If you recently turned 40 or older, you might be looking for the best wellness trends to help you lose weight or avoid weight gain to prevent common diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
If you recently found freedom with the kids out of the house, your career on auto-pilot, and more time for you – yay! Together, these experiences can encourage your desire to eat healthily and exercise regularly. Why not, now life can be about you! But what happens when life gets hard?
When you experience life changes like an empty nest, aging parents and friends, and changes in your body shape or size. When symptoms of perimenopause leave you feeling like your emotions, and hormones are constantly in head-on collisions with each other.
While this time of life should feel exciting, it’s not uncommon for women to feel shame about body changes, and fragile mental health.
If this is familiar, you might reach for coping strategies like dieting and excessive exercise or bingeing on snacks on the couch with Netflix.
It’s hard to find the middle ground between health and emotional coping during midlife. It’s the perfect time to slide down the slippery slope of wellness trends and trigger a disordered relationship with food.
But it doesn’t have to be this way!
Listen to my conversation on the Savor Food and Body Podcast with Tammy Beasley, certified eating disorder registered dietitian as we talk about…
- How to avoid the slippery slope of eating for health and into an eating disorder
- What the body does to save your life during food restriction from dieting
- How to slowly rehabilitate your relationship with food and reclaim trust in your hunger, fullness, and cravings
- Plus learn the 3 elements of Self Compassion and how they can help you recover from decades of chronic food rules and body shame
Tammy has practiced as a registered, licensed dietitian who specializes in eating disorder treatment for over three decades.
With a long list of accomplishments to her name, Tammy joined Alsana Eating Recovery Communities in 2015. As Vice President of Clinical Nutrition Services, Tammy is responsible for the clinical and culinary nutrition program development, implementation, and training
Resources
Connect with Tammy on Instagram
Additional resources mentioned in the episode:
The Alsana Blog
Get info about eating disorder recovery at Alsana
Learn more about the work of Dr. Kristen Neff on Self-Compassion
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