Outsmart Overeating

If you're someone whose background in dieting consists of calorie counting, food scales, and meal plans, taking on a more mindful approach to eating can be scary as hell. We take comfort in the hard data. Instead of allowing our hunger and fullness cues to guide our eating, we turn our focus outward to feel safe and secure in our calorie deficit. Join Coach Steph Miramontes and me on today's episode of the Fat Murder Podcast as we discuss the four stages of weight loss and how to measure progress without the number crunching. And because progress can be hard to measure without the number crunching, it becomes frustrating to not-always be able to tell if you're on the right path. This episode will help you see where you are, understand why you're there, and provide you with some helpful tools to help you keep moving forward. What about you? What stage are you currently on? Where were you three months ago? And where will you be six months from now if you keep practicing?

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the interest list HERE.

REMINDER: We've opened the doors to our new 6-week program, Outsmart Overeating! You can catch all of the details HERE.

Once you've come to grips with being an emotional eater, it's important to have a process to begin working through them in a healthy way that doesn't involve stuffing them down with food.

In 17 years of coaching, I've never had a client tell me they're comfortable sitting with their emotions when they surface — their coping mechanism is almost always a distraction; a way to numb or mentally check out through exercise, watching TV, eating, etc.

Because they are unfamiliar with the way the body communicates its needs through emotions, they can feel scary, but they're not. It's the fear of the unknown that makes them uncomfortable.

When we learn to invite emotions into our lives without judgment, we also learn how to make ourselves feel safe and secure.

Emotions are our friends. They aren't always accurate truth tellers, and often don't match the situation that made us feel the way we feel.

This is why observing them without attaching a story or narrative is a life-changing exercise.

Check out this week's episode with Coach Steph Miramontes to learn the steps necessary to help you stop eating your feelings today.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the interest list HERE.

REMINDER: The upcoming workshop with Coach Steph Miramontes, "Train to Your Brain to Eat Like a Naturally Thin Person" is this Wednesday. It's not too late to register. You can check it out HERE.

In this episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing two-time client, Rachael, a registered dietician.

After losing weight using the strategies in 75 Hard, Rachael knew she was barely hanging on by a thread and couldn't maintain the extreme restriction required that caused her to lose the weight.

At one point, her husband expressed concern about her dieting behaviors and feeling backed into a corner, Rachael relented and decided to give up dieting altogether.

As someone who experienced a classic history of yo-yoing with no long-term results to speak of, she decided she'd benefit from the structure and like-minded community offered in the Unstuffed program.

In this episode, Rachael opens up and shares the shame she experienced as a dietician who sought help in the very arena she had received a Master's Degree.

She also shares her first experience in the program and why she later returned for more coaching.

In this week's episode, Rachael shares:

• The biggest challenges she throughout the program and how she's been able to execute the psychological tools she learned to remain consistent in her habits
• Rachael shares why she decided to try hunger directed eating and how the program helped her identify herself as a struggling perfectionist
• What holiday and social eating looks like for her now compared to years previous (hint: no more food anxiety, fear of losing control or feeling left out)
• Rachael's BEST piece of advice for those who fear they'll gain weight if they stop calorie counting and focus on weight loss through behavior change

For more conversations on topics like binge eating, emotional eating, and the all-or-nothing mindset, you can check out previously recorded episodes. If there's a topic you'd like us to cover in an upcoming episode, let us know in the comments below.

This was an awesome client interview and I'm so excited to share it with you! I hope you dig in and find it helpful.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the waitlist HERE.

REMINDER: Don't miss the upcoming workshop with Coach Steph Miramontes, "Train to Your Brain to Eat Like a Naturally Thin Person." You can check it out HERE.

Consider what "triggers" you to eat more than your body needs.

It all starts with our thoughts. And our thoughts lead us to a feeling — for better or worse. And these feelings are what drive our actions.

Our actions produce our outcomes. When we take action, we get a result. And when that action is overeating, the result is excess body fat.

This is basic Cognitive Behavioral Psychology and it's what today's episode of the Fat Murder Podcast is all about.

Join us as we discuss how to bring the cycle of overeating to an end.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the interest list HERE.

Are you a busy working Mom who's been struggling to eat whole foods and exercise for over 3 months because you have diet burnout?

And let me guess.

You've probably already tried counting calories, Weight Watchers and Keto, but nothing works?

When we look at "naturally thin" people, they don't count calories, but yet they effortlessly maintain their weight eating everything they want no matter how stressful life gets.

If you want to learn what they're doing, it's important that you start by understanding their inner psychology.

In this episode, we explain how natural eaters think differently from dieters. And it starts with unraveling the 5 biggest lies dieters tell themselves that keep them overeating (and what to do about it).

It's important to understand that transformations happen in the mind long before they happen in the body and that's exactly what we want to show you.

