Harsh Truths For The Woman Trying To Lose Weight

Written By Nicole Hagen

I was scrolling social media over the weekend (as you do) and stumbled upon some weight loss “advice” that said: “you’re not hungry - it’s just your body celebrating the progress you’re making”.

Talk about a gateway to disordered eating…

The one, perhaps only, good thing to come from that garbage circling the internet are these harsh truths for the woman trying to lose weight:

  • If the only way you know how to "get back on track" is by eliminating food groups… it's not a track. It's a trap.

  • Healthy eating that requires perfection isn't healthy — it's a diet in disguise.

  • Eating a cookie doesn't ruin your progress. Thinking it does is what ruins your progress.

  • If you're terrified of gaining weight when you stop tracking... that's not food freedom, that's fear.

  • Obsessing over health isn’t healthy.

  • You don’t need more willpower. You need a plan that doesn’t fall apart every weekend.

  • If you have to restrict food and overexercise to have “that body”, then THAT’S NOT THE BODY FOR YOU, babe.

  • If your weight loss plan encourages you to ignore hunger cues because “it’s your body celebrating progress”, you’re on a slip ’n slide towards an eating disorder.

If you’re ready to create health-promoting and sustainable weight loss, without all the fear, food rules, and restriction, there’s still time to APPLY for the Fat Loss Jumpstart!

Nicole Hagen

A Nutrition Coach, adoptive mom, dog mom, and mint chocolate chip ice cream lover.

I didn’t always have this business: the Masters degree in Nutrition Science and Public Health, the passion, the clients... in fact, years ago you could have found me endlessly counting calories and trying to find my worth on the scale and at spin class, exhausted in my pursuit of (what I thought was) health and happiness.

In my early twenties, I struggled with crash dieting and disordered eating. Little did I know, those circumstances would be my one-way ticket out of my restrictive relationship with food & fitness. Those experiences led me here: to the life-giving, sustainable, habit-based nutrition philosophy I embody today. Today you can find me living life without a calorie counting app and spending time with my husband, one year old son, and our two crazy golden retriever pups.

I enjoy spending my free time reading, sipping on matcha lattes, and dreaming of ways I can help other women create healthy, confident relationships with food without selling their souls to food rules and calorie counting apps.

Because nothing lights me up more than helping women live full and vibrant lives without food fear, rules, or restriction. I want to be that permission granter in your life that whispers: “you really can do this” while the rest of the world continues to settle for short-term satisfaction.

https://nutritioncoachingwithnicole.com/
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