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Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP#192: How to Eat Like an ItalianHow do Italians eat pasta every day and not gain weight? Why do they have the lowest obesity rate in Western Europe? Why they don’t gain weight as easily as Americans do? In October, I was really fortunate to spend two weeks in northern Italy. I visited Venice, Verona, Florence, and Tuscany, specifically the medieval walled hill towns of San Gimignano, Siena and Volterra. They were each wonderful in their own way. I had a fantastic time, and really loved it there. While I was there, I talked to a few A...2022-11-2218 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Reach Your Goals By Taking Baby StepsHow many times have you heard this saying? “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” So many people get stuck and have difficulty reaching their weight goals (and any other goal for that matter) because they get caught in a repetitive pattern of doing the same thing that doesn’t work, or that makes things worse,, over and over again. Maybe you keep stopping at that bakery on your way to work, buying three pastries under the pretense that you’ll share them or save some for tomo...2022-09-0614 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow You Think About Food You Eat Affects Weight LossDo you eat foods you don’t like very much because they’re low in calories or carbs, then feel unsatisfied afterwards and still crave something tastier? There’s a scientific reason behind that! I have something exciting and NEW to share with you about mindset and eating. Surprising evidence supports the role of mindset in weight management in a totally unexpected way. How you think about what you’re eating affects your weight! What that means is what you think about your food affects how your body responds to it physiologic...2022-08-2315 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP. #189: How to Deal with Comments about Weight & EatingDo you have family members who make comments about your weight, other people’s weight, their own weight, or what you should and shouldn’t eat? Do you have friends or family who are always talking about their latest diet? It’s summer vacation, which for many of us means eating meals with family members we don’t see all the time. For some of us, that’s a blessing. For others, it can be very difficult and stressful. For many people, dealing with their extended family is wrought with all kinds of mixed emoti...2022-08-0922 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP. 188: How to Effectively Use the Hunger ScaleWhen was the last time you felt physically hungry? Do you eat in response to your body’s hunger signals? Or do you eat for all kinds of other reasons that have nothing to do with your body’s need for food? One of the most important tenets of the Weight Loss for Foodies approach is to only eat when you’re physically hungry, and stop eating when you’re lightly full. The reason this is so important is that when you only feed your body when it’s hungry, and stop eating...2022-07-2616 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP. #187-How to Trust Yourself Around Any FoodIf you want to lose weight, how you THINK about food is even more important than what you eat. You see, your mindset about food and eating, especially if it’s a diet mindset, could be the single biggest thing standing between you and weight loss success. The good news is all you have to do to change that is change how you think! And that’s one of the few things in life we can actually control. The reason why diets don’t work for sustainable weight loss is because they teach you to think of food as...2022-07-0518 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP. #186: A Rule Hater's Guide to Food RulesDo you have a lot of rules about what you can and can’t eat? Some people have lists of food rules that are almost as long as the United States tax code. No sugar. No carbs. No refined flour. Only eat fruit before noon. No fried foods. No dairy. No gluten. Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day. Drink apple cider vinegar before every meal. Only eat during an eight-hour window. You get the idea. Well guess wha...2022-06-2112 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderIs it important to exercise to lose weight?Is exercising easier for you than managing your eating, but it isn’t producing the results you want? Do you exercise like crazy to make up for overeating? Do you hate exercise and avoid it like the plague? Unless you’re training for a half-marathon or something else intense, exercise alone isn’t going to get you to your weight goals. Are you surprised to hear that? While you can lose some weight through exercise, it doesn’t make up for bad eating habits. It takes a lot less time to eat le...2022-04-2612 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP. #180: Truth Versus Myths About Boosting Metabolism for Weight LossAre you curious about whether those ads claiming you can miraculously lose weight effortlessly by boosting your metabolism are true? You’ve probably seen some of the ads that say things like this: Lose 30 pounds in 30 days (or fewer days). Boost your metabolism and lose weight while eating all the food you want! To lose weight permanently, all you have to do is take this pill. This amazing coffee diet will boost your metabolism & melt the fat off you effortlessly! Is this really true? Can you really lose 30 pounds in 30 days? Spoiler alert: Any promise of mira...2022-03-2921 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderSpecial AnnouncementIt was a tough decision to make, but this is the last time I'm going to offer the Weight Loss for Foodies group coaching program. Podcast listeners can register until March 30 or it fills up, whichever happens first. I’m not ending this podcast, just the coaching program.2022-03-2304 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP. #174: How to Turn Off the Diet Culture Food ChatterDo you have a voice in your head that says things like: “I shouldn’t eat that!” “Stay away from that food! It’s SINFUL!” “I can’t control myself around that food!” “I can’t keep that in the house, or I’d eat the whole thing in one sitting.” “I’m too fat to eat that,” or, “I’ll never lose weight if I eat that” Do you feel guilty because you ate an ice cream cone or a few cookies? Over the years that I’ve been coaching people, the...2022-01-1117 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderComing Home to Your BodyDo you focus on what’s wrong with your body, rather than what’s right with it? Do you focus on what your body can’t do, rather than what it can and does do? Have you been critical of how your body looks throughout your life, even when you weren’t overweight? I’m revisiting one of the most popular Weight Loss for Foodies podcast episodes, updated and even better than before. It’s such an important topic because so many women are dissatisfied with their bodies. This is something so upsetting and disempowe...2021-11-3016 minWeight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderReady to Commit to Making Peace with Food and Eating?Let's face it. It's been a tough couple of years. Has dealing with it taken its toll on your eating habits? Your self-care? Your body? Your weight? I've never done a Black Friday promotion before, but thought that this year was the time to offer you the opportunity to finally nip those issues with food, eating and your weight in the bud, and make it history. I'm not going to go on and on here. I'm sure you've gotten a ridiculous amount of Black Friday