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Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Melissa Hartwig: Food Freedom Forever

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

"This is not like any other nutrition program you've ever stumbled across. You have to think about it differently in terms of it being just one part of a lifelong cycle." - Melissa Hartwig

 

Pushing Your Reset Button With Your Health, Habits, & Relationship With Food

On this week's podcast, you’ll learn from an exceptional woman who has dedicated her life to driving real transformations in physical and emotional wellness. In this hour, together we’ll discover the connections between your emotions and healthy habits to live your best life and enjoy the process.

Sparking real, sustainable transformation and creating food freedom begins when we do the emotional inventory with ourselves. This can be a tricky process when starting out, especially when taking the honest look at how we're showing up in our relationship with food is the only way through.

But there's science behind why we get stuck, and how we can change. It happens when we're hungry and open to the right answers. 

As Melissa writes in her first book, It Starts With Food:

 

"Ancient signals in a modern world: Food scientists have engineered chemicals in processed foods that light up the reward centers in the brain for a different reason than nature intended- not because they provide vital nutrition, but because they are scientifically designed to stimulate our tastes buds." 

 

About Melissa Hartwig

Melissa Hartwig is a Certified Sports Nutritionist who specializes in helping people change their relationship with food and create life-long, healthy habits. She is the co-creator of the original Whole30 program, the New York Times bestselling author of The Whole30 and It Starts With Food. Melissa has been featured by Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, the Wall Street Journal, Details, Shape, Outside, and SELF.

Melissa has also presented more than 150 health and nutrition seminars worldwide, and provides support to more than 1.5 million people a month through the Whole30 website.

 

"We're often told that it's selfish to take care of yourself first, but I look at it as an act of radical self love. I set boundaries in my life so that I am healthy, happy and so that I flourish in my life and I have more to give to everyone else." - Melissa Hartwig

 

Melissa's New Book: Food Freedom Forever

Letting Go of Bad Habits, Guilt, and Anxiety Around Food

End the yo-yo dieting cycle… forever. Welcome to the Food Freedom plan.

Millions of people have successfully completed the groundbreaking Whole30 program and radically transformed their energy, sleep, cravings, waistline, and health. Now, Food Freedom Forever offers real solutions for anyone stuck in the exhausting cycle of yo-yo dieting and the resulting stress, weight gain, uncontrollable cravings, and health complaints. In her newest book, best-selling author Melissa Hartwig defines true “food freedom” as being in control of the food you eat, instead of food controlling you.

 

quotatoin-marksFood Freedom Forever gives you everything you need for achieving dietary success, for today and for the rest of your healthy life. Melissa Hartwig’s information is spot on in terms of its scientific validity, and wonderfully approachable in terms of its implementation. — DAVID PERLMUTTER, MD, Author, #1 New

Transcript

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0:00.0

Wellness Force Radio,

0:05.0

radio. Feelings are essential, but they can't dictate our actions.

0:12.0

She literally inspect each other with our emotion.

0:15.0

We came here for a special purpose.

0:17.0

Let the purpose unveil itself.

0:19.0

Knowing without doing the same thing is not knowing.

0:21.0

They're not just trackers.

0:22.0

I'm going to wear this and it's going to help me do the right thing.

0:25.2

Wellness Force Radio episode 71 with New York Times best-selling author,

0:30.0

Melissa Hartwig. These dark corners in my head that like I know we're there but the closet door is shot and like I don't want to open what then it and I think for a lot of people

0:40.5

food is like the gateway to that because they understand at some

0:43.9

deeper level that it's not just food and if they take away the things that they're

0:47.7

using the comfort or love or self-soothe they're going to have to look at what is my

0:51.4

relationship with my mom and like why can't I talk to her unless

0:54.2

we're sitting down with a plate of chocolate chip cookies or what's going on

0:57.6

with my stress about my job and like what am I gonna do if I can't come home

1:01.1

from work every night and have a glass of wine.

1:04.0

Welcome back to another episode, my friend.

1:06.0

I am your host and wellness coach Josh Trent.

1:08.0

Thank you for spending your time with me here on the podcast.

1:12.0

This is where every week I bring you access to

1:14.4

global experts in wellness, technology, and behavior change. On this podcast

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