. I know, even though 10 years ago I finally decided to get off that merry-go-round, I can still be enticed by the thought that I SHOULD be dieting. I almost recently fell for the keto fad, but thankfully realized I had done that many years ago with 0 success. Everything you have said I can relate to and agree with. You are a delightful woman!
Thank you Gram. I completely understand what you mean... I can also still be enticed with dieting but no longer take the bait!! I Appreciate you being here.
Im 66 my mother put me on a diet when i was 6 yrs old. She had a restaurant and i would sneak for even sneak some home and hide it to eat later.
O have bee n a yo-yo dieter ever since
I honestly had given up “diets” and beat myself up for decades. I bought the book, opened it, & assumed these Jedi mind tricks wouldn’t work for me. However, having tried it for a few days... I feel free for the first time. I don’t have to constantly be thinking ahead to the next meal. I find that I’m honestly not eating nearly as much just because I’m not constantly feeling half-starved & planning every bite.
THANK YOU! I'm definitely stuck in my head. I've read so much, I know "everything" about diets, foods and what I "should" be doing but even before I start I get super overwhelmed and it ends up with me hating myself for not doing what I know I should do. If I treated my loved ones like I treat myself I would be in jail.
Hanna Persson it’s exhausting, huh? 😊
This came at such a perfect time for me - thank you.
Earlier this week I reevaluated my diet mentality with regards to social media and was crushed by what I saw. I had followed a bunch of IFBB pros and women whose JOB it is to look good with the thought of "motivating" myself by surrounding myself with what I aspired to - only this "motivation" has gone on for about four with years negative results. Instead of being "motivated" by what I was seeing every day, I was subconsciously fat-shaming myself by what I was NOT seeing in my own journey.
I feel like that is one of the pitfalls of this diet culture we live in - what is marketed as positive can actually detrimental to the majority of people without them even knowing it. So, thanks, Dani, for talking about this. Sometimes we need a nice kick in the rear to get our priorities straight and you do that in such a loving way every time.
Im dealing with eating disorder caused by restricting myself and going on many diets,i just saw this video,got really motivated to start listening to my body and start a better relationship with food.your talks are so inspiring❤
I’ve never been overweight but have always felt the need to change my body. No matter what number I see on the scale or how my clothes fit, I am never happy with my body. Everyone tells me my body is perfect but when I share how I feel they think I’m nuts. I just turned 27 and I can remember feeling this way since elementary school.
I purchased the book and look forward to ditching the diet mentality. I have yo-yo dieted for 40 years and put my body through hell. I’m tired and feel defeated and it is time to reboot. I have always respected you and loved your recipes....let’s get started!
Quite shameful to those who thumbs Down this woman! How dare they!
It is not knowing that drives fear all about the learning journey and learning what no longer serves purpose in your life and loving self 🙏🌹
Others do not look in YOUR MIRROR
They probably still are believing in the lies of dieting.
Awesome video. I listened to this book a couple months ago and have fully embraced intuitive eating. It's given me such freedom about food. I'm no longer obsessed with food, nor am I binging on junk food. I don't stuff myself and I honor my body's hunger cues. I have a wonderful husband who has been on a cycle of dieting and then binging for years. He's done keto several times and is currently doing intermittent fasting. I have watched his weight go up and down and up and down. He is constantly trying to get me to watch videos and documentaries that explain why we need to be on these diets. But I am so done with diet mentality. I'm not as skinny as I used to be, but I can honestly say that I am happy with my body. I workout regularly and enjoy lots of healthy food and also give myself permission to have a treat when I really want one. We had our blood and urine tested recently and my numbers are optimal across the board. I'm healthy, happy and full of energy. What I'm doing is working. So how can I get him to stop pushing these restrictive diets on me?
misskellie2 I’m so glad that you have found this new freedom! Maybe have a talk with your husband about where his motivation to lose weight comes from. For every person that diets, there is a core reason that it comes from. The surface reasoning is “to lose weight.” But how we go about it is so telling as to whether or not it comes from a healthy place. It is so much deeper than we realize a lot of times until we stop to explore those feelings and situations that lead us to diet. I hope that he comes to a place of peace in that area of his life❤️
A little while ago I watched a TH-cam Video about a girl which talked about her eating disorders and in the moment she talked about her thoughts and her view on her body I started to realize that something is going extremely wrong with my eating habits...
