Weight Loss for Life with Felicia Lauer

Weight Loss for Life with Felicia Lauer

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Weight Loss for Life with Felicia Lauer episodes

  • I Was Never a Weight Loss Coach (and I Just Deleted it from my Website)

    I went on a rampage on my own website today and deleted every single instance of the word "weight loss."

    Because I was never a weight loss coach. And I am done pretending otherwise.

    If you've ever felt like what you were really looking for had nothing to do with the scale, this one's for you.

    Hit play. 🎙

    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    31 min
  • She's Not Smarter Than You- So What Does She Know?

    She's not smarter than you. She's not more disciplined. She doesn't have more time, more money, or fewer obstacles.

    But she does know something you don't yet — and in this episode, I'm telling you exactly what it is.

    This is the episode I've been wanting to record for a long time, because what I'm about to walk you through is the single thing that has changed my life more than anything else. Not a strategy. Not a hack. A completely different way of operating.

    I've achieved and grown more in the last four years than I did in the first thirty-six years of my life combined. Not because I got smarter. Not because I hustled harder. Because I learned how to change where I was operating from — and everything shifted.


    In this episode, I'm breaking down:

    • Why the most capable woman in the room is usually solving the wrong problem


    • The invisible ceiling you keep hitting — and why effort, willpower, and information can't break it, and why hustling harder is like showing up on race day without training


    • What's actually happening when you open the laptop and close it again, almost send the pitch, almost make the post, and then don't


    • The difference between management and identity — and why one feels like a full-time job and the other feels like breathing


    • Why your brain recreates the past unless you intervene with a specific process


    • What 90 focused days could actually produce when the drag is gone


    • What I'm teaching inside the free 90-Day Possibility Formula masterclass on Monday, May 11th at 7 PM Central


    This is for women who are already in motion. You're not waiting for someone to activate you. You're not looking for motivation. You already know you're capable — you just haven't been taught what's actually in the way or how to change it.


    Save your spot for the free 90 Day Possibility Formula Masterclass- CLICK HERE to save your spot now.

    Limited Replay available, special bonus for coming live.


    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    54 min
  • You've Been Taught Weight Loss Backwards

    If you've counted calories, done the apps, tried the influencer shakes, hired the meal plan — and you're still not free — this episode is going to reframe everything. Felicia breaks down exactly why the mainstream approach to weight loss is fundamentally backwards, why it's not your fault, and what actually works for keeping the weight off for good. This isn't about more nutrition information. It's about the steps everyone skips.


    Key Takeaways

    • You've been handed the last piece first. The industry gives you a menu plan without teaching you what's actually driving your eating in the first place — that's why it doesn't stick.
    • "Just make good choices" is not a strategy — it's a setup. You cannot rely on a tired, stressed brain at the end of the day to suddenly choose differently without a system underneath it. The more you try to "make good choices" in the moment, the more exhausted you get.
    • Decision fatigue is driving more of your eating than you think. Making ~200 food decisions a day is exhausting. Decisions made ahead of time are one of the most elegant forms of self-leadership.
    • Pressure and force backfire every single time. Stress in the nervous system is one of the main causes of self-sabotage and "screw it" eating. The answer isn't more willpower.
    • Information is not transformation. If the information you've been handed hasn't made you free yet, it's not going to start. What you need is integration — not more data.
    • Your habits live in the micro moments. Change doesn't happen when you read a plan. It happens in the moment you're tired, stressed, or done — and that's exactly where the real work is.
    • This is a learnable skill. Not a character flaw. Not a willpower problem. No one has taught you this yet — and that's the whole point.


    Quotable Moments

    "You do not go on and off what is just your life."

    "Hoping you make good choices in the moment is not a strategy — it's a setup."

    "Information is not transformation. And if the information you've been handed has not made you free yet, it is not going to start."

    "If your plan doesn't work on bad days, it's not built for real life — and it's a diet, not a life."

