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Happy New Year! Ready to start AND end 2022 on the correct foot? Here are four positive things you can do to change your relationship with food, eating and your weight so you can lose the weight for good while enjoying your life, including the foods you love!
It’s been a tough couple of years for many of us. In this episode I want to help you make this new year better.
Listen below to learn the four most important changes to make in 2022 to change your relationship with food and eating, AND your weight.
These include: 1. Stop dieting and cultivate an abundance mindset. 2. Eat using the Hunger Scale 3. Eat consciously and slowly, savoring every bite 4. Eat the foods you really enjoy--no forbidden foods!
Learn why it’s so important to do these things, and how they can help you lose weight and keep it off without dieting. FOREVER!
If you're ready to make this your last weight loss journey, sign up for the Weight Loss for Foodies online courseHERE.
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Happy New Year! Ready to start and end 2022 on the right foot? Here are four things you can do to change your relationship with food, eating and your weight so you can lose the weight for good while enjoying your life. Including the foods you love,
Wouldn't it feel amazing to stop obsessing about everything you eat to ditch dieting forever and drop that extra weight in a sane and sustainable way? Well, you can do it and I can't wait to show you how. I'm Shari Broder, and welcome to the Weight Loss for Foodies Podcast, Episode 173: the Four Most Important Changes to Make in 2022.
Welcome back. Thank you so much for being here. Before we get started, I'd just like to quickly thank today's sponsor, BetterHelp. BetterHelp offers professional counseling done securely online. BetterHelp will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist. Get started today at betterhelp.com. And that's BetterHelp is one word, go to betterhelp.com/shari and receive 10% off your first month.
It has been a tough couple of years for many of us. In this episode, I want to help you make this new year better for you with respect to your relationship with food eating and your weight. So let's jump right in. I'm just going to go right into it.
Here's the first change:
Now, research supports the total opposite conclusion. And that is that 95-97% of people who attempt to diet will fail to lose weight and keep it off for at least two years. So why suffer through a miserable diet when even if you're one of the few people who actually loses weight? You'll gain it all back and then some in less than two years. Don't let the diet industry make a fool out of you. The diet industry knows that what they're selling doesn't work, but they want you to keep dieting forever because that's how they make money. There's always a new fad diet to get your hopes up and get you spending money to try.
There are those fad foods all the time, new ones coming from who knows where, including those highly processed diet shakes and bars with ingredients that read like chemistry sets. Diets, subscription plans, where you get to eat food that isn't fresh, detoxes, cleanses and all kinds of things that you don't need to lose weight.
I was unable to lose weight until I stopped dieting. And I know lots of other people and have helped a lot of people get to that place. If that wasn't enough to convince you to swear off diets forever then how about this... do you like being on a diet? You hate it, right? It's freaking miserable. You can't live a normal life and go to parties and restaurants and eat normally.
Maybe you somehow convinced yourself that your overpriced chocolate Isagenix shake doesn't taste too bad, but wouldn't you much rather eat real food with fresh ingredients than drink some fake emulsion? And let's not forget that most of those diet shake companies lure desperate dieters into selling their product through pyramid scheme so they get the product cheaper. So they end up losing money instead of weight.
Have you thought about how dieting is a huge waste of your time and energy? According to Susan Hyatt, who is one of my weight coaches, on the average, by the time you're 45, you've tried 61 diet plans, programs, detoxes, cleanses, or whatever. Susan reported that the average woman spends 31 years of her life on a diet. What a waste of your one precious life. I don't want that for you. I know you have better things to do with your time and energy and money. I mean, diets make you feel crappy about yourself. They make you hate the way you look.
They make you feel worthless and like a failure, but you aren't the failure. It's the diet that failed you. Diets make you behave in ways inconsistent with the needs of your body. They tell you what, when, and how much to eat, and they totally ignore the needs of your very wise body, which has ways of telling you it needs food, like hunger pangs. Even purportedly healthy diets do that. They make you waste your time counting calories and carbs, macros, points, whatever. And here's the most damaging part. They teach you to approach food and eating from a perspective of scarcity. And that's why after you've been depriving yourself of french fries for two months, you feel totally out of control when you decide to eat that forbidden food just this once.
