EP. 00 Welcome to the Stop. Dieting. Forever. Podcast

What if it were possible to achieve your goal weight and stay there permanently without dieting? Welcome to the Stop Dieting Forever podcast, where you will discover the key components that most diets won't tell you because they want you to keep coming back. Not here. This is your last stop on the weight loss struggle bus. I am your host, Jennifer Dent-Brown, life and weight loss coach, and I am going to show you how to stop Dieting Forever.

Let's jump into today's episode. Hello, hello, welcome to the Stop Dieting Forever podcast where you're going to learn how to stop dieting forever. Seriously, this is, is my life's mission. I mean, just being someone who was on a diet, quitting a diet, or getting ready to start a diet for decades, I know how frustrating it is when you keep trying different things and nothing seems to work long term. All right, so I want to, I want to talk about you for a second. All right, are you stuck in a place where you stop seeing results from your current diet? Right, we've all been there, trying something new, it's great, it's working really well, and all of a sudden life happens, circumstances change, or you're doing the same thing and the results slow down, and that is completely frustrating. Or maybe you're feeling like it's really hard to stay on track, even though when you started your diet you were laser focused when you started your weight loss journey. And now it just seems harder to say no to that dessert, it seems harder to say no to that cocktail, it seems harder to just to put that fork down and stop eating. Or maybe you've reached your goal weight, right? You've had success. You put your before and after pictures on social media. Everybody was celebrating and happy for you, but then you ended up gaining it back, right? And then now you just feel like you just don't have the discipline that you need to keep it off or to lose it again, right? If you can relate to any of those scenarios, then you are in the right place. You are my people, okay? The reason why I decided to become a coach was because I wanted to help other women avoid all of the frustration and all of the mind drama that I personally endured by just trying to achieve a goal weight, right? I knew that if I could just figure out the secret, what is the missing key? What is it? Tell me. I knew that if I could figure it out, that I was gonna tell everybody. Like, I wanted to help other people and I wanted to be able to help other women just bypass all the stress, all the wasted energy that comes along with just being overweight and always thinking about your weight, right? Do I look fat today? Do I feel fat today? What am I going to wear today that doesn't make me feel fat? I'm really hungry. Oh, but I don't want to eat. What am I going to eat later today, right? Being in the middle of one meal thinking about what you're going to eat for the next meal. It's crazy, all of that mind drama. Well, what you can expect as a listener to my podcast is that I'm going to help you understand why it's so hard to lose weight and keep it off. You're going to learn a completely new and different way to think about weight loss, one that doesn't involve counting calories, counting points, counting macros, measuring, one that doesn't require you to be in the gym working out for hours every week, right? So instead of you doing more stuff to lose weight, like trying a new exercise program or getting some new supplements or cutting out entire food groups or changing when you're eating, right? You already know how to do all those things, right? I'm going to teach you in this podcast and as your coach how to think like a person who doesn't struggle with her weight. For years, I struggled with my weight because that was my primary thought. My primary thought was, I can't lose weight. I always struggle with my weight, right? So when you've started and failed so many diets, you begin to believe that losing weight is like physically impossible. And the more times you fail, the deeper that belief gets ingrained in your brain. So yeah, having the belief I struggle with my weight, having the belief I can't lose weight, having the belief losing weight is hard for me. All of those things, even though I was doing all the things, I was going to the gym, I was tracking my stuff in MyFitnessPal, I was counting, doing all that stuff, right? My mindset was literally a self-fulfilling prophecy. I know you have a desire to lose weight, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Listening to me right now. I know you have a desire to stop doing crazy things to lose weight and you just want to feel healthy. You just want to be healthy. My goal is to help you begin to feel healthy right now.

Today.

And all of that begins with flipping the script in your brain. You're gonna hear me say that a lot. We need to flip the script. So when I was able to mentally flip the script from, "I can't lose weight," and "Losing weight is hard for me," and "I struggle with my weight," to "It's possible that I can find my body's natural weight," hmm, and "Losing weight in this way is simple," right? When I began to have those kind of thoughts, I literally began to feel differently about what I was doing. And as I began to feel differently about my actions and my body, the results showed up on the scale. Suddenly, I was able to see a plate of free chocolate chip cookies and not have a desire to grab one just because they're there, just because they're free, right? I was able to drive past Chick-fil-A without having a thought about whipping my car up in the drive-through real quick to get some waffle fries. Right, I was happy to walk into Starbucks and order my hot beverages without sweetener and without asking for a cake pop on the side, right, without using willpower to say no. It wasn't even a thought in my mind anymore. Let me tell you, it is an amazing feeling when you are no longer controlled by urges to eat foods that you know are going to keep you overweight. Right? When you're looking at all the desserts on the dessert tray when you're out to dinner and you're like having this back and forth discussion in your brain, like, "Oh my God, that looks so good." "Girl, you know you don't need to eat that right now." Right? When you can get rid of all that mind drama, so many good things open up for you. Right? And I know you have big goals, you have big dreams for your life, you have things you want to accomplish, you have things you want to do with your families and your careers. You have gifts and you have talents to offer the world. Now, I just wanna help you by taking weight loss off of your to-do list so you can free up that mental energy to make those things happen, right? The world needs you in whatever your goals and your desires, your gifts and your talents are. So are you ready? Are you ready for this journey? So I wanted to thank you for listening to the Stop Dieting Forever podcast today. I am your host, Jennifer Dent-Brown. I'm your coach too, right? And this is your last stop on the weight loss struggle bus. So this is just an introduction to what you're going to learn. So I hope you enjoyed what you've heard today, and if you resonate with me, wonderful. It was my pleasure to be here with you in this moment. It would be incredibly awesome if you could take a moment to write a review on iTunes. And hey, if you'd like me to cover certain topics or answer very specific questions that you have, I would love to hear from you. So you can check the show notes on the site for all of the ways that you can reach me online. Look forward to hearing from you. Bye for now, and I will see you in the next episode. Hey, hey, hey, before you go, I have one more thing for you.

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