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Is it a Plateau? Or Are You Done?
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Jan 22, 2025
In this week's episode I'll share how to overcome a plateau, and challenge you to rethink what a plateau at the end of your weight loss journey might be. From tips to jumpstarting weight loss, to tips on getting rid of stubborn fat hanging around in specific areas. I'll even share a story about how I beat myself up for a full year after losing 150 pounds. I hope this episode will make you think, be more gentle with yourself, and even give you some great resources to speed up or restart weight loss.
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welcome back to the lose weight by eating podcast I'm Audrey Johns and I'm so excited to talk to you about plateaus
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this week I'm actually working on a master class with a few other gals and
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in one of the masterclass videos I started talking about plat and I thought
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I have a lot more to say about this so I thought that this could be a really fun
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positive motivational talk with you this week so I hope you love it when I went
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to get started and if you're watching the video I'm looking over to the side because I have quite a lot of notes on this um but when I first started I
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wanted to look up what does a plateau mean just to make sure I was on the right track and speaking the same
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language to everyone and the definition was the inability to lose more weight
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after initially successful quick weight loss is known as a weight loss Plateau
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or stall so that's what we're going to be talking about this week and I named this is it a
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plateau or are you done so with that said if you're like oh hell no I'm not done Audrey don't worry don't worry
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we're we're going to talk about are you done or here's how to get over a
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plateau so we are going to be talking a little bit more about the 8we average
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we're going to talk about our diet our exercise and if we're still not done I'm
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going to give you some tips on how to push through a plateau because at some
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point we all have them right so the first thing I want to bring up is a
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quick story when I first lost all my weight and if you're not familiar with
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my weight loss story I lost 150 pounds in 11 months and I've kept it off for
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almost 14 years now when I first lost that 150 PBS I
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really wanted to lose 155 lbs and I beat
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myself up for it for a full year after my initial weight loss because I just
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wanted to lose those last five pounds I just wanted to lose those last last five pounds I starved myself I worked out so
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hard that I hurt myself I tore myself apart and in the long run I ended up
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having some ups and downs and ended up gaining some weight having to relo it just because I was so focused on those
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last five pounds so when I talk about are you done that's what I'm talking
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about if I had only had the wisdom in that moment to think wow I lost 150
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pounds that's amazing I should just be proud of myself instead of focusing on those last
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five pounds I think it would have been a much better year and you know much
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healthier from my mind and and for my body so what I want to first start with is
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evaluating your diet so we're going to go through all of this and then we're going to decide is it a plateau or are
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we done and if we're not done yet we're going to talk about how to overcome it so whether you think you're done or
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you're or you don't think you're done these are still good healthy tips to work through first section I want to
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talk about is evaluate your diet so if you feel like you've stopped
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losing weight and you were there for a while and you were on a good roll and you were losing big numbers every single
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week I want you to revisit what were you eating then and are you still adhering to
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everything that worked most often we kind of slip off of what we were doing
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and that's okay you know that that's life but anytime you feel like
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something's not working again take a step back and
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reevaluate what was I doing that was working and am I still doing that and if you can't remember that's okay we'll get
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to that as well I want you to re-evaluate are you eating all natural
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foods and this can happen if say you know you have a job loss or an extra
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added expense to your household and maybe you stop buying the organic version of your favorite yogurt or
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something and you start buying the cheaper version which totally get single mom hair broke single mom hair I get it
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but if you've hit a plateau I recommend that you re-evaluate these foods that
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you're buying so you can do that by looking at the ingredient list before you look at
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the nutrition label I'm going to say that again because this is a really important
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tip look at the ingredient list before you look at the nutrition label
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so you're going to read the ingredients and you're going to evaluate are these all natural and we
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all walk around with many computers in our pocket or our or in our purses now pull out your iPhone pull out your
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Android look it up online and figure out is it all natural there are some red
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flags say you don't want to be that person looking up stuff in the grocery store or you just don't have time to the
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red flags are is there something on there I cannot pronounce there's a red flag are there more than
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five ingredients on there there's a red flag now can you have an all natural
