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Walking Club: Week Four

Walking Club: Week Four

The right and wrong way to view food. Learn how to use it as power to charge your body battery.

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Alexa Schirm
Jun 22, 2025
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I created The Walking Club to remind you that health is more than just the food you eat. It’s about showing you the transformative power of movement and how it can ignite a cascade of positive change.

Think of health as a domino effect. When one domino tips, it sets off a chain reaction—a ripple of healthy behaviors that requires less effort than tackling each individually. This is the power of momentum. Movement is often the first domino, sparking a series of changes that can even reshape how you approach eating.

However, I also recognize that we don’t always pay attention to the power of this domino effect. Instead, we attempt to take things into our own hands, manipulating specific dominos (like our diets), believing that’s the key to progress.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t work on your diet, but your approach changes the outcomes you experience. Too often, we spend energy manipulating our diet without realizing that neglecting foundational health practices disrupts the whole chain reaction.

Think of your energy like a body battery. If it’s drained, no amount of dietary adjustments will stick.

This happens partly because we confuse food consumption with dieting.

  • Food consumption is simply fueling your body with nutrients.

  • Dieting focuses on specific types and quantities of food.

Neither is wrong, but one is foundational (food consumption) and the other (dieting), is a layer built upon that foundation. Without meeting your foundational needs, no diet will work sustainably.

Today’s Lesson: Food as a Foundation

In today’s lesson, we’ll explore the role of food as a foundational tool to support your body, completely separate from dieting. We’ll also begin to reframe emotional eating, a touchy but important subject we’ll unpack further over the next two weeks.

If you have time, revisit my mini-series: You are Not What You Eat. It’s a great primer for shifting your mindset around food.

  • Part One: Food is Not The Problem

  • Part Two: Your Food History

  • Part Three: Food As a Gift (Are you treating it as one?)

  • Action: Fall Out of Love With Food

Let’s dive in.

Watch lesson number four below:

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