There's only one 1New Year resolution you need to make to improve your health and wellbeing in 2024. Undiet your life.

Undieting is an unraveling of all the food rules, beauty standards, and weight-centered health ideals you've been taught by diet culture.

Dr. Michelle May returns to the podcast for a discussion on why January is the perfect time to ditch your old dieting and weight loss behaviors and instead pour all your energy into intuitive eating, mindful eating, and undieting.

If you've been skeptical of the anti-diet movement, but you want to let go of rigid food rules, this conversation is for you.

Listen to why Michelle and I help our clients shift to an undieting mindset instead of anti-dieting.

You'll learn why you're not a failure for giving up on your January diet plan on Super Bowl Sunday and never got "back on track" no matter how hard you tried.

Plus Michelle shares 3 stages of transformation you must walk through to create a healthy, sustainable relationship with food and improve your health in 2024.

Dr. Michelle May, CEO and author of Am I Hungry is a former family physician and a recovered yo-yo dieter. She is the founder of Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs and Training, and the author of the Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat book series. These resources help individuals resolve mindless and emotional eating and senseless yo-yo dieting to live the vibrant life they crave.

Hear more about Michelle's background as a family physician turned mindful eating educator and advocate on episode 66 of the Savor Food and Body Podcast - How to tell if you're mindful eating or dieting?

Since many of my listeners struggle with their eating, I’m excited to tell you about a life-changing online weekend retreat coming up soon!

Food Freedom Retreat: For Successful Women Who Stress Eat

During this fun, live, interactive 2-day event, you’ll learn:

• Why do women who succeed in other areas of their life still struggle with food?
• The 6 surprising keys to break free from your eat-repent-repeat cycle.
• How to stop obsessing about food and trust your body's wisdom.

It will be facilitated by my friend and colleague, mindful eating expert, Dr. Michelle May who was a recent guest on the podcast.

I love Michelle’s down-to-earth, engaging, and impactful teaching style and I think you will too!

One more thing! Michelle is giving my listeners $100 off with promo code MAYBULLAT.

You can check it out and register at https://amihungry.com/foodfreedomretreat - and remember to use the promo code!

Get show notes and additional resources on my website www.alpinenutrition.org

While you're there, download the free guide The Top 5 Foods for Women Over 40.

If you're ready to break free from dieting without the confusion of how to eat healthy in midlife, get on the waitlist for my small group counseling program.

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Hopefully, for you, the holidays are a time for connections, happiness, and joy. However, they can also be a challenging time if your family, friends, or social gatherings trigger emotions stress, and anxiety around food and your body.

It's okay to set boundaries with family members who don't support your intuitive eating journey and desire to undiet your life.

Undieting is a process of letting go of food rules and rigid exercise routines. This process can trickle into other areas of your life like work, friendships, and intimate relationships - especially if they create extra stress around food and body image.

How can you reclaim happiness and joy this holiday season and still practice intuitive eating? By setting a couple of boundaries (or more).

It's okay to decline traditional holiday gatherings if trigger anxiety and stress. Find joy in making new traditions - maybe with different friends or family members.

It's also okay to search for holiday happiness and joy even in challenging, unhappy circumstances.

Let's dig into the definition of happiness and joy more deeply.

According to my guest on this week's episode of the Savor Food and Body Podcast, happiness is a binary construct. You're either happy or you're not. Joy, on the other hand, is an embodied experience. It's a physical sensation you feel in your body.

In our conversation about happiness and joy you'll hear:

• Dr. Sethi describes the difference between Joy and happiness, and how she's experienced both in her life.
• Why the wellness world’s definition of resilience isn't helpful in times of stress and what you can do instead.
• Why finding joy is critical for marginalized communities as a path to
• healing from oppression.
• How does healing trauma and finding joy affect your genes and heal your ancestral body story?

Dr. Sethi leaves you with a few tools described in her book that you can use to activate your vagus nerve of the nervous system and help cultivate Joy.

Get show notes and additional resources on my website www.alpinenutrition.org

While you're there, download the free guide The Top 5 Foods for Women Over 40.

If you're ready to break free from dieting without the confusion of how to eat healthy in midlife, get on the waitlist for my small group counseling program.

Finally, if you like what you heard, subscribe to the show, leave a review, and share the episode with a friend!

The holiday season is a busy time of year. There are plenty of ways to distract you from taking care of yourself.

Here are 3 ways to use mindful eating during the holidays to stay attuned to your physical and emotional needs.

• Eating enough consistently is the foundation of mindful eating
• Mindful eating encourages you to lead with satisfaction when choosing meals and snacks
• Slow down to enjoy the flavors of the season

As wonderful as this time of year is, it’s not uncommon to get to December 24 feeling physically and emotionally spent. Use the following mindful eating practices to help make this a season of joy for you and everyone around you.

This episode is sponsored by The Midlife Feast Community hosted by Dr. Jenn Salib Huber, @menopause.nutritionist
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Get show notes and additional resources on my website www.alpinenutrition.org

While you're there, download the free guide The Top 5 Foods for Women Over 40.

If you're ready to break free from dieting without the confusion of how to eat healthy in midlife, get on the waitlist for my small group counseling program.

Finally, if you like what you heard, subscribe to the show, leave a review, and share the episode with a friend!