Holistic Health Radio

70% of women will diet in order to fit into their wedding dress and brides-to-be are more likely to diet than the average woman. 

Now you might be thinking that it isn’t that bad because they will return to normal eating after the wedding day is over but according to The National Eating Disorders Association, 35% of “normal dieters” progress to pathological dieting and from this 35%, 20-25% of them will develop eating disorders. 

And if you ask us, that is 25% too many. 

In today's podcast we want to help you think about the many reasons why people feel pressure to diet or lose weight for a wedding and how to prevent yourself from falling down the wed-shred rabbit hole. In this episode you'll learn:

• The top 3 reasons women feel pressured to lose weight before their wedding
• The average length of time people typically diet before their wedding and whether this is sustainable
• Why being smaller won't equal having a more enjoyable wedding days
• Ways to feel your best on your wedding day that don't involve dieting or weight loss
• How to appreciate your current body and feel comfortable in your wedding dress
• Ways to change your mindset, behaviours and refocus your energy if you feel you're getting caught up in the pressure to change your body for your wedding day

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❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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Today on the show I’m joined by Dr Izzy Smith, an Australian based Endocrinology Doctor with a passion for sharing health advice that is easy to digest.

Her mission is to promote evidenced-based advice on exercise, nutrition and medicine whilst busting silly health myths by calling out some of the dangerous fads in the wellness and weight loss industry.

When not working you can find Izzy on a run, or snuggling with her cute dachshund Arnold. 

Her authentic approach to health and wellbeing has lead to a growing presence on social media and influence in the space and I couldn’t be more excited for you guys to listen to our chat today.

In this episode Izzy and I discuss:

• Her work as a doctor of endocrinology
• The latest research surrounding bone health
• How estrogen impacts bone breakdown and bone building processes
• The impact of low energy availability/RED-S on multiple hormone systems within the body
• How RED-S can increase risk of fractures even for those who have normal bone mineral density
• The role that calcium and carbohydrates play in bone health
• The 5 key lifestyle changes necessary to reverse bone loss after hypothalamic amenorrhea
• What type of strength training is best for increasing bone mass
• Whether it’s possible to reverse osteopenia and/or osteoporosis
• Practical ways you can improve bone health if you do have low bone mineral density

You can follow Dr. Izzy Smith on Instagram @doctorizzyksmith

Check out episode 112 of Holistic Health Radio where Dr. Izzy discusses HRT.

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❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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Today on the show I’m joined by Body Image & Food Freedom Coach Jemma Haythorne. Jemma works from the non-diet approach, and helps people transform their relationship with food and your body, so that their life can be full of fun and pleasure again. Her mission is to help others feel confident, create sustainable healthy habits and become their best selves without diets and their BS! She believes in a weight-inclusive, Health at Every Size approach that helps people to achieve your goals from a place of self-love, respect and a positive mindset. 

Today on the podcast Jemma and I discuss:

• Her tumultuous relationship with food and her body as a teenager
• Her rock bottom point where she realised her focus on health had become an unhealthy obsession
• The problem with being praised for weight loss and how it reinforced some really unhelpful behaviours 
• How her restrictive behaviours then led to binge eating
• The shame surrounding binge eating and the impacts it had on her life
• How she eventually broke the binge-restrict cycle and healed her relationship with food
• Discovering food freedom and the power of intuitive eating 
• The messy process of giving yourself unconditional permission to eat
• Her best advice on recovery and having a better relationship with food

You can follow Jemma on Instagram @inspire__wellness

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❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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If you’ve listened to Holistic Health Radio for a while, you’ll know that each and every episode is dedicated to giving you practical tools and tips to help you ditch rigid food rules, recover your period, eat without guilt, and heal your relationship with exercise. Today is no different of course, but given it’s the start of a new year I thought it would be timely to give you 10 strategies to optimise your HA recovery. Whether you are just starting your recovery journey or you’re a few weeks or months in, this advice will help you.

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❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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As we close the door on 2022, I’ve been reflecting on the lessons I learned throughout this year. It has been an incredibly difficult year for so many of us, and yet amidst all the chaos, there have been moments of joy and growth. Listen to today's episode to hear some of the powerful life lessons that I’ve taken away from this past year.

