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Stop Dieting, Start Living

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 26, 2015 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset

When Dieting Takes Over From Living Being on a diet is like forcing your real life body to squeeze into a Barbie and Ken sized dollhouse. Not a great fit if you really want to feel at home there. Does weighing all your food, watching your food portions and eating to the clock actually satisfy your hunger? What about when the rebel in you says, “Stuff it! I’m so hungry and I hate this food. I’m going to eat that cake anyway”? And what if you can’t stop at one piece after a week of willpower and restriction, and end

Body Hate, Dieting & the Scales: Audio Interview

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 11, 2015 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset

Body Hate, Dieting & the Scales Audio Interview Thank you Robyn Patton Intuitive Nourishment who interviewed me recently about body hate, dieting, the scales & vulnerability. ‪ Time for some #‎realtalk‬ so we can get comfortable with uncomfortable feelings and make space for learning to navigate them. Let me know what you think! V xo About Viki Viki Thondley is a Mind-Body Wellness Specialist and qualified Holistic Counsellor, Food, Stress & Lifestyle Coach, Meditation Therapist, and Eating Disorder Recovery Coach who inspires women to shift from limited thinking, low self-esteem and restriction to whole-self nourishment, body confidence and whole food healing. Recovered from bulimia

Body Image, Acceptance and the Dreaded Scales

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 27, 2015 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food

Body Image and the Dreaded Scales So after I shared my previous Vulnerability post today THIS happened…… Warning – Real and honest body talk here after they made me get on the scales… Well, actually I chose to. It was either get on or don’t donate. #BIMGA #bodyimagemovement Posted by Mindbodyfood with Viki Thondley on Monday, October 26, 2015 About Viki Viki Thondley is a Mind-Body Wellness Specialist and qualified Holistic Counsellor, Food, Stress & Lifestyle Coach, Meditation Therapist, and Eating Disorder Recovery Coach who inspires women to shift from limited thinking, low self-esteem and restriction to whole-self nourishment, body confidence and

I Felt Like a Fat Failure

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 27, 2015 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Self-Care

VULNERABILITY ALERT… (spoiler, I’m not perfect) Yesterday I felt like a fat, inauthentic, hypocritical failure. I know I’ve gotten into some bad habits this year as I’ve struggled to balance a growing business and demand for my time with now building a second training institute, being a supportive partner, a loving and present step-mum, and delivering consistent energy and enthusiasm at my classes, workshops and live events. Somewhere in there I forgot to PRIORITISE myself. I forgot that my body doesn’t like missing breakfast, and especially does NOT like skipping lunch or being delayed to the point of feeling famished.

Is Being Healthy Your Obsession?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 22, 2015 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition & Weight Loss

I really dislike labels. I especially dislike labelling the way we eat, the way we look, and the way we behave. “I eat clean. I am fat. I am a perfectionist.” Why do we need to make judgement instead of making way for growth, understanding and change? Labelling the way we eat is a dangerous tendency. We get so caught up in whether we’re doing it right or not. It develops a righteous thinking attitude, that for some can translate into control: If I can control my healthy diet, I can control the way I feel. Strong, intelligent and capable

Stop Controlling Food

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 12, 2015 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset

Who’s in Control? You or Food? QUESTION for you: Why are you so afraid to let go of controlling your food? Is the answer something like, “Because I’ll put on weight!” So you’re afraid of putting on weight and that’s why you control your food so rigidly? Ok. So what if you do put on some weight? Will it kill you? Will you suddenly become unlovable? Will your family and co-workers disown you? No! Maybe your body might put on a little weight in an attempt to trust you enough to nourish it regularly before it can regain a sense of

Is Food Controlling Your Life?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 30, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Holistic Health, Wellness Coaching

Is Food Controlling Your Life…. Or are you just eating your feelings? So many people have an unhealthy relationship with food. They habitually use it for comfort, distraction and punishment instead of true nourishment, information and energy for the brain and body. Your relationship with food is usually a reflection of the relationship you have with yourself. When clients come to me for food issues, they are totally exhausted from fighting back emotions and living inside their heads. No matter how hard they try, they just can’t seem to get a handle on their eating! Is this really the way

When Hunger Isn’t Real

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 3, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss

