weight-loss journey

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

Website
Instagram
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

Website
Instagram
Facebook

This week Sarah is talking to Kim Whitten about learning to have a healthy relationship with exercise and fitness. Kim has been open about her weight loss/fitness journey and mental health, and continues to post about it on Instagram, Tiktok and Youtube. They talk about how their mentality surrounding nutrition and exercise has changed since they were teenagers, and how best to take control over this part of your life while focusing on the health benefits rather than how you look.

Trigger warning: Eating disorders/body dysmorphia/general nutrition and workout conversation.

Stay tuned for the next bi-weekly episode :) 

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Camille Martin is a registered dietitian, health blogger, and senior technical editor for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is also a former chronic dieter who wasted nearly 25 years of her life on a diet. When she finally quit dieting and started setting and achieving more meaningful goals, she lost weight without trying. She also made powerful connections between women’s obsession to lose weight and the cultural conditioning that keeps them locked in a prison of silence, shame, and limitation. 

In her book, Love To Lose: Love Your Life and Watch the Weight Lose Itself, she uses what she learned on her own weight-loss journey to help other women stop wasting their lives on a diet, embrace everything about themselves, achieve what they’re truly capable of -- and lose weight in the process. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor of Science in nutrition from Georgia State University. She is a vegetarian, marathon runner, and avid reader who loves to travel. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her two daughters and their rescue dogs.

To learn more, visit Camille's website at camillemartinrd.com.