emails, and will surely get a ton of promotions over the...2021-11-2602 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderBrooke's JourneyHow old were you when you went on your first diet? How did your upbringing influence your ideas about food, eating and how your body “should” look? In today’s episode, I talk with podcast listener Brooke Streufert. Brooke spent most of her life hopping from one diet to the next, until she started listening to the Weight Loss for Foodies podcast two years ago. Her story is an inspiring one of someone who was didn’t fit our culture’s idea of how our bodies are supposed to look from a young age, a...2021-11-1639 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP. #164: Your Questions Answered–Why Am I Always Thinking About Food?Do you find yourself constantly thinking about food? Are you stuck on a weight loss plateau? When you set certain reasonable limits on your eating, does it feel like restriction? I recently received these questions from listeners, and am excited to answer them on this week’s episode. If you believe you think about food too often, we’ll explore the reasons you may be doing that and come up with solutions for you. Is there a way to set reasonable limits on what you eat without feeling like it’s a...2021-11-0217 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEnding the Cycle of OvereatingDo you know why people gain weight? Overeating. Yep. There’s no escaping that fact! What I mean by the word "overeating" is when you give your body more food than it needs to support your natural, healthy weight. There are two ways you can overeat: 1. Keep eating until you're overly full or stuffed, or 2. Start eating when you aren't hungry. Both are overeating because either way, you’re giving your body food that it doesn’t need and will store as fat. Overeating every now and then isn’t a big dea...2021-09-0721 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhat need are you trying to fill with food?You know the feeling. You feel a strong urge to eat, but you aren’t hungry. It’s undermining your weight loss efforts, but you find it so hard to not give in whenever it arises! Maybe you just ate lunch an hour ago and you’re working on a tough project. Or maybe the kids and the pets are driving you nuts and you either can’t get anything done or even just take that break that you desperately need. Or you’re stressed out because you have to pay bills today. What makes you feel like yo...2021-08-2418 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Free Yourself from Food Guilt & ObsessionDo you obsess about what you should and shouldn’t eat? Are you always looking for the next miracle diet that promises results but doesn’t deliver? Do you feel guilty enjoying the foods you love? It pains me to hear so many women talk about being afraid to allow themselves to enjoy food, hearing them obsess about it, and waste so much of their precious energy worrying about what to eat. I hear them talk about what they should and shouldn’t eat. How they were “bad” because they ate some fried fo...2021-08-1716 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow Drinking Alcohol Affects Your WeightHow does drinking affect your weight? Can you drink and still lose weight? If so, how much? SPOILER ALERT: You don’t have to give up alcohol to lose weight. But if you drink regularly, it could make being a healthy weight more difficult. How booze affects your weight depends on many things, including what you drink, how much you drink, how often you drink, and what you eat when you’re drinking. Listen to this episode to learn how booze affects your body (aside from the obvious!) and what y...2021-02-1614 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhat Should I Drink? How Your Beverage Choices Affect Your WeightIf you want to lose weight, what should you drink? What beverages should you avoid? How does alcohol fit in? This episode focuses on nonalcoholic drinks, and I’ll cover alcohol in the next episode. When deciding what to drink, it’s your total consumption of foods and beverages that will affect whether you gain weight, lose it or stay the same. Most beverages contain energy, often in the form of sugar, and your body will use it for energy before it uses the food you’ve consumed. In this...2021-02-0220 minWeight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderSpecial announcement: Registration OPEN for Weight Loss for FoodiesRegistration is now open for the Weight Loss for Foodies group coaching program. It's only open until Thursday, and the special early bird price ends Monday, so make sure to check it out and enroll now to take advantage of the savings. You can see all the details and enroll now at https://bit.ly/Weight-Loss-Foodies I put this course together so you can stop struggling with emotional eating, overeating, and your weight (like I did!)! So if you’re ready to make dieting and a stressful relationship with food and eating a thi...2021-01-3002 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy Emotional Intelligence is a Great Weight Loss ToolIf you’re an emotional eater, it may be because you haven’t learned a better, healthier way to manage your emotions. Were you taught to suppress your emotions from an early age? Many people ultimately spend years in therapy undoing the damage from suppressing their emotions! Do you suppress your emotions, then feel bad about yourself BECAUSE you have these normal emotions? The reality is that our emotions are our body’s way of giving us important information. As noted author of The Language of Emotions, Karla McLaren, explains, “Emotions are millions of years...2021-01-1919 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderFocus on Making Better Health, Not Weight Loss, Your GoalHappy New Year! It’s that time of year when many people have made New Year’s resolutions to lose weight. It won’t come as a surprise to you that most of them won’t succeed, and will quickly abandon their resolutions. Maybe that even sounds familiar. While it’s a great idea to set health goals for yourself, I don’t think it’s a good idea to set a weight number goal. Some people have health conditions that are improved by losing weight. Others just want to feel more comfortable in their own ski...2021-01-0514 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderSpecial Announcement--Free 7-Day Challenge-Starts Jan 4thAre you ready to make 2021 the year you ditch dieting for good and become that person who can eat whatever you love without overeating while dropping down to your comfortable weight? The first step is to free yourself from our sick diet culture and reboot your food and eating mindset. Join my Free 7-Day Change Your Food & Eating Mindset Challenge and feel the liberation that comes with eating in tune with your body's signals, ending food obsession and really enjoying your life. It starts January 4th. Sign up on my website or at: http://bit.ly/2021MindsetChal2020-12-3001 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder4 Steps to Stop Rewarding Yourself with FoodAfter getting through a difficult day, or even a not-so-difficult day, do you treat yourself by eating when you aren’t hungry? If so, you’re among the great majority of people who want to lose weight, but consistently undermine their efforts with this habit. Chances are that your parents started you down this road at a young age. If you cried and they handed you a cookie or some other treat, your brain recorded the connection that food was supposed to make you feel better. Or you got a treat for behaving well...2020-12-2215 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder8 