When Hunger Isn’t Real… We eat for all sorts of reasons: when we’re angry or sad, stressed or festive, starving or hormonal. Most people over-eat, and usually when they weren’t actually hungry in the first place. Eventually, distracted from the stress of daily life and worries, it becomes impossible to distinguish between hunger that is real and hunger that is fake. There are actually several different types of hunger, because our drive to eat comes from various sources that often don’t have anything to do with physical hunger – that real, true hunger that begins as a rumbling sensation

Is Self-Worth Found In the ‘Perfect’ Sized Jeans?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 22, 2015 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology

Is Self-Worth Found In the ‘Perfect’ Sized Jeans? During a little spring clean of my denim jeans drawer last week I was inspired to create a video for my YouTube Channel and bare my bedroom clean-out with all my social media subscribers. Apparently I was oblivious to just how many pairs of denim jeans I had accumulated and held onto over the last ten years – waiting for the day I was ‘thin enough’ to wear them again. For some reason every time my Beloved would help me clean out my wardrobe (you know, with the approving nod or the toss-it-out shake) I

Boost Your Body Confidence

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 6, 2015 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating

Body Confidence Boost This weeks’ blog is for all those women and young girls who can’t stand to look at themselves in the mirror – without judgement. I know how challenged you feel at the mere thought of looking in the mirror and liking what you see – let alone asserting you actually love the disappointment who looks back at you. It’s hard to be a self-assured and secure woman in today’s society. Even on a good day one phrase, one word, one look can be all it takes to dent that hard won self-confidence of the woman in the mirror

5 Reasons Why Your Diet Isn’t Working

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 27, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Healthy Eating

5 Reasons Why Your Diet Isn’t Working This week I was awarded a place in Diet-to-Go’s Top 100 Healthy Lifestyle Bloggers list for 2015! Check the list (including me!) out here: http://diettogo.com/blog/top-100-diet-blogs I’m really honoured to be in such esteemed company when it comes to talking about dieting and self-care, because it increasingly disheartens me to see so many women (and men) of all ages continue to make misguided attempts to lose weight – effectively working against their bodies and taking on the shame of their “failure” when they put all the weight back on. I spent 18 years hating my body and blaming my weight. I

Chocolate You Can Indulge In

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 16, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Food, Healthy Eating, Raw Chocolate Making, Workshops

Indulge in Chocolate – Yes You Can! Eating chocolate for me used to be a guilty pleasure. I was addicted to the fake euphoria I experienced with every massive sugar shot to my brain. It triggered my reward centre to release a hormone called Dopamine – I felt fine when I was eating chocolate. I even felt pretty fine after I ate chocolate. But about thirty minutes later I felt low, lethargic, irritable and disgusted – with myself and my lack of willpower; with my body and the excess fat I was carrying – the same fat I’d just fed a dose of creamy, sickly sweet chocolate to.

My Interview on HOT FM

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 3, 2015 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Holistic Health, Wellness Coaching

HOT FM Interview I love talking on the radio, especially going into the studio and sitting around all the equipment that I would have a ball playing around with! I wouldn’t know what I was doing but I know I’d have fun! This morning I spoke on the radio with Hamish and Tanya from HOT FM 100.7 in Toowoomba. The interview was by phone and is a quick chat on women, food, dieting and emotional eating. It’s nice and short at four minutes long so it won’t take a lot of time for you to listen in while you’re working or pottering

Cravings, Needs and Desires [VLog]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 1, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

What are you really hungry for? Cravings, needs and desires… We all have them, but how often are we actually attending to our cravings, needs and desires? When we don’t feel fulfilled in our lives, these three areas will be left hungry for whatever it is that will fulfil, satisfy and satiate us on a deeper level. Yet, because we aren’t always aware of what we truly crave, need and desire in all areas of our lives, it’s far easier to reach for pleasure inducing foods that give us a short-term feeling of being happy and having what we want.

Does Eating Stress You Out?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 25, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Wellness Coaching

Are you a stressed out eater? What kind of eater are you: Fast, medium, slow? I used to be a fast eater – I didn’t know how to eat slow. I lost touch with when I felt hungry and never seemed to stop when I was full. Are you aware when you’re hungry? Do you register when you’re full? Eating is a necessity to sustain energy balance and fuel. But it’s definitely a requirement that is viewed as a chore when we’re busy and too tired or rushed to nourish ourselves. A familiar scenario I often hear from new clients

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