Hungry for Love: Lose Weight After Toxic Relationships

Summers can be a fun and busy time, but that doesn’t mean your weight loss goals have to fall by the wayside.    You can allow circumstances to be obstacles that PREVENT you from losing weight and achieving your goals,    OR    You can figure out how to lose weight REGARDLESS OF ANYTHING going on around you.   We’re getting down and dirty this week to make sure you put your time and effort into th...

You don’t have to sacrifice weight loss to enjoy the summer.   Learn how to say YES to more travel, eating out, family traditions, or neighborhood block parties, without feeling deprived, obsessing about food, or fretting about sabotaging your goals.    It’s time for a summer of BOTH fun and weight loss.    You’ll learn things like:  The real reason you've struggled to lose weight on vacations in...

Often we think about emotions as sabotaging our weight loss progress, but some emotions can actually be extremely useful.   And the  #1 most useful feeling?    Certainty.    Because when you’re certain you’ll hit your weight loss goal, there’s peace, ease, and patience for the process.    This is the mindset “work” required to not just lose your weight, but maintain it for life.    Tune in to toda...

How many times have you let the scale dictate your mood for the day?  If you’re like me, too many times to count.   Ready to take back your power and stop letting the scale dictate how nice you can be to yourself?   Join me for today’s episode where you’ll learn:  How to weigh your body, not your self-esteem.  What the scale can’t tell you.  Other useful data to track instead of just your weight. ...

Quick note that the Lamas all got sick last week and are continueing to recover. I'll be back next week with more great content!    

Does an unexpected trip to the beach or pool leave you feeling self conscious and reluctant to put on your swimsuit?  Maybe you resign to wearing a tee shirt and shorts again or not taking off that cute coverup?  You might have other people in your life encouraging you to wear certain clothes or bathing suits, but if YOU don’t feel comfortable in them, you’re never going to enjoy yourself.  But it...

For years, I struggled to make decisions.    Mostly because I was afraid of making the “wrong” decision and would end up paying the consequences - feeling rejected, disappointed, or regretful.    It’s a shame we’re not taught more productive and useful methods of decision making than creating lists of pros and cons, or phoning a friend to ask their opinion.    Most of us don’t even have a decision...

If you don’t want to EAT to feel good, then you need to start feeling good about yourself and your life with how you think about them FIRST.  I break it all down for you in this week's episode.   If you’re done struggling to lose weight, only to gain it back again 6 months later, then I’d love help.  Schedule a free consultation at http://www.bodyyoucrave.com/schedule . And I’ll show you how.

Have you ever been jealous of someone else’s weight loss success?  Maybe you wished other people would just stop losing weight for a hot second, so you could stop feeling like crap about yourself?  You look around on FB or IG and see friends, family, or acquaintances from high school dropping weight with seemingly zero effort…  Yet here you are, still faffing about with the same 20 pounds over and...

Our brains are wired to seek pleasure and avoid pain (mental, emotional, or physical) via the path of least resistance. This means it's really easy for your brain to learn that food (or alcohol) creates a rapid, reliable, and effective sense of relief.  This is emotional eating. It’s a habit you learned, which means it’s a habit you can unlearn.  But you have to be really honest with yourself abou...

I spent many many years over-relying on exercise as a way to lose weight. And if you asked, most people would confirm the ‘secret sauce’ to weight loss is to simply eat less and exercise more.    But we’ve become hyper-focused on exercise, when in reality, it accounts for less than 5% of your daily energy expenditure AND less than 5% of your body composition.    The truth is, exercise will not get...

Everyone’s brain is wired for disbelief because your habit-brain is simply trying to keep you safe and wants to avoid the threat of negative emotions (disappointment, shame, frustration, etc).    In order to ‘hedge our bets’ we often make our belief conditional on past results, hitting certain benchmarks, etc.    “I’ll believe in myself / my goal, BUT ONLY IF… I lose 10 pounds this month.”  Or  “I...

Ready to lose 10 pounds by summer?!  Then this episode is for you!   There’s one key aspect most diets get wrong when making weight loss promises.  You don’t need to cut out bread, or sugar, or stop eating your favorite foods…  You simply need this one thing.    Today I’m sharing:  The #1 thing that will guarantee your weight loss success.  Why most diets fail in creating the long term results we...

