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

Do you love to exercise? Do you hate it? We're told that if we want to lose weight, that we need to exercise and eat right. But is that really true?

We each have a relationship with exercise. What I mean by that, is how we think about it. For some of us, when we think about exercise, we like it. For others, we consider it a chore or punishment. 

The good news is that it doesn't really matter what our current attitude towards exercise is - we have the power to change the way with think about it so that we can get consistent, and believe that we're disciplined.

Join me on the podcast this week as I share the steps that you can take so that you can change the way that you think about exercise, and not only get more consistent with it, but actually start to enjoy it.

There are so many different ways to think about exercise than burning calories. And if that's been your primary focus, it makes total sense why you're not doing it, and so the solutions I'm sharing on today's episode are just the beginning.

I am so excited to hear what you all think about the podcast – if you have any feedback, please let me know! You can leave me a rating and review in Apple Podcasts, which helps me create an excellent show and helps other women who want to get off of the diet rollercoaster find it, too.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/8

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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.

We're told that we should listen to our body.

What does that even mean? Nobody ever taught me that. Was I missing from school that day? 

When I was on my quest to get my eating and desire for sweets under control, I was always amazed at people who could eat just one cookie. And so when I started talking to them about their eating habits, I learned that they paid attention to how food made them feel. It was something that I never thought about. 

Sure! I knew when I was hungry & occasionally I knew when I had overeaten, but when I started actually paying attention to my body, I learned that my body gave me subtle cues  that were my body's way of communicating with me about what it needed.

Listening to your body is the first step in creating the awareness needed to decode the messages that your body sends you of it's needs: sleep, water, recharging, food (and what type), exercise, and everything else.

Get full show notes and more information here: http://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/7

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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.

There's no doubt that calories in vs calories out is the foundation of weight maintenance and weight loss. Yet, anyone who's been on a diet and drastically cut calories, logged every morsel that's passed her lips, knows the frustration and truth of being confronted with the math not working out when standing on the scale and not seeing the number that she had hoped for.

So what's that about? How is it that we can live in a calorie deficit and not lose weight?

Truth is that although calories are in fact the way that we gain and lose weight, BUT  there are many things happening within our bodies that are so complex - that we really don't know why two people can eat and do the same things, and while one person will lose weight, and another won't.

In this episode of the Done with Dieting Podcast, we're going to get a little technical so that we can understand what other things influence our body's ability to lose body fat.

Get full show notes and more information here: http://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/6

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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.
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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.

When we start a new diet, we're motivated. We've seen how effective this diet is - for example our friend Jane did amazingly well on it. And so we believe that we'll do just as well.

It happens all the time - doesn't it? That we start a diet, initially we get some good results, and then WHAM! We step on the scale one day & we don't lose weight - or worse, we gain. We think to ourselves, "Why are we doing this?" "This is so much work & we're not even getting results!" "It's not working. We should just give up."

The thing is, that we KNOW that our results (losing weight) is because of what we're doing (eating healthier or exercising, or a combination of both) and that returning to our previous habits are going to result in our previous weight. We know that if we stay consistent, that we'll get the results we desire.

So, why do we give up?

In this episode of the Done with Dieting Podcast, I will teach you about thought errors, how our brain lies to us, and what to do so that we stay consistent, don't give up on what we truly want, and build the discipline and self-trust that we desire 

Get full show notes and more information here: http://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/5

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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.
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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.

When we've decided that we want to become healthier & develop healthier habits, it's easy to slip back in to old ones - ones that don't necessarily serve our needs, and often are in direct conflict with what we truly want. 

Self Sabotage is common - when we do things like when we decide to bake an entire cake knowing that no one is around to eat it. Or not being realistic in our schedule enough to know that we need to buffer in more time so that our workout time doesn't suffer.

Now - some of these things are just learning how to get good at this new behavior. But sometimes we know that we've totally sabotaged ourselves.

Why do we do that? And more importantly, how do we stop? 

Get full show notes and more information here: http://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/4

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

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.

Sure! We want results fast. BUT fast results often lead to fast burn out too - because the changes that we need to make are drastic.

One of the biggest problems that I see with diets is that we're trying to game the system. We've been told by folks trying to sell the latest fad that we can eat all we want of the foods that we desire and STILL lose weight - if we follow their plan. And so we buy into the idea that we can follow their diet rules, still eat endless amounts of hyper-palatable foods, and lose the weight that we desire.

It can take more time, but if we have a solid foundation of lifestyle habits, we will feel good, we won't get huge energy fluctuations, sleep soundly, and reduce our cravings for those salty or sweet cravings that we get.

This podcast episode details the fundamental habits that we want to incorporate & how to apply them to your body & lifestyle.

Get full show notes and more information here: http://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/3

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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.

Diets have been around for centuries as a form of manipulating our weight and bodies. And so it would be impossible to escape any messages that we have received - overt or implied - about the worthiness of our body, and therefore how to increase our worthiness by shrinking our body through restricting calories and/or over-exercising.

But diets can have negative side effects on the dieter, from negative body image, low self-esteem, but there can also be biological implications to eating lower calorie counts than the body requires that result in increased hunger and the body rebounding from the lower than required calories by increasing body fat stores.

Dieting and negative body image are inextricably linked. So how do we get ourselves out of this cycle? And what are the next steps?

Get full show notes and more information here: http://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/2

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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.
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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.

Are you a woman in your 50s or 60s juggling responsibilities and feeling the weight of it all? The Total Health in Midlife Podcast is here to help. Hosted by certified health coach Elizabeth Sherman, this podcast offers a holistic approach to health, focusing on mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

Each week, Elizabeth shares practical tips, expert interviews, and inspiring stories designed to support you through the unique challenges of midlife. With a health-first approach and insights from feminist coaching, you'll learn how to manage stress, find balance, and make healthier choices that fit into your busy life.

Join the community of like-minded women and take control of your health. Subscribe now to start your journey to a healthier, happier life. Make health your best habit with the Total Health in Midlife Podcast!

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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.

This is a podcast for women who are done with dieting, but are still interested in losing weight. We know that dieting doesn't work for long term weight loss and that 95% of folks who lose weight will regain it within the next five years.

And we know that biologically, the more we diet and restrict calories, the more our body compensates afterwards by regaining weight. So what's the solution? Do we just have to walk around in a body that we don't feel comfortable in?

Perhaps the answer lies in an area that we wouldn't expect that becoming more accepting of our body, our imperfections and who we are, that we can get the body that we desire without giving up everything that brings us joy.

And when we go through this process, we learned that weight loss, what we thought was the goal really wasn't the goal at all that it simply becomes the cherry on top.

Get full show notes and more information here: http://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/1

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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.
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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.