Love Life and Lose Weight with Heather Beardsley

Love Life and Lose Weight is a podcast that teaches you sustainable weight loss through changing your habits and beliefs around food. You CAN lose weight eating the foods you love without feeling restricted or rebellious. I’m your host, advanced certified weight and life coach, Heather Beardsley.

I’ve helped hundreds of women lose weight and create a life they love.

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[Love Life and Lose Weight] 49: Relational Capacity

Relational capacity, as I define it describes your ability to meet your expectations of what you know you need to think, feel, and do in order to lose weight.  Weight loss will always involve noticing what level of performance you are at; especially when you notice you did not take the desired actions you are

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[Love Life and Lose Weight] 48: Negative Emotional Fluency

In this episode, I explain how to translate the top eight negative emotions to learn what might be needed. The emotions listed below are the top eight negative emotions that we often eat over. If you are in a place of wanting to move beyond reacting to them, resisting them, or avoiding them, this episode

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[Love Life and Lose Weight] 47: Thought Leadership

In this episode, I discuss our internal human experience of how we think both spontaneously and intentionally, how I understand it and frame it as a weight loss coach for my clients, and how to accommodate it and shape it with the intention of helping you lose weight.  Your habit brain is going to resist

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[Love Life and Lose Weight] 46: Book Launch Party

My book, Love life And Lose Weight, Eat What You Love,  Trust Your Body, and Lose Weight Without Restriction, launches today, so we are having a virtual party to celebrate.  I kick off the party by reading you the introduction chapter, so you can decide if purchasing the book is right for you. Next, I

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[Love Life and Lose Weight] 44: How I Coach On Maintenance

Today I'm sharing with you how I coach on maintenance. This can be helpful for those in or approaching maintenance (within 10 pounds or so). Learning about the unique challenges and skills of maintenance is also a great way to give you some insights about what comes after active weight loss mode even if you're

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[Love Life and Lose Weight] 43: Creative Visualization For Weight Loss

Creative Visualization is a tool for mental rehearsal. It involves creatively exploring mentally what it would be be like to engage with being in a potential situation. It’s a way to mentally get practice in without actually needing to practice. The interesting thing is that the brain doesn’t exactly know the difference between creative visualizing

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[Love Life and Lose Weight] 41: Validation

Validation is a practice of being aware of and deciding how to think and feel about something in your life. Validation is your sense of focus and awareness about where you ARE in relation to where you WANT to be with your life.  Calorie counting, counting points, macros, or other people’s opinions are all external

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