Weight Loss Lifestyle Coaching

Donna Reish, blogger, Intermittent Fasting teacher, and weight loss coach, teaches an amazing truth that applies to every area of life (yes, even weight loss--certain thoughts lead to certain actions that lead to good outcomes!): our thoughts lead to our actions. We can choose our thoughts differently, which, in turn, will lead to different actions. On Donna and Ray Baby's 38th anniversary, Donna tells the story of how Ray Baby's pickle ball instructions over and over again could lead to one thought resulting in a strained relationship or another thought resulting in love and joy. It's quite compelling--and life changing! She continues to explain how we can make a relationship (any relationship!) better in a few minutes, a few hours, or tomorrow! Learn more about thoughts, weight loss, fasting, and changing your life at donnareish.com and/or her private FB group!

HI there! I'm Donna Reish, Intermittent Faster, weight loss coach,

blogger, and half of "The Minus 200 Pound Pair" as my husband and I have

lost over 200 pounds (205 as of this week!) together---155 of that in

the past couple of years with healthy supplementation, Intermittent

Fasting, and habits. We like to say that we quit counting calories and

macros and started counting hours and habits!

In this broadcast, I introduce a concept I have been using to lose my

last 25 pounds or so---that of creating a food plan for tomorrow! I call

it my "Tomorrow Real-for-Me Food Plan," and it can help you too! It is

realistic, in line with research on how habits are created, and grows

with you as you add in "1% Jump Ups."

Check out the outline below--I feel so hopeful for you...even if you

have "failed" in your latest weight loss efforts. If two empty nesters

nearing age sixty can lose weight, you can too!

Ketosis is a coveted space to be in by many people. When most people think of ketosis, they think of the keto diet. However, if the keto diet were the only way to get into “fat burning,” how would people lose weight every day with other protocols?

(Yes, please….make all decisions for your health and weight management through three lenses: research, personal experience, outside observations of others!)

Come to find out, we can get into fat burning in many ways. On today’s broadcast, I discuss three ways to get into ketosis—that is three ways to burn through circulating glucose and stored glycogen to get the body into the optimal position for fat burning.

In this broadcast, I discuss what is ketosis and why people seek it. Then I move into three ways that we can get into ketosis. The first way is the most commonly known—the ketogenic diet. I also point out some of the downfalls of this method (including that people think they’re doing keto is they simply reduce carbs—the keto diet is not simply reducing carbohydrates).

The second way I discuss is my personal favorite, Intermittent Fasting. Who knew that we can get into ketosis daily with simply not eating for 16 to 20 hours out of every 24 hours!? Fasting has been found to get people into ketosis/fat burning 16 x more frequently than the typical diet.

The final way I discuss is another personal favorite---strength training. Strength training is a FAST way to burn through glycogen stores in the muscles---like rapid fasting! How cool is that?

I summarize this week’s broadcast with the many benefits of being in ketosis and how long it takes in the beginning stages of Intermittent Fasting. Learn more in my free upcoming IF workshop---intermittentfastingworkshop.com

All of my broadcasts are sponsored by my plant-based supplement business. These amazing products, along with Intermittent Fasting, have helped my husband and I just reach the status of “The Minus 200 Pound Pair,” losing over 200 pounds together (150 of them in the past couple of years with Plexus products and Intermittent Fasting!). Shop for the pink drink, magnesium, omegas, energy products, and more at reisheshealthysupplements.com

In this broadcast, Donna Reish, author of over 100 curriculum books for students, Intermittent Fasting teacher, blogger, and online teacher, teaches how our thoughts affect our results by looking at her husband’s Pollyanna way of thinking.

She delves into how working with weight loss and life coach Brooke Castillo in Self-Coaching Scholars has led Donna to see how her husband’s way of thinking has been right all along! (Gasp!)

When we think differently about people, situations, our goals, life’s disappointments, and more, we act differently. When we think good thoughts, we act in a way that brings good results. When we think bad thoughts, we act in a way that brings bad results.

Donna applies this to work, marriage, weight loss, and exercise with examples of both---thoughts that lead us to negative results in these areas and thoughts that lead us to positive results in these areas.

She then talks about the need to be extremely specific in our thoughts—take a circumstance or person and think an intentional thought—and then our actions will follow these specific thoughts.

Donna Reish, author of over 100 language arts books for students grades two through twelve, blogger, weight loss coach, and Intermittent Fasting teacher, brings the topic of chocolate to us! In this departure from Donna's typical  broadcasts, Broadcast #50 is about how to move from creamy milk chocolate to a healthier or sugar-free chocolate to help you reduce sugar and cravings in your life. She begins with the power of dilution explaining how you can dilute the dark chocolate taste or stevia taste with either nut butter or cream, depending on how "loose" or soft you want it to be. 

