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

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What's Your Eating Style? Feb 11, 2020

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What's your eating style?

Not sure what I'm talking about?

Although it seems like we try to categorize everything these days, it's useful to know your eating styles. It can help you be more aware of how you relate to food so that you can make positive changes and become a liberated conscious eater. I explain what it means to be a liberated conscious eater in this episode.

There are four separate styles of unconscious eaters, and five other styles of eaters.

Listen to learn the nine styles of eating, and see which ones describe you.

You may fall into more than one category. Or many!

That's okay. The point is to notice what style of eater you are so that you're aware of what you're doing that is keeping you from having a healthy relationship with food and maybe keeping you from being a healthy weight.

You CAN become a liberated conscious eater! If you're new to the podcast, start at the beginning and learn the entire Weight Loss for Foodies method.

How to Really Enjoy Food While Traveling Without Gaining Weight Feb 04, 2020

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Nowadays, we're traveling more often, and not just when we take a summer vacation.

We travel for business.

We travel to visit friends and family who are scattered across the country and around the world.

We travel for so many reasons.

When you travel, how do you eat? Do you eat differently than you do at home?

Do you eat like it may be your last meal?

Do you gain weight when you travel?

Listen for some tips on how you can go on a trip, even to the most amazing food cities, and eat the foods you love without overeating them or gaining weight.

Are you ready to finally stop the diet madness, break your old bad eating habits and establish good new ones that will allow you to lose weight without deprivation? Registration is now open for my signature program, Weight Loss for Foodies, which is an online course with live online coaching with me 2-3 times a month. You can go through the materials at your own pace and get personal support for your challenges with food and eating from me at the coaching sessions. Doors close on Saturday, February 8, so sign up now! For more information, see the link in the show notes.

Your Top 3 Most Popular Topics! Jan 28, 2020

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100 Episodes! Thank you so much for listening!

If you've struggled with food, eating and your weight, you know that there's so much more to transitioning from a dysfunctional relationship with food and eating to a peaceful, healthy relationship. I hope you have found the information here helpful in moving you in that direction.

Since I started this podcast, I've discussed a wide variety of subjects. Today, I'm going to review three that are the most popular with listeners. Those are:

The reasons why you weren't losing weight
How to stay on track to be successful,
The importance of changing your identity with regards to food, eating and your body as a first step on your journey.

Tied up in these topics are our beliefs, and the fact that they can move us towards or away from what we really want in life. In this episode, I list 10 beliefs that can trip you up on the path to food freedom and weight loss.

Help me celebrate 100 episodes by attending my FREE End Emotional Eating Workshop on Jan. 31st! Learn what it takes to end emotional eating, free yourself from food obsession and lose weight without dieting. Just show up at 3 p.m. Eastern/Noon Pacific on my Shari Broder Weight Loss Coach Facebook page, or sign up at the link in the show notes. Registration is not required if you attend on Facebook, and it will be recorded if you can't make it.

How Leisa Overcame a Lifetime of Disordered Eating Jan 21, 2020

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Looking back, how old were you when your unhealthy relationship with food and eating began?

My first ever podcast guest and Weight Loss for Foodies client, Leisa Hammett, believes her cravings for sugar and disordered eating began when she was a young child, long before she became concerned about her weight.

When I say "disordered eating," I mean an unhealthy, stressful relationship with food and eating that interferes with your enjoyment of life but that doesn't rise to the level of an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia. Disordered eating is almost always caused by diets and deprivation.

Leisa's experience with changing her relationship with food and eating, and dropping her extra weight is a great example of why we call this a "weight loss journey."

In this episode, Leisa talks about the ups and downs during her journey, and how she had the wisdom and tenacity to learn from her mistakes instead of becoming discouraged and giving up.

Listen to hear:

how Leisa went from being someone who thought she was addicted to sugar to someone who can trust herself around sweets and enjoy them when she wants without overeating;
what Leisa believes are the key ingredients to being successful in becoming liberated from disordered eating and being able to eat what you love without overeating.
how Leisa realized she was an emotional eater and kicked that habit, and;
why depriving your children of sugar may not be the best approach if you want them to have a healthy relationship with food.

3 Things to Consider When Deciding to Lose Weight Jan 14, 2020

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You may be surprised to hear this from a weight coach, but there are lots of things in life that are more important than losing weight.

Lots of things that are more important than what your body looks like.

Seriously. If you're a woman who has grown up in Western culture, you've been bombarded with a lifetime of messages that being thin and looking pretty are essential if you want love, success and happiness.

Well, that's a complete load of crap. It's a horrible commentary on our screwed up system of values and messaging from the media.

For some people, losing weight is their most important goal for the year.

If you've recently been diagnosed as diabetic or pre-diabetic, you had a heart attack or stroke, or your doctor has told you that you're at risk of having one, then yes, losing weight SHOULD be your top priority. After all, your life is at stake.

For the rest of us, setting reasonable health and fitness goals is a wonderful thing. But before deciding you want to lose weight, listen to this episode, and think about three considerations.