Ways that Your Brain Fools YouHow often do you think the same negative thoughts about yourself or your life? Have you ever thought about how those thoughts trip you up? The thing is that most of those thoughts simply aren’t true! This distorted information that your brain thinks has a name: Cognitive bias. Cognitive biases are errors in how you think. They are when you have unrealistic or inaccurate explanations for what’s going on in your life that lead you to make wrong assumptions or conclusions. Those incorrect assumptions cause you to feel negat...2020-12-0813 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderSetbacks are Bruises, not TattoosHow often do you let a setback cause you to toss in the towel? If you give up on your goals just because you made a mistake, you need to know this: Setbacks are a normal part of change. To quote Gareth Michael, “Each mistake is simply a lesson waiting to be discovered.” Think about how that approach could change your ability to succeed at making the changes you want in your life. No one who sets out to change a habit does it perfectly. We’re humans, and humans make mistakes...2020-11-2411 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder5 Steps to Change Your HabitsThe Weight Loss for Foodies approach is all about ditching your unconscious, unhealthy eating habits and establishing new ones that will not only help you enjoy eating more than ever, but will also move you towards a more comfortable weight. So much of how most people eat is an unconscious habit, and that is precisely the problem. But how do you kick a bad habit and create a new one? If you want to weigh less, you probably have a number of habits surrounding how you eat that result in overeating, which in turn causes w...2020-11-1018 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderTime to Reject the Culture of ThinnessI was listening to an episode of Cheryl Strayed’s Dear Sugars podcast in which she talked about her experience with Vogue magazine just before the release of Wild, her autobiography about transformation and overcoming adversity. Vogue was doing a piece about powerful women, and they wanted to feature her. On the day of the photoshoot, Cheryl felt good about how she looked. She didn’t lose the weight she had hoped to lose, but she felt confident and pretty. When the issue of the magazine came out, however, Cheryl and her husband were shocked at her...2020-10-2717 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhat's Wrong with Words Like Overweight or Obese?As a weight coach, I see one of my roles as fighting our cultural stigma about body size. Sure I want to help people be at a weight where they’re comfortable, but weight stigma actually keeps you stuck. Worse, it is one of the last bastions of what many people still consider an acceptable prejudice. Too many people still think it’s okay to talk about everyone else’s weight and feel free to say derogatory things about people’s bodies. It’s wrong and has harmful consequences. I often have difficul...2020-10-1318 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy Changing Your Diet Won't Give You the Results You WantIn the world of dieting, too much emphasis is placed on what to eat to lose weight. Diets prohibit you from eating certain foods, usually ones that taste really good. The ones you enjoy the most. Some of the most popular fad diets even prohibit you from eating nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables and beans. All of this emphasis on what to eat and what to totally ban from your life is so misplaced. And very misleading. It makes you think that if you just do something like stop ea...2020-10-0612 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow Complaining Can Be Good for YouI don’t know about you, but I’ve been finding my level of stress and frustration is higher than usual. Notably higher. There’s COVID, which creates a constant undercurrent of stress. There’s a lot going on politically in the US that I find very upsetting and frustrating. And don’t we all have at least one personal relationship that we find difficult? So how do you handle this? Do you eat? And eat? And gain weight? I have a better idea. How about a little purpos...2020-09-2909 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWho You Are is Much More Important Than What Your Body Looks LikeWho are some of the people you admire most? They can be people you know personally, or people in the public eye, like celebrities, thought leaders, or artists. Anyone. Now think about what you admire most about each one. How many of them did you say, “their body?” Although I admire many people, what their body looks like does not make it near the top of my list for anyone on it. When I think of these people, I don’t think about what their bodies look like. I think about w...2020-08-2518 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy You Need Self-Compassion to Lose WeightYou can’t hate yourself thin. To the contrary, if you want to succeed at losing weight and keeping it off, you must start with a positive body image and be compassionate towards yourself. Maybe you’re thinking, “how can I feel positively about this body? If I felt positively about it, I wouldn’t want to lose weight.” You can accept your body and feel positively about it, and still want to improve it. Truth: losing weight doesn’t mean you’ll have a good body image. That’s because having a good body ima...2020-08-1819 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy Ending Emotional Eating is a Game ChangerDo you eat because of stress, to comfort yourself or avoid uncomfortable feelings? Eating for emotional reasons may be the single greatest cause of overeating and weight gain. It’s the reason why most dieters gain the weight back. Emotional eating is instant gratification. It’s a distraction from your pain. But at a high cost. In reality, emotional eating is a mediocre coping mechanism that not only causes weight gain, but even more importantly, it negatively affects your life in other ways. But here’s the good news...2020-08-1115 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderThe Number One Barrier to Weight LossDo you eat in response to your body’s hunger signals? Or do you eat routinely when you aren’t hungry? Hmmm. Hunger. Have you checked in with yours lately? Here are some examples of eating when you aren’t hungry: You eat at set times without even thinking about whether you’re hungry, like having lunch every day at noon, regardless of hunger. You eat when you’re stressed, frustrated, lonely or sad. You eat out of habit, like at the movie theater or while watching TV after dinner. Everyone eats when th...2020-08-0413 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderCommitment, Persistence and Consistency are the Keys to SuccessAre you merely consuming content about weight loss, or are you actually doing the work? “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.” Those words of Bertrand Russell are applicable to changing your eating habits, achieving food freedom and reaching your healthy weight. Sure, you can listen to a podcast episode once and hear me explain how to manage your emotions so that you don’t eat when you aren’t hungry. You can know how to manage your thinking. But if, when you get the urge to eat because you’re upset about somethin...2020-07-2814 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderDetox your mind of thoughts that weigh you downDo you have issues with food and eating that are rooted in a negative self-image? Do you hate the way you look? Is your ability to see all of your strengths and gifts is clouded