❤️ Join my newsletter list for weekly motivation and inspiration and you'll also receive a FREE copy of my eBook "Body Confidence (for life!) guide"

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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When you decide to recover whether that is from an eating disorder, disordered eating, exercise addiction and/or hypothalamic amenorrhea, it will likely be one of the toughest decisions you make in your life. 

These food and exercise behaviours, that you have likely had for a prolonged period of time, have become your comfort zone and when you are forced outside your comfort zone in any context there can be a great deal of uncertainty or ambivalence. 

The Oxford dictionary defines ambivalence as “the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.”

So, if we put this into a recovery context, ambivalence is you being in two minds about whether or not you want to recover. You might feel pulled in different directions, that is wanting to recover but also wanting to stay unwell.

In today's podcast episode we discuss the signs and symptoms of ambivalence in recovery, our own personal experiences of feeling stuck and ambivalent in recovery, plus some practical strategies for overcoming ambivalence so you can get unstuck and start taking action towards full recovery.

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❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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Today on the podcast I’m joined by personal trainer Laura Ghiacy. Laura is on a mission to ensure that anyone and everyone feels entitled to exercise whilst cutting through Diet Culture nonsense. In this episode we discuss Laura’s journey with food and exercise, how she gave up tracking calories and deleted MyFitnessPal for good, the impact of diet culture in the fitness industry, plus how to break away from toxic fitness culture and learn to embrace movement for it’s many non-aesthetic benefits.

Follow Laura on Instagram @laura_ghiacy and on TikTok @lauraghiacy

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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Natalie Rose Allen is a Toronto-based Registered Psychotherapist who specializes in treating eating disorders and body image issues. She works primarily with adolescents and adults using a biopsychosocial approach. Natalie also provides intuitive eating and emotion coaching to individuals worldwide. Natalie is passionate about helping people build healthier relationships with their emotions and with their bodies.

In today’s episode we discuss how to raise self-esteem, rebuild self-worth and reclaim the life you deserve that’s free from body or food hang ups. 

Follow Natalie on Instagram @wakeupandsmelltherosay and on TikTok @wakeupandsmelltherosay

Or check out her website https://www.wakeupandsmelltherosay.com/

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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Today on the show I’m joined by Alice Baquie and Lissy Duncan. Alice is a physiotherapist and found of the Forrunners Pilates app while Lissy is a professional middle distance runner, 10x aussie representative (including olympic selection), primary teacher and all round superstar! 

In today’s episode we talk all things running, Injury prevention, Pilates, losing and regaining their periods and breaking down some unhelpful fitness and running myths that put people at risk of RED-S. 

Follow Alice and Lissy on Instagram @alicebaquie and @lissyduncs

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

In today's episode of Holistic Health Radio, Elyse and I chat about what the 5 stages of grief are and how they show up during recovery from an eating disorder or hypothalamic amenorrhea. You see grief is not just exclusively reserved for losing a loved one, but can be the result of a huge life change such as a relationship breakdown, moving cities, changing careers and going through HA/ED recovery.

Often times we guide our clients through grieving their old bodies or lifestyles because they are losing that during recovery (but gaining so much more in the process).

We also assume you might be feeling the same way. So, we want you to know that it is not only okay to feel grief during recovery, but it is important to feel all of these emotions as they show up.

Grief can and will look different for each of us, so if you don't resonate with everything we talk about today, that is totally okay.

But we hope that by listening to this episode, you not only feel validated in what you are experiencing, but realise that it is all part of the healing process.

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

This week's podcast is about a subject that came to mind when talking with Elyse over coffee during our recent co-working day. We were discussing what was getting us through each day in a healthy way after recently experiencing breakups, and we felt you, our wonderful listeners, could benefit from hearing this too.

As breakups are one of the most common causes of relapse into disordered eating behaviours, I am certain this episode will be especially beneficial for those who are on a recovery journey. Emotions can override hunger cues, you may feel an increased desire to exert control over something like food or exercise, or notice the urge to lose weight in order to meet someone new. However, these behaviours are rarely the answer to grieving the end of a relationship. 

