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Ready for a deep dive into the world of cultivating a healthier relationship with food, while navigating the challenges of PCOS? In this episode, we’ll explore how to create a positive no bad foods approach to what you eat while still eating to nourish your hormones. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the dos and don'ts of PCOS nutrition, this episode is for you. So, grab your earbuds and hit play!

A Positive Relationship with PCOS Nutrition
From genetics to lifestyle every woman has a unique PCOS journey, every factor plays a role in your health goals. It's time to let go of the rigid rules and embrace the idea that there are no inherently "bad" foods. Instead, we'll focus on understanding what your body needs and how to nourish it for your well-being.
Throughout the episode, we'll uncover the impact of restrictive mindsets and how they can create a negative cycle around food. No more feeling like you're constantly doing it right or wrong. We'll explore the concept of moving from "good or bad" foods to choices that align with your desired outcomes, breaking free from the limitations that may be hindering your progress.

Revitalize Your Relationship with Food
I will also provide you with helpful strategies to handle emotional eating and the power of real food over processed alternatives. I invite you to hit play now to hear some inspiring stories of real women who transform their approach to ok and bad foods in order to break free from the cycle of feeling stuck to making significant progress in their PCOS journey.
By the end of this episode, you'll not only gain insights into creating a sustainable and enjoyable eating pattern but also discover how a simple mindset shift can be a game-changer in your PCOS wellness journey. So, get ready to revitalize your relationship with food and step into a more empowered and capable version of yourself. Grab your earbuds and get ready to start enjoying food again!

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In this episode, I delve into effective ways to cope with the sensation of fullness and provide practical tips for relearning a healthy relationship with food. I'll guide you through essential steps in this process, including managing hunger, breaking free from cycles of overeating or restriction, establishing a routine of regular eating to stabilise blood sugar levels, and embracing mindful eating practices.

While the eating disorder may urge you to compensate or engage in self-criticism, remember that you have the wisdom to choose kindness and self-care. I hope this episode helps!

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I don't like rules, especially when it comes to losing an extreme amount of weight. I prefer safety nets - something to keep you from giving up and motivate you to stay on track until you get to that healthy body.

In this episode, I talk about the safety nets you need for extreme weight loss. We'll cover why I believe I'm lucky to be alive, the mindset you need to lose a lot of weight, and why no one deserves to be shamed because of their size.

What You'll Learn:

• Why I don't like weight loss rules
• What safety nets for extreme weight loss are
• The experience of being obese and terribly sick
• Why restrictions don't work in weight loss
• How to use your trauma to help others
• How to talk about obesity in a helpful way
• Why no one deserves to be shamed because of their size
• The problem with encouraging super-obesity
• How to deal with obesity-related depression
• The mindset you need to lose a ton of weight and keep it off

Resources: 

• Ask a question for the Monthly Questions Episode
• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook 

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We all have food maps. These are pathways in our brains based on all the food experiences we've had since we were kids. It's how you're wired and how you've programmed your brain to eat and enjoy food. 

In this episode, I talk about food maps and what you can do to rewire yours. Because if you're going to change your relationship with food, you must work on your food map and change the path to food in your brain.

What You'll Learn:

• What is a food map?
• Factors that influence your food choices
• How to reshape your beliefs around food
• Why you keep making the same mistakes with food
• Food choices and why we eat the way we eat
• The 3A way to fix your relationship with food
• The importance of accountability for weight loss
• Why shame does not motivate people to lose weight 
• How to build a new food map in your brain

Resources: 

• Ask a question for the Monthly Questions Episode
• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook 

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I get asked a lot of questions regarding weight loss. I also tend to get asked the same questions repeatedly, so I thought I'd dedicate a monthly series to your nagging weight-related questions. 

In this episode, I'll try to answer some of your questions and offer insights based on my personal experience. We'll cover topics like the dos and don'ts of calorie tracking, what to do when you cannot exercise, the best way to manage your carb and sugar intake, and much more.

What You'll Learn:

• How to calculate your daily calorie needs
• The diet rules you must break to lose an extreme amount of weight 
• The do's and don'ts of using a calorie tracking app
• Ways to build awareness around what you eat
• Mental and emotional reasons for dropping calories
• What to do when you cannot exercise
• Ditch the unsustainable meal plan and try this instead
• Should you cut out carbs & sugar to lose weight?

If you have questions that you'd like answered, send them in through the podcast page on my website, social media DMs, or reply to any of the stories on Instagram. 

Resources: 

• Ask a question for the Monthly Questions Episode
• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook 

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Spread, sprinkle, and pour - the three low-hanging fruits for extreme weight loss. If you want to sustainably lose a ton of weight, these are the first food groups you should concentrate on. Forget the traditional macros; I want you to look at things you spread, sprinkle or pour. 

