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Meet Amy, a loving wife, and mother who's worked in and been a part of the health and fitness industry for 20+ years. She's a personal trainer and coach, group fitness instructor, and 1,000+ hour certified Yoga instructor.

But, like you and I, she, too, struggles at times.

Even with her health and fitness goals.

When I reconnected with Amy in early 2021, she was burning the candle at both ends. She was working out 12 - 15 times per week to cope with the stress and loss of both her and her husband's job during the Pandemic.

She was sinking further and further down her priority list and knew she needed to take action before things got worse.

Listen in to hear a raw and candid conversation about boundaries, body image, and the importance of making time and self-care a priority for ourselves.

Since joining The 5% Community, Amy feels more confident and in control than ever - and life's certainly thrown her quite a few curveballs since she joined! - while also feeling more confident and at peace in her relationships with herself, her body, and food.

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Episode Key Highlights, Quotes, and Questions:

• "I was stressed out. I was basically burning the candle at both ends. I was giving myself to everyone else. I'm a personal trainer and a coach, so doing all the things for everyone else. My husband had not gone back to work yet because we were both furloughed during COVID. So we were both home. My daughter was home. It was a lot, there was a lot going on."

• "Yeah, you're absolutely right. If we look and think about it, healthcare workers are the most unhealthy population of people. We're a subset of that. And it's because we take care of people all day, that's our job. So obviously we're going to come last."

• "Boundaries are hard. Let's just put that out there. They're not just hard, they're fucking hard. They're hard for anybody to implement. And especially when you feel like you're in a situation where, and I'm not saying I was at rock bottom, but that was really hard."
• "Even if you work in the health and fitness industry, it's okay to ask for help with your health and fitness goals!"

Questions I Asked Amy:

• How would you describe the woman you were in early 2021 prior to joining The 5% Community? What emotions was she experiencing on a regular basis and why did you decide to join?
• What's one piece of advice you wish you could go back and share with Amy of 2021?
• When we first reconnected, you were completing 12 - 15 workouts per week. Why did you feel this was necessary and what helped change your opinion on this?
• What's the greatest gift that being a part of The 5% Community has given you?
• Who would you recommend The 5% Community to?

If you want LIFETIME access to The 5% Community (seriously) and the exact blueprint, resources, coaching, Community, and accountability Amy had to help her undergo this incredible inside-out transformation, click here to schedule a call with me to learn more.

How I Can Help You:

I help women over 30 lose weight and rebuild limitless confidence so that they never have to diet again.

To date, I've personally coached more than 1,500 women and helped them to collectively lose 10,000+ pounds of body fat and keep it off for good, while simultaneously empowering them with the education, strategies, and accountability needed to feel and look their best.

Click here to learn more about how I can help you.

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When we attempt to achieve a goal that we've tried to achieve before, such as losing significant weight and keeping it off for good, it's easy to waste a lot of precious energy dwelling on our past mistakes and failures.

What if, instead, we chose to look at all that we did well and all of the aspects that contributed to the success we did have?

Success leaves clues.

And spending time studying and learning from past success - the successes we've had and the success others have had - is an underutilized and undervalued approach that's incredibly helpful when it comes to finally achieving the lasting results we desire.

In today's episode, I'll help provide you with a framework and series of action steps you can take to better understand the key learning lessons from past successes - and that of others - so that you can extract the teaching points and use this information to avoid making the same mistake twice!

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Episode Key Highlights:

• Discover how to appropriately conduct an After Action Report to learn from previous attempts at goal attainment.
• Learn how to break down the key influencing factors behind the success of others.
• Listen in to understand how you can put a positive spin on past failures by extracting what you did well and using that information to your advantage to avoid making the same mistake twice!

Start Your Last Diet Ever.

The Your Last Diet Ever Accelerator is a 16-week Coaching Program and Educational Experience designed to teach you how to make fundamental changes in your eating habits, relationship with food, and relationship with yourself so that you can build massive self-confidence while losing at least 15 pounds for good (without feeling like you're dieting).

Our limited, 10-person inaugural cohort begins in February 2023.

Click here to learn more about starting your last diet ever!

