23. Being Present at Meal Time with Leslie Urbas

In This EpisodeLeslie Urbas gives a different perspective on diets and food. The way we look at what we eat can control us and not just affect, but can become a part of every relationship we have, especially your relationship with your kids. Your children pick up eating habits and patterns, so listen to this episode to find out how you can be more present at meal time. Highlights01:01 Leslie Urbas is a dietician and personal trainer, who goes beyond the regular training and weight loss, and helps with mindfulness eating so you can live life to the fullest.02:50 Rebbetzin Bat-Chen shares that her kids get their eating patterns and behaviors from their parents, and this is true for most, if not all, parents.06:36 When parents label their food as "special," such as candy and cake, it puts those food on a pedestal and this can impart some sort of disordered eating or poor habits on them without us knowing.10:56 Byron Katie's The Work allowed Rebbetzin Bat-Chen to face her relationship with food, where she realized that food is just food and that she was complicating it.13:49 Kids can also see through how parents feel when they don't want to eat a certain food, but Rebbetzin Bat-Chen turns this around and uses it as a way to teach her kids to be their true self.15:38 Being present is when your relationship with food becomes part of the relationships you have. Leslie shares when this can also be detrimental as well.16:41 The work that Leslie does is to help her clients focus on the goal they have and connect it to their relationship with food, family, and everyday life in a healthy way.18:00 A diet works when the fun is not removed from your life.19:01 Rebbetzin Bat-Chen and Leslie love to help people who want to be happy, if not happier, not just in your marriage, business, or diet.22:05 You can contact Leslie on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn, or on her website. She also runs a Facebook Group called Weight Loss and Well-being for High Performers. LinksLeslie Urbas: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Facebook Group | LinkedIn | YouTube5 Surprising Ways to Improve Your MarriageMarriage Breakthrough RetreatByron Katie Episodes Mentioned Connected for Real: Episode 14. Raising a Leader with Naomi Gez Let’s Connect!Connected for Real is on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedInFor more information about Connected for Real, visit the website! Subscribe to the PodcastSpotify | Google Podcasts | Apple Podcasts REBBETZIN BAT-CHEN GROSSMANWelcome to the Connected For Real Podcast! I’m Rebbetzin Bat-Chen Grossman, a marriage coach for women in business, and my mission is to bring God’s presence into your life, into your marriage, and into your business. Let’s get started. The following is one of the many conversations I had with experts and professionals about real life and how it affects marriage. Let me know your takeaways on Instagram or Facebook, @connectedforreal. Enjoy. And we are live. Welcome to Connected for Real Podcast. We are here with Leslie. I am Rebbetzin Bat-Chen Grossman, and I am a marriage coach for women in business. Today we are talking about being present at meal time with Leslie and she's going to introduce herself, and then you'll figure out why this is so important and so awesome to talk about, so go ahead, Leslie. LESLIE URBASAwesome. Thanks. Yeah, so I'm Leslie Urbas. I'm a dietitian and a personal trainer, and I focus on, really as I like to say, allowing people to enjoy the margaritas and the abs, which really just means allowing yourself to enjoy what you're eating and still enjoy your body and love what it is that you have. I really focus on that person and making that commitment, and helping them reach that new level of removing the weights, removing the emotional eating issues, the disease-inducing patterns, and really, just live life to its fullest, so that way we're not always trapped by some diet. REBBETZIN BAT-CHEN GROSSMANThat's amazing. I never liked diets because I,