I bumped on this series and hopefully it can change my unhealthy (like I realized after watching the video) eating habits and become more self aware of my own body.
In celebration for this video I ate breakfast today... That's literally a big thing for me :D
When it comes to hunger, I've learned that I will eat out of boredom. Eating when I'm hungry was something I was taught as a child and it worked until recent years. I'm finally getting back to the things my parents taught me. Eat to live, feed your body foods that will keep you healthy and when I do that, I find I'm not wanting to eat junk foods. Cooking fresh foods makes me feel better. I have better digestion, no constipation and my mood is better. I'm going to be watching your series to reinforce the lessons taught to me early on. I absolutely love your videos, Dani. I follow you here and facebook just to make sure I don't miss a thing. Thanks for this vid and can't wait to see you again. :)
Mars I totally relate to eating out of boredom... that's when the prepared carrots in the fridge comes in handy ;)
These truths about dieting resignate so deep. I look forward to starting mindful eating
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for doing this series. I am 43 years old and have been on every kind of diet since I was 16 years old and you know what...I am still overweight and don't feel good. The diet world is truly a money making business. They need people like us to diet, fail, and pay for the diet again because we say, "It worked the first time, I just have to have better will power". I am beyond ready to give up diets and start nourishing my body to FEEL better.
Thank you for doing this. I am BEYOND excited for this series! The 3 steps were so impactful for me. For me, step 2 had me jotting down notes of when "dieting" entered my world and it started as early as I can remember when I would overhear my grandmother talking about her crash diets as she struggled with her weight and struggled with her self-worth all of her adult life, which trickled down to her 3 daughters, and eventually to me, resulting in a genetic predisposition to feel the need to diet & dislike my body and my shape.
Hi Pam. Thanks for sharing this... May I suggest that you don't have a 'genetic predisposition' to dieting and disliking your shape, you have a habit of 'thinking' in a way that promotes this. You picked up the story of your grandma and your mom and it unconsciously became yours... THE GOOD NEWS is, we are free to change our stories. Thoughts are optional and with awareness, practice, kindness, ease and forgiveness you can begin to practice a new story. XXOO
Omgosh tears spontaneously pouring out. Thank you - so so speaks to my soul
Love this!!! I’m recovering from an eating disorder and trying to learn to do this is SO HARD and I don’t even know where to start. I’m hoping this series helps me get into a healthier mindset and relationship with food!
I am so glad I found your channel. I have been searching for not simply a diet but a life change. I ate completely vegan for nearly 3 years and it really aggravated my psoriatic arthritis and hormone levels. Gained weight and felt terrible. Have been keto for about 2 months. Actually have felt really well physically but, it turna into a diet when you have to worry so much about not putting anything with sugar or carbs in your mouth. So...as of yesterday as my husband was going to buy some local freah corn on the cob, I decided enough! I want to just focus on eating whole healthy foods a majority of the time and not feel beat down if I do decide to have dessert while out and about. I no longer want to associate myself with the food I eat.
Thank you for sharing this. I’m a chronic dieter and would really like to break out of it. I’m probably going to buy the books to really dive in.
I was really moved when you talked about pregnancy motivating you to really take care of yourself. Motherhood is the most beautiful thing on earth. And I’m sure your daughter will feel so happy when she realizes how much she enriched your life even before she was born ❤️
I have been so restrictive with myself, ended up overeating, wanting to puke. I recently stopped, I needed this. Thank you so much
I am so excited about this video and Intuitive Eating. I'm at the my highest weight of my life and can't lose weight no matter what I do. I'm 58 and started to develop all kind of health issues. This couldn't come at a better time. This all makes sense! I'm ready to do this just to feel better! Thanks Dani!
Great video, Dani! I won’t tell my age, but the only “diet” I’ve ever done was Eating for Life. I was working out a lot at that time. I don’t like diets and am grateful that my mom taught me at an early age how to eat well. However, I do enjoy some things I shouldn’t eat, but always in moderation. 😀 If I notice I’m gaining weight, I take a look at my habits and just cut the junk a little to get back on track and feeling good.
