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Weekend reminder! Your body needs rest days but your brain can use breaks too. 🌬 Meditating, meeting up with a friend (or saying “no” to plans, i love @nutritionsqueezed idea of having 1 phone-free day, or putting it away before bed, not checking e-mail first thing in the morning, or anything else that gives your brain a breather. What ways do you give your brain a break?
#thewellful credit: @selfmagazine

Xoxo Your Secret Admirer (it’s me 🙋🏼‍♀️)
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Whether you’re using this day to celebrate your significant other, your besties, yourself or your dog (all solid options) hope you remember you’re freakin’ fab. Happy V Day 💕💕 #thewellful

credit: the freakin’ fabulous @the.graceful.baker

🔥🔥🔥 Super grateful when I think about all the women who have taken their time to mentor, support and cheer on me and other women. And ya know what? It doesn’t make them get “left behind” it pushes everyone forward. We need more of that, more people pursuing their passions & pushing forward. It creates more passionate brands, solutions we need, supportive environments and inclusive communities and I’m HERE for it. If I look back, a huge reason I’ve believed that I could create something, or follow a not super straight-forward path is because I saw other women-owned businesses and entrepreneurs doing that. Tagged some awesome women entrepreneurs/businesses (capped at 20!) who would you add? Tag below so we can all support ⚡️⚡️ #thewellful

Words by @raeshellelesliew 💕

Just sayin’ 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Had the best day yesterday surrounded by a room full of brilliant and supportive non-diet RDs Fran across the country at the #WINDworkshop2019 put on by @rdrealtalk & @alissarumseyrd 💕 Feeling so filled up and inspired by this work and community and all the ideas, projects and experiences shared. Grateful to be a part of and supporting this shift in nutrition, health + promoting healthy, positive relationships with food 💕💕 #thewellful

Q: What do you know about someone’s eating or health based on what they order at lunch/post on IG?
A: very little 🤷🏼‍♀️
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When you see someone post a salad you might think:
“Oh so healthy they’re having a salad”
Or “that’s not even a healthy salad bc there’s too much/not enough xyz on it”
Or “Oh that’s what they eat? I should eat like that”
Or “I eat so much healthier/less healthy than them” ...
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But.
The reality is, we don’t know nearly ANYTHING about someone’s health/eating patters/relationship to food based off of a photo of someone’s food, or even if they tell you what they had for lunch. (Which is also why, even as a RD, I and so many others are not -and really should not be - judging what you’re eating. It’s not helpful or really a good picture, only a little snapshot). Someone else’s lunch also certainly has nothing to do with your own health/food choices/relationship to food (how could it?). There’s too much nuance and other factors that go into our health behaviors - like our intention, what foods we like, why we eat (hey, #WHYiatewednesday 🤟), how we feel when we eat those things, what else they ate that day/week, etc etc etc. AND even if you did know those things, you still wouldn’t be able to guess their health markers and it would still have 0% to do with your own health.
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Those statements are really our own food rules/health assumptions or fears around food that we’re projecting onto others and ourselves, but they really aren’t based in fact or science or even helpful, they just make us compare and often used to beat ourselves up ❌ Two really great posts today talk about other kinds of food rules we may have - by @jaim_eats & @veggiesandchocolate check them both out 💕 And reminder that whatever someone else is eating or posting is great for inspiration, restaurant recs, recipe ideas, but realllllly has no impact on what you “should” be eating or not.💥 I’m stoked to be spending this weekend with a bunch of inspiring RDs at the first #WINDworkshop2019 so will probably have lots more food + food for thought comin at ya ⚡️⚡️ #thewellful

And even if they all looked the same, we wouldn’t all be the same “level” of health 💥
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How often do you get wrapped up in following someone else’s workouts, or meal plan with the hope that it’s a recipe for your body to match theirs?
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I’m NOT saying that sharing food or workouts or what works for you is bad - at all. It’s a fun way to inspire, share, build community, and connect with each other. But I think we can all agree that social media is a highlight reel and it’s easy to put out the image that “I do this and look like me, if you do this you’ll look like me” (replace “look” with be successful, be attractive, be happy etc).
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So both as people who post and people who take in the posts, we can all use a reminder to double check our goals and intentions and maybe our underlying intentions too behind why we post what we post, or follow who we follow.
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We know there is no one “right” way, of pretty much anything. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Your way of eating and moving and priorities might feel good and work for you - and might not feel good at all to your best friend or co-worker or stranger on the internet or even yourself next year. You and someone else may have the same favorite lunch and gym membership but that doesn’t mean you’ll look exactly the same or have the same health markers.
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Even though you probably see it all over social media, we can’t “sell” a look or degree of health with a one size fits all plan, because one size doesn’t fit all, and there are so many factors we’d be leaving out if we did.
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SO gentle reminder to check in about how you’re using your account and which “influencers” you follow, if every time you see their post you feel pressured or badly that you don’t look, or eat, or move like them see if you can reframe it to “good for them, not for me” or .... reevaluate what your why is in following them and if it’s to be someone other than yourself, maybe unfollow. You do youuuuu 💥 #thewellful image: @thebalancebee

If this pic doesn’t make you feel humpday endorphin JOY I don’t know what will ⚡️⚡️
credit: @outdoorvoices @bluebannister 💕

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