Weight Loss for Fertility

How much of a difference would it make in your everyday life to be able to eat food guilt-free? Sounds nice, doesn’t it? No guilt, just a kind and fulfilling relationship between you and the food you choose. You may be thinking that sounds impossible. But I promise you, it’s not. Some of us spend so much time stuck in a cycle of eating, shame, and judgment. It’s a cycle that’s exhausting AND feels...

Do you have a burning question you’d like me to answer? Great news, I’m starting a segment of episodes on the Weight Loss for Fertility podcast called “Your Questions”. You ask (by DM on Instagram or through my website) and if chosen, I give an in-depth answer on one of these special podcasts. Our first listener question is “Can you lose weight while pregnant?”. The short answer is yes, but there'...

It feels extra fitting to have an episode about LOVE on the day of love. However, it’s not your typical Valentine's day love. Instead, this episode is all about the love you have (or don’t have) for yourself and how important that love is in weight loss and every other part of your life. Your relationship with yourself is the foundation for every single thing you do. Every decision you make, every...

It’s easy to feel discouraged on your weight loss journey when you aren’t seeing the progress and results you desire immediately. But that’s just not how weight loss works. You lose weight if you do things differently than you’re doing now, little by little. Seeing progress with weight loss is not immediate gratification like say, winning the lottery, it's more like working your way up the corpora...

Let’s talk about how we’re THINKING about our food, and how those thoughts can make a big impact on your weight loss journey. The idea that a food is “bad” and should therefore be avoided at all costs, sets you up for a shame spiral, particularly when it’s a food you actually enjoy. We don’t want to set ourselves up for shame and judgment by labeling foods as either “good” or “bad”. So, on this ep...

While our caregivers had the best of intentions when encouraging or requiring us to clean our plates as children, this habit is something that taught us over time to ignore our body’s natural hunger cues, and it’s now something that we as adults need to unlearn in order to have a healthier relationship with our bodies, food, and eating…but where on earth do you even start in retraining your brain...

This week we’re going to dig into the concept of comfort eating, and I’m going to share a brilliant way to transform it. Not all, but many of these comfort eating habits stem from childhood. As a kid, eating is a great solution to many of our problems. But now, those habits and eating for comfort have followed us into adulthood and they’re no longer serving us as they used to, in fact, these habit...

A surefire way to set yourself up for weight loss success is…PLANNING. I don’t mean meal planning, necessarily. I’m talking about a Weekly Food Plan. Done in one sitting for only a few minutes. I’ve found that weight loss is so much easier when we do some form of planning. Whether you hate planning, or you’re like me and love it, know that this Plan can be tweaked to work for you and your lifestyl...

Friends, we’re going back to the basics in this episode, and there’s nothing more basic in weight loss than the scale. The bathroom scale, that is. Now, don’t panic at the sight of that word. I want you to go into this remembering that many of the tools that come along with weight loss have been vilified due to how they’ve been used in the past. While it may bring up some uncomfortable emotions fo...

  While the holiday season can be full of joy and fun, it often also brings up a lot of other feelings, especially for those going through infertility. The entire process of infertility can be a challenge, but oftentimes, the difficult emotions that come up, the ones that we don’t want to feel, make it even harder. During the holidays there may be family gatherings with little kids, pregnancy...

During this holiday time, I want to talk to you about the BEST IDEA EVER! I call it the Holiday Debrief, and it’s a process that allows us to appreciate the good, and acknowledge & tweak the bad so we end up creating an ever-improving experience each year. Ever-improving! The cycle goes like this: Plan as best you can Be present for the experience Debrief and learn   Debriefing includes t...

If you find yourself exhausted by the stress, overeating, and regret you feel after Holiday parties you AREN’T alone. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I promise you can go into the holiday season with all the parties, traditions, and family get-togethers confidently, knowing you’ll be able to enjoy them while respecting your goals and your body in the process.   It’s a win-win and planning...

We’re in the thick of the Holiday Season, famous for its “food forward” celebrations and get-togethers, so there’s no better time to talk about setting yourself up for success this December. We do that first by getting clear on what we want for ourselves. You, my friend, get to decide how you want your holidays to go when it comes to weight loss. So, what is it you want? Do you want to lose weight...

This is the third episode in the first grouping of foundational topics. These 3 things fit fabulously together and help you reach your goals of weight loss and improved fertility. These tools set you up with the best chance of reaching them in a way that feels good, without restriction or depletion. Tune in to learn the RIGHT way to use a food log as a conscious-keeping tool, not another thing to...

We know after last week's episode why weight loss can be important for your fertility journey, so this week is all about the HOW. Join me as I share my favorite weight loss tool that I use myself, and more importantly, works beautifully for my clients. If I had to pick just one tool to use, this would be it. With this tool, you'll learn how to reconnect and get back in tune with your body, and on...

When we take the time to understand what’s happening within our bodies & set the proper groundwork, we’re able to do something extraordinary physiologically. These shifts in our thinking and how we eat can happen WITHOUT deprivation. Join me as I dive into the science behind what’s going on in our bodies when we gain and lose weight. Then take a peek into the work I do with my clients to help...

Weight Loss for Fertility is the only podcast around that helps guide you when you're having a rough start to motherhood and have been told that weight loss could help with your fertility. On this podcast, your internist turned weight loss expert, Stephanie Fein MD, helps navigate the vulnerable world of infertility and weight loss with compassion and experience.   Tune in every Tuesday to fi...