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Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Podcast
This is your weekly resource that will help you put your weight loss resistance in the past, which is the key for simple, manageable, and sustained weight loss at the pace you want.
You are designed to thrive, not just survive!
Recent Podcasts
123. It's Voluntary
This week, I'm allowing you to take a peek into some of the most powerful thought work we can use when it comes to lifelong weight loss: remembering that it's all voluntary. Listen to this 12 minute episode to find out what exactly is voluntary when it comes to weight loss, and how to start implementing this change immediately.
122. Planning Flexibility
This week, let's be with ourselves and how we plan to make choices. Is the plan rigid? Are YOU rigid, as a human? Is your plan flexible? Are YOU flexible, as a human? Come be in conversation with this subject today and see what arises for you as you do.
121. Coaching the Intangibles
Health and nutrition, weight loss and sleep, muscle building and green peas... when it comes to these subjects, we have tangibles... and intangibles. This week, learn why the intangibles of health are a large key when it comes to lasting health and wellness behavior change.
120. Back to Basics
Y'all loved the behind the scenes recording of live coaching from Lean + Liberated last week on episode 119, so I'm sharing another coaching session offering you the exact basics women within Lean + Liberated utilize in order to lose an average of .5-2 pounds per week.
119. On Possibility
In this episode, I'm inviting you to peek behind the curtain during a recent Lean + Liberated group coaching session as I describe in-session how to create possibility as your main weight loss habit.
118. Lisa Kilgour on Undieting
In this episode, I'm joined by Lisa Kilgour, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (R.H.N.), sought-after speaker, educator and writer who specializes in real life healthy eating. Refusing to accept a one-size-fits all approach to nutrition, Lisa teaches the skills to uncover your own unique health puzzle and find the way of eating that keeps your body and mind happy and healthy. In 2015, Lisa spoke about the gut-brain connection at TEDx Kelowna and in 2010 was voted “BC’s Favorite Nutritionist” by Natural Care Canada. Lisa lives in the breathtaking Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada surrounded by local, healthy food and stunning scenery with her three rambunctious cats and partner Michael.
117. Your Focus Is For You
In this eight minute episode, I'm asking you the question you need to ask yourself this week about whether you actually need one more macro/calorie split, whether you need to eat clean starting Monday again, or if there's actually something else that you may need... catch this quickie to learn the simple question you can ask yourself. I promise it doesn't bite!
116. Sarah Berneche on How To Enjoy It All
In this episode, I'm joined by Sarah Berneche, a Toronto-based writer, anti-diet nutritionist, and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor specializing in disordered eating and body image. She helps folks to stop feeling overwhelmed around food, eat with ease, and accept their natural body size. I adored having Sarah on the show, and can't wait for you to learn from her expertise in the area of intuitive eating.
115. On Defining Success
Another quickie episode for you this week getting down and dirty with why your definition of weight loss success needs a refresher, why the fall is the best time to do this, and how to easily create a definition of success that will blow you out of the water when it comes down to your weight loss goals. Let's do this!
114. Default Habits & Stress
Little quickie episode this week where I show you how to get curious if you feel like you're "slipping" into old habits during times of stress. Whether it's chronic stress or acute stress, planned or unplanned stress--this episode I outline how and why it is supportive for us to default to those old habits, and how we can hold space for the new habits to return effortlessly and lovingly.
113. How to Build a Plate
The world of food and nutrition is pretty noisy these days! While we are all individual in our food consumption needs, I find that understanding how to build a plate from a gentle and flexible template is a fairly easy way to tune out the noise of the diet de jour and to take your cravings, feelings, nutritional needs and taste preferences and roll all of them into one trust-worthy style of eating. Seriously!
112. Being Stuck
It is human to feel stuck. And it is human to believe we are stuck in areas that feel sticky and yet, we aren't actually stuck in at all. This is an episode, come learn how to unstick yourself.
111. Needing Comfort
It is human to need comfort. And, it is human to not know for sure what comfort you need, in the present day. Here is how to begin to uncover the comfort you've been looking for--and why that comfort may have come from food... and, why that was never a bad thing.
110. Expect the Identity Crisis
This week I want you to learn a crucial subject: managing your identity during weight loss and weight loss maintenance. This is the number one reason I think so many fad and conventional diets (even those that have a hint of sustainability, like diets that emphasize eating whole, unprocessed foods) fail us... and why we just "don't get it" or that it must really be us, this time. Nah, bro. Your body isn't broken!
109. How to Love Yourself Down the Scale
Answering your questions from Instagram all about how to LOSE WEIGHT and use the SCALE to track your data without getting case after case of the fuck its, the woe is me, and the egads and then gaining back that weight you said you were trying to lovingly lose. IT IS POSSIBLE! And it isn't fucked up! And if you don't want to weigh yourself, I address this in the show in two different ways. LFG!
108. Losing Weight While Eating Sugar
Can you lose weight while eating sugar? Absolutely. Listen to today's episode to find out how.
107. Coffee, Stress & Weight Loss
Today I'm sharing my own personal experience coming off of coffee (and chocolate!) and the thought work that was necessary to have this be a simple, easy, and welcomed shift in my life. I'm also answering your top questions about coffee, stress, Hashimoto's, and weight loss when it comes to ingesting stimulants.
106. Leveraging Fasting for Weight Loss
Fasting is like exercise. There are handfuls of ways to use it and that can either feel freeing or like a free fall. This week on the show let me explain to you why your changing needs, which are 100% a thing and it isn't just you or your brain playing tricks on you... let me explain for you how to leverage fasting to HELP you--NOT break you down. Because how diet culture has primed us to believe how we need to lose weight is a tricky, tricky ear worm for many of us. Let's get into it!
105. Building Weight Loss Success
Weight loss isn't a no sum game, my friends. It takes conscious effort, sustainable changes, and a willingness to be in relationship with your brain. If you're down to clown with that, you can accomplish any goal you desire.
104. Lucia's Weight Loss Story: Part II
This week I'm filling you in on the last three years of my weight loss story and why it included intentional weight gain, how I created the concept of "creating my own energy", and how my weight loss was a lens into my emotional life that I could never, ever (nor do I want to) take for granted. Weight gain is an honor, my friends.