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Wanna Lose Weight? Do you want to lose weight?  If so, you are not alone. I was there for many years along with millions of other women just like you.   The truth is 91% of women are unhappy about their body and seek weight loss as a solution.  First, let’s level up on one fundamental point: No one wakes up one morning wanting to be fat, carry extra weight or not be able to lose weight.  It’s a basic human need to be accepted by our tribe and peers, therefore to be “normal”.  All we want to be “normal”, we want to be confident in our body and image.  We are ready to do, what needs to get done to feel “normal” in our body.   For most of us in this community, this desire to be “normal weight” has gone one of two ways: we did lose weight at some point but it didn’t “stick” OR we haven’t yet attempted to lose weight because we are so afraid of failure and change.   Why is it that we can’t do what we deeply desire? That’s what we will cover in this 2-part podcast series: episode 173- 174.  In this episode I discus

Type A Women Are you a type A- achieving women, successful in many aspects of their life: career, family, finances but they don’t feel as successful in one area of their life: food & body? If that’s you, this episode is a MUST-listen. Susan is just like you and she shares her journey. Her journey to find peace with food and body using the Going Beyond The Food Method. The Going Beyond The Food Method is designed to help women 40+ that are successful in their career, family and finance but feel unsuccessful with their body and weight remove the emotional blocks that keep them stuck: tunnel approach to their weight via diets and exercise, negative thoughts patterns towards their body, and low self-esteem finally stop sabotaging with food and engage with their body from a place of compassion so that they can be at peace and live fulfilling life right now! What I’ve found over the years is that most women that are successful in most aspects of their lives except their body feel like they’ll never be able to l

Health At Every Size The act of dieting is the greater predictor of weight gain. Most of us know diets have failed us and continue to fail us. The older we get, the worse it gets... it’s not just failing us physically on the scale but also emotionally and mentally. In fact, the side effect of food and exercise obsession is leaving us feeling overwhelmed, stressed and terribly anxious. We want to be confident and healthy but we know diets don’t work... but we feel we have no other choice. Right?? Is there another choice other than dieting? Yes, there is... Chasing health instead of weight loss. Adopting compassionate and healing behaviors towards our whole self. The truth is weight management isn’t a guarantee of health. What?!?! Yup... and now enter Health At Every Size. A movement and scientific approach to health that isn’t focused on weight but instead what really drives health in humans. In this interview, Molly Bahr takes us through the Health At Every size basic principles. In this episode I discuss Wh

Body Confidence The journey to body confidence and peace with food and body image is possible and quickly achievable if you... If you get committed and invest in yourself! Commitment is the biggest component of the process. Commitment to YOU via commitment to your time, mental headspace, physical space, boundaries and financial. Erin, a graduate from the Going Beyond The Food Academy Fall 2018 is sharing her inspirational journey with us which started with commitment... For her, it was commitment to not letting her fear get in the way of her transformation. For Erin, the transformation led her to have peace of mind and body confidence... and yes, peace with food. She is now on her way to healing other parts of her life seeking the next best version of herself. In this episode I discuss Erin's inspirational journey Going Beyond the Food What's on the other side of taking this journey of undieting your life and Going Beyond the Food The possibilities of tweaking your relationship to food and to your body from

This time next year... 2019 is going to be the best year of my life. I know this is true. Each year is always better than the last. I keep evolving and working on myself. My goals keep getting bigger. My heart keeps getting bigger. My clients’ lives keep getting bigger. In December, in the Academy, we write our goals for the year. But we do it differently than anyone else. We choose how we want to feel. We chase our Desired Feelings. because what’s really behind all “regular goals” is wanting to feel a certain way... We chase weight loss to be accepted, to be beautiful in the eyes of others, to not feel marginalized by society, to feel sexy. We don’t really seek weight loss, more money or a new house... we chase how we think we’re going to feel when we “get there”. I did this last year at this same time. So, did all my #academysisters. And this year we are celebrating all the successes. I’m inspired by my students and clients every day to be the best version of myself. I feel free. I live in an abundance. Eve