In this episode, I'll discuss the easiest way to cut a lot of calories from your diet with little to no disruption to your satisfaction. We'll also cover how to lose weight healthily and sustainably - and keep off the lost weight with good habits. 

What You'll Learn:

• The low-hanging fruit of extreme weight loss
• How to make small, incremental changes to what you eat
• The best route to sustainable weight-loss
• The main driver of weight loss recidivism
• Why you'll never lose weight without self-awareness
• How to cut some serious calories from your diet
• Ways to shift your mindset for healthier weight loss

Resources: 

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook 
• Disrupting Obesity

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Do you need an accountability partner to lose an extreme amount of weight? I already know the pushback I'll get on this, but I believe you don’t. Losing weight is a personal thing. It’s not a team sport, and there's definitely no group work. Yes, everybody wants support, but thinking you're going to bring somebody along with you on your weight loss journey is just another form of self sabotage. 

In today’s episode, I’ll be explaining why there’s no plus one in extreme weight loss. I’ll also share the type of support you need to lose weight, as well as how to keep going when everything seems impossible.  

What You’ll Learn:

• Understand that weight loss is a personal thing
• Is support a necesity for weight loss?
• Lessons I learned from my weight loss journey
• Effective weight loss strategies
• Accountability and weight loss
• Psychological and physical reasons you don’t want to lose weight
• Why losing weight is not a team sport
• The stressful part of losing a lot of weight 
• Ways to start fixing your relationship with food
• How to keep going even when things seem impossible

Resources: 

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook
• Disrupting Obesity

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Facebook

What other people think of you is none of your business. People will have opinions about your weight loss, just like they have opinions about your weight. And for some reason, the more you reveal about your journey, the more people will have something to say about it - and not all of them will be polite or pleasant. 

In this episode, I'll discuss why you need to disregard what people think about your weight loss. I’ll also share how you can learn to lose an extreme amount of weight the best way you know how, regardless of what other people think. 

What You'll Learn:

• How to learn to disregard other people's opinions
• Why losing a lot of weight does not have to be a miserable experience
• Mental shifts to stop worrying about other people's opinions
• The ever-growing obesity crisis
• Pros and cons of weight-loss surgery
• Why single-food diets are unsustainable
• Better ways to fix your relationship with food
• How to claim the healthy body you deserve
• Why you need to stop oversharing your weight-loss journey
• Things you should never share about your journey

Resources:

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook
• Disrupting Obesity

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Do you hide while eating your favorite foods? Maybe you feel uncomfortable eating in front of other people? Closet eating is a real thing. Some people eat in actual closets, others eat secretly to cope with stress or emotions. And although there's nothing inherently wrong with eating alone, people with a healthy relationship with food don't hide while they eat. 

In this episode, I share how you can break free from the chains of closet eating and enjoy food without guilt. We'll also cover ways to develop a healthier, happier relationship with food and let go of the secret eating life that sabotages your weight loss and nutrition goals.

What You'll Learn:

• What is closet eating?
• The problem with secret eating and how to let go of the shame
• How to create healthy eating habits
• The root of closet eating
• How to take responsibility for unnecessary eating
• Understand that pre-eating is a problem
• How to become aware of your closet eating
• The foundations of mindful awareness when eating
• The best way to track what you eat

Resources: 

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook
• Disrupting Obesity

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One of the first things I teach my clients is the 3A Way to losing an insane amount of weight. It’s a toolbox everybody can use to fix their relationship with food. The 3As are effective in helping you focus on long-term habits that you can stick with, and are more likely to result in lasting weight loss.

So what are these three As? In this episode, I reveal the three things you need to work on if you're going to lose an insane amount of weight. We'll also cover what you can do to change your relationship with food and why maintaining a calorie deficit is an important part of weight loss.

What You'll Learn:

• The 3A Way to losing an insane amount of weight
• Why you need to track your calories
• Behaviors for healthy weight loss
• What most people dislike about counting calories
• Understanding the comfort-reward mechanism
• How to keep yourself accountable in your weight loss journey 
• Ways to fix your relationship with food
• Sustainable practices for losing a lot of weight 
• How to overcome unnecessary and binge eating 

Resources: 

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook
• Disrupting Obesity

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Is it worth losing weight if you're going to be stuck with a bunch of sagging skin? 

Loose skin is a hot topic in weight loss circles right now. And yes, the Ozempic face is a thing. So if you're sitting there afraid to start your weight loss journey because you don't want to deal with a whole bunch of loose skin, here's something you should know. Not everybody ends up with loose skin after losing weight. And if you do, there are countless things you can do to help tone your body. 

