You enjoyed the holidays and indulged in the delicious foods you look forward to all year. But now, during this gap week between the holidays and the new year, you’re grappling a persistent sense of food guilt. You think to yourself: “Should I not have eaten the way I did? Was I sabotaging my weight loss goals?” Understand this: It’s not how you ate during the holidays that determines your weight loss success. It’s how you react to post-holiday food guilt.  In this episode, I’m teaching...

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You want to eat healthy consistently with ease so you can lose weight permanently. You’re committed to creating those results in your life. But, you notice that each time you set out to implement these changes, something throws you off track. Eventually, you lose the initial focus and determination, and end up back at square one. Know this: It’s not that you stopped having enough time or energy to follow through. It’s not that healthy eating or weight loss was inherently unsustainable for...

After a long day at work, all you crave is to unwind, relax, and savor your favorite comfort foods. You look forward to that cozy feeling of slipping into sweats, nestling into the couch, and watching Netflix while eating your favorite snacks. The problem? You want to lose weight and achieve better health, but you know those habits can’t come with you. According to most sources, you just need more discipline. You're told to curb your cravings and resist the urge to seek comfort through food...

You often feel overwhelmed by the daily tasks in your life, leading you to wonder, "How can I possibly prioritize healthy eating and weight loss alongside all my other to-dos?" This is a typical worry among high-achieving women who aim to adopt healthier habits. It seems daunting to integrate a healthy identity with the overwhelming state you experience in other areas of your life. In this episode, I'll teach you the truth about overwhelm and what's necessary to achieve the healthy change...

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After years of an all-or-nothing approach to weight loss, you're now ready for it to feel natural and effortless. You’re no longer interested in hustling for those results. However, you might still actually believe that weight loss is inherently difficult. To lose weight permanently with ease, you need to become someone who believes that doing so can be effortless. In this episode, I’m sharing the process to losing weight with ease. You’ll learn what doing so will actually entail in the...

You want to fully enjoy holiday foods without feeling like you’re backtracking on your weight goals. But, you might wonder, is this even possible? If you have a history of dieting, you might believe that cutting out pleasurable foods is necessary to lose weight. You think that "eating the right things" is what's required to eat healthy. Turns out,  you can enjoy holiday foods AND lose weight — in fact, creating this experience of healthy eating is necessary to achieve long-term changes. ...

If you’re aiming to eat healthy, but constantly feel pressed for time, you’re not alone. It can feel like an on-going struggle, especially when you believe that dedicating time and effort is necessary for healthy eating and weight loss to occur. But here’s the good news: while a dieting approach might demand more of your time, creating lasting results doesn’t hinge on more time and effort. In this episode, you’ll learn what’s truly necessary to eat healthy and lose weight, all without...

You want to lower your cravings with foods you love, but you don’t want to restrict yourself from them completely. I get it. It’s easy to feel stuck when you want to enjoy foods you love, but you feel like you have no control with them. The solution isn’t to restrict yourself from foods. It’s to tackle the root of the problem: the fact that you crave the foods so strongly in the first place. In this episode, you’ll learn the balance between naturally lowering cravings and not needing to...

Being ambitious and goal-driven has served you well in many areas of life. However, when it comes to healthy eating and weight loss, you sometimes attempt to force results into place, leading to frustration with short-term changes. In this episode, we'll discuss the difference between being a high-achiever in your weight loss journey and rushing toward the end result. We'll explore why many high-achievers often find themselves in a cycle of hustle and short-term results in weight loss. I'll...

Do you often feel overwhelmed by the number on the scale, or find yourself avoiding it altogether, perceiving it as a detriment to your weight-loss journey? Engaging in either extreme can be counterproductive and emotionally taxing. A balanced, neutral approach to the scale is crucial, allowing you to progress in your weight loss journey without unnecessary stress. In this episode, we’ll explore achieving a “middle ground” with the scale. Reaching this balance transforms the scale from an...

Ever catch yourself reaching for food, not out of hunger, but because you’re stressed, overwhelmed, or anxious? Stress eating is a common struggle of high-performing women. It’s that compelling urge to eat, not when you’re naturally hungry, but when you’re emotionally spent.  Turns out, stress eating isn’t about the foods you find comforting. It’s about your body’s primal response to stress. In this episode, we dive deep into what stress eating looks like and why it’s a roadblock to the...

