That time I was told, “I’m surprised you’re alive right now.” Do you feel like your brain is on overdrive – creating to-do lists and jumping between 8 million thoughts about everything you need to get done in a day? … Read More
Overcoming Overeating – 5 Ways To Remove Guilt
In the last post, I talked about the most important thing you need to remove from your diet: guilt. I mentioned that ridding yourself of guilt is one of the critical steps towards breaking the diet-sabotage cycle and overcoming overeating. If you … Read More
One Misconception About Eating What You Want
I talk a lot about how I eat what I want and how I teach women to eat what they want, but I gather what some people think when I say this is: HOW CAN YOU PROMOTE SUCH AN … Read More
WTF Does It Mean To “Trust Yourself Around Food”
I talk a lot about trusting yourself around food. It’s one of the most fundamental concepts to grasp in order to break free of the all or nothing wash-rinse-repeat cycle. This concept can sound like hot pink fluff on … Read More
11 Signs You Need To Ditch Paleo
You could say that I’m known as an anti-diet crusader. However, people often assume this means that I’m all about the cupcakes (cue another annoying Meghan Trainor parody) and that I’m against certain eating plans, like Paleo or Real Food or GET SHREDDED … Read More
10 Healthy Holiday Tips {a.k.a: Rules} To Break
As I mentioned last week, the holidays used to be the worst time of year for food for me. EAT ALL THE DESSERTS CITY, Population: Me. I would obsess over what I was going to eat or not … Read More
How should you ‘measure success’ without a scale?
Recently, I’ve had a couple women ask me…“Summer, if I get rid of my scale, how do I measure ‘my success’? Should I use measurements? How am I going to stay accountable if I don’t weigh myself?!?” We live … Read More
Food Deprivation Is Not Why You Binge
As you know, food deprivation is a one-way ticket to… …can’t stop thinking about the chips in cupboard… …I’ll have one because I am doing that 30-day ab challenge… …well I’ve already had one, so I’ll have another… …mmmm…noms… …well, … Read More
Why Diets Don’t Work
Why Diets Don’t Work Let me tell you something surprising about that ‘perfect diet’ that you follow, or the one that you are going to “start next week”: It’s a sabotage-fest waiting to happen. Those foods you’ve labeled … Read More
Stop being so good
Confession: I am a recovering perfectionist. I still suffer from relapses. The other day I set aside time to do something that was important to my baby {known as my business} and I felt so much resistance towards doing … Read More