THE CONFIDENT BODY PODCAST - Brain-based strategies and self-compassion practices to unlock your full potential
The Confident Body Podcast is for women who want to lose weight without dieting, stop emotional eating, and finally feel calm and confident in their body.
If you know what to do to lose weight but can’t stay consistent, feel stuck in self-sabotage, or keep starting over even though you’re smart and capable, you’re in the right place.
This podcast teaches brain-based weight loss using simple, science-backed tools that actually work with your brain instead of fighting it. You’ll learn how to stop emotional eating, break free from the on-again, off-again diet cycle, and build self-trust so weight loss feels steady instead of exhausting.
We talk about the mental and emotional parts of weight loss that diets don’t tell you, like:
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Why motivation fades even when you want it badly
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How emotional eating is a brain pattern, not a personal failure
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Why dieting makes weight loss harder long term
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How to lose weight in a way that feels sustainable, calm, and doable
Inside each episode, you’ll get shame-free strategies, practical brain science, and real-life tools to help you stop fighting yourself and start feeling in control around food.
This is weight loss without restriction, without starting over every Monday, and without waiting to feel confident someday in the future.
If you’re ready to stop feeling like you are the problem and start living the life you want to lose weight for, then this is the show for you.
LIGHT: The New Psychology of Weight Loss
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Episodes
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
In the last 2 episodes, we’ve talked about
What self-sabotage is
Why it happens
How if you’re human, it’s normal to self-sabotage
And the 3 step process to bust through self-sabotaging thoughts and behavior.
And there are 7 categories of common thoughts that lead to self-sabotage. Be aware of these common traps and learn how to avoid them.
Falling off the wagon
Food labeling
“I don’t want to let food go to waste”
Worry
Comparison
Vanity
Permission
If you’ve ever struggled with any of the 7 common categories of self-sabotage, then this episode is for you!
Ready? Let’s get to it.
Learn more!
www.confidentbody.coach
You Are A Miracle book
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Self-sabotage happens to EVERYONE. If you have a human brain, you have the capacity for self sabotage.
In this episode we talk about the 3 step process you can use to take those old self-sabotaging thoughts and make them work to your advantage.
We also talk about 5 specific “SNEAKY SABOTAGERS”: sneaky thoughts that can derail your progress and how to turn them around so they don’t trip you up.
Ready? Let’s get to it.
Learn more!
www.confidentbody.coach
You Are A Miracle book
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Have you ever tried to lose weight and and began to see some success and you’re like “I’ve got this!”
But then something strange happened on your way down the scale.
Maybe subtly, maybe suddenly, but definitely inexplicably, you stopped doing the behaviors that helped you have some of that success in the first place.
And you’re like “Why am I sabotaging myself?”
In this episode, we’re going to talk about:
What self sabotage is,
Why it happens,
How it’s completely normal,
And then we’ll get a quick glimpse into next week’s episode which will dive into the 3 step process for overcoming self-sabotage.
Ready? Let’s get to it.
Learn more!
www.confidentbody.coach
You Are A Miracle book
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Have you ever tried to lose weight - maybe been on a diet or a specific program - and you’re working really hard. Maybe you had some success the first few weeks, but things tapered off and you’re FEELING FRUSTRATED and you want to quit?
Today we’re going to talk about:
Why that happens
How it’s NORMAL that it happens
And the 5 things you can do to help yourself move past that feeling.
If you’re ready to get over giving up, this episode is for you!
Learn more!
www.confidentbody.coach
You Are A Miracle book
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
If I could only ever give you 2 pieces of advice on how to make weight loss sustainable, this episode covers the first one: meal planning. (The other would be that how you talk to yourself is more important than what’s on your plate, but that’s a different podcast.)
Today’s episode is packed! We’re going to talk about:
Why meal planning makes weight loss so much easier,
Bust through some of the common roadblocks to meal planning like, “I don’t have time” or “I just like to go with what I feel like eating in the moment.”
Why it’s not your fault if meal planning didn't work for you in the past,
And what to do differently this time.
Then we wrap up with 3 specific, easy strategies for meal planning so that you can pick the strategy that works best for you.
Learn more!
www.confidentbody.coach
You Are A Miracle book
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Have you ever looked at an old picture of yourself and thought how good you looked? You think, "I’d love to have that body now!"
But you remember when it was taken and the thoughts in your mind at that time weren’t happy then either.
You're not alone! So many folks feel the same way.
Today we're talking about why that happens and how it's not your fault.
Plus 3 specific action steps for how to feel great NOW.
Learn more!
www.confidentbody.coach
You Are A Miracle book
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Have you ever had a day where you stepped up to the scale expecting to see a happy number (because you know you’ve been doing all the right things.) Then inexplicably, that number is NOT a happy number.
You think “How can this be happening? And then the rest of your day you walk around with a cloud of unhappy thoughts following you.
Today we’re going to talk about the SCALE.
-> How it gets in our heads and why.
-> Plus 3 different perspectives to help you approach the scale in a way that helps YOU be in control of the way that you think about that number.
Learn more!
www.confidentbody.coach
You Are A Miracle book
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
It’s natural to want to see progress. It's part of our human nature. That’s why weight loss can be so hard because it takes time and patience.
In this episode we cover:
1) How to look at progress differently.
2) How to create simple action steps to make it easy to get started.
3) And the one type of food that makes an outside impact on your weight loss efforts.
Learn more!
www.confidentbody.coach
You Are A Miracle book
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
You are not broken. Diets go against the grain of how our brains are wired. The diet mentality keeps us stuck in self sabotaging thinking. In addition, we make it harder for ourselves by thinking "I'll be happy when I lose weight" versus "I choose to be happy WHILE I lose weight.
Instead, think of weight loss like nurturing a garden rather than running a race towards a finish line.
Learn more!
www.confidentbody.coach
You Are A Miracle book
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Stop feeling like you are the problem and start working WITH the natural wiring of your brain to lose weight.
This podcast helps you see yourself and your body as a miracle so you can stop waiting to lose weight in order to participate in life.
If you want to look in the mirror and see what’s RIGHT about you…Learn solutions that are easy and fit your busy life…Find out how to train your brain for weight loss…and love yourself and your body all the way down the scale, then let’s go.
lizzie@confidentbody.coach
www.confidentbody.coach
https://confidentbody.coach/tips/