Creating Her Best Life Podcast
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Ep. #192: Why Do Relationships Matter in Weight Loss?
When you don’t feel good about yourself, it’s easy to fall into negative patterns of behavior that can be bad to both you and those around you.
You may find yourself being overly critical or judgmental of others or struggling to form meaningful connections with people.
We have put manuals and expectations in most of our relationships.
Additionally, negative self-talk and low self-esteem can make it difficult to find success and lead to weight gain and other health issues.
It is so important to work on building a positive relationship with yourself in order to improve your overall well-being and the quality of your relationships with others.
In today’s episode, Coach Jenn and I show you why relationships matter in weight loss.
In this episode…
≫[4:00] We use food to comfort us, to deal with emotions, and as a coping mechanism.
≫[7:16] When we judge others, it usually comes from us judging ourselves or some underlying thing within ourselves.
≫[11:32] Wen you start to change, when y...
Ep. #191: How the Feeling of Belonging Shows Up in Your Weight Loss
In today’s episode, you will discover how we are all wired to want to belong and be a part of a tribe.
We want to feel loved and to be accepted.
I will give you my take on how the need to belong can show up for you.
I will teach you that what you want is within you.
Not a magical food pill or food plan.
This episode is juicy!
In this episode…
≫[2:14] We are wired to belong.
≫[3:09] My story of feeling ousted.
≫[3:53] Two ways we handle feeling like we don’t belong.
≫[7:10] Understanding how it shows up for you is important.
≫[7:23] Awareness is the foundation of losing weight.
≫[8:55] My take on understanding how we are wired and how it hinders our goals and dreams.
Ep. #190: Living in Shame
In today’s episode, you will discover that shame is a powerful, negative emotion that we will do anything not to feel.
It keeps us hiding and feeling very small. It keeps us from feeling good about ourselves.
I am going to give you my take on how to release and overcome shame.
In this episode…
≫[3:56] The definition of shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
≫[4:37] We have put so much shame or wrongness in gaining weight.
≫[5:20] The gym environment produced a lot of shame for me.
≫[6:10] I tell you my recent story about feeling shame.
≫[8:54] When we think we did something wrong, it causes us to feel shame.
≫[10:57] All your dreams and all your goals are on the other side of feeling really powerful, negative emotions like shame.
≫[11:53] You can start to love the body that you’re in right now. Not when you lose the weight.
≫[13:34] My take on releasing and overcoming shame.
Ep. #189: Feeling Good In Weight Loss
The diet roller coaster is full of quick fixes that don’t set you up for long term weight loss.
It leaves you frustrated and then you turn it against yourself, telling yourself that you’re not good enough, you’re the failure.
The diet industry is really the failure.
In today’s episode, you will discover my take on how to start feeling better in weight loss.
In this episode…
≫[2:58] Start to be intentional about finding your successes and measuring your progress backwards.
≫[3:43] When I start to focus on my progress, I have more success.
≫[4:23] The diet industry has kept us feeling bad about our bodies and the progress we are making.
≫[5:26] #trusttheprocess
≫[7:12] You’ll start to feel better when you disconnect your worth from the scale.
≫[7:58] What if you could start to redirect your brain to the progress that you’re making versus how far you have to go?
≫[8:48] My take on how to start feeling better in weight loss.
≫[10:00] The difference between someone who has su...
Ep. #188: How to Know When You Have Had Enough
Have you ever felt sluggish, tired, or had a belly ache after you eat?
If so, this episode has so many great nuggets of information for you.
Over time, we have disconnected from our bodies and lost the ability to know when we’ve had enough to eat.
In today’s episode, I will teach you how to slowly reconnect with your body and how to quickly start to use the tips I will share with you today so that you can start to understand when your body has had enough.
In this episode…
≫[2:05] Here are three reasons why you might not be feeling full after you eat.
≫[4:03] What can I do to start to feel when I’ve had enough?
≫[5:03] When you’re on a food plan or following points, you disconnect from the signals your body is giving you.
≫[6:27] I teach you to slowly start to reconnect to your body.
≫[6:43] The key to all of it is your thinking.
