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05/10/2026

If you don’t seem to find time to take care of your health, the energy to go to the gym or the self-control to stick with the right number of points (whatever those points may be)… maybe it’s not you, who is supposedly disorganized or lacks willpower.

How come you aren’t disorganized in other things? How come EVERYONE seems to lack will power when it comes to fitness and health?

Maybe it’s time to consider that the going approaches are so ineffective that we just cannot get excited about them – and find a new one?

05/06/2026

Food for thought: our culture is big on diet, exercise and counting calories. Why isn’t anyone looking at how our bodies REACT to this advice?

Everyone responds differently – why is it, that the same blanket, one-size-fits-all advice still dominates?

Why isn’t anyone looking at our individual differences, when it comes to our health, metabolism, environment and health in general?

04/29/2026

Everyone’s quick to say: “no self-control.” But DON’T READ THIS POST until you weigh in with YOUR opinion.

Do you think it’s simply a matter of choices?

Or CAN she control this?

And if not – why not?

You have probably heard that somatics is one of the few approaches (if not the only one) that has success stories of people “curing” their cravings for good. Is this a sales pitch for it?

🗝️💥THE ANSWER MAY SURPRISE YOU!

Our society THRIVES – literally gets off – on DOS AND DON’TS. There are historic reasons for this, but let’s not get into those here and cut straight to the issue:

Contrary to the deprivation philosophy (likely inherited from slavery and the dark ages of Catholic Holy Inquisition) pleasure is not some selfish indulgence to feel guilty about.

👉Physical pleasure is part of how your metabolism works.
In most cultures that have not been conditioned by the Western civilization, eating is a ritual that is to be performed with joy and thanksgiving.

And here is the science to this tradition that developed through centuries and have been passed down to our ancestors through experience:

When you eat with genuine enjoyment, this triggers hormones responsible for telling our brain when we are full. Eliminate the pleasure… and you will always be glancing at the refrigerator as you go by—there will be no shut off switch.

My somewhat corny parallel to help you grasp this concept is se… uhhh… is an intimacy act. What would happen if you felt guilty about it every time, and would make sure you don’t do it the way you enjoy – God forbid, climax? As you’re walking around constantly unsatisfied, you’ll be thinking about it all the time, won’t you? The same thing happens here with food and the pleasure we derive from it.

The signal that a bland meal sends to our body is this: the stomach is full, but THE NEED remains. This is why as soon as pressure in the stomach loosens, we are ready to eat again. Normally, the feeling of satiety can last up to 18 hours (the entire concept of intermitting fasting is based on this).

Also, as we fight ourselves to not eat a food that we crave, stress hormones cortisol and insulin spike from deprivation panic. And --as most of us know --cortisol build belly fat and insulin is what takes sugar that we ingest and packs it into our bodies

SOLUTION:

❌NOT more will power. Resisting nature is like holding in a fart: you may succeed SOMETIMES, and for SOME time, but eventually nature will take its course. And this is exactly what’s happening to Ashley

❌NOT some complex somatic therapy for cravings. As much as I’d love to sell you something like this, the solution can actually be a lot simpler:

✅Permission to enjoy your food. Strategic, present-moment pleasure—built into the meal itself.

GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO ENJOY YOUR FOOD: you can – and SHOULD! – control the amounts, the macro ratios (how you combine your foods and in what amounts)—as well as the “cleanliness” of this food (as in, finding versions that have the least amounts of additives possible). But listen to your body when it comes to creating your meal. Because your metabolism doesn't just process *what* you eat. It processes *how you felt eating it*.

04/26/2026

❌STOP! Don’t read this post until you think of your own answer – or you’ll take all the fun out of this game! 😅😅

But anyway…
If you know me at all, you’ll know me as one of the biggest health nuts in the area: ALL organic and a staunch believer in the power of clean eating.

So it may surprise you that the correct answer is actually… most likely C: her “healthy” choices are backfiring.

