We are doing a challenge in July, so if you love a good five-day challenge, maybe you’ve done one before, or maybe you haven’t, but you will want to do this one. I love our challenges. You can go to bflycoaching.com/Julyfun and register. The last day to register is July 25th. It’s also the first day of the challenge. And we are going to have a blast.

I have a t-shirt that was given to me by one of my teachers, Brooke Castillo, and it says “Impossible is Temporary,” and I wear it on my walks a lot.

Now this word impossible, the official definition is “not able to occur, exist, or be done;” or very difficult to deal with.

I used to believe that loving my body and losing weight and maintaining weight loss was impossible. I just thought weight loss would always be my struggle. Have you ever felt like this?

Impossible is just a word made up of letters. It does not mean anything until we assign a meaning to it. I know. I really want you to think...

Do you find yourself going off the rails at night and overeating?

This is probably just emotional hunger or habit hunger. We have been so disconnected from our body for so long, we don’t even know what hunger feels like in our body.  We have built this wall of weight around ourselves. We think we are hungry, and we don’t realize we are full until we are full and overstuffed – like Thanksgiving stuffed.

Physical is the important hunger. It is when we are truly hungry, when our hormones tell us we are hungry. Ask yourself if a chicken breast would do, and if you can say yes, then you are physically hungry.  If the answer is no, I want the chocolate chip cookie, then it is probably emotional hunger.

Emotional hunger is when we are pushing our feelings down with food. We tie events to food. Nighttime, weekends, celebrations.  If I get upset with my husband, Paul, and I find myself in the pantry, that is just emotional hunger.

You can feel your feelings...

How many times have you started a diet saying to yourself you were going to do everything perfectly?

Perfect is just a lie we tell ourselves. It just keeps us stuck on the diet roller coaster.

We are doing a book club this month in Transform – Finish by Jon Acuff. He has a quote: “The day after perfect is the most important day” – Learning to fail. Failure has led to my success.  Life is not perfect.

You can have freedom in food. How to have allowance.  Restriction keeps us stuck on the diet roller coaster. All restriction does is lead to overeating.

By cutting your goals in half or extending your time you will have success.  Set minimum baselines for yourself so you can see your success – Goals are a marathon, not a sprint.

Leave your Hiding Places – Hiding places keep us doing things away from our goals. I call our hiding places buffering. Difficult work, hard work – it doesn’t happen by accident.

Join me in...

Have you thought that weight loss is hard?

I used to avoid hard things, I wanted to be comfortable.

This actually kept me stuck on the diet roller coaster. I recently was on a walk, and it was 100 degrees, it was hot. Every thought was about not going, quitting, and my brain gave me all the reasons why I should just quit, go home, not even start.

But I allowed those thoughts without making them mean anything – they were just sentences in my brain. Learning that hard is just a word – and that I get to decide how I want to think about it.

The hard is what has made me who I am, it is what has helped me lose weight, start a company, and help hundreds of women.

You do hard – you do lots of hard things. Weight loss is easy and hard. Learning how to embrace the hard is everything – it will help you lose weight for the last time.

 In today’s episode, you will discover:

• What is hard about losing weight.
• Why you choose comfort and how it keeps you stuck on...

How many times have you thought, if I could just eat “clean,” I could lose my weight?

I used to have these perfectionistic fantasies about eating clean, just meat and veggies. I would dream about how I would feel.

I went to a nutritionist once and did it.

But when life happened, when I ate pizza, I slowly went back to a full binge – eating all the things I could not eat on the “clean” diet.

Learning how to lose weight by enjoying your favorite foods is the only way I found to lose weight for the last time.

Learning how to pay attention and really enjoy your favorite non-fuel food and enjoying your fuel foods too.

Join me on today’s episode where we dive into how to enjoy food and still lose weight. No all or nothing here.

Transformational questions:

1. What are foods that you enjoy that you want to include in your plan?
2. Why is it important to you to lose weight in a way that you can always do?

