Lose Weight. Live Life. Podcast

When we think we don’t have any willpower, or enough willpower, to lose weight we can struggle to get started with weight loss or find ourselves falling into a pattern of getting started only to repeatedly fail, a bit like landing on every snake in the game of snakes and ladders. So, what should we do? That’s what we consider on this podcast episode where we explore what will power is and whether we need it for weight loss.

About Clair:

CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE.

Clair’s uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their eating whilst increasing their self-belief and self-worth.

“There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone overcome their detrimental relationship with food so that they can thrive in optimal physical and mental wellbeing.”

After overcoming decades of struggling with her own weight and losing 6 stone Clair used her experience and coaching qualifications to create her two programmes; ‘Lose Weight. Live Life’ for her private clients and her ‘My One Life Academy’ membership program.

Before following her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles.

Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about how she helps women at events.

Clair lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, teenage children and their two dogs.

Clair's Links:

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On this episode I chat with Master Certified Coach Ruth Kudzi ahead of the launch of her second book, ‘How to Feel Better: 4 Steps to Self-Coach Your Way to a Happier More Authentic You’.

Listen in to our conversation about self-coaching and the ways you can help yourself to ‘feel better’.

About Clair:

CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE.

Clair’s uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their eating whilst increasing their self-belief and self-worth.

“There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone overcome their detrimental relationship with food so that they can thrive in optimal physical and mental wellbeing.”

After overcoming decades of struggling with her own weight and losing 6 stone Clair used her experience and coaching qualifications to create her two programmes; ‘Lose Weight. Live Life’ for her private clients and her ‘My One Life Academy’ membership program.

Before following her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles.

Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about how she helps women at events.

Clair lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, teenage children and their two dogs.

Clair's Links:

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

Website

Hi everyone and welcome to our last Spring Break podcast focus. From next week we will be bringing you an array of new podcast episodes featuring original content and special guest interviews. Look out for upcoming interviews about ‘How to Feel Better’ with Ruth Kudzi and ‘Understanding Binge Eating’ with Jane Pilger.

So, for our last Spring Break focus I want to focus on the reasons why you want your weight loss journey to be a series of mini failures. Failing your way to weight loss success is the only way for you to learn the tools and strategies that will uniquely help you lose and then manage your weight for life. The alternative is trying to stick to a diet, and we all know that doesn’t help you figure out how you want to eat for your best life.

So, to find out more about failing your way to success and what you want that to look like for you, check out these three podcast episodes.

#11 Creating momentum with ending overeating

Listen to this episode if you want to learn:

• The importance of knowing your 'Why'
• How to become your own expert
• How to demonstrate emotional adulthood in weight loss
• How to embrace what's difficult

#26 - When you can’t get ‘back on track’

Listen to this episode to discover:

• Why you think about your eating and weight loss as being either ‘on’ or ‘off’ track
• Why you feel out of control of your ability to stay ‘on’ or ‘get back on’ track
• The problem with on/off track thinking
• How you can move forward and not stay stuck

#72 - Overeating Opportunities

Listen to this episode if you want to:

• NOT use your overeating against yourself
• Make sense of your overeating
• Learn from your overeating to help yourself move forward with your weight loss
• Not let your primal brain using overeating opportunities as a reason to overeat

And if you’re not on the Lose Weight. Live Life. email list, sign up now by going to www.thebestyou.coach/resources

You will get weekly emails about the podcast and other weight loss wisdom, and you’ll get a copy of Six Strategies for Overcoming Overeating too.

And if you want to know more about Failing your way to weight loss success and would like personal help and support to apply what you learn here on the podcast, come join us in the Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy where we have classes and coaching and an amazing community to help you develop the skills to give you the weight loss results you want.

Find out more and join the wait list at: www.thebestyou.coach/enrol.

About Clair:

CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE.

Clair’s uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their eating whilst increasing their self-belief and self-worth.

“There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone overcome their detrimental relationship with food so that they can thrive in optimal physical and mental wellbeing.”

After overcoming decades of struggling with her own weight and losing 6 stone Clair used her experience and coaching qualifications to create her two programmes; ‘Lose Weight. Live Life’ for her private clients and her ‘My One Life Academy’ membership program.

Before following her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles.

Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about how she helps women at events.

Clair lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, teenage children and their two dogs.

