339 // Weight Loss Advice From A Former Size 00

Written By Nicole Hagen

In this Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast episode, host and Nutrition Coach, Nicole Hagen, shares five life-changing lessons she learned as a former size 00 that will help you navigate today’s reemerging extreme weight-loss culture with more clarity and compassion.

Throughout this episode you’ll learn about: 

  • Why the return of “heroin-chic” ideals and rapid weight-loss can trigger unhealthy habits

  • How obsession and control can disguise themselves as “discipline”

  • Why weight loss without inner work doesn’t change how you feel about your body

  • How all-or-nothing food rules make your relationship with food harder, not healthier

  • What happens when you pursue weight loss at the expense of your wellbeing

  • Why slow, supported, and sustainable fat loss still wins - for your metabolism and your mental health 

… and so much more in between.

If you’ve ever felt pressured to lose weight quickly, if you worry you’re “behind” because someone else is shrinking faster, or if you’re tempted by the newest rapid-loss trend, this episode will help you understand what’s at stake, what actually supports your long-term health, and what to focus on instead.

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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