Hello guys and welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. I'm Chelsea, former overweight, healthy vegan,

confused about why I couldn't look like my favorite plant-based influences, even though I was

chugging back green smoothies every day. After a decade of unsustainable vegan diets,

I learned the truth about weight loss, lost 40 pounds,

and now I'm in the best shape of my life even after two kids.

Girl, if you've been struggling to drop the pounds as a vegan,

stuck in a cycle of self-savitage, sick of yo-yo

dieting and going hungry, never being able to get and stay lean, then this is the podcast

for you. Each week I share the no BS truth about why vegan women are overweight, the action

steps to get you shedding fat and the

mindset you'll need to get slim for life. I'm stoked to have you here. Let's get started.

Hello my friend. Welcome back to another podcast episode.

Today we're going to be looking at what does healthy self-love look like while you are dieting.

And it really seems like these two things would be at total odds, trying to accept yourself and love yourself where

you're at, and then also being desperate to lose weight and change yourself completely.

And self-love is this huge buzzword at the moment.

It is everywhere.

We've got the body positivity movement.

We've got a lot more acceptance of everyone

which I think is awesome but it's conflicting in there so this is an industry where by default a

lot of people vehemently say that it has nothing to do with self-love because how can you be dieting and have

self-love? So in this episode we're going to talk about having that healthy balance between

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