Recovering from yo yo dieting and negative body image with Lindsay Heller

Today is a special milestone on The Diet Diaries because for the first time ever, I’m talking with a client.

Lindsay and I have been working together since August 2022 and like all of us that are here, Lindsay was a life long yo yo dieter, relying on her size and shape as a main source of happiness in her life, constantly battling negative body image.

Every diet was always about getting smaller, believing that a thinner body was better.

Here’s what Lindsay shares with us:

• Haw she has started to make progress with negative body image after constantly trying to lose weight for 20 years
• Lindsay’s relationship with exercise and how that intertwined with her food choices
• Her extreme mindset around food and how and why Lindsay would swing from one to the other
• How Lindsay used urgency and deadlines to lose weight and what the ultimate outcome was
• The way Weight Watchers distorted Lindsay’s eating
• How Lindsay is trying to break the generational patterns around food, weight and body image with her daughter
• How Lindsay’s yo yo dieting mindset and history impacted the medical guidance to go gluten and dairy free AND do intermittent fasting as part of the IVF process
• Why food is about joy, love and agency over your body, not just fuel and nutrition
• Why these extreme food restrictions inspired Lindsay to reach out for support
• The big mental shifts around food Lindsay made as a result of our work together
• The number one thing we prioritized to help Lindsay make her diet sustainable
• How Lindsay reconciled the weight loss she experienced from the gluten free/dairy free diet with her history of negative body image and disordered eating
• The ways in which coaching positively changed Lindsay’s life after decades of struggling with dieting and negative body image

Lindsay wrote this moving op ed detailing her pregnancy losses, IVF experience and her support for abortion as healthcare for women.

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