In today’s episode of the podcast, Coach Jenn joins me again for part 2 of our 4-part series of All Things Weight Loss

We discuss the tools of weight loss, the good and the bad of those tools, and our perspective on it.

Tools such as diets, weight loss surgery, and weight loss medications are good for short-term weight loss.

The problem with these tools is that they don’t deal with the mental weight.

These tools don’t teach you how to deal with mental stress and how to feel your emotions.

They don’t teach you how to find comfort in other things and heal your relationship with food.

To lose weight long-term, you have to be able to do it in a way that you can for the rest of your life.

When you start to change the mental weight, you start to think something different and amazing things can happen.

In this episode…

[2:46] Diets focus on the food.

[4:42] Whatever you do, you have to be able to do it for the rest of your life.

[9:02] I had this need...

In today’s episode of the podcast, I start a 4-part series on all things weight loss.

Coach Jenn joins me, and we discuss why most of us believe weight loss is hard.

I believed it was hard because I thought something was wrong with me.

I learned the physical weight was heavy, but the mental weight was the heaviest.

The mental aspect of weight loss is often overlooked but plays a crucial role in achieving long-term success.

It is possible for you to lose your weight, to lose the mental weight, and to do something different in easy and simple ways.

In this episode…

[3:57] Who I was.

[4:37] We get a lot of messages on social media that are fat-shaming.

[6:21] What mental weight is.

[10:31] Emotions fluctuate.

[10:55] I think women, we feel exhausted, we feel run down, we feel burnt out, and it’s not the physical part of it.

[11:37] The diet roller coaster is on and off.

[13:47] No matter what you weigh, the mental part of this, you have to do the work on.

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What do you feel when you hear hard work?

I bet your brain gets overwhelmed and then you don’t want to do anything.

Many people feel that weight loss is hard work.

When I was on the diet rollercoaster, weight loss was hard.

Now, I think differently.

I believe weight loss is easy. In today’s episode of the podcast, I walk you through a few steps of the process and show you how to make weight loss easy.

In this episode…

[1:55] I can look back at my life and see that anything that has been worth anything has been difficult and hard and has had challenges.

[3:06] I think weight loss can be easy.

[4:53] When I say that there’s hard work, your brain gives you an excuse not to do anything.

[5:57] The steps in the process to make weight loss easy.

[8:27] Your amygdala, your lizard brain, wants you to stay the same, it does not want you to change.

Do you react to life or do you actively shape it?

For many women, we stop creating our lives on purpose.

We don’t dream and curate the life we want.

We don’t think about what we want or need and as we age, we either think we’re headed towards the end of our life, or we start to light up.

Do you want your next chapter to be one that you wrote or are you going to let someone else write it?

It’s okay to want more.

It’s okay to create the life you want.

In this week’s episode of the Weight Loss for Successful Women podcast, I give you the questions to ask yourself so that you can begin creating your life on purpose.

In this episode…

[3:40] As we start to age, we do one of two things.

[5:25] I’ve learned that I get to decide what I want to believe, think, feel, and do.

[6:42] It’s so great to just pause, to plan, to create your life.

[7:37] Weight is a symptom of you wanting more for yourself.

[8:23] Start by asking yourself...

We have stories that play in our heads that create the emotion of fear.

We have thoughts about what will happen if we lose weight, if we don’t lose the weight, and if we lose the weight and then gain it back.

These thoughts keep us stuck on the diet roller coaster. It’s important for you to find the story you’re telling yourself about weight loss because then you can understand why you’re feeling the fear.

If you want to learn what to do to release your fear and to change your thoughts, listen to this week’s episode of the Weight Loss for Successful Women podcast.

In this episode…

[1:40] They just stayed the same because of the fear of change.

[2:25] Understanding fear is important.

[3:45] Fear enhances our learning and our memory.

[8:17] It was my thinking, not the actual emotion of fear.

[10:55] What to do.

How many times have you pushed yourself off waiting for the right time?

The “right time” is made up.

There’s no right order of life.

You decide now’s the time to start your weight loss journey.

You clean out your pantry of all the non-diet food and you follow your plan.

You don’t feel very good, but you power through it.

Then, life happens.

You start telling yourself this isn’t the right time, and you start slowly quitting on yourself and you repeat this cycle over and over.

Telling yourself “this just isn’t the right time” is just a way of giving yourself an out.

Fear wins every single time you tell yourself it’s not the right time.

The right time just gives you a reason to stay safe and comfortable.

There is no right time. Ladies, you don’t have to start over or catch up.

If you want to know what to do, listen to this week’s episode of the Weight Loss for Successful Women podcast.

In this...

What are you really craving?

I used food to comfort myself, to soothe myself, and as a filler.

It was just a cheap substitute.

Maybe you’re craving love and acceptance.

You may seek this from others, but you need this from yourself.

What are you really craving?

Ask yourself this question, but don’t be afraid of the answer.

Once you know the answer, then you can decide what to do.

If you’re not sure and not sure what to do about it, listen to today’s episode of the podcast.

In this episode…

[1:58] Carrying extra weight is just a symptom of a life you are not creating.

[3:46] I used food to comfort myself. I used food to soothe. I used food as a filler.

[6:07] Part of this process of losing weight and getting off the diet roller coaster for good is understanding why you’re carrying the weight in the first place.

[7:18] If you don’t have acceptance and love and forgiveness and trust and respect for yourself, how can you expect anyone...

There are a lot of folks that have labeled themselves as failures.

They have allowed it to become their identity.

No one is a success, and no one is a failure.

We have successes and we have failures. 

The definition of failure is an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose, lack of success.

Failure is subjective.

Success is subjective too.

Failure is just a decision point.

It’s a trigger to say do I keep doing what I’ve been doing?

Do I try something different?

It just gives us a reason to do nothing.

A reason to quit on ourselves.

To have weight loss success, to get off the diet roller coaster for good, you have to learn how to fail and not quit.

In today’s episode of the podcast, I give you three ways to help you fail your way to all your wins.

In this episode…

[1:35] Failure – an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose, lack of success.

[1:43] What is success?

[2:50] Failure is a decision point.

[3:44] No one is a...

Diet culture is deep.

We have been inundated with the noise from it for so long and it’s everywhere.

It’s on your ads in social media, you hear it in TV shows and by characters and how they look.

We have been socialized on how we should look, what we should think, what we should believe, and what we should do.

Diet culture lacks personalization.

All of the fixes require something external.

It isn’t about changing your internal beliefs and thoughts. It isn’t about reconnecting to your physical hunger.

External things can never solve an internal problem.

I want freedom in your mind. Freedom where you start to notice you don’t think about all the noise and how to tune it out.

In today’s episode of the podcast, I am going to teach you how to find your voice in all this noise.

In this episode…

[1:44] Everything you do today is either a gift for your future self or a barrier for your future self.

[4:21] All of this noise creates...

Diet culture has made us believe that we have to exercise to lose weight.

We have been told that we have to work out hard in the gym and for a certain amount of time.

We have started to tell ourselves that we hate exercise and we don’t look forward to it.

I think there’s a different way.

I don’t think of it as exercise. I call it movement.

Our bodies love to move and to be in motion.

In today’s episode of the podcast, I am going to tell you how to reprogram your mind on how to move your body.

In this episode…

[5:06] Our bodies were made to move.

[5:31] We set unrealistic expectations.

[7:24] We do boring things we don’t like to do.

[9:15] We set unrealistic goals.

[11:23] What to do.