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Listen "#117: Creating confidence in the kitchen for all your family"
Episode Synopsis
Kristy Bara-Novskis joins the podcast today to explore how to have a positive relationship with food and highlights the importance of modelling good eating habits and confidence in the kitchen to your children. She’s sharing her story of overcoming her fear of food and cooking to build strong health, and achieving what she describes as ‘a friendly relationship with food’.
We discuss the complexities of food and diet culture, emphasising the importance of realising that your relationship with food is often deep-rooted, and that focusing on achieving a certain weight, size or shape for health and happiness, is actually often leading to the opposite outcome. We explore Kristy's journey from emotional eating to clean eating, sharing practical tips for meal planning and cooking confidence.
Our conversation highlights the significance of role modelling healthy habits for children and the need for mindfulness in eating. Kristy provides lots of actionable advice for families to engage with food positively, to build a joyful and healthy approach to eating.
In our chat today we explore:
Why so many women associate good health with weight and food restrictions.
How a positive relationship with food leads to better health outcomes.
Meal planning tips and how it can provide a sense of control over eating habits.
Emotional eating often stems from childhood experiences.
Mindfulness is key in recognising emotional triggers for eating.
How diet culture can create a cycle of failure and restriction.
Building cooking confidence can improve food relationships, and open up opportunities for your family to come together at meal times.
Involving children in cooking fosters healthy habits for them as they grow up.
Kristy’s approach to clean eating that focuses on whole foods and simplicity.
3 simple steps to being to confident in the kitchen and making food joyful and enjoyable for all your family.
About Kristy:
Kristy Bara-Novskis is a Kitchen Confidence Coach, helping women make confident food choices. Kristy once felt broken because she couldn't stick with a programme, but everything changed when she learned food is a friend, not something to fear. She transformed from feeling broken to confident, and now helps others do the same
Connect with Kristy:
Website
Instagram
Access Kristy's FREE guide with 3 quick, easy recipes you can use to get in front of your food for the week.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
Visit our website
Follow on Instagram
Follow on LinkedIn
Watch the episodes on YouTube
Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
We discuss the complexities of food and diet culture, emphasising the importance of realising that your relationship with food is often deep-rooted, and that focusing on achieving a certain weight, size or shape for health and happiness, is actually often leading to the opposite outcome. We explore Kristy's journey from emotional eating to clean eating, sharing practical tips for meal planning and cooking confidence.
Our conversation highlights the significance of role modelling healthy habits for children and the need for mindfulness in eating. Kristy provides lots of actionable advice for families to engage with food positively, to build a joyful and healthy approach to eating.
In our chat today we explore:
Why so many women associate good health with weight and food restrictions.
How a positive relationship with food leads to better health outcomes.
Meal planning tips and how it can provide a sense of control over eating habits.
Emotional eating often stems from childhood experiences.
Mindfulness is key in recognising emotional triggers for eating.
How diet culture can create a cycle of failure and restriction.
Building cooking confidence can improve food relationships, and open up opportunities for your family to come together at meal times.
Involving children in cooking fosters healthy habits for them as they grow up.
Kristy’s approach to clean eating that focuses on whole foods and simplicity.
3 simple steps to being to confident in the kitchen and making food joyful and enjoyable for all your family.
About Kristy:
Kristy Bara-Novskis is a Kitchen Confidence Coach, helping women make confident food choices. Kristy once felt broken because she couldn't stick with a programme, but everything changed when she learned food is a friend, not something to fear. She transformed from feeling broken to confident, and now helps others do the same
Connect with Kristy:
Website
Access Kristy's FREE guide with 3 quick, easy recipes you can use to get in front of your food for the week.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
Visit our website
Follow on Instagram
Follow on LinkedIn
Watch the episodes on YouTube
Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
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