by your focus on the things about yourself that you don’t like, or that you think are inadequate? This episode is for you if you focus more on what’s wrong with you than what’s right. To be successful on your weight loss journey, you have to love yourself. A poor self-image will make y...2020-07-1416 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder6 Steps for Getting Back on Track After BackslidingYou’ve made a bunch of changes to your eating habits. You’re listening to your body, eating when you’re hungry, stopping when lightly full. Eating consciously without distractions. You’ve stuck with it for weeks or even a few months or years. You’ve lost weight, feel great, and discovered the liberating feeling of eating in tune with your body’s signals. Then something throws you off course. Maybe it’s something big like the Pandemic. Or something more usual, like the occasional exception that you’ve been making...2020-07-0713 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhat are you REALLY hungry for?How often do you choose to eat for a reason that has nothing whatsoever to do with whether your body is physically hungry? Maybe you want to eat because a certain food looks or smells good. Or because you’re worried about whether you can pay your bills. Or because you’re lonely, or are having difficulties with your spouse or partner. Maybe it’s to reward yourself for working too hard. Perhaps you’re in that hamster wheel of seeking pleasure from food, then feeling miserable because you overate, f...2020-06-3020 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Move Your EmotionsYour emotions are super important. Emotions are your body’s way of trying to get your attention. Were you taught to ignore them or squash them down? Did your parents expect you to not feel or hide your anger, frustration, boredom or whatever other uncomfortable feelings you had? Maybe you learned that expressing these emotions was wrong. When you ignore your feelings or bury them under a lot of sweets or chips or whatever, you are ignoring yourself, your body and your needs. Ignoring your emotions is downri...2020-06-2314 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy It's So Hard to Lose WeightA report issued within the diet industry around 2002 stated, “In 2002, 231 million Europeans attempted some form of diet. Of these only 1 percent will achieve permanent weight loss.” If that isn’t proof that the diet industry is well aware that what it is selling doesn’t work, I don’t know what is. But here’s the real question I want to talk about today: Why is it so hard to lose weight and keep it off? I’m not saying impossible. Just hard. Once I stopped dieting and changed how and why I was...2020-06-1616 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderComing Home to Your BodyDo you focus on what’s wrong with your body, rather than what’s right with it? Do you focus on what your body can’t do, rather than what it can and does do? Our bodies are truly awesome. They are incredibly intelligent. Our bodies receive and process millions of bits of sensory information every second--they process way more information than our brains can. Your body performs thousands of functions automatically every single day! You don’t have to do anything. Your body knows what to do. And our bodies con...2020-06-0916 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderThe Magic of Changing Just One Thing!How many times have you heard this saying? “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Yet so many people have difficulty reaching their weight goals because they’re stuck in a repetitive pattern of doing the same thing that doesn’t work, over and over again. As the columnist Molly Ivins said, “The first rule of holes: When you are in one, stop digging.” In this episode, you’ll learn how to stop digging yourself deeper into that overeating hole. We’ll explore how a simple change can...2020-05-2614 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Help Your Kids Have a Healthy Relationship with FoodApproximately 91 percent of women report that they are dissatisfied with their bodies. This body dissatisfaction starts early because half of teenage girls and a quarter of teenage boys report being dissatisfied with THEIR bodies. Pretty alarming and sad stats, huh? This is contagious. How we approach food, eating and our weight gets passed onto our kids. That’s why it’s so important for you to have a peaceful, sane relationship with food. Even if you’re a work in progress on that front, you can still do right by your children...2020-05-1922 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderManaging the Voice Inside Your HeadDo you have a voice inside your head that can be really negative at times? Does it diss you about all kinds of things? Tell you that you suck? You’re a failure? You can’t do whatever? We all have that voice to some degree, some of us a lot worse than others. We all experience it a little differently. Maybe your voice that tells you that you will never be able to lose weight because you’ve failed so many times before. Whatever it’...2020-05-1217 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow Do I Know What My Body Wants to Eat?Are you confused about how to tell what your body wants to eat when you’re hungry? Why eat when you’re hungry anyway? Your body’s hunger and fullness signals, which are controlled by your hormones, are there to tell you precisely how much food you need to be your healthy body weight. If you aren't hungry when you start eating, you won't know when to stop. You will be out of sync with what your body needs. You won't know what to eat or when to stop. If you eat...2020-05-0517 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Overcome Resistance, Part 2In Episode 111, we learned what causes resistance and how cultivating a growth mindset is a major approach to breaking through it. Today, in part 2 about resistance, we’re talking about how to investigate where your resistance comes from so that you can get to the bottom of what’s causing it, untangle it and get it out of the way! Yoga has a word for bits from our past that we hold inside us that keep coming up, and interfere with our ability to see what’s happening now. They’re called Samskaras. Samskaras...2020-04-2823 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder4 Ways to Manage Boredom Without EatingHave you been bored while sheltering in place? Are you eating more because you’re bored? Learning to manage and even eliminate boredom will help you feel better both mentally and physically. And will end boredom eating! Jon Kabat-Zinn said, “When you pay attention to boredom, it gets unbelievably interesting.” Although it’s no surprise that people are experiencing more of it right now, the reality is that boredom is a modern luxury. It’s a first world problem. It was literally nonexistent until the industrial revolution. Yet surveys...2020-04-2118 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Overcome Resistance-Part I-MindsetDo you hate change, or do you easily go with the flow? Do you find yourself resisting implementing even small shifts in how you eat? Some of my clients are happy to make the changes I believe are necessary to have a healthy, peaceful relationship with food and eating, and others are resistant to changing what they’re doing. The problem is that when you keep doing what you’ve always done, you get the results you always got. If you want to lose weight, you won’t get there by doing what you’ve d...2020-04-1416 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder5 Steps to Transform Your Relationship with Food (or anything