Done with Dieting: Total Health for Women 40+ with Elizabeth Sherman

How to create agency over your emotional life

Do you find that your emotions are all over the place? Based on what other people do, or what is happening in the world, you don't have a lot of control over your feelings?

So many of us give our power away when it comes to our emotional health - we can't be happy until…

• My kid cleans up after herself
• My partner takes out the garbage
• I lose weight
• I have a new job

Because we can't control other people and have very little control over much of the world outside of our skin, relying on everything else to be right before we can be happy is an exercise in futility.

Tune in to podcast episode 67 to learn how to take back control over your emotional health.

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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

Is it the weight? Or the habits that we do to lose weight?

We're told all the time - to lose weight and our risk of health-related disease will go down. I'm guilty of this as well. My health journey started as a way of trying to avoid following in my mother's footsteps and getting breast cancer.

But the data is misleading.

Because we know that losing weight on a fad diet or losing weight in an unhealthy way will NOT produce the increased health benefit that we desire.

So then is it the good habits that we adopt that produce the increased health benefit? Or the result, i.e.: the weight loss?

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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

What does it mean to forgive someone?

Forgiveness - we know it's good for us, but sometimes we just can't take that step. It feels like a betrayal. 

And what makes it difficult is that other people who are tangentially involved will urge us to forgive so that we can all 'just go back to normal.' But when we really feel wronged, how CAN things ever go back to normal? What does that even mean?

In this episode of the Done with Dieting Podcast, we're going to reframe how you think about forgiveness. What's the process, and how you can do it from a space that makes it NOT feel like you're betraying yourself, and validating the other person's actions.

We will also be diving into how to forgive yourself and your body following the same protocol.

Tune in to episode 65 on forgiveness to learn how to reframe forgiveness so that you can learn to let go of those relationships that cause you unrest.

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Free Diagnostic Session
If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
Tap Here to Book Your Session

If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

How to ask other adults, "Do you want to be my friend?" without feeling creepy.

Many folks in midlife start to notice that their life circumstances change rapidly. As their children leave the house, they also notice that their relationships, in general, are also changing at the same time.

Some of us realize that we have more time on our hands, or that the friendships that we cultivated with other parents aren't fully meeting our needs. 

We want more meaningful relationships in our lives - ones that support the same positive habits that we're trying to cultivate ourselves.

My guest on this episode of the Done with Dieting Podcast recently went on a "Friendsperiment" where she actively went out and made new friends as an adult.

When I learned about it, I had to have her on the show so that she could share her insight with you and help you feel more connection and belonging in your life.

Tune in to this episode so that you can create your own friendsperiment.

More About Xena Jones:

Xena is a certified life coach with the Life Coach School and is the host of the Confidence Made Easy podcast. 

She helps her clients to have their own backs & do whatever the f*ck they want, without all the doubt, fear & drama that gets in the way. 

She coaches clients all over the world from her home in Papamoa Beach, New Zealand, where she lives with her partner & two fur babies.

Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you.

Free Diagnostic Session
If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
Tap Here to Book Your Session

If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

Elizabeth Answers Listener Questions We're diving into a listener Q&A episode this week, and we're going to be covering topics on eating, exercising mindset, and more. A lot of these questions are linked to one another, so we're covering a lot of ground today.

I've received questions on nutrition and what your diet should look like, what we should be doing for exercise, and how to start, as well as ways that we want to get through a plateau.

We plan on doing more listener Q&A episodes, and I believe this one will be useful to all you ladies in midlife out there who want to cut through all of the clutter, feel better & live a healthier life. My journey has involved all of these topics, so tune in today!

Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you.

Free Diagnostic Session
If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
Tap Here to Book Your Session

If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

When we buy food, we vote with our dollars. Which foods do you want to vote for?

Why do we eat the foods that we eat? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Probably not - but you might think about it when you observe other people eating.

In this episode, I'm talking about the very unconscious decisions that we make when we decide to eat one food over another.

