The 3 Habits of Women Who Lose Weight for the Last Time

Have you ever wondered why *some* women seem to be able to eat what they want and never gain weight?

We’ve all encountered these special unicorns, right? They cook what they love, they enjoy going out to restaurants, they don’t diet but instead eat all the *fun* foods…and yet they remain effortlessly thin.

And it seems so unfair that YOU have to spend all your time and mental energy on restrictive diets if you ever hope to achieve weight loss.

YOU have to meticulously count points or calories, starve between meals, and suffer through all the boring diet food to make the scale move.

YOU have to miss out on all the fun food experiences, cut out the things you love, and white knuckle your way through the cravings or else weight loss won’t happen, right?

WRONG.

I have great news for you - if you struggle with your weight, it’s likely not because you drew the genetic short straw and you’ll never be able to have what those ‘naturally thin’ women have.

That’s actually not it at all.

The ONLY reason those women have what you don’t (yet!) is because they’ve mastered a few skills that you haven’t been taught (yet!).

It’s not that YOU are different from THEM - you just need to practice the skills that they somehow inherently know.

This is exactly what I teach my clients how to do in my Weight Loss for Women Who Love Food Program.

I teach my clients how to become the kind of woman who can eat what she wants and lose weight anyway.

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So, here are 3 incredibly important skills my clients practice as they work on totally rewiring their relationship with food and their weight.

They Listen to Their Bodies

If you’ve been here for a while, you’ve heard me say this over and over again - but it really is the most crucial skill to master for restriction-free weight loss. You can eat ALL the foods you love, as long as you learn to tune into what your body is telling you about WHEN and HOW MUCH to eat.

To learn how to tune into what their bodies are telling them, my clients start by asking themselves two VERY simple questions:

Am I truly hungry?

and

Am I satisfied?

If you’re not yet hungry, you don’t eat.

If you’re physically satisfied, you stop eating.

Beyond that, enjoy! Eat what you like, what lights you up, what you think you’re not ‘allowed’ to have when you’re losing weight. Enjoy a lovely mix of the foods that make you feel good AND the ones that are purely for fun. As long as you wait for true, physical hunger before starting a meal and stop when you’re satisfied (not stuffed), you really can enjoy what you love and lose weight anyway.

They Plan Ahead (Realistically)

We tend not to make the most thoughtful decisions in the moment.

Especially in those moments when you’re tired from working all day, someone cut you off in traffic, the kids are melting down, and there are 45 minutes of chopping between you and that ‘healthy’ dinner you thought you were going to make (and then all those dishes in the sink when you’re done.)

Those are the moments we tend to say f-it, pop open a bottle of wine, and start browsing DoorDash for the most comforting takeout possible.

I teach my clients how to plan ahead for those moments. Rather than planning for the *perfect* you, who has endless energy and time to cook the most elaborate, nutritionally balanced meals, we work together to construct doable, easy plans that you’ll actually WANT to follow through on.

Taking five minutes in the morning to make a loving, compassionate, REALISTIC food plan for the day ensures that you'll make choices that take your long-term goals AND your actual real life into account.

THAT’S how you make weight loss work for YOU.

They USE Their Setbacks and Slipups to Get BETTER at Weight Loss

My clients often make the MOST progress on the weeks they don’t lose weight.

I teach them to look at weight loss as one big experiment. The weeks you lose weight are awesome, and we celebrate and build on those successes. But the weeks the scale doesn’t budge are when the really juicy learning can happen.

Often when we reflect on their data together, my clients and I discover such useful information:

• Maybe they overate at 3 or 4 meals during the week

• Maybe they skipped the delicious salad they planned and got takeout instead because life felt too crazy

• Maybe they stopped for ice cream after lunch, had a decadent dinner at a restaurant, and overindulged in the wine *all in the same day*

NONE of these are reasons to resort to crazy restriction - they’re just opportunities to tighten things up just a LITTLE bit, so clients get plenty of deliciousness during the week AND the weight loss results they want.

• We work on overeating just a little less.

• We work on creating a backup plan for stressful days so we’re not going face down in takeout every time.

• We work on choosing the indulgences that are *truly* special and worth it and skipping the ones that just aren’t.

THIS is the work of restriction-free weight loss, and my clients get after it every day inside my program.

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But sometimes this work can be really challenging to do on our own.

Sometimes we need another set of eyes on our problems to help us see what's getting in our way.

That’s what coaching is all about.

I’m an Advanced Certified Weight Loss & Mindset coach with years of experience helping so many women learn to use their brains rather than restriction and deprivation to lose weight.

The solution to your weight loss struggles is not in another cookie-cutter meal plan, app, or “cleanse”.

You’ve already tried hundreds of those, and if they worked, you probably wouldn’t be here today, right?

The solution is in identifying YOUR unique obstacles and roadblocks and creating individualized solutions that work for YOU.

This is what coaching with me can do for you.

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