OUTLINE

Running example: losing weight and keeping it off

Conducting an AAR:

• What went well?
• What could've gone better?
• What did you learn?

Use this same approach with mentors and friends who have had the success you desire - talk with him or her or try to answer the questions yourself.

Get really clear on what worked well for you.

Double down on that moving forward!

How I Can Help You:

I help women over 30 lose weight and rebuild limitless confidence so that they never have to diet again.

To date, I've personally coached more than 1,500 women and helped them to collectively lose 10,000+ pounds of body fat and keep it off for good, while simultaneously empowering them with the education, strategies, and accountability needed to feel and look their best.

Click here to learn more about how I can help you.

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Brooke Simonson is a Certified Nutrition Coach specializing in evidence-based, sustainable weight loss.

Unlike restrictive, one-size-fits-all diets and programs that only provide short-term results, Brooke helps her clients adopt science-backed nutrition & lifestyle habits that work for their unique likes, dislikes, and time constraints so they can lose 5-50 pounds permanently, have high energy throughout the day, feel completely in control of cravings, and stay consistent long-term!

In today's episode, Brooke shares more about how her own journey sparked a fire in her to share with others how she transformed her eating habits and relationship with food.

She details the role mindset plays in sustainable behavior change (and weight loss) and unpacks what it takes (and what to focus on) to begin changing your relationship with food for the better so you can ditch food rules and eliminate all-or-nothing thinking!

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• Connect with Brooke on Instagram (@thehealthinvestment) - click hereSubscribe to The Health Investment Podcast - click here
• Grab Brooke's "Lose Weight for the Last Time" Guide - click here
• More about Brooke and how you can work with her - click here

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Episode Highlights and Quotes:

• "But the mindset stuff is some of the toughest, I would say and the most challenging to work with when you're on the sustainable weight loss journey. And you don't undo it overnight. It's not this two-day Amazon Prime shipping, but we live in this immediate world."
• "And so if you continue to have feelings of guilt or shame after eating things, just, first of all, understanding any feeling is a normal feeling. There's nothing wrong with you for feeling that. And this is a work in progress, it's going to take a long time, it's going to take practice just like learning a new language, you're learning a new language around food."
• You don't learn a new language overnight - stop trying to treat your relationship with food that way.

Questions I asked Brooke include:

• What limiting beliefs hold women back from taking the right action specifically as they age and begin to approach menopause?
• "Sustainable weight loss requires releasing the mental weight of past dieting attempts." - tell me more about this!
• For the women listening who have tried multiple diets over the years only to see that weight come back, what would be the three-step action plan you recommend?
• How can listeners begin to release guilt and shame around eating their favorite foods?
• Why is long-term consistency so hard?

How I Can Help You:

I help women over 30 lose weight and rebuild limitless confidence so that they never have to diet again.

To date, I've personally coached more than 1,500 women and helped them to collectively lose 10,000+ pounds of body fat and keep it off for good, while simultaneously empowering them with the education, strategies, and accountability needed to feel and look they best.

Click here to learn more about how I can help you.

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Are you familiar with the five love languages?

The five love languages describe the five core ways that people receive and express love in a relationship.

I've learned a lot about myself and about how to be a better partner by deepening my understanding of the five love languages, as well as openly and consistently communicating about them.

But here's the most important piece I've learned from studying this topic: we often don't apply the principles to the most important relationship in our life…

The one we have with ourselves.

The most important relationship in your life is the one you have with yourself.

It sets the tone not only in your romantic relationship, but in your relationship with your body, food, exercise, and also greatly influences how you interact with others.

In today's episode, I'll introduce the five love languages in greater detail, before ultimately helping you to shift how you view them through the lens of applying (and constantly practicing) them to the relationship you have with yourself so that you can feel, look, and be your best!

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Episode Key Highlights:

• Learn more about the five key love languages, specifically, what they are and how to show and receive love via each.
• Develop a working understanding of the importance of knowing your love language so that you can practice cultivating more self-love.
• Create an action plan to benign practicing more self-love by speaking your very-own language of self-love to yourself on a regular basis!

Start Your Last Diet Ever.