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food product that has more than five ingredients absolutely these are just red flags these are like who stop let me
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revisit that let me look it up now what about are you used to many
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filler packed Foods I'm going to go back to the yogurt and if you're doing the master class that I I I was originally
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talking about all this on you're you're going to have heard some of this before but I'm going to try to dive in a little
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bit more fillers so there is a specific yogurt that keeps jumping to mind I
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don't want to get like a c and assis from them so we will just call them yogurt Y and specific fillers are added
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to this product to make it plump up to
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make it thicker thickening agents do not have some kind
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of knowledge base like oh it's it's not for her or it's not for him it's for the yogurt it's for the ingredient when you
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put fillers into your body that are meant to thicken up food what do you
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think they're going to do to your body so I want you to stop and re-evaluate
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that okay if it's all natural like a corn starch outside of the fact that you
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will be severely constipated if you use too much cornstarch that's different I'm talking about chemical
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agents that that will plump up a food that will make it thicker try to avoid those and this
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isn't like I can't even pronounce these so what I'm talking about is when you look up when you have your phone out and
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you look up these ingredients if it says we'll will plump up food or will thicken
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food I want you to stop put it down and pick up another one
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and try to find one without that ingredient in it and as you all know I
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do my very best to answer all questions on Facebook so if ever in doubt take a
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picture of it post it in a comment on today's most recent
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posts and I will do my best to look it up for you and to help you out with
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that the next spot check for re-evaluating your diet is am I drinking
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enough water and with that said I'm going to take a glass of my water and I'm going to have
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a drink and wherever you are I want you to stop and take a quick drink of water
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okay water naturally boosts your metabolism fills you up cleanses your
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body and sorry I'm just going to say it it helps you poop it's water is so good for you so
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are you drinking enough water I re recommend if you've hit a plateau do your very best to hit my big daily goal
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of one gallon per day you're not always going to get there this is a goal but
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the you're going to try to get to a gallon or as close to it every single day I do recommend maybe you start at
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half a gallon goal and then each day you're adding a few more ounces but try to drink more water and
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make sure you're not putting those little packets of flavorings in there the little drops of flavorings in there
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unless it is an actual fruit that you have to cut up and squeeze in don't put it in there
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just just don't because these fake sugars can also hinder weight loss they
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will actually tell your body in most instances that it needs to store fat it's not a natural ingredient and
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therefore your body doesn't know what to do with it so that brings me back to eating all
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natural all natural is key my next tip to re-evaluating your diet
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for a plateau is rethink your calories throughout the day so if you realize I'm
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still eating the same Foods as I was eating on week one I am eating all natural I'm not using any filler foods
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and Audrey I'm definitely drinking enough water here's a great tip rethink
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your calories throughout the day so if you only have a few pounds Left to
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Lose maybe a quick switch in how you distribute the calories throughout the
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day is all you need so maybe that's swapping what you would typically have
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for lunch and what you would typically have for dinner and swapping them so
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often we have maybe a 300 calorie breakfast a 300 calorie lunch and then a
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600 calorie dinner well if you could take those 600 calories and move them to the middle of the day when you have all
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that extra time to burn off those calories to actually use them as fuel as
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they were intended to be used that is sometimes all you have to do to lose
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weight so rethink how you are Distributing your calories throughout the day ideally you want to have the
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bulk of your calories at breakfast and at lunch and a light
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dinner another thing that you can rethink is when you eat your carbs now
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you guys have already heard me talk about I'm an Italian woman I'm not giving up my pasta I'm not giving up my
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bread for me to have a sustainable diet means I need to be able to have these
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things but I don't eat carbs at dinner I am now within that weight range that if
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I do eat carbs at dinner I notice a difference the next day and that could be age and that could be my
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body but I will eat my carbs at breakfast and at lunch I don't meet them
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at dinner so that's another area where you can just do a quick swap you don't have to change what you're eating you
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just move it around you just maybe instead of having pasta for dinner you have a sandwich for lunch so you can
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still have the carbs just move them earlier in the day so that they are
