how to love what you eat

Healthy Eating

Mar 11

One of the most important elements to a healthy lifestyles is what you are putting into your body.

I am currently at my healthiest state, and I maintain a positive relationship with my food; but it wasn’t always this easy.

I started exactly where you are.

Confused, concerned, wanting to change, but not having the strength to do so, and not even knowing how or where to start. The last thing I want is for someone to go down an unhealthy path of these diets, and supplements, and products we see on social media.

My Story:

When I was 13 I developed my first eating disorder. Growing up I was always the tiniest person in the room, which led to comments being said about my body from everyone I knew, those comments eventually turned to me beginning to constantly overeat, eat only unhealthy foods, and always eat even if I wasn’t hungry, just so people would see that I eat more than my weight. I was trying to prove something to people who didn’t even care.

I kept my negative eating habits for years and that actually led to internal health problems as well. Years later, I was a young adult and Covid struck the nation. At this point my body was changing, and I was beginning to gain weight, and at that age I thought it was bad, I had also only ever been the same size my whole life, and so when my body began to change, I freaked out.

While everyone else was curling up to their favorite movie, enjoying their comfort foods, I was determined and obsessed with changing my appearance. The problem was, I had no idea what I was doing. I did not have any knowledge on healthy food, weight loss plans, or ways to care for my body. I had no “mentor”, nor anyone to help guide me in the process. But, when I put my mind to something I become insanely committed, and so I began my second, and worst eating disorder.

I would wake up late, and push back my morning routine just to skip breakfast, eat only a piece of fruit for lunch, and my dinner was probably less than 300 calories. I did HIIT workouts everyday, after every time I ate, walked and ran multiple times a day. If I felt like I overate or ate something too unhealthy, I would “punish” myself with: either throwing up the food, or restricting food from myself the next day, depriving my body of the nutrients it needed and craved. I began overdosing on medications and weight loss supplements, and after just a month I lost a significant, and dangerously unhealthy amount of weight. I was practically killing myself, and I wasn’t even aware, nor did I seem to care. Eventually that came to an end, but for the next few years I fell down a spiral of underrating, overeating, failed diets, and body dysmorphia.

Now as I write this to you, I am a certified Nutrition Coach. I have healed my gut, lost a healthy amount of weight, I am able to enjoy Whole Foods and treat myself without feeling guilty. I can listen to my body and I know my hunger cues, I no longer live in fear of food. I am incredibly proud of myself, you would be to if you finally healed your relationship with food, the fuel that keeps us alive!

If I’d had the information and the knowledge that I can share with you now, it would have saved me from years of suffering.

I do not however completely regret or hate my experiences, because each one came with growth and a chance to learn from my mistakes.

I am here to share with you the knowledge I have acquired about the food industry, gut health, how our body handles food, maintaining a positive relationship with your food, learning more about eating disorders, and if you’d like to lose or gain weight, and how you can do that in a healthy, efficient way, and keep that consistency.