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EP. #138: Why Emotional Intelligence is a Great Weight Loss Tool
If you’re an emotional eater, it may be because you haven’t learned a better, healthier way to manage your emotions. Were you taught to suppress your emotions from an early age? Many people ultimately
Continue readingEP. #137: Focus on Making Better Health, Not Weight Loss, Your Goal
Happy New Year!It’s that time of year when many people have made New Year’s resolutions to lose weight. It won’t come as a surprise to you that most of them won’t succeed, and will quickly abandon
Continue readingEP. #136: 4 Steps to Stop Rewarding Yourself with Food
After getting through a difficult day, or even a not-so-difficult day, do you treat yourself by eating when you aren’t hungry? If so, you’re among the great majority of people who want to lose
Continue readingEP. #134: Setbacks are Bruises, Not Tattoos
How often do you let a setback cause you to toss in the towel? If you give up on your goals just because you made a mistake, you need to know this: Setbacks are a normal part of change.To quote Gareth
Continue readingEP. #135: 8 Ways that Your Brain Fools You
How often do you think the same negative thoughts about yourself or your life? Have you ever thought about how those thoughts trip you up? The thing is that most of those thoughts simply aren’t
Continue readingEP. #133: 5 Steps to Change Your Habits
The Weight Loss for Foodies approach is all about ditching your unconscious, unhealthy eating habits and establishing new ones that will not only help you enjoy eating more than ever, but will also help
Continue readingEP. #132: Time to Reject the Culture of Thinness
I was listening to an episode of Cheryl Strayed’s Dear Sugars podcast in which she talked about her experience with Vogue magazine just before the release of Wild, her autobiography about transformation
Continue readingEP. #131: What’s Wrong With Words Like Overweight or Obese?
As a weight coach, I see one of my roles as fighting our cultural stigma about body size. Sure I want to help people be at a weight where they’re comfortable, but weight stigma actually keeps you
Continue readingEP. #130: Why Changing Your Diet Won’t Give You the Results You Want
In the world of dieting, too much emphasis is placed on what to eat to lose weight.Diets prohibit you from eating certain foods, usually ones that taste really good. The ones you enjoy the most.Some of
Continue readingEP. #129: How Complaining Can Be Good for You
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been finding my level of stress and frustration is higher than usual. Notably higher.There’s COVID, which creates a constant undercurrent of stress.There’s a lot
Continue readingEP. #128: Who You Are is Much More Important Than What Your Body Looks Like
Who are some of the people you admire most? They can be people you know personally, or people in the public eye, like celebrities, thought leaders, or artists. Anyone!Now think about what you
Continue readingEP. #127: Why You Need Self-Compassion to Lose Weight
You can’t hate yourself thin. To the contrary, if you want to succeed at losing weight and keeping it off, you must start with a positive body image and be compassionate towards yourself. Maybe
Continue readingEP. #126: Why Ending Emotional Eating is a Game Changer
Do you eat because of stress, to comfort yourself or avoid uncomfortable feelings?Eating for emotional reasons may be the single greatest cause of overeating and weight gain. It’s the reason why
Continue readingEP. #125: The Number One Barrier to Weight Loss
Do you eat in response to your body’s hunger signals? Or do you eat routinely when you aren’t hungry?Hmmm. Hunger. Have you checked in with yours lately?Here are some examples of eating
Continue readingEP. #124: Commitment, Persistence and Consistency are the Keys to Success
Are you merely consuming content about weight loss, or are you actually doing the work? “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.” Those words of Bertrand Russell are applicable
Continue readingEP. #123: Detox Your Mind of Thoughts That Weigh You Down
Do you have issues with food and eating that are rooted in a negative self-image? Do you hate the way you look? Is your ability to see all of your strengths and gifts is clouded by your focus
Continue readingEP. #122: 6 Steps for Getting Back on Track After Backsliding
You’ve made a bunch of changes to your eating habits. You’re listening to your body, eating when you’re hungry, stopping when lightly full. Eating consciously without distractions.You’ve stuck
Continue readingEP. #121: What are you REALLY Hungry For?
How often do you choose to eat for a reason that has nothing whatsoever to do with whether your body is physically hungry? Maybe you want to eat because a certain food looks or smells good.Or because
Continue readingEP. #120: How to Move Your Emotions
Your emotions are super important.Emotions are your body’s way of trying to get your attention.Were you taught to ignore them or squash them down? Did your parents expect you to not express or hide
Continue readingEP. #119: Why It’s So Hard to Lose Weight
A report issued within the diet industry around 2002 stated, “In 2002, 231 million Europeans attempted some form of diet. Of these only 1 percent will achieve permanent weight loss.”If that isn’t
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