THE CONFIDENT BODY PODCAST - Brain-based strategies and self-compassion practices to unlock your full potential

Today we’re gonna get deep. A lot of times when we want to lose weight, there are the normal reasons - feel better, healthier, fit into clothes, confident, etc.  But sometimes we run into roadblocks on the way there. And if you’re just following a diet plan, it’s hard to uncover what’s slowing you down.  In my work with clients, the more we work together, we often find that beneath the surface the...

Why does losing weight have to come from a place of dissatisfaction?  Why can’t we love our bodies and lose weight too?  In today’s special bonus episode, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Sonja Janisse, founder and CEO at Fresh Approach Fitness.    Sony has such a special kind of energy that is just so magnetic and infectious. Sonya made it so easy. I felt like I was talking to an old f...

Have you ever heard yourself say “I tend to be pretty hard on myself.” or “I can be a bit of a perfectionist.” or maybe you hear yourself say “I beat myself up when I blow it.”    Today we’re talking about how that kind of thinking actually holds you back and LITERALLY leads to worse results.   Plus what to do instead so that you can actually move towards the results you’re looking for.   Ready to...

How many times have you looked in the mirror and thought “I look fat in these pants.” or “I can’t wear sleeveless shirts because of the chicken wings on my arms.”    Thanks to movies, magazines, society and of course, social media, we have these expectations of how we should be or how we should look and when we don’t measure up, we beat ourselves up.    That can be rough because now you find yours...

Have you ever had a day where you’ve been on a roll, doing well for a little while. And then inexplicably, you find yourself going off the rails?    Maybe you’re at an event and the cookie plate is just right THERE in front of you. Or maybe it’s 3:47pm and the kids snacks just look good and then you find yourself going back for 2nd, 3rd, or 4th serving.    And even while you’re eating you’re think...

How many times have you tried a New Year’s cleanse or a 30 day strict diet to kick start things?    Maybe you stuck to the plan, maybe not. But over time, whatever changes you may have seen during that intense time frame didn’t stick.    And that can make you feel like you’re starting over again every time and ends up leading to the yo-yo cycle of down and then back up the scale.    Today we’re go...

Have you ever looked at an old photo of yourself and thought “Wow, I look so skinny in that picture! I’d be happy to weigh what I weighed then!”    …and yet you remember when that picture was taken.    You felt self conscious then.  You wanted to lose weight then.  You were thinking THEN … “I’ll be happy when I’m X weight or when I lose 10 lbs.”    How much of our lives do we spend living for “whe...

How many times have you walked through your day constantly reminding yourself “Ugh these pants are too tight. I need to lose weight.”    It can be just THE WORST when your clothes remind you all the time that you’re not at the size you want to be.    But those negative feelings accumulate throughout the day and you end up trying to muscle your way down the scale with willpower and chastising yours...

Do you ever feel like you did great all week, from Monday till about 5:27 pm on Friday and then you end up undoing all your hard work over the course of the weekend? How should it be possible that just 2 days of being less strict can override 5 days of awesome? It’s so frustrating!    Today we’re going to talk about…  Why we tend to blow our progress on the weekends,  What’s going on in your brain...

Have you ever tried a 30 day challenge or a 90 fitness program and felt really motivated at the start, but sorta secretly worried in your heart that you weren’t sure you could keep it up the whole 30 days or 90 days?    We tend to do that with weight loss and particularly with diets. We start off strong and feel super motivated! But there’s this fear in the back of your mind that says…    “What if...

In the last 2 episodes, we’ve talked about  What self-sabotage is Why it happens How if you’re human, it’s normal to self-sabotage And the 3 step process to bust through self-sabotaging thoughts and behavior.    And there are 7 categories of common thoughts that lead to self-sabotage. Be aware of these common traps and learn how to avoid them.   Falling off the wagon Food labeling “I don’t want to...

Self-sabotage happens to EVERYONE. If you have a human brain, you have the capacity for self sabotage.    In this episode we talk about the 3 step process you can use to take those old self-sabotaging thoughts and make them work to your advantage.   We also talk about 5 specific “SNEAKY SABOTAGERS”: sneaky thoughts that can derail your progress and how to turn them around so they don’t trip you up...

Have you ever tried to lose weight and and began to see some success and you’re like “I’ve got this!”   But then something strange happened on your way down the scale.    Maybe subtly, maybe suddenly, but definitely inexplicably, you stopped doing the behaviors that helped you have some of that success in the first place.    And you’re like “Why am I sabotaging myself?”    In this episode, we’re g...

Have you ever tried to lose weight - maybe been on a diet or a specific program - and you’re working really hard. Maybe you had some success the first few weeks, but things tapered off and you’re FEELING FRUSTRATED and you want to quit?  Today we’re going to talk about:  Why that happens  How it’s NORMAL that it happens  And the 5 things you can do to help yourself move past that feeling. If you’r...

If I could only ever give you 2 pieces of advice on how to make weight loss sustainable, this episode covers the first one: meal planning. (The other would be that how you talk to yourself is more important than what’s on your plate, but that’s a different podcast.)    Today’s episode is packed!  We’re going to talk about:  Why meal planning makes weight loss so much easier,  Bust through some of...

Have you ever looked at an old picture of yourself and thought how good you looked? You think, "I’d love to have that body now!" But you remember when it was taken and the thoughts in your mind at that time weren’t happy then either. You're not alone! So many folks feel the same way.  Today we're talking about why that happens and how it's not your fault.  Plus 3 specific action steps for how to f...

Have you ever had a day where you stepped up to the scale expecting to see a happy number (because you know you’ve been doing all the right things.) Then inexplicably, that number is NOT a happy number. You think “How can this be happening? And then the rest of your day you walk around with a cloud of unhappy thoughts following you. Today we’re going to talk about the SCALE. -> How it gets in o...

It’s natural to want to see progress. It's part of our human nature. That’s why weight loss can be so hard because it takes time and patience. In this episode we cover: 1) How to look at progress differently. 2) How to create simple action steps to make it easy to get started. 3) And the one type of food that makes an outside impact on your weight loss efforts.   Learn more! www.confidentbody.coac...

You are not broken. Diets go against the grain of how our brains are wired. The diet mentality keeps us stuck in self sabotaging thinking. In addition, we make it harder for ourselves by thinking "I'll be happy when I lose weight" versus "I choose to be happy WHILE I lose weight.  Instead, think of weight loss like nurturing a garden rather than running a race towards a finish line.    Learn more!...

Stop feeling like you are the problem and start working WITH the natural wiring of your brain to lose weight.    This podcast helps you see yourself and your body as a miracle so you can stop waiting to lose weight in order to participate in life. If you want to look in the mirror and see what’s RIGHT about you…Learn solutions that are easy and fit your busy life…Find out how to train your brain f...