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Don’t weight: Love Yourself Now
I often hear people say that all they want to do is lose weight and how different their life would be when they do lose that weight. I find people are then focused on the future and what will be rather than what is. They will call themselves names or let others column...
Self-Esteem Is Not Found In Weight Loss
It is commonly thought that self-esteem increases when we lose weight. Yes, you can lose weight and you might feel better about yourself because of that. Is your weight your barometer about how you feel about yourself? I know there is this euphoria that can come when...
Intuitive Eating and the Satisfaction Factor
Do you have Food Satisfaction after you eat? Whether you are satisfied or not is very personal and individual: each person is different and has different requirements. We have often learned to deny our satisfaction, especially when we have been following the diet...
Speaking of Fear
You would think since I am a public speaker AND a podcaster, speaking in public would not be a fear of mine. But it is! I speak all the time with people one to one, in small to large groups, but speaking on stage can be tough. I recently traveled by plane from...
Summer Bucket List: Self-Care
When my daughter was in preschool, she came home with a paper listing 100 items for a “Summer Bucket List." The paper proclaimed it had 100 fun things to do before summer kicks the bucket. This list had many items on it that were associated with summer: Swim until...
Increase your confidence: an interview with Ebony Moore, Confidence Coach
I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Ebony Moore for the Feed Your Soul with Kim Podcast about confidence. We had met earlier when I was a guest on her podcast BossWife.live. Ebony talks about confidence through the lens of modeling. She started modeling...
Intuitive Eating: We Need a Community
True confession: I am an extrovert. I get my energy from being with others. I know many others who are not like me and are introverts and need time alone. Whether you are an introvert or an extrovert, there is a need for community. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has...
Mindfulness is the answer
Strangely, the answer to the question how I stop emotionally eating is to be mindful. Being mindful is easier said than done. Mindful.org says, “Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are, and what we're doing, and not overly...
Do You Eat for Emotional Reasons?
Do You Eat for Emotional Reasons? Here is the transcript to follow along with the video, Do You Eat For Emotional Resons Do You Eat for Emotional Reasons? Kim McLaughlin 00:01 Hey, hi, hello, hello, hello. Hi everyone, this is Kim McLaughlin, and we are live food...
Why Diets Fail You
Why Diets Fail YouHere is the transcript to follow along with the video, Why Diets Fail You. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Hi everyone, this is Kim McLaughlin, and we are live, this is food freedom live, I am so glad to be with you. I've got lots of notes, I've got...
Food Freedom: Mindfulness
Today, I want to really focus more in on what it means in our body and in our mind to be mindful what that would look like. Why would we want to be mindful? Being mindful/mindfulness is one of the best ways to reduce stress. The other thing that mindfulness does is...
Food Freedom: Emotional Eating
This is the second blog in a series focused on Food Freedom. The first in our series looked at the Diet Mindset and how it sets you up for failure. In talking about Emotional Eating, it is helpful to determine if you are one. Right? Here are some definitions to help...
