We’re still beaming from the afterglow of Wanderlust.
We returned home yesterday, after spending two days in
one-on-one nutrition consultations with the attendees at the California
festival who were there to practice yoga, enjoy great music and revel in the
incredible beauty and serenity of the California mountains rising around Lake
Tahoe.
It was the last of the three Wanderlust festivals we
attended on behalf of LUNA, working with the incredible LUNA team
to promote the power of positive snacking, helping to keep women (and a few
men!) on their power curve.
When we first launched NourishRDs—almost
exactly one year ago!—we made a conscious decision to be thoughtful and
intentional about the companies and products with which we align
ourselves. LUNA was the
first company we called.
LUNA bars are all made from organic and wholesome real
ingredients—we can pronounce every single item on the ingredient list and
understand where it comes from. The
company does not promote the LUNA bars—designed specifically for women—as meal
replacement bars, but as a healthy snack and convenient treat to help keep your
energy up and your mind focused as you’re running throughout your day. It’s not a diet bar.
Plus, the LUNA team is made up of fun and inspiring
women. We like them a
lot. What’s not to like?
At the Wanderlust festivals, we met with attendees
one-on-one for 20 minute nutrition consultations. We got lots of questions about gluten-free
diets and how to
transition to or maintain a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. But most of all, we got questions
about sugar cravings and how to avoid the mid-afternoon crash that often leaves
us cranky and with a glazed look in our eyes, headed for the coffee or snack
machine.
This is what
we told them: Nourishing
your body throughout the day is important. Skipping meals always backfires. You think you’re “saving up” for a
great dinner, and then you overeat—usually because you’re famished. Eating small, regularly-spaced meals
and snacks throughout the day helps to maintain your power curve, prevents
brain fog, or worse—irritability and grumpiness—and gives you plenty of energy
to keep up with your kids on the playground, complete your work project in
record time, or master that yoga pose you've been practicing.
Click here for our advice on healthy, balanced
snacking.
Because women are so hard on themselves, and always
trying to live up to an unrealistic expectation of perfection, we also got a
lot of questions about guilt and shame around eating, food and snacking. Here’s our advice.
It’s time for
us to…
- put
aside unrealistic expectations of beauty.
- stop
dwelling on the number on the scale or the size of our clothes and start
embracing our own unique bodies and individuality.
- choose
to engage in activities we enjoy because it helps us feel good—not because we think we have to
log a certain number of minutes on the treadmill or trail.
- fuel
our bodies with good quality nutrition—that fulfills our cravings—so we can live
our fullest and best lives.
- treat
ourselves with the love and respect we deserve.
That powerful message resonated with the women—and the
men!—we met with in our sessions. We
helped them to come up with a daily affirmation for themselves, a mantra to
help them look at themselves in the mirror each morning and before bedtime to
say, “I am beautiful and strong, just the way I am.”
A few of our new friends agreed to share their daily
affirmations with others. Like,
"I will stay on the course that makes me happy."
Or this one.
Or this one.
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Or this one.
At the end of the day, after speaking with dozens of inspiring women (and a few men!), we went back to the LUNA house and practiced
what we preached--creating balance in our life by enjoying good food
and lots of laughter with our new friends.
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| combining our love of all great things -- pizza, yoga & each other! |
We would like to thank the team members at ALL of the
Wanderlust events for making us feel like a part of the LUNA family. You
are each inspiring.
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