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

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The Joys of a Healthy Relationship with Food Jul 09, 2019

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Which is more important to you, losing weight or developing a healthy relationship with food and eating?

For me, I resoundingly choose to have a healthy relationship with food.

If you chose losing weight, perhaps you believe that once you drop that extra weight, all of your problems will be solved and you'll live happily ever after. Sorry, that's a fairy tale.

I'm not gonna lie. Losing a lot of weight feels great. But if you are still left with a dysfunctional relationship with food, a huge part of what you do every day will still be a struggle. Plus you'll likely gain the weight back and all of your efforts will be for nothing.

You see, you can lose weight, and be at your goal weight and still be overly obsessed with food. You can still be anxious about it, and waste a lot of your time and energy on it. That's how diet-thin people live, and frankly, it sucks. It's also totally unnecessary.

In today's episode, I'll discuss what a healthy relationship with food looks and feels like (SPOILER ALERT: it is totally awesome and so liberating!), and contrast it with a dysfunctional relationship with food. Then I'll talk about how to have that healthy relationship while you are in the process of losing weight AND for the rest of your life.

That's what my clients tell me is the best part about the Weight Loss for Foodies approach. Food freedom!

If you want to develop a healthy relationship with food and eating, I can help! On July 24th, I'm doing a free webinar: How to Make Peace with Food, Eat What You Love AND Lose Weight! I hope you'll join me. Head to my website and sign up to get notified!

Ask Yourself This Before Eating Jul 02, 2019

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Do you eat on autopilot?

Because it's dinner time? Or lunch time?

Or because you like the food that's available?

I used to eat for all kinds of reasons.

Sometimes, I even chose to eat because I was hungry.

But that usually wasn't a consideration.

Basically, I ate without thinking about WHY I was eating.

What I didn't realize was that the reason I was overweight and couldn't lose it and keep it off, was because I wasn't eating in response to my body's need for food. You see, that's exactly what your hunger is for: to tell you when your body needs fuel.

There is a key question to ask yourself before your start eating that will change your entire relationship with food! And it isn't "Am I hungry?" although you should always ask yourself that.

Listen to learn the key question and how it can set in motion the transformation you've been seeking.

If you want to become a more conscious eater, which will help you enjoy food more, overeat less, and lose weight, grab a copy of my free 30 Days of Conscious Eating Calendar from the link in the show notes.

How to Eat Chocolate (or any foods you love) Jun 25, 2019

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Are you someone who believes you can't allow yourself to eat certain foods?

Can't have them in the house or you'll devour them immediately?

Can't trust yourself around cookies? Chips? Chocolate?

I get it. I used to be that way before I ditched my lists of foods I "shouldn't" eat. I always ended up eating those foods anyway. Don't you?

Because I knew they were forbidden, I would wolf them down, like if I ate them fast without paying attention, I wasn't really eating them.

It was so unsatisfying and sad because I had all of that food in my body, yet I barely tasted it, let alone enjoyed it. All I felt was uncomfortable afterwards. And maybe guilty and mad at myself for eating like a pig.

I no longer have "forbidden foods," and I no longer overeat. I can have any of my previously forbidden foods in the house and even forget they're there.

The good news is that you can too! You can change your relationship with food and eating so that you can eat the foods you love without overeating.

You can take the power back from those foods.

Listen to understand why you overeat the foods you forbid yourself from eating, and what you can do instead.

In this episode, there's an exercise for eating chocolate, or any foods you love.

Get a free copy of the Chocolate Exercise by clicking the link below.

Thanks to Susan Albers, PsyD, for the idea for this exercise.

Honoring Your Cyclical Appetite Jun 18, 2019

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It's not your imagination.

If you are a woman under the age of 50, chances are that for a few days before your menstrual period, you get food cravings.

Your hunger increases.

Maybe you even feel like you can't stop eating.

Then your period comes and the powerful appetite recedes.

Yup, it's hormonal. It's normal. It's nothing to fret or be concerned about.

What's going on that causes changes in hunger and cravings for women during their menstrual cycle?

Should you be worried about this increased appetite and its effect on your weight management efforts?

How about those cravings for chocolate and other pleasure foods?

Listen to learn about how your hormones affect your appetite and energy during the different phases of your menstrual cycle, and how to approach this in a healthy way.

Menopause, Weight, and Body Changes Jun 11, 2019

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Women's bodies change throughout our lives.

We go through puberty, pregnancy and childbirth, perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.

Our bodies have a brilliant, miraculous system through which they continually adapt to our changing needs.

Despite how amazing our bodies are, too many of us hate ours. For some people, those feelings increase as we age.

