Done with Dieting: Total Health for Women 40+ with Elizabeth Sherman

Feminism & Weight Loss Coaching We're flipping the script on today's episode & Elizabeth is getting interviewed by host of the Confidence Made Easy Podcast and former guest, Xena Jones. In this episode, Xena interviews Elizabeth about the intersection between weight loss and feminism, how weight stigma and body image is different for women of different races, and how that impacts...

Design a capsule wardrobe for your meals Have you ever had someone create a meal plan for you, but it didn't work out really well? Or, maybe there was a time when it did, but then years later when you pulled it out of the cabinet & dusted it off, you couldn't get back on track. In this episode of the Done with Dieting Podcast, I'm going to teach you the exact steps I use with my...

Is it rest? Or laziness? How do you think about rest? Is it something that you think that you have to earn? Do you feel guilty if you're sitting and other people are doing? Do you believe that rest is just laziness in disguise? So many women are socialized to believe that we have to constantly produce results or we don't feel like we're "earning our keep" - that we always...

Hint: it's not because you're lazy or don't have willpower. When you purchase a product or service that does not work or even causes harm, you might blame the company, demand a refund, leave a bad review, and skip out on it next time.  When that product or service is a part of the diet industry, you may blame yourself and return time and again to spend even more money on these servi...

Healing After Abortion Ever since the leaked Supreme Court Ruling overturning the 50 year right for women in the US to have access to safe abortion services, women's health and women's rights have been the topic of conversation. One side claiming to be the voice of the fetus, and the other side speaking out for themselves - the women who are then forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to...

Why we overeat junk food & how to stop. If you've ever been munching a bag of chips along with your favorite television show, and then suddenly realized that there were no more chips, and now you don't feel so great, know that you're not alone. We've ALL done it. Many of us blame ourselves for doing it. What you don't realize is that food manufacturers have designed ev...

How to get better at not giving up when things get hard. We think that weight loss and creating better habits is all about eat this, not that; move more, get enough sleep, and manage our stress. And yes, that's it on a very basic level, but what happens when we "can't" eat this, have to eat that, can't move like we intended, don't get enough sleep, or manage our stres...

What does it mean to have your own back?  What does it mean to have your own back? To be your own best friend? When it comes to self-trust, so many of us don't trust ourselves. And when it comes to lasting weight loss, self-trust is a skill that we have to develop if we never want to go on another diet ever again. In this episode, I'm talking about the sneaky ways our inner critic erodes...

3 Client Stories as an example of what is Possible Don't you love hearing other people's success stories? I used to feel a ton of envy hearing about other people achieving success in an area of my life that I desired, but I've been able to turn that around & now I know to use other people's stories as evidence that I can do the thing too. If someone else has done it, I can...

If loving your body seems completely out of reach, you might want to try a more neutral approach. Body love - it's something that we all aspire to. Women are consistently told that we should love our bodies. But instead of actually doing that, we use it as evidence of one more way in which we're not doing 'being a woman' good enough. We use the fact that we dislike our bodies (...

How to go with it when life sends you a curveball. It's natural for us to jump to "the How" when we're talking about our goals - we've been conditioned to think that way: Me: I'm going to make a million dollars. Dad: Great! How are you going to do that? Me: I want to take a gap year & travel Europe Mom: That's fantastic. How are you going to pay for it? And t...

How shame is passed down generationally. When we think about mothers and daughters, we think of a Norman Rockwell painting, don't we? We think of mothers and daughters who have a close relationship, where the mother teaches the daughter how to become a woman, teaches her valuable life skills from the perspective of "I remember my mom teaching me this too & it's all normal."...

Like Physical Fitness, but for your brain. Can we talk about mental fitness? We talk a lot about physics fitness, but what does it mean to be mentally or emotionally fit? When we become physically fit, we perform repetitions of physical exercises, where we build up the strength of our physical muscles.  When we talk about mental fitness, we talk about the mental work where we build up the strength...

An episode for beginner runners. I hear it all the time! "I just don't like running!" I get it. I used to feel that way too. But if running is available to you and you want to do it, there are huge benefits to developing a running habit: it's relatively inexpensive to get into; it's something you can do either by yourself or with a friend or two; you can pretty much do it...

A personal episode about our decision to expatriate from the US. One of the most common questions I get has nothing to do with health and fitness, but rather all the details about how my husband and I got to Mexico? And why? When I tell people that I live in Mexico, they'll often ask me, "The state? Or the country?!?" And then all the curious questions that folks have - like, how is...

How to get through the hard part of changing your behaviors There's a point when we set out to make a change in our lives where things get really difficult. It happens to all of us. Sometimes it happens when we realize that this new way of doing things is our new normal, and we experience a grieving process for the way things used to be. This new way of doing things feels difficult, like we&a...

How to be happier with your accomplishments. Every one of us has a judge in our brains that tell us that we can be happy when… We get the job We get married We buy the house We organize the kitchen We lose 30 lbs. That judge is not only a liar, but will often change the goal.  When we reach the goal, if it's a specific, measurable achievement, our judge will allow us to be happy for a total o...

We know when we're doing it. The question is how do we stop? Some of us believe that procrastination serves us - that we do our best work when we put things off because we "work better under pressure".  The data shows that this is untrue. And many folks report that procrastination is actually unhelpful because it prevents them from having what they really want, and also feeling good...

How to create agency over your emotional life Do you find that your emotions are all over the place? Based on what other people do, or what is happening in the world, you don't have a lot of control over your feelings? So many of us give our power away when it comes to our emotional health - we can't be happy until… My kid cleans up after herself My partner takes out the garbage I lose w...

Is it the weight? Or the habits that we do to lose weight? We're told all the time - to lose weight and our risk of health-related disease will go down. I'm guilty of this as well. My health journey started as a way of trying to avoid following in my mother's footsteps and getting breast cancer. But the data is misleading. Because we know that losing weight on a fad diet or losing w...

What does it mean to forgive someone? Forgiveness - we know it's good for us, but sometimes we just can't take that step. It feels like a betrayal.  And what makes it difficult is that other people who are tangentially involved will urge us to forgive so that we can all 'just go back to normal.' But when we really feel wronged, how CAN things ever go back to normal? What does t...

How to ask other adults, "Do you want to be my friend?" without feeling creepy. Many folks in midlife start to notice that their life circumstances change rapidly. As their children leave the house, they also notice that their relationships, in general, are also changing at the same time. Some of us realize that we have more time on our hands, or that the friendships that we cultivated w...

Elizabeth Answers Listener Questions We're diving into a listener Q&A episode this week, and we're going to be covering topics on eating, exercising mindset, and more. A lot of these questions are linked to one another, so we're covering a lot of ground today. I've received questions on nutrition and what your diet should look like, what we should be doing for exercise, and...

When we buy food, we vote with our dollars. Which foods do you want to vote for? Why do we eat the foods that we eat? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Probably not - but you might think about it when you observe other people eating. In this episode, I'm talking about the very unconscious decisions that we make when we decide to eat one food over another. What's super important...

Joining 2 families can be a challenge! Learn how to do it successfully. They say that something like 70% of second marriages end in divorce. And when you think about it, it kind of makes sense. Not from the point of view that people who get divorced are more likely to get divorced, but rather that when you bring 2 families together, there are more personalities, and more challenges because there a...