If you really want to stop wasting so much of your time, energy and mental real estate obsessing about how you look and about every bite you put in your mouth, the Weight Loss for Foodies group coaching program can teach you how to eat the way naturally thin people do so you can actually enjoy the foods you love without guilt or fear, while losing your desire to overeat along with your excess weight.

Registration opens later this month, so stay tuned to this podcast for more information and sign up below to get on the waiting list.

9 Steps to Return to a Joyful Relationship with Food & Eating Jan 07, 2020

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Do you have an unhealthy relationship with food and eating?

You do if you can answer "yes" to any of these questions:

You spend a lot of time and energy thinking about what you should and shouldn't eat.
You have a lot of food rules and are very inflexible about what you'll eat
You forbid yourself from eating certain foods, but ultimately binge on or overeat those foods.
You feel guilty or hate yourself because you ate a "forbidden" food or because you ate too much.

Maybe you think you should never eat certain foods, then wonder why you can't control yourself around those foods. That's because there's a cause and effect relationship there.

Your unhealthy relationship with food is probably caused by dieting.

The good news is that you can have a peaceful, healthy relationship with food again! I say "again" because when you were a small child, you were a natural intuitive eater.

You can experience the liberation of being able to eat what you love without fear, without overeating, without guilt and without gaining weight.

Food is a regular source of both nourishment AND pleasure in our lives, and you can eat with joy again!

Listen to learn the steps you can take to return to a joyful relationship with eating.

Why You Shouldn't Focus on a Goal Weight Dec 31, 2019

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Are you always focusing on your goal weight? Aiming for a certain number of pounds you want to lose?

Is your mood for the day affected by the number on the scale each morning?

If so, how does that feel? Pretty miserable?

That may be why you're not having much success at unleashing that naturally thin person inside you yet.

Because the more you focus on the number on the scale, the more difficult the process of losing weight is.

You see, that's going about the process backwards.

When I start working with clients who want to lose weight, I never ask them whether they have a goal weight or how many pounds they want to lose.

I don't want them focusing on that number because that's the approach of the failed diet mindset. Focusing on pounds or stones lost does not help you lose weight. All it does is make you feel discouraged and defeated, and encourage you to give up.

Listen to learn what people who succeed at permanently losing weight focus on instead of their goal weight, and how you can succeed, too!

Here's to the happiest 2020 possible!

How to Tell Whether You're Really Hungry or Full Dec 24, 2019

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Do you have difficulty knowing when you're really hungry?

What's going on when you just ate dinner an hour ago, but feel the urge to eat?

Are you really hungry when when you walk past a food vendor or restaurant and the smells make you want some?

How about those ads on TV that get you thinking you want pizza?

Maybe you think you're hungry because it's lunch time.

There are lots of reasons why you can think you're hungry when you really aren't.

Your physical hunger signals are your body's brilliant way of telling you when it needs fuel. If you want to be your ideal weight without dieting, the way to do that is by only eating when your body is hungry. Otherwise, you're giving your body food it doesn't need and will store as fat.

If you're not sure when you're physically hungry or are experiencing "head hunger," or can't tell when you're full before you've overeaten, this episode is for you!

And what the heck is Hara Hachi Bu?

Listen to learn some great tricks for distinguishing between head hunger and body hunger, and how to tell when your body has had enough BEFORE you feel stuffed.

7 Reasons and One Myth to Stop Dieting Forever Dec 17, 2019

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It's almost that time of year when people start thinking about New Year's resolutions.

In 2019, about 48% of people who made New Year's resolutions wanted to lose weight. The number who succeed? 3-5 %! Most people give up on their resolution after a month.

You're not going to resolve to go on a diet, are you?

Because if you are, listen to this week's episode to learn seven really good reasons why you should swear off dieting forever and do something that works.

Because there is something that works. I know what that is because it was only after I gave up dieting that I lost 46 pounds and didn't gain them back.

Listen to learn the seven reasons why you should resolve to never diet again.

And what you can do that works to permanently lose weight.

Grab your free copy of 8 Secrets for permanent weight loss from the link in the show notes!

Stop Believing You're Addicted to Food or Sugar Dec 10, 2019

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Have you heard many people say they're addicted to food? Or addicted to sugar? Chocolate? Various other foods?

Have you thought you were, too?

Maybe you've read that sugar is supposedly addictive because it lights up your brain's reward center the same way that cocaine does. The truth is that there are all kinds of wonderful things that light up your brain's so-called reward center. Like falling in love or listening to music. Lighting up your brain is NOT evidence that something is addictive.

In recent years, there have been a lot of studies on the subject. In this episode, I discuss some of them and their conclusions.

But more importantly, we talk about these questions:

What exactly do you get from believing you're addicted to food or sugar anyway?

Why would you want to believe it?

Should you give up eating sugar?

LISTEN to learn why believing you're addicted affects your ability to address your weight issues. And what you can do that will actually help you develop a peaceful relationship with food and eating.

I'm opening the doors to my Weight Loss for Foodies group program in early January, and if you want to be notified--without obligation--sign up at the link in the show notes.

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