Weight Loss for Fertility

It’s just about Valentine's day around here, and that means one thing . . . chocolate, right?!   Not so fast ;)  Valentine's day is synonymous with candy, but it doesn’t have to be.  In this episode I’m going to help you expand your thinking to creatively express love without adding calories. Food is not love.   Food is (yummy) fuel.   Love is love. Tune in...

What and who is your future self, and how in the world do you “love” on her in order to lose weight easily? In the next 20 minutes, your future self will have more information and tools to help set you up for success, not only with weight loss, but anything else you want for your life by showing you how to build a loving, trusting relationship with yourself. Caring about your own experience in the...

As Americans, our culture has trained us to believe that more is always better. More status, more money, more space, more likes, more money.  This drive can work in our favor sometimes: As humans, it draws on our natural instinct - survival Spurs innovation - do it better, stronger, faster Supports motivation - do more, have more BUT, it can also lead to feeling: Never satisfied Depressed Pur...

So many of us think it takes too much time to lose weight. We start thinking of the calorie counting, figuring out a new app or formula, complicated recipes or hours in the grocery store, and kitchen meal prepping. Maybe even waking up at 5 am to fit in some gym time…the list goes on and on and it is EXHAUSTING. If we think that’s the only way, no wonder we give up before we start! But here’s the...

This week is a continuation of last week's episode 61, so if you haven’t listened to that one yet, take a moment and go back to check it out before tuning in to this episode. In this week's episode, we dive a little deeper into some of Byron Katie’s transformative work, specifically two exercises that changed me:  The morning walk and the going home exercise. The Morning Walk - a silent movin...

Happy New Year! I’m always looking for ways to relieve suffering, both my own and yours.  Becoming aware of our thoughts and how they influence our feelings and actions is the foundation of this relief.  It’s also the basis of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy–the method of behavioral change I use to help us lose weight and keep it off for good. At the end of last year, I participated in a 5-...

Happy New Year!! Are you thinking about starting a diet today? You’re not alone. The New Year is synonymous with dieting, and with traditional dieting often comes restriction and deprivation, punishment and judgment.  However, this diet culture and mentality does not help us sustainably lose weight OR improve our relationship with food. In fact, it’s not possible because punishing and restric...

The week between Christmas and New Year's typically involves some sort of downtime.  If you’re not fully off work at least it’s a bit lower key. Great news!  But what sometimes happens when we think about time off is we want time off from EVERYTHING. No schedule, no have-tos, no emails, no make-up . . . and no paying attention to food. BUT, especially when we’re losing weight, relaxing o...

Holiday travel is very different from typical vacationing. The combination of being surrounded by your button-pushers (aka family members) in an environment that brings back old routines, memories, and habits….can leave us running for the kitchen where holiday treats abound. The heightened emotions and availability of goodies can feel like a ticking time bomb.  Not something you want to go of...

The holidays can be extra challenging for those of us who want to lose weight. With the busyness, disrupted routines, and special food opportunities--parties, office treats, family tradition foods, and food gifts–it’s a wonder we even try. Well, you’ve come to the right place for love and support for your weight loss journey especially through the Holidays!  The next couple of episodes will s...

You really can enjoy yourself and continue to lose weight during this holiday season.  I share exactly how you do this with the Weight Loss for Fertility Holiday Primer. This episode is a bit different in that I’m pointing you to last year’s Holiday episodes.  They are GOLD and really set you up for success for the Holidays.  It can be an annual event, like watching A Charlie Brown...

Woo hoo!! We’re celebrating around here! It’s official: Weight Loss for Fertility Podcast is one year old.  No better time for us to take a moment together to reflect on the past.  We do this for a good reason–appreciating and reflecting on the past gives us the lessons we need to move powerfully into the future. This is an important skill to build when we want to learn something new, li...

It’s the week of Thanksgiving! The holiday season is officially starting, and dealing with family not only during the holiday season…but during the season of trying to conceive can bring up so many different emotions that are sometimes difficult to navigate. Even the best-intentioned questions or statements from our family can sting and bring up difficult feelings, and emotions, and lead to uncomf...

