How badly do you WANT to lose weight?

Fear is a powerful negative emotion that can keep us stuck gaining and losing the same weight. In this episode, I discuss the dual virtues of curiosity (wanting to KNOW) and courage (wanting to DO) and how to use these feelings to keep you going on your weight loss journey. 

I give you eight questions you can ask yourself when you eat off-plan. Knowledge is power! The more you know about yourself and your own conscious and unconscious motivations, the more clearly you'll see the path you should take.

If you're curious about my process, and if you want to have the courage to make permanent health changes in your life, get on a call with me where I show you my 5-step process to lose 20+ pounds in 12 weeks. I take you from feeling hopeless to weight loss success, so you feel motivated to keep going. Click on the link to schedule: https://chatwithwendy.as.me/

Coming soon is my upcoming workshop: Lose 5 lbs This Month Without Starving

Sunday, June 6 at 7 pm CST

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What's keeping you from achieving your weight loss goals?

For me, one vital part of the puzzle was COMMITMENT. In this episode, I'll discuss commitment as it pertains to weight loss. I'll talk about the three big reasons why people QUIT their diets. I'll also shine a light on ten questions you can ask yourself to EVALUATE your personal commitment level when approaching ANY goal, not just weight loss.

Commitment is about taking action towards your goal and for weight loss that means staying on your healthy eating plan. I can teach you the tools you need to stick to your plan.  If you're committed to losing your weight permanently, get on a call with me where I show you my 5-step process to lose 20+ pounds in 12 weeks. I take you from feeling hopeless to weight loss success, so you feel motivated to keep going. Click on the link to schedule: https://chatwithwendy.as.me/

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Weight loss requires persistence and dedication to a plan; but it doesn't have to require a lot of time and energy. 

In this episode, I'll share my five-step process I used for my own weight loss, that can help you lose 20+ pounds in 12 weeks. Get on a call with me where I show you this process in detail. I take you from feeling hopeless to weight loss success, so you feel motivated to keep going. Click on the link to schedule: https://chatwithwendy.as.me/

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Do you ever wish you could wake up one morning and be in a thin body and never have to worry about your weight again?

Today, I want to talk about SHAME — how this emotion keeps us stuck in old patterns and struggles, and how it keeps our wishes from coming true, especially in terms of permanent health changes such as weight loss.

Perhaps the biggest issue that needs to be addressed in a major lifestyle change is not any particular pattern of behavior, but our THOUGHTS about a behavior. In this episode, I'll discuss the origins of shame, how shame halts your progress in weight loss, and why you should start reframing your own supposed failures as a learning experience by adding then phrase "and that's okay."

Get on a call with me where I show you my 5-step process to lose 20+ pounds in 12 weeks. I take you from feeling hopeless to weight loss success, so you feel motivated to keep going. Click on the link to schedule: https://chatwithwendy.as.me/

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How important is nurturing a positive relationship with yourself in weight loss?

Would you talk to your best friend like you talk to yourself? This topic is near and dear to my heart, because I remember feeling like I didn't trust myself or even like anything about my body. I felt stuck and too overwhelmed by so many diet failures to make a change. You may be saying “Me too!”.

One of the reasons you have a hard time trusting yourself is that you also have trouble LOVING yourself. There is this constant negative chatter in the background all the time. You are probably not even aware of it.You know this is you if you have trouble accepting a compliment.

In my latest podcast episode, I talk about deliberately finding 1 thing that you love about yourself or your body, such as your hair, your smile, your fierce love for your kids and adding 1 thing to the list every day for 1 week.

Start noticing the negative self-talk and instead of changing it to something you don’t yet believe, try adding "yes, but …" and 1 thing you love about yourself.

Let’s say you ate a whole bag of popcorn mindlessly last night while watching Netflix. You might be thinking: “I can’t believe I ate the whole bag, and it wasn’t even that good.” Yes but…I love my smile. You may feel silly at first, but it works.

This one simple change can grow your trust and love for yourself. Once you start to trust and love yourself as you are, you can transfer that trust to making a healthy eating plan that is simple and not too restrictive. You can use your weight on the scale as information for tweaking your plan, INSTEAD of being a reflection of your health, competence, or value as a person.

Get on a call with me where I show you my 5-step process to lose 20+ pounds in 12 weeks. I take you from feeling hopeless to weight loss success, so you feel motivated to keep going. Click on the link to schedule: https://chatwithwendy.as.me/

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Are you afraid to get hungry?