On the other hand, when you cultivate an abundance mindset, your approach to food is completely different. This is how you look at the world. Wow. There are so many delicious things to eat that are readily accessible to me. I can eat anything my body wants when I'm hungry. That's the only requirement - I have to be hungry.
There's never a need to keep eating until I feel stuffed or to eat crappy Chips Ahoy cookies because someone brought a bag of them. When I eat pleasure foods like baked goods or chocolate or chips, I only want to eat the most delicious stuff. I'll pass on those packaged doughnuts they're giving out that were fried months ago. And when I'm really in the mood for a doughnut, I'll get the best one in town and really enjoy it because I deserve the best. That's what the abundance mindset looks like. When you incorporate an abundance mindset into your life, and eat using the hunger scale, which I'll talk about next, you can enjoy any party, holiday buffet, or whatever, without overeating or gaining weight. Really! You stop feeling like you have to eat those foods that you love like it's your last meal.
To help you ditch your diet scarcity mindset and cultivate a mindset that will help you lose weight, sign up for my free seven day "Change Your Food and Eating Mindset" challenge, which is on my website, sharibroder.com.
So the second important change to make is to eat using the hunger scale. The hunger scale is a much more important tool for shedding your extra weight than the bathroom scale. It's the key to knowing exactly how much food your body needs for you to drop down to your naturally healthy weight and stay there.
Your hunger and fullness sensations are your body's brilliant mechanism for telling you exactly what it needs. You even have a whole system of hormones that tell you when you're hungry and full, but unfortunately you've spent your life dieting or living in our culture of overeating so you probably don't tune into those signals when making your decisions about when to eat and how much. Maybe you eat because it's time for breakfast or lunch, or because the ad on your TV told you that you obviously want that hot pizza dripping with enormous amounts of cheese, and encourages you to call some pizza delivery service. Or maybe you're at the movie theater and you're eating popcorn and candy because that's what you do there after you've eaten a big dinner. But the problem is that when you eat but you're not hungry, your body doesn't need the food and it'll store that energy as fat. If you want to lose weight and keep it off, it's important to get back to eating in tune with your body's hunger and fullness signals. Doing so will literally change both your body and your life.
Now the hunger scale gives you guidance about when you should start and stop eating, you can download a copy for free from the episode three Podcast Think Sheets on my website, or in my free Facebook group, Ditch the Diet Tribe. You can access the Podcast Think Sheets on the podcast page on my website under the free resources.
The hunger scale goes from one to ten. The lower numbers are when you're hungry and the higher numbers are when you're full. I recommend starting eating when you're at a three, which is when you're just hungry enough to be distracted by your hunger. Now, if you wait until you're at a one or a two, which is hungrier, you'll be too hungry and that will set you up for being less discriminating and maybe even making poor choices. You may get into starvation mode and start acting desperate and eating anything.
When you're at a three on the hunger scale, choose to eat something that you enjoy. Never eat food you don't like because you think it's going to help you lose weight. It's ridiculous. It's so unsatisfying. Then stop eating when you reach a six. A six is when you feel sated and comfortable. It's about 80% full.
You'll feel light and energetic and not weighed down with your stomach distended. You should not have to undo your jeans after a meal. That means you've gone above a six or maybe your clothes are way too tight, but it usually means you've eaten too much. Now there are lots of reasons for stopping at six, which by the way is something I rarely did before I worked with a weight coach. I used to overeat all the time. You feel so much better when you stop eating at six though. I love that wonderful feeling of enjoying a meal and not feeling stuffed. I really hate that stuffed feeling now. And it's funny to think that that was how I ate for most of my life.
Secondly, you are giving your body the precise amount of food it needs to fuel it when you eat from three to six on the hunger scale. And stopping at six is so much easier on your digestive system. I spent so much of my life dealing with digestive problems, even being incorrectly diagnosed with IBS, but once I stopped overeating those problems disappeared. And many of my clients have had the same experience.
When most people start eating in tune with the hunger scale, they find that their body only needs about half or two-thirds of what they've been eating. So you eat less and then what happens? You lose weight. And because you eat that way for the rest of your life, you don't gain it back again. And you don't miss the extra food for the reason I'm about to tell you.