else!)If you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, you’ve heard me say many times that awareness is the ever-important first step in changing your relationship with food and eating, and losing the weight for good. In this episode, we look not only at the importance of awareness, but at all of five steps along the path of transforming your relationship with food. These steps apply to changing your relationship with ANYTHING in your life, not just food. We’ll investigate this from the food perspective because this is the Weight Loss for Food...2020-04-0714 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder7 Ways That I Manage Pandemic AnxietyHave you been having surges of anxiety for the past few weeks? Are you having difficulty falling asleep or waking in the middle of the night? Or just feeling this low level buzz of stress?. Is your brain swirling with all kinds of thoughts of “what ifs” that you can’t answer? That is what fuels anxiety. It’s totally normal. Our brains are programmed to protect us, and right now, we’re literally living a SciFi movie. Our stress response is kicked into high gear. We’re all facing a...2020-03-3115 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy Comfort Eating Actually Creates More DiscomfortWhen I recently asked members of my Weight Loss for Foodies group what they considered their biggest challenge to permanently losing weight, most of them said that they eat for comfort. Think about the term “comfort eating.” Because it really is a misnomer. We all know what it means. You may have visions of bowls of gooey mac and cheese or pizza, or a pile of french fries or a dish of warm apple pie with ice cream. Mashed potatoes. Spaghetti and meatballs. A bowl of chicken soup with matzoh balls. We love foods...2020-03-2415 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderAre You Choosing Between Losing Weight and Being Happy?This is the second anniversary of the Weight Loss for Foodies podcast! I’ve had a blast doing it, and what really makes it worth it is the most amazing feedback I’ve gotten from you. Things like, “Thanks for all the great stuff you share on the podcasts. I’m already fitting into clothes I have not fit into for five or six years. I have lost 20 pounds.” What my listeners and students love the most about incorporating the Weight Loss for Foodies approach into their lives is that they have made peace with fo...2020-03-1716 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder6 Reasons Why Food Controls You and How to Change ThatDo you often think that food controls you? Feel like you have no self-control? Like there’s some gremlin inside you screaming for food, and you’re helpless to do anything besides give in? There are six things that might be causing this. The good news is that they don’t include that you have no willpower or that you have a food addiction. Listen to learn how many of these are applicable to you, and what you can do to become the boss of food again.2020-03-1016 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderShould You Keep a Food Journal?Do you keep a journal of what you eat? Do you rebel at the idea of doing this? Why would anyone want to bother? One reason is that several studies have shown that people who keep a food diary are more likely to be successful at losing weight and keeping it off. Another study showed that people who kept daily food records lost twice as much weight as people who didn’t keep records. Great reasons, right? But isn’t keeping a food journal diet-y? And HOW does it help? Those...2020-03-0311 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderGuided Mindful Eating MeditationThis week’s podcast is different from the usual format. It’s a guided mindful eating practice. There is no theme music. To do this guided practice, you will need to be hungry and have something available to eat. Make sure it is a food you enjoy. It can be a cookie, piece of fruit, piece of chocolate, a few nuts, raisins, or some popcorn. Something like that. Do it sitting down at a table where you have no distractions. Turn off the TV, keep your smart phone out of reach. It...2020-02-2511 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhat is Conscious Eating?Many people find it difficult to eat without distractions. Despite proclaiming that they love food so much that they can't stop eating before they're stuffed, they don’t want to waste their time actually paying attention to what they’re eating. It’s interesting to think about. If you love the taste of something, why don’t you actually want to taste it? Why do you purposely distract yourself from it? Learning how to eat consciously is an important skill if you want to enjoy your food and lose weight without dieting. Mindful e...2020-02-1812 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhat’s Your Eating Style?What’s your eating style? Not sure what I’m talking about? Although it seems like we try to categorize everything these days, it’s useful to know your eating styles. It can help you be more aware of how you relate to food so that you can make positive changes and become a liberated conscious eater. I explain what it means to be a liberated conscious eater in this episode. There are four separate styles of unconscious eaters, and five other styles of eaters. Listen to learn the nine styles of eatin...2020-02-1112 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Really Enjoy Food While Traveling Without Gaining WeightNowadays, we’re traveling more often, and not just when we take a summer vacation. We travel for business. We travel to visit friends and family who are scattered across the country and around the world. We travel for so many reasons. When you travel, how do you eat? Do you eat differently than you do at home? Do you eat like it may be your last meal? Do you gain weight when you travel? Listen for some tips on how you can go on a tri...2020-02-0413 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderYour Top 3 Most Popular Topics100 Episodes! Thank you so much for listening! If you’ve struggled with food, eating and your weight, you know that there’s so much more to transitioning from a dysfunctional relationship with food and eating to a peaceful, healthy relationship. I hope you have found the information here helpful in moving you in that direction. Since I started this podcast, I’ve discussed a wide variety of subjects. Today, I’m going to review three that are the most popular with listeners. Those are: The reasons why you weren’t losing weight How to stay on trac...2020-01-2815 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow Leisa Overcame a Lifetime of Disordered EatingLooking back, how old were you when your unhealthy relationship with food and eating began? My first ever podcast guest and Weight Loss for Foodies client, Leisa Hammett, believes her cravings for sugar and disordered eating began when she was a young child, long before she became concerned about her weight. When I say “disordered eating,” I mean an unhealthy, stressful relationship with food and eating that interferes with your enjoyment of life but that doesn’t rise to the level of an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia. Disordered eating is almost always caused...2020-01-2133 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder3 Things to Consider when Deciding to Lose WeightYou may be surprised to hear this from a weight coach, but there are lots of things in life that are more important than losing weight. Lots of things that are more important than what your body looks like. Seriously. If you’re a woman who has grown up in Western culture, you’ve