Love Life and Lose Weight with Heather Beardsley

Sustainable weight loss requires a responsibility to tell the truth about what you do and your awareness of how you are thinking.  How I learned to tell the truth and align my actions through teaching 8th graders.   The excuses and justifications we use in weight loss are lies we tell ourselves.  Why it’s so important not to

In this episode, you're going to learn a perspective on overeating that will help you no longer want to overeat, which will make weight loss so much easier for you.   Overeating is a normal human experience. Overeating can also be a learned habit and or a learned strategy that gives us a reward. Power thoughts to

In this episode, you will learn why it’s important to develop a peaceful and accepting relationship with normal physical hunger so you can lose weight sustainably.  You will learn how restrictive dieting leaves us resisting hunger. When we avoid hunger, we eat more often than we need to and/or we try to avoid feeling future hunger

In this episode, you will learn how your brain works with the feeling of expectation to prove what you are thinking is true whether that expectation is positive or negative. Expectation establishes an attraction to the expected result. Expectation = desire + belief. With positive expectations, there is an absence of resistance to what you

This episode invites you to take a closer look at whether you believe you can’t have certain foods because they are ‘bad’ and/or block weight loss. I dig into the implications of beliefs like this on how they can create feelings of restriction and create an overdesire for the food we are trying to avoid

This episode invites you to take a closer look at your current habits and thoughts and compare those with lifestyle habits that allow for weight loss.   Your Coach Homework is to journal and then TAKE action on the following questions:   1. If you had a magic wand and could create any lifestyle habit, what  food lifestyle elements

This episode contains an introductory explanation of what works and what doesn’t for weight loss. The diet industry has spent billions of dollars teaching you impossible approaches to weight loss that keep you stuck in the yo-yo cycle of losing and gaining. To lose weight sustainably you’ll want to stop using unsustainable methods that don’t

In this episode, I ask you to tell the old story about why you are overweight in the first place.  When we make being overweight a justification for our perceived limitations, it can become part of how we see ourselves and part of our self-identity. The default story is usually one that includes judgments about