You feel ashamed of your body.

You have a hard time accepting your body as it is.

You are frustrated that you are bigger and heavier than when you were younger, and it bothers you very much.

You regularly weigh yourself, and most of the times, you don’t like the numbers you see on the scale.

You constantly try to loose weight because you don’t like your body and the numbers on the scale.

You constantly put yourself on a diet, or “watch” what you eat all the time, limiting portions, calories, macros, etc. though you don’t want to. But you can’t free yourself from doing it

A lot of the times, you exercise because you believe that you must do it to change your body {to be “in shape”, thinner or smaller, etc.}, not because you enjoy the exercises.

You feel “less than”, “ugly”, “fat”, and/or “imperfect” in your body.

You compare your body to other people’s bodies, and feel jealous of them, and dislike your own body.

You compare the amounts of the food you eat to your friends’, family member{s}, and/or partner’s, and you feel embarrassed that you eat more than they do. Or, you feel frustrated and/or angry that they eat more than you do, but their bodies are thinner or smaller than yours.

A lot of the times, you feel self-conscious around how your body looks during your intimate times with your lover/partner, and it gets in the way of you connecting with your lover/partner and experiencing full joy and pleasure.

You don’t like having pictures of yourself taken.

You make harsh comments about your body when you look in the mirror, or see pictures and/or reflections of yourself.

You’re tired of hearing messages that tell you {overtly and/or covertly} that your body needs to be different, everywhere you go, but you don’t know how to not listen to them.

Most importantly, your are frustrated {or even desperate} because you want to put your energy onto other things much more important in life than doing these “things” you think you have to do around your body and weight, but you don’t know how! At the same time, you’re thinking “If I don’t do these things, it means {or people will say} I’ve let my body go!”

. . . . . and more . . . . .

You overeat. You binge eat. You compulsively eat. But you don’t want to.

You emotionally eat. Food is your “go-to”, especially when you have emotions that you want to avoid feeling.

The more you try to restrict or limit your food, the more you want to eat.

You have guilty feeling, when you allow yourself to enjoy the food you like.

When you eat something you enjoy, often times you’d say to yourself and/or to others, “Oh, I ate too much. I shouldn’t have, I need to burn it off”, or something else to that effect.

You’re afraid to let yourself eat the food you like because you believe that you’ll “loose it”, and you’ve “lost it” sooooo many times.

. . . . . and more . . . . .

some examples are:

digestive problems, eczema, candida {or yeast infection}, fatigue {or low energy}, mood, immunity, pre-menopause, menopause, pre-diabetes, and diabetes, and more

You want to do good “self care” around your meals.

Years of my experience in working as a holistic personal chef will definitely come in handy for you in this area.