Disrupting Obesity

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Do you hide while eating your favorite foods? Maybe you feel uncomfortable eating in front of other people? Closet eating is a real thing. Some people eat in actual closets, others eat secretly to cope with stress or emotions. And although there's nothing inherently wrong with eating alone, people with a healthy relationship with food don't hide while they eat. 

In this episode, I share how you can break free from the chains of closet eating and enjoy food without guilt. We'll also cover ways to develop a healthier, happier relationship with food and let go of the secret eating life that sabotages your weight loss and nutrition goals.

What You'll Learn:

• What is closet eating?
• The problem with secret eating and how to let go of the shame
• How to create healthy eating habits
• The root of closet eating
• How to take responsibility for unnecessary eating
• Understand that pre-eating is a problem
• How to become aware of your closet eating
• The foundations of mindful awareness when eating
• The best way to track what you eat

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One of the first things I teach my clients is the 3A Way to losing an insane amount of weight. It’s a toolbox everybody can use to fix their relationship with food. The 3As are effective in helping you focus on long-term habits that you can stick with, and are more likely to result in lasting weight loss.

So what are these three As? In this episode, I reveal the three things you need to work on if you're going to lose an insane amount of weight. We'll also cover what you can do to change your relationship with food and why maintaining a calorie deficit is an important part of weight loss.

What You'll Learn:

• The 3A Way to losing an insane amount of weight
• Why you need to track your calories
• Behaviors for healthy weight loss
• What most people dislike about counting calories
• Understanding the comfort-reward mechanism
• How to keep yourself accountable in your weight loss journey 
• Ways to fix your relationship with food
• Sustainable practices for losing a lot of weight 
• How to overcome unnecessary and binge eating 

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Looking for help on your weight loss journey?
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• My Cookbook 'Disruptor'
• Free Guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’
• Weight Loss Workbook Disruptor, find anywhere in the world on Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”
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Is it possible to lose a lot of weight without cardio, low carb, or cutting out food groups for non-medical reasons? 

We've been programmed to believe that weight loss demands a total overhaul of how you eat, loads of cardio and lifting weights. None of that is true. Weight loss success is relative. What works for someone with 20 pounds to lose isn't always going to work for somebody with 200 pounds to lose. 

In today's episode, I’ll discuss the power of meeting yourself where you are, and how to be successful with sustainable weight loss. I’ll also address why forcing people to change behaviors they're not ready to change and telling them that there's only one right way to lose weight only makes things worse. 

What You'll Learn: 

• The power of meeting yourself where you are in your weight loss journey
• Effective strategies for extreme weight loss
• The demerits of a heavily restrictive diet
• How long does it take to lose extreme amounts of weight?
• The foundation of sustainable weight loss
• The role of exercise and nutrition for weight loss
• What the diet industry gets wrong about extreme weight loss
• The power of making small, incremental changes 

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Please consider heading to buymeacoffee.com/CharlotteSkanes to show your support. It helps me keep the podcast going. 

Looking for help on your weight loss journey?
• My Membership Community Flamingo Forum! Join HERE
• My Immersive Weight Loss Experience: Sustainable 7
• My Cookbook 'Disruptor'
• Free Guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’
• Weight Loss Workbook Disruptor, find anywhere in the world on Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”
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Is it worth losing weight if you're going to be stuck with a bunch of sagging skin? 

Loose skin is a hot topic in weight loss circles right now. And yes, the Ozempic face is a thing. So if you're sitting there afraid to start your weight loss journey because you don't want to deal with a whole bunch of loose skin, here's something you should know. Not everybody ends up with loose skin after losing weight. And if you do, there are countless things you can do to help tone your body. 

So in today's episode, I’ll address the worries you may have about saggy skin when losing a lot of weight. I’ll also share some effective ways to help tone your body, and when sagging skin is more likely to occur on your weight loss journey.

What You'll Learn:

• My opinion on Ozempic face and loose skin
• Why you may experience saggy skin after losing weight
• How the “baby face” industry makes money
• Ways to motivate yourself to lose weight
• How to tighten loose skin after weight loss
• Is it wrong to lose weight super fast?
• The benefits of drinking more water than used to
• Understand that losing weight can be scary

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Looking for help on your weight loss journey?
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• My Immersive Weight Loss Experience: Sustainable 7
• My Cookbook 'Disruptor'
• Free Guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’
• Weight Loss Workbook Disruptor, find anywhere in the world on Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”
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Here's something the toxic diet culture doesn't want you to know: you don't have to exercise to lose weight. I lost 200 pounds with zero exercise. I know that diet and exercise have been touted as the magical weight loss cure. But you absolutely do not have to exercise to lose weight. 

Yes, pursuing fitness will definitely make your weight-loss journey easier. But if we're super honest about it, exercising when you're obese is a nightmare. 

In today's episode, I'll talk about why the whole diet and exercise thing is a myth, why you don't have to exercise to lose weight, and how to focus on movement and building muscle in different ways. 

What You'll Learn:

• The benefits of making small incremental changes to your movement
• Losing muscle while obese
• How to lose weight sustainably
• Why you need to focus on building muscle when losing weight 
• The power of positive self-talk during weight loss
• How muscles affect the amount of calories you burn
• Debunking the diet and exercising myth
• Why exercising while obese can be counterproductive

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Please consider heading to buymeacoffee.com/CharlotteSkanes to show your support. It helps me keep the podcast going. 

Looking for help on your weight loss journey?
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• My Immersive Weight Loss Experience: Sustainable 7
• My Cookbook 'Disruptor'
• Free Guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’
• Weight Loss Workbook Disruptor, find anywhere in the world on Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”
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Losing a lot of weight and losing a little bit of weight are not the same thing. Being 30 pounds overweight and 180 pounds overweight is not the same thing. So why does the toxic diet culture ram solutions for relatively slender people down our throats and act like that's the only answer?

