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How to get off the Struggle Bus when it comes to food
How many times have you woken up first thing in the morning motivated and ready to have an amazing day when it comes to your food choices. . . “Today’s the day I’m going to turn over a new leaf.” “No more unhealthy food for me.” “From here on out, I’m giving up __________(fill in the blank)____________ FOREVER!” Only to find yourself face down in a family size bag of M&M’s come 3:00 in the afternoon because you’re stressed, bored, or you don’t want to do your work any more? And let me guess: Since you think you’ve already messed up you might as well go ahead and eat the…
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Self-Doubt
What if I told you self-doubt around losing weight is normal and it isn’t a problem? Say What?! Self-doubt is a feeling we feel because of a thought we’re thinking about doing something new or hard. Our brain likes to tell us, “I don’t know if I can do this.” Because we’ve never done it before we have no past evidence to go off of. Self-doubt isn’t wrong. It’s a normal part of being a human. We all experience self-doubt. A lot of women use it to quit on or to stay stuck! They let their past weight loss attempts dictate their future. “I’ve never been able to lose…
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$50,000 Commitment
A lot of women come to me wanting to give up their emotional eating in return for weight loss. They feel like their reasons are superficial and not good enough. I tell them their reason(s) why doesn’t need to be compelling as long as they are 100% committed. Then I ask them if they would be willing to pay me $50,000 if they don’t follow through. This type of commitment is way different than “wanting to” or “trying to”. A $50,000 commitment means you “WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES” until you reach your goal. This is what will get you results.
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5 Simple Steps to a Healthier You
+ What do you do if you want to get healthy or lose some weight without dieting or dropping into diet mentality? In this episode, I share 5 steps or things you can do that will help you reach your health or weight goal in a sustainable, healthy way. Step one: Make a daily food plan. For those of you who listened to the Emotional Eating episode and the How to break up with any habit episode, you’ll know the importance of using the prefrontal cortex part of the brain to run the show. If you need a refresher course, go back and listen to those two episodes. Making a…
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Emotional Eating
Many of us use food to cope with both negative and positive emotions. There’s nothing wrong with this unless it is causing a problem for you. If emotional eating is causing a problem with your health, your weight, or your relationship with food, it may be worth examining more closely. In this episode, I’m sharing two tools you can use to combat emotional eating and break the habit for good. I talk about the importance of awareness and being aware of your eating habits and patterns without judgment shame, guilt, or hate. I talk about Seizing the Brain by using the power of your prefrontal cortex to plan what and…
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How to Breakup With Any Habit
Do you have a habit you wish you could kick to the curb? Maybe it’s overeating. Maybe it’s your soda habit. Maybe you have a habit of overspending. Maybe your habit is wasting too much time watching television or scrolling your social media feed. On this episode of The Joyful You Podcast I teach you a PROVEN four-step process to breakup with ANY habit – no matter how attached you feel you are. This is the EXACT method I used to breakup with overeating and lose weight. Make a plan and write it down Follow that plan exactly Allow all urges to go off plan Repeat Listen in as I…
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Slow It Down!
So much about our lives today is fast and immediate. We have high-speed internet, and Google where we can get immediate answers We can hop on social media and immediately check into people’s lives. We no longer have to wait for slow mail to deliver a letter. We order fast food and have dinner ready immediately Even our schedules have become fast-paced. We’re always hurrying and rushing from one errand or carpool or outing to the next. When moving in this fast-frenzied pace, we inevitably eat fast as well. Rushing through our meals so we can move onto the next thing, or even eating in the car on our way…
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Healthy Habits for Weight Loss
In this episode I talk about weight loss and my philosophy around it. (HINT: It’s probably not what you think). I discuss the spectrum I see of weight loss and where I fall on it. I also discuss how to get to a healthy weight and improve your relationship with food and your body. Let’s be friends on Instagram- @ajoyfulyou Website MENTIONED DURING EPISODE: Brooke Castillo Talk: Watchful unto Prayer Continually http://traffic.libsyn.com/ajoyfulyou/Healthy_Habits_for_Weight_Loss.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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Stop Buffering
Buffering is whatever activity we do to try to escape from, or cope from, or hide from what’s really going on in our lives and from what we’re feeling. It’s a distraction from having to deal with our emotions, especially the ones we don’t like feeling. As humans, we don’t like to feel uncomfortable. So when we experience an intense or a negative emotion that doesn’t feel good, it’s normal for us to want to escape it or to cushion the impact of it, to buffer it away, to protect ourselves. As humans we feel entitled to feel good and pleasure and sunshine and daisies all of the time. This…
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Lose the Weight for Life With This One Simple Tool
People are always surprised when they find out I once weighed 50lbs more than I do now. In order to do it, I had to stop making weight loss complicated. Instead of trying to change everything all at once, which was impossible and always ended up not being sustainable, I had to take baby steps. Here’s the secret to losing weight for good: If you want to lose ALL your weight for good, you have to change in small ways! Start each day and ask yourself: How can I do a little better today than yesterday? Then do it! That’s it! If we try to do things that we can’t…