To go even deeper into this topic, don't miss my upcoming workshop with Coach Steph Miramontes, "Train to Your Brain to Eat Like a Naturally Thin Person." You can check it out HERE.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the interest list HERE.

How effective is dieting, if you still have to do it year after year? You know that dieting is a frustrating endeavor but you don't know what to do instead. It's time to ditch the quick fix makeovers, and start judging successful transformation in a new way. In this episode you'll learn:

• The one unsexy, boring thing that will never let you down.
• How to make changes that stick.
• How to choose what to work on first, when you feel like so many things need change.
• What makes for a solid habit, versus a weak one.
• Why shortcuts keep costing you long-term results
• Why learning another diet trick isn't what you need now, or ever.
• How habits shape your success.

...and a whole lot more! Join us.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the interest list HERE.

On this week's episode of the Fat Murder Podcast, Coach Steph Miramontes joins me to discuss how in order to permanently lose the weight, you have to lose the dieter's mindset.

Most of the women I've had the pleasure of working with do what all the other dieters do — they practice being overweight and seeking a magical solution.

Instead, you should be practicing what natural eaters do, NOT what overweight women do. I know this is surely not your intention.

You want to lose the weight AND the whole problem.

But if you are approaching it like a dieter, then you are creating more of what you don't want:

• The thoughts of overweight women
• The feelings of overweight women
• The actions of overweight women

….and you are stuck in the struggle.

Of course you're not doing this on purpose. I know it's the opposite of what you want.

If you want to eat and think like a natural eater then you need to stop doing what dieters do, and start doing what natural eaters do.

Join us for the conversation. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you think a 'natural eater' interacts with the world compared to a dieter?

Think of a child or "naturally thin' friend, colleague or family member. How do they eat? What habits have you observed?

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the interest list HERE.

When it comes to losing weight, there's no way around it: we HAVE to eat food. The problem many dieters run into is that they're torn between two extremes:

Restrictors: These people diet like it's their full-time job Permitters: These are the YOLO! dieters

In other words, Restrictors have a hard time saying yes to food while Permitters have a hard time saying no.

Join Coach Steph Miramontes and I today as we explore the world of dieting, the two types of people that inhabit this magical land, and how to turn the tables in your favor.

Topics discussed:

• Understanding the differences between Permitters and Restrictors; how these two types interact with food and what they can do to overcome these self-limiting barriers
• How the way we view our body can influence how we view our weight loss journey
• Why awareness and being kind to yourself are the two major players when it comes to any successful weight loss story
• A step-by-step process on how to navigate your way out your dieting type so you can lose the dieter's mindset (and the weight), once and for all
• How your diet brain is a dirty rotten liar that can't be trusted and what you need to be listening to for guidance instead

What about you? Are you a Restrictor or a Permitter? Everyone has aspects of both, but similar to having a dominant right or left hand, knowing which one you are can help you break free from the shackles of dieting.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the interest list HERE.

On this week's episode of the Fat Murder Podcast, co-coach, Steph Miramontes joins me to discuss how in order to permanently lose the weight, you have to lose the dieter's mindset.

Most of the women I've had the pleasure of working with do what all the other dieters do — they practice being overweight and seeking a magical solution.

Instead, you should be practicing what natural eaters do, NOT what overweight women do.

I know this is surely not your intention. You want to lose the weight AND the whole problem.

But if you are approaching it like a dieter, then you are creating more of what you don't want:

• The thoughts of overweight women
• The feelings of overweight women
• The actions of overweight women

….and you are stuck in the struggle.

Of course you're not doing this on purpose. I know it's the opposite of what you want.

If you want to eat and think like a natural eater then you need to stop doing what dieters do, and start doing what natural eaters do.

Join us for the conversation. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you think a 'natural eater' interacts with the world compared to a dieter and how you can adopt some of those behaviors, too.

Connect with Leslie:

• Website
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• Facebook

If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the interest list HERE.

Body image can really mess with our heads — in bed.

For women, the way they see their bodies can have a big impact on their feelings of sexual desire and their ability to become aroused.

Today, on the Fat Murder Podcast, join co-coach Steph Miramontes and me as we discuss the feelings of body self-consciousness and how it often interferes with our sexual lives.

In fact, according to research, next to financial differences, negative body image is one of the biggest obstacles of sexual enjoyment in women.

There are two kinds of body image issues that impact a woman sexually:

1. what she thinks of herself
2. what she believes her partner thinks of her body

Is this stone thing you've struggled with? If so, you're not alone. Don't miss today's episode on how body insecurity has affected your sex life and what to do about it.

Connect with Leslie:

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If you're struggling with emotional, binge, or compulsive eating and you're interested in personalized coaching, apply here.

If you want to learn how to not-only lose weight, but lose the struggle along side it, take the Weight Loss Psychology Quiz to discover your diet personality.

Also, if you're interested in learning more about the group coaching program, Unstuffed, you can join the interest list HERE.