Disrupting Obesity

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m talking about how to get through the holidays without losing control of your progress. The last quarter is packed with triggers, emotions, events, and foods that can throw you off track fast. But with the right mindset and a few simple strategies, you can head into January feeling strong instead of defeated. In this episode I cover: • Why the last quarter matt...

Send us Fan Mail The holidays are closing in and the questions keep coming. In this week’s Weight Loss Wednesday, I’m finishing up holiday Q&A and talking about the situations that make weight loss feel extra difficult this time of year. Full plates, food-centred family gatherings, endless leftovers and that familiar feeling of losing control around food. If the holidays tend to throw you off...

Send us Fan Mail The holidays have a sneaky way of making weight loss harder than usual. In this episode, I’m talking about holiday sabotage , and that includes sabotage from other people and the sabotage we do to ourselves. As the season ramps up, weight loss can feel like it is being challenged from all sides. Family comments, food pushers, passive-aggressive coworkers, unsupportive partners, an...

Send us Fan Mail The holidays can make weight loss feel ten times harder. Judgment from other people, constant food noise, baking traditions, grief, and pressure to “just eat because it’s Christmas” all tend to show up at once. In this Weight Loss Wednesday, I’m answering real listener questions pulled from the vault that are just as relevant now as when they were first asked. This episode is abou...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I dive into part two of my holiday survival series. This stretch between Thanksgiving and New Year’s can feel chaotic, emotional, and full of food that pushes every button you’ve got. So I’m sharing the tools, mindset shifts, and strategies that actually help you stay grounded instead of getting swept into the holiday eating vortex. I talk about the power of incent...

Send us Fan Mail In this Weight Loss Wednesday, I’m bringing back something I didn’t think I’d be doing again: a holiday Ask Whatever. I found a bunch of your holiday questions, so we’re doing a full festive Q&A. In this episode, I talk about: • How to track holiday meals when you can’t measure anything • Alcohol over the holidays • What I eat at Christmas and how I handle holiday food • Manag...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I kick off the first part of my Surviving the Holidays series. With Thanksgiving landing this week and the rest of the season barreling toward us, I wanted to give you tools that help you stay grounded, keep your sanity, and protect your progress. The holidays can be exciting, stressful, emotional, nostalgic, overwhelming, or all of the above. Food is everywhere a...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Weight Loss Wednesday, I’m tackling another round of your questions. I love these episodes because they let me answer the things you’re genuinely struggling with in real time. Keep sending them in. They really do shape what this podcast becomes. I start with a question I know so many of us wrestle with: how to stop second-guessing the plan every time someone else ha...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m talking about something that has shaped my life in ways I didn’t even understand until years later, something my husband calls an "environment of yes".  After I got sick, Shahn made a conscious effort to surround me with as much positivity and choice as possible. He created yeses in a season of my life that had been nothing but no, and it changed eve...

Send us Fan Mail In this tenth Weight Loss Wednesday episode, I’m answering your questions about navigating the final stretch of the year. The last quarter can feel intense, emotional, chaotic and tempting all at once, and I want to help you move through it with clarity instead of panic. I talk through everything from holiday body checking to seasonal darkness, guilt and shame spirals, maintenance...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk about something most people don’t even realise is an option on a weight loss journey. We act like when things get hard, the only choices are to keep going or to give up. But there is a third option that can save your progress, protect your mental bandwidth, and stop you from falling back into that old start again cycle. I call it damage control mode. I expl...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Weight Loss Wednesday. I cannot believe we are already on our ninth edition of this series. You keep sending in brilliant questions and I truly love answering them, so thank you. Keep them coming. Today I am digging into emotional eating, holiday baking strategies, how my program works for those using GLP1s, my go to calorie tracking app, and a fun question about m...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I am talking about what to do when you feel stuck, flat, or like you have lost your footing a little bit in your weight loss journey. This is not about starting over. I am not interested in the start stop cycle and I know you're not either. This is about refreshing your approach, clearing the mental clutter, and getting grounded again so that you can keep goin...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Weight Loss Wednesday, I’m answering your questions about some of the most common challenges on the journey, from feeling shame around tracking to the pressure to get your macros just right. I talk about how to handle the guilt that can come with calorie tracking, why it’s so important to see the truth instead of avoiding it, and how to stop the exhausting cycle of...