I know I was afraid feel any hunger on my weight loss journey, and so are a lot of my clients. Many of us have been told that we should not let ourselves get hungry — but in fact, this is the opposite of how the body works.

In this episode, I'll talk about the science behind hunger, the difference between regular hunger and cravings for sugar. I'll also explain the reasons why it's totally normal to let yourself "get hungry" while losing weight, and how you can normalize hunger in a healthy way as you lose weight.

Get on a call with me where I show you my 5-step process to lose 20+ pounds in 12 weeks. I take you from feeling hopeless to weight loss success, so you feel motivated to keep going. Click on the link to schedule: https://chatwithwendy.as.me/

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Feeling bored seems like such an innocent emotion, neither positive nor negative. But along with bored is the feeling of discomfort or restlessness; like we need to do something to feel better or to stop feeling bored.

Last Wednesday night, after a hard day's work and a filling dinner, I sat and watched TV with my husband. After awhile, boredom began to set in. Then, a tiny thought crept into my mind: I should have a glass of wine. I rationalized it. After all, I deserved to enjoy myself! Not much longer after that and I was casually snacking in the pantry.

Luckily, it was NOT the end of the world. I'm still alive and fine, and wiser because I sat down to figure out why that happened.

So many people tell me they struggle with snacking. Snacking out of boredom can be a hard habit to break, especially without awareness of what’s going on or why it’s happening.

I find that boredom in general is an invitation to check out and allow the primitive brain, rather than the conscious mind, to be in charge. This is never a good thing. In this episode, I'll unpack why boredom is a problem and discuss some helpful strategies for gaining control of the snack habit.

I am still learning from my mistakes and I invite you to do the same; and not use snacking or boredom as an excuse to go back to eating the way you did before. Every time we eat, we make a decision to eat on plan or not. Either way it's a choice.

Get on a call with me where I show you my 5-step process to lose 20+lbs in 12 weeks. I take you from feeling hopeless to weight loss success, so you feel motivated to keep going. Click on the link to schedule: https://chatwithwendy.as.me/

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Remember the Seinfeld episode where Elaine and a former boss go into business selling the tops of muffins? "It's the best part!" she exclaims. That may be true of literal muffin tops, but what about the metaphorical muffin top rising above our waistband? We're usually less than enthusiastic about our this development.

In this episode, I'll talk about the reasons why so many women (like me) have trouble losing that excess weight, including the hormonal processes related to menopause that affect weight loss. I'll also talk on the psychology of weight loss and go into the difficult problem of mind over matter when it comes to crumbling the muffin top.

If you're serious about making weight loss a reality, your best bet is to start by planning permanent changes to your eating rather than a temporary "diet." Naturally, you'll do your best with an accountability partner and mentor to coach you through the process. Please reach out to me using any of the links below when you're ready to start your journey!

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This week, I'll be interviewing my friend and fellow fitness enthusiast Susie Quintana, who is a personal trainer and fitness expert. Susie and I discussed how we have developed a "fitness mindset" as we age; the challenges of working during the pandemic, and how she has aligned personal training with helping people be healthy and happy. 

If you are listening on March 18, join me for a live interactive event:

Today's Live Interactive Online Event: Why your muffin top won’t crumble (How we can use the hormones we already have to lose weight)

Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 7 pm CST

To register for the event, visit http://weightlosswithwendy.coach/live-training-why-your-muffin-top-wont-crumble 

Here is Susie's contact information:

Susie Quintana, MPH, CI-CPT, TBMM

[email protected]

qmovements.com

210-837-0115

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What does it really take to lose weight?

What helped me to finally be able to lose the weight after 30 years of dieting was thinking that it was possible for me, that I could figure it out. I got help with coaching and found a program that was not just about the food but about making a plan I could live with, use food to fuel my body, become aware of my thoughts around food, and learn how to go to a party and either plan to eat the cake or not. I also learned how to enjoy eating my favorite foods in smaller amounts and find other ways to deal with negative emotions.

We are not taught how to do that growing up and coaching can give you tools to navigate all these areas. Don’t follow someone else’s plan, make you own and get coaching on your thinking around food so you never have to go on another diet again.

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Schedule a free brainstorming session with me where I help you figure out where you get stuck in your weight loss journey and the solution to get back on track: https://chatwithwendy.as.me/

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