My wins this week have been nourishing my body as an act of self care even when hunger cues have been low through stress. And celebrating my one year work anniversary with Minnie the cat and a bottle of lovely champagne as a gift.🥰🎉✨ What are your wins for the week?

I was 18, I remember it really clearly, having never really thought about my weight up until that point, I went to university and started to feel very inferior compared to other girls around me who I thought were much thinner and prettier than me. I decided to do a strict calorie counting diet by a well known public figure at that time in the late nighties, the weight came off quickly but went back on equally as quickly when I started to crave foods that weren’t on the plan, this resulted in a cycle of overeating the ‘forbidden’ foods and a starting again every Monday mentality, which contributed to a 20 year battle with food and body image, constantly chasing the next diet, and what I thought as my future happiness, which was never the outcome no matter how much weight I lost, which also became harder to achieve with each diet attempt. I became socially isolated, anxious, depressed at times; and with very low self esteem, food ultimately affected many of my everyday plans, it delayed me finding love ‘until I was thinner’, and stopped me experience the richness of social connections because I felt too self conscious to go out at times, so ultimately I was very lonely during the peak of my dieting obsession. In my twenties. What has been your experience with diets in the short and long term? What did you hope to achieve physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially, and what was the lived reality of that experience you?

✨🤍 Welcome to Nourish Your Soul Society 🤍✨ I’m so happy you’re here. This space is created to support women who want to heal their relationship with food, step away from dieting, and learn how to trust their bodies again using the gentle and powerful evidence based self-care framework of intuitive eating. This is a supportive, judgement-free space where you can learn, reflect, and reconnect with yourself around food. Step 1: Start in the free resources and videos classroom.You will find lots of bite size content designed to help you understand intuitive eating, reconnect with your hunger and fullness cues, and begin making peace with food. All without diets. Step 2: Go deeper with the premium membership. Explore the 5 pillars of intuitive eating healing framework, and transform your health permanently without diets. You can explore the full Nourish Your Soul Society membership here: https://www.skool.com/nourish-your-soul-society-6502/plans Inside the membership you’ll get the 5 pillars of intuitive eating roadmap, workshops, and ongoing support to help you heal overeating, binge eating, emotional eating, and food guilt. Step 3: Say hello. Introduce yourself below 🤍 Share: • Where you're from • One thing you'd love support with around food I’m really glad you’re here, and I can’t wait to support you on your journey to better health and food freedom 🤍✨

You do really well through the day. And then evening hits and something just... unravels. You end up in the kitchen almost without deciding to be there. And then comes the guilt, the "here we go again", the lying in bed feeling awful about yourself.] I just want to say — this isn't a you problem. It's not weakness or lack of willpower. Night time eating almost always comes from some form of restriction earlier in the day, physical or emotional. Your body is just trying to get it's needs met. You're not broken. I promise. 🤍 Has this been you? Even just a "yes" in the comments — it helps more people than you know feel less alone.