Get Your GOAL: Weight Loss for Women Over 50

You want to lose weight, and you’re willing to do whatever it takes. You’re pretty sure that you’re going to have to give up a few things, and you’re absolutely right about that. But it might not be the things you expect.  On today’s episode of the Get Your GOAL podcast, I’m sharing five surprising things I gave up when I lost weight for the last time in my 50s.

Isn’t it funny how we always think that giving something up is a bad thing? Like, when you saw the title of this podcast, you probably thought something like, “Oh, Pahla’s gonna tell me that she had to give up her favorite food, or that she gave up drinking wine.”

Or we associate giving up with quitting or backing down from a standard we think is unachievable. Again, in a bad way. Like maybe you think I’m going to tell you that I gave up on trying to get back down to the weight I was in high school, or I gave up trying to fit into my wedding dress again.

When it comes to weight loss, we really think that giving something up always means choosing what’s right instead of what’s fun, or doing what we have to do instead of what we want to do.

If we want to lose weight we have to buckle down, put the lid on, get serious, stay focused, restrict ourselves, stay away from temptation, eat perfectly, drink perfectly, sleep perfectly, exercise perfectly, and don’t forget to manage your mind perfectly, too, right?

My friend, the answer is no on all accounts.

So, what did I give up to lose weight in my 50s?

I gave up feeling sorry for myself.
I gave up blaming other people.
I gave up criticizing my body.
I gave up thinking I couldn’t figure it out.
I gave up losing weight ever again.

And I whole-heartedly encourage YOU to give these things up, too – while still enjoying your favorite foods, living your best life, and pursuing the goal that makes your heart sing.

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

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You’re so close to your goal weight, you can practically taste it. But here you are, bouncing around between three and seven pounds to the finish line. What’s up with that? Why is it taking so long, and what do you need to do to be done with dieting? Well, on today’s episode of the Get Your GOAL podcast, I’m sharing exactly how to finally lose the last five pounds.

No matter how close or far away you are from your goal weight, I know this topic is of deep interest to you. Everybody wants to be done losing weight, right?

Right.

And it’s my job as your personal weight loss life coach to dispel the internet myths and dispense the mindset wisdom that’ll get you there.

First, the good news (also, there is no bad news): The five things you’ve been doing every day with The 5-0 Method are still the five things you’ll do every day while you’re losing the last five pounds.

So, why does it FEEL so hard? And why does it seem like it’s taking forever? And what’s up with bouncing around right above your goal weight?

Listen to this episode and find out!

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

Find podcast show notes, links to resources, and featured episodes on my website: https://getyourgoal.com/podcast/

Buy my Amazon-best selling book, "Mind Over Menopause" from your favorite bookseller: https://getyourgoal.com/mind-over-menopause/

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You’re inundated every day with messages about how you should fix your face, your hair, your aging skin, and your menopausal body. 

There are potions and lotions and cleanses and makeup and straighteners. But what you don’t hear a lot of is encouragement to love yourself exactly the way you are. 

So here it is. A first-hand account of exactly what it’s like to love your body.

The truth is, your body is a walking, talking, thinking, blinking miracle. But maybe right now you don’t see it that way.

So with this episode of the Get Your GOAL podcast, I’m taking you behind the scenes on my own self-love journey, including the ups and downs of young adulthood, pregnancy, years of happy weight maintenance, and menopause. 

Along with storytime, I’ve got four practical, actionable steps that you can take right now to love your menopausal body, too.

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

Find podcast show notes, links to resources, and featured episodes on my website: https://getyourgoal.com/podcast/

Buy my Amazon-best selling book, "Mind Over Menopause" from your favorite bookseller: https://getyourgoal.com/mind-over-menopause/

The best way to Get Your GOAL is with friends! Learn more about the Get Your GOAL monthly membership: https://getyourgoal.com/work-with-me/

You know how it feels so good to get an encouraging pep talk from your best friend? Well, today’s weight loss podcast isn’t like that. Instead of handing you some sugar-coated platitudes about how you’re doing amazing, sweetie, I’ve got the straight skinny on where you need to get to work. 

My friend, I know that you can change. I know that you can hear what I’m about to tell you with an open heart. I know you can handle it, and use it to create what you want. 

I know you can lose weight. I know you can break out of your self-imposed limitations. I know you can have anything you want. In fact, two of the biggest changes I’ve experienced in my life came from tough observations, handed to me from a person I loved.

