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6 Posts that Support You During the Holidays

December 15, 2016

This time of the year can challenging, lonely and super hard when you’re in the midst of a struggle with food and your body. The food, the family, the parties, the messages of “joy” and “happiness” everywhere can be a huge mirror reflecting your loneliness, your heartache, your perceived lack of support. In order to […]

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Are there any Downsides to Not Dieting?

December 13, 2016

In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison podcast, Deb and I share our views on what body-love actually means. We talk about the positive and the negative sides of not being part of the dieting club anymore and more. Read Deb Oswald‘s blog here and follow her on Instagram here. The Circles are coming up […]

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The Long Road

December 8, 2016

Yes, escaping diet prison takes time. It is a long road. A winding road. It’s a road that often feels like a circle. It’s a road that often feels unending. It’s a road that challenges you, stretches you, re-births you. It’s a road that can also crush you – if you try to do it alone. But […]

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How to Stop Sabotaging Yourself

December 6, 2016

When you’re a woman, you know of all the forms you can self-sabotage your diet: basically, if you eat, you sabotage your life. Why would you ever do that? I am kidding, of course. But that is what we’re being told: we shouldn’t eat, shouldn’t look like this or that and when we do, we […]

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Where do you think you’re going? An Ode to Being Average!

December 6, 2016

When you’re caught in the dieting trap, the only way you’re going is backwards. Or maybe you’re going in circles, gaining weight, losing weight, maintaining it for a year, gaining weight, losing weight and maintaining it until the diet doesn’t work anymore. And thus you start again. Dieting keeps your life small. It keeps you standing […]

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Ask The Right Questions

December 4, 2016

The holidays can be tough for those of us who are prone to feeling body-shame and are deathly afraid of putting on those 6 pounds that 2 out of 3 American adults supposedly gain during this time. It can be horrifying to believe that all your hard work, all your denying, suffering and painful calorie […]

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15 Beliefs to Give up Now if you want to Escape Diet Prison

December 2, 2016

Part of the reason why it’s so hard to let go of dieting and your obsession with being thin is your fierce connection to your beliefs. Over the years, you’ve probably created hundreds of them, all driven by fear, shame or guilt and you’re holding on to them for dear life. After all, these beliefs […]

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Words That’ll Help You Through The Tough Days

December 2, 2016

I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. These 4 sentences have been words that have helped me through so many difficult experiences of my life. They’ve supported me in my divorce, in raising my son, in my super hard breakup a year […]

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Body Image, Food and the Holidays

November 30, 2016

… or that time Deb forgot to prepare her own food at Thanksgiving. The  holidays are a stressful time for most people. The parties, the expectations, the consumerism, the pressure, the food… it’s easy to unravel and lose track of yourself – especially if you’re in the midst of a struggle with your body and your […]

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No “cheat” days, no “cheat” meals

November 26, 2016

PLEASE stop the cheat meal crap. There ARE no cheat meals and there’ll never be cheat days. First of all, yes, everything you eat counts.   Second, that is NOT a bad thing.   The thing is that you only need cheat days if you have rules.   You can only break those rules if […]

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