• Food is medicine but so too is your mind. If you’re stressed, constantly ruminating, not sleeping, unable to relax, deprioritizing yourself, or are obsessed over making the “right” food choices, it doesn’t matter how clean your diet is, you can still inflame the body, alter hormones and cause havoc with your body’s stress response. What’s more, your best laid plans for “clean” food often falters under stress (and lack of sleep) because high cortisol makes you crave more carbs and sugar. *** When @shopjournelle asked me why food was important to me, this was my response: “Food is the foundation of wellness but your mind is even more influential. Understanding your beliefs, triggers and perceptions, and knowing you can change them, is where true freedom lies.” *** Just as it’s nature AND nurture, it’s also food AND the mind. Take time prioritize your diet as well as your emotional balance - meditate, time to-do nothing, have fun, and get 7.5 hours sleep as a minimum. *** #BacktoBasics
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    Food is medicine but so too is your mind. If you’re stressed, constantly ruminating, not sleeping, unable to relax, deprioritizing yourself, or are obsessed over making the “right” food choices, it doesn’t matter how clean your diet is, you can still inflame the body, alter hormones and cause havoc with your body’s stress response. What’s more, your best laid plans for “clean” food often falters under stress (and lack of sleep) because high cortisol makes you crave more carbs and sugar. *** When @shopjournelle asked me why food was important to me, this was my response: “Food is the foundation of wellness but your mind is even more influential. Understanding your beliefs, triggers and perceptions, and knowing you can change them, is where true freedom lies.” *** Just as it’s nature AND nurture, it’s also food AND the mind. Take time prioritize your diet as well as your emotional balance - meditate, time to-do nothing, have fun, and get 7.5 hours sleep as a minimum. *** #BacktoBasics
  • MIAMI: So much fun being here! Thank you @sacredspacemiami for hosting me, @miamivibesmag for the interview, @lisamerkle212 for letting me stay in your healing bungalow and everyone that came to hear my talk on the invisible forces of weight loss. See you soon! #miami #archetypediet #hormones #weightloss
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    MIAMI: So much fun being here! Thank you @sacredspacemiami for hosting me, @miamivibesmag for the interview, @lisamerkle212 for letting me stay in your healing bungalow and everyone that came to hear my talk on the invisible forces of weight loss. See you soon! #miami #archetypediet #hormones #weightloss
  • INFLAMMATION: Negative thoughts stimulate IL6, a pro-inflammatory cytokine. If you’re constantly in a state of judgment, criticism and “not enough” this could be the precursor to your physical symptoms such as weight gain, digestive issues and migraines. It’s not just your diet which can produce inflammation, lack of sleep, over-exercising, not feeling connected to others and negative thinking can also trigger inflammation. If you’re constantly thinking negative thoughts, ask why you are so harsh on yourself (or others) and whose voice are you replicating? Catch your thoughts and redirect them. When your conscious of them, you have greater power to switch them off. Just to be clear, it’s not the occasional negative thought which stimulates inflammation but chronic negative thinking. *** #inflammationbeyondfood #mindright #inflammation #foodandthemind #foodcoachnyc #archetypediet
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    INFLAMMATION: Negative thoughts stimulate IL6, a pro-inflammatory cytokine. If you’re constantly in a state of judgment, criticism and “not enough” this could be the precursor to your physical symptoms such as weight gain, digestive issues and migraines. It’s not just your diet which can produce inflammation, lack of sleep, over-exercising, not feeling connected to others and negative thinking can also trigger inflammation. If you’re constantly thinking negative thoughts, ask why you are so harsh on yourself (or others) and whose voice are you replicating? Catch your thoughts and redirect them. When your conscious of them, you have greater power to switch them off. Just to be clear, it’s not the occasional negative thought which stimulates inflammation but chronic negative thinking. *** #inflammationbeyondfood #mindright #inflammation #foodandthemind #foodcoachnyc #archetypediet
