The Confident Eater group program
Feel like food is always on your mind?
You track everything you put in your mouth, but you wish you didn’t have to.
You feel a little anxious going out to eat, and you miss the days when you enjoyed a spontaneous dinner invite.
You used to love cooking and eating with others, but now you can’t enjoy a ‘normal’ meal without stressing about protein.
Your brain constantly calculates calories in your head, but you’d love to just trust your body and not think about it so much.
Sound familiar?
It IS possible to trust yourself around food... without macros or dieting.
If you want to stop thinking about food ALL the time, and finally be able to trust yourself to eat without macros, food guilt or fearing overeating… Keep reading to learn more about The Confident Eater
I was just like you- I started out tracking with the goal to eat healthier and fuel my body well while losing a bit of weight… and little by little it started to take over my life.
Yes, protein is important… AND so is trusting your hunger and fullness cues, and being able to just enjoy a meal without having to track it first.
The Confident Eater process helps you find the middle ground between listening to your body AND prioritizing healthful eating.
What’s inside The Confident Eater:
- my five ‘intentional eating’ principles that help you eat in a balanced way without using a food scale or tracking app
- a simple mindful eating framework that helps you trust your body’s hunger and fullness cues and rediscover how to enjoy food without going overboard
- mindset shifts to help you feel calm and in control around food, and stop feeling like you have to ‘get it all in now’ when tasty food is around
- strategies to help you feel at ease enjoying food with others, travelling and enjoying new food environments, and confident making choices about what and how much you eat
Want details on the next Confident Eater intake?
The Confident Eater is...
your step by step guide to nourishing your body well without obsessing, overthinking or weighing everything on a food scale.
I’ve let go of tracking macros, and weighing myself daily. These were huge steps for me in building self trust.
After dieting on and off for over 10 years, I wasn’t sure what to expect in TCE as it was counter intuitive to me to not be focused on a fat loss goal—however, I left with a different definition of what it means to be healthy and that is my new goal and focus.
The Confident Eater is for anyone who has been on the diet train for most of their lives. For those who struggle with negative self talk, especially around food. Those who restrict and/or binge. There’s another, more peaceful, way to exist.
– Carrie –
Every single aspect of my day to day life has improved since working with Gillian, and I say that without exaggeration.
My mindset towards health has completely shifted.
I missed out on so many life events I wanted to participate in because I was scared to not have total control over my food. Gillian helped me to challenge the beliefs I had, and was patient when I was fearful to try new habits. In the end, I feel much more confident being an active participant in my life.
Before working with Gillian, I would say no to things in life that I really wanted to do because I was afraid of not being able to count my macros and I would overeat anytime I wasn’t controlling what I ate.
If I knew a friend who was struggling I would want them to get the same support and help I got from working with Gillian.
– Megan –
This is what it feels like to be a
Confident Eater
- Going out to eat with friends and family feels EASY – you know you can order what you like and trust that you’ll be able to stop when you feel satisfied.
- You’re SO much more productive and focused during the day- you’ve got so much extra brain space now that you’re not thinking about food all the time!
- You still eat your veggies and protein, but you don’t force feed yourself or stress if you have a veggie free meal- you’re aware of nutrition value of food, but you don’t obsess about hitting numbers anymore.
- You’re in touch with your hunger and fullness cues- you trust your body AND know that if you eat a bit more today, it will balance out tomorrow, and you notice it’s easier to leave food on your plate!
- You don’t beat yourself up for not being perfect- your self talk is supportive and encouraging, and you’re more resilient in the face of challenges because of it.
- There’s no pressure to ‘get back on’ ANYTHING anymore- you’ve found a way of eating that supports you for life.
What does The Confident Eater process include?
