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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

 
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137. Weight Loss Success Story: Kayla

This week is a very special episode. Listen in on how Kayla has lost 30 pounds using the Lean + Liberated method. This episode is especially useful for those who work night shifts, have extremely painful, heavy, and disruptive menstrual periods, and who like poptarts.

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136. On Ease

When doing is at the core of your identity, it can feel like an affront to peel away that identity of being the go-to doer. But if you want sustainable weight loss, you'll want to make sure you open your identity up to ease. Listen to today's show to know how to do this.

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135. Habit Honeymoon

Learn what the habit honeymoon is and how to use this concept to help you creating your most fulfilling life—while steadily losing weight in the process.

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133: Weight Loss Success Story: Carlyn

Join me as I interview my client Carlyn, a gregarious introvert living in Portland, Oregon with her husband, cats, and (just during Covid) adult daughter. Carlyn is such an awesome client who has been a blast to support as she showed up for herself during her time in Lean + Liberated, shook off the expectations of society and chose herself, first.

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132: Urges

Learn how to use the daily urges and cravings you experience around food to your advantage and to keep steadily losing weight.

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131. Leptin Resistance

Learn about leptin resistance and why this is an important part of the weight loss and maintenance conversation.

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130: Insulin Resistance

Learn about insulin resistance and why this is an important part of the weight loss and maintenance conversation.

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129: Making The Plan

Learn about the exact journal process my clients use daily to lose their weight without restrictive dieting.

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127: Understanding Thoughts and Feelings

The reason conventional weight loss methods fail us in the long term is because they do not help us understand our thoughts and feelings. Thoughts and feelings matter more than the foods you eat—it's true! Today on the show I'll teach you how to identify your thoughts and feelings, why they're different, and how they affect your weight loss results.

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126. The Jobs We Give Food

We give foods jobs all day long. Sometimes, those choices nourish us. Sometimes, those choices frustrate us. Sometimes, those choices please us. Today, learn how to decide which jobs you've been giving your food choices, and what to do to make sure you're not only reading their resumes correctly... but to become the CEO of your weight loss.

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125. Lab Testing

Coaching weight loss is two-fold: coaching on the intangibles of weight loss, and on the tangibles, too. The tangibles can, and I think should (and you know I don't use the word "should" lightly) include lab work from your qualified, licensed medical professional, and I really hope they do for you! Listen today to understand which panels I recommend from a foundational perspective if you're stalling or yo-yoing on your weight loss progress, and why these panels are PART of your liberatory weight loss journey.

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124. Embracing Uniqueness

This week, let's open a conversation up about you and your unique needs. If the dieting cycle is inherently in opposition to you and your unique needs—what do we do instead? Here's the process to start to figure this out.

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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.


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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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