You can start picking up the pieces and moving ahead with the help of these 14 post breakup do's and don'ts. Whether you are going through a recovery journey or not, these strategies will benefit you immensely. No matter how difficult things seem right now, just keep in mind that you will overcome them.

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

Welcome back! This week Elyse Lawry and I get a little personal as we share the biggest mistakes we made in our recovery journeys. 

We go over the mistakes we made with regard to stress management, mindset, body image, exercise, and diet, and how you can avoid making the same ones during your own HA recovery.

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

Today on the show I’m joined by dietitian, nutritionist, and Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician Georgia Hexter. She provides a compassion filled, non-judgmental space for clients to explore challenges with food, eating and body image, and is committed to collaborating with her clients to help them meet their goals. 

Georgia follows a non-diet, Health at Every Size approach, and assists clients to listen to and respect their body’s hunger and fullness signals to foster calm, mindful and intuitive eating experiences. Outside of work, Georgia enjoys spending time with loved ones, her greyhound Poppy, and creating recipes. She also loves watching reality TV (Kardashians and Real Housewives), and is continuing to practice downtime/non-productive, enjoyable activities. 

In this podcast episode Georgia and I discuss the connection between ADHD and eating disorders including:

• What is ADHD and what are the signs/symptoms people can look out for?
• How ADHD affects eating behaviours?
• If there certain eating disorders which are more commonly linked with ADHD or whether can they occur across all eating disorders and disordered eating subtypes?
• What nutrition and treatment considerations need to be made when a person has both ADHD and an eating disorder/disordered eating? 
• What are some common struggles that individuals with ADHD face when trying to heal from an eating disorder? 
• And lastly she shares some insight on treatment options and strategies for improving eating behaviours with ADHD

You can connect with Georgia through her social media and website below:

Instagram: @oftengood and @thewholebeingco

Website: oftengood.com

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

Jennifer Edmonds knows first hand the journey to motherhood isn't always linear. After marrying the love of her life, Jennifer decided to stop hormonal contraception as she and her partner were ready to start a family.

But her period never returned. She was told by doctors to wait it out and give it a few more months, but her missing period did not come back.

Jennifer saw countless specialists who gave little insight into why her periods were MIA, so at age 35 she decided to go down the route of IVF to try to conceive her first baby.

This episode follows Jennifer's journey to motherhood through the ups and downs of IVF, the impact of lifestyle factors on fertility (something she wish she knew earlier), her experience with miscarriage, the turning point when she found fertility yoga, and the miracle of pregnancy after loss.

You can connect with Jennifer through her social media and website below:

Instagram: @jen.elementpilatesyoga

Tiktok: @elementpilatesyoga

Website: www.elementpilatesyoga.com

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

During recovery, weight restoration or weight gain is an inevitable byproduct of working towards food freedom, and a regular menstrual cycle.

However, the fear of weight gain is usually one of the biggest obstacles that hold many of our clients back from fully embracing the process of change. 

The fear of weight gain usually encompasses worries of not knowing how much weight they might need to gain, what will their body look like, or what will other people think.

All of the above fears are completely valid and are a shared experience during recovery for all of us. But in addition to gaining weight, many of us also frequently discover that doing so brings about a host of other advantages and freedoms that improve our quality of life.

So, you’ve gained weight… but what else have you also gained in the process? 

Today Elyse and I touch on 8 core benefits that come alongside weight gain. We hope that this episode will encourage you to view your recovery through a lens wider than simply putting on weight. It may even inspire you to get out of your own way and embrace everything that comes with healing your relationship with food, exercise and your body.

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

The need for control is a double edged sword. On the one hand, the more we know about the world, the safer we feel. Conversely, the less we know the more uneasy and scared we feel. Thus the need for control is deeply rooted in fear and those exact fears will be different for everyone.

Today I’m going to discuss:

• Why eating disorders perpetuate a need for control
• How attempts to exert control often negatively impact our lives
• Understanding the different facets of control and how these show up in eating disorders
• What can be gained by letting go of control
• How to start letting go of control so you can recover and reclaim your life

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

Today on the podcast I'm overjoyed to share Gem Woods' real recovery story with you.