    "You've been taught to try to control food instead of leading yourself."

    "Stop trying to make yourself smaller. How about expanding who you are?"

    "I want women who are allergic to average and here for extraordinary."

    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    42 min
  • The Belief Gap: Why Your Results Don't Match (yet)

    Old keys don't open new doors. If you want the life you've never had you have to be who you've never been.


    Where are you under living?


    Today you'll listen in to a conversation that explains why your life might not be changing as much as you want (yet) and exactly what to do about it.


    You're serious about this. You show up, you want it, and you're not turning around. So why aren't the results there yet? In this episode, Felicia takes you behind the scenes of a live client teaching on the belief gap — the hidden ceiling that keeps capable, committed women from seeing the full results they're working toward. This isn't about doing more. It's about what you actually believe is possible for you.


    In this episode:

    • What the belief gap is and why it shows up even in women who are already doing the work
    • How your brain quietly caps what you'll attempt based on what it thinks is possible
    • The difference between a belief ladder and a possibility ladder — and how to use both to move forward
    • How to move from impossibility → possibility → inevitability
    • What to do when an old story or shame shows up mid-progress
    • Why regulation is transformation, and how to access new beliefs even in hard seasons
    • What it actually looks like to think from your future and act in the present


    Key Quote:

    "Belief doesn't come from evidence. Belief creates evidence. You don't wait for proof. You become it."


    The question Felicia asked her clients that had them talking all weekend:


    Where are you under-living?

    Sit with that one after you listen.


    Her Next Level will be starting soon for women who are ready to move on their biggest goals, DM me for more info. Not beginner, not weight loss. For the woman ready to step into what she is capable of.


    We are also continuing Becoming Her Live inside Weight Loss for Life and it's a great time to join me to become that woman and feel your best now and for the rest of your life.


    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    39 min
  • Are you Done Hiding? Visibility and Self-Expression

    In this episode, Felicia dives into something almost no one talks about clearly enough:

    For many women, the weight is not just about the weight. It is about hiding.

    Not just hiding in clothes, behind the scale, or in the back of photos.


    Hiding in your life.

    In your joy.

    In your self-expression.

    In the fullness of who you were made to be.


    This is a conversation about visibility, self-image, and the subtle ways women shrink themselves while waiting to feel “ready” to fully participate in their own lives.


    In this episode, we cover:

    • why self-image affects how you show up in every area of life
    • the difference between having a body and being preoccupied with one
    • how women hide at every size, even at goal weight
    • why visibility feels vulnerable
    • the connection between body image, self-surveillance, and nervous system safety
    • what it means to stop waiting and start living as her now
    • why you do not need more food tips, you need congruence
    • the real cost of staying in management mode


    If you have ever:

    • avoided certain clothes, events, or photos
    • felt self-conscious even after losing weight
    • told yourself you would fully live later, when your body changed
    • sensed there is a bigger, freer version of you waiting to come forward


    -this episode is for you.

    You do not become her after you arrive.

    You become her by how you live now.

    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    28 min
  • How Shelly Lost 40 Pounds Without Fighting Herself

    In today’s episode, I’m talking with my client Shelly about what actually changed everything for her.


    You can walk past a mirror and feel good about yourself.


    Shelly came into this work after a lifetime of dieting, hiding with food, and believing that she could lose weight, but never really live as the woman who felt peaceful and free around food. Since then, she’s lost around 40 pounds, but what moved me most in this conversation was not the number.


    It was hearing her say things like:


    • “I’m not arguing with myself anymore.”
    • “That is not who I am. That is what I was doing.”
    • “I don’t hate walking by a mirror.”
    • “I can fail today and still be fine.”



    We talk about what it looked like to be a closet eater, how loneliness was showing up underneath the food, why willpower was never actually the issue, and how the 24 Hour Planning Method became the piece she could not leave out.


