#4 Client spotlight: Ida's Journey to Sustainable Fat Loss and Food Freedom
Jul 6, 2024
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Client Ida shares her journey to sustainable fat loss and food freedom, overcoming restrictive dieting and self doubt. Topics include shifting mindset towards self-care, embracing body image, managing PMDD challenges, and finding joy in workouts and nutritious meals.
Transition from restrictive dieting to food freedom by building new habits and mindset resilience.
Redirecting self-reward to nurture well-being and fostering self-compassion in the journey towards healthier relationships with food.
Developing a strong 'why' for personal growth, trusting the process, and embracing challenges for sustainable transformation.
Deep dives
Ilda's Journey Towards Food Freedom and Self-Transformation
Ilda shares her journey from restrictive dieting to food freedom, overcoming emotional eating, self-doubt, and yo-yo dieting. She focused on building new habits, improving food quality, tackling mindset issues, and making peace with food. After successfully losing weight, she transitioned to a muscle-building phase, emphasizing sustainable change and self-belief.
Reframing the Relationship with Food and Self-Deserving Mindset
Ilda discusses transitioning from associating food with celebrations to redirecting self-reward to activities that nurture well-being. Slowly changing mindset to allow all foods without guilt or shame, replacing overeating urges with healthier coping mechanisms. Self-forgiveness and self-compassion became pivotal, addressing triggers, understanding the 'why,' promoting self-care, and managing self-doubt.
Navigating Emotional Eating and Overcoming Self-Criticism
Ilda opens up about dealing with emotional eating challenges by seeking support, reflecting on overeating episodes, and addressing triggers. Emphasizing self-forgiveness, self-compassion, and understanding human fallibility in the journey towards healthier relationships with food. Exploring the process of understanding triggers, changing patterns, and fostering self-awareness for sustainable growth.
Trusting the Process and Embracing Personal Why
Trusting the process of transformation and embracing the personal 'why' behind making changes is highlighted in this episode. The speaker discusses the initial challenges faced in workouts and feeling discouraged due to slow progress. By putting faith in the process and coach, the speaker learned to push through tough times, leading to physical and mental transformation. Developing a strong 'why' driven by self-improvement rather than external validation was crucial in sustaining motivation and achieving personal growth.
Navigating Body Image Challenges and Self-Care during PMDD Episodes
The episode delves into managing body image challenges during PMDD episodes and the importance of self-care. The speaker shares strategies like wearing comfortable clothes, positive self-talk, and reminders that the discomfort is temporary. By focusing on self-soothing activities, gentle thoughts, and being flexible with exercise routines during challenging times, the speaker emphasizes the significance of body-mind alignment and building positive affirmations to navigate difficulties with resilience and compassion.
Note: This is a VIDEO episode (on Spotify/YouTube).
In this episode my 1:1 client Ida is sharing the challenges she has faced with food and body since she was young. She shares how she has overcome restrictive dieting, overeating, self doubt (and more), and how she now finally has been able to find balance with food and confidence in her body.
A very big part of Idas journey was believing in herself, as due to many "failed" attempts in the past, she had lost faith in her abilities to reach her goals. Since working together since September 2023, she has reached her goals - and more. And we are not done yet! Idas story is inspiring and motivating, and I hope you will feel empowered hearing her share her experiences.
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