Now if you're one of them and you think you love food, why are you distracting yourself from it by watching TV or a movie or working or reading, playing app games, hanging out on YouTube or Tik Tok or whatever? There are lots of problems with distracted eating. One of them is that you don't pay attention to why you're eating so you don't notice when you've had enough. So you're more likely to overeat. Don't rush through your meals, take your time and actually taste and enjoy your food, pay attention to the flavors. And you'll also give your stomach a chance to send that "I'm full" signal to your brain before you've eaten too much.
The other problem with distracted eating is that you don't fully enjoy and appreciate your food. I mean, how many times do you munch down a bag of chips while doing something else and suddenly you realize that most of the bag has gone and you've barely tasted them? Now, if on the other hand, you ate the chips slowly and consciously, you would enjoy them more and you'd be satisfied with less. You might even get bored eating them.
I mean, really, when you have to make a choice between eating and doing something, you're more likely to consider whether you're truly hungry. So let's say you have lots of work to finish and you want to snack – decide between the two. If you're really hungry, you'll choose the snack, which is only going to take around five minutes or so to eat anyway, so it's not like it's going to prevent you from completing your work. How much time do you waste during your workday like me? I know there's plenty of that. If you're not hungry, you'll likely choose to keep working. Just by making these choices, you'll likely eat less, eating slowly and consciously. You'll feel so much more satisfied that your cravings will go away. Seriously. Speaking of ways to eliminate cravings, that's number four.
Food is just food. Yes, some foods are more nutritious than others and your body is going to want mostly those. If you just listen to it, if you give yourself permission to eat anything, you will not eat cookies 24/7 because you'd feel awful. Your body will tell you to stop doing that and it'll cry out for some carrots or nuts or hummus or something that's better fuel for it.
Yes, sometimes it may want chocolate too. Remember that abundance mindset I told you about earlier. When you approach food and eating that way, you really can make peace with food and not overdo it. But you have to get rid of your good and bad food lists if you want to stop feeling out of control around food, because that's the scarcity mindset at work.
Now I can tell you from firsthand experience that allowing myself to eat any food really took me away from that serpent in the Garden of Eden tempting me to eat things I thought I shouldn't. I used to never allow myself to eat french fries because they were too fattening. Then when I ate them, I tended to eat too many and I felt yucky. Now, you know, I order fries occasionally if I really want them. And I know that if I eat too many, I won't feel good. But if I listen to my body, I can really enjoy them, savoring every bite and I'll feel totally satisfied. Rarely do I eat the whole order. I mean, french fry orders are so big. They give you a mountain of them because it's inexpensive. You can learn to do that too.
So to summarize, today's Four Important Changes to Make in 2022 are:
Stop dieting and cultivate an abundance mindset;
Eat using the hunger scale as guidance;
Eat consciously and slowly savoring every bite;
Eat the foods you really enjoy. Don't have lists of forbidden foods.
So thank you so much for listening.
I hope this is the last year that you're even going to have to think about this because you'll get it down, and eating this way will become your habit. And you will save a lot of time and energy because you won't be obsessing about food and eating. Have a great week. Thanks so much for listening. Don't forget to subscribe for regular motivation and inspiration and head over to my website, sharibroder.com to grab the free resources I've created to help you practice what you're learning on the podcast. I really appreciate your help spreading the word by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. See you next time.
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How many times a day, on average, do you think you make decisions about eating food and drinking beverages?
Years ago, a Cornell University researcher asked that question to 139 people. They estimated 15 times a day. But the researcher concluded that it was more like 226!
I’m not sure how he figured that, but if we have 60,000 thoughts every day, surely a mere 226 could be decisions to eat or drink, or not.
The important question is how do you make those decisions?
Are they semi-conscious? Do you find yourself stuffing food in your mouth and wondering how it gets there?
Do you habitually grab the barrel of pretzels and down a bunch of them while watching TV at night, not really thinking about what you’re doing, and barely tasting the food?
Or do you first notice that you’re hungry and then think about what you really want to eat before going to get some food?
Awareness is the first step to changing your relationship with food and eating, and losing weight. Mindless eating is the opposite of that.Learning how to eat mindfully takes practice and time. But there are ways to make it easier.
What if you simply changed certain environmental factors surrounding your eating so that you essentially were required to be more aware of your choices?