been bombarded with a lifetime of messages that being thin and looking pretty are essential if you want love, success and happiness. Well, that’s a complete load of crap. It’s a horrible commentary on our screwed up system of...2020-01-1410 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder9 Steps to Return to a Joyful Relationship with Food & EatingDo you have an unhealthy relationship with food and eating? You do if you can answer “yes” to any of these questions: You spend a lot of time and energy thinking about what you should and shouldn’t eat. You have a lot of food rules and are very inflexible about what you’ll eat You forbid yourself from eating certain foods, but ultimately binge on or overeat those foods. You feel guilty or hate yourself because you ate a “forbidden” food or because you ate too much. Maybe you think you should never eat certain foods, t...2020-01-0717 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy You Shouldn't Focus on a Goal WeightAre you always focusing on your goal weight? Aiming for a certain number of pounds you want to lose? Is your mood for the day affected by the number on the scale each morning? If so, how does that feel? Pretty miserable? That may be why you’re not having much success at unleashing that naturally thin person inside you yet. Because the more you focus on the number on the scale, the more difficult the process of losing weight is. You see, that’s going about the process backwards...2019-12-3113 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Tell Whether You're Really Hungry or FullDo you have difficulty knowing when you’re really hungry? What’s going on when you just ate dinner an hour ago, but feel the urge to eat? Are you really hungry when when you walk past a food vendor or restaurant and the smells make you want some? How about those ads on TV that get you thinking you want pizza? Maybe you think you’re hungry because it’s lunch time. There are lots of reasons why you can think you’re hungry when you really aren’t. Your...2019-12-2419 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder7 Reasons and One Myth to Stop Dieting ForeverIt’s almost that time of year when people start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. In 2019, about 48% of people who made New Year’s resolutions wanted to lose weight. The number who succeed? 3-5 %! Most people give up on their resolution after a month. You’re not going to resolve to go on a diet, are you? Because if you are, listen to this week’s episode to learn seven really good reasons why you should swear off dieting forever and do something that works. Because there is something that works. I know w...2019-12-1712 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderStop Believing You're Addicted to Food or SugarHave you heard many people say they’re addicted to food? Or addicted to sugar? Chocolate? Various other foods? Have you thought you were, too? Maybe you’ve read that sugar is supposedly addictive because it lights up your brain’s reward center the same way that cocaine does. The truth is that there are all kinds of wonderful things that light up your brain’s so-called reward center. Like falling in love or listening to music. Lighting up your brain is NOT evidence that something is addictive. In recent years, there have been a lot o...2019-12-1012 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder9 Reasons Why I Teach What I TeachWhat’s the philosophy behind my approach to food, eating and weight? Why did I feel called to become a coach despite being very happy with my fascinating practice as an arbitrator and mediator? You already know that there are thousands of diets out there. And by diets I mean regimens consisting of temporary approaches to changing how much and what you eat so that you can lose weight, usually as fast as possible. There are also lots of approaches that claim to be non-diet, or lifestyle approaches. Most of those are also real...2019-12-0322 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Really Enjoy the Holidays Without OvereatingIt doesn’t matter whether you’re celebrating Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanzaa, the New Year or any of the many celebrations this time of year. You know there will be lots of food. ‘Tis the season for lots of food. Do you associate certain foods with this time of year? Maybe it’s the only time of year you eat potato latkes or roast turkey with stuffing and gravy or pumpkin pie. Although the restrictive diet mind associates having an abundance of delicious, special food available for the holidays with overeating and feeling out of control...2019-11-2615 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy Some People Succeed While Others Do NotWhat’s the difference between people who succeed at losing weight and keeping it off, and those who don’t? It isn’t giving up carbs or sugar. It isn’t fasting, cleanses or detoxes. It isn’t exercise. It isn’t willpower. It isn’t ANY diet. Most people who lose weight think they lack motivation. But that’s not it. What the unsuccessful people really lack are the beliefs and the plan that will help them achieve their goal. Listen below to learn how to come...2019-11-1916 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderTo Change Your Weight, Change Your IdentityDoes that sound like a strange topic for a podcast? Am I going to teach you how to transform from Clark Kent into Superman? From Peter Parker into Spiderman? Not THAT kind of identity change. It’s about working with your subconscious mind to create your subconscious identity as a person who is naturally slim. You don’t have to wait until you lose weight to view yourself and act like someone who is naturally slim. In fact, your chances of success will be much greater if you start being that person ri...2019-11-1213 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderAre You Sabotaging Yourself? It's Probably Your Subconscious MindDo you ever think you want to end your battle with food and eating and your weight more than anything else in the world? But somehow you can’t stop yourself from overeating? Despite your best intentions, do you eat too much at dinner, then munch out in front of the TV all evening? Or decide that you’re only going to eat when you’re hungry, but when people bring food to share to work, you eat a bunch of junk because it’s there? Are you tired of getting in your own way? ...2019-11-0520 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderTHE Question to Ask When You Want to Eat But Aren't HungryDo you associate eating with hunger? Or do you eat for all kinds of other reasons? The reason we feel hunger is because that is our body’s way of telling us it needs fuel. If we eat when we’re hungry and stop when lightly full, our body gets the amount of food it needs to be a healthy weight. When we do that, we can eat the foods we love without dieting or deprivation and not gain weight But most people don’t eat this way, and that has a lot to do with ep...2019-10-2914 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Eat Well By Menu PlanningI never anticipated doing a podcast on this topic. My focus as a coach is on teaching foodies : HOW to eat: in tune with your body’s hunger and fullness signals, consciously, savoring your food; and WHY you eat: when your body needs food, which is when you’re hungry, and not to avoid difficult emotions or dealing with our problems I don’t tell you WHAT to eat. That’s because that’s your body’s job. When you listen to it, your body tells you what to eat. Plus most of you already know about nut...2019-10-2213 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder"That's