Goal Setting with Feelings Did you make resolutions last year? How did it work for you? Here’s cold hard truth about resolutions: 40 to 45% of American adult make one or more resolutions each year. Top new year's resolutions for 2017: - Save money - Lose weight / get in shape - Have more sex The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on: - not even 1 month: 43% - one month: 66% - less than 3 months: 80% Is that you? That was me for years.... until I decided to ditch resolutions all together 5 years ago. Once I’ve done that, I’ve achieved all of my goals. Now, I don’t chase regular goals... I chase desired feeling. Yes, goal setting with feelings. You can too! This is what we talk about in today’s episode. How to flip the resolutions model on its head and chase what really sits under traditional goals: a desire to feel a certain way. Chasing feelings is the key to staying motivated all year and confident! In this episode I discuss Why you should ditch SMART goal setting  How

How to get results All of us have goals. Goals like getting married or maybe having children. Taking the next step up in our career or for some, having more energy. Making more money and losing weight are the top two goals people set in their lives... especially, new year’s resolution. Some women go on to achieve their goal and others don’t. Why? To be honest, it has nothing to do with your capacity as much as your mindset. Your ability to have an honest discussion with yourself and accepting what will need to change in your life in order to achieve your goals. And likely what needs to change isn’t what you think... because the truth is if you knew you’d already done, right? The secret to achieving your goals resides in what you don’t know or what you don’t want to see or accept about yourself. In this episode of the podcast, I’ll share with you the 5 obstacles that women face when desiring change in their lives. In this episode I discuss The 5 obstacles to avoid to get results  Why the most powerful transfo

Maintaining Motivation “I get off track very easily and difficult to get back on track. Finding a way to be motivated every day is hard. What should I do? That’s one of the top 3 questions I get on open forums. Along with how to be consistent and how can I lose weight (I never answer this one anymore!). The truth is maintaining motivation is a struggle for many as it was for me and is still when it comes to exercise. Here’s the secret... Motivation is not something you have or don’t have. It’s something you cultivate via your intention. Research and science are clear: Willpower doesn’t work. So, what then? Your big why, your intention, your higher purpose is what works to sustain motivation day in and day out. Your 'why' is what we call an internal motivator and the key to maintain motivation is to be clear on your 'why'. To set the intention based on internal motivators that will activate the right part of your brain and create the magic of motivation without having to resort to willpower and self-punishment

We think that we can delay accepting our body until we get our relationship to food OK. Most of us are ready to do the work with our emotions but when it comes to doing the work with our body image... we resist. And we resist hard! The truth is Body Acceptance is the must-have to make peace with food. More than a must-have, it’s essential. Can’t make peace with food without making peace with your body right now as is! It’s like trying to heal a splinter without removing the foreign object. Crazy right? You never think of not removing what causing the infection, the pus, the pain, the inflammation... Yet we think that we can avoid accepting our body. The pain and suffering associated with non-body acceptance is the cause of many emotional eating roller coaster, binges and diet cycle. In this episode I discuss Body Acceptance: the definition What happens when we don't accept our body as is The 3 things you can do now to start accepting... yep, no-cost involved Last episode, I shared my Holiday Survival Guide

Holiday Survival Guide Surviving the holidays can be tough. Thriving in the holiday nearly impossible for some. Perhaps the holiday period is causing you more anxiety than pleasure. The anticipation of seeing certain family members might be causing you to be in an emotional eating rollercoaster. Perhaps the business of it all drives you to completely forget about yourself and by the time you get to Christmas, you’re completely exhausted and completely lost control on any healthy habits you might have in place just a few weeks before. The Beyond The Food Holiday Survival guide will move you from self-destructing eating habits during the holiday to thriving and loving the holidays altogether! and Yes, it’s possible... As with anything we teach here, a few tweaks in your mindset and how you approach certain situation or event will be needed to move from shriveling at the idea to anticipating the holiday with excitement. In this episode I discuss The #1 cause of emotional eating loop My personal advice on how yo