This is an eye opener for me... I’m always struggling with dieting and healthy eating and being conscious of my body image!! Thanks so much for this
Even though it sounds easy to have self compassion and just let go of the control but it's way harder than some people think
I used to be obese. I started to lose weight more than a year ago. The process was hard but I knew that I wanted to do it right, and I did. I ate 1500-1700 calories a day (sometimes less but it wasn't on purpose) and I exercised 5-6 times a week. After losing 30 kilos, I am merely 8 kilos from my life goal. That's when it all went downhill for me. i was so desperate to loose these last few kilos and it has gotten so much harder (mentally) to focus. Truth be told its depressing. For the past three months my weight is fluctuating due to extreme dieting and binging and to this day i haven't lost a thing. Thank you so much for this, I know that many ppl including myself needs to hear this kind of dialogue. I need to be kinder to myself. I need to love myself and understand that I have worked hard the past year and I did make a positive change.
This is fantastic for my back surgery recovery. I’ve had 2 surgeries in the last 13months. I’m on many pain meds, only able to move short amounts & have put on 30kilo’s in the last 24months. It makes me feel sad & like a failure. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and loving energy. Pxxx 😘
Hi Patrice. Thanks so much for watching. I so understand your frustration. Give your body permission to heal and feel good, this is just for now.... xo.
So great. I had just about started the process of listening to my body and reconnecting with my hunger for the first time in about 18 years when I found your account via the meal prep videos. I actually believe that this will be a turning point, and I hope to never teach my daughter to obsess over food the way I have. It is such a waste of time and life. Great job getting this message out in the world!
My aha moment is when you said that you have reached some of your goals when you stopped dieting!’.... i just realised that eating healty/listen to my body can be a daily goal 🤩. Thank you Danie for your excellent channel 😍
I have been using the Intuitive Eating program for just over two years now. it has worked wonderfully for me. i wish i had found this earlier.
I am excited over having found your channel. My family and I have begun to be cautious of what we eat. It is difficult to eat healthy when there are sooo many people who are "experts" which end up being expert liars. Having said that I congratulate you for doing this!! Don't hold back!!
I'm very excited and already love the "freedom" mentality that this is offering. Always beating myself up over indulging and not being able to workout and exercise like I was a year ago. Very excited! Thank you 🌷
Omg, I totally feel what u are saying. Only after 2 pregnancies and a nutritionist guided weight loss I started changing my mind on diets. So many things that u are mentioning as intuitive I started doing naturally after seeing that I can lose weight by actually eating clean most of the time. But this only after 15 yrs + of dieting and not being staisfied with my body. Although I now know how to eat healthy w/out actually dieting or restricting kcal, I oftenly find myself counting kcals again or wanting to lose weight again. My biggest fear is that no matter what I will not be happy with any number. So I need to work on this, to detoxify from numbers and kcals and negative body image.
Thanks for doing this serie of videos. They are sooo useful!
I ate intuitively my whole life and was always 5-10 kg overweight, thinking “oh, I guess that’s just the weight my body wants to be at”. Was never into junk food, made all meals from scratch and ate until I was full. In the last six months I lost 15kg counting calories and I’m happier than ever! It wasn’t hard, I don’t feel deprived and I’m finally looking the way I’ve always wanted to look. Intuitive eating is at odds with our food abundance, sedentary lifestyle and our food culture (I’m not American, but even over here serving sizes are larger than they ought to be). Obviously making yourself crazy over anything and running after pseudo science fads is unhealthy as well, but counting calories is simple, straight forward, and it works no questions asked. I’m kicking myself that I didn’t do this 10 years ago...
Thank you so much for doing this series. I am reading the book and am looking forward to following your series each week. Even though there are so many comments about how this did not work for others, I am diet weary from thirty years of diets that I can’t stick to because I am constantly weak and hungry or bored to death of eating the same things over and over. The unending chatter in my head about every food, what to eat, when to eat it, how to eat it, and beating myself up because I had a piece of pie on my birthday is robbing me of time I could use to do something worthwhile or even fun! I am ready to get off the diet roller coaster and start being as kind and compassionate to myself as I am to others.
Thank you, Dani! I’m just starting to read chapter 5 and so very interesting. I’m so looking forward to letting go of ‘dieting’. My biggest feat w/letting go is I’ll continue to eat more of the wrong foods and gain additional weight. Working on changing my mindset and listening to my body. Thank you for doing this!
