Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder

Do you focus on what’s wrong with your body, rather than what’s right with it?

Do you focus on what your body can’t do, rather than what it can and does do?

Have you been critical of how your body looks throughout your life, even when you weren’t overweight?

I’m revisiting one of the most popular Weight Loss for Foodies podcast episodes, updated and even better than before. It’s such an important topic because so many women are dissatisfied with their bodies. This is something so upsetting and disempowering, but certainly understandable, given how much value is placed on our appearance, and the messages we get from the media.

So many women have trouble feeling at home with the body you have right now, yet the only way you can change it is to accept it, even love it, and take better care of it, and you won’t want to do that if you hate it.

Do you resist feeling at home with the body you have now?

Your body is truly amazing. It receives and processes millions of bits of sensory information every second, processing way more information than your brain can.

What if, instead of hating things about yourself, you chose to accept your body, and love and care for it?

Stay tuned and learn why, fighting against your body, hating it, criticizing it and wanting it to be different actually prevents you from losing weight and keeping it off.

One way to learn how to care for your body is to listen to my guided emotional eating meditation when your brain starts telling you to eat and you aren’t hungry. You can download a copy for free at the link below.

How many times have you heard this saying?

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

So many people get stuck and have difficulty reaching their weight goals (and any other goal for that matter) because they get caught in a repetitive pattern of doing the same thing that doesn’t work, or that makes things worse,, over and over again.

Maybe you keep stopping at that bakery on your way to work, buying three pastries under the pretense that you’ll share them or save some for tomorrow, then eat them all.

Maybe you binge on chips after dinner while watching TV every night.

The Weight Loss for Foodies method is all about achieving permanent weight loss success by changing your habits and developing a peaceful relationship with food and eating.

Some people can dive right in and do all of the things that I recommend.

But that doesn’t work for everyone.

For many people, what works the best is to take baby steps to break patterns of overeating or emotional eating that you keep repeating to your own detriment.

Stay tuned to learn how you can get out of your rut and start making progress by taking baby steps to change your eating habits.

And stay tuned for a very important announcement at the end–and it isn’t a sales pitch!

Do you feel stressed out often?

Although we hear a lot about stress in the media, many people overlook the effect that it has, not only on their overall health, but on their weight, too.

Stress management is as important a part of becoming healthy and dropping those extra pounds as changing your eating habits is.

Maybe you’re thinking, whaaaat? How does sitting around meditating and not burning calories help me lose weight?

Different stressful life experiences have different effects on us. Sometimes, stress can cause people to lose their appetite. Other times, it can trigger the urge to eat to soothe yourself and avoid those uncomfortable emotions.

Listen to learn why stress makes it easier to gain weight and harder to lose it, and what you can do to reduce the effects of stress in your life. And grab a copy of the Stress Reduction Resources Think Sheet, too!

I have a question for you. If you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, are you having great success losing weight and keeping it off? I regularly get emails from listeners telling me how grateful they are for the podcast, how great they’re doing and how much weight they’ve lost using the tools I teach. I never tire of hearing this, and it makes the effort worth it. To be helping people end their struggle with food and eating is why I do this!

Or maybe you aren’t having success. YET. If you’re like the way I was before I lost weight, you know what to do. It’s just actually doing it that is tripping you up. The difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it is the difference between success and failure.  

Listen to learn what you can do to get from knowing what to do to actually doing it! 

Your emotions are super important.

Emotions are your body’s way of trying to get your attention.

Were you taught to ignore them or squash them down?

Did your parents expect you to not feel or hide your anger, frustration, boredom or whatever other uncomfortable feelings you had?

Maybe you learned that expressing these emotions was wrong.

When you ignore your feelings or bury them under a lot of sweets or chips or whatever, you are ignoring yourself, your body and your needs.

Ignoring your emotions is downright unhealthy. Eating to avoid feeling them is a very temporary remedy. It may make you feel better for a short while, but whatever caused those feelings you’re eating to avoid will still be there long after the food has left your mouth and the pleasure is gone.

In this episode, I’m introducing another tool for managing your emotions so that you don’t eat to avoid them. This method, which was developed by psychologist Julia Colwell, helps you experience the emotion, learn from it and let it go. It’s so liberating!

You might want to take notes and write down the steps, which I set forth in detail, then summarize at the end of the podcast.

Are you ready to learn how to Kick the Emotional Eating Habit for Good? Then check out my free video training, and get moving on what can be your last weight loss journey. Watch it at your convenience.