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Can you believe the holiday season is here? If you are listening in real time, as this is published, Thanksgiving is coming right up, ready or not.

If you’re from or have spent time in the US, when you hear the word “Thanksgiving” you probably think of a four-day weekend, football games, or gatherings with friends and family.

But most of all, “Thanksgiving” brings up images of that big holiday feast and all the foods that come with it.

You might be looking forward to enjoying these holiday foods, but if you have a history of dieting or struggling with overeating, you also could be feeling some anxiety.

So, with Thanksgiving dinner quickly approaching, let’s spend today’s session learning how to navigate this holiday just like a natural eater would.

If you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, you can apply this coaching session to any of the celebrations you’ll be participating in over the winter holiday season.

While Thanksgiving is meant to be a celebration, let’s face it: you may not always feel like celebrating. The holiday can be stressful.

If you’re feeling this way, I’m glad you’re listening because we are going to talk about how you can make this Thanksgiving different, by letting go of the stress, while still eating what you like, and feeling good afterward.

Holiday food traditions are part of our communities, histories, and cultures, so I want you all to celebrate your traditions and enjoy the food that’s meaningful to you.

But rather than label foods as good or bad, I encourage you to think about how these holiday foods fit into your journey to becoming a natural eater and how you can enjoy them and still feel good when the holiday weekend is over.

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Out in the real world, women who lose weight from dieting will regain their lost weight 96% of the time.

This can be a pretty depressing statistic and it might feel demotivating to think about. But you don’t have to be in that 96%. Today we’re going to talk about what could be going wrong that might cause you to regain the weight you’ve lost. And 5 ways to not regain that lost weight.

In my way of thinking about weight loss and maintenance, there are 5 things you can do to lose weight and not gain it back. You want that weight to be gone, out of your life and off your body. And this is possible. You can learn to be the exception.

And, as we go through these 5 things you can do to prevent regaining any lost weight, I know that you might be thinking that you can’t lose the weight, let alone maintain it.

No worries. For some of us, we can’t seem to get to first based with weight loss. Take some time to listen to a few of my early episodes about how to start losing weight. Or get my free gift to help you stop overeating. Then link is below.

For today, I hope you take one of these strategies to become one of the minority weight loss success stories and take a few minutes to write down how you will practice it.

Your first step could easily be to see which one of these mistakes you frequently make.

Join me. I want you to be able to lose weight for good, and then keep it off, also for good. Let’s defy all the odds!

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Do you think your weight loss is too slow?

You want to lose weight.

You may be tired of having to keep focusing on weight loss.

We talked about how that might lead you to quit and how taking a self-care break is what you really need.

Today we’re going to talk about another reason why you might be tempted to give up on your weight loss journey.

You want your weight loss to be fast because…

You might think the more extreme the better. And the faster the better.

The Freedom Group is now open!

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Hello my friend.

Our first question is:

• Is this your question?

The second question is:

• No worries!

Maybe this third question resonates with you:

• How you maintain weight loss depends on how you lost the weight.

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Some of us do well with our eating when we eat at home, where we have more control over our choices. At home you might have more limited choices and you think that’s what you need to eat well. But at some point it’s likely that you will go to a restaurant. Does that mean weight loss and eating out are a bad match? Definitely not! Join me today to learn how to eat in restaurants and not gain weight.

If you’re like my Freedom Group Members, you might be confused about eating out. Is it better to eat at home or out? Is it possible to find a way to eat out and still honor what is most important to you?

The short and simple answer is yes. We are going to begin to figure this out together.

So, what’s the problem with eating in restaurants?

This is not true, and this is what we are going to talk about in this coaching session today. Here are some of the questions I will answer for you:

• What the problem is with eating out.

Enjoy this session about doing as well at restaurants as you do when eating at home.

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I’m wondering if you’ve been at a plateau with your weight? is your weight stuck at a place that you don’t consider your end goal? Are you paused and wanting to get moving again? Well, get ready for our coaching session today on how to deal with a weight loss plateau.

Let’s start our discussion with asking: What is a plateau? – It happens when you are trying to do something new, like stopping overeating.

Plateaus are very common and what I don’t want to do with you is teach you that the way out of a plateau is to jump start your weight loss…by focusing only on what you eat.

I want you to consider viewing your plateau as a pause, a pause telling you that it’s time for you to re-access where you are, why you are there, and what your next steps should be to get yourself moving forward again.

Let’s figure this out together!

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So today we are continuing our discussion from Episode 285, of why we tend to focus on the negative, why we should focus on the positive, and how to do it.

When you aren’t at your goal yet, and I ask what you might be thinking about how you are doing, you might say:

Today I’m going to show you how to look at your days, and how to purposely look for what you are doing well, or even one inch better than you had been doing. So that you feel good and can keep moving forward.

I want you to think about What you’ve trained yourself to focus on in each part of your day.

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Do you do this? Someone gives you a complement and you deflect, saying: yes I did do that well, but look at this other thing I did. You shrug off the good things you do and focus all the time on what you didn’t do or what you didn’t do well You make light of the good things and you shine a bright light on things that are not going well. You constantly think about what isn’t going well. What you did wrong. Any misstep you made. You pretty much ignore anything you did that was right, went well or took you a step closer to your goals. You are negating the good things you are doing, simply because you’re still not there yet. You’re not at your final goal, so you think all those good things you are doing along the way just don’t count.

It used to be that when I asked my clients how they were doing since the last time we spoke, I’d get a long laundry list of all the things they thought they had done wrong. Why is it a problem that we focus on the negatives and shrug off the positives? and let’s talk about why I think you should consciously try to stop doing this. When you focus on what’s wrong with you, your life, your body, your eating, and your actions, the thoughts you are creating from this negative spotlight make you feel bad. Ashamed. Hopeless. Pessimistic. And fundamentally flawed. Join me today to learn more about how your negativity bias takes you in the opposite direction you want to go towards. The first step will be seeing where you usually focus. And if you’re like most of us, you’ll be surprised at how often you focus on what didn’t go right.

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You might be taking breaks from your Project You because you’re telling yourself you’re tired of thinking about the whole subject. Or you are bored with the subject of weight and food and eating.

Some signs of boredom you might be experiencing: believing that thinking about food will lead you to overeat, tired of planning what you will eat, tired of thinking about the fact that you need to eat several times during the day, tired of the whole subject, thinking you’ve been working on this long enough and if you don’t have the results you want, and you want to pause and take a break.

And we know what taking a break means, right? Eating whenever, whatever.

These things feel like they just happen. You wake up and you just follow these patterns. Whatever pattern you follow is what creates your end result.

I want to help you reframe this issue of being tired or bored with the whole subject because this is what you need help with.

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