diets Archives – Wild Lyons Wellness

The 6 most common weight loss myths being sold to women

Unfortunately we live in a world where we need to be told what to eat, how much to eat, and how to live to be healthy.

Should we need to track our food and jump from diet to diet just to maintain health and weight?

No.

If we had stuck to eating the way nature intended from the beginning and didn’t rely on “science” to make our food for us or tell us how to eat we wouldn’t be where we are today.

90’s kids, you get it.

Imagine how different our health would be?

I also wonder how different things would be if we only came in contact with 50 people in our entire lives like our elders. How different would we feel mentally and physically.

No comparison.

When you actually get off the phone and go out IRL, you can have 10 women in a room and every single one of them has a completely different body shape, not one body is the same but social media makes you think differently.

We live in a world of quick fixes.

We see people doing extreme diets and cleanses and dropping 20lbs in a month online.

We see people that are genetically blessed with thin bodies claiming it’s their lifestyle, supplements and diet that did it to sell you something.

Something we don’t usually see tho, the repercussions of these diets. Trust me, anyone that has been on a diet knows you pay for it later.

Keep in mind. None of these diets have been studied in cycling women due to our unique physiology.

Hormones are designed for survival of the species and therefore our bodies require a certain percentage of body fat for reproduction, fat is safety and for most women to function optimally we need 35% body fat. I know, hard pill to swallow.

A couple of the biggest mistakes I see when people go on a fat loss journey is one doing an extreme diet rather than something sustainable and two not being a metabolically supportive place to do so. You need to earn your right to lose fat.

How are your metabolic markers?

Fat loss requires stress resiliency. A body under stress will fight fat loss.

Your body knows best and I can assure its not jonesing to go on another diet.

The only way through is with nourishment and a sustainable weight loss strategy.

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Are you no longer living because you’re too afraid of dying?

I remember one night when I was living in Chicago back in 2016 my parents were in town visiting so we went out to eat at the restaurant a few blocks over from my apartment.

We got to talking about my current obsession with health and my diet.

At the end of the conversation my mom says “why are you so scared of dying?”

Of course she did not mean that in the literal sense but more so

Why am I so scared to feel

Why am I so scared to have symptoms when it’s a natural part of life and healing

Why am I catering and revolving my entire life around my symptoms

That statement has always stuck with me and it took me a long time to realize I had stopped living my life because I was afraid of dying. I was scared to death of stressing out my body that I catered my entire world around it and began living in a bubble. A bubble that became very lonely and un-relatable except to the dieting, holistic online culture I was following.

At the time I thought it made sense and I was just being healthy. I thought you had to be strict with your diet and lifestyle to be healthy and symptom free or else you have no willpower and you are always going to be sick and weak.

I thought I was doing the “right” thing to heal.

You see, it’s really hard as a practitioner. I want my clients to feel better.

We are taught to help people feel better by putting them in a bubble, giving them strict diets, eliminate the “bad” foods to give their bodies a break, give them supplements to help with their symptoms. BUT I have never seen more growth in my clients than by having them to step out of their comfort zone and actually do the exact opposite. The more I have learned is this is all a bandaid.

Get scared, expose yourself to stressors, do the hard things, don’t take the convenient and easy route, get uncomfortable that is when real growth happens on a physical and mental level and your nervous system will adapt and get stronger.

We can support our bodies while also adapting and exposing ourselves to stressors and fears. Those two things do coexist and should coexist. You should not be living in a bubble catering to your discomfort.

You can take supplements to support your body when needed, you can do breath-work and have a diet that supports your physiology and nervous system but you can not live in fear of doing things that give you joy because you think it will stress your body further.

You do not need to eliminate every stressor, every food, and have a crazy strict diet to heal.

Is it true most of us are living in stressed state, yes. We are stressed about the mundane that we no longer are living and engaging in stressors that might give us joy and growth.

Change your mindset around stress, if you think you are going to be stressed out you will be.

Instead consider the stressor as a form of growth and watch magic happen.

Stress will only impact your health if you let it.

We have become hungry for a stereotype rather than the ancestral nourishment we need

One thing I know for sure is we are hardwired to eat an animal-based diet…whether we like it or not.

Nature knows best and we can not fight it for the next fad diet, scientific study or current desirable body shape.
Our human body thrives of ancestral nourishment and we want to mimic it the best way we can.

Get back to your wild roots and stop relying on today’s modern influences and conveniences.

Nutrition has never been more confusing.

You have the power within. You know exactly what you need to thrive and heal as your ancestors did.

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.