It’s ok to experience negative emotions - this is part of the human experience.  Nothing has gone wrong.  You don’t have to try to fix them, eat through them, or avoid them; in fact, THIS is often where we go wrong. That's why today's episode is all about processing and allowing negative emotions. You'll learn things like: Why negative emotions make us so uncomfortable. How to be at peace when neg...

Have you ever needed a break from losing weight?  A break from the hassle, heartache, and constant deprivation?  Or maybe life was a little overwhelming and you couldn’t maintain your diet with everything else going on?     Whether you’ve hit a lull in your New Year’s goals, or you find it hard to maintain your weight loss goals during the summer, holidays, when you change jobs or move houses, the...

For a long time I believed that once I lost the weight, THEN I’d be happy, confident, proud, and could finally love myself. But I had to lose the weight first.    Turns out, if you’re always looking for your external result (weight loss) to create your internal feeling (self love, pride, joy, confidence), you will ALWAYS be at the mercy of that result.    Not to mention, if you can’t love your bod...

Sugar is one of those “easy villains.” It’s easy to attack it as being evil or toxic; some have even gone as far to claim that you may be addicted to it.  But that’s just fake news.  You might be using sugar as a coping mechanism, but that’s vastly different than a true, physical addition.    On today's show you’ll learn:  5 scientifically backed reasons you’re not addicted to sugar.  Why we’re mi...

Ready to ditch procrastination & overwhelm for good, so that you can create the life your truly crave? Keep listening and I'll show you my simple 3 step process to get unstuck. Grab your free worksheet that walks you step by step through this process. And when you're ready to end the war with food and stop hating your body, schedule your free consult at www.bodyyoucrave.com/schedule . Together...

While many women are curious when I talk about losing weight eating the foods they love, there’s also a sense of fear and anxiety that it won’t work for them and they’ll end up gaining the weight back again.    And I get it. I lived in this constant state of fear for over a decade.    I was either terrified of not losing the weight, or terrified of gaining it back again.    It was a lose-lose batt...

If you’re listening to this podcast, you’ve likely lost weight at some point in your life… but then it found you again.    The reality is, that’s expected based on the diet rules we try to follow.    So whether you re-gained 5 pounds or 50 pounds, I’ll show you how to get back on track without all the shame, judgement, and self criticism.    You’ll learn:  The only two reasons you regain weight (a...

The New Year always brings refreshed motivation and excitement for weight loss, but those feelings are fleeting. And let’s be real, most of us ditch our habits and goals by March and can’t even remember them the next year.    That’s ok, but let’s make this year different.    In this episode you’ll learn:  Why sticking with new year's resolutions feels so hard.    The 3 counterintuitive keys to hit...

Before we look forward to 2022 it’s important we look backwards and really assess 2021. The key is to assess with curiosity and learning, instead of blame, shame, and judgement (which is how we typically 'assess'). Join me for today's episode where I share: Why we lose anticipation for our weight loss goals, which leaves us sputtering out by March. The #1 fear holding us back from believing in our...

It's easy to blame circumstances (like travel, the holidays, eating out) for why we can't lose weight or stick with eating plans... But just because you're out of a "normal" routine doesn't mean you're destined to gain weight. In today's episode, I'll show you how to make weight loss simple, easy and fun, even while traveling and eating out.  You'll learn: How we make it harder on ourselves to los...

Ever feel like the holidays are stressful? "There’s so much to do and not enough time!" The problem is that we blame situations for our stress & overwhelm instead of understanding where stress REALLY comes from.  Stress is a FEELING, which means it comes from our THOUGHTS. You create YOUR OWN STRESS, just like I create my own stress. And that's the beautiful part - because now I get to be the...

Have you ever been told to "just say no" to the 'bad' foods or foods you shouldn't be eating?   Do you feel like losing weight requires you to say no to foods you love and enjoy?   Do you ever feel like if you could just muster up more willpower, then you could stick with your diet and actually lose the weight?   Well then you're in luck! Because "just say no" is terrible diet advice, and frankly...