  • LIBIDO: Okay, she wants more than that but that’s a good start! This Wednesday night, I’ll be at @ellemacphersonofficial new store @welleco in Soho talking about the male and female libido, why desire and arousal are different, the hormonal and emotional imbalances behind a low libido and most importantly, what to do to about it! You’ll also get the chance to taste @welleco new libido boosters and one attendee will win my 6-week online Illumination and Grace program and Adrenal Tonic. I’ll also be doing a book signing of The Archetype Diet too! This will be a very fun night! • Date: Wed Jan 30th - 6:30pm to 7:45pm • RSVP: This store has a limited capacity so please email toni@welleco.com. I hope to see you there! • 📷unknown but tag if you know. #libido #hormones #welleco #sex #soho #foodcoachnyc #archetypediet
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    LIBIDO: Okay, she wants more than that but that’s a good start! This Wednesday night, I’ll be at @ellemacphersonofficial new store @welleco in Soho talking about the male and female libido, why desire and arousal are different, the hormonal and emotional imbalances behind a low libido and most importantly, what to do to about it! You’ll also get the chance to taste @welleco new libido boosters and one attendee will win my 6-week online Illumination and Grace program and Adrenal Tonic. I’ll also be doing a book signing of The Archetype Diet too! This will be a very fun night! • Date: Wed Jan 30th - 6:30pm to 7:45pm • RSVP: This store has a limited capacity so please email [email protected] I hope to see you there! • 📷unknown but tag if you know. #libido #hormones #welleco #sex #soho #foodcoachnyc #archetypediet
  • THE THEORIES: Our understanding of fat loss continues to evolve. Each decade we find another input into the weight loss equation but does that mean we throw out the previous strategies? They are all valid and they must ALL be considered in cases of complicated weight loss resistance. If you’re following an insulin-stabilizing plan (ie keto or paleo) your portion sizes still count. You can’t expect to lose weight if you have a BMR of 1200 but you’re eating 2000 calories a day (easy to do on keto). So be conscious of the size of your meals. If you’re eating clean and not losing weight, eat 2/3 of your lunch and dinner to see if that makes a difference. *** Similarly, it not just about restricting carbs. While a lower carb diet will decrease your insulin levels, what about cortisol, which also causes your body to store fat? If you’re stressed and not sleeping, fat loss will be harder as more cortisol is secreted. And when that happens, you want more carbs! What about the gut microbiome? If that’s off, you’ll be bloated, constipated and inflamed, giving the gut microbiota more time to feast on undigested food and extract more calories from it. *** Weight loss can be very complicated. What you eat is just the beginning of it. My prediction is that the future of fat loss includes all of the above AND understanding the invisible forces behind weight gain - unexpressed emotions - with shame being the leading emotion around protective body fat padding. *** If you’re thinking where do I get more information to understand this? I discuss it all in my book #archetypediet. It’s nutrition, functional medicine and psychology all wrapped into one. #fatloss #archetypediet #foodcoachnyc #keto #paleo #weightloss
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    THE THEORIES: Our understanding of fat loss continues to evolve. Each decade we find another input into the weight loss equation but does that mean we throw out the previous strategies? They are all valid and they must ALL be considered in cases of complicated weight loss resistance. If you’re following an insulin-stabilizing plan (ie keto or paleo) your portion sizes still count. You can’t expect to lose weight if you have a BMR of 1200 but you’re eating 2000 calories a day (easy to do on keto). So be conscious of the size of your meals. If you’re eating clean and not losing weight, eat 2/3 of your lunch and dinner to see if that makes a difference. *** Similarly, it not just about restricting carbs. While a lower carb diet will decrease your insulin levels, what about cortisol, which also causes your body to store fat? If you’re stressed and not sleeping, fat loss will be harder as more cortisol is secreted. And when that happens, you want more carbs! What about the gut microbiome? If that’s off, you’ll be bloated, constipated and inflamed, giving the gut microbiota more time to feast on undigested food and extract more calories from it. *** Weight loss can be very complicated. What you eat is just the beginning of it. My prediction is that the future of fat loss includes all of the above AND understanding the invisible forces behind weight gain - unexpressed emotions - with shame being the leading emotion around protective body fat padding. *** If you’re thinking where do I get more information to understand this? I discuss it all in my book #archetypediet. It’s nutrition, functional medicine and psychology all wrapped into one. #fatloss #archetypediet #foodcoachnyc #keto #paleo #weightloss