The Your Last Diet Ever Accelerator is a 16-week Coaching Program and Educational Experience designed to teach you how to make fundamental changes in your eating habits, relationship with food, and relationship with yourself so that you can build massive self-confidence while losing at least 15 pounds for good (without feeling like you're dieting).

Our limited, 10-person inaugural cohort begins in February 2023.

Click here to learn more about starting your last diet ever!

How I Can Help You:

I help women over 30 lose weight and rebuild limitless confidence so that they never have to diet again.

To date, I've personally coached more than 1,500 women and helped them to collectively lose 10,000+ pounds of body fat and keep it off for good, while simultaneously empowering them with the education, strategies, and accountability needed to feel and look their best.

Click here to learn more about how I can help you.

Follow me on Instagram - @paulsaltercoaching

"I learned that I needed to be my own best friend."

This theme and commitment helped bring Azul out of a vicious binge-eating cycle that was robbing her of confidence, joy, and love in many aspects of her life and into a relationship with food and herself that can now be described as loving and confident - and one that she has full control over.

Azul is a Virtual Health Coach and Personal Trainer helping people improve their relationship with food, fitness, and themselves. She teaches people how to move well, eat well and live their healthiest lives with simple science-based workouts that build strength and confidence alongside easy and sustainable nutrition and lifestyle changes - no guilt-tripping, no counting, and no dieting.

On today's episode, you'll hear more about Azul's story, including her rock bottom, and the steps she took to bring herself out of this dark place and into a place where she now shines brighter than ever before.

You'll discover the foundational coaching elements she used with herself - and now her clients - to rebuild her relationship with food and herself and to make binges a thing of the past.

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Thank you for being here.

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Episode Highlights and Quotes:

• Learn how Azul brought herself out of a vicious binge-eating cycle and into a stable, healthy, and sustainable relationship with food and how she coaches women to improve their relationship with food, fitness, and themselves (without guilt-tripping or dieting).
• "I learned that I needed to be my own best friend."
• "I didn't necessarily put in the work to understand who I was. What I mean by that is that everything that I did or every compliment that I would get, or growing up, everything that was emphasized was always based on how I looked. I just started to believe that that was all ... that was important about me. But when you take a step back and you start to do that self work and you start to realize, "Okay, who am I?" It's like, I'm a good daughter, I'm a good friend, I'm a good sister, I'm funny. These are my interests, these are the things that I like to do."
• "...this feeling of control, because that's ultimately why we calorie count, is we think we have control. But when you think about it, that's actually food having control over you. You no longer actually have control when you're doing something like calorie counting all the time and getting all these anxious emotions from it."
• "I like to think of eating well and moving well as, these are lifelong things. They're not a six-week program, they're not a 12-week program, they're not a year. These are things that you should be doing literally for the rest of your life. If you don't like it, you're not going to do it. It's not going to be sustainable."

How I Can Help You:

I help women over 30 lose weight and rebuild limitless confidence so that they never have to diet again.

To date, I've personally coached more than 1,500 women and helped them to collectively lose 10,000+ pounds of body fat and keep it off for good, while simultaneously empowering them with the education, strategies, and accountability needed to feel and look they best.

Click here to learn more about how I can help you.

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Meet Allison.

An OBGYN in the Houston, Texas area who has been dieting for nearly two decades.

Having started her first diet around the age of 12 at the recommendation of her Mother, Allison developed a collection of habits and a relationship with food that drained her mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Despite knowing what to do, Allison continued to get in her own way. She'd start and stop various diets only to end up back where she started.

During her residency, she experienced an infertility diagnosis, two rounds of IVF treatment, and a miscarriage - as if the stress of residency wasn't enough. Inevitably, something had to give…

That something was Allison prioritizing herself and her own self-care, which led to her weight, frustration, and unhappiness being at an all-time high shortly before she joined The 5% Community.

Listen in to hear how dramatically Allison's life has changed (inside and out!) since she joined The 5% Community in mid-2022. She's not only lost nearly 20 pounds and countless inches, but has recaptured a newfound level of self-confidence, self-belief, and consistency in her life.

