Carly Pollack - Feed Your Soul: Nutritional Wisdom to Lose Weight Permanently and Live Fulfilled

Praise for Feed Your Soul

Finally, a book that takes you past the diets and to-dos, to the heart of the matter of whats going on inside when it come to loving and nourishing your body and feeling good in it. Witty, real, and wise, its food for the soul that will show you how to approach what you eat and how you eat with self-love, pleasure, and loving truth.

Christine Arylo, MBA, womens leadership adviser and bestselling author of Choosing ME before WE

Using the ancient wisdom of food as medicine, Carly Pollack is on a mission to end the diet dogma once and for all and help us find just the right medicine for our own bodies. I love her lighthearted style as she applies the spiritual principles of awareness, balance, presence, nonjudgment, vibration, and embodiment to having a body you love and a body that loves you. Im inspired!

Gail Larsen, teacher and author of Transformational Speaking: If You Want to Change the World, Tell a Better Story

Feed Your Soul is clearly the gift of a wise woman who has penetrated the illusions that lead millions to an endless, frustrating relationship with diets. Carly embraces and embodies the first principle of the great alchemists: As above, so below. She invites you into a loving relationship with yourself so food becomes a blessing; when you live your love, your food becomes alive in you as an embodiment of your love, and love is the ultimate harmony. With Carlys guidance and support, you will learn not only to eat for your unique, individual needs but also to love, honor, and respect yourself; and anyone who finds their center becomes a blessing to the world.

Paul Chek, HHP, founder of CHEK Institute

I love Carly Pollacks new book, Feed Your Soul. It is a real, humbling guide to help you unearth the truth about your relationship with food and with your body, as well as the most important relationship you will ever have the one with yourself.

Rebecca Campbell, author of Light Is the New Black

Carly Pollacks book is a true transformational resource for anyone desiring to improve their health and lose weight for the last time. Carly takes us to the root of our eating woes: the uncontrolled voices in our heads. The tools in this book will set you on a path to food freedom, disease prevention, and a higher quality of life.

Alex Carrasco, MD, founder of Nourish Medicine and author of Bloom

This hilarious book will guide you to achieve success in the most important aspects of your life. A game changer for anyone stuck in old patterns who desperately wants more for themselves.

Lauren Fitzgerald, MD, host of FITz & Healthy podcast

Copyright 2019 by Carly Pollack

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

The material in this book is intended for education. It is not meant to take the place of diagnosis and treatment by a qualified medical practitioner or therapist. No expressed or implied guarantee of the effects of the use of the recommendations can be given or liability taken.

Text design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Pollack, Carly, date author.

Title: Feed your soul : nutritional wisdom to lose weight permanently and live fulfilled / Carly Pollack.

Description: Novato, California : New World Library, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018047539 (print) | LCCN 2018047905 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608685790 (e-book) | ISBN 9781608685783 (print)

Subjects: LCSH: Weight loss--Popular works. | Weight loss--Psychological aspects-- Popular works. | Health behavior. | Nutrition. | Self-care, Health--Popular works.

Classification: LCC RM222.2 (ebook) | LCC RM222.2 .P596 2019 (print) | DDC 613.2/5--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047539

First printing, February 2019

ISBN 978-1-60868-578-3

Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-579-0

Printed in the USA on 30% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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I dedicate this book to women everywhere who are working as hard as they can to accept themselves, while pushing toward something greater.

CONTENTS

M ental stream #1,235,796: I am so sick of dieting. There has got to be a more productive way to use my mental energy. I should be curing cancer, fighting for womens rights, or helping starving children in Africa. I bet if I went to Africa I would totally lose weight. Hillary Clinton has a spare tire, but does she obsess over it? No! Shes thinking about way more important things than whether or not this mornings treadmill purgatory canceled out last nights pizza binge from hell. I bet Maya Angelou never ate a muffin and then shit-talked herself. Is there ever going to be a time when I dont have to think about this? Stop the insanity, Carly!

Shit. I pressed snooze one too many times, and now Im late. The thought of getting out of my warm bed and facing the day ties my stomach into a knot, but my mind is already racing so I figure I might as well get moving. I walk into the bathroom and head right for the scale. I hold my breath, knowing its not going to be kind after last nights debacle with an entire box of Newmans Own chocolate mint cookies. Here we go. I step onto the scale with one eye squeezed shut, only 50 percent committing to looking at the dreaded number. Yep, there it is. That stupid package of healthy cookies has magically already worked its way onto my thighs, and the scale is confirming that Im a worthless piece of turd with no self-control.

Now that I know my wish of waking up looking like Jessica Alba has once again not come true, I head into the closet for my second shaming of the day, my jeans. I know at this scale weight that the only pair I can choose are my black, elastic, and oh-so-forgiving jeans. My eyes dart over to that evil pair of gray skinny jeans that I bought that one day when I was feeling particularly svelte. I make sure to feel that sting of regret from last nights snack as I grab my black jeans and give up hope that today will be the day that getting dressed is actually enjoyable.

Robotically putting on my makeup, I am anything but present as the voice in my head is going a million miles an hour. Im planning out my gym schedule for the week, promising my body redemption by Friday. Its Monday, which means Im back on my diet of protein and vegetables. Carbs are the enemy during the week, but on the weekend I am my own worst enemy. As mental food prison and work anxiety kick into high gear, Im counting the hours until I can come home, take off my bra, and watch TV with my cat.