Do you ever think I just need more motivation or willpower?

Motivation is a feeling. It lasts about 90 seconds. It is influenced by external factors such as immediate rewards or the intensity of a specific goal, which can quickly diminish or change. If you keep relying on the need for motivation, you will stay the same. You will stay stuck.

I believe that we have used motivation more as an excuse. It’s our primitive brain wanting us to stay the same, to stay comfortable.  

Commitment is another emotion. While motivation may fluctuate, commitment involves a steadfast dedication to a goal or course of action. It’s usually attached to why you want to do something and the purpose of it.

Visualizing your why attached to your commitment is one of the most powerful tools you can use toward your success.

In today’s episode, I give you my take on motivation and how it keeps you stuck on the diet roller coaster. You can decide in this moment to change your story.

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Have you ever felt food noise in your head “I want this, I need to have this, I have the urge to eat this” is constant.

It can be overwhelming, and you just want it to stop. Maybe you tell yourself that you are going to do everything right today, but halfway through the day, you start thinking thoughts or having the urge to eat something you didn’t want to eat.

Maybe you’ve done this cycle like me. I had done this cycle for so long that I was sick of it and I just wanted the food noise to quiet.

I didn’t want to have the feeling of being hungrier or the urge to eat or think about food.

It was a constant negotiation in my head.

The constant record of noise and negotiation is a way that we sell ourselves on something that our best self doesn’t want.

Diet culture gives us extreme measures and it just keeps us suffering.

In today’s episode, I give you my take on how to stop the negotiations, take control, and do the things that your best self wants.

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Do you love food?

Maybe you love sweets or maybe it’s McDonald’s fries.

Food is an important part of our lives.

We celebrate our traditions with food.

For some of us, years of dieting, binging, and restricting led us to believe that we couldn’t control ourselves around food.

When I was on the diet roller coaster, I never really enjoyed the food. I never really tasted it or savored it.

Food is not love. Food does not love you back. It’s a substance that has nutrients and water in it to help us live and survive.

Food has probably caused you a lot of pain.

This work is about understanding your relationship with food so that you can start to heal it and start to change it.

Through this work, I’ve learned to pay attention to my hunger and fullness.

It no longer provides an emotional need for me.

I live in abundance with food. I don’t restrict. I don’t tell myself I can’t have food.

In today’s episode, I want to help you lose the shame with it so that you can come into awarene...

Do you find yourself telling the same old story?

If so, this episode is for you.

Telling yourself the same old story is like replaying a familiar tune on a broken record, stuck in a loop of repetitive narratives.

You can be having success, but then something comes up, and the old story comes back into your mind.

Your story became a safety mechanism.

There’s a certain allure to the familiar because your brain likes to keep you comfortable.

While your story has been relevant at some point, clinging to it can hinder your progress.

Coming into awareness and wanting to change is powerful.

To change, you have to get uncomfortable.

You have to do something different.

I’m going to give you my take on how to change your story.

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≫[1:40] I had this story that I played over for a long time.

≫[2:39] I had a belief that was connected to the story.

≫[3:51] It comes from a belief for me that ultimately, I’m going to struggle.

≫[4:45] How the same old story shows up...

Are you a snacker or a grazer? Some people are and some are not.

Before I lost my weight, I had a fear of being hungry.

I would always make sure that I had snacks available.

In today’s episode, I talk about snacking and how it might be showing up for you and I give you my take on what to do about it.

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≫[4:28] Emotional eating is eating outside of physical hunger because you are trying to satisfy some emotional need.

≫[5:04] If you’re not getting enough water or sleep, your body could be sending you signals because it wants sleep or hydration.

≫[6:45] Before this work, I was afraid to feel hungry.

≫[8:22] If I took everything that I had eaten and put it on a plate, it would be a full meal.

≫[9:02] My take on what to do.

Have you ever wanted to journal?

I remember putting pressure on myself to journal.

I would do it for a few days but found that I couldn’t be consistent with it.

In today’s episode of the podcast, I talk about journaling and a different process that I teach my Transform bosses.

I will teach you a magical secret to help you lose weight.

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≫[1:06] Do you put pressure on yourself that if you journaled more, you would lose more weight?

≫[2:29] We put pressure on ourselves that then gives us another reason to quit, beat ourselves up, or tell us that we’re not good enough.

≫[3:12] Writing is very powerful, but I needed it to be different because journaling in the traditional way was not working.

≫[4:21] Losing weight and starting to heal your relationship with food is all about the mental weight.

≫[4:55] Reflection work is about taking old stories or current stories that are holding you down and dumping them out on paper.

≫[5:43] When you start dumping, you sta...

Sometimes, when we’re not feeling well, all we want to do is eat.

If you have been on the diet roller coaster, you have probably associated food with comfort.

In today’s episode, I delve into why we turn to food for comfort when we are under the weather and explore strategies to manage these cravings.

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≫[2:08] We crave comfort.

≫[3:59] Our brain goes into automatic mode.

≫[5:24] We’ve tied certain foods to getting better.

≫[6:59] Trauma from diet restriction can resurface.

≫[8:02] My take on what to do.

The holidays are quickly approaching.

They are full of busyness and sometimes we power down.

We start having the conversation with ourselves that we will just wait until next year.

In today’s episode, I discuss the reasons why the holiday season can be harder and I give you tips and tools to help you not give up on yourself.

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≫[1:40] It’s important to learn how to still care and show up for yourself during the holidays.

≫[4:52] We have made the association in our brains that rest equals comfort equals food.

≫[6:14] My take on what to do.

≫[6:49] Put some space between feeling a negative emotion and doing something.

≫[8:19] What makes me joyful? Leave the comparison of what everyone else is doing.

≫[9:11] You are worth showing up for yourself and caring for yourself.

≫[10:05] Do something simple every day.

≫[10:16] Show yourself some kindness and love.

Diets focus on short-term results and quick fixes.

Diets are often too restrictive and unsustainable.

Until you heal the core issue, you will just gain weight back.

In today’s episode of the podcast, I share why diets don’t work long-term and I give you my take on what to do.

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≫[4:42] My thoughts created my feelings and my feelings were driving everything I was doing or not doing.

≫[5:29] I have learned how to have acceptance for me, for my body, how to have love for it, and how to go through life’s ups and downs and come back to myself.

≫[6:58] I want to help you develop that voice inside of yourself that says, I can do this.

≫[7:55] The diet roller coaster is this losing and gaining of weight through restriction and binging and overeating.

≫[9:27] If you don’t fix the core issue, you’ll just gain the weight back.

≫[11:59] I had to learn how to fit this into my lifestyle so that it would work for me.

≫[15:03] Allowing yourself to feel negative emotion ...

If you have been on the diet roller coaster, you have probably quit on yourself before.

In today’s episode of the podcast, I am going to give you different triggers and reasons that we end up quitting on ourselves.

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≫[4:03] When you can start to see the triggers, then you can make different decisions.

≫[4:44] Lack of self-belief.

≫[6:36] Physical weight is just a symptom.

≫[7:05] We quit because of external pressure.

≫[8:54] We quit because we have fear of judgement.

≫[10:37] Perfectionism can cause us to quit.

≫[13:28] Perfectionism keeps you paralyzed; you don’t do anything.

≫[14:17] Burnout is another trigger.

≫[16:01] My take on what to do.

≫[17:44] To take actions that serve you, you have to think differently.