    If you have ever:


    • done well all day and then felt like you lost it later
    • believed one “mistake” meant you blew it
    • thought the problem was discipline
    • wanted peace with food more than another set of rules



    this episode is for you.

    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    45 min
  • Diet Rules Are Common, Self Leadership is Rare.

    If you think weight loss is about the food, you are solving the wrong problem.

    In this episode, Felicia shares a powerful live teaching on identity, self-leadership, and the real reason so many smart, high-capacity women keep restarting, even when they already know how to eat healthy.

    This conversation goes far beyond meal plans, macros, and motivation. It gets to the root of lasting change:

    • why weight loss was never really about food
    • why diet rules are common, but self-leadership is rare
    • how identity, nervous system safety, and self-trust work together
    • what it means to stop abandoning yourself and truly become the woman you want to be
    • why the goal is not perfection, but integration
    • how to stop living life on pause and start leading yourself into transformation

    Felicia also dives into the fear of becoming someone new, the discomfort of growth, and why the willingness to be awkward, imperfect, and in process is part of the path to freedom.

    If you are done with restarting, done with food drama, and ready to become a healthy, peaceful eater for always, this episode will hit deep.

    Mentioned in this episode:
    • Becoming Her
    • identity-first weight loss
    • nervous system safety
    • self-leadership
    • Weight Loss for Life

    If this episode resonated, share it with a friend, send Felicia a DM, and make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next one.

    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    30 min
  • 80% There Equals 0% Results- Why Trying Harder Will Always Fail You

    If you eat healthy “most of the time,” know a lot about nutrition, have done all the programs, and are still stuck… this episode is for you.

    Today, Felicia breaks down a specific kind of discomfort almost no one names — the identity tension that happens when your dreams move faster than your nervous system.

    This is the gap every diet, meal plan, and “just be more consistent” strategy completely skips.

    It’s why smart, high-capacity women keep ending up in the same cycles:

    • 80% “on track,” 0% real progress
    • great week… then sabotage
    • always feeling one bad week away from losing it all

    Inside this episode, you’ll hear:

    • why 80% effort can still equal 0% results
    • how pressure, perfectionism, and “tightening up” secretly trigger sabotage
    • why trying harder will always lose to nervous system safety
    • what it really means to raise your identity ceiling so it becomes your new floor
    • the difference between forcing behavior and becoming the woman who doesn’t have to

    Felicia shares how she stopped layering more effort on top of an old identity, and what changed when she became the woman who doesn’t struggle with her weight anymore — after losing 185 pounds and keeping it off peacefully for 11+ years.

    If you’ve ever thought, “I know what to do, I just need to do it,” this episode will show you why that’s only half true… and what to focus on instead.

    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    30 min
  • Becoming Her: What Diets Can't Give You

    "Losing 185 pounds is the least interesting thing about me. It's HOW I live and keep it off now."

    That's the shift diet culture can never sell you, and the one thing women actually want to feel.


    You don’t need another diet. You need to become the woman who doesn’t need one.

    In this foundational episode, Felicia shares the deeper truth behind her 185-pound weight loss and 11+ years of keeping it off — and why the scale is actually the least interesting part of her story.

    This is the episode where she finally names what she’s really been doing with women all along:

    Helping them become “her”

    The woman who feels at home in her own skin.

    The woman who doesn’t live on a wagon.

    The woman who doesn’t need food to take the edge off life.

    Inside, we talk about:

    • Why discipline, willpower, and “being good” were never the missing pieces
    • What identity dissonance is and why it keeps dragging you back into old patterns
    • How nervous system safety changes your relationship with food more than any meal plan ever will
    • Why you can be lighter than you’ve ever been and still feel chained to the diet cycle
    • What it actually means to become a naturally healthy, peaceful eater (without obsessing over food or the scale)
    • The difference between restriction and regulation — and why God did not design you to live at war with your own body
    • How to start practicing “Becoming Her” in tiny micro-moments today

    If you’re already in motion — you care, you’ve tried, you know the food stuff — but your evenings, stress, or micro self-sabotage keep pulling you back… this one is for you.


