Sara Loomis

Hey there!

We all can admit that stress levels have been high this year, yeah? Maybe you have felt a spike in emotional eating to cope with everything that has been going on in this world. If so, you are not alone.

This is why I am going to be facilitating a FREE workshop to take out the guess work and teach you the true reason why nothing’s worked to end the battle with food.

During our time together you will discover:

• Why you have “tried everything” and nothing has worked
• The exact way I was able to break free from the diet/restrict/binge cycle and how you can too
• How to get to the deep root of emotional eating so you never have to obsess about food and counting calories ever again
• How to gain time and energy back in your day so you don’t feel defeated and exhausted

If you are able to attend, I will be doing a Q&A session soooo, this is a great time to get any questions answered. I look forward to seeing you there!

XoXo

You can’t keep disguising the diet with “but this is a healthy lifestyle.”

I used to say it all the time back in the diet days. It was my comeback when someone would trigger me by asking me what diet I was on. I would skip parties, bring all my own food to family gatherings, absolutely NO alcohol, break down crying if there was too much olive oil in my food OR too much seasoning with a high sodium content. I would weigh my lettuce on a food scale and weigh myself at least 2x’s a day, but I was in DENIAL that I was on a diet. I was convinced I was just living a “healthy lifestyle.”

After all, we all know the phrase, IIFYM (if it fits your macros) don’t we? I figured that since I had a little control over what I got to eat for the day, that macros were going to be the one thing that I could actually stick with. But once again, the diet industry had me fooled.

Here’s why the word “healthy lifestyle” is so harmful:

-The word “healthy” is so subjective and looks different for every person. Looking “healthy” on the inside cannot always be reflected to the outside of one’s physical body.

-In today’s current world, we reach to social media influencers/models to form our definition of “healthy”. The beauty standards that have been created got to go. Who the heck created these unrealistic expectations in the first place?

-BMI = LIES

-Diets are disguised as a “healthy” thing to do because the diet industry has marketing for dayssss that they want you to fall victim to. Here’s the truth. Diets are rooted in control and obsession (driving up your anxiety/cortisol levels to an all time high) and they create an unsustainable way to live.

If diets worked, then why is it after you stop doing one of them you instantly start another one, and another one? Anddddd before you know it, you’ve been on a countless number of diets and have fallen into the vicious diet cycle that seems impossible to get unstuck from.

Girl, it’s possible though. I never thought I could pull myself out from such a deep dark hole either but I did it after years of being stuck.

Here’s your reminder. You have a life to live. YOU are more than a diet.

Tag someone who needs to hear this message today.

*Cover Photo from Unsplash

I ditched dieting and started living. ⁣
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Listen babe. In the world we live in today it can be easy to see someone’s end result but have no idea what the journey from point A to point B looks like. ⁣
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From the outside, bodybuilding shows can appear to be so glitz and glam. The hair, the make-up, the high heels, the poses, earrings, and being up on stage. ⁣
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After competing in a few competitions back in 2016, I took a step back because what I thought was healthy became the most toxic sport I have ever participated in. I was failing my body so my body started failing me. ⁣
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No one prepares you for the harmful effects this sport has on you mentally and physically. Consuming as many calories as a 3 yr. old toddler is supposed to consume in a day isn’t okay when you’re an adult woman. Essentially, this sport fed my ego and led me into a deep dark hole of depression. I hated my body and felt stuck.⁣
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No one told me this was going to be the byproduct of competing….⁣
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✨Anyway, these days I am feeling grateful. So grateful for the pain because within pain there is growth and healing that gets to happen.⁣
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Do you ever feel like you’re going through some deeeeep shit and it’s never going to end?⁣
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👉Waking up just to let the scale dictate your day?⁣
👉Or maybe over exercising.⁣
👉Or comparing 24/7 to all the fitspo’s on social media.⁣
💕Whatever it is love, just know this: You are not alone. ⁣
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***It doesn’t have to be bodybuilding or an extreme story. So, here’s to everyone out there who has or who is currently going through the battle with food and body. I see you. I feel you. Your journey is so valid and I’m sending you so much love.⁣ 💓

*cover photo credit to @Unsplash

You can’t shame your way to self-acceptance. ⁣
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I remember having goals of weight loss so I did the thing. I went to the gym, followed macros to the gram, but still had soooo much resentment/anger/shame built up inside me. 😠 ⁣
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There was a part of me that I didn’t fully accept, so I decided to use bodybuilding (that was my chosen destructive behavior at the time) and attempted to temporarily fix that part of me that just wanted validation and acceptance. ⁣

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However, my inner critic would run through my head day after day. Anything I did wasn’t good enough. I felt defeated and freaking exhausted. ⁣
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Destructive behaviors are things we use to numb out our emotions because often times we don’t want to face what’s underneath the surface of that emotion. ⁣
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Some of these coping mechanisms include: ⁣
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Overexercising, shopping, social media, drinking, drugs, and numbing out with food just to name a few. 🛍 ⁣
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The problem is….these things distract us from really getting to the root of the emotion. When we fully accept ourselves, then we get to truly transform. ⁣
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Get curious around what self-acceptance feels like for you? Have you ever accepted yourself? ✨⁣
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Maybe you’re using coping strategies to hide from full self-acceptance and that’s okay too. Love on that part of yourself. What does that part of you need? ⁣
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We are humans, we aren’t perfect.⁣
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Choose to live from a place of love and joy vs fear. ✨⁣
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If you’re a busy woman who is ready to ditch dieting, step off the scale, and step into food and body freedom comment below with a “hell yaaaaassss” 👇