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Episode Key Highlights:

• "When I joined The 5% Community, my weight was at an absolute all-time high. And I was just at a place of desperation and honestly, kind of hopelessness and feeling like I needed something to work. I, like so many women who joined the program, have been dieting, honestly, as sad as it sounds, probably since the age of 12 or 13."
• "So it was definitely bleeding into just my overall confidence in myself in general. I think that manifested in kind of confidence within my marriage, confidence that I was being the doctor that I needed to be, as well as just my relationships with friends and family, because it was just an ongoing preoccupation that I had with food. And I joke that labor and delivery in the hospital is just a landmine of temptation and triggering foods in abundance. But it's so true. And I meant to look up the statistics. I know it's like 50% of nurses are overweight and obese, but I think it's like a quarter to a third of doctors are also overweight in obese."

• "Yeah, I mean I think that's really the key. Like you said at the beginning of the podcast, this is simple, but it's not easy. And I feel like I really kind of dove in into building all of those foundational habits, which I think is the hardest part. It takes a lot of consistency and habit formation, but then I have been kind of amazed at once you put those in place, how simple it is after that.
• And also learn some of Allison's best Houston restaurant recommendations!

Key questions asked to Allison include:

• Tell me about the woman you were just prior to joining The 5% Community: What was your biggest problem or frustration prior to joining?
• How did your inability to solve this problem show up in other areas of your life, such as your romantic relationship, parenting, work, relationship with friends and family, etc.?
• Something that stood out to me was your recognition that when you successfully completed an early morning workout, it set the tone for your day and week. Tell us more about this.
• One of your fears in our time together was navigating social occasions - you and your husband both work demanding jobs and like to unwind by trying new restaurants on the weekends…What has changed in your mindset and approach to enable you to navigate these situations with grace and ease?
• How is your life different since joining The 5% Community and what are some of the internal results and changes you've experienced?

How I Can Help You:

I help women over 30 lose weight and rebuild limitless confidence so that they never have to diet again.

To date, I've personally coached more than 1,500 women and helped them to collectively lose 10,000+ pounds of body fat and keep it off for good, while simultaneously empowering them with the education, strategies, and accountability needed to feel and look their best.

Click here to learn more about how I can help you.

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"You can't change unless you change."

Yet, too often we're all guilty of desiring to change an aspect of our life but never following through on the changes that need to be made to create that change we desire.

If significant, sustainable weight loss has been a primary motivator for countless years, yet, you're not any closer to that goal being a reality, this episode is for you.

It's time to change.

In today's episode, I'll detail seven changes that you can make to accelerate your journey to never having to diet again.

Most of these changes - if not all of them - will evoke an immediate sense of discomfort, overwhelm, or anxiety.

This is normal.

This is the feeling of being alive. This is the feeling associated with contemplating movement just beyond your comfort zone, which is where transformation occurs.

Enjoy the episode and thank you for listening.

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Episode Key Highlights and Quotes:

"You can't change unless you change."

"Quit doing what you feel like doing and start doing what you need to be doing."

• Discover why I advocate for less focus on (and time spent) trying to lose weight, even though you have a weight-loss goal.
• Learn why I believe addition by subtraction is truly the path to achieving accelerated, lasting results.
• Understand just how powerful surrounding yourself with a Community is when you want to fast-track yourself toward attaining different results.
• Discover what I believe to be the fastest way to accelerate long-lasting results!

How I Can Help You:

I help women over 30 lose weight and rebuild limitless confidence so that they never have to diet again.

To date, I've personally coached more than 1,500 women and helped them to collectively lose 10,000+ pounds of body fat and keep it off for good, while simultaneously empowering them with the education, strategies, and accountability needed to feel and look their best.

Click here to learn more about how I can help you.

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I have a genuine desire to help as many people as possible who struggle with sustainable weight loss, poor body image, an unhealthy relationship with food, lack of confidence, and feeling good about themselves.

But the truth is, my efforts, skillset, and experience are best served by focusing specifically on those I can help best:

I help women over 30 who have been stuck in the weight loss-regain cycle for long enough and are sick of letting food and the number on the scale influence how they feel about themselves and how they show up.

I help them to build limitless amounts of confidence, certainty, and self-love so that they can keep the weight off for good and never have to diet again.

If you resonate with any aspect of the story I share in today's episode, know that you're in the right place.

