Lose Weight. Live Life. Podcast

On this episode we explore the reasons why we feel the urge to eat. Many of you think the reason you've not lost weight, or that you've lost it and regained it, is because you're not disciplined or strong willed enough, but that's not the case. The path to losing weight is to first understand the reasons why you feel the urge to eat. Because once you understand how you are using food, then you can...

Today's podcast episode is all about taking the next level on your weight loss journey. No matter if you're yet to get started, in the messy middle or close to achieving your dream relationship with food, it's always going to be useful to notice where you are and investigate what the next level of skill mastery could look like for you.   About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HE...

Join me as I get personal on this episode about how I ate on holiday, how much weight I gained, how I lost it again and what I learned about my relationship with food, myself and my life.   About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE. Clair's uses an array of...

You figuring out how you want to eat for life is one big experiment and to not write down what you eat is akin to being a scientist in a lab session who takes no notes and observes what they think is happening without writing down any facts or numbers. As you can imagine no one would take them seriously, which is why if you're serious about losing weight permanently and creating a relationship wit...

Listen in to this podcast episode and discover the most important skill you are going to want to learn, to ensure this weight loss journey is your last one. Building on from last week's episode, this week we focus on the importance of knowing what to do after you overeat, emotionally eat, or just eat differently to how you planned or wanted to eat.   About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT...

You can prepare yourself for permanent weight loss no matter where you are on your weight loss journey. But before you do, you're going to want to think about what permanent weight loss will look like for you. You may have an expectation of what permanent weight loss is like, but your expectation may differ from your reality. Listen in to this episode to consider how you want permanent weight loss...

This week's podcast is for you if you think that you have a lot of weight to lose. No matter the number of pounds, if you're feeling daunted, frustrated or ashamed of how much weight you want to lose, you're unknowingly making your weight loss journey more difficult. In fact, it may even feel burdensome to get started. Listen in to find ways of helping you get unstuck and learn how to not make the...

This week's podcast is a look under the covers of the Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy where you get to listen in on a call from last year all about portion control. If you suspect that a part of creating the relationship with food that you want is learning how to not overeat at meal times, then this podcast episode is for you.   About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMAL...

Doing what we can to prevent becoming unwell is the best approach when it comes to our physical health and well-being, but have you considered how you are proactively taking care of other aspects of your wellbeing.  Taking care of our wellness across all areas of our life is vital to helping us create the relationship with food that we want to have. Listen in to this episode to explore the eight d...

  In this podcast episode we explore the connection between loneliness and overeating. All of us experience loneliness at some time in our life. And for those of us who also struggle with overeating the relationship between loneliness and emotional eating can be complex.   Listen in to this episode to both explore what to do when you want to stop turning to food to comfort yourself when you feel l...

  There are lots of factors to consider that impact your weight, from your age, your lifestyle, to certain medical conditions, and genetics. All the things. But none of these are the primary reason that you aren't the weight that you want to be. The primary reason is the relationship you have with food and the relationship you have with food is determined by how you think about food, yourself, and...

On this episode we explore your self-image. Your self-image is a collection of thoughts and beliefs that you have about how your appearance, personality and abilities. Your self-image will always be a continuous cycle of how you're thinking, what you're feeling and doing or not doing, which will feed right back into how you're thinking about yourself as well as determining the life that you have....

On this episode we explore how being open minded and having a growth mindset can help you create the weight loss results that you want, whereas being closed minded and having a fixed mindset can keep you stuck and hold you back from making progress on your weight loss journey.     About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY...

On this episode we explore the concept of 'Meeting yourself where you're at' with regards to digging into the truth of the foods that you 'want' to eat.   So often, we've spent years and decades thinking that we cannot eat what we want to eat. This is partly due to a diet mentality way of being that has become normal in society in recent decades. And when we are encouraged to fully own what we wan...

On this episode I answer 6 questions that came up during the Finding Food Freedom Weight Coaching Mindset Experience Week, that are questions that many of us ask when we're just setting out on our weight loss journey.   About Clair:   CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR...

Get a sneak peek inside The Academy with this training on Food, Feelings and Urges that's been the focus this month. Not only will you get insight into the trainings available to you in The Academy, in addition to the multiple live coaching calls every week. You'll also learn: what's going on, step-by-step, when you experience the urge to eat for emotional reasons; and strategies for what to do wh...

Today I am talking to you about why now, right now, no matter what is going on in your life, is the right time for you to make yourself a priority and work on creating a relationship with food and yourself that you love. And it may, or it may not, be the right time for you to work at losing weight. In this episode... How you can improve your relationship with food and yourself no matter what's goi...

Join me on this episode as I talk about the impact of the new UK legislation to publish calories on restaurant menus in the UK. What are the challenges it presents and how can we use it to help and not hinder our dining experience, our relationship with food and weight loss journey. And we consider the challenges it presents for those with eating disorders and how you can both be helped and help o...

Join me on this episode as I share what it means to Find Food Freedom for me and members of the Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy. And as always, it's not just about the food, it's also about experiencing freedom in everything we think, feel and do in connection with food and ourselves. And it's about what it means to feel food freedom in our mind, body, brain, and emotions.   About Clair: CLAIR MAC...

Join me on this episode as I talk about 'Feeling Emotion'. Eating is a very normal way for us humans to manage our emotions, but when we're using food to manage our emotions to the extent that we're unhealthy or unhappy with our weight, then it's time to look for new solutions to emotionally regulate. If you know you eat to feel better or avoid feeling stressed or bored or lonely, and you would li...

When the sun comes out in Spring, and we're reminded that summer is around the corner it can feel a bit bittersweet when you're unhappy with your weight. If you can relate, join me on this episode for hints and tips about what you can do to break that on/off diet cycle that doesn't give you what you want; and learn to appreciate your body, no matter its weight, size, or shape; ultimately dropping...

Join me on this episode as I talk about what to do when you can't get started with weight loss. About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE Clair's uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their e...

Join me on this episode as I talk about the emotions we feel when something significant and undesirable happens in our life when we feel uncertain about what's going to happen next. You might think of this as worry or anxiety or fear. It doesn't matter how you describe and label the emotion if you can relate to feeling the discomfort of not knowing this episode is for you.   About Clair: CLAIR MAC...

This episode is for you if you sometimes feel as though doing the things that will help you lose weight is just too difficult.  This might feel like intense resistance against doing the things a part of you either want to or is telling you, that you should do. Or it may feel like you are being weighed down by your own emotions, or thoughts such as 'it's too hard'.   About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS...

It can be easy to get into the habit of only taking a break from our busy day when we eat. And this can be problematic because we end up using food to give us a break instead of fuelling us when we're hungry. So, on this podcast episode, we explore ways to break that habit and incorporate more non-food nourishment as a part of our day-to-day, so that we don't seek food as a solution to having a mo...