Make Peace with Food

Sherry Shaban, a fitness and life coach, shares her personal transformation story and discusses the habits of successful athletes. She emphasizes the importance of creating enjoyable and sustainable habits and introduces the anti-diet approach to rewiring the brain’s relationship with food.

In this conversation, Sherry Shaban discusses the problems with diets and the temporary results they provide. She shares her personal experience with different diets and how they created a disordered relationship with food. Sherry explains how dieting overrides the body’s natural hunger cues and triggers protection mode, leading to weight gain and unwanted eating behaviours.

Takeaways from Make Peace with Food

• • Our self-image and beliefs shape our reality and progress in fitness.

• • Successful athletes have a determined mindset and focus on performance rather than appearance.

• • Start with small, enjoyable habits and focus on consistency before intensity.

• • Audit your environment and surround yourself with people who support your goals.

• • The anti-diet approach involves listening to your body’s cues and finding a balance between whole foods and processed foods. Diets are temporary and often restrictive, leading to temporary results and an unsustainable approach to eating.

• • Dieting overrides the body’s natural hunger cues and triggers protection mode, resulting in weight gain and unwanted eating behaviours.

• • Intermittent fasting can be a powerful tool for health and weight loss, but it should be approached with a focus on shifting the body into safety mode.

• • Shifting from protection mode to safety mode involves managing cortisol and insulin levels, as well as cultivating a positive mindset and self-love.

About the Guest

Meet Sherry Shaban, an extraordinary fitness and life coach who’s battled back from the brink of paralysis to transform not only her body but her entire outlook on life. We met when she recently had me on her podcast, Fall In Love with Fitness, so I’m very excited to talk to her again today.

Sherry will challenge your conventional wisdom on dieting and fitness as we look at why diets fail, and what you can do differently. We are unpacking the nuances of ‘transformation’ versus ‘results,’ and how you can move from a life of limitations to one of endless possibilities. From the role of intuitive eating to overcoming chronic pain, to the habits that define successful “athletes” in all walks of life, this is a holistic conversation about optimizing your performance from the inside out.

Sherry Shaban is an osteopath and an anti-diet health and life coach from Montreal, Qc. She is the founder of the Fall in Love with Fitness Podcast, the HIIT Decks™ App, and Make Peace with Food™, the leaders in an Anti-Diet approach that rewires the brain’s relationship with food to naturally release bodyweight struggles forever.

With over 23 years of experience in the fitness industry, Sherry is a renowned expert in the most challenging weight loss cases and has helped thousands of people worldwide transform their health and fitness using her revolutionary method to rewire the brain, release self-sabotaging limiting beliefs and patterns, and fall in love with fitness so that weight loss becomes easy, predictable, and enjoyable.

For the first few years of being a gym owner, Sherry felt like a phony. She was frustrated with herself, disappointed and angry for being a “victim” of her circumstances, unable to demonstrate a single squat. But her turning point toward recovery came from understanding that one of the central elements to transformation is to let go of debilitating and self-limiting thoughts, and to begin to rewrite a new story. With over 20 years of experience in her specialty, Sherry has dedicated her life to helping thousands of people transform their Athletic identity to become who they are meant to be.

Sherry offering a FREE workbook! You can download it at www.makepeacewithfood.com

Connect with Sherry Shaban: https://www.sherryshaban.com

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