Hi friend!
I’m Kate,
The Weightless Nutritionist
I am a certified Holistic & Culinary Nutritionist, and a women's blood sugar balance & body image coach. I spent almost my entire life letting my weight control everything I did, from what I ate to what I wore to where I went, and the list goes on. For years I was caught up in that all-too-familiar vicious cycle of diet > lose weight > can’t stick to diet > gain weight back and more > repeat. I felt guilty whenever I ate something that wasn’t super good for me, felt shame when I didn’t exercise, more shame when the exercise didn’t work, and like the biggest failure because the number on the scale just would not go down. I couldn’t figure out why, no matter what I tried (and I tried EVERYTHING), I just couldn’t get and stay thin.
The first life-changing moment that truly began my journey to better balance was a medical diagnosis of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Women with PCOS are more prone to blood sugar balance issues like insulin resistance, which causes weight gain, often rapid. Women with PCOS are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression. PCOS at its core is a hormone imbalance. This diagnosis, after seeing doctor after doctor and just being told that losing weight will solve all of my issues (with zero guidance as to how to do that, I might add), helped me feel validated. I felt seen. I wasn’t batshit crazy. I wasn’t a weight loss failure. The root cause of my health issues was a medical condition. It was like being a detective and finally having a lead! I now had something to research, to learn about, to find a solution for, that wasn’t a band-aid solution. I discovered that through diet and lifestyle changes, I could manage my PCOS naturally.
This journey to better health led me to the Institute of Holistic Nutrition, where I earned my designation as a Certified Nutritional Practitioner (CNP). I am also a Natural Nutritional Counselling Practitioner (NNCP) through the Canadian Association of Natural Nutritional Practitioners. I am a holistic & culinary nutritionist that believes in body function over everything and using diet and lifestyle to bring the body into better balance.
But my health journey had only just begun. I was still a slave to the scale, and everything, despite my extensive knowledge and expertise in female health, still revolved around my weight. Even in the professional nutrition and fitness world, weight loss was still the goal, the drive, the motivation, the end game. In both my personal and professional lives, my constant struggle with weight was a point of absolute and complete shame for me. Thinking that thinness = happiness was, ironically, the biggest limiting belief preventing me from being happy with and in my own body. And then one day, I just let it go; I was simply too exhausted, too sad, and too discouraged to hold on to that “should be” weight any longer. I was sick of the scale perpetuating this negative self-image when I knew I was so much more than what I weighed.
The day I decided that I was done with the scale dictating my life, everything changed.
Honestly. Slowly my negative self-talk started to turn into compassion. My food choices became about feeling good versus shrinking my waistline…I ate with confidence and my diet anxiety dissipated. I was free. If I can be real here, eliminating the scale was the single most freeing action I have taken in my entire life. And as I sit and write this, I am the healthiest I have ever been. The strongest I have ever been. The most confident and in love with my body and myself I have ever been. And guess what? I haven't weighed myself in over two years, and I am not the skinniest I have ever been. I have implemented strategies to build meaningful habits and lasting change, so that I can and will continue these practises for life, and without struggle. I am in balance, and I feel really, really good.
And I can get you here too.
Xo Kate
