The Simplicity of Wellness Podcast
The Simplicity of Wellness podcast is about learning how to bring your body into balance so that you get leaner, stronger and healthier as you age. Each week I'll share thoughts and ideas that help my clients build the self-awareness, self-confidence and self-reliance to lose weight, shed inches, manage muscle mass and master their mind so that they can stop dieting and enjoy living at their healthy weight with optimal wellness.
The Simplicity of Wellness Podcast
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Welcome to the Simplicity of Wellness podcast. I'm your host, board-certified holistic nutritionist and professional life coach, amy White. The purpose of this podcast is to share information that you can use to become leaner, stronger and healthier by losing weight, shedding inches, maintaining muscle and managing your mind, all while living your normal, busy life life in this modern, sugar-filled world.
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm Amy White, a board-certified holistic nutritionist and life coach, and I help women lose weight without feeling like they're trying to lose weight.
Speaker 2:One of the concepts that I often talk about is the idea of food freedom being able to eat all of the food in a way that works for your body. One question I get is what is the difference between food freedom and eating everything in moderation? They do seem similar, but there are differences and I think they're important differences. Food freedom is the end result of you bringing your body into balance. Everything in moderation is just that. It's eating everything, but trying to moderate what you eat.
Speaker 2:When your body is out of balance, trying to moderate what you eat is very difficult. If you've tried it, you probably understand what I'm talking about. When a body is out of balance, you're not fuel flexible. You're generally relying on sugar as your primary fuel source. Often your body can't even access the stored fat that you're carrying around. It doesn't even really know that it has that fuel opportunity. So it's just the sugars and we burn through sugar very quickly and because of that, you live on this roller coaster of energy peaks and dips, mood swings, restless sleep, crazy hunger, cravings, appetite. That's what's going on because you're out of balance. And when you're out of balance like that, trying to moderate what you're eating is so difficult, because your body is craving all these different flavors and tastes but, more importantly, the sugar that it can get from those foods. It's going to encourage you to eat high energy, sugary, carby foods over nutrient-dense foods. That's what your body's going to ask of you, because it really wants that fuel. It wants that quick fuel it's going to get from sugar. When you are in balance, you're fuel flexible, which means you can burn through the sugars that you get in a meal and then seamlessly switch over to burning the fat that you have on your body. So you don't have these energy peaks and dips, you don't have these weird mood swings, you don't have all this crazy anxiety and restless sleep, because your body has all the energy that it needs. There's no emergencies.
Speaker 2:The big difference between food freedom and everything in moderation, in my mind, is the idea of dose and frequency. So, as you are learning to bring your body into balance, you're learning how to listen to your body and work with your body. You're learning to hear your body when it says oh yes, this is a good thing. We should do more of this. This makes us feel really good. Good things happen when we eat this way and also oh yeah, I know this is we don't feel so good when we eat this. This doesn't really work for us. It makes us yeah, we feel lousy. You need to be able to hear both of those things and then respect that conversation and go okay, yes, I hear you, I'm gonna eat more of these things. Let's do that, and I'm gonna try really hard to cut back on these things. I hear what you're saying. They're not good for us.
Speaker 2:And the more you start switching over to the things that your body's responding positively to, the more you're coming into balance, the more you're balancing those metabolic hormones, the easier it gets for you to feel in control with food. The easier it gets for you to ignore sugars because your sugar cravings are going away, the anxiety goes away, your energy is very balanced throughout the day. The stuff that used to stress you out. You start noticing that it just doesn't wind you up the way it used to. This is you coming into balance. Once in balance, you're going to then expand into food freedom, because now you know what makes you feel good and what doesn't make you feel good. You know what works for your body and you know how to identify that it's a yes or it's a no. You understand the signs. You know yes, this is something that works for me. I know this doesn't.
Speaker 2:But again back to dose and frequency. So with food freedom, you're going to start looking at food as the things that you eat most of the time, because you know these are always yes foods. These are foods that always make you better, not worse. Then there's going to be those sometimes foods and then there's going to be rarely foods. The sometimes foods are a little tricky because the frequency is more often than say rarely foods. Rarely foods are foods that you just know have no nutritional value and truly just don't work for your body. They will always give you a bellyache, they will always make you feel lethargic or even hungover the next day. Those are rarely foods. This could be something that you know is a family favorite. You know your grandmom's fudge that she makes during the holidays. You know it's gonna make you feel sick, but you love it and you're going to make a choice to eat it and that is totally fine. With food freedom, you have rarely foods. You have those foods that you eat rarely. So back to dose and frequency. Those are foods that you eat very infrequently. Sometimes foods are foods that you're gonna eatrequently. Sometimes foods are foods that you're going to eat a little more often. They're more common foods, but also foods that you know dose-wise.
Speaker 2:If I eat a lot of it, I'm not going to feel good. If I eat it too often, it's not going to make me better, it'll probably make me worse. Some common, sometimes foods french fries, potato chips foods french fries, potato chips, pizza, pasta, scones, bagels, candy, even nuts and cheese are sometimes foods. When you overdo sometimes foods, either because you eat too much of it that would be the dose or you eat it too often the frequency they will push you toward worse, not better, meaning.
Speaker 2:You'll see your metrics, the things that you want, your goal metrics. Right, I want to. You know. This is my ideal weight. This is my ideal clothing size. This is how much sleep I want to get at night. This is I want. Um. I don't want to feel like I need to nap during the day. I want great daytime energy. So these are some of the metrics that you watch and when you overdo those, sometimes those metrics start to shift into a negative direction.
Speaker 2:When you get the dose and frequency right with sometimes foods, they're fairly neutral.
Speaker 2:They don't make you worse and they don't make you better. When you're eating your most of the time foods most of the time and your sometimes foods some of the time you actually have a lot of control over how you want to feel and how you want to look. So now you have food freedom because you know how to eat all the different foods that you want, but in a way that works for your body, and you're doing it from a place in balance. So you're not being controlled by food. You are actually in control of your food, and that's very different than feeling out of control with food and trying to eat everything in moderation.
Speaker 2:If you like the concept of being able to work with your body and learning how to eat food in a way that works for you so you can achieve your weight loss and health goals. Come join me over my free membership Weight Loss for Women. The link is in the notes below the video. When you're ready to feel what it's like to lose weight without feeling like you're trying to lose weight, come join me and the other members of the Weight Loss for Women community. It's free to join. Click the link below the show notes to gain access to this positive and encouraging place where women support each other as we lose weight and together become leaner, stronger and healthier.
