Love Life And Lose Weight
Love Life And Lose Weight is a podcast that teaches you sustainable weight loss through changing your habits and beliefs around food. You CAN lose weight eating the foods you love without feeling restricted or rebellious. I'm your host, advanced certified weight and life coach, Heather Beardsley. I've helped hundreds of women figure out how to lose weight and create a life they love and now I'm sharing those insights with you.
Episodes
74 episodes
75: The Follow Through Planner—Your Shortcut to Easier, More Consistent Weight Loss
Episode 75: The Follow-Through Digital Planner—Your Shortcut to Easier, More Consistent Weight Loss❌ Tired of starting over every Monday?❌ Feel like you “know what to do” but just can’t stay consistent?❌
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Season 3
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Episode 75
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32:37
74: Seasonal Review of Winter & Plan for Spring 2025
Welcome to Episode 74! Today, I’ll guide you through reviewing your winter season and setting actionable goals for Spring 2025 and Q2. We’ll assess your progress—from body composition and sleep quality to food habits and movement routines—so yo...
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Season 3
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Episode 74
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36:34
73: Understanding How Chronic Stress, Cortisol, and Sugar Consumption Negatively Affect Your Weight Loss
I’m excited to share some game-changing insights into how feeling stressed and the stress hormone cortisol can make or break your weight loss efforts—especially when it comes to stubborn belly fat during perimenopause and menopause.
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Season 3
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Episode 73
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51:41
72: How To Build Unbreakable Movement Habits
In this episode, we’re talking about how to create movement habits that stick—no matter how busy or unpredictable life gets. If you’ve struggled to stay consistent with exercise, this episode will show you how to overcome common obstacles and d...
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Season 3
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Episode 72
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35:15
71: When It’s Time To Stop Food Planning & What to Do Instead
If you’ve ever felt trapped by food planning or overwhelmed by the pressure to stick to your meal plans, this episode is for you. Today, we’re diving into why food planning might not be the best strategy for your long-term success and how to re...
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Season 3
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Episode 71
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45:05
70: Why Sleep Matters With Your Weight And How To Optimize It
Are you struggling to lose weight or maintain a healthy lifestyle despite doing all the right things? In this episode, we dive into an often-overlooked factor that could be holding you back: sleep. Drawing on insights from Dr. Casey Means’ book...
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Season 3
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Episode 70
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35:23
69: Setting Integrative Weight Goals For 2025
In this episode, I’m encouraging you to set smarter, more effective weight goals for 2025 by focusing on body composition—not just the number on the scale. You’ll learn why traditional weight loss strategies, especially for women over 40, can l...
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Season 3
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Episode 69
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33:26
68: The Power of Reflection - Learning from 2024 Without Self-Criticism
In Episode 68 of *Love Life and Lose Weight*, we explore the transformative power of reflecting on your weight journey—without judgment. If you've ever struggled to assess your progress or felt stuck in a cycle of frustration, this episode is f...
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Season 3
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Episode 68
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30:26
67: Joyful Eating During the Holidays: Letting Go of Food Guilt
In this episode of Love Life and Lose Weight, learn how to enjoy holiday meals without stress or guilt. You'll discover strategies to release restrictive thinking and fully embrace your favorite holiday foods while staying aligned with...
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Season 3
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Episode 67
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31:28
66: Plan Your Best December Yet In Less Than 30 Minutes
In this episode, Advanced Certified Weight and Life Coach Heather Beardsley helps you set up for a holiday season that feels calm, controlled, and aligned with your goals. Perfect for anyone who wants to avoid the holiday overwhelm and end the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 66
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18:37
65: Embracing Change: How to Let Go and Move Forward
In Episode 65, I’m talking about embracing change—a fitting theme as we head into the end of the year and think about a new year of possibilities. Here’s what's covered:Why We Resist Change: Our brains are wired for safety an...
