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Want to raise healthy, adventurous eaters but not sure where to start? Today, we’ll be exploring how and why all parents should strive to create a healthy relationship with food – for the sake of themselves and their children.
Our guest today is Carelyn Torres, a certified health coach and mom. Carelyn has used her own experience of pregnancy and parenting to learn all about how to create a healthy relationship with food. She now coaches moms on how to eat foods that nourish their body while ditching the guilt and creating a diet free home.
In this episode we talk about:
- How your relationship with food affects whether your kids have a healthy relationship with food
- Why our actions and emotions around food are just as important as the words we say about food
- You need to remember that the main purpose of food is to fuel our bodies
- Why you shouldn’t be using words like healthy vs. junk, cheat meals, and good vs. bad
- What it means to assign moral value to food
- What it looks like to foster a healthy relationship with food for your whole family
- Carelyn’s experience of the impact of restricting sugar for her children
- What happens to kids’ natural signals for hunger and fullness when we pressure them to eat certain foods and restrict other things
- The power of embracing abundance when it comes to food
- 1 way that you can start changing your relationship with food today
- How to listen to your body and improve your relationship with food
- What to do now if you’ve “done everything wrong”
- Why you need to release judgment on yourself to start shifting things in the right direction
- Finding food freedom as you create a healthy relationship with food
- How to make healthy eating less boring and more enjoyable
- How eating foods you love is a form of honoring your body
Resources from this episode:
- Carelyn’s website
- Carelyn’s free checklist
- Some of Amy’s favorite whole food recipe sites:
- Amy’s free “Stock Your Healthy Freezer” challenge