Hi there Reader,

I want to say something that diet culture will never say to you: the reason it's not working isn't because you're not trying hard enough. It's because the thing you've been trying is the problem.
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Restriction.

Eating less, skipping meals, eliminating food groups, or cycling through phases of deprivation feels like discipline. It feels like control. And it's often sold to us as the path. The only way. The answer.

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It’s not the answer because if it was, it would be working.

Here is what all the restriction and chasing is actually doing inside your body.
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When you consistently eat below what your body needs, your body responds the way any intelligent system responds to a resource shortage: it adapts.

Your metabolism becomes more “efficient” (which sounds good, but means it burns fewer calories at rest).

Your hunger hormones shift. Ghrelin, the hormone that makes you hungry, goes up; leptin, the hormone that tells you you're full, goes down. Your body starts rationing. Energy, digestion, hormonal production, and muscle repair is all downgraded because your body is in survival mode.
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Your body is beautiful and amazing and sometimes it feels like she is sabotaging you. But, she’s not, she loves you and is keeping you alive.
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The cruel part is that the harder you restrict, the better your body gets at holding on.

That plateau you've been stuck at for six months isn't failure. It's your body doing its job with remarkable efficiency.
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Don't even get me started on the mental cost.

The constant calculation running in the background, every single sad look in the mirror at the body you don't recognize, the guilt around meals or food you "shouldn't have had," the anxiety of eating out, the way food becomes a thing you manage instead of a thing you enjoy. Women carry this for years and call it normal.

It's not normal. It's what happens when you've been at war with your own body for too long.
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​Here's what actually works. And I know this sounds almost too simple after everything I just described.​
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You eat enough.

Consistently.

Consistent intake of food tells your body: food is coming, you are safe, you do not need to hold on.
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Structured, balanced meals. Blood sugar that stays stable. A metabolism that finally has permission to function the way it was always capable of functioning.
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When women start eating this way, actually start, the first two to four weeks are often a little disorienting. Things shift faster than expected. Energy comes back. Sleep improves. Digestion normalizes. The constant food noise quiets down. Their body composition often starts to change not because they're eating less, but because their metabolism finally has what it needs to work.
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Undoing years of restriction takes time. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But it starts with understanding that your body was never your enemy. It was responding, rationally and intelligently, to everything you gave it.
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That is exactly what Phase 1 of my 90 Day Foundation Blueprint is designed to address. We start by repairing, eating enough, building consistency, letting your metabolism remember what it feels like to be supported.

If you're ready to stop restricting and start rebuilding, the waitlist for the next 90 Day Foundation Blueprint cohort is open. → join the waitlist today. ​

I can't wait to live a life well nourished with you!