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16th October 2009, Issue 26

In this Issue:

Hello to everyone in the Food & Joy community and welcome to all our new subscribers. If you love food and hate dieting this is the newsletter for you!

Feature Article:  Emotional Eating - Time To Get Moving
Liz Recommends: Conquer Emotional Eating Forever Starter Pack
Teleclasses & Programs: Last chance to get the recordings!
About Liz: Liz bio

Welcome all new subscribers to your first issue of Food & Joy’s “No More Rabbit Food” and hello! to all returning subscribers.

As I sit here with autumn rain around us and the leaves changing colour I am really aware of the changing season. Though here the weather hasn’t quite made up its mind – being unseasonably hot for October I’ve had the windows open even while it was pouring with rain. And as I worked in my study Whiskey the cat sat on the windowsill – wanting to be close but also not wanting to miss any outside action, which consisted of rain, earthworms and snails, but that’s a busy day to a cat.

So there is the sense of the summer finally ended and winter not quite begun. We are on the brink. Even the cat feels it.

So do you feel on the brink? Ready to take action? Ready to move forward? Well the truth is we all need support from time to time and I am here and ready to support you. So read on for this week’s article AND keep your eyes wide open because there is something big, bold, abundant and awesome coming your way from me to you VERY soon!

Liz

Liz Copeland
The Food and Joy Coach and Creator of the Food & Joy Coaching Process

Our next teleclass is on Thursday September 17^th, 6pm UK time and 1pm Eastern.

It’s been and gone! But the audio is available if you are signed up for this series!

The topic this month is how to get beyond emotional eating.

So this teleseminar will be packed full of information on...

• Finding the emotional eater in you

• Loving yourself and feeding your emotions

• Enjoying food without guilt

We’ll also cover the truly transformative topic of discovering the magic you have inside yourself - and this can really free you to enjoy your food, love yourself and be the size and shape that feels wonderfully the “you” you were meant to be.

**Last chance** to sign up for the whole series and get access to all the recordings!
 

Emotional Eating - Time To Get Moving
by Liz Copeland
The Food & Joy Coach

So what are YOU eating tonight?

You know how it is. Full of good intentions, you plan your day/week/monthly menus, fill the house with good food and have the best of intentions for healthy eating.

That’s Monday.

And you chop, slice, sauté, cook and produce a great meal.

Tuesday too.

Wednesday you have an evening meeting, various offspring need to be picked up or dropped off for soccer/tuba lessons/knitting marathons and you are, frankly, exhausted. So you go for a quick easy meal.

Thursday it’s a freezer meal and Friday it’s takeaway.

There is a reason for this.

You are NOT a failure, an unhousewifely slob, or a bad mother.

You ARE busy, living an interesting life and have family/friends/pets with interesting lives. And that takes your time AND your energy.

So this week I’m going to say to you, relax, take it easy and loosen the dietary corsets. If you’re not sticking to whatever rules you’ve set yourself why beat yourself up about it?

And try, longer term, to set yourself up for success. You can’t in the middle of a busy weekday evening, grapple with a new recipe or an unfamiliar food. Do that when you are more relaxed and have more time. If you learn how to competently prepare one new healthy meal each month that’s 12 in a year, which means by the end of the year you have almost two week’s worth of good meals you can do.

I have been following some of the recipes from Natalia Rose’s The Raw Food Detox Diet. Raw food did not get a good press in my childhood so it took me ages to regard a salad as a meal. But Natalia’s gentle approach is great and some of her recipes are fantastic. I regularly do 3 salads with 2-3 basic salad dressings and they taste wonderful. And now I’m familiar with what I need to buy I can always have the ingredients in the house and I’ll do what I have time for. I’m aiming to gradually increase my raw food “vocabulary” so that I never have to cook again!

Food shouldn’t be difficult. And it doesn’t have to be perfect. But if you decide you want to change you will have to change the way you eat. Now this change will require you to be courageous, brave and willing to be in the world differently than you are now. But I am here to tell you: change can be done, little by little, to fit in with your life and bring you to a rewarding future. Your new you is closer than you think.

And next time, I’ll be sharing with you a really BIG change that I am making – I'm both nervous and scared about it, but know that it is going to make such a difference for YOU. So I can’t wait to connect with you again and unveil my BIG SECRET! Stay tuned ... you'll want to open your next issue right away ...

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Liz Copeland is the Creator of the Food and Joy Coaching Process