Create Your Balance

(Losing weight quickly is impressive, it shows you are motivated and have a timed goal…ACTUALLY KEEPING THE WEIGHT Off is what is the truly impressive part shows that you've learned that making healthy choices is NOT just about being motivated for a specific event)

In this episode, I'm going to dive right in and let ya know what a crock this all is and what we keep doing to our bodies each time we fall for the "lose weight quickly" bit these companies put out there.

I get it, you have a special event coming up and you're googling "how to lose weight quickly and safely by "such and such day""

Fitness plans promising fast results become pretty appealing as the warmer weather approaches. You must understand, however, that a large portion of these weight-loss regimens are risky. They're also unreliable, especially if you're expecting long-term results.

Your health should always be your number one priority. Any diet or routine that puts your health at unnecessary risk is not worth your time.

If you're going on vacation in a month and want to lose 10 lbs you're super motivated because you want to look good in vacation pics.

So you work out 6x a week, eat 1200 caloriess and lose weight. AT WHAT COST???

Great, right?

Well, that depends...

If you come home and go back to your regular lifestyle and put the 10 lbs back on, that just shows that you're only really interested in losing the weight while you're motivated to do so.

It doesn't prove that you made any real changes.

So if you want to go up and down like this, losing weight before an event and then gaining it back then fine. Continue as is.

If you want to lose weight and KEEP it off, well then you've got to abandon the need for motivation.

There's no reason to go jumping into a drastic – and potentially harmful – fitness regimen

It's really just sticking to simple, healthy habits that will allow for this mindset shift.

Once you make the right choices without agonizing over your decision you'll see the results you want and won't have to worry about ever gaining the weight back.

No, this isn't easy.

But acknowledging that you have to swap your old habits for new, healthy ones is the first step.

You don't have to do them all at once. One new habit at a time…and they have to come as easy as changing your underwear or they won't stick!

One at a time is great. Over time you won't need motivation to work out or to make healthy eating decisions. They will be ingrained in you.

So stop relying on motivation. Build up the right habits. It will make all the difference

If you need some help and you're not sure where to start, send me a DM and we can see if I can help

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I also mentioned a previous podcast where I talked about dieting's side effects. You can click HERE to listen to that episode.

Are you constantly struggling to maintain a healthy diet?

You decide you want to eat healthily.

You have an idea of what to do and you start with really good intentions, only to give up and fall back into your old eating habits in a week or two.

Sound familiar?

Wondering why is it so tough for you to stick with your healthy eating plans?

In this episode, I'll be talking about the biggest roadblock that is holding you back…MINDSET!

Yep, it's your stinkin' thinkin'!

If you want to transform your dietary habits and make changes last, you need to focus on getting your mind right, first!

I'll be discussing 5 mindset shifts that you need to work on in order to make healthy eating a HABIT that sticks ( P.S. it has NOTHING to do with the latest quick fix or any kind of restrictive diet plan)

Tips and Shifts Such as:

What mindset is: a particular way of thinking about something

Why mindset matters for a healthy lifestyle and eating habits: The way you think about food and nutrition can make or break your healthy eating goals.

And of course, the 5 mindset shifts ( tips) that you need to work on in order to make healthy eating and living a habit:

1. Consistency > Perfection
2. Moderation NOT Restriction
3. Half Full Glass ( positive attitude )
4. Change Doesn't Happen Overnight ( Be Patient)
5. There's No Such Thing as "Failure"

Ever wonder WHY you can't quite find a great pair of jeans that fit just right??? Because they kind of suck...which is what I'll be talking about in this episode... Jeans are not a one size fits all… Got thick thighs? Large calves? A small waist? JEANS WILL NOT FIT YOU. This makes shopping for jeans an absolute nightmare.

Why are there so many different styles?

• Skinny jeans.
• Boyfriend jeans. ...
• Straight cut...
• Bootcut jeans. ...
• Flare jeans. ...
• Jeggings. ...
• Low rise jeans. ...
• High-waist jeans.
• Relaxed
• Boot cut
• Mom jeans
• Dad jeans
• Stretchy jeans

Just to name a few

​​Want to bend over? I hope you've got a belt. Riding a bike? NOT TODAY! Sitting down?? You must be in the mood to pop a button!

They leave lines in your legs, you have to keep pulling them up

I try on 7 or 8 pairs only to end up leaving empty-handed and PISSED.

