Hi Reader!

About a month ago, I put new batteries in my bathroom scale and stepped on.

It was what I expected after a stressful winter, where I knew that I was stress eating a lot.

This past winter, my dad was in the hospital for about 3 weeks, Christmas barely happened, my whole house got the flu (bad), and overall it was just not a fun month tbh.

So when the scale showed me all the weight I gained, I was not surprised.

I knew my face was puffier too.

And since I teach people nutrition and how to fix their metabolism for a living, it sort of degraded at my self-esteem too because I am supposed to be the example, right? (I am human too)

It took about a month, but the weight that I gained over the winter is gone.

I did not diet. In fact, I barely exercised. There were weeks in January, where I did no running. No exercise at all.

(I checked my running app and I only ran 3x in Feb and each time was like 1-2 mi...very little for me).

The changes I made were 100% food-related.

1. I stopped snacking after dinner.

Bulk of my extra calories were definitely coming in after dinner. That's when the stress and exhaustion hits the worst and I just wanted cookies.

Stopping wasn't easy at first, but I tricked my brain by either having tea, seltzer, or just brushing my teeth earlier. This shut off the craving.

Eventually, the cravings stopped all together because I changed the cues that led to cookies, so I don't need these cheats anymore.

2. I drank miso soup almost everyday with my lunch.

I will never stop preaching about the powers of fermented foods and how fast they fix your body. In order to make this easy for me, I prepared a batch of broth in the beginning of the week and microwaved a mug with my lunch. Easy.

(PS: All my food reels are my lunches, if you want to see exactly what I eat).

3. I stopped putting sugar in my second (and third) cup of coffee.

This advice actually came to me via Gemini. (does anyone just have conversations with it now? I totally do. Haha).

But it recommended to me that its fine to keep my first cup of coffee in the morning how I actually want (1 tsp of sugar), but take out the sugar for the rest (when I am more awake and ok with that change).

Its such a silly-stupid thing.

But it actually completely stopped my afternoon sugar cravings, and I did not want sugar at all for the rest of the day (and night too!).

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I think overall, it just came down to eliminating sneaky calories and eliminating sugar cravings.

Did it happen overnight? No.

Was everyday a success? No.

But it still worked.

Didn't even exercise.

No calorie or macro counting (you know I hate that).

My weight is back to where it was in November before life happened(5-7 lb lighter).

My face doesn't look puffy anymore.

And honestly, I just feel better.

And it only took 1 month.

Let me know if you find these types of emails helpful!

Hit reply and let me know!!

Love,

Lia

PS: If you are struggling with getting rid of your winter weight too (or just can't figure out what you are doing wrong), hit reply and let me know. I want to help! (or click here).

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