Send us Fan Mail Let's talk about surviving one of the most tempting holidays of the year. With candy, chips, and treats everywhere you look, Halloween can easily throw off your rhythm. This episode is all about strategies that help you enjoy the holiday without losing control, feeling guilty, or dragging regret into the rest of the last quarter. I explain why our sense of urgency around Hall...

Send us Fan Mail In this Weight Loss Wednesday, Charlotte answers some of your most common and most real questions about weight loss, sustainability, and those tricky day-to-day choices. In this episode: Intermittent fasting and coffee creamer Does a splash (or a glug) of creamer ruin your fast? Charlotte breaks down the technical vs. practical answers, why calories can’t tell time, and why your m...

Send us Fan Mail In this fourth and final instalment of the Weight Loss Nevers series, Charlotte wraps up with two powerful reminders to help you stay grounded in your journey. These last two “nevers” are some of the most common traps people fall into when trying to lose weight, and learning to avoid them can make all the difference in building momentum that actually lasts. Key Points Never set un...

Send us Fan Mail In this Weight Loss Wednesday, Charlotte answers more listener questions about everything from loose skin to sweeteners. She gets into the mindset shifts that make weight loss sustainable, the math behind TDEE, and why the slow-cooked frog might just be your new favourite metaphor. In this episode: How much control we really have over loose skin (and what actually helps) Why self-...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Charlotte continues her “Weight Loss Nevers” series with numbers 7, 8, and 9 — three more things you should never do when trying to lose weight. She starts with the idea of never eating when you’re not hungry, digging into how emotional hunger, boredom, and habit can all blur the lines between needing to eat and wanting to eat. Charlotte explains how awareness dev...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Charlotte answers more listener questions for another round of Weight Loss Wednesday. She talks about when to recalculate your TDEE, explains what JLOI really means, and responds to a heartfelt question from a parent trying to help their adult child lose weight. She also opens up about why she doesn’t do meal plans, what happens when someone else tries to “fix” yo...

Send us Fan Mail We’re back with Part Two of the Weight Loss Nevers series, and this week Charlotte unpacks Nevers 4 through 6, three simple rules that quietly change everything about how you eat, think, and treat yourself. Never #4 – Never eat with full hands If your hands are still holding your food (or your phone) while you chew, you’re not really present. Charlotte explains how putting the for...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's Weight Loss Wednesday I'm answering 5 questions. We're taking a look at: Plateaus Macro Tracking Eating Windows Substitutions and Recipe Building A slightly snide question about yours truly Support the show Please consider heading to buymeacoffee.com/CharlotteSkanes to show your support. It helps me keep the podcast going.  Looking for help on your we...

Send us Fan Mail We’re kicking off a brand new series: the Weight Loss Nevers. Most of the time you hear about what you should do to lose weight. But in this series, I’m breaking down the things you should NEVER do if you want your weight loss to last. These are the traps, the shortcuts, and the self-sabotage patterns that only make things harder. In this episode, I share the first three “nevers”:...

Send us Fan Mail I'm answering 4 of your questions this week: What do you do when you reach your calorie goal for the day, but it is early in the day and you are still hungry (or anticipating hunger later in the day)?  When you were at 338 pounds what was your calorie intake when you started dieting that worked?  What about the sugar?  Where do you get all your fabulous earrings? Don't f...

Send us Fan Mail Nobody wants to think about it yet, but the last quarter of the year is almost here and if you want to stay on track with your weight loss goals, it’s time to get ready. In this episode, I’m talking about why the last three months of the year are such a slippery slope, how the holiday season sets the tone for the next year, and what you can do right now to make sure you’re not spe...