Gem’s recovery story has taken 10 years to write its self. And a 10 Year journey to find herself. After years of restrictive and bingeing behaviour, her periods stopped when Gem added a new love of intense exercising, with the addition of practicing bikram yoga, alongside a new vegan and gluten free diet. Gem had lost some weight, but she looked well and ate really healthy. Her doctor did her bloods and found she had Hypothyroidism.

For a few years this was the excusable reason her missing periods. It took another 7 years of investigating, seeing specialist, trying everything from acupuncture, Bowen therapy to reiki, to extensive research of HA, to then finding Sarah, and her well designed HA recovery course.

In this episode Gem and I discuss:

• Her relationship with food growing up and how this shifted after a moment of shame 
• How she struggled through her teens with bingeing and restricting
• The biggest struggles she faced in her recovery journey and how she overcame them
• Her experience with regaining connections with emotions during her recovery journey
• The joy of being in tune with the natural fluctuations of hormones throughout the menstrual cycle
• The helpful recovery lessons she learned practicing yoga and becoming a Yoga instructor
• The trauma informed yoga classes she’s developing to help those going through their own recovery journey
• Her best advice for those currently going through recovery

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

Today on the podcast I’m joined by Alex Rodriguez, an accredited practicing dietitian and eating disorder recovery advocate based in Brisbane, Australia. Combining his own lived experience and passion to pursue a career in the eating disorder field, Alex aims to help and inspire others on their recovery journeys.

In today’s episode Alex and I discuss his own eating disorder recovery journey, the impact of unrealistic body standards on men, the biggest myths that perpetuate unhelpful beliefs about eating disorders, and what it’s like working as a dietitian in the field now he has reached full recovery.

You can follow Alex on Instragram @arod_dietitian

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

We're here with a bit of a contraversial topic today so I'm gonna start this off with a content warning: in this episode we discuss alcohol and its impacts on recovery, as well as ensuring you have a safe and healthy relationship with alcohol. If you find this topic triggering in any way please skip this episode and tune back in next week.

During this podcast Elyse and I discuss:

• Signs you may have a strained relationship with alcohol from disordered eating point of view
• Should you consume alcohol if it's just "empty calories"
• The drunkorexia phenomenon of consuming alcohol in place of calories from food
• Like food restriction, how the restriction of alcohol in the short term may lead to cycles of binge drinking later on
• Is it actually safe to consume alcohol in eating disorder or hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery?
• What does a safe and moderate amount of alcohol look like?
• How both alcohol and malnutrition impact the body and liver function in different ways
• The link between excessive alcohol consumption and missing periods due to stress
• Whether you should challenge any unhelpful beliefs you have around alcohol in recovery
• How alcohol may be another symptom of the "fear of losing control" which is a common concern for those in eating disorder and HA recovery
• Our own personal experiences of our relationship with alcohol before, during and after recovery

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❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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If you've ever struggled with a rigid or compulsive exercise, it can be hard to imagine a life where your workouts feel fun, and work around your schedule instead of dictating it. Well, the good news is you CAN get there. 

Today's podcast highlights 7 key elements that underpin a healthy relationship with exercise so you know exactly what you need to be working towards when you're going through eating disorder, disordered eating or hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery.

In this episode my co-host Elyse and I discuss:

• Why flexibility with your workout routine in so important and how this looks in real life
• How to let go of exercise you hate and focus on workouts you love
• Ways of identifying if exercise is fitting into your life or ruling your life and dictating your schedule
• Why you should make functionality related goals when it comes to working out
• What a health-at-every-size and non-diet approach to exercise actually looks like 
• How to stop using exercise to earn or burn off the food you've eaten
• What to do if skipping a workout makes you feel guilty, lazy, anxious or stressed
• What "listening to your body" means when it comes to exercise and your workouts
• Plus Elyse and I share our own personal experiences of how we healed our relationships with exercise and now have a fun and flexible approach to our workouts

❤️ Better Balance Training will help you feel strong, confident and empowered in your body through a caring and compassionate approach to fitness. Click here to get started.

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.