I just came across your channel. Good stuff. This series title stuck out for me. About 5 years ago my DO told me that people fail at diets, but succeed with a healthy eating lifestyle. I had trouble with eating when the love of my life was diagnosed with colon cancer and passed away. Really threw me into a dietary tailspin. So, I'm getting myself more in line with healthy eating. Your positive, upbeat presentation is most welcome.
Hi Dani, I want you to know you have a uruguayan fan!. I started dieting when I was around 10 or 11, and I only stopped until recently, Last year graduated from college and one thing I remember from the day I presented my tesis was that I did not allowed mysef to eat any food that day because I wanted to look 'good' for the pictures. Your videos are amazing, keep up educating more people about nutrition and health.
1) Conversation with myself:
I made myself feel very guilty if I could not follow a diet. I felt really broken when all the hardships did not lead to anything.
2)Past relationship with dieting:
•could never stick to one
•unsustainable
•hard to fit into life
•thought about food all the time
•Anxious about breaking habit
•never worked
•Overate because I thought it's a last chance
•Felt guilty
•Felt really hard
•confusing and stressful
•Learnt about it from youtube when I gained weight as a teen. Dad told me to eat less lest I get obese (He just advised)
3) Detox:
done :D
So happy about this series! I eat healthy whole foods but struggle (fight) everyday as I am overweight. It's nice to hear I am okay no matter what my body shape. I can't wait for what's to come!
I LOVE this video! I had an abusive childhood and was put on diets starting at 8. Even though i wasnt big. All my life i put my value in the number on the scale. Ive bee. A yo-yo dieter since i was little and this video is my ah ha moment. Thank you so much!
Yay! So happy that this video helped you have an aha! moment... we have 9 more to go:)
Clean & Delicious I can’t wait to learn more!
I am miserable I am obese feel sick and breaking my body with yoyo dieting I need this
I'm so happy you are here! Be easy with yourself and slowly do the sugegsted exercises to learn more about you. #you'vegotthis XO
Intermitten fasting...look up the benefits of fasting and IF. It's free, no one is selling anything, you can start tomorrow.
Kate
The only problem i found for myself was i wasnt eating enough always counting im going to start tomorrow and lose weight some kind of fasting it only made me so hungry that i binged and felt like sheet
Hope you're feeling better
You are beautiful as u are I understand
I feel so much gratitude for you and this message today.
Thank you for sharing this information. For me, part of my journey, has been to stop making "diet" a bad word. A diet is the food you eat. The danger comes in when you are eating in a way you can not sustain for a lifetime. As I move into a more whole food, plant based diet, I find I feel better in my body, and about myself. I am learning to listen to my body more and to society less. I am a ballet dancer and teacher, there is a constant bombardment of being thin/small/petite in the dance world, especially classical ballet. It's been hard for me for the past several years, since I had my daughter, to learn to love my body. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm getting there. Thank you for sharing this information, I am hoping to learn some principles I can apply to my own life.
Wow.....game changer! I never thought about diets in this context before. I've been doing Keto and losing weight on it but I feel so torn....I'm losing weight which I'm happy about but the diet is all consuming of my life and very restrictive plus it seems so unhealthy 😒😞Everything you are saying makes so much sense....
I am so happy to have found this channel. I came into the world at 9 lbs, 2 oz., and it's been a struggle to lose weight ever since. My mother heard about Weight Watchers and at the age of 19, I began my first "organized" diet. Since then, I've tried countless diet programs, and am a 4-time visitor to Weight Watchers, which I am following now. I've lost 13 pounds but given my history with Weight Watchers, it's hard to forget that what is lost is usually found, and that haunts me. I am, for the most part, also following a Pegan lifestyle, so lots more veggies, fruits, and lean meats. I am not a carboholic, but I do love carbs every once in a while. I smiled when you asked in this video, "How many books do you have on dieting?" lol Two shelves of my bookcase are diet books, not to mention all that I've read online. Ugh! I'm looking for a way to MAKE IT STOP and I believe that God brought me to your videos to do just that. I can't wait to order your book and I will definitely go through this series with you. Thank you.