Just the Way I am!" is a BIg LieDo you ever think or say to others, “That’s just the way I am”? Do you believe that you can’t change certain things about yourself or your life, even though it is holding you back? Do you believe that certain characteristics or habits are just part of your personality, and that you have no ability to change? Are you afraid to try something new because you might not be good at it? If that describes you, the good news is that you’re absolutely wrong! Being wrong can sometimes be a good th...2019-10-1514 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder6 Questions to Ask to End Emotional EatingHave you ever thought about the tiny number of things over which we have actual control? There are so many things in life that go on regardless of us “doing” anything to make them happen. Trees get leaves and plants grow. It rains. The leaves fall off. The earth turns on its axis. Our bodies do amazing things every minute of every day without us having to direct them. Our hearts beat. We breathe. We don’t have to think, “time to release some gastrin so I have enough acid in my stomach to digest my lunch...2019-10-0814 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderDon't Postpone Living Until You're ThinnerHave you chosen to “sit out” doing the things you want to do until you’ve lost weight? Skipped a big event or a day at the beach because you don’t look the way you think you should? Why? What do you think will be different when you reach your weight goal? When I ask my clients these questions, they say things like: I’ll be happier. I’ll be able to go to the beach. I’ll be able to buy clothes I love. I’ll have more self-confidence. Really? I wonder. I ask...2019-10-0115 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy Working Too Much Can Cause Weight GainAre you spending so much time working in your job that it interferes with your ability to take proper care of yourself? Do you mindlessly gobble down lunch at your desk? Does regular exercise fall to the bottom of your “to do” list because it can’t compete with your overbooked work schedule? I get it. I’ve practiced law, a profession famous for overworking. In my four years in a high pressure firm, I became a compulsive overeater to deal with the stress, and I gained 40 pounds! You can definitely work too m...2019-09-2411 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow Stress Affects Your WeightDo you feel stressed out often? Although we hear a lot about stress in the media, many people overlook the effect that it has, not only on their overall health, but on their weight, too. Stress management is as important a part of becoming healthy and dropping those extra pounds as changing your eating habits is. Maybe you’re thinking, whaaaat? How does sitting around meditating and not burning calories help me lose weight? Different stressful life experiences have different effects on us. Sometimes, stress can cause people to lose their appeti...2019-09-1713 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhy Listening to Your Body is EssentialIt is more important to listen to your body and allow it’s messages to take the lead when it comes to when, what and how much you eat than it is to be at your goal weight. Does that surprise you? In our society, there isn’t much emphasis placed on listening to our bodies. The emphasis is on immediate gratification. That’s why obesity is at epidemic proportions. One of the reasons why I believe in the primacy of listening to your body is that being at your goal weight doesn’t necessari...2019-09-1019 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderIt Probably Isn't Your Genes: Families & WeightHave you been assuming that the reason you can’t lose weight is because being overweight runs in your family? Is almost everyone in your family overweight? Do you believe that genetics are causing your weight problem? Research on families and obesity has shown that children of overweight parents have a whopping 80 percent chance of being overweight themselves, but that genetics plays a very small part in that determination. What seems to matter most is your family environment. So while you probably can’t blame your parents for giving you “bad...2019-09-0315 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder5 Reasons to Eat Slowly and How to Do ItYou’re a foodie, and you really love food, right? But do you rush through your meals, or give yourself time to enjoy them? One of the simplest steps you can take to improve your health and well being, and shed some extra weight is to slow down. Yes, eating slowly improves your health. Eating fast is a habit. Like any habit, you can change it. Listen to learn the reasons why you should choose to become a slow eater, and how to become one! For more tips on how t...2019-08-2008 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderUsing Planning and Visualization to Prevent OvereatingIs it hard for you to avoid overeating at parties? On vacations? Or other special events? Are those the kinds of things that throw you off track, then you have trouble getting back on your weight loss path? I have a very simple strategy for you to use so you can navigate any eating situation without overeating. Planning ahead and visualization. There are a few different approaches to planning ahead, and not all of them are suitable for foodies. Some are overly rigid, and require you to ignore your body’s mes...2019-08-1316 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderWhat is Attuned Eating and How is it Different from Diets?This week, we’re comparing and contrasting the components of diets versus the Weight Loss for Foodies (WLFF) approach, which I also call attuned eating. Here is a brief comparison of some of the differences: DIETS WLFF External rules Internal wisdom Rigid Flexible Deprivation Satisfaction Guilt Pleasure Fear Trust Shame Compassion Judgment Acceptance Oppression Freedom In Control In Charge Listen to this week’s podcast to learn the specifics. Which approach sounds better to you? If you want to learn more, sign up for my free webinar about...2019-07-1614 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderThe Joys of a Healthy Relationship with FoodWhich is more important to you, losing weight or developing a healthy relationship with food and eating? For me, I resoundingly choose to have a healthy relationship with food. If you chose losing weight, perhaps you believe that once you drop that extra weight, all of your problems will be solved and you’ll live happily ever after. Sorry, that’s a fairy tale. I’m not gonna lie. Losing a lot of weight feels great. But if you are still left with a dysfunctional relationship with food, a huge part of what you do eve...2019-07-0912 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderHow to Enjoy a Buffet or Party Without OvereatingYou’re at a restaurant and there’s a buffet. So many good things to eat! You love food and there are unlimited quantities. Are you worried that you’ll eat too much? That used to be me. My brain would think, “Free food! Lots of yummy stuff!” and I would eat too much just because it was there. Then I’d feel gross. I’d be stuffed and uncomfortable. Usually gassy too. Why do we do this to ourselves? I’ll explain that in this episode, and tell you about a much better way. Because...2019-04-0217 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEight Best Ideas You Learned This Year, Part 2This episode celebrates the end of the first and the start of the second year of the Weight Loss for Foodies podcast by completing a review of the eight best ideas from the podcast