As chronic dieters, we become people-pleasers and perfectionists and numb ourselves from feeling anything uncomfortable with food, TV and social media, drugs, or alcohol.
We do anything that helps us feel more in control, safe, or loved. Controlling our weight helps us feel accepted and worthy.
Unfortunately, even if we do lose weight we never gain the acceptance or confidence we so desperately want. Also, we inevitably gain the weight back and feel like failures.
So how do we change years, in my case decades, of diet culture programming?
By starting to ask some powerful questions and changing the way we think.
I wonder, what if our obsession with dieting, and weight loss, all of it- is an attempt to compensate for an unfulfilled soul or a lack of purpose in our lives?
If we feel unworthy or a lack of belonging then it’s time to really start listening to our inner wisdom, higher self, or our inherent intuition.
Diet culture was created to control and manipulate women, not to help us be happier or any healthier.
It distracts us from embracing our natural beauty, and talents, and passionately living our lives to their fullest potential.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
I’m Holly Toscanini, a certified health coach, and recovering chronic dieter.
I coach women who are ready to walk away from diet culture and redefine their relationship with food while establishing a peaceful relationship with their bodies.
My non-diet approach to health is important because it allows you to stop wasting precious time and energy trying to change yourself to fit some unrealistic ideal of beauty and speaks to your underlying desire to feel valued and worthy just as you are.
If you want to learn more about how working with a coach like me can help, click the link in my bio to schedule a free discovery call to see if we’re a good fit to work together.
Let’s get your life back from diet culture.
