The Reasons You're Still Struggling with Food

Published: Sat, 01/15/22

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If you want to change your relationship with food, you need to change your relationship with yourself. This means understanding the reasons why you turn to food in the first place. Dieting doesn’t address these deeper reasons and until you do the inner work, as soon as you stop dieting, you go right back to overeating.

One of the first steps is addressing the inner critic that puts you down and tells you you’re never enough. This voice makes you feel like a failure and it sends you running to food to drown it out. It also constantly judges you and compares you to others. It tells you that you’ll never lose weight, and you don’t have what it takes to succeed. Changing this critical voice to one that supports you is crucial in being successful at long term weight loss.

This is why I spend a lot of my time in my coaching program working on this inner voice and self-limiting beliefs. Without this work, you will stay locked in self-defeating patterns around food and weight.

Changing your relationship with food also means showing up for yourself consistently. You can’t continue to put yourself last and expect your relationship with food and your body to change. You need to commit to doing the inner work on a consistent basis. This means making yourself a priority and truly listening to and paying attention to yourself and your needs.

Changing your relationship with food also means changing your relationship with your body. People with a dieting mindset often see the body as something to dominate, control, and whip into submission. This approach never works for very long. When you begin to nurture, support, and love your body, you will see lasting progress.

In my program, I teach you how to eat mindfully and intuitively. I also teach you how to love and nurture your body. Your body possesses an instinctual wisdom. You were born knowing what you need to be healthy, happy, and whole. Dieting robs you of this connection with the body. When you and your body work together as a team, you become unstoppable!

These are just a few of the areas that we work on in my How You do Life is How You do Food Program that begins January 20th!

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Read what Lisa P. has to say about working the program:

"My name is Lisa P. and I started working with Catherine in December of 2020. To be honest, I didn’t have a lot of hope of finding a way off the diet wheel, “the problem” as I defined it, but I thought I really didn’t have much to lose. So I decided to join the program.

I was tired of feeling crappy about myself all the time. The illusion, I guess, was that in the end, this really wasn’t a weight issue after all, per se; it was a whole lot more about my relationship with myself, which, at the time, wasn’t a healthy one – just like my relationship with food. Through the weekly exercises that Catherine leads, I got to see how I was continuing to put myself last; how I cared way more about what other people thought of me than I did of myself. And as such, I would overeat and just in general, not take care of myself. This was neither a pretty revelation nor a very easy one to see. It took a lot of courage for me to really look in the mirror and admit that I had given away the keys to my own happiness.

But through our calls and my diligence in doing the work (via the exercises), I really got to the root of the problem. Once I accepted myself and truly began to LOVE myself (and feel loved by my God), things shifted for me. I began to not need others’ validation. I began to spend time discovering what I really enjoyed, rather than always turning to food. I bought finer clothes that actually fit me, I tried new recipes that I actually enjoyed and I started dancing again! It was incredibly freeing. And I discovered, in the end, that happiness (which is really the pursuit) is not found on the scale, but in one’s heart.

I guess a little hope was all I really needed. I lost 15 lbs., which may not seem tremendous, but I feel a lot better physically and a whole lot better spiritually."

If you're ready for a change of heart, I'd love to have you join us!

With love,

Catherine

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