After instructions on how to do those dilutions, Donna talks about three other ways to "dilute" the dark chocolate or stevia taste through mix ins, layers, or even dipping. She describes kid-friendly approaches to this as well as low carb approaches. She explains how to use these chocolates in recipes, such as Reishes' Cups, Take 5 Bars, chocolate cheesecake mousse, chocolate-chip cheesecake dip, and more.

In this broadcast, Donna Reish, blogger, weight loss coach, author of over 100 curriculum books, and Intermittent Fasting teacher, teaches about Dr. Stephan Guyenet’s seductive nutrient combinations (from his book, The Hungry Brain) in a concept she calls “Six Seductive Craving Concentations.”

Donna opens the video with how she discovered her “trifecta”---the effect that the combination of flour, sugar, and fat has on her cravings and overeating via pastries, cookies, pies, cakes, and donuts. As she pondered this, she hit upon overweight/brain researcher, the aforementioned Dr. Guyenet, and was able to start piecing together why these foods had this effect on her. (Hint: It isn’t the sugar or the flour or the fat alone—otherwise people would be overweight from Twizzlers or plain sandwich bread or spoonfuls of butter!)

Donna teaches Guyenet’s seductive nutrient combinations and their effect on the brain chemical, dopamine. She explains what dopamine is and how it is spiked through the Six Seductive Craving Combinations: sugar, starch, fat, protein, salt, and glutamate. She gives many examples of the combinations and intensity of the combinations and their influence on our cravings, overeating, and overweight.

Donna leaves readers with some powerful take-aways, including how we all need calories to live, but not in the concentrations we often have in processed foods; how we need to reduce foods with hyperpalatable or seductive qualities in order to gain control of our eating; how simple foods reduce our cravings; and more.

In this broadcast, Donna Reish, author of over 100 curriculum books for students, blogger, weight-loss coach-in-training, and Intermittent Fasting teacher, goes where few IF peeps go: the calorie problem.

She opens with a study that shows just because “experts” say it doesn’t make it true. (Especially when other experts/researchers say something different!) You have to bring together research, your observations of those around you, and your own personal experience.

Donna delves into how the thought that calories have no bearing on weight loss (or health!) can be dangerous because consistently overeating can cause little weight loss, health concerns, unnecessary expense, and more.

Then she introduces fifteen clues that show that maybe you really do believe in calories—just a little. And what we should do with this information (i.e. eat less overall!)

These clues range from watching the calories you burn on devices to cutting back portion sizes to your past history of losing weight while decreasing calories to eliminating nuts or other fattening foods, and more. She emphasizes the importance of defining what you mean when you say “calories don’t work” or “calories don’t matter.”

In this broadcast, Donna Reish, curriculum author of over 100 books, weight loss coach, blogger, and Intermittent Fasting teacher, teaches about the 130 Calorie Snack Concept---that is, that most packaged snacks have 130 calories in them for every 30 grams of snack (or approximately 4.5 calories per gram). This is the case for nearly all packaged snacks--health food store ones and all out "junk food" ones. Donna doesn't delve into the ingredients in snacks or the macros (that's a topic for another day). Instead, Donna explains why this matters to those seeking to lose weight: (1) Calories, or total food intake, really do matter; (2) The question isn't how many calories a packaged snack has; the question is how "big" is a 30 gram snack and how satiating is it?; (3) Stomach filling is based on a combination of volume, fiber, and water; (4) Many snacks leave us hungry; (5) Real foods always win--they have all of the fluffy qualities that fill us up (and give us important nutrients); (6) Snacking is often entertainment--reduce snacks and total number of eating episodes!; (7) Foods are not good or bad--until they help or hinder your goals. Get Donna's Intermittent Fasting Start Up Charts for free here donnareish.com Order healthy supplements here reisheshealthysupplements.com

Donna Reish, blogger, Intermittent Fasting teacher, health seeker, and author of over 100 curriculum books for students shares the Four Ways We Reduce Weight, Inches, and Cravings With Intermittent Fasting in this episode. Donna uses her four quad chart to show the four things that affect weight loss, inch loss, and craving reductions. (See charts for this episode at https://donnareish.com broadcast #46.)

The four ways we lose include getting into fat burning during the fast, retaining muscle through fasting, skimming off calories (and reducing cravings/controlling appetite through fasting), and boosting our metabolism. Donna then describes IF as a lifestyle and how we CAN tweak the schedule as desired, but veering too far off or constantly making exceptions can lead to our "stopping and starting" IF---which reduces the chance of it becoming a lifestyle for us. This episode is sponsored by Plexus Slim, Hunger Control. Get your free sample of this amazing, energy-giving pink drink HERE: http://donnareish.com/free-plexus-pink-drink-new-slim-sample/