When you’re trying to stop overeating, do you hold on tight and think you should avoid failing at any cost?

If this is what you’ve tried in the past, you probably know by now that it doesn’t work, and it’s certainly not sustainable.

Yet most of us think our goal in life is to do anything to avoid failing.

When we learn anything that’s new to us and our brains, we need to know that failing is a part of learning.

The big mistake you make when you fail is not the mistake itself. It is your assumption that failing means there is something wrong with you. And that you did something ‘bad’. With thoughts like these, it’s understandable why failing seems like a terrible thing.

Today, we are going to talk about why you need to embrace failure.

Failing is not personal in that it doesn’t mean anything bad about you.

Join me in this coaching session today and learn how moving towards failing, in the right way, will help you reach those goals and feel better along the way.

You can do this!

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Be honest. With so many different diets out there and so many plans to choose from, don’t you sometimes wish someone would just give you exact advice about what to eat?

I wouldn’t blame you if you thought that would solve your overeating habits.

But if you’ve listened to me for a while, you know that first we need to relearn when we are hungry and when our bodies have had enough.

Then, we figure out what to eat.

The way you eat, or overeat, comes from your mind. So, your first job is to get reconnected with those signals from your body.

So where does nutritional advice come in?

There certainly are experts in the field of nutrition, like registered Dieticians. They can help you eat in a certain way to solve many physical issues.

After you learn to become a natural eater, that would be the time to learn how to optimize your nutritional intake to have the best health possible for you.

Looking to a nutritional expert to tell you how to lose weight from habits and urges…that is not the right answer. Not yet.

Let’s solve why you are overeating first.

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If one of your goals was to take care of yourself and end your overeating, imagine waking up one day and NOT hating the journey! Not dreading your day with all the things you need to do. If you don’t look forward to doing all the ‘hard’ things that you need to do to lose your extra weight, today’s coaching session is for you.

We’re talking about why your weight loss journey feels so hard, and how to make it lighter and easier and actually enjoy it.

Think about how you feel now about working on your own Project You. If you’re like most Freedom Group members when they first join me, you might look at the work you need to do like it’s a burden you need to bear.

Or like: life’s not fair! You may wonder why you struggle, and other women don’t. And you resent what you need to do to change your habits.

If this describes you, we’re going to step back and look at your thoughts that create doubt about yourself and your abilities.

Thoughts that create pessimism about ever accomplishing your goals.

And thoughts that make you feel insecure about your ability to solve your overeating issues.

What if you could stop hating your journey? This is really possible for you.

Your ability and opportunity to work on Project You is a privilege. You GET to work on yourself, you don’t ‘have to’.

Get ready for some game-changing new perspectives that will make your weight loss journey feel so much better.

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Do you know how to successfully answer the age-old question: Am I hungry?

You let your inner mean girl come out and you put yourself down for not being perfect. You slipped.

If you eat from body hunger most of the time, I’m guessing that you are a pretty natural eater, and extra weight is not a problem for you.

You instinctively know when to start eating, and when to stop eating.

But some of us are not good at deciphering signals that we get from our mind, and I am calling that head hunger.

You feel something that you have linked to eating. It might be a good feeling or an uncomfortable feeling.

Today’s coaching session is a short and sweet reminder of how to answer, ‘Am I hungry’ and to understand the difference between body hunger and head hunger.

This lesson will start you on the path to knowing when to start eating, and when to stop. And once you know that, you are on your way to freedom from the struggle.

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When was the last time you slipped from your eating plan?

You might make excuses for yourself.

Maybe you get upset with yourself.

Or maybe you give up.

I don’t want you to give up or be mad at yourself or pretend that nothing happened.

There is a better way to treat a slip and that’s what we will cover today.

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Have you ever looked at other women and wondered about them?

Here is one young woman’s story of how she worked herself into an eating disorder, and then bravely worked her way out of it.

And became a mentor to other women who struggled.

Amber shares the common pressures she faced. She talks about all the things she tried to break free from the struggle with her eating, her self-esteem and her weight.

Under the skin, we are all women living in the world today. With similar cultural messages and pressures to be and act and look a certain way.

Join me as we explore one woman’s journey to learn how to take care of herself and get really good at understanding how her mind works.

Meet Amber, one of the mentors for our members in The Freedom Group.

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How you talk to yourself matters.

When you think a thought, that thought has the power to create something for you.

What’s critical to know is that even your very own words in your mind, not even spoken out loud, will have an effect on you and how things go for you.

How you describe yourself matters…the words you use when you think of where you are on this journey, of learning to stop overeating. Whether you just did something well or you did something with a bunch of mistakes.

Whatever you say to yourself quietly in your own mind, will register and produce good, neutral or negative feelings.

So, my question to you is: how do you describe how you are and what you’re doing right now in the world of eating and weight?

Are you a hot mess?

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Today we’re going to talk about how to be consistent with your eating. This doesn’t mean being perfect with your eating. It means doing enough of the right things over time, until you create the results you want. Here’s how to do it!

What do I mean when I say consistency?

Consistency means doing what works. It means sticking with what is proven to work. If what you're doing is working, you want to put blinders on to avoid the latest guru telling you to try a new thing.

Consistency is about following a plan that you have investigated that makes sense, and not being distracted by all the other options out there. That doesn’t mean you can never change your path. It means you don’t flit back and forth out of lack of conviction, or boredom or lack of determination.

What happens when you are consistent with your eating?

One consistent action in the right direction leads to the next one.

Join me today as we discuss how you can become more consistent in the eating habits you wish to have.

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Today we have a treat for you: a chat with a Freedom Group member who’s accomplished so many amazing things.

I want you to hear how she overcame nighttime eating, created a great relationship with her body, lost weight, overcame fear, learned to deal with family events without going back to square one, and fulfilled a major dream.

I’m so proud of her and I’m honored to share her story.. so, join me as we visit with Pat.

I hope after listening to how Pat lost weight, you are inspired to pursue your own dreams and act on them right now.

In the Freedom Group, where I work with women like Pat, we focus on learning why we overeat. I teach you how to deal with uncomfortable emotions, so you stop running to food every time you are stressed.

Going to a family function and don’t want to erase all the progress you’ve made? No problem.

Struggling with feeling so worn out at the end of the day that you MUST escape into a bag of chips and a glass of wine? No problem.

Have dreams that have been on hold until you finally lose that extra weight? We’ve got you.

Remember, if Pat can do these things and change her habits, you can, too.

You’ve heard me talk about the Freedom Group for many, many episodes. And right now, if you are listening in real time when this episode is released, I want you to know that the FG is open for enrollment tomorrow.

We are open for a few days only, so mark your calendar and check your email to get the link to learn more and join me. See the link here in these show notes.

Imagine being supported and taught new ways to think about your eating. Imagine someone gently showing you your thoughts and coaching you so that you can finally end a habit that colors your whole life…the habit of overeating.

The Freedom Group opens for new members a few times a year. If you are already on my email list, you’ll get an invitation to join me tomorrow.

The FG is where we take what we talk about here and personalize it for you on a much deeper level. It’s an affordable monthly membership with tons of coaching, teaching and support from me and my team.

It’s where you will learn my proven Eat, Think, Love program, which takes weight loss and ending overeating to a whole new level.

As you search for an answer to end your struggle with weight and eating, make sure you are open to hearing a solution when it’s offered to you.

I hope you join me tomorrow to end your struggles once and for all.

Join the Freedom Group

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