Ok, it has been a minute since I shared a recipe or meal that I loved but I had an ah-ha moment this evening - part of what I do as an Empowerment Coach for women is help you learn to enjoy food again without diet drama - so why not start to share recipes from time to time.

Clearly, if you have ever been to my blog, you know a huge part of my life USED to be coming up with simple recipes. (If you want to jump to recipe, scroll down.)

I loved to cook and bake but somewhere along the way, I lost that. I stopped enjoying it because it just became something I tied to my weight. If the food I ate wasn’t making the scale go down fast enough, I would suddenly become tired of said food or think I needed to restrict more. It was an unhealthy thought process and you can see how the cycle worked. It’s almost the same way when people tie their workouts to their weight and stop when the scale doesn’t do what they want. The same can happen with cooking or baking.

OR you just get tired of trying to figure out container counts, macros and other BS ways to restrict your food intake unless it was laid out for you so you would go for the same recipes OVER and OVER, eventually getting sick of them.

The hardest steps for rebuilding a relationship with food can be…

• knowing you don’t have to measure, count calories or macros in order to know when to stop.

• not restricting the amount of toppings you eat with a meal because someone told you to limit your healthy fat (i.e. “blue container”) intake.

• finding recipes you want to cook & eat because so many years of dieting can steal the joy of both from you.

You can rebuild your relationship with yourself, relearn to trust your own intuition. Get to know your body without someone else’s rules telling you what to do / not do.

When you do the work to ditch diet drama and do what sounds good & feels right for you when it comes to food there will still be days that are harder than others to turn down the noise on what diet culture has ingrained in your brain but you will have the tools in your back pocket to turn UP the volume on YOU because when it comes down to your bod, you really do know what’s best.

RECIPE:

What You Need:
-Marinated Steak - here is the recipe I used, it was fab. I only marinated it for an hour due to time.
-Fajita Veggie Mix - I buy precut at the store.
-Poblano Pepper - wanted a little extra heat.
-Trader Joe’s Spanish Rice

Toppings (Optional)
Guac
Sour Cream
Salsa
Cheese
Tortilla Chips (I love a good crunch)

Obvi I am not here to give you counts or measurements on how much to eat - you do you, dear.

Side Note: These new Caraway pans are amazing. We got them on Black Friday and they were a steal. Easy to cook in and even easier to clean…although you will have to ask Aaron about the cleaning part, I cook and thankfully he helps clean up.