You Will Discover:

• Why dieting, eating clean just...

How fast do you think you need to lose weight?

I used to give myself 6 months or a year. I watched Biggest Loser and had so many expectations of losing weight quickly. I thought I should be losing 5 pounds a week.
See, these expectations of time keep us stuck on the diet roller coaster. We tell ourselves that we can’t lose the weight and that we must restrict, use a food plan or over exercise.

I had to give myself time to lose weight, to learn how to change my mindset in the process.

How long have you been on the diet roller coaster?  I was on it for 38 years and it took me that long to lose weight for the last time.

Join me in this episode so you can learn how to lose it for the last time.

Here are this week’s transformational questions.

1. How long have you been on the Diet Roller Coaster?
2. How fast do you want to lose weight? – And then double it.
3. Write all the thoughts you have about changing your mindset and how hard it will be, then decide what you want to...

Join me in this episode as I talk about the five phases of permanent weight loss stages. Some ladies get stuck in phase two or three and they keep going back and forth. This is the diet roller coaster. I was on this dreaded diet rollercoaster for almost 38 years. And I know how difficult it can be, how frustrating it can be. And I want to just share with you these five phases so that you can decide where are you and where do you want to be.

Listen in as I dive deep into these five phases. You will learn how to take that fear and confusion and turn it around and do something different. I will teach you about your “Lizzie” phase, and how it can lead to the next phase. I will teach you how to change your mindset and to learn how to believe new things.  Let me show you how failure and challenges are just part of the process. You will also learn that these phases can work for anything in your life, not just weight loss.  I want to teach you to get off the diet...

Join me in this episode as I dive deep into how to show up for yourself now and not waiting until the “right” time to lose weight. We have been on the diet roller coaster for so long we are so afraid of failing that we always put off even starting to show up for ourselves. We tell ourselves it’s too hard, we don’t have time, we’ll just fail. Just give me a food plan or an exercise plan. But haven’t we already tried that? Isn’t that why you are here, to find something different, a better way?

Listen is as I teach you a new way to get off the diet roller coaster for good. How to do the mindset work. We have all had these beliefs for so long, it’s just like a record player playing in the back of our brain. We try the latest fad diet or exercise plan and we might even lose some weight, but then something stressful happens, because we haven’t worked on our mind, we give up on ourselves. Lizzie tells us to go back into the cave, where...

We are getting ready for some fun stuff in Transform. We are getting ready to do a five-day challenge. And you know, ladies, I love the five-day challenges. They are free. And this is how I like to do an immersive experience for free for ladies so they can get an introduction of this work. If you’re new to this work and you’ve never done a challenge, or I know we have lots of repeat challengers and some of my Transform ladies love to do them too – they just love the immersive experience – you can still register until May 22nd at bflycoaching.com/mayfun.

Are you an all or nothing kind of girl like I was? I mean that is how I labeled myself. I was either restricting or overeating, not much of that in between. And not just in dieting, but in other areas of my life too. Listen in to this episode as I teach you the difference between restriction and allowance. I will teach you what freedom really means. I will give you a tool to help you in your weight...

We are at episode 85. Can you even believe it? We are only 15 episodes away from 100 and we’re going to do something pretty special for episode 100. You will not want to miss it. In this episode we are talking about action and how it shows up in our weight loss journey.  First, let me share with you this story about when I hired a personal trainer. It was about 14 years ago. She was super fit and nice. I showed up for the first session, and she measured me, gave me an exercise plan and a very strict, clean diet. At first I was very motivated. But you know how the story goes, after a few sessions, I just eventually quit, because I had not eaten as instructed, or not done all the exercises, and feeling guilty and shame. I had lost my “motivation.” But I learned I did not quit on her, I quit on me!

Join me in this episode as I dive deep into how to stop looking for that “motivation” and how to learn to keep commitments to yourself, which lead to...