Thank you Dani for this series! I’ve been on the yo-yo diet train most of my teen life and well into my adult years, I’m 44 now and started doing what you are talking about, about 6 ish months ago and I feel amazing! Keep doing what you are doing and being a guide and inspiration to us! 😊
Thank you for your help Dani. This is an idea that I have been thinking about for a little while: trying to see weight loss or even just better health as my own individual journey with many baby steps along the way instead of drastic, catastrophic changes. I look forward to your next video, and thank you for the heads up and the support. :)
I started intuitive eating a month ago and since then turned to a mostly whole foods plant based diet and oh my god my mental Health feels so much better already. Im no longer fighting my body, trying to meticulously count calories or other nonesens. I used to fail every diet on the third day or so. I used to be so stuck in perfectionism that if my day wasn’t going the way i had planned i’d go crazy and binge on everything cause the day was ruined anyway (or so i thought). I used to crave so much sweets. Now i follow my body, today i ate dried prunes , (my new favorite snack) maybe a bit too much of them and you Know what? I enjoyed it and im not feeling guilty at all. I did’nt skip dinner in order to make up for the extra calories, i did’nt feel deprived and i’m learning that its okay. Im a human being and i have the right to enjoy myself. I managed to lose 10lb this last month without feeling deprived. I’m never going back !
In all my many years of trying different diets it never once occurred to me to think about nourishing myself. I never got that message from anything I tried, it was always presented as a way to lose weight.
Hi Dani,
I enjoyed this very much and look forward to the rest of the series! A few months ago, I felt the urge to get serious about dieting again, but then I realized I just don't I have the strength to keep fighting against myself. I recognized years ago that the battle against my bulge is very destructive and creates a rift between me and those I love most, so my aim has become to sit down and eat with my family and enjoy the food we eat together! Since doing that, I've discovered that we all eat a lot more healthily since I'm preparing the same thing for the whole family, desserts and all! Yes, it's a bit of a rocky road, but one I think is worth traveling because my children are watching and they need a mom that models health to them, in every area.
I wasn't ready to hear this when you first posted. I gave keto a shot. Nope. Now I'm ready to be done. Thanks for a great series.
I am a nonpurge bulimic basically I binge then workout for hours to try and compensate this is extremely helpful also been reading mind over binge
I'm so glad you are doing this series! I read this book a few years ago (I'm pretty sure I have read everything out there). I am currently bouncing from TrimHealthyMama and Weight Watchers. Then the weekend hits and any "progress" vaporizes. So tired of the diets that say they are all about food freedom and then back up that claim with rules to follow.
I get it!! #DONTDIET
I literally just started following my intuition when it comes to food... it's really difficult to think abt ur meal in a non-caloric way. I've been switching diets then binging since the age of 14 , but this video and everything u said are really helpflul.... I guess I'm gonna watch and rewatch it for a while
Thank you Dani! This is such a great and positive mindset. Love the way you put things into an easier way of understanding. Along for the journey. Looking forward to the next installment! 💕
Looking forward to watching all of these... i used to think I knew what healthy eating meant for me.
But now I am so conflicted due to information overload.... vegan, vegetarian, paleo, Keto, gluten or no gluten, dairy or no dairy... and it goes on and on!
I’ve lost touch with what makes my body feel the best 🤷🏻♀️
I have issues with feeling that I might lose control. Even though I have a healthy weight I still have the need to see a nutricionist every month; I am afraid of not having the knowledge to create my own meal planning. Thanks for the video, so useful 😊
Interesting! Looking forward to next week. I decided to accept Me. To learn more. To love my body. And do what is best for it. Thank you.
This was like a breath of fresh air. I can relate so much to this. In my mind I'm and trying to get out of the diet mentality and diet culture. Right now the Keto diet is all the rage and I feel it is too rigid and draconian. I like the idea of eating intuitively . Looking forward to this series!!
I love your talks , I really need this . and I think you are helping alot of people . with your talks and your healthy recipes . Thank you so much for spending so much of your time helping others !
Hi Dani! I love your videos so much and you have taught me so much about healthy eating and respecting and treating our bodies the best and I have to say you have inspired me to completely change my attitude about food and I stopped putting it off until tomorrow and started living this way in the NOW mindset and I feel so great every morning when I get up! Thank you so much for all you do to teach us these valuable tools for a happy and healthy life!!!