And that’s why I’m offering you this today. So if you’re ready for it, let’s dive into the tough love weight loss advice you need to hear to get your goal.

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

Find podcast show notes, links to resources, and featured episodes on my website: https://getyourgoal.com/podcast/

Buy my Amazon-best selling book, "Mind Over Menopause" from your favorite bookseller: https://getyourgoal.com/mind-over-menopause/

The best way to Get Your GOAL is with friends! Learn more about the Get Your GOAL monthly membership: https://getyourgoal.com/work-with-me/

I know there are plenty of things you’re looking forward to doing when you finish losing weight, but have you ever thought about what you’ll stop doing? Ever since I lost weight for the last time in my 50s, I’ve noticed these three surprising things that I just don’t do anymore. And today, I’m sharing them with you.

Let’s paint a picture of what life looks like when you’re not just done losing weight, but really, truly, and absolutely finished. 

These three things I’m sharing with you today didn’t just magically disappear from my life the day I hit my goal weight. In fact, they took a full ‘nuther year or two or three after I’d lost the weight before I finished untangling my mindset.

So, each one of these three things that I stopped doing when I lost weight for the last time represents the mindset work, the untangling of old thoughts, beliefs, and neural pathways, that I did while I was losing weight and in the years since then.

Are you ready to see what’s waiting for you on the other side of losing weight? Let’s dig in!

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

Find podcast show notes, links to resources, and featured episodes on my website: https://getyourgoal.com/podcast/

Buy my Amazon-best selling book, "Mind Over Menopause" from your favorite bookseller: https://getyourgoal.com/mind-over-menopause/

The best way to Get Your GOAL is with friends! Learn more about the Get Your GOAL monthly membership: https://getyourgoal.com/work-with-me/

Controlling your eating is pretty easy for you, isn’t it? But once or twice a week, you find yourself raiding the pantry, eating from boredom or stress. 

You know that if you could get control of your eating, you know you’d lose weight, but you just don’t seem to have the willpower. 

Well, I have good news, because on today’s episode of the Get Your GOAL podcast, I’m sharing exactly how to control your eating without using willpower.

I am a woman who has engaged in all kinds of eating behaviors over the course of my lifetime. From way overeating, to way undereating, to comfort or boredom or stress eating. I’ve done the extreme restriction thing, and I’ve also done the “F it, I’m eating a bag of Cheetos for dinner” thing.

And I’ve come through all of it to land here, in a place where food is now an easy, pleasurable part of my life, with none of the guilt of “diet thinking” holding me back.

This process – the two simple mindset steps that I’m diving into today - is work that I personally have done to go from feeling like I was constantly at the mercy of my unexplainable and uncontrollable eating urges to living a life of total diet freedom.

And the best part? I didn’t use willpower to get here and I don’t have to rely on willpower to stay here, either, because what I have is self trust.

You, my friend, can feel this way about food, too. Listen now to find out how!

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

Find podcast show notes, links to resources, and featured episodes on my website: https://getyourgoal.com/podcast/

Buy my Amazon-best selling book, "Mind Over Menopause" from your favorite bookseller: https://getyourgoal.com/mind-over-menopause/

The best way to Get Your GOAL is with friends! Learn more about the Get Your GOAL monthly membership: https://getyourgoal.com/work-with-me/

Of course you want to get consistent with your weight loss habits, but consistency feels SO hard, and right now you’re wondering if you should just throw in the towel. My friend, if you’re struggling with consistency, this episode is for you, because today I’m sharing three reasons why you can’t get consistent and exactly what to do about it.

I know everybody and their weight loss coach tells you how you’ve gotta be consistent to reach your goals, and we all sort of acknowledge, like “Yeah, consistency is hard,” but nobody talks about why it’s so hard or what to do about it, other than using willpower or self-discipline.

But, my friend, even though I am a weight loss coach, I’m definitely not “everybody,” and the solution I’m sharing with you today is going to crack your mindset wide open *and* solve your consistency problems.

Because the problem isn’t your crazy schedule or your character. The real problem is your unspoken, undefined, and largely unconscious (or at least subconscious) expectations of what consistency is “supposed to” look like.

And, yes, what I’m saying is that you have mindset blocks about consistency.

So today, we’re digging into those blocks with three common reasons why you can’t get consistent (and how to fix them).

