• Looking Great for My Daughter’s Wedding

  • Oct 20 2024
  • Length: 11 mins
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Looking Great for My Daughter’s Wedding

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  • On this episode of Navigating Nourishment, Wendy and Debbie dive into the pressure many people feel to look great for major life events, like a daughter's wedding. Rather than focusing solely on appearance, they emphasize the value of feeling strong, energized, and confident. Together, they challenge the pitfalls of diet culture, which often prioritizes looks over genuine health. Instead, they advocate for sustainable lifestyle changes—like nourishing the body with whole foods, staying active, and getting quality sleep. Sharing inspiring client stories, Wendy and Debbie showcase the lasting benefits of these habits, reminding listeners that true wellness is about feeling great from the inside out, not just achieving short-term results. TRANSCRIPT edited for readability Wendy 00:05 One of our clients recently came to us and said, Oh my gosh, my daughter's getting married, and I've got to look my best for this wedding. All the family is coming to town. What should I do? Debbie 00:16 She had a year to plan and wanted to look fabulous for her daughter's wedding. Wendy 00:24 And it's so exciting, right? Weddings, and to look our best when all eyes are on you because you're the mother of the bride, and you want to shine. Debbie 00:37 Yeah, of course, you want to shine for your own wedding and then when it's your kids, it's like, your second chance to shine. So that's what we want to talk about today, on Navigating Nourishment. Wendy 00:49 Welcome. I'm Wendy Debbie 00:50 I'm Debbie, and this motivated us to talk about this, because I think both of us have known people in our families or our friends or clients who have been motivated by an event and decided, oh, this event is coming up, my reunion, this wedding, this vacation, whatever it is, and I really want to look good. I'm going to take off 15 pounds… Wendy 01:16 And this goes to one of our taglines. How do you want to look, feel and perform? And we're talking about the 'look' part in our society. We are really heavily concentrated on how we look, and there's nothing wrong with that. We all want to look good and don't want to take that away from anyone. That's part of the tagline. So, of course, we want to look good too. We represent health and wellness so we show up to play the part of a health and wellness coach absolutely. But it's leaving out the part about feeling your best and performing your best, and that's the gap we see in the diet culture. And to unpack that just a little bit - we want to help people question the motivation behind looking good, what it looks like, how you do it, and ultimately: Is this concept a temporary concept or a concept for life? People often sacrifice their well-being for temporary weight loss Debbie 02:18 We are tapping this in the age of those quick weight loss drugs that people are taking that make you lose your appetite, and so people are dropping weight. And I don't want to shame anybody. I don't want anybody to feel that we're saying that's not the right way to go. However, let's talk about the habits that go along with that, with any kind of weight loss or motivation to look good, it can be an opportunity to have that motivation to do things that really nourish you, as opposed to starving yourself and not nourishing yourself on purpose, so that you can take off the weight and look good and inside not really feel great at all, because you're sacrificing and you're depriving yourself of nourishment just for the sake of fitting into that dress or that suit. Aligning goals with personal well-being and feeling good inside Wendy 03:16 Or you're skipping social events, or you're beating yourself up at the gym and sweating it all off and not nourishing yourself while you're sweating, right? There are so many ways that we can look good and do it in a sustainable way that's so nourishing and gives us what do I want t...
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