during the past year. In today’s episode, we’ll discuss four more super important ideas to implement if you want to become your healthy weight or stay there while living a wonderful, fun life that doesn’t involve diets or senseless deprivation. Here they are: Learn how to manage your emotions instead of avoiding them by eating Discover other pleasures...2019-03-2618 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEight Best Ideas You Learned This Year, Part 1It’s the Weight Loss for Foodies podcast’s one year anniversary! I started this podcast because I struggled with eating and my weight for most of my life. When I discovered how to lose weight and keep it off without dieting (with the help of my weight coaches), and made peace with eating, I became passionate about spreading the word to anyone who was interested in learning. I’ve heard back from many listeners who have jumped off the diet hamster wheel and learn to eat mindfully, stop emotional eating and lose weight. To ce...2019-03-1920 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder11 Tips for Staying on TrackYou’re trying to lose weight. You’ve been down this road so many times before. Too many. But you aren’t ready to toss in the towel. How many times have you started a restrictive diet with the hope that this will finally be the secret sauce you need to reach your goal? I know, you’re all gung-ho at first. You stay on track for a few days or maybe even a week or two, or a month, but then your resolve wanes and suddenly you’re back to eating the way you did that c...2019-02-2620 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP. 52-The best thing about losing weightHave you ever really thought about why you want to lose weight? I mean, seriously thought about it. Maybe you think it is because you want to look better in clothes, feel sexier, find a great partner, or be healthier. There are many reasons why people THINK want to lose weight. I had those kinds of reasons, too. I had no idea what would be the best reward of all. The reason why the people I work with are so happy. It wasn’t getting on the scale and seeing a num...2019-02-1909 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP 36-Why You Need More Pleasure in Your Life that isn’t from FoodDo you make time for pleasure in your life? I’m talking about pleasure from sources that don’t involve food. One of the reasons so many people are overweight and have difficulty dropping those extra pounds for good is that they allow food to be too big a source of joy in their life. Consequently, they rely on food and don’t develop other sources of pleasure. For some people, food is their main source of joy. While food is certainly pleasurable, and as foodies, we love food, it is not healthy to have food as...2018-10-3014 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP-30 Overeating is a Symptom, Not the ProblemDo you beat yourself up for overeating? Do you think you’re weak or inadequate because you binge on sweets or believe you can’t control yourself around food. You aren’t. You don’t lack willpower. You probably have gobs of willpower which you use to do things like build a successful business, or motivate yourself to cook dinner for your family when you’re exhausted after working hard all day. Overeating is not the problem. It is a symptom of something else in your life that is causing you to want to overeat...2018-09-1813 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP-27 How to Measure Your Progress and Not Get DiscouragedThis week’s episode is super important because I’m talking about why it is necessary to stop approaching this process of changing habits and losing weight from the perspective of your former dieter self. As long as you keep looking at it from that perspective, you’re going to get in your own way and not succeed. Here’s why. Changing your relationship with food and eating means you have to get rid of a bunch of old habits that you might not even realize you have, and establish a bunch of new habits that wil...2018-08-2817 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP-26: Road Blockers and Role ModelsAre there people in your life who seem to want to sabotage your efforts to lose weight and develop a healthier relationship with food? It could be a relative or a friend. Maybe a coworker. Your mother? Have you had the experience of people saying things to you like: You’re no fun when you’re trying to lose weight. You’ll look older if you lose weight. What do you mean you don’t want a piece of MY birthday cake? Oh, come on. You can eat that! If you keep doing that, you’ll d...2018-08-2113 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP-24-10 Stories That Stop You From Dropping the WeightWhat stories do you tell yourself that keep you from finally dropping your extra weight? Maybe you don’t realize it, but we all have our little stories. Things we believe about ourselves and our relationship with food and weight loss. Stories that we have believed for so long that we don’t even question them. But what if you did question them? I bet you’d find out that most--and maybe all of them--aren’t true! When you stop believing those stories, you can clear your path to lose weight and keep it off!2018-08-0713 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP 21-Eating and the Law of Diminishing Returns You’ve probably heard of something called the Law of Diminishing Returns before. If you’re an economist, you know it well. In a nutshell, it essentially means that the value or enjoyment we get from something starts to decrease after a certain point, regardless of how much of it we have. It can also mean the more you experience something, the less rewarding it becomes. For example, think about the difference between how productive you are if you work 5 hours a day versus 15. I bet you get as much done in the first 5 hours as i...2018-07-1709 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderEP 16-How Foodies Can Enjoy Food on Vacation Without Gaining WeightAre you planning to take a vacation this summer? When you go on vacation, do you eat differently than you do at home? Do you tend to gain weight on vacation? The good news is that you CAN go on vacation and eat all kinds of delicious foods without gaining weight. Yes, it’s true. If you go on an active vacation, you might even lose a little weight. I know what you’re thinking, “Is she crazy? Everybody eats more on vacation and gains weight!” Well, at least that thou...2018-06-1212 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderThe Difference Between Head Hunger and Body HungerDo you ever think things like: There’s nothing to do. Let’s see what’s in the kitchen. OR I feel lonely. Some cookies will help me feel better. Last week, when I discussed the Hunger Scale in Episode 3, I was talking about physical hunger. But what do those thoughts have to do with that? So many people confuse their thoughts about wanting to eat with their body’s true hunger signals. But here’s the thing. If you want to lose weight and keep it of...2018-03-2012 min
Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari BroderYou CAN Be a Foodie and Lose WeightWELCOME! I’m so thrilled that you’ve joined me for the Weight Loss for Foodies podcast! This podcast is for you if you love good food, but you also care about your health and you want to look and feel good. Diets Don’t Work, But This Does! You’ve probably tried a bunch of diets, but you haven’t lost the weight you want to lose and kept it off. Maybe you feel like you’ve tried every diet there is! Maybe you feel like you simply can’t lose weight. But you absolutely can...2018-03-0810 min