Lose Weight. Live Life. Podcast

  Discover how you can use the Mindset Model to help you understand how your thoughts and feelings are causing you to overeat.   Learn what causes you to feel unhappy about your weight and what you can do about it.   And identify the truths keep you stuck from making progress on your weight loss journey.   About Clair:     CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND...

  Weight loss results are about so much more than the number on the scale.   Often when the number on the scale isn't coming down, or not coming down quickly enough we think that our weight loss efforts aren't working, worth it, or paying off… but nothing could be further than the truth.   Learn all about the non-metric results of changing your relationship with food on your weight loss journey on...

  Listen in to this episode to hear about the challenges we can expect when we choose, or are forced, to make changes in our life. Learn what it is that makes change challenging and feel difficult at times and discover how we can make change easier and appreciate the journey.   There are many parallels to be drawn between the challenge of change as it relates to losing weight and creating a relati...

  On this episode I talk about letting go of the default negative thoughts and beliefs that you have about yourself.   We spend so much time doing and so little time being.   We don't stop to question the incessant chatter, the dialogue we have running in the back of our mind.   We might notice the day feels difficult, or we feel a bit 'down in the dumps', but we don't contemplate why.   And often...

  On this episode I chat to my husband about his diabetes diagnosis and management.   More people than ever have diabetes. In the US 14.3% of people have Type 2 diabetes and 38% are pre diabetic. That's more than half of the population.     Many people do not realise the catastrophic effect diabetes has on the entire body. In the US Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness and the leading cause...

  So today I am talking to you about everything to do with eating when you're not preparing your own meals to have at home. So I am talking about eating in restaurants as a part of a social occasion, dining in others homes, eating on the go when traveling, work entertaining – all the things that you've maybe not had to think about for a long while.   It's not the eating out that makes things chall...

  Listen in to this episode to learn about journaling and how it can help you on journey to create a relationship with food that you love.   One of things that distinguishes us humans from other animal species is our ability to observe our own thinking. Our thoughts underpin who we are, what we do, and what we create in our lives. Having the ability to choose our thinking is a human super power bu...

    On this episode I share something a little different. A Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy member recently asked me a question about my personal weight loss mindset changes on one of our live calls. It was a great question and made me think about the changes that occurred over time, and how some of my mindset shifts were intentional and others were not.   And the reason that I want to share my re...

  On this episode I address why we don't take better care of ourselves and how we can incorporate self-care into our lives more easily.   On the surface it seems crazy that we don't take better care of ourselves. We intellectually know that our physical and emotional well-being is one of our highest, if not the highest, priorities in our life. And yet we push self-care activities, doing all the th...

  On this episode I talk to you about proactive emotional health. Just like physical health, mental health affects us all. And in just the same way that there is a direct relationship between our weight and physical health, there is also a very distinct correlation between weight and our mental health. Listen in to learn about five things you can do to proactively improve your emotional wellbeing....

  On this episode I talk to you about lockdown weight gain.   I'm hearing lots of you tell me how you're starting to feel very uncomfortable about the weight you've gained during lockdown because maybe you're seeing people you've not seen for a while or starting to wear more clothes in your wardrobe. Listen in today as I talk you through three ways to start to feel better right now.   About Clair:...

  On this episode I introduce you to the BALANCE Pathway.   The B.A.L.A.N.C.E Pathway will transform your physical and emotional well-being. It's your step-by-step approach to balance eating for nourishment with eating for pleasure, to balance your emotional life, and to help you empower your inner mentor and take control of your inner critic.   The difference between the BALANCE Pathway and a die...

Learn about the many different types of eating that you may be doing.   Discover the difference between fuel eating, withdrawal eating and the many variations of emotional eating that you do.   There is nothing wrong with any eating pattern done in moderation and in a balanced way. But when your eating patterns creates problems in your life it's time to do something about it. Understanding your ea...

  On this episode I talk about the gift of giving yourself a full 12-months to prioritise and create permanent weight loss in your life.   Now I know that when I wanted to lose weight the thought of having to work at it for a full 12-months would have filled me with horror but working on it for 12-months is not the same as waiting for 12-months to feel amazing.   So, listen in to this episode if y...

  On this episode find out ten ways to help yourself get what you want from specials occasions.   How many times have you been on a diet and been totally derailed by over indulging when you've had a special occasion?  So often it's now about what you eat during the meal out or celebration itself, it's about what happens next.   Listen in to this episode for insights into how you can truly get what...

This episode is all about whether there is a right, or a better time, to lose weight.   You are invited to be curious about what you may be waiting for and why thinking 'it's not the right time' may be holding you back from living the life that you want. Listen in to discover: whether there is a right, or better time, to focus on weight loss; the difference between the right time to lose weight vs...

On this episode explore what's going on when sometimes eating in a way that enables you to lose weight feels easy, and then at other times it feels incredibly difficult.     Find out about dwindling motivation in the absence of weight loss rewards and loss of commitment as you start to feel the benefits of your weight loss that can make losing weight more difficult the closer you get to your goal....

  When dinner or food, or any eating or drinking, is the highlight of your day – then you're going to want to figure out what's going on for you.   In this episode we explore what to do if you think you have overly positive associations with food and eating compared to other aspects of your life. We consider whether the problem is your life or just how you're thinking and feeling about it. And I g...

  Obesity is a problem of epidemic proportions. It costs us billions each year. And the problem is rapidly worsening.   When I was at my heaviest, I estimate I had a BMI of at least 42 putting me in the morbidly obese category. On today's podcast I share my thoughts about obesity and how it's a problem created by the modern world in which we live. I talk about how I managed to let go of my shame a...

  On this episode I talk to you about weight loss motivation. We explore what motivation is and how to create it. We dive deep into your reasons for wanting to lose weight. And we consider how motivation to help you make the moment-by-moment decisions that serve you throughout your weight loss journey might be more useful to you than motivation to achieve the goal at the end of your weight loss jo...

  On this episode I talk to you about food planning. Food planning is a tool that will help you see the difference between lower brain and higher brain food related thinking.   Whilst food planning in and of itself helps you to eat in way that is going to help you lose weight, or have more nourishing and nutritious meals, the magic of food planning is that it's going to help you see how you are us...

  Self-love is about having an inner acceptance and gentle toughness of knowing that you have your own back. That you are prepared to be your own best friend. That you can be gentle and patient with yourself, as well as being persistent and resilient.   When you love yourself first, you love the work in progress that is you instead of chasing 'the you' of your perfectionist fantasies.   Join me to...

  Today's episode is about losing weight during lockdown. My clients have lots of thoughts about losing weight during lockdown. Some of them think that being in lockdown makes weight loss easier, some of them think it makes lockdown more difficult. And recently some of my clients who are doing really well and creating a relationship with food that they love, and losing weight as a part of that pro...

On this episode we explore what's going on for us when we're thinking we're not on track or that we cannot get back on track. And I'm guessing that even if that's not your experience right now, that you know what I am relating to.   In fact, this idea of not being able to get back on track, is often one of our greatest fears when our weight loss is going well, and we are eating what we've planned....

  When your approach to weight loss has been a restrictive diet, it's likely that when you think about losing weight, you're thinking of a process that you want to be over as quickly as possible.   Your focus in on the end goal, your target weight or a certain clothes size, or a health improvement and you expect to feel deprived, frustrated, and other negative emotions as a part of the process and...