And, also know that you're not broken, damaged, or doomed, and that you absolutely can make the changes necessary to keep the weight off for good and rebuild limitless amounts of self-confidence and self-love so that you never have to diet again.

Thank you for being here.

And if you found today's episode valuable, please share it with a friend or family member who would benefit from hearing today's message.

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How I Can Help You:

I help women over 30 lose weight and rebuild limitless confidence so that they never have to diet again.

To date, I've personally coached more than 1,500 women and helped them to collectively lose 10,000+ pounds of body fat and keep it off for good, while simultaneously empowering them with the education, strategies, and accountability needed to feel and look their best.

Click here to learn more about how I can help you.

Follow me on Instagram - @paulsaltercoaching

I'm going back to where it all started…

In 2018, I took the leap of faith (thanks to a lot of support from my friend, Whitney!) to start a podcast, which became known as The Screw the Scale Podcast.

In 2021, I brought on a co-host and tried a new approach, ultimately renaming the show: The 5% Way Podcast.

That chapter of my podcast was a lot of fun and taught me a tremendous amount, but as I resume the role of solo host, I am excited to make a return to my roots and bring to you a podcast that encapsulates all I've learned the past four years and 222 episodes!

Screw the Scale Radio.

If you've been losing and regaining the same 20+ pounds and struggling to have a positive relationship with food, and a loving relationship with yourself, you're in the right place.

This is THE podcast to listen to so that you can learn how to get out of your own way, keep the weight off for good, and feel and loo your best!

Take a quick listen to learn more about the upgrades I'll be making to the show and discover what you can expect as we venture into chapter three of this podcast journey together.

And in episode 223, which will be published 24 hours after this episode, you'll learn EXACTLY who Screw the Scale Radio is for and how it will help empower you with the belief and action steps you need to not only lose the weight you desire and keep it off for good, but create the level of confidence, self-love, and certainty you crave.

Thank you for being here.

And if you found today's episode valuable, please share it with a friend or family member who would benefit from hearing today's message.

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How I Can Help You:

I help women over 30 lose weight and rebuild limitless confidence so that they never have to diet again.

To date, I've personally coached more than 1,500 women and helped them to collectively lose 10,000+ pounds of body fat and keep it off for good, while simultaneously empowering them with the education, strategies, and accountability needed to feel and look their best.

Click here to learn more about how I can help you.

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This podcast episode is actually a recording of one of our Weekly 5% Fire Coaching Calls within The 5% Community.

In this episode, you'll be walked through an exercise to help you best visualize who you are on 365 days from now, which will help bring clarity to all of the accomplishments and results you have to celebrate between now and then.

This will be a powerful exercise that provides you clarity, priority, urgency, and an emotional charge behind continuing to push yourself outside your comfort zone in the next 12 months!

IMPORTANT: This is a good episode to listen to passively but a FAR BETTER episode to listen to actively, specifically, alone in a quiet space with something to write with.

If you want LIFETIME access to The 5% Community (seriously) and the exact blueprint, resources, coaching, Community, and accountability you need to feel and look your best, click here to schedule a call with me to learn more.

Episode Key Highlights:

• Bring immense awareness and clarity to what you desire 365 days from now and uncover the questions to ask to help you best commit to the most effective action steps to bring future-you to fruition!
• Gain a sneak peek at what one of the weekly 5% Fire Coaching Calls is like within The 5% Community.

How I Can Help You:

1. Hire me to build you an Individualized Nutrition Blueprint (Plan) - Learn More.
2. Discover how high-achieving women in their 30s and 40s (and 50s) are developing massive amounts of confidence, self-love, and self-worth… while simultaneously losing 20+ pounds and keeping it off FOR GOOD with my 5% Inside-Out Formula for Sustainable Weight Loss - Learn More.
3. Hire A Registered Dietitian and Results-Driven Coach to Help You Develop Massive Amounts of Self-Confidence and Self-Love While Dropping 20+ Pounds for Good so That You Can Feel, Look, and Be the Best You - Learn More.
4. Find Food Freedom Forever: Free yourself from BS food rules and the accompanying guilt, anxiety, and regret that comes with them so that you can feel excited, calm, and in control of food again - Learn More.
5. Connect with Paul on Instagram - Say hi!