Project Weight Loss

Send us Fan Mail Processing our emotions can lead us to forgive ourselves, free us to act and resolve our own problems. And in the end, it is usually not as bad as we think. You see forgiveness of oneself requires some bravery that we all have in us. Just enough bravery to move us to resolve our own setbacks.  I want us to see that forgiveness is a process that we are the Maesters over. That it al...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast episode is being released during the holidays and I wanted to have a conversation with you around the topic of forgiveness of others during this important time. This is a two part series. I want to share my understanding of it, share my story and share what the Maesters say on this topic.  This year, I humbly ask that you allow yourself the possibility of finding forg...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are demystifying the Ketogenic Diet.  The big takeaways are first and foremost consult your doctor for your specific needs, secondly, I am not providing a recommendation either way, but I do want you to have as much information as I can possibly bring you.  And last, I  hope  to bring you what I have learned from research, from the Maesters and from my own experience....

Send us Fan Mail I am super excited today to talk about all things money and to talk a bit about two amazing Maesters, Tony Robbins and an unlikely one, Betty Smith, the author of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. I will also talk about asset allocation a key money concept. I want to share my money mindset, primarily that money in the end is neutral, it is how we see money that creates our relationship wi...

Send us Fan Mail I am super excited today to talk with you about the Brain Science Maester, Susan Peirce Thompson (SPT).  She has helped me to realize that the craziness of yoyo diets was in large part due to the types of foods I ate, not just how much. She made sense of why I could not keep to my plans, no matter how strong the commitment was to stay on plan. She is smart, kind and lives a large...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I bring the science of gratitude to our Project Weight Loss, with the realization that we are extraordinary, in fact more so than we think. I also give you concrete examples and give it all meaning. Join me in this realization and take on the challenge of the gratitude count down. It's easier than we think. Hoping you have a fantastic month of November, the mo...

Send us Fan Mail I am excited to share some valuable tools that can really help you towards your Project Weight Loss goals. Make these holidays different than other years, make it the year that you lose weight and have a great time with no regrets. If you so chose, use my tools to get your holidays supercharged and create new habits and a new identity for this year and the years to come. If you wa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we will be talking about grief, loss and being left. I will also be sharing what I have learned from the two amazing Maesters, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Byron Katie. I will talk about Kubler-Ross' 5 stages of death and dying and her later addition to that list. I will also be sharing the different perspectives on loss and as importantly my perspective on it as...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode we move from the pause and our past to where we want to go. And I offer that what can help us towards our goals is my VERITAS Model. And If you want to get the eBook that gives some infographics to help visualize the model, then head over to my website projectweightloss.org to download it. I hope that you do the work that will serve you towards your goals an...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode we move from the model of our unintentional being to pause and to reflect on what we are feeling. If after  full reflection our feelings do not change, then let’s sit in a pause and take another look.  1.    Ask yourself, why do you feel the same way. 2.    Journal about any new related emotions of the same situation. 3.    Pull out your thoughts and take a...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are discussing the "how" to really dive deep to our Project Weight Loss. For years, I tried and tried and knew what I needed to do to lose weight, but I really did not have any idea as to how I could move myself to take consistent unstoppable action to achieve my Project Weight Loss goals and live the amazing life I live today. I have discovered this for mys...

Send us Fan Mail I am excited about the topic this week, because this is a topic that is so related to the stage of monitoring and controlling of our Project Weight Loss-that  of understanding Cognitive Dissonance. This episode offers some useful tools for addressing cognitive dissonance, and the bias' we hold that are in line with this week’s topic. I also want to respectfully ask that you w...

Send us Fan Mail Our Project Weight Loss’ first milestone is this; that once you let the food go, you rediscover you and become completely unapologetic about who you are and who you are becoming. I am excited for you. Excited for all of it, bring it on I say, the negative emotions you will feel, the peace, and the joy that can follow. The questions below are meant for the awareness of our first mi...

Send us Fan Mail I want to talk with you today about Intermittent Fasting.  Intermittent Fasting put simply, is eating during a restricted timeframe. There are different types of intermittent fasting, one where you restrict your daily eating window to let say a 16: 8-hour window, where you fast for 16 hours and you eat during an 8-hour window. There is also the 5:2 method where you eat for 5 days...

Send us Fan Mail I am super excited today to talk with you about a Maester who has really helped me level up to the next level of my life and that is Tamara Levitt. She is one of the Maesters that has helped me the most with my Project Weight Loss.  And while there are many people who are fantastic when it comes to weight loss. the key part here is that Project Weight Loss is yes, about losing wei...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I am super excited over the Camino de Santiago journey that my sister San and undertook in the beautiful mountains of Galicia Spain, known as Camino Frances-and ending our walk in Finisterre (the end of the world). I am offering a special intention of hope for you on your Project Weight Loss.  The purpose of my walk is to offer gratitude to the world to a higher spirit...

Send us Fan Mail Our conversation this week is about exercise and my thoughts around the decoupling of exercise from weight loss. This is a big separation from what most of us have been thought to think about weight loss. I want your Project Weight Loss to be as seamless and positive as possible and I want you to have the tools and information that I think will get you there. I will be talking abo...

Send us Fan Mail Our conversation this week is about 3 important scales that can level up our Project Weight Loss, and they are the weight scale, the hunger scale and the food scale. The data tells us that the weight scale is our friend. That tracking of our weight daily and seeing it either on paper or on an app, can be very helpful to us.   On average people lose more weight when the weigh thems...

Send us Fan Mail Our conversation this week is about our Project Weight loss as it pertains to the risks and how to monitor and course correct for one of the major risks, events or situations that are unplanned.  I will give you 3 simple tools that will help you take the deep dive into monitoring risks and provide some valuable questions that create a framework for the deep work.  The three steps...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we are talking about the power of commitment.   Commitment starts with the clear intention, vision of what we are committing to do and why we are committing to our Project Weight Loss, then we move towards the mentality of the personal promise, the unspoken promise to ourselves that we will do this. And from this comes an incredible amount of authority, of power, power...

Send us Fan Mail This week, “we are on fire”, and super excited over the Bridge of the Gods Run in the beautiful mountains of Cascade Locks, Oregon, which is in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon.  I have been training for 14 weeks and it has culminated in the run with about 1700 other runners and their families. I will talk about how beautiful it is to look forward to the events and to the connect...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we are discussing the operating guidelines we have in our project weight loss as it pertains to other people, particularly our loved ones. I will talk about how kindness and coming towards our relationships with the understanding that we hold so much power and so much intention from letting others be who they will be while we hold true to who we are. And the gold in thi...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we are moving along on our Project Weight Loss (PWL) towards the execution phase, which for us means that we are becoming unstoppable. I will share in this episode the types of actions, and we will go over some techniques on how to execute our plan, the ability to change our habits. And for this, I talk about what I have learned from the fantastic Maester, Dr. Judson Br...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we are focusing on the “The Food Thing”, or the "eating thing". The idea of what clean eating is and the four types of eating. I will also talk about the Maesters, Fauja Singh and Dr. Joel Fuhrman. I will discuss what I have taken from Dr. Fuhrman’s teachings around his concepts of GBOMBS and eating foods with omega 3 fatty acids. I will also share what I eat...

Send us Fan Mail Don't miss this episode!  This week is very important, because we are focusing on the Maester Zig Ziglar and his lessons on goal setting, role models, writing your story and living your best life. To me, he was the example of a Master Life Coach and I will always treasure his teachings and his story telling. I highly recommend that you read any of his books and check out Zigl...