Focusing on a 'problem' as THE way to 'fix' it is paradoxically a habit that can keep you locked in a cycle of overeating. Because when you judge your overeating as 'bad,' you lose the ability to look closer in that moment and be curious about why you are using food in … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 23: How To Stop Fighting With Yourself Over Your Eating

Today your coach's homework is to write your weight loss success story by creatively imagining what is needed to get to your goal weight.Answer these questions from the version of you in the future who has lost all of her weight. You can imagine I'm interviewing you about how you got to … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 22: Write Your Weight Loss Success Story

What if our nighttime snacking urges are just trying to get our attention about what is REALLY needed beyond what food can give us for our life? ⁠⁠That is the real work called for when we look at our habit of eating when we are not hungry. ⁠⁠Nighttime snacking is in the way of consistent weight loss … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 21: How to Stop Your Nighttime Snacking

This week we take a closer look at the important relationship of intentionally loving yourself to help you make not only your weight loss but your entire life richer and more meaningful. We often take on the conditional and judgmental messaging we grow up with that if you have weight to lose your … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 20: How To Love Yourself

Here are your six steps to a drama-free weigh-in. Review your week by skimming your daily plans, assessment, calendar, journal, and memory recall of the week. Count the number of overeats you had. Note all other data, including body measurements, progress photos, journaling your observation of areas … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 19: 6 Steps To A Drama-Free Weigh in

By understanding dopamine’s critical role in human desire and survival, you can understand the powerful effect it has on your habits around food which can help you in your desire to lose weight. Dopamine gives us the will and desire to get up and pursue activities that keep us alive, like drinking … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 18: Dopamine: The Pretty Little Liar

After nearly 10,000 hours of experience weight coaching hundreds of clients, I've noticed six elements that tend to be in place with clients who start losing weight consistently. Today, I'm sharing them with you as a way to check in with your own process. If your weight loss isn't … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 17: A Blueprint for Consistent Weight Loss

  Weight loss is not a goal to task yourself with in order to get yourself to do what you don't want to do. It will be much easier to attach your weight goal to a vivid and compelling version of you who has normalized her relationship with food. In order to embrace this new version of yourself … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 16: Stop Complaining And Start Creating

Mind Control is about developing the skillset of controlling thinking patterns or allowing thoughts to slow down or even stop altogether.  Meditation is one form of mind control. that allows you to practice the skillset of slowing the cadence of your active thinking. Why is meditation helpful for … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 15: Mind Control

Feeling emotions on purpose is one tool that can help you to regulate your nervous system and help you reach your goals.  You will learn the usefulness of processing feelings and how that process helps you in the pursuit of your weight goal. Feelings are always taking place in the context of habits … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 14: The F Word

Losing weight requires you to break the habit of overeating. Like any other habit you've ever broken, you'll need to follow a few steps in order to allow the habit to extinguish and replace it with a different response/behavior that also meets your needs. The first step to breaking the … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 13: Break The Habit Of Overeating

In this episode, I explain common objections I see in weight loss and how to overcome them to go all-in on your weight loss. It is normal to both want to lose weight and then at the same time feel conflicted about doing all the things. We need to uncover those quiet beliefs that are opposed to … [Read more...] about [Love Life And Lose Weight] 12: How To Sell Yourself On Weight Loss