This week on Matcha Mornings, Amanda is joined by Rachelle Shelton! Rachelle is a good friend of Amanda’s and a 200-hour RYT. On this episode, Rachelle shares her journey with health and wellness, and how a positive shift in lifestyle helped her to lose weight and feel better in her body. After losing weight and receiving positive reinforcement, Rachelle began to become obsessive with her diet and exercise and it snowballed in a direction that wasn’t healthy.
Through a lot of internal work, reprogramming, therapy and yoga, Rachelle has been able to shift her perspective on what it means to be healthy, how she looks at her physical body and the way that she speaks to herself.
Weight loss and healthy eating is, of course, great, until it’s not and Rachelle and Amanda dive into ways that we can start shifting our perspective on what it means to be healthy, loving ourselves at all sizes, and much more. Enjoy!
Discussed in this Episode:
- Rachelle’s journey with health and wellness
- When Rachelle became conscious of using food to stress eat
- As Rachelle hit her mid-twenties, she put on weight and realized that she wanted to make a change in her life
- When Rachelle started to cut things out, she lost a lot of weight and she started to feel really great – it started out as a positive thing for her!
- People started complimenting her and it became addicting to lost weight, and the way she looked was also linked to her happiness)
- The intention behind cutting out certain foods is so key
- Why Rachelle cut out meat and decided to become vegan
- How Rachelle’s weight hit a low during marathon training and the terror started about putting weight back on
- Rachelle hurt herself running and she wasn’t able to keep exercising
- Losing our identity of “being fit” can make us really happy and it’s a reminder that we can’t make our size a part of our identity
- Rachelle struggled with never being able to get back to that place physically that she had been in when she was her skinniest and it was hard to switch her mindset
- She shifted her mindset through therapy, seeing a nutritionist, and through her yoga practice and yoga teacher training
- Rachelle hit a point where she realized that she couldn’t keep tying together her body image and size to her happiness
- Rachelle shifted the way that she started talking to herself
- “I am no more successful and I am no more loved now than I was when I was skinny.”
- We have to learn to be more flexible with ourselves and not define ourselves by certain things in our lives
- There is a lot of freedom in not limiting your eating – you can still eat healthy and you can still eat vegan and you can still indulge from time to time if you want
- You can’t quit food – we need food to live – so you have to have a lot of grace with yourself and with the process
- Rachelle has shifted her perspective of health from her physical appearance to being how well she sleeps and how she feels in her body
- Get rid of the skinny jeans!
- How we can shift our language around commenting people on the way that they look
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
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