Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ | Weight Loss for Women over 40

Have you ever gotten to a point in your weight loss journey where your weight loss is proceeding nicely? You’re losing weight and then “something” happens… you revert back to your old eating habits. You go from being all in to not caring. Then you feel disappointed and frustrated when you think about your inability to lose weight yet again, so you decide to give up. Does this sound familiar? If so...

Losing weight is about more than just diet and exercise. Your thoughts also shape your body. Yes, that's right! An additional component to losing weight is getting your mind right. Your mind is incredibly powerful and learning to use it properly will help you lose weight and keep it off for good. I see my clients sabotage their current weight loss because deep down they believe they won’t be able...

So you decide to restart your weight loss journey. Your enthusiasm is palpable and this time you’re going to do whatever it takes to rid yourself of those excess pounds. It all goes well for the first few weeks and then your weight loss completely stalls. Some days you’re even gaining weight and you’re convinced that something has gone wrong. And then you have the thought that “Getting to my goal...

We all need time to relax and reinvigorate ourselves. Chances are you have a vacation coming up because it's peak travel season. I've been busy moving around session dates for a lot of my private clients because they're traveling -- going to fun places like Mexico and Disney and Jamaica. After a long period of not traveling because of the pandemic, we are ready to get out and see the world again....

If you're building a business and you're using food to deal with the emotions that go along with building a business, you want to make sure you listen to this episode more than once and take some notes. Even if you're not an entrepreneur, I know you are going to learn so much from our conversation that you can apply to improve your life. Today I am joined by Corinne Crabtree. Corinne is a top-rank...

In today's episode, I talk about the idea of creating your own weight loss rules. For some people, it's never dawned on them how to lose weight without following a diet. This belief is why so many women struggle with their weight. Is this you? Are you constantly trying to follow someone else's rules for weight loss? Guess what?! You don't have to do this anymore. I am here to emancipate you from e...

How often do you get that lazy feeling? You know the one. It’s that heavy feeling that weighs down your entire body so the only things you really feel like doing are watching TV, surfing the Internet, or taking a nap instead of exercising or meal prepping. Listen, nothing has gone wrong. This is 100% normal. We all feel like that sometimes.  This lazy feeling is a serious productivity killer but t...

While we all know that healthy eating, regular exercise, quality sleep, and ample water intake can all help us shed unwanted pounds. These are all actions. Not everyone has the internal motivation and discipline needed to adopt new habits and maintain them over time. That's why if we don’t know where we are going and how we expect to feel and think once we reach the destination, we won’t know how...

In case you didn't know, summer is the best season to focus on losing weight for soooo many reasons. There are a lot of factors that can support that, but one reason is that cold weather in the winter deviates us from our goal. Can you say comfort food and cozy sweats?  The availability of summer foods and warmer weather help us stay energetic and motivated. So yes, it's possible to lose weight mo...

Romantic relationships are extremely influential to your waistline. Not surprisingly, our eating habits and eating patterns have an impact on the quality of our marriages. Proper nutrition helps our overall feeling of wellness. If we enjoy a certain sense of wellness and mental health, we will be better equipped to show up in our relationships.  So how can you manage being happily married without...

Everyone knows that losing weight and keeping it off is a challenge. So imagine setting a weight-loss goal, achieving it, and then going on vacation. How do you maintain that weight loss and withstand the temptations of wanting to eat and drink all the things? It ain't easy, friends, but that's exactly the scenario my client Monica encountered recently. As a private client of the Stop. Dieting. Fo...

Do any of these sound familiar? You feel deeply upset if you make a mistake or you wait until the last minute to do things...or maybe not at all? If you do, you could be suffering from perfectionism and it’s sabotaging your weight loss goal. What you're doing is putting off committing to your weight loss journey until everything is perfect. The problem is, life isn't perfect. Work, kids, family, c...