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better used as fuel and you're not sleeping on them another thing you can do and I know
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you're not going to like this one but if you've hit a plateau and you're trying to re-evaluate that diet of yours why
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don't you try taking a break from alcohol for just one week I have
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found specifically for women but I have found with men as well if you drink you
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have a harder time losing weight and or you gain the older you get so when we were 20 we were just burning through
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that stuff and man can we just also mention that hangovers when you were 20 are nothing like hangovers when you're
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40 so rethink that if if every single thing you've done here no I don't eat
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carbs at dinner and I have a light dinner and I have a heavy lunch and I'm drinking enough water and I'm not eating
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filler foods and I'm eating all natural and I'm eating what I ate in the beginning if all of these other things
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you're like check check check done take a break from alcohol for just one week see if that
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helps and for those of you saying no I really need to unwind at the end of the
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day I actually posted a video of my favorite little un blind drink that I tend to do on those stressful days when
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I don't want to have a drink where I take out my my prettiest martini glass and I put five drops of lemon balm five
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drops of asanga and five drops of and now I'm forgetting it it's on there it's
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on my Instagram at Audrey John's and then I pour my favorite coconut zero
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calorie lacroy over it you could do you know the any of your favorite allnatural
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unsweetened sodas or just soda water or just water would work as well but you
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can take a break and still unwind and I find that this quote unquote cocktail that I make and of course I'll remember
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the the third ingredient soon as I'm done with this podcast but I find that it's equal to me as a
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53 you know short little woman it's about equal to having a beer that's about how much it relaxes me so I have
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to on a really bad day I can't have more than that cuz I will fall asleep like
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standing up at that point but these are all natural drinks that you can have and
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I find they do not affect my my my weight maintenance if I'm trying to trim
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a few pounds I've also found that just pouring soda water in a fancy wine glass
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or your fanciest cocktail glass is enough too so even if you don't want to go out and buy these different drops
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that's fine too they're basically me recreating those alcohol-free booze drops that you
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keep seeing all over Instagram and and Facebook that I've just kind of cracked
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the code and made him for myself but take a break from alcohol for a week see if that helps and if you're still unsure
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if you're still doing all of that log your meals for one week that don't
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change anything just keep going with what you're doing you could start the this today log your meals and just write
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it all out you can either use the notes app in your phone or you can just do it manually on a piece of paper but write
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down everything you're eating and then at the end of the week highlight and if
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you have to pull out an actual highlighter and highlight areas that you're like whoa this was not on plan or
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here's where I can change these things but if you think you're already eating healthy and if you think you're already
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doing of the things and you're probably really close or actually doing them and
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logging everything you're doing will either one reinforce that okay I know I've got it spot on on my my eating
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maybe I re-evaluate my workouts which we're going to talk about next or two whoa here's a really big
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opportunity for me to improve I don't want you to be down on yourself I don't
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want you to punish yourself I don't want you to say here's a screw up I want you say here's an opportunity okay so now
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that we've gone over our diet let's talk about re-evaluating our workouts now I
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want to remind you this is so key weight loss happens in the
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kitchen I'm going to say that again weight loss happens in the kitchen it
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does not happen in the gym can exercising burn calories yes can
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exercise help you tone up while you're you're losing weight yes is exercise
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good for your body and for your heart and even for your mind yes exercise is great but weight loss happens in the
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kitchen so with that said unless you are running a marathon
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unless you were training for a marathon unless you are burning thousands and thousands and thousands of calories if
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you get on that elliptical machine and it says you burnt 300 calories do not take that as a free has to go and eat
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300 calories does that make sense you're losing an opportunity here by doing that
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so if you are eating or snacking too much because of a workout then maybe you change your
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workout time so maybe you go after breakfast or you go after lunch or you go after dinner when you're already
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satiated where you already have that fuel where you're not then starving after your
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workout this isn't opportunity where you can switch things up just a little bit
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you're not changing your workout and you're not even changing way you eat you're just kind of moving them around a
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little bit and if that means you know no I always work out in the morning I always work at work out at 6:00 a.m.
