Written in partnership with Camille Miller
Image Credit: Sam Cutler
Unhealthy dieting practices are embedded in modern culture. From cleanses to 30-day “miracle” weight-loss programs, most strategies focus on short-term results over long-term benefits. It’s easy to get stuck in a harmful cycle of yo-yo dieting. Through MINDFULL, a new holistic wellness app, Sam Cutler is helping thousands of women discover a healthier, better way to manage their weight and shift their focus away from the bathroom scale altogether.
MINDFULL is a platform that combines health coaching, meal planning, and community to help members learn which foods work for them. It’s not a quick-fix program — the focus is on finding ways to sustainably incorporate healthier choices.
MINDFULL’s launch comes at a good time. Research indicates that people who diet when not medically necessary risk getting stuck in an unending cycle of weight gain and loss. They start with short-term, unsustainable strategies (including unhealthy approaches like Ozempic, when not medically necessary) that help them lose weight quickly, but then they gain it back, often with added health consequences. Regaining weight leads to feelings of shame, so they pursue even more extreme or restrictive dieting methods, and the cycle continues.
Sam knows this vicious cycle personally and managed to break through after educating herself and getting to know what her body really needed. Now, she wants to help other women stuck in this cycle of yo-yo dieting to break free.
Instead of focusing on restriction, MINDFULL helps members learn what foods they should incorporate for optimal health. “We do things a little differently,” she says. “It’s what we call ‘food freedom.’ This means there are zero measurements. We don’t go into grams or calories, so it’s very different than the traditional mindset.”
“It’s not sustainable to count every single calorie,” Sam mentions, noting that it’s at this point that many people give up on diets. “But if you know how and why certain ingredients work for (and against) your body, you instead become empowered to choose healthy options that don’t come with the stress of calorie-counting or food guilt.”
Image Credit: Sam Cutler
The platform includes video-based meal plans, live coaching calls, and access to a community of other women who are changing their lives for the better. Members can also choose specialized programs — like a four-week meal plan or 21-day gut reset — if they want a more hands-on approach to kick off their lifestyle change.
So why MINDFULL? Sam developed the platform after learning firsthand how diet changes can support overall health. “I was suffering from a lot of chronic health issues like severe adult acne, chronic inflammation, and continuous feelings of lethargy,” she says.
After paying close attention to how she felt after eating certain foods, she found an answer: “Whole foods — meaning one-ingredient items, not packaged or processed foods — became the foundation for how I ate,” she says. “And once I started to do that, I saw things open up for me in a way that I had never really experienced. I had less brain fog, more clarity, more energy.” It’s this change in eating, paired with a guilt-free mindset shift, that MINDFULL focuses on.
Sam didn’t base MINDFULL solely on her own experience. She went through a Harvard Medical School program on nutrition and lifestyle medicine, became a member of the College of Lifestyle Medicine, and expanded her horizons at the National Gut Health Conference.
Through MINDFULL, Sam is doing away with food shame and empowering members to achieve their health goals without the mental and physical damage that comes with restrictive diets. She teaches members to transform their entire mindset, reprogramming their relationship with food instead of using obscure numbers on a scale as their yardstick for success. Sam encourages members to embark on a journey of discovery to find what makes them feel at their mental and physical best.
With her guidance, 95% of worldwide users are seeing noticeable health improvements after just one week, healing their relationships with food, and transforming their lives.
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