Thank you so much for doing this. I am not a dieter at all I hate the idea moreover. But I have been going through a lot of confusion and frustration maybe regarding food for about 2 years now. I really want to be healthy, nourish my body and connect with myself but I really don't understand what I should be eating, when , how, where. It's like there is so much information as you said that I just don't understand what is right and what's wrong.
Love this series! I just ordered the workbook, the IE book to be delivered tomorrow (using library copy now). So appreciate you taking time out of your busy life to do this series. 😉😍
As soon as I heard you mentioned doing this series, I knew it was for me. I got both books to learn more about it and myself. I grew up hearing about dieting through my aunt and my mom. Mostly my mom though. I am obese according to the bmi chart but that started happening since I was a kid. I had a seizure when I was 1 year old. So I was on medicine for years and slowly got bigger even though I was a very active kid running around. My parents and I believe that the medicine was the cause that started it all. When my mom was younger she got addicted to diet pills but lost all her weight and now she has MS and still to this day she thinks shes fat and needs to lose weight even though shes underweight. I have done weightwatchers and it worked when I started but then I stopped cause I didnt want to pay anymore. Overall, I feel like I need this for myself because I am in the mindset that I dont like how I look. I do want to lose weight so I can be healthy bmi-wise and no longer obese. I am hoping that with this and changing how I feel about myself. Might get me there even if it takes years.
So happy to have you here! I hope this series is informative for you... remember, kindness first. XO
Love to watch your videos! MY dietitian wants me to eat this way ,I did order Evelyn Trouble book on Intuitive Eating,so I am just starting and hope to remember to watch your videos every Tuesday. Thank you!
When I was in my early twenties, I was very thin. My husband at the time had gotten into exercise and took a mail order course in nutrition. He started commenting on my little belly and while it was subtle, it chipped away at my self esteem. I turned to Susan Powter (I might be spelling that wrong). The only benefit I got from her books and philosophy was I learned how to cook. But that was the beginning of a long history of never feeling enough.
Just after starting meditating with affirmations about beeing good to me and embrace my soulmate, my body, I start finding these videos and the mentioned book.
I'm dieting started decades ago as I was about 12 and I learned to hate my body more and more with every "failure"
I found mor peace as I started to make my own clothes, because shopping as an overweight person is a nightmare. You can find potatoesacks for a ton of money but nothing pretty and sexy - just huge tentlike rags.
Four years ago I started with fasting and Keto/LC because I was having huge health problems and wanted to get rid of them. In that process I lost 25kg as well - nice bonus - but the moste important thing was, that I got rid of my health issues.
Now I'm starting to include more whole carbs again and want to learn to trust the wisdom of my body - boy, that's harder than I thought.
When you ruled your body without sense - only with willpower - for decades, developing trust in your senses is kinda frightening. But finally I want to be at peace with myself and now going on this journey to a better life.
They say, it all starts in the brain. I snack a lot and when things are explosive I will EAT. I usually don't think about what I am putting in my body when I am eating but I do know I love to eat sweets and salty foods which are horrible to eat. Hope this series will help me out. Thanks!
This lady is amazing.Are you also a psychologist. i find your tips amazing. it hit me in a way that made be beautifully tearful and i think I will now finally lose the 8kg i have been wanting to lose for years. sometimes we all just need a little bit of help.
Also I use that work book in my practice and LOVE it
Thanks for sharing this new project videos, very interesting, revealing and useful. You just described ALL of the problems I have with relationship with food, diets, mentality. I'm always tracking macros, worrying about food, meal plannings, it's very exhausting and time consuming, plus difficult for my family and social circle to understand it or incroporate them to it. I've used IIFYM and then followed to Flexible Dieting, which allowed me to incroporate 80-20% healthy and not so healthy food respectively, but still, I have to track macros and meal plan. I was planning on following to the next step, and I think I found it in intuitive eating. You're completely right and true, I wil continue watching and following these videos/series, you have all my support, love from Mexico!
I love this and want to say thank you for doing this series!! I love your website and all your recipes too!
I find having a mentality that revolves around not looking at myself as soft or fat, like I will end up that way because of age, gravity etc helps.
I can't stress enough how attitude can change almost anything.
Get back on track and enjoy the ride.
Remember, the spiral effect works both ways, something a lot of people forget.