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this is what works into my schedule then maybe you re-evaluate when you eat your breakfast right so either you're moving
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your food around or you're moving your exercise around to better accommodate
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does that all make sense I hope it does and finally here's a really important
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one are you gaining muscle are you really in a plateau or are you just
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gaining muscle and with this said I want to come back to the genes test if you've
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been listening to all these podcasts you already know about the genes test the
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genes test is my alternative to getting on the scale and if you want to hear more about it just listen listen to the
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podcast where I talk about throwing away my bathroom scale it'll definitely stand out to you as you scroll through them
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but you can use the jeans test instead and so what I recommend is you put on your favorite pair of jeans once a week
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and I can't be clearer about this I am not talking about the jeans that you have up in the top of the closet that
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you're hoping and praying at some point you'll be able to fit into don't do that to yourself you want to put on the jeans
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that you would wear to and all you can eat buffet your biggest most comfy jeans your favorite pair the pair you want to
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wear those are the jeans test jeans you want to put on every single week so you put them on and you notice are they
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looser are they tighter how are they fitting around my butt whoa they're
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tight but I know I did a ton of squats last week so maybe I'm just you know building some muscle so this is a
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great way for you to evaluate is weight loss work working without having to get on the scale because if you're gaining
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muscle muscle weighs more than fat so if you keep getting up on that scale and
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you're working out really hard and you're eating really healthy but the scale is either staying the same or going up then maybe you're just gaining
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muscle and the genes test can help with that and with that said put your scale
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away and just do the genes test for a month okay so now that we have
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re-evaluated our diet and re evaluated our workout are we
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done is it a plateau or are you done if you have 5 to 10 pounds left to
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lose you might be done I'm going to bring you back to my
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my analogy from earlier when I talked about beating myself up for not losing those last five pounds and spot check
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here 14 years later I still haven't lost them but I have gained a lot of knowledge and I am kind to myself about
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it I'm just I'm cool with it I'm okay I'm happy I feel good in my skin I'm
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proud of myself I'm proud of my body at some point enough is
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enough and so often even if you do Lo lose those last five pounds what are you
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going to nitpick on your body at that point at some point you have to say I'm really proud of myself I I feel
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healthier I look better and maybe take some of those
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compliments so often as women we're really bad about taking compliments or we have body dysmorphia in that we look
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in the in the mirror and we still see that heavier version of ourselves so if
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you are done I want you to put your scale away for a week I want you to look in the mirror
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every single day and tell yourself how proud you are of yourself for what
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you've done try to just be your best self um I
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like I said I recorded for our master class that's going to be coming out in April earlier today and I made an
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analogy of you know my neighbor might be at her best weight at a size zero but I am most definitely not we are
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not all built the same so expecting your body
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to be the same as somebody else's body is just not healthy for yourself
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cruel what I want you to do is try to get to your healthiest weight or your
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healthiest size and with that you can talk to your
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doctor you can have some lab work done and you can go over your lab work from before your weight loss journey to
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after or you can maybe saying maybe I don't need to lose that last five pounds I've been beating myself up about
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because my labs are good and maybe you don't even need a weight loss Journey maybe you now need a self- Lov
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Journey so cannot say
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this any stronger I I'm almost at a loss for words because it's so big to me it's
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so powerful for me and it's something I've been struggling with you do not have to look like everyone
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else just look your best feel your best it needs to be good enough for
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you so now now that we've decided what to do if you are done or if you are done
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what if you're not what can you do how can you get over this Plateau I have some really great
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tips for you so the first thing you can do is do a detox week and before you go whoa she's trying to
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sell me something I'm not trying to sell you anything you can go to the lose weight by eating website and up at the very top it has detox and there are two
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detox plans on there there's a detox week and then there's a 3-day detox you choose which one is best for you
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basically you're just having more metabolism boosting foods that will
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naturally kind of clear out your body that is a really great way of doing it if you do have my detox week cookbook
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do a detox week or a detox month there are several different plans in there but I don't want you to feel like you have to buy the book I'd love for you to buy
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the book but you can definitely find the the single week online for free at
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loseweight by.com and then if you just feel like you know what I just want to power through this and get it done in three days 3-day detox is typically what