Clair's Links:

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

Website

This week’s spring break focus is Emotional Eating. And we’re exploring all things emotional eating.

Now emotional eating isn’t bad. It’s very normal. It’s okay to get pleasure and comfort and other positive emotion from the food that we eat. We shouldn’t deny ourselves that pleasure if we’re happy with our weight and physically and emotionally healthy. But if our emotional eating is out of balance, if it’s contributing to us being unhappy with our weight and unhealthy, then we’re going to want to do understand why we’re emotional eating and find new ways of helping ourselves to feel better without turning to food.

To find out more about emotional eating and how it shows up for you, check out these three podcast episodes.

#7 Eating your feelings Listen to this episode if you want to learn:

• What feelings are and where they come from (by the way everyone needs to know this)
• How emotional eating shows up in your life – so you can decide what parts of your emotional eating aren’t serving you
• How you personally are using food to avoid your feelings and emotions

#40 Proactive Emotional Health This is a must-listen episode for everyone – no matter your weight or relationship with food. Discover:

• How to increase awareness of your emotions
• The skill of feeling, allowing, and processing emotional discomfort
• How your thinking creates your emotions not the circumstances in your lives
• The benefit of leaning into emotional discomfort
• How to create emotions you want on purpose

#58 Comfort Eating Listen to this episode if you want to:

• Discover your desire for comfort
• Increase your awareness of when you eat for comfort
• Know when and what you DO want to eat for comfort
• Know when and what you DON’T want to eat for comfort
• Find ways to comfort, and self soothe yourself without turning to food
• Plan for those days when you don’t feel great

And if you’re not on the Lose Weight. Live Life. email list, sign up now by going to www.thebestyou.coach/resources

You will get weekly emails about the podcast and other weight loss wisdom, and you’ll get a copy of Six Strategies for Overcoming Overeating too.

And if you want to know more about Emotional Eating and would like personal help and support to apply what you learn here on the podcast, come join us in the Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy where we have classes and coaching and an amazing community to help you develop the skills to give you the weight loss results you want.

Find out more and enrol at: www.thebestyou.coach/enrol.

And that’s it. Don’t forget to get on the email list!

Next week I’ll share the episodes to help you ditch.

About Clair:

CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE.

Clair’s uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their eating whilst increasing their self-belief and self-worth.

“There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone overcome their detrimental relationship with food so that they can thrive in optimal physical and mental wellbeing.”

After overcoming decades of struggling with her own weight and losing 6 stone Clair used her experience and coaching qualifications to create her two programmes; ‘Lose Weight. Live Life’ for her private clients and her ‘My One Life Academy’ membership program.

Before following her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles.

Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about how she helps women at events.

Clair lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, teenage children and their two dogs.

Clair's Links:

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

Website

Today I am talking about why you eat when you don’t want to. And what I mean by that is; why is it that a part of you wants to eat and a part of you doesn’t. I used to be desperate to lose weight. I knew what foods to eat and what foods not to eat. I loved fruit and vegetables and yet I still ate chocolate and ice cream. I still had too many crisps and dips on a Friday night. And when I ate these foods, sometimes I would feel conflicted and other times I would simply forget that I didn’t want to eat them, until I stood on the scales on a Monday. I used to wonder how something so important to me could be so easily forgotten after a glass of wine, or when the artisan coffee shop had a particularly amazing selection of cakes on display. How could I be so capable in so many areas of my life and yet so incapable of something that should be relatively easy. Simply not eating too much at mealtimes and not eating, or saying no, to food between meals. And when I was questioning myself and wondering why I was so incapable, I blamed myself. I thought maybe I was flawed in some way. I felt so frustrated, so full of shame about my inability to lose weight and keep it off. So, if you can relate, today’s podcast is for you. Listen in and you will learn why you eat when you don’t want to. You will understand you’re not a failure, you’re not flawed you are perfect just the way you are. About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE Clair’s uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their eating whilst increasing their self-belief and self-worth. “There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone overcome their detrimental relationship with food so that they can thrive in optimal physical and mental wellbeing.” After overcoming decades of struggling with her own weight and losing 6 stone Clair used her experience and coaching qualifications to create her two programmes; ‘Lose Weight. Live Life’ for her private clients and her ‘My One Life Academy’ membership program. Before following her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles. Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about how she helps women at events. Clair lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, teenage children and their two dogs. Clair's Links: Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Website