bodyimage Archives – Wild Lyons Wellness

9 things I would go back and tell my younger self about health and nutrition

Let’s come together and teach our daughters that their bodies were not mistakes. Teach our daughters to love their bodies. That they don’t need to be altered. That by denying and erasing the body they were given they are denying where they came from, their mother. Teach our daughters how to tune in to their bodies, menstrual cycles, intuition and emotions. Teach our daughters how to cook, move their body and properly nourish themselves for health, not a body size. Allow them to have fun, play and relax and never lose sight of who they are. We have the ability to change the trajectory of our future generation. Most of us are starting to wake up and it’s a beautiful thing. What is one thing you would go back and tell your younger self? 👇🏻

Ready to join a community of like-minded women ending the war on their bodies and breaking free from diet culture? Ready to finally balance your hormones, understand your body, and become your own health advocate? Ready for unfiltered and uncensored wellness talks? Then you’re in the right place! Click here to learn more + enroll.

A self-paced program designed to help you overcome your uncomfortable digestive symptoms without restrictive diets and stressful protocols so you can enjoy food again and live a happier, healthier life. Click here to learn more + enroll.

15 signs you have gotten a little lost on your health journey

All the confusion and conflicting information on the internet these days can literally make a person go insane and quite honestly it’s just unnecessary drama.

NOBODY, LITERALLY NOBODY, KNOWS YOUR BODY BETTER THAN YOU!

Someone asked me the other day what I think about all the drama and conflicting info on the internet these days. My response “I don’t.” I simply do not care and neither should you.

I know my body.

I know what I am doing to help and empower women is life changing.

I know my truth.

I also know there is always a bigger picture to every instagram post and everything on the internet.

I know there are hidden agendas.

I also know damn well that if I had a daughter I would NEVER want her to be sucked into the confusion creating disordered eating habits and thinking they need to constantly change their body because mom does.

I would teach my daughter that health comes from nature and not an online forum or “alternative”, finding joy in the everyday and treating our bodies with respect.
Give yourself grace for getting a little lost on your journey. We have all been there and are just trying to do our best. Drown out the noise and trust your own instinct and body.

Once you understand your body better all the BS goes out the window and you can smell it from a mile away.

Your nutritionist is a 10 but…RED FLAG EDITION

I’m just going to leave this right here.

I am simply not your practitioner if you want to just be told what to do. I am a strong believer that you need to understand your body and female physiology in order to actually heal.

The missing piece is education. If we all understood our bodies better we wouldn’t fall for the BS diet and nutrition advice out there. We would have a whole lot more food freedom and feel empowered in our decisions.

Mark my words.

Listen to your body. She is constantly speaking to you.

YOU know your body best and I can assure you she is absolutely not looking to go on a diet, needs another supplement or healing gadget and certainly does not want to abide by some randomized modern day study or trial done in a lab.

Contrary to popular belief, this body is not healthier than this body

Anyone else sick of it?

These insanely unattainable made up body standards?

We are constantly being bombarded with the next new diet, shake or cleanse that will help you lose weight, clear your skin, get rid of cellulite and fix whatever society tells us needs to be fixing.

We are told that our happiness and health depends on how our bodies look.

What if there was nothing to fix or change?

What if your body was never actually the problem but your perception is.

I get it. At a young age we are told that the most important thing about us as women is the way we look and our worth depends on it.

This line of work has been a blessing. I have worked with women of all shapes and sizes. Each and every one of them have the same goal regardless of their size, to lose weight or they are living in fear of gaining weight. What does that tell you?

These diets, cleanses, supplements, workout programs come with consequences and are short term solutions.

If we focused more on the way our bodies functioned over how they looked can you imagine how our world and our health would change?

Your body is always evolving, adapting and changing. End the war with your body now before you look back in 20 years and wished you didn’t waste it on obsessing over weight and way you look.

Losing weight or changing your body won’t change your life or make you happier. It’s hardwired into us, you will just find another thing you don’t like to obsess over.

Value your body for its function.

I don’t know about you but I’d rather not waste years of my life worried about weight. I’d rather be a strong well-fed, TRULY healthy, happy woman living my best life and not hiding my symptoms behind an under-nourished six pack, plastic surgery and acutane.

Don’t judge a book by its cover. There’s always a plot twist. Lets change the narrative.

Are Today’s Beauty Standards Destroying Your Health

Plant based diets, over-exercising and under-eating in an effort to have a slim figure, leaving women malnourished and lacking periods aka lacking fertility.

Botox, a toxin that paralyzes your face to help eliminate wrinkles. Eliminating any facial or emotional expression or any sign that you have lived a full life. So fucked up.

Breast implants, tanning beds, hair and nails – the basic bitch package of the 90’s and 2000’s, talk about a toxic estrogenic, heavy metal shit storm.

“Just as women started to make dramatic gains in the areas of education, employment, and politics, the ideal female body began to look like a malnourished preadolescent girl, weak, emancipated, and non-threatening” Bradley, University 2021

The truth is. This shit is dangerous and comes with consequences.
One minute it’s all about the big tits, the next it’s about the slim waist, the next it’s about the big booty, the next it’s about the eyebrows and botox.

Let me ask you, do you plan on changing your body every decade to fit the next trending beauty standard.

A few things I know for sure.

None of these beauty standards work with our physiology.

Woman’s bodies are designed to store fat more easily than men so it can grow and nurture life.

I’d rather be seen as strong than weak and malnourished.

I’d rather show natural signs of aging, a sign of a life well lived rather than submissive and emotionless.

I’d rather feel really fucking good with good temps and pulses, sleep like a baby, have a regular painless period, good digestion, naturally good skin, hair and nails, all due to a proper nourishing, traditional diet than put a bunch of toxins in my body and starve myself for some unattainable beauty standard that changes with the seasons.