MindBody Alchemy

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! This series of episodes have taught you many of the reasons that weight loss is SO D*MN HARD, and how to overcome your obstacles. Today I want to teach you about the HOW. In this episode, you'll learn which habits I teach my clients in order to achieve weight loss success and why they are the ones you want to master too!   Don't fo...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Join me as I talk to Laura Kalirai, as we discuss the nuance around makeup and body image. Laura and I both have coaching and makeup artistry as a trade, in common and have had a lot of our learning and unlearning in this area.   You'll learn: Why we feel pressure to look a certain way Awareness of beauty standards and the impact i...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Weight loss might seem damn hard, but that's only because you expect it not to be. You've been sold a pack of lies when it comes to losing weight. They say it can be fast, easy, and effortless. They explain how certain foods are evil, and tell you all of the ways you're terrible for liking them. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Today you'll learn all about getting results ahead of time and what that means for your weight loss success long term.   If you've been on and off diets for decades, you might be lacking the ability to get results. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. It helps more than you know! If you found this episode helpfu...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! In this episode you'll learn why, "I have to" is the fastest way to prevent your success and what you can start thinking instead.   If you struggle to get started or sustain your progress, this may be the one change you HAVE to make in order. to change it.   Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. It helps more tha...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! It's NOT about the food. The diet industry keeps you distracted and confused while you try to figure out what you should and shouldn't be eating, but the real issues lie in WHY you overeat in the first place.   In this episode, you'll learn how to find your sneaky and not-so-sneaky overeating habits so you can finally start using t...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Does intentional weight loss work?   We hear it all the time. 95% of diets fail No one keeps their weight off You would be able to lose weight if you had more discipline You don't want it bad enough Something is wrong with you if you can't figure this out  Even though most people will spend years of their lives losing and regaining...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Today we are talking about the relationship you have with yourself on a weight loss journey. Why it's important to focus on your relationship with you, what your relationship deal breakers are, and how to ask yourself the right question to ensure that you build trust. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. It help...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! My number one weight loss tip! This is what you really need to make the weight loss results sustainable and the process enjoyable.   I'll tell you what I work on with my clients and how it helps them change the way they approach the journey of weight loss and how they make better decisions that last a lifetime.   Don't forget to su...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Comparison feels like crap, but it may not be what you think it is. When you compare your body to someone else's, what are you REALLY thinking will be different?   Social and other forms of media, social conditioning, our family of origin, and our culture all contribute to beauty standards. All of them are unattainable in some way...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! This episode answers the question, "why do I struggle to stop when my body has had enough after I've already cut back on my eating?"   You'll learn: why you may not want to stop how giving yourself permission to eat more can help break the cycle why compassion is your secret weapon how to work with your brain to soften the urge and...

Episode Notes I'm back on the podcast! I'm so excited to be bringing you weekly episodes that cover topics on body image, mindset, nutrition, exercise, habits, and more. Don't forget to hit subscribe and check back each week! Support MindBody Alchemy by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/mindbody-alchemy

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! You've hit a wall and you're not sure how you can fix these lingering self-sabotage behaviors. You're about 1 day from calling it quits and deciding that if it's going to be this hard, you might as well just eat about it.   That is when it's time to go deeper. Your mess is calling you in and asking you to look at the things you've...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Sometimes we outgrow a goal, sometimes we need to trust ourselves to just keep going, and other times we get the urge to say that we are ready to walk away from the goal because it isn't important anymore; when in reality life feels hard and the goal has taken a backseat.   The skill you lack is learning to ride the waves without q...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! The only way out is through. This is a hard truth, but it is always said with love.   It's time to stop looking for reasons why things won't work and justifying crappy thinking with excuses and blaming.   Most programs will have some things that fit great, and some that you struggle to implement. Sometimes a strategy works right aw...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Does acceptance make you feel like apathy or defeat?   If this is how you feel, you're in good company. Many people feel like this and they too are missing out on the potential that self-acceptance offers you in your journey to your goals.   In this episode we are talking about how to use self-acceptance to move you forward instead...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! The battle in our heads between wishing that things weren't so pleasurable, and being terrified that our pleasure from food will be taken away is real.   It's challenging to know where to point the finger. Are we weak-willed gluttons or is the food out to get us and life isn't fair?   I would suggest that there is probably a little...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! You will always hear me go to bat for finding the most pleasurable way to reach your goals, and that it is the secret sauce to consistency. So why then, after seeking pleasure are you still struggling to get where you want to go?   The answer lies in your binary language. Pain, frustration, and desperation will make it easy to fall...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! The story goes something like this. Get SUPER motivated Set a goal Sign up for a program, or make a plan Get started with a bang! You're ready While you're riding that high, you start consuming all the related information from social media posts, books, articles, podcasts, and other experts   At first, it feels very validating beca...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! It seems innocent enough, but it's one of the top ways you are obliterating your chances of success. The scariest part is that it's so habitual, that it's unconscious and forgettable.   Read that again. Not only do you barely know you are doing it, but you don't remember doing it. When you aren't present to your choices, and you le...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Post-Covid weight gain have you hiding under the bed when the invite for the happy hour comes through?   Should you feel shame and get your act together or should you accept what is, and slam the door on your social life?   How about neither.   In this episode, I'm showing you why this may have happened, why your weight isn't a pro...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Wishing time away is a waste! Not just a waste of time, because ironically it is, but it's a wasted opportunity to experience pleasure and joy all the way through.   Every mistake can either bring you closer to quitting or closer to your goal, depending on how you choose to think about it.   If you loathe what you do, but feel it's...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Self-sabotage and impatience are two peas in a pod. They are the worst couple you've ever invited to dinner, and they've overstayed their welcome long enough.   In this episode, you'll learn How to break free from impatience and stop your self-sabotage Why a slow journey is far superior to fast results The hidden reasons you keep s...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Just a little note to tell you that you will hear a kitten in this episode for the first minute and a half or so.   How you think about the moments that are not aligned with your goals is everything. You can make or break your progress by not knowing the difference between making decisions and making exceptions.   In this episode,...

Episode Notes Find out your diet personality type. Take the quiz ! Yes, I said masterclass! This is a longer episode and it is not the one you want to listen to on your walk or drive. This is the episode to listen to with a pen and paper, so get ready to learn!   Part of the reason diets are such a problem is due to their abysmal retention rate. The strategy often sucks, but that isn't the biggest...