On this episode we’re unpacking something that shows up for all of us from time to time and that is the desire to quit. So, join us as we uncover why quitting is so tempting and how we can help ourselves through those tough moments. We’re going to dig into how we think and feel when we’re faced with the choice to quit and give you some practical tips and insights on how to stay committed to your goals. Whether it’s a small everyday choice or a big life decision, we’re breaking it down to...

On this episode we explore the concept of 'going without.' From the wartime years of rationing to our fast-paced, modern world, where instant gratification has become the norm. Listen in to explore the psychology of gratification, the brain chemistry behind our cravings, and the impact of our choices on our health and well-being. We'll also discuss practical strategies for embracing delayed gratification and creating a healthier relationship with food and life. If you rarely 'go without' or...

I am pleased to bring you a segment of last week’s Unlocking Sustainable Weight Wellness Workshop for this week’s podcast episode. The six keys to weight wellness that we covered in the workshop were: your body, your brain, your mind, your emotions, yourself, and your life. And this segment from the workshop is about: your mind. About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH...

So, you may have heard me say that weight loss is not about the food. It’s about you, it’s about what’s happening in your body, your brain, your mind, and emotions in your relationship with food. And today we’re focusing on what’s happening in your brain, and how you knowing and understanding your brain makes it easier to learn and use skills and strategies to help you manage the unsupervised primal part of your brain and make better food decisions.   About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A...

I want you to take a few minutes for yourself and decide what you want to create in your life this autumn. Listen in to this podcast episode to find out more about setting intentions to live how you want and create the life and health that you want this autumn. 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...

Do you ever find yourself eating foods because you think you cannot have them when you start your diet or eating plan on Monday?  If like I did, you find yourself eating all the things at the weekend, or even the night before ‘starting again’ then you’re likely living in diet mentality which not only feels awful but will also be making weight loss and having the relationship with food that you want more difficult. Find out more about this pattern of diet mentality, ‘last chance eating’...

The reason I am talking to you about body image on this podcast is because it causes suffering for so many of us. Thoughts about my own body have caused me so much unhappiness in my lifetime. And that unhappiness has come not just from the dissatisfaction I’ve felt looking at my body in the mirror or seeing photos of myself, but it’s come from fear of what I think others may be thinking about my body, or the judgements they make of me because of my body, as well as my own shame around my...

On this podcast episode we’re talking about treating yourself with food. We’re explore why you may treat yourself with food; why it’s difficult to change the habit of treating yourself with food; and what you should do if it’s hindering your 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...

On this podcast episode we’re whether you are knowingly or unknowingly putting off your weight loss journey. We’ve considering how you may be falling into diet mentality thinking without realising it. And that whilst you may think you’re being kind to yourself, it’s anything but.   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...

On this podcast episode we’re exploring who you are being in your approach to taking action (or not taking action)’ on your weight loss journey. It's not so much 'what' you're doing but how you're going about it that we dive into here. We’re exploring why, when the words ‘you are the greatest project, you will ever work on’ (source unknown) feel like the truth to you, taking action feels a lot easier. And we’re considering an adapted version of Hal Elrod’s Miracle Equation for weight loss. ...

On this episode, I bring you a Focus Topic call replay from the Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy all about how to bring awareness and understanding to all the decisions you make that lead to gain weight or hinder you losing weight.   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,...

On this episode, we explore different approaches to losing weight for a specific event whether for a holiday, a special family event such as a wedding, or to be healthier for a medical procedure or surgery, or a big special. When we have a specific event, we want to lose weight for, it can be tempting to focus only on the 'number on the scale' and put pressure on ourselves to lose as much weight as possible as quickly as possible. Join me on this episode as we explore the challenges of...

On this episode, we explore using the ‘wisdom of our future selves’ by tapping into our future experiences and knowledge, to gain insights and make better decisions that help us on our weight loss journey. And because we’re thinking and feeling, from the place of having already achieved what it is that we’re wanting, we also discover the benefit of feeling better as you lose weight and not having to wait to lose weight to feel good.   About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT...

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...

Inspired by a quote on the wall of the medical centre that I visited with my husband yesterday, ‘If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my health’, on this episode we address why we don’t lose weight, get healthy, move more. Why we don’t do the things that we know will not only have us feeling better in the here and now of our lives, but also help us live longer and have a better quality of life in our later years.   About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A...

Today on the podcast I am talking all things Binge Eating with Master Certified Binge Eating and Body Trust Coach, Jane Pilger on this podcast episode.   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...

On this podcast episode, what 'mindset' is and why it is a critical core component of you creating the relationship with food that you want so that you can lose and manage your weight for life. Join us as we explore mindset ingredients, mindset management utensils and the mindset management preparation and cooking process necessary for your weight loss and health goals.   About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT...

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...

Many weight loss truths – also arguably have an opposite truth. The weight loss journey is one of paradox. On this episode of the Lose Weight. Live Life. podcast learn 10 fundamental truths of weight loss reflected as the paradoxes that they are. Discover why it’s easy to get confused when we’re wanting to lose weight and gain insight as to why the very things you’ve been thinking, believing, and doing in your effort to lose weight, may well be exactly what’s keep you stuck and unable to...

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...

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...

As you may know we’re taking a spring break here on the podcast which means right now is a great time for you to be getting to work applying the tips and strategies you’ve been learning from listening to the more than 100 podcast episodes available. This week’s spring break focus is Hunger and it’s all about understanding the different types of hunger that you experience. In the LWLL Academy we explore the differences between physical hunger, emotional hunger, habitual hunger and hormone...

As you may know we’re taking a spring break here on the podcast which means right now is a great time for you to be getting to work applying the tips and strategies you’ve been learning from listening to the more than 100 podcast episodes available. This week’s spring break focus is: Hacking your brain and planning and it’s all about understanding about the food choices you make. And it’s important because wanting to lose weight and knowing how to eat to lose weight does not equate,...

We’re taking a spring break here on the podcast which means right now is a great time for you to be getting to work applying the tips and strategies you’ve been learning from listening to the more than 100 podcast episodes available. And to help you with that I am going to send you, if you’re on my email list, a weekly email to guide you step-by-step through the podcast episodes. This week is all about How to Eat Right for You. And I suggest you choose to listen to one or more of these...

Hi everyone, thank you for being here and listening to the Lose Weight. Live Life. Podcast. I just wanted to share with you that I will be taking a break from the podcast. I have a chronic health condition that I am working on improving and I want to create extra time in my week to focus on healing and also developing the Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy membership. And I am looking forward to having space to put in place plans for the podcast that I’ve been wanting to do for some time.  I am...