Of course, a person can eat too much of anything, including clean foods. But we’re assuming that nothing much has changed with Sarah, except that she started to eat clean – like, she’s not all of a sudden starting to eat twice as much, for no reason.

And if so, the clue that jumps out at me here is this: TEFLON.
The idea sounds fabulous: cut down on those seed oils and butter fat, because the pan is already non-stick. How clean!

But here’s the part nobody talks about 👇
That “non-stick magic” doesn’t just stay on the pan.
When heated, Teflon releases compounds (the PFAS family) that behave like little hormonal troublemakers once they’re in your body. Their molecules are very similar to the structure of our hormones, and our bodies can get easily confused, because hormones is the only thing our body knows how to deal with.

Our body doesn’t go:
“oh nice, modern cookware.”

It goes:
“what is this… and why does it look like a hormone signal?”
So now instead of just processing food, your system is busy dealing with:
– disrupted fat-burning signals
– confused metabolism
– storage mode instead of burn mode
Same food.
Same portions.
Different instructions being sent to the body.

And that’s the part that messes with people. Statistically, people who cook with TEFLON have stubborn belly fat that doesn’t yield to diet or exercise. Or, clean eating, for that matter. They also are at a lot higher risk for developing cancer.

In the meantime, non-stick industry is raking in billions in profit – and spending a good chunk of it on SALES AND MARKETING. (Food for thought)

You make the call.

04/22/2026

Here is a fitness tip – with a little bit of conspiracy theory behind it 😅
Here is a little known but truly useful insight: raw green cabbage has enzymes that bind with fat.

👉What this means is that when you eat raw cabbage in the same meal with other food, some of the fat will “stick” to the cabbage and will be eliminated: it will pass through into the toilet and will not be absorbed into your body.👈
Another interesting fact is that when cabbage got eliminated from our salads in favor of iceberg lettuce, the weight problem in America became worse. Coincidence?

Before the advent of Iceberg Lettuce salads were made primarily from cabbage. The change came about 100 years ago – introduced by W. Atlee Burpee company as a crisp, white-hearted gem that was shipped and presented on ice. The idea was being aggressively marketed as a great alternative that had a lot fewer calories.
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…Parenthetically, it also had a lot fewer enzymes and other nutrients, as we already know.

In fact, it blows my mind, once you think about it: salad is already a diet food. Who would count calories IN A SALAD?

💥💥But watching over our health and proper nutrition was the last thing on the food company’s list: iceberg lettuce is about 10x cheaper (😱😱) to grow, due to its higher crop yields. And this is EXACTLY why it was such a “wonderful alternative” (😈).

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As a few generations passed, we don’t even think about it anymore, and iceberg lettuce = salad in most people minds. But what was designed by nature to be a power catalyst to the meal: speeding up our metabolism, eliminating extra fats, providing digestive enzymes has turned simply into crispy water… And that not to mention the UNCANNY ability of lettuce to absorb and deliver to our body every toxin it can find in the soil, but that’s another story.

MORAL: Use cabbage. It will bind fat in your body before it even hits your bloodstream.

04/14/2026

⬇️⬇️📩A MINI COURSE on understanding your body⬇️⬇️📩

The more toxins we put in, the more fat cells our body will produce in order to house them. The mechanism is no different from storing calories.

We all know about counting calories.
But how many people, besides me, count toxins?

04/11/2026

Just wanted to share this: fitness and weight are not just about calories. We are not robots made from flesh and blood, we are complex beings, and our emotions matter. This is the living proof that somatic approach is where it’s at!

But it’s not just about emotional eating – listening to your body goes a long way. On the emotional level, yes – but also on the physical. If you work with your metabolism (the way your body processes food) instead of against it (= trying to whip your body into submission), literal miracles can happen.

I’m getting ready to launch a program where I’ll use a somatic method to help everyone get GUARANTEED results. Yes, guaranteed. RESULTS. With specific numbers.

👉Wondering how many people would be interested, and how many will be skeptical.

Drop me a comment!

03/31/2026