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I go for at this point it's a little bit harder but it really does kind of push
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your body into fat burning it's really really helpful you can also
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swap your dinners for green smoothies and I don't
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recommend starting off adding protein powders to this what you're trying to do is you're trying to have a really
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filling really fiber packed meal that's as low in calories as
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possible so if you if you do this and like for instance my partner and I he is
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you know over six foot and that man can eat and what I eat for dinner and what
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he eats for dinner you know he'll eat twice as much as me and then be hungry an hour later
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so if you find that you're hungry later then maybe tomorrow you do add a scoop
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or two of protein powder but I recommend starting just with a green smoothie again you can find these recipes on
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loseweight by eating.com and my favorite my all-time favorite green smoothie I'll just give it to you
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now I like to use all different kinds of greens but if you're not familiar with green smoothies and you don't typically
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do them start with baby spinach it has virtually no flavor I like to do a pina
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colada version so I do green spinach and then I'll do some frozen either mango or
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pineapple or both and then I'll use the coconut milk
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that you find in the refrigerated section not the coconut milk that you would use for like a Thai Dish that's
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really caloric you could also just do um some baby spinach and some strawberries and
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bananas like a strawberry banana grownup smoothie so I've got lots of recipes
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like that online and if you want to do the kale it it does have a stronger flavor that's more for us Veterans of
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green smoothies uh Roma is also really great I would stay away from iceberg lettuce it's just basically water you
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want some of the nutrients that you would find in the greens to help turn off your hunger receptors in your brain
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so I do really recommend a more hearty green and you can also swap your nightly
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cocktail I have a really great cherry juice I believe it's called overnight
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Weight Loss drink on the website and there's always a if you go on the lose weight by eating website there's always
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a search bar so you can just search like overnight Weight Loss drink and it's a a cherry juice there's also a smoothie on
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there so you could do that smoothie instead of the green smoothie but it's a cherry juice overnight Weight Loss drink
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that basically the cherry juice helps you sleep the apple cider vinegar in it
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helps boost weight loss it tastes like a cocktail you can't even taste the apple cider vinegar don't worry but it's
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packed full of metabolism boosting ingredients if you put it in a fancy glass you kind of feel like you're
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having your nightly cocktail but it actually helps to rev up your metabolism so that you can burn some fat while you
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sleep and I have a few different drinks like that on the website you can also just look up apple cider vinegar on the
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website and you'll find more drinks like that as well another
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great Plateau Buster is fruits for
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dessert and I know you guys if you've been on the website I have so many brownie recipes and so many cookie
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recipes and I do love my sweets but if you're stuck in a plateau just to push through it the fruits instead of a baked
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dessert are really going to help push you through they're going to give you
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more fiber many fruits like apples blueberries any Berry really pineapple
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is really great these fruits actually naturally boost metabolism so I would recommend put away your typical desserts
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even if they're low calorie even if they're healthy you can put away your typical desserts and just have half a
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cup of blueberry they're great for snacking while watching television they'll naturally boost your metabolism lots of fiber
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they're a really good healthy dessert instead of some of the other items you
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may be having you can also to help burn through
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some stubborn areas where maybe you're holding on to a little bit extra weight I totally put my hands on my tummy when
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I said that um you can build muscle in stubborn areas so when you build muscle
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it naturally uses the additional fat in the area to kind of fuel so say for
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instance you've hit a plateau and you're just wishing that maybe your arms were a little bit toner because spring is
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coming or you know you you really you want to lift your backside or you want to have a flatter tummy a really great
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way to push through a plateau would be to build muscle now keep in mind back to
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the exercising part this will mean that the scale might not
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change and to say that again the scale might not change in this instance but
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maybe you will get closer to the body that you want so extra crunches some
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squats I have these little 5B bar or dumbbells that I use when I watch Trash
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programming and I it's like the ultimate Splurge for me so try building muscle in
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the areas that maybe you're trying to lose weight this could really help to push through a plateau and then I'm
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saying this one last because it might be one of the more
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difficult ones for you but an intermittent fast might be a good option for you too and I never recommend the
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really hard one to start which is 18 hours of fasting and I believe it's 6 hours of eating I recommend a 1212 where
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you only eat for 12 hours and then you don't eat for 12 hours but what you do with the intermittent fast is you're