Losing a lot of weight is not a punishment; it needs to be a gradual and sustainable process. You can't successfully go from four burgers to one because you'll feel like you're starving and give up. 

In today's episode, we'll discuss how losing extreme amounts of weight is different from losing a little extra weight. I also share why you cannot afford to make radical changes to your eating patterns when you have a lot of weight to take off.

What You'll Learn: 

• How to change the way you eat and think about food
• The power of the mind in losing weight
• Why losing weight should be a gradual but sustainable process
• How to get used to eating less
• The role of satiety in losing extreme amounts of weight
• Learning to eat the food you like, but just less of it
• Why short-term strategies rarely work for extreme weight loss
• Understand that losing weight is not a punishment

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Please consider heading to buymeacoffee.com/CharlotteSkanes to show your support. It helps me keep the podcast going. 

Looking for help on your weight loss journey?
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• My Immersive Weight Loss Experience: Sustainable 7
• My Cookbook 'Disruptor'
• Free Guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’
• Weight Loss Workbook Disruptor, find anywhere in the world on Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”
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We spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year trying to lose weight. Every year the amount we spend goes up, and every year, the number of obese people on the planet also increases. 

The big question is, why aren't we seeing any results? Well, the toxic diet culture wants you to fail. It is a business model designed to keep you fat and take your money. Yes, restrictive diets can make you lose weight. But if you can't do it for long enough to get all of your weight off, what's the point?

In this episode, I'll talk about why toxic diet culture doesn't work and why it's almost impossible to lose a lot of weight on a restrictive diet. Remember that fad diet failure is not about you. It's about the fad. 

What You'll Learn:

• What is toxic diet culture?
• Why there's no easy way to lose weight
• The power of calorie tracking
• Fad diets and why they rarely work
• Why 85% of people regain lost weight within 5 years of losing it
• How to set realistic expectations for weight loss
• Why toxic diet culture wants you to fail
• Internal and external factors for wanting to lose weight

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Looking for help on your weight loss journey?
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• My Immersive Weight Loss Experience: Sustainable 7
• My Cookbook 'Disruptor'
• Free Guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’
• Weight Loss Workbook Disruptor, find anywhere in the world on Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”
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I hate cheat days. I think they are completely unnecessary and 100% counterproductive. The whole point of sustainable weight loss is to eat whatever you want, just less of it. 

Food isn't your enemy, and weight loss is definitely not about the food. It's about your relationship with food. So in today's episode, I'll share why I believe cheat days are destructive for people looking to lose an insane amount of weight. 

What You'll Learn:

• Why cheat days are unnecessary 
• The benefits of focusing on the calories instead of the food
• How to break the cycle of using food as a reward
• Ways to eat less without feeling deprived
• Understand that cheat days encourage binge eating
• How cheat days negatively impact weekly weight loss
• Ways to shift your mindset for sustainable weight loss

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Looking for help on your weight loss journey?
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• My Cookbook 'Disruptor'
• Free Guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’
• Weight Loss Workbook Disruptor, find anywhere in the world on Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”
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When you get down to the root cause of why you're eating other than to nourish your body, odds are you're eating to either comfort, reward, or cope. These are the three horsemen of overeating. 

When you start thinking differently about food and learning to treat it more as fuel, you start to feel differently about it too. This way, smaller amounts become much more satisfying than what you're used to.

In today's episode, we'll cover how you can start looking at food as fuel instead of an emotional band-aid. I'll also discuss why education about nutrition doesn't help the majority of people with weight loss.

What You'll Learn:

• The three horsemen of overeating and how to become aware of them 
• The good food vs. bad food debate
• The benefits of making small changes to what you eat
• Why fear-mongering doesn't help people with weight loss
• The inverse relationship between nutritional information and losing weight
• The difference between enjoying eating and enjoying food
• You don't need a super strict diet to lose weight
• How to change your mindset about food

Support the show

Please consider heading to buymeacoffee.com/CharlotteSkanes to show your support. It helps me keep the podcast going. 

Looking for help on your weight loss journey?
• My Membership Community Flamingo Forum! Join HERE
• My Immersive Weight Loss Experience: Sustainable 7
• My Cookbook 'Disruptor'
• Free Guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’
• Weight Loss Workbook Disruptor, find anywhere in the world on Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”
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Losing a lot of weight is a huge deal. It's a very intimidating process, especially since most people regain lost weight plus 25% more within 5 years of losing it. So how do you keep yourself going once you decide to lose weight? 

In today's episode, we'll discuss a simple way to keep going and stay motivated on your weight loss journey. I'll also share why being scared of the consequences of obesity is not enough motivation for people looking to lose an extreme amount of weight. 

What You'll Learn:

• The mindset you need to lose weight sustainably
• Why you need to love yourself while losing weight
• How to set realistic weight loss goals
• The difference between awareness and acceptance
• Why knowing obesity kills isn't enough
• Why you need to stop using food as an emotional band-aid

Support the show

Please consider heading to buymeacoffee.com/CharlotteSkanes to show your support. It helps me keep the podcast going. 

Looking for help on your weight loss journey?
• My Membership Community Flamingo Forum! Join HERE
• My Immersive Weight Loss Experience: Sustainable 7
• My Cookbook 'Disruptor'
• Free Guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’
• Weight Loss Workbook Disruptor, find anywhere in the world on Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”
•Get Started For The Last Time LIVE Webinar Replay Sign-Up - free Spread Sprinkle Pour worksheets

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