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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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Menopause is a reflection of how you have lived your life

Ladies in your 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, listen up!

I know you’re thinking “But Laura, I don’t care about menopause i’m so young”

Girlfriend, it’s time to start nourishing and understanding your body now or you will pay later.

One of the biggest questions I get is does the information I teach apply to menopausal women.

ABSOLUTLY.

The fact that we have been bombarded with messaging telling us that during peri and post menopause we just need to eat less, we need to switch to some super restrictive diet because we will will gain 100 pounds, we need to use all these creams and beauty treatments and take hormone replacement therapy for all those dreadful symptoms.

We have somehow become these weak, fat, ugly, dried up wrinkled raisins with zero sex appeal. Our vaginas are like the Sahara desert, our bones are just going to break merely getting out of bed, our breasts hang down to our knees, and we are riddled with hot flashes, arthritis and mood swings to top it off.

LIFE IS OVER. THROW IN THE TOWEL NOW. I’M OFFICIALLY DECEASED.

This is complete and total BS. And it does not need to be that way!

How have we turned a truly natural process in a woman’s life into a money making industry?

A natural process that is still a mystery to most scientists and researchers because women and women’s cycles are “complicated.”

Billions of dollars are spent on adverting estrogen as a cure all. But luckily we are now becoming aware of estrogen being the culprit to many cancers and disease in the body.

Oh wait silly me…

These are the same people that have created the stressful, estrogenic lives we lead causing us to have these dreadful menopausal symptoms in the first place.

Due to this we need to have more awareness than ever before. We need to understand what true nourishment is, we need to make adjustments in our lives to combat all the lies we have been told about how to lives our lives.

Just know. Nature did not make a mistake.

Menopause is a normal, natural physiological adjustment. Stop letting influencers, ads or doctors make you think otherwise.

A healthy transition requires two things: Nourishing your body with proper nutrition + limiting stress.

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.

Diet Mindset v. Nourished Mindset

What’s the fastest way to burnout? OBSESSING about food, your health and your body.

I had a conversation with a friend over the weekend and we were discussing how the biggest downfall to everyones health starts with a stressor. We asked each other when shit hit the fan and we both had the same realization.

It started when we became obsessed with our bodies, the food we ate and put constant pressure on ourselves to look a certain way. This is a theme that pops up with almost every single one of my clients.

Girls going on atkins, low carb or becoming vegan at the age of 9! Please, if your daughter is doing this, it’s a HUGE red flag.

One day you are just sitting by the pool, eating a hot dog and freeze pop happy as a fucking clam and the next you are analyzing every imperfection in your body and trying to find every way to “fix” it.

The healthiest people are the ones that have never dieted or had poor thoughts and feelings around their body and the food they eat.

Dieting and negative thoughts around food and your body are on the TOP of the stress scale.

Why? Because every single day you are bombarded with fake social media bodies and people judging you or telling you you should look, how to eat and what not to eat for “health.”

You are constantly thinking about food and your body from the time you wake up until you go to bed.

My life’s mission and why I created this page and my business is to help you understand your body better and see through the bullshit you are being fed.

If you were to die tomorrow what would you see? Certainly not all the times you obsessed about the way your body looks or the food you ate or all the fun you missed out on due to it.

I see my husbands smile, all the amazing adventures I have been on, my cat laying in the sunshine, all the incredible memories I have made and the thousands of women I have helped. Not that time I starved myself for the sake of loosing 20 pounds.

It’s one thing to want to want to live a healthy confident life, it’s a whole different story to be destroying your body and giving up joy for external validation.

What age were you when you first started having negative thoughts about your body and food?