Thanksgiving is just a week away and with a little help from me (and this episode) you can make it your most successful holiday yet!! First, decide whether you want to gain, lose, or maintain your weight over the holiday… then all you have to do is make a plan that will achieve your goal–a realistic, doable plan.  The Thanksgiving holiday isn’t just one meal … it’s one big meal plus all the o...

In the last episode, we talked about changing habits, and that even when we’ve seen great progress and experienced benefits from the changes, our brains still like to offer us those old habit thoughts…they feel like urges to go back to what we were doing before.  This episode is all about how to deal with those urges when they arise because, believe me, whether we like it or not – they will!...

Habit change is necessary for permanent weight loss. In Ep 17 of the Weight Loss for Fertility podcast, I walked you through a personal example of how I changed a habit:  I stopped eating on the couch while watching TV and got comfortable eating at the table instead.  Woo hoo! Our old habits got us the weight we have today, so changing our weight means changing habits. In episode 17 I ta...

Next week is Halloween! Candy corn, caramel, and chocolate…OH MY! Halloween is the first day of The Bermuda Triangle of Weight Gain —The 9 weeks from Halloween to New Year’s. It starts with candy and ends with champagne with lots and lots of pies in between. It’s so easy to get caught in this time of year unaware.  If we do that, we end up waking up on January 1st with more pounds than we’d l...

Today we tackle decisions…there are so many decisions we have to make daily in life. Some big and some small.  When you’re on a fertility journey, each decision can feel not just big, but monumentous. This can be extra challenging, but regardless…decisions have to be made. How comfortable we feel with making these decisions, and even the decisions themselves can affect our eating and weight....

We have covered breakfast, lunch, and snacks…so now it’s time to dig into dinner! I’ve got some strong feelings about dinner 😊Dinner is the meal we’re most likely to overeat. This happens for a variety of reasons and we’ll touch on them in this episode. We’ll also dig into my recommendations on what you can do to set yourself up for success and avoid overeating supper. The hunger scale factors in...

We are back this week with another Hunger Scale spotlight! We’ve done these before in episodes 21 (-1) & 34 (+3) (linked below). This week however is all about the extremes, which are -5 (empty) and +5 (Thanksgiving stuffed). You may find yourself wondering, why do I need to know the extremes?  Well… when we know these extremes for ourselves, we know where the edges are and we can navigat...

We’re talking undies today! I know, I know…not exactly a topic you’d think we’d normally touch on, BUT I promise it’s relevant to all the things we discuss here on the podcast. So, to get right to it….women deserve nice undies. YOU deserve nice undies. Undies that fit, are comfortable, and that we, at the very least, like if not love. Turns out, our underwear drawer can be an excellent place to ch...

Want to know the secret weapon that makes all the other tools for weight loss I’ve shared in this podcast infinitely easier long term? Just listen in to this episode.   If you get good at this one thing, everything else becomes SO much easier! Sounds too good to be true, but it isn’t.  It works and you can start using it today.  Right now. The reason it works is that it creates a mo...

We’ve talked about breakfast and dinner, now let’s dive into snacks ;) Many of us love our snacks!  But when we start using the Hunger Scale, it’s one of the first things we end up questioning.  Especially because many snack foods are highly palatable, processed foods that don’t have a lot of staying power. In this episode, I give you a list of my favorite protein-based snacks, sure to g...

Staying motivated when we have a good amount of weight to lose can be a challenge.  In today’s episode of the Weight Loss for Fertility podcast, we talk about how to create it when we feel a bit of a lull.  Transitions are a perfect opportunity to do this. I share a two-step process to help you create that motivation. By acknowledging, celebrating, and learning from one period – we move...

  Waiting during the fertility process can be incredibly challenging, especially when it comes to managing emotions and avoiding emotional eating. But, it’s possible to navigate this waiting period without gaining weight, and I’m going to tell you how in this episode. The key is to anticipate and accept the emotions that are bound to come up during these waiting periods–feelings like worry, a...