Welcome back, Lovers! 

This week on Love Your Bodd, we are focusing on Forgiving Yourself for gaining weight. 

It can happen for a plethora of reasons, and it's time to examine how you react to it, because we can be very unkind to ourselves when this happens. 

5 ways to stop beating yourself up for gaining weight: 

Heather was OUT IN THOSE SAN DIEGO STREETS finding cosplayers to interview for this special San Diego Comic Con edition of Love Your Bodd!

The group of people rallied up for this episode includes: a drag Poison Ivy, two She Hulks, a cosplay FAMILY, a curvy self-made DnD cosplay, a burlesque dancer who doubles as Psyloche, an all-to-accurate Harley Quinn, AND the perspective of a cosplayer who has Spina bifita - she dishes on all of the ins-and-outs of cosplay/comic con in a wheelchair! 

Check out the cosplayers on the @love_your_bodd instagram account here! 

In this episode of Love Your Bodd, Heather reflects on her experiences traveling this week and reminds herself to take better care of her body in her future travels. 

She talks about the importance of hydration, the normalcy of bloating, and ways that you can/should incorporate movement into your travels to keep blood flowing in dat bodd. 

She ends by talking about some fun and inspiring experiences she had that started with a CIZE class on the beach, and ended in a fully choreographed dance at the reception of her friend's wedding. Life is incredible. 

Hi Lovers! Megan Yelaney is BACK! YAY!! She's been on the podcast a couple times before - her first full episode is titled "Protect Your Mind" and in that interview we dive deep into her journey with exercise and becoming a health/fitness coach.

In THIS Episode, we discuss the many ways her life has changed since then by having clients "Ditch the Diet" and find ways to eat that work best for them. One way she has done that is through incorporating Intermittent Fasting - which we discuss in minor detail. See reference links for more info. 

We also discuss the THREE most common - and also most costly mistakes that people make when they decide to take on a new lifestyle - 

3 Costly Mistakes People Make When Trying to Create a "Healthy" Lifestyle:

1. GOING ALL IN RIGHT AWAY: Having an "all or nothing" mentality inevitably ends up making you feel like a failure after the smallest human mistakes. Baby steps are the way to go. 

2. UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS: Things take longer than you think they will.

3. TRY TO GO IT ALONE: Accountability is KEY. Having others to help you out is not only awesome motivation but it also makes the process more FUN! 

Find Megan:

Instagram & Snapchat: @MeganYelaney
Blog: FitActorTravels.com
YouTube: Megan Yelaney
FB: facebook.com/MeganYelaneyFitness
Pinterest: Megan Yelaney

Referenced In This Episode:

Megan's Intermittent Fasting (IF) Blog Posts: 
How Intermittent Fasting Can Improve your Health Help you lose fat
Intermittent Fasting: How to Do It The Right Way for YOUR Body
Intermittent Fasting for Women: The 5 Top Myths and to Not Let it Stop You
Intermittent Fasting for Women: How to do it Safely and Lose Fat

Chalene Johnson's IF Podcast Episodes:
Stop Dieting 
Jimmy More
Sara Solomon Pt 1
Sara Solomon Pt 2

Chalene Johnson's All-or-Nothing Mindset Podcast Episode: The All Or Nothing Mindset is Killing Your Progress

Megan's Intermittent Fasting LIVE Workshop:  https://www.fitactortravels.com/

Welcome back, Lovers! 

In today's episode of Love Your Bodd you are going to hear from a body positive personal trainer named Jenna! She's been a personal trainer for 11 years but it hasn't always been so "body positive." 

Jenna has a unique story of gaining weight to improve her health - both mentally and physically. As a personal trainer, she felt she needed to maintain a certain look: flat stomach, no body fat, size zero. Luckily, her discovery of Body Positivity opened up her eyes to a whole new world and way of living. She went from a size zero, miserable, living off supplements with no energy to a size 14/16, intuitively eating and moving, improved energy, and happily/healthily enjoying life. 

Let's listen to and explore her story together. 

Here is a call to action to all fitness professionals: WHERE are my true Body Positive fitness pros at?! Give Heather and Jenna a shout out so they can add you to their arsenal of warriors promoting body positivity in the fitness industry. Moving because you love it, not as punishment. Taking the shame out of gym setting. Taking the need to track every single thing out of the equation. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

The organization F.I.T.4ALL (previous love your bodd guest) certainly stands for this. As does another previous Love Your Bodd guest, Shanna Tyler. Now that I'm thinking about it, many previous LYB guests are. Such as Megan Yelaney and Sam Darby! But we need more and we need to be connected!! Jenna and I need a network of Body Positive connections we can send people to all over the world! 

Find Jenna

Instagram:

@bodypositivefitness_

@bopomove

Website: www.bodypositivefitness.ca

Referenced in this Episode:

Whitney Way Thore

My Big Fat Fabulous Life

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls by Jess Baker 

Health At Every Size by Linda Bacon

Body Positive Power by Megan Crabbe (@bodyposipanda)