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Season 3
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Episode 65
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40:56
64: Three Tools To Break Free from Overwhelm, Over-Planning, and Overdoing
In this episode, I introduce three powerful tools to help you overcome overwhelm, overplanning, and overdoing. These tools are designed to make it easier for you to prioritize what truly matters to you including weight loss. There more you can ...
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Season 3
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Episode 64
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47:50
63: How To Shrink The F-it/Distracted Cycles That Interrupt Weight Loss
In this episode, Advanced Certified Weight and Life Coach, Heather Beardsley revisits the concept of anti-fragile weight loss and delves into the "fuck-it/distracted cycle"—a common pattern where life's disruptions cause you to lose focus on th...
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Season 3
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Episode 63
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16:02
62: Letting Go of Shoulds - How To Build a Life That’s Yours
In episode 62, you'll explore the concept of "should" thinking—those thoughts that stem from societal expectations and external pressures—and how they impact not just your food choices but other areas of your life, like relationships and self-c...
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Season 3
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Episode 62
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42:18
61: How To Break Free From Restrictive Diet Mentality
A common recurring theme I see with my clients is a struggle to break free from diet mentality. Restrictive diet mentality is the belief that there are "right" and "wrong" foods you 'should' eat in order to lose weight or maintain your weight.&...
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Season 2
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Episode 61
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60: Fifteen Good Responses To Urges To Overeat
Success in changing habits around food relies on having tools ready to respond when you have an urge to eat outside of being hungry or already having eaten enough food. In today's episode, I give you fifteen good responses to practice and have ...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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59: Emotional Time Blocking
In this episode I introduce a strategy that you can use to help you be more intentional AND feel better during times whenvoyu notice you tend to overeat. Emotional time blocking is deciding how you WANT to feel ahead of time instead...
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Season 2
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Episode 59
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58: Bonus Q&A: After weight loss Rx, tormented by my middle
Today I answer three questions from the VIPs on my email list: 1. Allison has recently lost 40 lbs over 15 months with the help of Wegovy. Her question is what happens when the meds go away? How does a person deal with the br...
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Season 2
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Episode 58
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36:18
57: Anti-Fragile Weight Loss
Anti-fragility means that a system becomes stronger when faced with disruptions, variations, or outlier events. Variability in a system like weight loss are often things like holidays or vacations, which are are often viewed 'hard' ...
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Season 2
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Episode 57
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40:11
56: Active Listening
Human beings have the unique ability to think, feel, take action, and listen intentionally by using the prefrontal cortex part of our brain rather than do all of those things automatically or reactively. Being curious and aware of ...
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Season 2
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Episode 56
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36:52
55: Secrets to Eating Less and Feeling Satisfied
In this episode, I teach you some techniques for how to eat less and feel satisfied with less. For most of us, this means changing your habit of how you determine what is enough food that still allows you to lose weight without feeling r...
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Season 2
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Episode 55
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43:31
54: Q&A Bonus: night eating, healthy habit routines, NOT doing all the things
Welcome to the first Bonus Q&A episode where I answer questions from listeners who are on my email list. Today I answer three questions, tune in to listen to the coaching feedback I offer on these questions, and then see how you mig...
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Season 2
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Episode 54
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36:14
53: How To Escape Reactive & Automatic Eating Habits
Why is changing reactive and automatic eating habits important if you want to get to goal weight and keep it off? Reactive and automatic eating are two adpative habits that respresent habitual overeating. If we always look to food ...
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Season 2
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Episode 53
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40:38
52: The Exact Steps To Get The Scale To Move Consistently
In this episode, I go over the main tenets of weight loss without restriction, and I give you the exact data-driven steps I use with my clients for how to get the scale to start moving consistently (or remain consistent if you are in maintenanc...
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Season 2
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Episode 52
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17:23
Sustainability & The End of Season One
Sustainability is the ability to maintain or support a process continuously over time. In order for your weight loss to remain sustainable, we need to find a way to regulate and attune to our energetic, financial, emotional, physical, and...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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28:10