Are you a member of the clean plate club? This is when you let your eyes decide how much you should eat by piling all the things on your plate and then feeling obligated to eat it all. If this is you then this episode is for you my friend! Forcing yourself to overeat teaches you to ignore your body's signals that you’ve had enough. This can set you up for a lifetime of eating when not hungry. I wa...

Many people throw themselves completely into weight loss, taking their efforts from zero to one hundred instantly. While complete commitment is certainly a requirement, this type of drastic change is very difficult to sustain.  A more effective weight loss mindset involves slowly establishing new habits and routines. Instead of committing to running every day, going to yoga, and eliminating carbs,...

Hey Luxe Lifer! This is a podcast takeover..shhh, don't tell Jennifer, lol. My name is Collet McKenzie of colletmckenzie.com . I am Jennifer’s Podcast Manager and I am here to celebrate the Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ Podcast one year anniversary. Yes, that’s right. It’s been an entire year already! So thank you Luxe Lifer for your continued support.  Listen, did you know that most podcasts burn out...

Today's episode was inspired by a question I received from a woman I was doing a consult with recently. Towards the end of the call, I asked if she had any additional questions and she asked me a question that no one has ever asked before on a consult.  I share that powerful question in the episode, but it prompted me to think about my clients. What are the common catalysts that are accelerating t...

Have you ever had the thought that you can't lose weight no matter what you try? I am raising my hand because this was me at one point. The dirty little secret of the dieting industry is that many diets will fail. Yet we are still bombarded with the message that if you just find the right diet then we will be successful. This can take a huge emotional toll on you. Listen, you’re not alone if you f...

Who said you can’t lose weight after a certain age?! My over -50 clients are telling a different story. For many women, maintaining a healthy weight or losing excess body fat can become harder as the years go by. However, with the Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ process, you can lose weight at any age and you can do it without dieting.  In celebration of our 50th episode, I'm excited to share with you a...

Has this ever happened to you? You've followed your eating plan to a tee from Monday to Friday. But despite your best intentions, your weekend is filled with food you didn’t plan for and you overeat.  Why do we do that and how do we stop? Well, you don't want to miss this episode because I am going to share some simple strategies to help you break the cycle of indulging all weekend, and then reset...

The scale is an important and useful tool for reaching or maintaining weight loss but sometimes stepping on the scale can be a negative experience. The moment you step on a scale you decide things about yourself. Whether you’re fat or thin, whether you’ve succeeded or failed, perhaps even how you feel about yourself as a person. Daily weight loss fluctuations are part of the weight loss process an...

Anxiety can cause a loss of appetite or an increase in appetite. Today we will take a look at using food to cope with anxiety. For many people, it is the most frequently cited reason among a list of emotions that trigger overeating. Often without realizing it, we fall into a habit of eating when we feel worried, anxious, nervous, or stressed. This is 100% normal. However, understanding what is cau...

A weekly fun meal is a strategy that is part of the Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ process.  I believe that a fun meal is good for your body, mind, and soul. And planning a weekly fun meal can help you LOSE weight. The key is to plan for your weekly fun meal as part of your weekly meal plan. So instead of letting your emotional brain run the show, you're being intentional and planning ahead of time to e...

If you've been on a diet in your day, you have learned to label food in one of two categories, healthy foods or fattening foods. We have been trained to believe that certain foods are good because they allow us to lose weight and other foods are bad because they supposedly make us gain weight.  Here’s the thing, when you label the food that you eat, you begin to label the person consuming it -- in...

We have all struggled with delaying, avoiding, and procrastinating on issues that matter to us. It’s just human nature. We want the long-term benefits of the action that we should be taking today but our bratty brain wants the immediate gratification of the present moment.  And so what do we do?  We avoid the things that we know we should be doing. Procrastination stems from a simple thought like,...

Tired of trying and failing to lose weight? Have you lost count of how many times you set out to lose weight but always seem to end up back at the starting line?   I totally understand how you are feeling. The thought of starting over when you’ve failed before is hard. Don't worry, though--failure doesn't mean the end, it's just an opportunity to try again in a different way. So if what you're doi...