Do you hate the way your belly or butt or face looks?

Are those really your feelings, or are they the result of millions of messages you've heard throughout your lifetime with other people's ideas about the way you're supposed to look?

What changes occur to our bodies in midlife and beyond?

Which ones are normal and outside our control, and which ones aren't?

Listen to learn all about these changes, and how you can age in a healthy way, including how to have a positive attitude about yourself.

How can you dump those idiotic messages that bombard us with impossible expectations, and learn to accept, appreciate, admire and love the body you have as it is right now?

Guided Urge Surfing Meditation Jun 04, 2019

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Do you struggle with the urge to eat when you aren't hungry?

Urge Surfing is a way of being with those urges without acting on them or resisting them.

In last week's episode, I introduced the practice of urge surfing. Managing those urges to eat is a key skill to have in your tool kit if you want to eat what you love and lose weight without dieting. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, make sure you do before listening to this one.

Urge surfing is a great way to allow you to choose behaviors that bring you towards what you really want in life, rather than indulging in fleeting immediate gratification.

This week's episode is a guided urge surfing meditation. Download this episode and use it when you have the urge to eat but aren't hungry.

Do this in a comfortable place where you can relax.

And don't forget to grab the Think Sheet for this episode that will walk you through the urge surfing process.

Let's Go Urge Surfing! May 28, 2019

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Do you get the urge to eat out of habit? Like munching crunchy snacks while watching TV?

Or eating your kid's leftovers when you aren't hungry?

Or maybe you grab candy out of a candy bowl as you walk by.

If you've struggled with your weight, chances are that you've been indulging your urges to eat when you aren't hungry.

And when you eat but aren't hungry, your body stores that energy as fat. You keep gaining weight. Or you can't lose it.

I'm excited to introduce a great mindfulness tool that can help you deal with those urges!

It's called "urge surfing."

The great mindfulness teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn very wisely said, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

Life is full of waves, and learning how to surf them can help you manage your urges and lose the weight for good.

It's not about resistance. If you've watched Star Trek, you know that "Resistance is Futile." When it comes to urges, resistance is not only futile, but it can actually makes your urges worse.

Listen to learn about how urges work and how you can successfully surf them!

Can You Be Body Positive and Want to Lose Weight? May 21, 2019

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Does being "body positive" mean that you can't want to change your body?

Does promoting a healthy, sane approach to food and eating, which may also involve weight loss, fly in the face of body positivity?

What really is body positivity anyway?

Your worth as a human being has absolutely ZERO to do with how much you weigh and what your body looks like.

Loving your body and appreciating all is does for you is something everyone must do if you want to be truly happy and confident, regardless of your size. If you go through life being dissatisfied with your body, or worse, hating it, either because you don't meet other people's standards or your own, you will suffer. That's no way to live.

Loving and appreciating your body and wanting it to be healthier or lighter aren't mutually exclusive.

There is also nothing wrong with trying to be your healthiest or losing weight to look the way YOU want to, rather than how someone else thinks you should look.

Listen to learn what body positivity means and the importance of accepting and appreciating your body before you can change it.

How to Stop Believing Your Stories and Get Results May 14, 2019

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If you want to make peace with food and eating, and drop your extra weight, you need to stop believing the negative stories you've been telling yourself about food, eating and your weight.

We all have these painful stories. Stories that keep us stuck. Yet most of us don't realize that they're only stories. We treat them like they're the truth.

What do I mean? Here are some stories people have shared with me:

I can't stop eating while I'm cooking (or cleaning up after) dinner.

I can't lose weight because I've tried and failed a million times.

If I let myself have cookies in the house, I'll eat them all at once.

I'm addicted to . . . (whatever)

You can prevent these old stories from controlling your life now. It's time to stop giving these stories power over you. You can't change as long as you believe them.

LISTEN to learn the four steps to stop believing your painful stories so you can make positive changes and have the life and body that you deserve!

8 Reasons Why You Aren't Losing Weight May 07, 2019

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Every year, 45 million people in the United States alone start a new diet. They spend $33 billion on diet products. $33 billion down the drain because 95-97% of them will fail.

Meanwhile, the number of people who are overweight or obese is at an all-time high and continues to grow. That's because almost everyone who tries to shed their extra weight approaches the process the wrong way.

Don't despair! Permanent weight loss is possible! I've done it. My clients have done it.

But to succeed, you have to forget the model you've used for your whole life. Abandon it. What have you got to lose? It hasn't worked, right?

Listen to learn the 8 things that may be tripping you up and what you can do to succeed.

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