The Vital Side Podcast 48. Finding Food as Freedom with Kate Martino
Are you wondering how you can improve your relationship with your food? Physician assistant and food lover, Kate Martino, joins us to explain all the ways we can re-establish a better relationship with the food we eat. With so much information on food, it can create overwhelm. Kate outlines how you can reconnect with your own intuition, choosing foods that better align with what you need, and why you shouldn’t have to sacrifice loving what you eat in order to be happy.
Kate is a physician assistant, who educates and empowers others to improve their health through diet, lifestyle, and mindset shifts. She's passionate about helping people have a healthier relationship with food and believes everyone can access their own unique relationship with food in a positive way. On her blog, Kate shares simple, healthy, and balanced recipes as well as health and wellness tips. She also hosts workshops that dive deeper into healthy eating and living.
Show Notes:
-Kate’s early experience with food – carrying extra weight, acid reflux – and treating patients with chronic conditions
-Mindfulness as the first step in shifting Kate’s relationship with food
-Weight loss as a side effect vs. a goal
-How you can make a more conscious choice on what to eat as a form of self-care
-Shifting from restriction to freedom & adventure with our food choices
-Connecting with worthiness in choosing the foods that nourish your unique self
-Knowing that there is a balance you can create with the foods that we eat
-Stress can impact blood sugar balance - when you experience ravenous hunger throughout the day, it’s harder to make better food choices
-Explanation of hypoglycemia - sugar lows and spikes
-Food freedom means losing stress around food, choosing what you want, when you want it without experiencing a sense of guilt
-Taking inventory of the foods that you eat, then creating a plan - how do those foods make you feel? Set yourself up to succeed for the week
-Checking in with your body after you eat - are you feeling nourished?
-The Hunger Scale - eat until about a 7 if 10 is the fullest you can feel
-Connect back to your bigger intention and your personal “why” (i.e. your vision, goals, etc.) as a catalyst to drive more conscious decisions around your food choices
-If “healthy eating” causes a lot of stress in your life, prepare yourself with a plan of action to help you enjoy the meal more
-Start to connect with an enjoyable process of making food: put on music, a podcast, and connect with activities that are fun during this experience
Resources:
-Sign up here to receive an exclusive healthy copycat Reese's Balls!
-Visit Kate’s Website
-Kate’s Instagram: @kate.martino
-Link to the Rewire: The Vital-Side Membership
-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside
-Visit Lindsay’s website
-Cait’s Instagram: @caitrossco
-Visit Cait’s Website
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