Is there something WRONG with my body?

Why the hell is every pair different and why the hell does my body not fit into these jeans??

You'd think they should be made for OUR bodies and not the other way around.

Seems when they don't fit us, we feel like shit and end up hating and shaming ourselves wondering why the hell none fit, and think we need to conform our bodies by making them smaller in some way just to FIT into their jeans…sound familiar??

..fuck the jean makers.

There is NOTHING wrong with our bodies and EVERYTHING wrong with the fit of these asshole jeans.

It's not you, the jean cuts and sizes do NOT make sense and I don't think there is a single woman out there who hasn't had this complaint a time or two before.

Let me know if you're feeling me here!!

When we go on diet after diet, there is something NO ONE tells us…NOT even these diet companies.

In this episode, I am discussing a few side effects from dieting that no one talks about and some of us don't even realize it's happening. ALL of these fancy diets can have some long term lasting side effects and we need to be fully aware of what they are doing to us.

They can actually be causing more damage than we realize as we are just watching the number on the scale go down…BUT, it's what's going on INSIDE that we need to open our eyes to.

I've listed below a few of the negative side effects that diets are causing and I discuss each one in more detail in this podcast.

1200 calories???

• Slows your metabolism. Anything you eat your body will hold on to and store it as fat…FOOD=ENERGY and when the ENERGY ( 1200 calories) is low, your body is smart and slows itself down to keep up.
• Low Calorie STRICT Diets lead to poor health

• Cold, constipated, thinning hair, low energy, more sickness

Binge Eating

• You are at a high risk of binge eating. Restrictive eating OF ANY KIND, leads to binge eating. ITs your body's survival mode kicking in and making you hungry ( HORMONES)

Thoughts Consumed by FOOD

• It can become an obsession..the numbers, what you "Can't" have and want and when the next meal is coming.

MOODY

• Low energy, feeling HANGRY, Irritable

Ignoring Your Body's internal que's

• You're Confusing your body and your HORMONES by ignoring what it's telling you…you lose trust in your body's ability to nourish itself.

Falling OFF THE WAGON

• Diets can be successful SHORT TERM…however, ost dieters regain their initial weight and then some within 2-5 years and some just plain "fall off the wagon" and just continue starting over and over AGAIN

Disordered Eating Habits/ unhealthy relationship with food

• Obsessing over the number of "good/bad" foods, fat burner, meal replacement shakes, fear of food…can lead to EATING DISORDERS!!

• Thinking it's the enemy, fearing it, food becomes intertwined with negative emotions, judgment, guilt, shame, food is no longer FOOD but labeled as good/bad, on or foo limits

I hope this has opened your eyes to some of the potential side effects from dieting. If you are someone who is struggling with any of the above issues, I urge you to take a moment and step back and ask yourself IF going on a diet is what you really need right now. If you're not sure how to answer that question or you don't know where to start, feel free to reach out…I'd love to have a conversation with you and talk further about it all.

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If you are stuck, frustrated, sick of yo-yo dieting and want to reclaim your health and would like a little group support and some awesome tips on nutrition and exercise for lasting weight loss and lifestyle balance...come join us in our free Facebook Group…

This group is specifically for women who want and need a different approach to weight loss and health...an approach from the inside, out!

In this episode, I'm getting a little up close and personal with you about a post I saw on FB that hit me right in the feels.

Link to original post: https://www.facebook.com/lovelyinthedarkblog/posts/486951299472810

As I read it, it really hit me and I KNOW I am not the only one who felt exactly what Lovely In the Dark explained in her words on growing up as a teenager in the 90s and having difficulties knowing how to love her body.

As someone who went to an all-girls high school, I felt the comparison part HARD!! In this podcast, I revealed a bit about that and a few statistics about where today's teens are at.

Most importantly, I brought up a few great tips on how we can start loving our bodies more instead of bashing them IT HURTS!!

You were not put on this earth to hate, shame, or belittle your body…it's time we learn to LOVE ourselves and you can start right here by listening to this podcast.

It seems we have become a society that is VERY dependent on the diet industry…and THEY JUST EAT IT UP!!

In this episode, I'm giving a few unfiltered thoughts and FACTS about how the diet industry has created a clutter of dependency and what it is actually doing to our health.