What's super important in this episode is to become aware of WHY we DO make the decisions that we do and then decide if we want to keep making those decisions.

This episode has the potential to be a game changer when it comes to your eating habits.

Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you.

Free Diagnostic Session
If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
Tap Here to Book Your Session

If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

They say that something like 70% of second marriages end in divorce. And when you think about it, it kind of makes sense. Not from the point of view that people who get divorced are more likely to get divorced, but rather that when you bring 2 families together, there are more personalities, and more challenges because there are more differences - and let's face it: no one likes change.

So in the second marriage, we THINK that we're marrying this amazing person (and you are) but you're also marrying their kids, and ex-partners, and ex-in laws as well.

That's a LOT!

In this fantastic episode, learn from Mindy Neal, Life Coach for women in blended families how to navigate all the complexities so that you can create the family life that you've always desired.

Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you.

Free Diagnostic Session
If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
Tap Here to Book Your Session

If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

What is the difference between a Diet with a Big D vs a Diet with a Small D?

What is the difference between a DIET - a way of eating that we follow from a book - and the idea that 'this is just the way that I eat?'

If you pay attention to social media, you'll learn pretty quickly that diet is a four-letter word. That we should not be dieting, and that weight loss is bad.

But is it?

Are all diets bad? The vegetarian way of eating can be considered just the way someone eats, while someone else may look at it as a diet. How can we tell the difference between a good diet and a bad diet? Or is there such a thing?

Listen in to episode 60 to learn how to know if what you're doing is subscribing to looking at food in an unhealthy way, or if you're just eating & hipsters have now put a name on what you're doing.

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Free Diagnostic Session
If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
Tap Here to Book Your Session

If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

Anyone who has had a night or two of poor sleep knows the importance of protecting that habit. We know that when we don't get good sleep we're a little bit shorter in our reactions to people, everything seems a little bit more stressful, and typically our ability to problem solve and manage our stress is limited.

But how do we sleep better? Especially since it seems as though once we move into midlife, our body just naturally wakes up in the middle of the night over thinking of all the things that we've forgotten to do during the day.

If you google "How do I sleep better?" you'll get a whole host of articles about sleep hygiene. And sleep hygiene is super important. But if you've struggled with sleep, you've probably already done all the things & are still frustrated.

Have no worry. Janet Whalen is a sleep coach & how she approaches insomnia & solves it is different than any other approach I've ever seen.

Be prepared to be blown away!

Tune in to Episode 59 to learn how to sleep better, but do it from a perspective that you've never thought of before.

About Janet Whalen:

Janet Whalen is a Sleep & Stress Management Coach for midlife moms. A former insomniac (40+ years!) turned great sleeper, Janet is passionate about helping women give themselves permission to sleep, rest and care for themselves after years of giving everything to family and others. Janet's membership coaching program, "Permission To Sleep", helps her members sleep better in 8 weeks or less without pills, potions, or needing anyone's permission but their own. Janet is a Certified life coach with The Life Coach School and was formerly trained at CTI as a Co-Active coach. She is also trained in CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia). Before she found her own sleep solution, she spent years as a marketer, family photographer, and mom to her two sons, who are now young adults. Now she's empty-nesting in Southern Ontario with her husband of almost 25 years and can be found reading, kayaking, hiking, and working in her garden when she's not talking about sleep.

Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you.

 Healthy habits are simple. But doing them isn’t always straight forward. If you keep “starting over Monday,” grab the 8 Habits  (and why they don't stick) Guide + Checklist to identify the pattern that breaks your good intentions - so you can stop guessing and start fixing the setup. https://elizabethsherman.com/habits

If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

Tune in to this podcast episode to learn not only what it means to improve your fitness level and how to measure that, but also how to increase your fitness level regardless of what you like to do to perform an exercise.

Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you.

Free Diagnostic Session
If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
Tap Here to Book Your Session

If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.