Weight Loss Made Real Podcast
Episode 290: Do You Hate How You Look In Photos?
What’s the first thought that pops into your head when you see a picture of yourself? Maybe you were in a group photo at a family event. Or you and your friend took a selfie together, which your friend later posted on Facebook or Instagram. How do you typically react to seeing photos like these? If you’re anything like the women I coach, I think I can guess the answer. So, join me in this coaching session and let’s talk about it today. We live in a world full of smartphones, and most of us always have our phone—and its […]
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Episode 289: Q&A: Where to Start? I Slipped! Do I Need to be Strict?
Hello my friend. Today I am going to answer three listener questions that were written in to me. Feel free to write me your questions and maybe they will be selected for another podcast. Our first question is: I’m overwhelmed! There are so many things I need to work on to change how I eat, and my weight, and I don’t know where or how to begin. • Is this your question? • Do you tend to lump all parts of your overeating struggle together and feel like it’s all just too much? • If this is you, we’ve got […]
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Episode 288: How to Eat Out and Not Gain Weight
Some of us do well with our eating when we eat at home, where we have more control over our choices. At home you might have more limited choices and you think that’s what you need to eat well. But at some point it’s likely that you will go to a restaurant. Does that mean weight loss and eating out are a bad match? Definitely not! Join me today to learn how to eat in restaurants and not gain weight. If you’re like my Freedom Group Members, you might be confused about eating out. Is it better to eat at […]
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Episode 287: Is Your Weight Loss Stuck At A Plateau?
I’m wondering if you’ve been at a plateau with your weight? is your weight stuck at a place that you don’t consider your end goal? Are you paused and wanting to get moving again? Well, get ready for our coaching session today on how to deal with a weight loss plateau. Let’s start our discussion with asking: What is a plateau? – It happens when you are trying to do something new, like stopping overeating. You’ve made progress up to this point. And then suddenly, you stop making progress, and there is no more forward movement. In case of weight […]
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Episode 286: How To Find And Focus On Wins Every Day
So today we are continuing our discussion from Episode 285, of why we tend to focus on the negative, why we should focus on the positive, and how to do it. Because this is something we all need to hear. When you aren’t at your goal yet, and I ask what you might be thinking about how you are doing, you might say: • I’m not doing anything right! This is not true. • It’s just a perspective that your brain leans toward, like taking the same streets to work every day, you go that way automatically. • You might […]
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Episode 285: Stop Focusing On What’s Wrong, And Start Focusing On What’s Right
Do you do this? Someone gives you a complement and you deflect, saying: yes I did do that well, but look at this other thing I did. You shrug off the good things you do and focus all the time on what you didn’t do or what you didn’t do well You make light of the good things and you shine a bright light on things that are not going well. You constantly think about what isn’t going well. What you did wrong. Any misstep you made. You pretty much ignore anything you did that was right, went well or […]
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Episode 284: Are You Bored with Thinking About Food?
You might be taking breaks from your Project You because you’re telling yourself you’re tired of thinking about the whole subject. Or you are bored with the subject of weight and food and eating. Some signs of boredom you might be experiencing: believing that thinking about food will lead you to overeat, tired of planning what you will eat, tired of thinking about the fact that you need to eat several times during the day, tired of the whole subject, thinking you’ve been working on this long enough and if you don’t have the results you want, and you want […]
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Episode 283: Want Weight Loss? Stop Avoiding Failure!
When you’re trying to stop overeating, do you hold on tight and think you should avoid failing at any cost? If this is what you’ve tried in the past, you probably know by now that it doesn’t work, and it’s certainly not sustainable. Yet most of us think our goal in life is to do anything to avoid failing. When we learn anything that’s new to us and our brains, we need to know that failing is a part of learning. The big mistake you make when you fail is not the mistake itself. It is your assumption that failing […]
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Episode 282: Why Worry Leads to Overeating
Today I’m going to help you understand why you worry so much, why worry leads you to overeat, and how to fix this habit. Come and join me in this coaching session. Are you a worrier? You’ll know if you are! Worry is a negative emotion, and it doesn’t just come upon you. It comes from a negative thought that you have created in your own mind. The way that you’d experience worry would be thinking about something in the future in a way that creates apprehension or anxiety for you. It might feel like not knowing the future and […]
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Episode 281: Where Does Nutritional Advice Fit In With Becoming A Natural Eater?
Be honest. With so many different diets out there and so many plans to choose from, don’t you sometimes wish someone would just give you exact advice about what to eat? I wouldn’t blame you if you thought that would solve your overeating habits. But if you’ve listened to me for a while, you know that first we need to relearn when we are hungry and when our bodies have had enough. Then, we figure out what to eat. As much as we would like it, there is no nutritional prescription that will change your eating habits. The way you […]
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