Sorry, not sorry but I do call out a few companies in this one. NOT for my gain BUT for YOUR HEALTH! These companies should be ashamed of themselves for how they are promoting weight loss and calling it "healthy" . It is FAR FROM THAT and I'm telling you exactly why.

Diets are failing us yet we are the ones conditioned to think it is our own fault. Not enough willpower, we're weak. Tell me any other company or product that is failing 98% of the time and STILL has us believing it is our fault!?!? I'll wait….

Yet, each and every time we "fall off the wagon" we beat ourselves up because we think we have failed, yet again. Over and over we set out in search of the "only" thing that will make us feel better…ANOTHER DIET! WHY? Because there will ALWAYS be one waiting there for us with the promise of a thinner, better, "healthier", happier and better life…

…And they fail us over and over again!!

I'm not sure WHY this BS is not illegal yet. Seriously, I'm just going to keep exposing them and how they are not only causing damage to our physical and mental health BUT I'm also going to start calling them out by name.

Diets are ineffective when it comes to sustainability AND THEY CAN BE DOWNRIGHT HARMFUL!! All this on again off again can wreak havoc on our physical and mental well-being as I stated above Dieting can also be associated with increased risk of disordered eating, body image issues but we just want that number on the scale to be lower and we are not seeing the big picture.

Let me just expose that for you because you were not put here on this earth to constantly be on a diet.

If you've had enough of the weight loss struggle and the failed diets that make YOU feel like a failure then you'll want to consider this podcast your ticket off the emotional yo-yo diet rollercoaster. It doesn't have to be this way, I promise!!

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If you are stuck, frustrated, sick of yo-yo dieting and want to reclaim your health and would like a little group support and some awesome tips on nutrition and exercise for lasting weight loss and lifestyle balance...come join us in our free Facebook Group…

This group is specifically for women who want and need a different approach to weight loss and health...an approach from the inside, out!

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Maybe you're struggling with the control of food in your life and the one and off again diet cycles. Maybe you want to love what you see in the mirror, to stop counting, planning, and controlling food, to stop saying "tomorrow will be better" and "why can't I get it together?"

Maybe it's time. Time for you to stop trying to lose weight with a traditional diet and work on a REAL transformation.

Step one is to book a "breakthrough" session with me to uncover why you're stuck in this struggle, how to end them for good.

Click HERE to set up a FREE session

In this episode, once again, I am exposing the BS behind the diets..even the ones that say they aren't a diet.

How can you REALLY Tell if what you are doing IS indeed a diet? Remember, they suck and they don't work but this one is claiming NOT to be a diet…so how are sure?

Well, I'm going to dive into how you can tell and the top things to look for before you "go on" another diet. I'm giving the TOP 4 things to expose whether a certain program IS a diet or not!! I'm also going to reveal some of the HEALTH RISKS that can be associated with these "not a diet' programs along with an actual SOLUTION!!

MANY of these companies and or quick fixes out there tell you their product or way is NOT a diet...it's a "lifestyle change"

I ALWAYS say be VERY careful when they use the wording "lifestyle change". It can be VERY loosely defined and sometimes IT IS a complete, UNSUSTAINABLE way of a "lifestyle change"

SO, how do you know if it really IS a diet??

Well, let's dive into the actual definition of what a diet is…

• a special course of food to which one restricts oneself, either to lose weight or for medical reasons.

• verb

• restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight.

1. The end result is a promise of WEIGHT LOSS!
2. It has you weigh yourself daily!
3. It categorizes foods as either good/bad, permitted/ forbidden!
4. It has you RESTRICTING or eating "less of" something!!

YEP!! That IS a diet. Don't be fooled by these companies and their fancy "it's not a diet" wording!!

We need to start UNDERSTANDING our body's signals and GIVING IT WHAT IT NEEDS instead of taking things away!

For years we've been doing this to ourselves...when does it end?

Ask yourself HOW HAS IT WORKED IN THE PAST??

Did you lose the weight and KEEP IT OFF??

DIETS DO NOT WORK!!!

In this episode, I'm coming right out with it ( keep the little ears away)

I'm dropping the F-bombs AND truth bombs about all of this eat less, move more BS, and why it is fucking with us on so many levels.

It's not as simple as "eat less + move more"

If that were the case, EVERYONE would be at their "ideal weight"

If you feel like you keep failing at your diets, it's not a lack of willpower or self-control…it's the damn diets!!