Why Diets Don’t Work Smart women don’t diet... they do THIS instead. After 27 years of dieting, I’m clear on one thing… diets don’t work. 91% of all women are unhappy about their body and resort to dieting. We think that a “thin” body is going to unlock our happiness, our acceptance, our joy. And 95% of all dieters regain their all weight within 1-5 years. Yet we keep dieting. We keep hating our body. We keep judging ourselves for our inability to be in freaking control… yet neuroscience is clear: WILLPOWER is a limited resource. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."- Albert Einstein The question is… are you? After making peace with food and my body by going beyond the food as a nutritionist and looking at what was really driving our desire to eat and judge our body, today, I help women do one thing: Transform your relationship to food and body so you can…. *FEEL BETTER about YOUR body as it is today without having to lose anything. *BE HEALTHIER i

Do you say things like “I’m on track”, “I’m having a good or bad day” and the ultimate “on and off the wagon”? Absolutist thinking is one of the most common denominators in our Going Beyond The Food community. It’s the source of many emotional eating loops, overeating weekends and restricted food binges. The truth is the all or nothing mindset is a negative thought process also known as cognitive distortion. Everything- from food to your views of yourself to professional life– is divided into black or white terms. Everything is either success or failure. The consequences of this way of engaging with food and, quite frankly, life are anxiety, stress, self-doubt, low self-esteem, feeling of failure and shame and long-term distorted relationship to food. Most critical, it affects our ability to have a healthy and balanced life experience. To add fuel to the fire, the fact is that diets are built around the all or nothing framework. We start the diet, we restrict food and it works until it doesn’t. Then, we try h

Are you a sugar addict? Is sugar addiction even real? What’s the difference between sugar addiction and emotional eating? If we’re addicted to sugar, what should we do? These are all the questions we will answer with Bitten Jonsson, RN, ADDIS/SUGAR Certified and a Sugar Addiction Specialist. I gave her carte blanche to use my own assessment to explain and help you understand addiction. If you look at the medical definition of addiction… I’m an addict. Throughout my life, I have been addicted to many substances and activities: started with sugar then moved on to drugs and nicotine and then human co-dependency and work. As Bitten described, I have an addictive personality. But I don’t like the label of addict. To be honest, I don’t like labeling altogether. I find labeling to be very disempowering. When I labeled myself as an addict, which I did in my twenties, it made my addiction worse. I thought I was powerless.... that the substance had more power than I could ever have over my own addiction. For me, my add

One superstar student of the current semester of the Going Beyond The Food Academy is seeing so much results in a short 4-week period that she feels the duty to share our method with people in her life that need it.  She wanted to know if we have an episode of the podcast she could share with people that would encapsulate our approach and what to do to get started... we didn’t have one. Well, that’s not true. We had many that dissected one point but none that recaps our approach at a higher level. One designed for beginners.   So, I created it... Practicing the basics is just that!  In this episode I discuss What is the Going Beyond The Food Method  The Framework that guides our approach  When are you ready to for the Going Beyond The Food method How to get started Hope this serves many of you! Last episode was an episode recorded via Day 1 Wrap-up session of the Going Beyond the Food Project 2018. We answered questions submitted about the talks of the day. It was a 'nothing-is-off-limits' kind of episode. 

The last time we did a live recording, the episode quickly went to the top chart! That live Q&A session on Facebook was almost a year ago!  There’s so much fun to do... We are well overdue for another one... Just like the last one, we recorded this one over a Facebook Live during our yearly Going Beyond the Food Project online conference. In this episode I discuss The questions received from the talks of Day 1 of the Going Beyond the Project 2018 How to get started with your transformation by going beyond the food How not to get overwhelmed with all the information from an online conference like this The fundamental aspect that you should focus on to bring about permanent change to your life Last episode, I talked about an article that was published by Huffington Post on September 19th, 2018 that sent shock wave in the world. The article titled “Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong” by Micheal Hobbes is controversial... is challenging all of our societal beliefs around obesity all of them. From ob