≫[7:09] You don’t have to get rid of all your foods and all your favorite foods when you start to pay attention to when you’ve had enough.
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Ep. #187: Feeling In Control Around Food
In this episode you will discover how if you’ve been on the diet rollercoaster, and when you experience diets and gaining weight and losing weight, you may have had thoughts that you can’t control yourself around food.
When you start to have abundance with food, when you start to allow all the foods and tell yourself that you can have anything long term, you begin to heal your relationship with food.
I will give you my take on how to take back your own power over food.
In this episode…
≫[3:05] Have you thought that you can’t keep certain foods in your house?
≫[4:20] Food is neither good nor bad.
≫[4:41] This belief that you can’t control yourself around food is not true.
≫[5:01] This belief that you are out of control comes from lack and scarcity.
≫[6:23] One of the big pieces of healing your relationship with food is learning how to view it differently.
≫[7:30] Food either feels good in my body and it’s fuel or it’s not.
≫[9:15] Even if I have an overeat or ea
...Ep. #186: 3 Thoughts to Change to Lose Weight
In today’s episode, you will discover how changing 3 thoughts will lead to weight loss.
How you think of things and what you believe about things matters.
A magical food plan won’t solve this.
You have to understand your thinking, why you believe and how that is showing up in what you are doing.
I will give you my take on the three thoughts you have to change and how to change those thoughts.
In this episode…
≫[00:45] If you want to lose weight for the last time, you have to start to believe and think something different.
≫[2:05] There are thoughts you want to change when they come in.
≫[2:30] The word SHOULD.
≫[3:09] Staying in a confused mindset keeps us in inaction.
≫[6:14] Meet yourself where you’re at and focus on one or two things.
≫[9:48] You will go farther faster by doing less.
≫[10:21] You don’t take the simple step and you keep putting yourself off.
≫[11:05] What is one thing you can do for yourself?
≫[13:02] My take on how you change the 3 thoug
...Ep. #185: Is a Magical Food Plan the Answer?
In today’s episode, you will discover: Is there a magical food plan? We try all of the different diets, exercise plans and more to lose weight. We might have success at first, but it’s usually temporary. We want to do this without changing our thinking and beliefs. I’m going to give you my take on how to lose weight and heal your relationship with food.
In this episode…
≫[1:50] Over time, you start sabotaging your weight loss success.
≫[4:42] Why do I keep doing this to myself?
≫[5:20] Status quo
≫[8:26] We have to start to think something different and do something different #dsd
≫[9:17] When I start to think differently, feel differently, then I start to do things differently.
≫[9:39] There is no magic food plan.
≫[10:31] To lose weight and heal your relationship, this is what you have to do.
Ep. #184: How a Review Process Helped Me Lose Weight
In today’s episode, you will discover how I used a review process to help me lose my weight. This process has allowed me to live in a body that feels like freedom. It has allowed me to live a life that I have created, not one that someone created for me. Listen for my take on why the review process is important for your weight loss journey.
In this episode…
≫[3:31] The review process is a chance to look at where you’re successful.
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≫[3:41] The review process allows you to be in your dreams.
≫[5:39] Review of the data.
≫[6:54] Two parts of the review process.
≫[8:03] Using your thinking brain to plan.
≫[8:48] Choose one basic.
≫[9:21] Why do I even want to do this?
≫[11:08] My take of the review process.
Ep. #183: Living in Your Success is the Magic
In today’s episode you will discover how going to a bike shop made me look for my success instead of quitting. In any journey, you are going to have challenges. You will have times when you want to quit.
We think our past is evidence of our future, but our past is the bridge to our future.
Our past makes us who we are. I will give you my take on how to overcome your challenges and start finding your success.
In this episode…
≫[5:31] Living in your success and overcoming challenges and failures.
≫[6:31] How you start to overcome your challenges.
≫[7:57] When you “should” yourself.
≫[8:16] We think our past is evidence of our future.
≫[10:33] ”Everything is figureoutable”.
≫[10:56] Look for and find your successes.
≫[11:12] Find one thing that you feel really good about that you think is a success.