So in today's episode, I’ll address the worries you may have about saggy skin when losing a lot of weight. I’ll also share some effective ways to help tone your body, and when sagging skin is more likely to occur on your weight loss journey.

What You'll Learn:

• My opinion on Ozempic face and loose skin
• Why you may experience saggy skin after losing weight
• How the “baby face” industry makes money
• Ways to motivate yourself to lose weight
• How to tighten loose skin after weight loss
• Is it wrong to lose weight super fast?
• The benefits of drinking more water than used to
• Understand that losing weight can be scary

Resources: 

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook
• Disrupting Obesity

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Facebook

I hate cheat days. I think they are completely unnecessary and 100% counterproductive. The whole point of sustainable weight loss is to eat whatever you want, just less of it. 

Food isn't your enemy, and weight loss is definitely not about the food. It's about your relationship with food. So in today's episode, I'll share why I believe cheat days are destructive for people looking to lose an insane amount of weight. 

What You'll Learn:

• Why cheat days are unnecessary 
• The benefits of focusing on the calories instead of the food
• How to break the cycle of using food as a reward
• Ways to eat less without feeling deprived
• Understand that cheat days encourage binge eating
• How cheat days negatively impact weekly weight loss
• Ways to shift your mindset for sustainable weight loss

Resources: 

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook
• Disrupting Obesity

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Instagram
Facebook

Weight loss is all about the calories. We all want there to be another way, and it would be awesome if there were. But every single weight loss tool plan, device or treatment works because it puts you in a calorie deficit.

Everybody hates tracking their calories. But as much as it sucks, you won't lose weight if you don't have a handle on your calories. I'm not too fond of tracking, either. But I know calories in need to be lower than your calories out. And that's the holy grail of weight loss.

So in today's episode, we discuss calorie tracking and how the choices and decisions that go into what you're eating determine whether or not you'll be able to lose weight. 

What You'll Learn:

• How to sustainably stay in a calorie deficit
• The benefits of having a calorie-tracking app
• Why people dislike calorie tracking 
• How to eat whatever you want and still lose weight
• Does the quality of calorie matter
• Why you need to focus more on the calories and less on the food

Resources: 

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook
• Disrupting Obesity

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Being fat is not about the food. We all want it to be, but it's not. If it were about the food, there wouldn't be an 85% recidivism rate. People wouldn't regain all the lost weight plus an average of 25% more than when they started out. 

I put on 150 pounds in less than five years; I went from the 180s to the 330s. It also took me two and a half years to lose 200 pounds. What I learnt through all that was that gaining and losing weight doesn't happen quickly. It takes time. And if what we eat was the only key to unlocking the obesity crisis, losing weight and keeping it off would be easy.

In this episode, I explain why losing weight is not about the food we eat. I also explain the difference between emotional and physical hunger - and what to do when you’re not physically hungry but feel like eating.

What You'll Learn:

• The problem with modern weight loss diets
• How to fix your relationship with food
• Is emotional hunger a real thing?
• Learning to pause and ask yourself, 'am I hungry?'
• How to distinguish between emotional and physical hunger
• Ways to deal with eating to feed an emotion
• The difference between being full and being satisfied

Resources: 

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook
• Disrupting Obesity

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Facebook

Welcome to the Disrupting Obesity Podcast. I'm Charlotte Skanes, and I'll be sharing ways to help you regain control over your body and lose an extreme amount of weight naturally. 

It took me just under two and a half years to lose over 200 pounds. And in the end, I did it without changing the kinds of food I ate, or exercising. According to everybody, that meant I shouldn't have been able to lose the weight at all. But I did. 

If you're looking for a permanent solution instead of another quick but temporary fix to losing weight, you're in the right place. In this podcast series, I'll be sharing how people with a lot of weight can get it off and keep it off. I won't talk about fancy foods or exotic gym memberships. I'm all for eating whatever you want, just less of it.

What You'll Learn on This Show: 

• Why losing weight is more than just the food
• How to change the way you feel and think about food
• Understand that there's no easy way to lose weight
• How to lose weight without exercising
• How to change your relationship with food
• Ways to motivate yourself to lose weight
• Habits for sustainable weight loss
• How to lose a lot of weight and keep it off

Resources: 

• Send me a DM with the word “Ready” on Instagram
• Find me on Facebook
• Disrupting Obesity

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Instagram
Facebook

After being shamed by her family for her weight and being encouraged to diet, Karoline Mueller develops an obsession with food that lasts for years until she discovers whole food plant-based living and finally finds her community.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Karoline’s childhood story of seeking freedom from obesity and depression
• The power of whole food plant-based living in changing one’s way of life
• How Karoline is still working on her relationship with food and how she is using her experiences to help others

Another episode you'll enjoy
59: Food For Life with Karoline Mueller

About Karoline Mueller 

Karoline Mueller is the Pod Leader for Bayou City Beet – one of the several Pods in the wider Houston area coming together as PlantPure Houston. The partner Pods strongly believe in supporting each other. Members participate in potlucks, restaurant outings, and online meetings with special guests. Pod leaders connect with area organizations to increase awareness of the power of food for health and sustainability. Karoline’s quest for health started in childhood seeking freedom from obesity and depression. 