Tune in to learn six ways to disconnect you from your unproductive eating habits so you can pause and make intelligent decisions about what and how much to eat that will move you in the direction of your weight goals.
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Are you wondering why following all of those diet rules about what to eat, what not to eat, and how much to eat haven’t helped you lose weight and keep it off?
Wouldn’t you love a simpler, more relaxed solution that actually does work?
Today’s topic will sound familiar if you’re a regular listener, but it is so important that I thought I was overdue for revisiting it.
If you’ve been dieting, or just living in our diet-oriented culture, you’ve probably followed a lot of rules about what and how much to eat. And what not to eat.
The problem is that these rules have nothing to do with you or your body’s needs.
It’s all so stressful, and it’s not even working.
The solution is simple, but not necessarily easy at first, although it does get easy.
And that is to start listening to your body’s hunger signals and eat in tune with them.
That means knowing when you’re truly physically hungry.
The reason most people gain weight is because they eat for all kinds of other reasons. Many people are not even sure what physical hunger feels like anymore because they confuse it with “head hunger.”
LISTEN BELOW to understand the difference between head hunger and body hunger. Because getting in the habit of eating only when you’re physically hungry is the cornerstone to your permanent weight loss success.
Being in touch with your body’s hunger and fullness signals is essential if you want to be able to eat what you love and lose weight. And keep it off.
If you eat for emotional reasons, which is a form of head hunger, don’t miss my free video masterclass, Kick the Emotional Eating Habit for Good! Sign up at the link below.
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WLFF PODCAST EPISODE #84: 6 Questions to Ask to End Emotional Eating
WLFF PODCAST EPISODE #116: How to Help Your Kids Have a Healthy Relationship with Food
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Do you think it’s unfair that you keep gaining weight even though you think you don't eat more than your slimmer friends?
When I was about 50 pounds heavier, that’s what I thought.
But I was wrong, and you may be, too.
When I was in weight-gaining mode, I didn’t realize it, but I overate often.
That’s why my weight kept going up.
That’s why most people’s weight goes up. Overeating.
I know this might not be what you want to hear, but there’s a good chance that if you weigh more than is healthy or comfortable for you, you’re probably eating more than you realize. And you’re eating more than your body needs to be at your healthy weight. You see, 96% of people who gain unwanted weight do so because they overeat. Yup, no big secret there, except that so many of us don’t realize how often we overeat or how much. While some people may gain weight for other health reasons, for most of us, we’re just eating too much.
Plain and simple.
Tune in to learn the two ways people overeat, the most common excuses for overeating, and what you can do to stop overeating and lose weight without dieting.
Check out the free resources available below, and start learning how to lose weight without dieting by changing HOW and WHY you are eating!
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WLFF PODCAST EPISODE #13: why avoiding "forbidden foods" keeps you from losing weight
WLFF PODCAST EPISODE #29: do you overeat to avoid wasting food?
WLFF PODCAST EPISODE #167: 6 STEPS FOR ENJOYING HOLIDAY DELICIOUSNESS WITHOUT GAINING WEIGHT
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How often does that voice in your head tell you you’re going to fail before you even start?
Then when you prove yourself right, your inner mean girl tells you how much you suck, and why are you even trying to lose weight when you simply can’t do it?
Here’s the problem with that negative thinking that you can’t do what you need to do to reach your goals. Instead of helping you get the results you want, you make failure a self-fulfilling prophecy.
When you think or believe you can’t do something, you can’t. You make that your reality. When you believe you can, you do!
Seriously, what you think and believe is so important. It’s key.
Weight loss, and success at pretty much everything, is all about how you think.
So is failure.
You see, what you focus on grows.
As I’ve heard Tara Brach say many times on her wonderful podcast, good experiences slide off us like Teflon and bad ones stick like Velcro.
So if you remember and focus on all the times you over-ate or binged, you’ll see yourself as someone who overeats or binges and can’t lose weight.
But what if you flipped the scenario?
Stay tuned to learn about your brain’s amazing stimuli filtration system, and how you can flip those BS thoughts on their head to make it much easier to achieve your goals.
If you want to start the process of changing your mindset about food and eating, check out my free 7-Day Change Your Food and Eating Mindset Challenge at the link below.
What you think makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE!
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