Anticipating and Overcoming Obstacles to Weight Loss

Anticipating and Overcoming Obstacles to Weight Loss

May 16, 2024

Overcoming obstacles to weight loss leads to greater weight loss success.

Anticipating and overcoming obstacles to weight loss will help you plan more realistically and improve your odds of weight loss success.

One of the exercises I lead my clients through is that once we’ve designed a new positive habit, we look at the potential obstacles to weight loss. 

 

It’s not often that a coach asks a client, “why WON’T this work?”  But by looking for what could go wrong, we are able to develop strategies to overcome those obstacles.

 

For example, I had a client who wanted to drink more water in the evenings and on weekends.  One plan we created was for her to put a pitcher of water in front of the TV, so she’d see it while she was hanging out.  That would create a cue for her to drink a glass of water.

 

However, she often has younger kids in the house and anticipated that they might pull the pitcher over, spilling the water or even breaking the jug itself.  Through this conversation, we were able to anticipate that issue and overcome it.  Instead of a glass jug of water, she’s going to use a reusable water bottle with a screw on lid, so that if it is knocked over nothing will break or spill.

 

Now, this may seem like a small issue, but the process I outlined works in other areas of your life as well.  And most importantly, by anticipating and avoiding at least a percentage of the fails, my clients experience a greater success rate by overcoming weight loss obstacles, which helps them stay optimistic during their weight loss journey.

P.S. It's time for your to lose the weight.  You absolutely can do this once you have the right support.  Jump on a Zoom call with me and we'll get you started.  Just find a time on my calendar.

 

How I Lost 50 Pounds in 2020 At Age 46

How I Lost 50 Pounds in 2020 At Age 46

May 1, 2024

I lost 50 pounds at age 46.

That's right.  In 2020 when everyone was pandemic-ing, stress eating, and emotional eating, I managed to lose 50 pounds.

Women over 40 who want to lose weight, are you wondering HOW I lost 50 pounds at age 46 – especially in 2020?

​I used a completely different approach than meal plans and exercise plans.

I used my mind to lose 50 pounds at age 46.

I started to get in touch with why I'd been eating when I wasn't hungry, and I started addressing all those deleteable drivers of eating.

​I didn't think of myself as a stress eater or an emotional eater, but I was definitely an unaware eater!

​I had SOOOO many reasons to eat.

​But I learned that really there's only one good reason to eat if you are trying to lose weight, and that's because your body needs fuel, and it's telling you that through physical hunger.

​Now I help clients do exactly what I did – identify all the B.S. reasons for eating and start cutting those out, so we can lose weight in our 40s without hunger or deprivation.

​As a woman over 40, maybe you are eating without even really noticing, so bringing Awareness is all you need.​

Maybe you have a lot of social rules that are ruining your health that you can start to Clear out – things like eating to be polite, because the food is on sale, or because you don't want to waste it.​

Maybe it's deeper – subconsciously the excess weight is protecting you from unwanted sexual attention, showing your connection to your family of origin, or due to ancestral or past life experiences.​

Maybe you are an emotional or stress eater, so you just need to be taught some new strategies for what to do with feelings and stress.

​Maybe you just need an Energy boost to believe that weight loss is possible for you – YES, even though you are a woman over 40 and what worked in the past to lose weight isn't working any more.

​Ladies, the struggle is real. Perimenopause and menopause are playing with our minds and bodies and no one is talking about it. But this is my jam, and I'm here to help.

​As you are probably well aware by now, I offer one on one coaching to help women over 40 lose weight. 

 Ready to start?  Go to https://LisaDuke.net/schedule and book a free initial consultation to begin.