Love Life and Lose Weight with Heather Beardsley

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

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 body and

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 of progress, and areas for improvement around your

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 water and eating

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 consistent, you look and see which

  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

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 weight loss? We know that when we

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 of thinking.

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 habit of overeating is to