Love! ❤️This book changed my mindset when I first read it a couple years ago. Feeling good with my weight and body has still been up and down but this book provided a great base for everything I have learned!
Thank you for comming up with this idea to share the views. I look forward to seeing you on the other 9 weeks.
Took the notes and am going to do the homework but it will probably take more than a week to unpack everything, and that is okay. Trying to love myself even if I don't meet the weeks timing.
Good video, lots of good advice. I have heard it said that we get healthy to loose weight, not loose weight to get healthy. I think different people have different gut flora which affects what they can eat and still not store fat. Different eating patterns work best for different people. Didn't say the word "diet" !!! Love your videos!
LOL! I agree - there are so many factors that play into our relationship with food... we have to stay open and curious. :)
So excited for this series! You always deliver such great information and you’ve taught me so much. This channel has been the biggest help to me as I’m learning to lead a healthy lifestyle. Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Dani,
Thanks for nourishing our souls and body with your delicious and clean recipes.
God bless you.
I think the thing that gets me most is when someone who is overweight and goes to the doctor to get help, most doctors say go on a low carb or low fat diet and reduce the amount of food you eat. I even had a doctor tell me i was lying when i told him how little i ate every other day. He said the only way to gain weight was to eat too much. He and i parted ways after i informed him he was firesd and i would find another doctor. I made sure the waiting room that was filled heard me. The first time i heard this from a medical "professional" was when i was 16 and only topped the scale at 125 pounds. I was only 5'3". I finally gave up and started eating once every 3 to 4 days and one simple word describes my issue now....malnutrition. i have just recently been diagnosed with diabetes but as i had even gotten to a point and still am only eating every 3 days or so one meal. The readon is 2 parts, firsti eat about 1/2 of a kids meal size meal. Second, i simply forget to eat. Please remember that malnutrition is just that, large or just skin on bones or anywhere in between, if we are not taking in the what our body needs and make sure those foods are good for us....then we are mal-nurishedperiod.
Thank you for this, I am learning and this is what I need right now.
It's my pleasure! Thank you for being here.
Keto was the last straw for me ~ that played havoc with my mental health. Back to what I know and we’ll see what manifests.
So excited and grateful you are doing this series! I actually am currently reading the book Intuitive Eating so this is perfect for me!!
Thank you Dani! You are amazing! I love your channel! I always look forward to each and every video!
I am about to print out a bunch of beautiful recipes from you!!! So exciting!!!
I’m on the opposite side of the spectrum. if I eat intuitively and listen to my body I don’t feel the need to eat at all and therefore hardly eat anything... interesting stuff though, hope this will help a lot of people.
Q. .Q Same here!
Same! I am hoping she will address this side of it. I seriously only eat to stay alive.
Q. .Q eat your healthy fats and moderate amount of protein with each meal just like IF
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Thank you!!!!
Super needed to hear this!
This is great! So many diets out there it gets confusing
Thank you for this Dani. I just grabbed an audio book copy of the book you recommended for this series. I'm really excited to take some time to journal through the steps you suggested. These prompts have already started a flood of thoughts for me. I'll be looking forward to your next video. :)
Hi Dani really enjoyed your video thank you for doing this yes I was one of those people that was always on diets but no longer I am a vegan and I enjoy what I'm eating. Loving this series thank you
I love this Dani thanks for all the information all of this is so true. I can't wait to watch more. Thank you for doing this. I know I can do this.
Hi, I really like this video and looking forward for the next. What was most interesting for me was the way I talk to myself, I really have to be more kind to myself. Thank you so much for doing this. 👍
Thank you for diving into this topic! Will do my homework and see you next week .😊
Thank you, Dani! I love your videos, your wisdom, your knowledge and passion for nutrition. I look forward to the next 9 weeks. Is there a Facebook group I could join?
I don't have a FB group open as of now... I'll let you know if that changes! Thaks for being here:)
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this series! I can't wait to take on each week. I really think this could help me finally win my battle with my weight!!! I am so excited to finally divorce and bury my relationship with dieting.
2022 and this has helped me so so much. Thank you 💕
I am so EXCITED WOW I WILL SHARE
I emotional eat WOW I JUST SAID THAT HOLY GOODNESS
Thank you Dani for doing this. I really need this series!!
I just found you and this is exactly what I need! I hope I can make it work.