Module 1: Connecting with your core values + goals
- Aligning your values with how you’d like to feel around food
- Habits, values and goals deep dive
- The ABCD framework and Choice Point framework for values-based decision making
- Journal Prompts
Module 2: Structuring Meals Without Macros
- The shift from macros to intentional eating
- Five Intentional Eating principles
- How to: portion awareness without macros
- Mastering your macro free meal structure
- Journal Prompts
Reconnecting with your Body (Mindful Eating)
- What is mindful eating + how to build your mindfulness practice
- Tools to reconnect with hunger and fullness
- Responding to cravings/urges to eat
- Implementing mindful eating in your daily life
- Journal Prompts
- Overcoming the good/bad food mentality
- Incorporating ‘fun’ foods, guilt free
- Calling out/eliminating sneaky food rules
- Tools for Unconditional Permission to Eat
- Journal prompts
Mindset and Self compassion skills
- Building a practice of speaking to yourself with kindness
- Eliminating the ‘all or nothing’ mindset around food
- Motivating yourself using compassion
- Setting your future self up for success
- Journal prompts
BONUSES:
- 30 minute 1:1 coaching call with Gillian
- Personalized non-diet nutrition guide (so you can fuel your body with ZERO weighing and measuring)
- Fat loss Without Tracking workshop
The next TCE intake opens Summer 2024.
I have a whole new level of awareness around food and my body.
My stress levels around food went down SO much – my thoughts around food now are so much more calm, mindful and overall positive. My relationship with food is so much better, and I’m more compassionate with myself. I feel like I’m more connected with my body, more aware and my self talk is WAY better.
It seemed like every week there was an ‘AHA’ moment – questions or reflections that helped me see situations with food in a different light, and helped me make sense of things afterwards.
Gillian is a coach that understands what you’re going through, she listens to you and gives you tools that are exactly what you need.
– Maria –
What's included and how much is it?
- biweekly group calls (recorded for you to rewatch at any time) – $650 value
- four guided modules designed to take you from overthinking food to a mindful eater- $1000 value
- personalized non diet nutrition guide- $250 value
- 20 + editable PDFs, video trainings, journaling prompts and self-coaching tools- $400 value
- two months of chat support + accountability – $350 value
- bonuses: tools for Mindful Eating with a social life- $95 value
- bonuses: Mindfulness in 5 minutes or less w/ licensed psychologist Daniela Hidrobo
Total value: $2,745
Your enrollment: $697 (discounts available for Early bird registration!)
I really thought I had tried everything!
Coaching with Gillian was a full 360° change in my health and mindset.
I went from feeling like I had hit a total dead end and now had to come to terms with what my age 40+ body looked like because every fad diet I had tried only worked short term and then the cycle started again. To the point I’d emptied my wardrobe of clothes I thought I might fit into again one day (I’m gutted now!!).
Little did I realise that my biggest issue was actually my engrained ‘diet’ mindset I’d developed over 30 years that was stopping me feeling and looking so much better! Gillian helped me start chipping away at this and looking at my nutrition from a whole new angle.
I had no idea that Gillian’s simple structure would literally change my life …and I look forward to wearing a bikini again on the beach this year after resigning myself to being a swimsuit wearer for the rest of my life 😉
– LISA –
How is TCE different?
- TCE teaches you the delicate balance between ‘I want to pay attention to my nutrition’ AND ‘I want to enjoy food and the experiences associated with it.’
- TCE helps you build trust with your INTERNAL body cues and thoughts around food. No more relying on a diet or food rules to keep you on track.
- TCE isn’t ‘eat this, not that’… it teaches you how to THINK about food and trust in your own decisions. You’ll learn tips for day to day healthy eating habits, and learn skills that support a great relationship with food.
- TCE will help you create accountability and learn how to SELF COACH. What happens AFTER the program is just as important as what happens during, and TCE is set up to teach you skills for life.
With Gillian I have found freedom in my own choices, I have learned about mindfulness and the importance of listening to my own bodies needs.
When I got in touch with Gillian it was because I had reached a point of “cry for help”. I was the typical, start again on Monday dieter, and was not aware of all the habits that were weighing me down.
I feel free for the first time in about 20 years. Eating is such an emotional thing for many people, but it doesn’t have to be, it can be mindful and pragmatic. Now when I have a not so easy day I don’t beat myself up about it and feel guilty, I use the great phrase “life happens”, and continue to work on developing good healthy habits.
A big challenge for me was always the number on the scale, but actually I have learnt that that is not so important. What I know now is that it’s more about how you feel in yourself, your clothes and your movements.
This has been a tough but really important learning journey for me. I finally unlearned a lifetime of worry about the ups and downs of a number that no one ever really gets to know anyway… Seems absurd now I think about it!
– margaret –