Your body is SO much smarter than these diets but we keep confusing it with eating less and less.

Our body can't make sense metabolically of shrinking our body and is fighting us from maintaining a reduced energy intake. ( low calorie…calories= energy)

Feeling HANGRY when dieting is your brain letting you know that it needs food, and appropriate amounts of it, in order to keep doing all the really amazing things you want to do every day.

Your body is smart and knows what's best but it cannot function optimally if you keep restricting!

I'm giving you 5 REASONS WHY this eating less is fucking with you and your results:

1. YOUR BODY COMPENSATES BY SLOWING DOWN YOUR METABOLISM:

1. YOUR HUNGER HORMONE (GHRELIN) INCREASES

1. YOUR FULLNESS HORMONE ( LEPTIN) DECREASES

1. YOUR BODY FIGHTS TO MAINTAIN MUSCLE

1. IT'S A NEVER ENDING BATTLE WITH YOUR BODY

This is a vicious cycle and I was VERY stuck on it. SO many of my clients come to me who have been on this rollercoaster for years. They diet, hit a plateau and then need to find another diet that will have them eating less and less in order to see any results. We need to realize what we are doing to ourselves and our health by constantly jumping on another diet or exercising "just a bit more" every time our weight loss slows down.

We are all created different and these quick fix diets do NOT account for that. Knowing AND understanding what our body needs and actually giving it that will result in a much safer, more effective and SUSTAINABLE weight loss.

If you are sick of constantly losing and gaining weight back, click HERE and let's set up a time to look into what has you stuck.

In this episode, you're going to hear about Chrissy's transformation.

Such an awesome transformation over 4 weeks. Chrissy had a few tweaks to make and she made them. She showed up for herself and did the work she needed to do. I'm so proud of her and her transformation.

I have seen confidence shine through here and I am so proud of Chrissy!

Take a listen to her story... We worked through things like self-sabotaging thoughts, how we feel when we hear the word diet and all the things that have been holding us back from seeing the results we deserve.

This is a 4-week program specifically to help women who are obsessed with food, struggling with weight loss, over-exercising, and never feeling like what they do is ever good enough.

It's where you'll finally break through the limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns that have been holding you back. We touch on all the thoughts we have around diets, body image, weight loss, exercise, and the past experiences that may have had self-sabotaging effects on us.

If you are tired of losing weight only to regain the weight back, I urge you to go listen to this podcast and look into this program before you start your next weight loss program.

This course provides what it's missing from most weight loss programs on the market today, which is how to best apply their fitness advice into your life without burning yourself out.

There are so many weight loss programs that teach people how to DIET and exercise...

What we don't have are programs that teach people how to apply all the necessary changes into their lives without getting overwhelmed and burning out, which is the key to sustainable weight loss.

This is where the MINDSET MADNESS COURSE comes in.

It will show you how to best apply into your life all the weight loss and fitness advice you get from the weight loss or diet program you are following, with the lowest chance of burning out and quitting.

If you would like to apply for the program you can click HERE!!

If you have been following me for a while, you already know the answer to that question…

In this episode, I'm going to be talking about the pros and cons of actually DITCHING the DIETS for good.

Have you ever thought about how yo-yo diets affect your overall health?

Getting off the yo-yo diet rollercoaster is a much more health-conscious choice than sticking with them because diets don't work! ( SHOCKER)

They can negatively impact your relationship with food, your body and really your overall physical and mental health. 💁🏼‍♀️

I 100% understand though that letting go of something that is all you've known in the "health" space can be freakin scary! TRUST me when I say I KNOW…been there, done that and lived to tell about it!

Here are a few Pros and COns I will be discussing in this episode:

Pros:

• You don't have to stress about going out with friends that you'll go over your numbers
• You can TRUST yourself around food
• You can start to accept and respect your body instead of hating it and always trying to change it
• …and a few more…

Cons:

• Leaving behind the "only thing" you know can be scary
• You may feel you have lost control
• …and a few more…

Let's face the truth here when we're talking about health…The diet industry does NOT put your health first, they put their profit first.

The more we can understand and accept this, the less money that goes into this KAJILLION dollar industry that only preys on our insecurities!!

If you feel your pros are outweighing your cons, whether you feel ready to ditch diets or not, book in for a FREE DISCOVERY CALL! Let's chat more about where you're at with all of this!