Think you can only lose weight effectively by tracking what you eat? While food tracking can contribute to weight loss, it's not the only method available. If you've tried and struggled with food tracking repeatedly, it might be time to explore a different approach. In this episode, I'll share how to determine if food tracking isn't sustainable for your weight loss goals and which alternatives you should consider instead. There are a million and one ways to eat healthy and lose weight. The...

Feel like healthy eating and weight loss isn’t quite accessible now? You’ve likely convinced yourself that approaches like planning, food prepping, and strong willpower are necessary to reach your goals. The key to long-term weight loss isn’t about adding more to your plate; it's about learning to focus solely on the non-negotiable healthy eating essentials. As a high-achieving woman, the breakthrough comes when you commit to working smarter, not harder, for weight loss. When you decide to...

How do you define consistency with healthy eating? High-achieving women often equate consistency with perfection, believing that to consistently eat healthy and lose weight, they must never make mistakes with food. However, this definition of consistency isn't sustainable for long-term success. It will only create unnecessary pressure and inevitable burnout with healthy eating. To create long-term results, you must redefine consistency in a way that accounts for human error and long-term...

You’ve reached healthy eating momentum when you’re on the most efficient path to your weight loss goals. It’s when the further you are in your journey, the more efficiently you’re creating the end-result you desire. This is the work of naturally healthy eating. You start by learning the skills to eat healthy naturally. This is the most foundational part of your journey. Then, once you’ve learned those skills, you can get to work using them to create the weight loss. You can implement what...

Do you have tunnel vision with your weight loss goal? This is when you focus only on the end goal of weight loss, without considering the steps you’re taking to achieve it. When you have tunnel vision, you often don’t consider if the path you’re walking with healthy eating is sustainable or effective. You gravitate towards diets and quick-fixes, hoping they create the result you want, only to find they were never sustainable.  In this episode, I’m walking you through your two options for...

Do you people please when it comes to your eating decisions? This can lead to unintended overeating and weight gain, as you may feel a strong urge to prioritize others' emotions over your own health goals. When you constantly focus on pleasing others, your own wants and needs often take a back seat. The result is that you may end up eating more than intended, just to fit in with the crowd, or you might feel pressured to accept food offerings even when you're already full. However, if you...

Past dieting left you feeling disempowered with food. This is uncomfortable. But, it’s not a problem. Because, it’s not remotely reflective of how capable you are of making permanent changes with food. Your past with dieting is irrelevant. Those solutions didn’t work for you, because they required constant willpower, focus, and discipline. Your failures with dieting weren’t personal.  You are a unique eater with individual needs. A cookie-cutter diet protocol just didn’t make the cut for...

As a high-achieving women, you often strive for perfection. This can reflect you having high-standards for the results you want; however, it can also reflect you being unwilling to experience the emotion of disappointment. Your healthy eating progress will not look perfect. This is by design. Therefore, it’s non-negotiable to have a useful relationship to disappointment when deciding to lose weight for the last time. In this episode, I’m sharing how, as high-achieving women, we tend to...

The difference between losing weight permanently and gaining it back? The order in which you solve for your weight loss. Most sources will tell you to solve your eating habits by only changing what you eat. In doing so, you're skipping foundational steps that are crucial for long-term change. In this episode, I guide you through the four-step process for creating permanent weight loss. You'll discover why following the steps in the correct order is important and how to identify if you're...

In order to sustain naturally healthy eating habits, you need to change your relationship with emotional comfort.   You don’t need to shut it down, dismiss it, or stigmatize it. You need to normalize and validate it.   Because, urges for emotional comfort are perfectly natural for you as a human. Rather than resisting this, you can learn to work with your desire for comfort in your life.   The key is to begin separating non-useful comfort from useful comfort. Where you engage in comfort...

You want to be accountable with food. You want to follow through with healthy eating and lose the weight. Yet, you find yourself not keeping up with that standard. You make plans to eat healthier, then eventually stop prioritizing the changes you want to make. Ask Yourself: What exactly about holding yourself accountable with food stops being sustainable? At what point do you stop holding yourself to that standard? It’s not the healthy eating decisions that are unsustainable. It’s your...