Keep The Weight Off

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Episode 11: Surrounding yourself with support and learning to make good decisions helps you continue on your path to healthy eating.

Blog Description: By nature, we learn and adapt to the community that surrounds us. When we change our eating habits, it can feel as if we're abandoning the community we know. Here are some tips to overcome these issues, and still stay connected.

Timestamps: 8:45 Conundrum - what if you're trying to eat healthy, and your family is bringing unhealthy foods into the home? 16:30 If you've discovered you are super sensitive to the drug-like effects of sugar and flour products, treat the birthday cake the same way an alcoholic would treat a champagne toast. 22:47 We were born to be members of a tribe for support and survival! Consider joining a community of like minded people.

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Episode 10: A slip up isn't the end, it's part of the journey for all of us. Keep moving beyond the slip up!

Blog Description: In the clinic, and in the online Journey Beyond Weight Loss membership, we always notice how much people beat themselves up when they slip and fall back into old eating habits. Let's explore that and discuss ideas to overcome those times.

Timestamps: 14:06 Lets talk about the science going on in your brain when you 'slip up'. 17:33 Sugar is hidden in 80 percent of all processed foods! 25:36 Use the process of 'self compassion' to combat the fight, flight, or freeze motivation.

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Episode 9: It's time to ditch the scale, and learn the key metrics for weight loss.

Blog Description: We think the scale is the best way to measure weight loss. However, the scale can be your worst enemy! In this podcast, we explore why it is important to put the scale away, and focus on the correct metrics for tracking your weight.

Timestamps: 10:01 Pay attention to these three truths about weight 13:19 There are times when there is weight loss, but fat gain! 17:21 If you can eat enough calories to cover your basal metabolic rate, you'll lose fat without losing muscle. 20:08 Body Composition Rule of Thumb

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Episode 8: Hearing about common experiences can help ease the transition as you move toward more healthy eating.

Blog Description: In Episode 8, Marchelle shares her experience and lessons learned as she worked to eliminate sugar from her diet. Her experience is helpful to others that are looking to make the same change in their eating habits, and how important it is to understand a little of the science behind this journey to help make it through successfully.

Timestamps: 8:15 We can't eat like this anymore! But we've both got to be in this together! 19:10 - Snacking - eating out of boredom … looking for the dopamine hit! 23:25 - There are a couple of things that are common to everyones' brain going thru this… 28:20 - Don't give up! Break it down to making the right decisions on the next meal.

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Episode 7: This episode discusses how the food industry uses the tool of convenience to hook consumers on their products.

Blog Description: From ready to eat products, freezer to microwave, and fast food drive through, this episode shares some of the ways the food industry unleashes their tools of science and psychology to provide easy, convenient, food products. These products hook consumers in many ways. The ease of putting food on the table can trump the health benefits that comes from eating 'real' food.

Timestamps: 2:28 Are we using food to entertain children? 5:07 The origins of how the food industry hooks us with convenience 9:30 Behold - the microwave! 12:09 Working moms found it easier to get take out than cook at home 15:07 What is the real price of convenience 25:52 Your body is going to thank you!

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Episode 6: Today's episode discusses how the food industry targets children, and the tools they use to hook them into using their products.

This is the second in a series about how the food industry has many tools at their disposal to get you to purchase and consume their products. In this episode, we explore their methods to hook children on their products at a very early age through testing, ingredients, and marketing. The next episode will discuss Convenience.

1:32 What I want you to know - your weight loss struggle is not your fault! 3:14 If you were born in the late 50's or 60's or later, you were quietly manipulated by the food industry, and even today, toddlers are being targeted! 4:48 How does the food industry get kids interested in their products? 5:36.5 The food industry designs products by experimenting on children. 8:42.5 The food industry scientifically determines the optimum amount of sugar to put in a product by experimenting on children, then determines how best to market their products to them. 9:45 Kellogs, Post, and General Mills, are the big three. They spend almost twice as much on advertising as they do on the ingredients that go into their products. 15:53 A deliberate attempt to hide nutritional information? 18:00 How is this affecting our kids? The most recent statistics on childhood obesity are here. The statistics indicate that one in four high school students has pre-diabetes. We're screening 10 year olds for adult onset diabetes! 21:07 What can you do? Here are some tips!

Today is the first in a series about how the food industry has many tools at their disposal to get you to purchase and consume their products. These weapons have been developed to gain an advantage for them to get you to spend your hard earned dollars on their products. In this episode, we explore their use of "Craving". Future episodes will discuss the other general categories of Convenience and Children's products.

Source Recommendations:

Fed Up (documentary): https://www.amazon.com/Fed-Up-Katie-Couric/dp/B00MRHF9LE

Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss (book): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/209536/salt-sugar-fat-by-michael-moss/

Fat Chance by Robert Lustig (book): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310422/fat-chance-by-robert-h-lustig/

3:59 - Food industry has tricks up their sleeve to crave their food, lure with convenience, hook children 8:07 - The job of these food scientists is to experiment with ingredients, and experiment with people. 9:21 - Food Scientist: I've optimized I've optimized soups, I've optimized pizzas, I've optimized salad dressings, and pickles... in this field, I'm a game changer!

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Today, I welcome my awesome medical assistant Marchelle who will be joining in on occasion to share her experience in the world of weight loss. We talk about her experience - her struggles with food, with dieting, and what just did not work for her, as well as the transformation once she understood the correct science. How a clear understanding of these principles helped her lose weight, and how it helped her with a new clean energy!

2:20 Penny candy and Jell-O bottles 4:26 Jr and Senior High school was a turning point 6:46 I've tried all the diets 7:44 Eat less, exercise more? 11:05 I was addicted to coffee creamer. 19:18 A family affair 22:13 And you know what else I felt after like a couple of weeks, I felt like this new clean energy, I felt light the fog, my brain fog lifted.

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In this episode, I talk about the highly addictive nature of sugar. Like many of us, I'm a sugar junkie too! In order to break the addiction, it's helpful to know the neuroscience behind this addiction. The cravings and the withdrawal process that happens.

0:55 My Story 4:21 Neuroscience: Sugar is an addictive drug! 5:07 Flour is addictive too! 9:24 Here are some of the telltale signs of addiction: 12:45 drug delivery system of choice.

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Our bodies were designed for survival. When you "end" a diet (famine), food becomes plentiful again. When the diet is finished, the body will react by storing every possible bit of calorie as fat to protect it from the next 'famine', and the cycle begins again. We need to break the traditional view of dieting and update our understanding of how our bodies work.

1:05 What is a "diet"? 2:34 Damage to our metabolism process. 4:54 Biggest Loser 8:26 Optifast 10:45 Dieting and it's relationship to exercise 13:59 Never diet again!

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