An article was published by Huffington Post on September 19th, 2018 sent shock wave in the world. The article titled “Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong” by Micheal Hobbes is controversial... is challenging all of our societal beliefs around obesity all of them. From obesity is the #1 enemy of health to dieting throws it all in the air... and also explains why we suffer so much when stigmatized with weight issues. Is it all true? Almost... Although I agree with most certain elements just encourage even more victimization and more suffering. In today’s podcast, we are going to look at this article and dissect what is right and what is wrong... and most importantly, what to do with this information. In this episode I discuss The reason why how we've handled obesity is wrong Why fat-shaming isn't only not cool, but also doesn't work in weight loss The importance of addressing the issue why we gain weight Why Weight and Health are not perfect synonyms  Fatphobia can come from medical providers. Yes, stat

Tired of fighting with your body and food? Exhausted of being in a constant struggle with yourself and willpower? Did you know that it doesn’t have to be...? You can change your relationship to food and your body and finally be at peace. Our yearly online conference is back to support your journey to Make Peace with food and body. The Going Beyond The Food Project is a free online conference starting Oct 8-19th 2018. During this event, you’ll have FREE access to over 22 talks from experts from around the world that I have handpicked to teach you what you need to know to finally be at peace. You can register here! In this event, you’ll learn: Identify the root cause reason WHY you eat Learn new approaches How to eat consciously Transform your relationship to your body Move beyond body image struggles Overcome binge eating behaviors naturally Discover how to stop overeating easily Change your emotional eating behaviors to serve you Understand why weight management is not the solution to be healthy Discover cut

My journey towards accepting my body has been hard but one of the most rewarding difficult processes I have ever done. I have learned many lessons in this journey which I’ll be sharing with you in this episode. 7 life lessons I have learned and that have seeped through my whole life.  But I want you to know something... right now!  Body acceptance is possible for all of us. That is, accepting our body for what is. Taking the focus on what your body looks like and instead focusing on what it’s capable of.   Rather than telling yourself you hate the fat on your belly, it’s appreciating the child it created.  Body Neutrality is the proprietary method I teach within the Going Beyond The Food Academy. Lesson 7.  The most impactful life-changing module.    Visit https://www.stephaniedodier.com/podcast-episodes/ for complete show notes of every podcast episode Body neutrality will lead you to:  Overcome black and white thinking  Gain more self-love and compassion   Being more mindful… in all aspects of life  Decr

Do you feel stuck?   You want to change yet you can’t get started or perhaps you’ve started the process of change and it’s not getting you where you want to be?  I hear a version of that everytime I engage with a new client. I mean, I’ve been there myself. There is a part of my life in which I’m there right now.  There is a reason why you are stuck and no, it’s not because something is wrong with you or the program you're on. In fact, the reason is in between your two ears. The solution is in your mind... and your heart.  In this episode, we are going to break down the stages of changes and why no one in this community is in stage one, which means everyone is engaged in the process of change. You're all in between stages 2-5... And maybe 6.  Moreover, we’re also going to hear from someone who is in stage 4 which is where most of my students are. Ready to engage in stage 5-6!  In this episode I discuss  The reason why you're stuck and the actionable strategies to make profound and steady changes in your life

Binging is defined as a period, usually short, of excess something. In the case of binge eating, it’s excess eating. It's usually done alone and or hidden from our environment. My approach, as always, is based on taking responsibility. It’s an empowering model of transformation. The solution is within us. If you are looking to blame something out of you to resolve binge... like food, sugar, what people did to you... this is not the right podcast for you. Feeling empowered resides in the fact that you know you have the power to change things. You can only change what you create. Most of us create the desire to binge... that’s the framework in which we will explore this. This is only for the women who are ready to transform permanently... Because transformation CAN only happen when we feel empowered over our problem that we want to transform. In this episode I discuss  What is Binge Eating? How binging cycles happen... the brain mechanism behind it. Why your brain leads you to binge cycle... where does it come