Welcome Video

Welcome, friends! In this video, I give a bit of my background, my WHY for wanting to lose weight, and share what I’m currently doing to lose 100 lbs.

 Recap of Week 1

  • Releasing the powerful grip the scale has on my emotions

  • How I’m overcoming my fear about sharing my current weight

  • How to let go of the negative thoughts you have about yourself

  • My bad day, and what insight it gave me

  • Our circumstances do not cause our emotions…our thoughts do

 Recap of Week 2

  • Reasons why we overeat

  • Overhunger, Overdesire

  • Dopamine…temporary pleasure

  • Stop using food to escape your feelings

  • Be patient in the length of your journey

  • Learn to manage your mind for permanent change

 In this video:

  • Why Diet Mentality doesn’t work long-term

  • Why taking personal responsibility is so important

  • Food is not a moral issue, stop making it one

  • How to still enjoy food AND lose weight

  • Loving yourself NOW is key to reaching your goal weight

  • Stop scale drama

 In this video:

  • Life is 50% positive, 50% negative

  • Why it’s important for us to experience both

  • Stop using food to escape negative emotions

  • You are strong enough to feel any emotion

  • Embrace your humanness

  • Embrace all parts of you- strengths and weaknesses

  • Work on living a more intentional life

  • Recognize how much power you truly have over your life

 In this video:

  • Why change is so hard

  • Don’t expect immediate results….change takes time

  • Embracing discomfort is the key to success

  • Learn to enjoy the journey

  • Our beliefs we have about ourselves are not truth…they are opinions

  • You are 100% worthy and acceptable right now

  • Growth is more fun than stagnation

  • Push yourself out of your comfort zone

  • Look to your future, not your past

  • Create a new identity

In this video:

  • How society tends to view overweight people

  • Shame around our bodies is not helpful or useful

  • Beliefs are not truth….they are just thoughts

  • We should strive for greater kindness and acceptance

  • There is so much more to you than your weight

  • We cannot control other people’s opinions of us

  • Self-confidence is something to strive for NOW, not just when you lose weight

 In this video:

  • The importance of self-love

  • True desire vs. False desire

  • Get clear on what you DON’T want

  • Then, get clear on what you DO want

  • Ask yourself WHY those things are important

  • True desires do not come from a place of “not enough”

  • Make time every day to refill your cup

  • Begin taking baby steps towards your desires and dreams

  • Over time, baby steps add up to phenomenal results

  • This helps you build faith and trust in yourself again

In this video:

  • Honoring your true desires

  • Defining what success means to you

  • Learning to embrace ALL parts of you, good and not so good

  • Self-love happens one thought at a time 

  • The importance of building faith and trust in yourself

  • Learning to challenge our thoughts, rather than accept them as truth

  • Drop the façade of perfection  

  • Growth is not comfortable, but it adds so much richness and meaning to our lives

  • You are worth the effort 

In this video:

  • Our life experiences are filled with both positive and negative emotions

  • Pay attention to what emotion feels like in your body

  • Everything we do is to achieve a certain feeling

  • How we handle our emotions:  React, Resist, Avoid, Allow

  • Allowing yourself to feel all emotions is the key to staying committed to your goals

 In this video:

  • Being future focused vs. past focused

  • Our beliefs are just thoughts, and can be changed if they’re not serving us

  • Our past is just a story we are telling ourself.  Our stories are optional.

  • Question how you define yourself- is it truth?  (Hint:  it’s not.  You can change your identity!)

  • Self-confidence is based on the thoughts you are thinking about yourself

  • You can choose to feel self-confident NOW….not just when you lose weight

  • New thoughts bring new results

  • Ask yourself:  What do I want to believe about myself?  Anything is available to you.

In this video, I discuss:

  • My new video format

  • Why I hate New Year’s Resolutions, but love setting goals

  • Why I’ve decided to do less, not more

  • How adjusting my goal has made all the difference for me

In this video:

  • There are 3 levels of change….outcomes, habits/processes, and identity

  • Identity change is the key to becoming who you want to be

  • Our identity is built on the beliefs we have about ourselves

  • Identify NOW as the person you want to become

  • The process of identity change isn’t easy or fast, but it’s everything

  • We have to continuously edit our beliefs to expand our identity

In this video:

  • Being okay with my humanness….the good and the bad

  • It’s okay for the process to look messy

  • Viewing “failures” as an opportunity to grow

  • COVID sucks! My experience with parosmia

  • The importance of taking back your power in your own life

  • Make yourself the hero, not the villain, in your story