In 1981, her family added whole grains and lots of raw vegetables to their standard repertoire. After coming to the United  States from Germany to study for her Ph.D. in Chemistry, she learned more and more about diets. First, she explored vegetarian, then vegan,  and in 2011 she discovered whole-foods plant-based. The last was where she found her community. In 2015, she trained as a Food for Life Instructor with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to deliver nutrition and cooking classes. After watching PlantPure Nation in  2016, she was excited to join the Pod movement. 

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• Website: Karoline Mueller
• Instagram: @karlinasplantkitchen
• Facebook: Karoline Müller
• YouTube: Karlina's Plant Kitchen
• Email: ettental@yahoo.com

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Stress eating gets a bad rap. We're not meant to eat away our worries... US?! NEVER! Is it really that awful to stress eat!? Not if you make it a little more mindful – and we're going to teach you how.

LINKS 

• Read Daubenmier J, Kristeller J, Hecht FM, et al. 'Mindfulness Intervention for Stress Eating to Reduce Cortisol and Abdominal Fat among Overweight and Obese Women: An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Study.' J Obes. 2011;2011:651936. doi:10.1155/2011/651936
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What is your relationship with food? Would you say it's healthy? Does it leave you often feeling shameful? Does the self-critic lurk out from the shadows after you've eaten something that isn't deemed "healthy?"

I know I've left a drive-thru at times wondering why on earth I ever stopped, as I just feel like physical crap after eating something I know isn't serving me. Perhaps that is my intuition and my inner-knowing saying "I told you so!" Or, perhaps it's neither good nor bad; rather these are labels that, as a society, we've placed on food? Either way, shame is often a large part of our food relationship.

We often "eat our feelings," as the saying goes (which seems to be a buzz phrase nowadays), and then feel shameful for doing so. We may then eat, even more, bingeing and stuffing, only to feel like physical crap later or, as my guest from last week's podcast shared, develop an eating disorder.

Our food relationship starts in childhood. Whether you were forced to clean your plate, food was used as a reward, you grew up with food insecurity, food was part of a punishment, or became a means of control in body image - I guarantee that many of the patterns of behavior that existed with food in childhood, still exist in your adulthood. At the root of it, however, is grief.

I don't think this is a topic talked about as it relates to grief. So, I'm happy to share this week's episode and, I encourage you to listen to last week's episode as well. I will be talking about this again this fall with a therapist who struggled with an eating disorder as well. We dive into the topic of food and kids more in that episode coming up. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, after you listen to this week's episode, I encourage you to give some thought to how you feel about food and your relationship with it. Is it a means to survive or is it a means to thrive?

RESOURCES:

• EP 94 Hannah Howard | Food My Perfect Obsession
• EP The Manifestation of Grief

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Timestamps:

• [6:11] What are macros? For newbies.
• [10:19] How can learning about macros be implemented into a lifestyle change?
• [14:03] Food does not need to control you.
• [19:27] What should people be asking? What should the focus be?
• [26:13] Advice for people who  may stress eat or eat emotionally.
• [32:44] We tend to push negative emotions aside, but it is important to recognize them.
• [33:38] Eating and working out - when is it best to be eating what?
• [38:49] Where does protein come into play?
• [42:13] How do we work everything we've discussed into a lifestyle that is manageable?
• [48:49] Where to find Jenny.

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Joining us today is Jess Wilson, a functional nutritionist with a keen interest in our relationship with food and what went wrong with it. 
 
In today's episode, Jess discusses:

• What went wrong with our food relationship and when
• Is it Biology, Psychology or Both?
• Individuals relationship with food
• External Influences 
• Weight Management Tools
• How do we change "INGRAINED"  habits?
• Reconnecting the brain and the body again
• Supplements to Consider

Shownotes and references available on your local Designs for health website 
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DISCLAIMER: The Information provided in the Wellness by Designs podcast is for educational purposes only; the information presented is not intended to be used as medical advice; please seek the advice of a qualified healthcare professional if what you have heard here today raises questions or concerns relating to your health.