    If you're interested in joining me for Becoming Her Live click below, at the time of publishing the 48 hour flash sale is until Monday 1/26 at midnight MST. If you are ready to never feel like you're on a diet again even though you "know the things"- this is for you, and this is a one-time opportunity to be part of the new era of Becoming Her together.


    Heads up podcast fam- if you downloaded a version of this with a slight audio issue I have replaced it, feel free to remove the download and download it again to get the correct one! There was one small editing error and a few seconds of buzzing which I have fixed, I'm human too lol!

    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    43 min
  • The Feminine Way to Lose Weight (that nobody is talking about)

    The modern weight loss world sells women a lie:

    Be thinner.

    Do more.

    Push harder.

    Be “good.”


    Then maybe you’re allowed to feel okay.

    Meanwhile your nervous system is screaming, you’re using food to take the edge off, and you’re wondering why “trying harder” never seems to last.


    In this episode, Felicia unpacks a completely different path:

    the feminine way to lose weight.

    Not pink-washed diet culture.

    Not “self-care” as permission to check out.


    But a grounded, faith-rooted, nervous-system-safe approach that lets you lose weight while becoming more alive, more present, and more yourself.

    You’ll hear:

    • Why the world’s version of a “good woman” (exhausted, over-functioning, always performing) quietly drives emotional eating and nighttime snacking
    • How diet thinking (“get back on track,” “buckle down,” “be good”) sounds like danger to your nervous system and triggers sabotage
    • The real cost of perfectionism, “on or off the wagon” thinking, and letting the scale or your food choices decide if you’re allowed to have a good day
    • What it actually means to lose weight in a feminine way—built on rhythms, cycles, and self-leadership instead of rules, hustle, and self-abandonment
    • Simple ways to start: 60-second nighttime pauses, planning from love (not punishment), and building tiny self-trust reps that change your identity over time
    • Why there are a million ways to lose some weight—but only one way to keep it off: by changing your relationship with food, your body, and yourself at the root


    If you’ve ever thought, “I was made for more than just managing cravings and arguing with the pantry,” this episode is for you.

    You’ll walk away with a vision of weight loss that feels:

    • Gentle, but not passive
    • Grounded, not frantic
    • Powerful, not performative

    So you can stop living life on pause and start becoming the woman whose body and life finally match who she really is.

    Her Next Level is my advanced, small group life coaching for women working on their biggest goals or their next stage of growth in any area of life- time, home, work, relationships- bring your real life and your real goals. You will be changed. You will not be in the same place in three months. Only for women ready to move on their goals.


    Join me for Becoming Her Live- click here to join me inside my signature program to be part of the journey of a lifetime.



    Grab the 24 Hour Planning Method here - to learn the exact framework that ends thinking "What should I eat today?" so you can move on with your life.


    If you're ready to lose weight for the last time and truly change your life without all the diets and obsessing, just a proven root cause solution, my signature program is where I personally help you and coach you every step of the way to success. You can find that and join here- I'll see you inside.


    Weight Loss for Life felicialauer.com/signature

    You work right with me every day to break free and lose so much more than just the weight the weight. Join all the women seeing success and changing their lives every day.

    Stop self sabotaging and live with freedom, joy, and purpose.


    Do you have my free Break the Diet Loop secret podcast? You can sign up here to get the free audio training and bonus behind the scenes resources.


    Want a place to get inspiration from me, hang out and have community?

    Join my free Facebook group here!

    53 min

About Weight Loss for Life with Felicia Lauer

From the publisher's feed

I’m Felicia Lauer, weight loss mentor and life coach, and 185 pound weight loss success story myself-
and this is the podcast for smart women who are done starting over.

You show up in so…