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

Food freedom is simply living your life feeling in control of the food that you eat instead of feeling like food controls you. If you are a professional dieter, this may seem practically impossible but when you learn to undiet your brain and get off of the weight loss struggle bus, you will be pleasantly surprised when your thoughts about food decrease.  In today’s episode, I talk about why food f...

Surprise! In this bonus episode, you're going to hear an interview I did (via live stream) with Lose Your Next 10 Pounds Without Dieting challenge participant, Caryn Rivers. Caryn has participated in every free challenge that I've offered and is a model student.  In this interview, you'll hear how she was able to lose 10 pounds in last year's challenge and has been able to keep it off for over a y...

We are living in stressful times. There isn't a corner of the globe that hasn't been affected by the coronavirus. In the United States, add on a tumultuous presidential election, economic uncertainty, global warming, plus our struggle to lose weight. This stress can cause us to accumulate more fat or at least slow down our body's ability to metabolize fat.  Simply put, chronic stress makes losing...

In this episode, we’re talking about fake hunger -- what it is and how to ignore it. When I start working with my clients, I find that many of them don't really know when they are truly physically hungry. This is because they aren’t aware of the 3 types of fake hunger that they experience.  Diets allow us to ignore our body's true hunger signals. Dieters are used to following a plan with a schedul...

Today we're talking about everyone's favorite pastime...snacking!  We LOVE to snack. In fact, studies show that snack sales have increased by 20% since the pandemic began this year. Our snack habit is a sneaky one because, for so many years, we were told that eating snacks in between meals was a good thing. Two snacks in between meals are exactly what our bodies need to keep that metabolism runnin...

If you are feeling irritable, stressed, anxious, tired but unable to sleep, unmotivated, or less productive and as a result, your appetite has gone into overdrive, then you may be feeling the effects from Corona-Fatigue.  Corona-Fatigue is overwhelming. The uncertainty, unpredictability and all the unknowns are exhausting. But, you are not alone -- I was suffering right along with you. In this epi...

In today's episode, I am interviewing Veronica. Veronica came to me after struggling with her weight since childhood. She was able to lose 80 pounds after having weight loss surgery but quickly realized the surgery was just a physical fix. There was still more work for her to do in order to lose more weight. Her story is fascinating, engaging, and oh so inspiring.  Listen in and discover the one t...

Getting started on a new weight loss journey can be intimidating and scary -- especially when you have tried diet after diet after diet after diet and nothing has worked. It’s easy to have absolutely no belief in yourself or the process. When we feel this way it's really easy to talk ourselves out of committing to something new. But wait. There is hope. This episode will provide you with a powerfu...

We just wrapped up the free 6-day Lose Your Next 10 Pounds Weight Loss Challenge today and it was ah-mazing! We covered several weight loss topics during the challenge and I wanted to know which had the most impact. I took a poll and asked the group which was their most eye-opening topic and the majority selected this one - Love the Journey Until You Reach Your Destination. So I want to share it w...

I thought it would be super valuable to talk about some of the common themes I see from women while on their weight loss journeys and share some solutions. So in today's episode, I will share with you 5 questions to disrupt your current thoughts and beliefs about weight. When we struggle with our weight, many times it's because we are unaware of patterns and behaviors that cause us to overeat. I e...

How many of you would like to evolve to that place where you don't have to diet anymore? If your goal is to Stop. Dieting. Forever.™, you have to essentially recreate your brain. You have to replace all of the beliefs that you currently have about food, all of the beliefs that you have about your body, and replace them with new ones. In this episode, I discuss the evolution that is required to Sto...

In this episode, I share what you really need to lose weight. You will be surprised to learn that your tool kit for weight loss can consist of two simple things, a plan and some discipline.  For professional dieters, planning is easy. It’s the discipline part that trips us up. Listen in to gain a new perspective of discipline on your weight loss journey. I promise you will actually want to work on...

When I use the term overeat, I don't always mean eating uncontrollably and binging on everything. I am talking about things like eating the last few chicken fingers off of your kid's plate or eating the last banana that's sitting on the counter because you don't want it to go bad. These are things that you often do without a thought. You overeat because you don't know how to think like a person wh...

Professional dieters, I have something really important to tell you and why it's crucial that you commit to learning how to stop dieting so you can start living your life. I know what it feels like to spend an inordinate amount of time worried about weight. Mind drama with weight is the same whether you have 5 pounds to lose or 500 pounds. It is time to stop exerting so much energy on your weight...

In today’s episode, I am interviewing my client, Lusharn. We have been working together for seven weeks and in that time she has lost 10 pounds -- without dieting.  LuLu, who is a registered nurse, came to me frustrated and worried because diet and exercise weren’t working. She had gotten to the point where she thought that something was physically wrong with her body and that it “wasn’t designed...

"It's not good enough" is a common underlying thought that women who struggle with their weight often have. They discount the work that they've done and the weight that they have lost because they aren't yet at their goal. I want you to put those negative thoughts into captivity.  If you're on the edge right now and every day, you wake up thinking that what you're doing isn't working and you're ju...

If you've ever gotten frustrated with your lack of progress so you quit your workouts AND your diet, this episode is for you. One of the many diet rules we've been told was in order to lose weight, we must eat less and move more. If your goal is to truly Stop. Dieting. Forever.™, it's time to unravel all the old thoughts and beliefs that you have about weight loss. So if you've been struggling to...

Life as we know it has continued to change drastically and very quickly. As we are still coping with the uncertainty during this worldwide COVID 19 pandemic, our country is in an uproar over the violent deaths of Mr. George Floyd, Mr. Ahmaud Arbery , and Ms. Brionna Taylor. So here we are in 2020 and the band-aid of racism has been ripped off. America is hurting and everyone is experiencing it dif...

Welcome to the Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ podcast! This podcast is for you if… You feel stuck in a place where you stopped seeing results from your current diet. You feel like it's so hard to stay on track even though you were laser-focused when you started your weight loss journey. You have reached your goal weight, but ended up gaining it back and you feel like you just don't have the discipline n...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about what happens when you feel like you’re doing ALL THE THINGS to lose weight, and nothing is working. I truly believe that the excess weight that you carry on your body is the manifestation of all the craziness going on in your life. And I also believe that to lose that weight and keep it off forever you must stop trying to do ALL OF THE THINGS. Before you...

The problem with most diets is that they don’t teach you how to think. They just tell you what to do. They give you a boat load of cookie-cutter rules to follow that won’t work for everybody. In order for you to Stop. Dieting. Forever.™, you will want to learn how to create your own rules that work for your body.  In today’s episode, I walk you through the process of creating your own rules starti...

Recorded March 16, 2020 Life as we know it has changed drastically and very quickly. If you're having a hard time dealing with all the uncertainty during this worldwide pandemic, what I have to share may help you. This is a recording of a live presentation I did on March 16, 2020. In it, I share my own fears about the coronavirus and how I was able to #flipthescript in my mind to get me to a much...