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still having the same amount of calories you're still having the same food you're just shoving them into a smaller space
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of the day and I want to come back to how we're redistributing our food for a
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lot of us it's really easy to do an intermittent fast where you skip breakfast if you're trying to get
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through a plateau this is not what you want to do if anything you want to skip dinner if anything you want to push your
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dinner earlier in the day maybe 4 or 5:00 I'm sorry I know it doesn't sound
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appealing but that's the kind of intermittent facet you would want to do
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okay so say for instance you typically have breakfast at 7: a.m. then you would
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be done eating at 700 p.m. does that make sense and then each
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week you could shorten the span of time in which you're eating you don't stop
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eating your typical Foods you just have dinner a little bit earlier each night
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or you know breakfast a little bit earlier so you you can eat dinner at a reasonable time but you're just kind of
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shortening the Span in the most stringent of these types of intermittent
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fast and I'm not talking about the days where you completely fast those are really difficult and I really don't
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recommend unless your doctor does but the most stringent of those would be the 18 hours of not eating and then the six
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hours of eating so I feel like we've kind of gone over the bulk of is it a plateau or are
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you done I feel like we've chatted about how to determine am I just done am
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do I just need to work on accepting my body as it is because it's only five pounds and I haven't lost it for a year
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and I should just be proud of what I have accomplished or let's push through that Plateau by
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swapping out some meals for green smoothies by doing a detox week for taking a break from alcohol for a week
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okay so I do have some final takeaways as I always try to have for you I want
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to remind you that you your value is not
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based on how much weight you've lost or even what you look like your value is who you
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are I've mentioned this before and I'm trying to mention it in every single podcast to hopefully stop some of the
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hate mail but I as I always say I welcome the hate mail I much rather have a conversation but with this podcast I
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really want to merge self-care and self-love and healthy eating and healthy activities like healthy exercising and
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merge them together because I feel like if we genuinely want to practice self-love and love our bodies as we
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should that also means eating healthy and and exercising at a healthy level
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you know that could mean yoga that could mean once a week hiking that could mean walking the dog but if we love our elves
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we should be doing what's best for our bodies and very often that's also what's
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best for our minds try to work on health and not a number on the scale so
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if you are really basing all of yourself worth on that number on a scale either
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put it away for a week or listen to my podcast about getting rid of your bathroom scale and it's just a one month
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challenge where you put your bathroom scale away and you can stop it at any point but maybe listen listen to that
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podcast and see if it's got some helpful tips in there for you and if you don't want to do it I get it that's cool and
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then also set some realistic goals for yourself and I talked about this in an
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earlier podcast as well what are realistic goals but plateaus can
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be hard you know and saying I'm going to bust through that plateau and lose that
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last five pounds this week that that's just not realistic is it possible maybe
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maybe and wouldn't that be great but maybe your goal is I'm going to drink
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half a gallon of water a day maybe if you're stuck in a plateau your goal should not be weight loss based and they
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should be health-based or exercise based or self-care or self-love based maybe
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give yourself a break from the weight loss mindset and just try to do right by
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your body and you can still do the detox week
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and do that but maybe think about it like I'm get I love my body enough to feed it healthy
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food and that mindset alone might just kind of give you a little bit of breathing space so that you're not
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obsessing over weight I hope this has been really enlightening and
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helpful as I've said before I you know welcome the hate mail but I would really rather
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open up a line of conversation I would rather have a discussion with how to find a healthier
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way to be because as we get older weight loss is harder and weight
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maintenance is harder and wouldn't it just be better to just focus on health
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and self-love so I hope this has been helpful I would love to hear your
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thoughts so make sure to comment if depending on where you're watching or listening to this if you're on YouTube
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please give me a thumbs up and let me know what has worked for you in the comments if you're on Spotify or apple
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or any of the other podcast platforms please give me a five star review it really does help me to be able to
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continue to do all of this for you so please be kind to yourselves please use positive words on
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yourself please don't say I'm fat say I'm
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strong I'm trying hard I'm doing my best say healthy happy things for
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yourself not negative cuz weight loss is hard enough putting yourself down is not
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going to help and I'll leave you with that thought happy cooking thank you so much for listening to the lose weight by
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eating podcast bye
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