Nourishing Choices & 4 Categories of Food (feat. Hally Brooke)

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. 

Today we are joined by Hally Brooke, the Founder & CEO of Live Nourished. Hally works with her clients to heal their relationship with food and their bodies, teach them how to use food as medicine, and live a well-rounded life. She provides some incredible tips on how to shift our focus to living a nourished life in every aspect - food, water, play, joy, prayer, etc. and then dives into her four categories of food. Hally explains how our body uses food as medicine and how elimination diets are not an end-all-be-all. She also talks about how our body reacts to food that we are eating and what information it is getting from the food we are fueling it with. Tune into this empowering episode to better understand how to live a nourished life.

IN THIS EPISODE:

●   [6:08] Hally shares her background and how she got to where she is today. 

●   [10:30] What does Hally mean when she says “Live Nourished”?

●   [12:28] How does Hally help clients learn that eating a burger can actually be more nourishing than a salad?

●   [18:25] Overview of the four categories of food.

●   [20:57] How do we think about the energy of foods?

●   [27:56] How does our food inform the body what actions to take? 

●   [35:05] How do we use food as medicine? 

●   [41:55] How do we manage the relationship with food and connection?

●   [53:11] New Year's Resolutions are typically given up by Mid-February. What tips would Hally give to people ready to throw their goals away?  

●   [53:45] What is the right way to approach goals?

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

●   When you are making food decisions, use insourcing! The apps and diets out there are not the rules; listening to your body is the only rule and guideline that you need to follow. Sometimes we need to use food as medicine, but it is not a long-term plan; elimination should be used as healing. 

●   Our brains are hardwired to avoid failure. It's safer for our brain to have us quit than to see the potential of failure.  

●   Take a step back and get curious about your habits. Are you eating ice cream every night because you want it, and it's a nourishing behavior with your family and brings joy? Or are you eating it because it’s just something you do? The goal is to make a nourishing choice 100% of the time.  

●   If your goals and values are not in alignment, the goal will not become a reality. Understanding why your goals and values are important to you is when the magic happens and what keeps you going.

QUOTES: 

“To live nourished is to treat me like I love me, to eat vegetables, to drink water, to move, to play, to pray, to rest, to refresh, to enjoy, to have fun, to laugh, basically living nourished is a holistic, whole person, encompassing well being. It's mental, emotional, and physical. It's nutrition, exercise, relationship health, health, and the way we think about ourselves, and it's the idea that sometimes actually eating a burger and fries is a more nourishing meal than eating a salad. Sometimes taking a nap is a more nourishing choice than going for a run or doing a workout.” - Hally Brooke

“Living Nourished is this beautiful way to honor our bodies as these incredible, miraculous things that they are and say we’re actually really complex. Doing a diet is not living nourished; eating good whole foods is living nourished, honoring my friends’ birthday party, and having a piece of cake at that birthday party is actually living nourished.” - Hally Brooke  

“Food is the fastest way to heal ourselves or the slowest way to kill ourselves.” - Hally Brooke

“We can shift our perspective from my fat is bad, and I hate it, and I hate my body, to actually, I’m really grateful for my fat because my fat is storing energy for when I need it most. And I can let my body know that I’m safe and that I don't need that extra energy right now because I’m going to give it the energy that it needs when it needs it. And so we can thank that fat, and we can release it from its job, and we can let it go.” - Hally Brooke 

“This is where the culture of wellness is doing everybody such a disservice because we’re taught that this is the antithesis of health, that food as connection…is such a problem.” - Jenn Trepeck

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GUEST RESOURCES: 

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GUEST BIO:

Hally Brooke is the Founder & CEO of Live Nourished; she is a Certified Functional Medicine Nutrition Counselor, Nationally Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Fox 21 Fitness & Nutrition Expert, and fierce industry advocate.

What started as pure personal training has morphed over the years into a full functional medicine wellness and nutrition practice. Hally has built a thriving Functional Medicine Coaching practice that works with clients in ALL the key areas of wellness, including movement, nutrition, mindset, resilience, relationships, and self-care.

Her life mission is to encourage, empower and free both men and women by teaching healing. Whether as clients, through speaking events, or personally with the people she encounters, she lives this mission day in and day out.