3 Keys to Weight Loss

There are three main areas I suggest clients examine and better understand to lose weight.

1.  Habits.

Are you in the habit of eating every time you pass through the kitchen?  Every time you are in a restaurant?  Every time someone has food on their desk and you pass by?  Start to pay attention to the times we are eating even though we are not hungry, and cut out some of this habit eating.

Some of my clients find breakfast is just a habit – that they aren't hungry, and that they can cut a whole meal out without even noticing.

By starting to pay attention to mindless habit eating and by asking more questions about why we are eating when not hungry, we can start to break a lot of bad habits.

2.  Hormones.

The main hormone I educate my clients on is insulin.

When we have a lot of refined sugar, our blood sugar shoots up, and insulin answers the 911 call.  Our body starts to move sugar out of the blood and into our muscles and liver.  Then it starts to store the excess sugar as fat.

If you are constantly snacking on sugary food (or refined carbohydrates, which quickly break down into sugar), your insulin stays permanently high and you stay stuck in fat storage mode.

By eliminating sugar and refined carbohydrates (factory foods) and by eliminating snacks between meals, your body gets a chance to shift out of fat storage mode and into fat loss mode.

3.  How your mind works.

This is where the coaching really comes into play.  Using tools like The Model, I can help clients get a better understanding of what thoughts and feelings are driving their overeating, which is leading to being overweight. 

Once we stop the mindless habit eating, take breaks between meals to allow the body to actually burn fat, and cut out emotional eating by getting to the root cause of the thoughts and feelings driving emotional eating, clients are able to lose weight without going hungry.