Welcome back to Rebuilding Trust With Your Body, it’s Katy here. Today’s episode is going to be different. You are going to be a fly on the wall inside of a pep talk that I gave inside of my coaching membership called Non-Dieters Club. This is a pep talk that I gave these women when they told me that they need a little boost of motivation and inspiration right now.

They needed someone to come in and light a fire under them because they were struggling with the noise all around them from diet culture. And so this is exactly what I told them. You are hearing this from the inside of Non-Dieters Club. For context, Non-Dieters Club is my membership.

It is for women who are ready to break free from dieting, women who are 40 plus, who are done with worrying about the aesthetics of their body and they just want to make peace with food, with their body. They wanna be healthy. They wanna navigate hormones and changing bodies and the difference in what their body needs now than what it used to.

And the core curriculum inside of this program is my Non Diet Academy curriculum. That is what we use. That is the foundation upon which this program is built, and then we do coaching every single month to help them fully integrate this into their life. So, this is what I told them when they needed a little kick in the pants from me, a little boost in motivation to help them keep going.

Hey there, non-dieters. Katy here. I want to take a few minutes today to speak to what so many of you have been feeling. So many of you have told me lately that diet culture is really, really loud, and it makes sense. Part of it is the season that we’re in.

We’ve got the holidays happening all around us. The new year is going to be ramping up. We’ve got extra holiday parties, and there’s food and gatherings, and there’s those special things that we only make this time of year. And then we’re gonna hit the new year, and everybody’s gonna be talking about new year, new you, and resolutions and weight loss and fitness journeys and all of that.

It’s so loud, and I want you to hear me clearly when I say this. There is nothing wrong with you for feeling triggered, for feeling wobbly or tempted or discouraged or irritated or exhausted by all of this. Diet culture was built to get inside your head. It was built to profit off your insecurities.

It was built to make you question yourself, especially when you’re doing something radically different, like intuitive eating. So if this noise and if this pressure feels louder lately, it’s because you’re breaking free from something that doesn’t wanna let you go. But here’s the part that diet culture didn’t see coming.

You’re not the same woman that you were before. You have been actively unlearning. You have been questioning. You’ve been practicing compassion where there used to be shame. You’ve been building body trust where there used to be rules. You’ve been choosing nourishment over punishment. You’ve been choosing to live a full, meaningful life instead of shrinking your body to fit someone else’s ideal, and that is powerful.

Every single day that you choose intuitive eating, even when it’s messy, and even when the thoughts are loud, and even when you doubt yourself, you are taking a stand. You’re taking a stand for your values, a stand for peace, a stand for your mental health, a stand for your children and the next generation.

You’re taking a stand against a system that has profited off women feeling not good enough for decades. And I know that some days, it feels like you are walking against the wind, like you’re walking against the wind in a hurricane. And I know that some days, you hear that song that diet culture plays, that song that is so familiar and comforting, and it makes you want to dance with diet culture again.

And I know that some days, you wonder, “Is this really worth it?” And I want to remind you of this. You are doing one of the bravest things that a woman can do in this culture. You’re choosing to opt out of it. You’re refusing to spend the rest of your life chasing a moving target.

You’re refusing to hand your precious headspace over to scales and calories and macros. You’re refusing to believe that your body must shrink in order to be worthy of joy, love, health, acceptance, belonging. You’re rewriting the story, and not just for you, but for every woman who is watching you, every friend who is inspired by you, who feels like they are allowed to listen to their body and eat what they want without judgment when they’re with you, every child who will grow up with a mother or a grandmother who trusts her body and treats herself with respect instead of one that stands and looks at herself in the mirror, pinching herself and berating herself.

And yeah. The noise and the chatter from diet culture, it’s gonna keep coming. That system that exists around us is gonna continue to be loud, and those old thoughts that you have about restricting, about dieting, about weight loss, those are gonna flare up from time to time, because those are very old, well-worn, deeply entrenched neural pathways.

But the difference now is this. The difference is that you now know the truth. You know that diets don’t work long-term. You know that restriction creates the backlash of overeating, of obsessing about food. You know that your body isn’t the enemy. You know that peace is possible. You know that healing takes time, and you’re in it for the long haul.

You wouldn’t be in here if you weren’t in it for the long haul. You get it, and you’re not doing this alone. You’re inside a community of women who get it, women who are rooting for you, women who are doing this work with you, women who are also tired of shrinking and ready to live their lives fully.So when diet culture gets loud, I want you to take a deep breath, look in the mirror, and remind yourself, “My life is bigger than a number on the scale.

My worth is not determined by my weight. I am choosing freedom on purpose. I am living in alignment with my values.” This is what breaking generational patterns looks like. And then you’re gonna keep going. You’re gonna keep nourishing yourself. You’re gonna keep showing up for the messy middle. You’re gonna keep using the tools, asking the questions, and reaching out for support.

You’re gonna keep taking the next compassionate step, because you, right now, even on the hard days, you are the evidence that intuitive eating works. You are the disruption of the system of diet culture, and you are the woman who said, “I am done letting diet culture tell me who I should be,” and you actually meant it.

And I am so honored to be walking this path with you. You are doing the work, it is paying off, and you are not going back.

Okay, Katy here. I’m back. I hope that that pep talk was what you needed, that it is leaving you feeling a little bit more encouraged, motivated, and inspired. That was my goal with it, is to kind of light a fire under you so that you can feel like you can keep going even when things are really hard.

Now, one thing I also want to leave you with before we go on this short episode is I have just opened up registration for my Have Your Cake and Eat It Too New Year’s Intuitive Eating Challenge. What this is, is a free five-day challenge where we are going to talk about how to have your cake and eat it too.

What that means is, how do you eat the foods that you love unapologetically without feeling guilty while also honoring your health? So we’re gonna literally and figuratively be able to have your cake and eat it too, because you don’t have to choose between food freedom and your health. You get to have both.

They get to co-exist, and I am going to show you exactly how that works inside of this free challenge. This free this free challenge will be happening the week of December 29th. So it’s gonna run Monday through Friday, the 29th through January 2nd, and so it’s gonna span right over that last part of December into the New Year so that you have something to cling onto where you’re not gonna get sucked into dieting because you’re doing the Have Your Cake and Eat It Too challenge.

You already know what you’re doing heading into the New Year. You’ve got clarity because you’re doing the Have Your Cake and Eat It Too challenge, and it is totally free. All you have to do is go to nondietacademy.com/cake.

All right, let me know if you have any questions, and remember, you are worthy just as you are.

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