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

Find podcast show notes, links to resources, and featured episodes on my website: https://getyourgoal.com/podcast/

Buy my Amazon-best selling book, "Mind Over Menopause" from your favorite bookseller: https://getyourgoal.com/mind-over-menopause/

The best way to Get Your GOAL is with friends! Learn more about the Get Your GOAL monthly membership: https://getyourgoal.com/work-with-me/

So, you’re ready to lose weight for the last time by changing your mindset. But how exactly do you do that? And why does it work, when all the dieting you’ve been doing after menopause makes it feel like nothing will ever work again? In this episode of the Get Your GOAL podcast, I’m sharing exactly how journaling helps you lose weight.

It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of journaling. In fact, I consider myself a journaling coach, a journaling mentor, and even a journaling teacher.

I think a lot of us know that journaling is good for us, in that vague way that we know brushing our teeth is good for us. Like, everybody says it’s helpful, but how? And why?

Well, a dentist will tell you that your gum health is actually directly tied to your heart health, and a life coach – me – will tell you that journaling for self awareness is the direct path to creating weight loss habits you can stick with.

And, like a dentist who is an expert in their field, I can talk about journaling all day long! Or, for about 45 minutes. Today’s full-length, deep dive episode is another foray into the Pahla B archives, with a Masterclass I taught just a few months ago, called “How To Lose All the Weight You Want (by journaling about it!)”

When you listen all the way through, you’ll get not just the teaching part, but the Q&A from other menopausal women who are struggling with the same weight loss questions you are. This episode is chock full of the actionable information you need to start journaling for weight loss right now. Enjoy!

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

Find podcast show notes, links to resources, and featured episodes on my website: https://getyourgoal.com/podcast/

Buy my Amazon-best selling book, "Mind Over Menopause" from your favorite bookseller: https://getyourgoal.com/mind-over-menopause/

The best way to Get Your GOAL is with friends! Learn more about the Get Your GOAL monthly membership: https://getyourgoal.com/work-with-me/

Of course you want faster weight loss results. We all do! But it already feels like you’re doing everything you can. Should you eat even less? Workout even more? My friend, you don’t need to do either one of those things, because I have a short list of two things you can do that’ll really move the needle on the scale.

As I promised you last week, I’ve got another deep-dive Masterclass that I pulled up from the Pahla B archives. This one was called “Speed Up Your Results By Doing These Two Things,” and I know you’re going to find some real gems in here. 

I originally recorded this webinar way back in early 2023, and it really covers a lot of actionable ground for how to move forward on your weight loss journey.

And just like last week, you also get the added treat of listening in to the Q&A session after the webinar, so be sure to listen all the way to the end. Enjoy!

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

Find podcast show notes, links to resources, and featured episodes on my website: https://getyourgoal.com/podcast/

Buy my Amazon-best selling book, "Mind Over Menopause" from your favorite bookseller: https://getyourgoal.com/mind-over-menopause/

The best way to Get Your GOAL is with friends! Learn more about the Get Your GOAL monthly membership: https://getyourgoal.com/work-with-me/

After a lifetime of hearing that you have to eat healthy or low calorie foods to lose weight, or you have to give up carbs or fats or desserts to lose the weight you want – well, overthinking menopausal women like you are understandably skeptical when my answer to the question of “Can you REALLY eat what you want and still lose weight?” is unequivocally “Yes, you can.”

When I was preparing for this week’s episode of the Get Your GOAL podcast, I went back into the Pahla B archives to watch a Masterclass I had put on about eight or nine months ago. I knew I had made a couple of points in that class that I wanted to share with you on the podcast, but I had honestly forgotten just how useful and actionable the whole class was.

So today, instead of just sharing a few points from that Masterclass, I’m sharing the entire thing, including the viewer Q&A at the end, which was super valuable as well.

And let me give you a little heads up. While I was in the vault, I found a couple of other Masterclasses I’m excited to share with you, too. So, over the next three weeks, you can enjoy these longer episodes that get super in-depth on the weight loss mindset topics you care about most.

Today’s Masterclass was recorded last fall, and it’s all about how to navigate “eating season” while you’re losing weight. Enjoy!

Ready to lose weight for the last time? Download The 5-0 Method (my simple, sustainable, and science-backed weight loss guide for women over 50) today. It's FREE: https://getyourgoal.com/

Find podcast show notes, links to resources, and featured episodes on my website: https://getyourgoal.com/podcast/

Buy my Amazon-best selling book, "Mind Over Menopause" from your favorite bookseller: https://getyourgoal.com/mind-over-menopause/

The best way to Get Your GOAL is with friends! Learn more about the Get Your GOAL monthly membership: https://getyourgoal.com/work-with-me/