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Episode 63: LOSE WEIGHT This is the Become an Unstoppable Woman podcast with Lindsay Preston Episode 63, Lose Weight. [music] Welcome to the Become An Unstoppable Woman podcast, the show for goal-getting, fear-facing women for kicking ass by creating change. I'm your host, Lindsay Preston. I'm a wife, mom of two, and a multi-certified life coach to women all over the world. I've lived through enough in life to know that easier doesn't always equate to better. We can't fear the fire, we must learn to become it. On this show, I'll teach you how to do just that. Join me as I challenge you to become even more of the strong, resilient, and powerful woman you were meant to be. Let's do this. [music] Hey there, Miss Unstoppable. Happy to have you for this episode about losing weight. Believe it or not, I have never talked about losing weight directly in any of my podcasts, either this one or my former one Life Lovers Radio and any of my content and my courses directly. I'm just getting more and more people who are coming to me saying, "Lindsay, part of coaching is why I want to lose weight. That's one of my big goals," so I am taking these goals on and I'm helping clients make it happen. Now, I must admit weight loss isn't something I'm super passionate about. It's not something I've overly struggled with in my life. I am just one of those people, you may hate me, but I'm just pretty naturally thin. I lucked out in the DNA pool in that way. I've always just been the same size. I really haven't had to think about weight too much. Now, when I went to college, I did gain what they call the freshmen 15 within two months of going to school. Then, of course, I gained weight with my children when I had them. I gained anywhere from 35 to 40 pounds. I can't really remember. My daughter, I lost the weight pretty quickly because at the time I owned a dance studio and so I was very active and it just flew off of me. With my son who I had in 2018, the weight started to fly off because I was nursing to a point it was coming off so quickly that I had to change a lot of my eating habits to keep weight on. What happened is that I kept this extra weight on and changed my habits so much that I weaned him, which would have been, gosh, early 2019, then I just had all these eating habits at that point. The weight did not come off. In fact, I started gaining weight on top of that because then I wasn't nursing. www.LindsayEPreston.com | © Lindsay E Preston Coaching LLC 1 This past year has been my first chance to really figure out, "Okay, what does this whole weight loss thing look like?" Now, granted, I didn't have a huge amount to lose. It was originally 10 pounds. Then when coronavirus hit, I gained five pounds within a month, which scared the heck out of me. Recently, I have lost 10 pounds of that. I do have about five more to lose. I'm not really committed to losing those last five pounds, to be honest with you. I'm going back and forth on it because I like where I am now in some ways and in other ways I don't, which is a whole nother topic. I've really had to figure out how this whole weight loss thing works and I'm figuring it out with clients so I've been doing a lot of learning about it. I'm going to share today in essence, the top tips on how to lose weight and I'm going to teach you some great mindsets to have, or thoughts to have about weight loss. Because what I've realized, because I don't struggle with it that much, it's just because I have not only been given pretty good DNA, but I've also been given a pretty good mindset around weights. That's why I don't really struggle with it too much because my thoughts about weight and my body have just been pretty good. It's been really weird, to be honest with you. I'm so used to struggling with so many mindset things in my life that when it comes to weight loss, it's like, "Whoa." It feels really foreign to not be like, "Yes, I've always been in this boat with you and here we go." Today is really going to open your eyes in regards to how simple at the end of the day weight loss can be. I know for some of you, you're already like "Get me out of this episode. She says it's simple," but really at the end of the day, it really is simple. This is why a lot of times too when I'm working with clients and weight loss isn't even on their radar, they end up just starting to lose weight because once you figure out the mindset behind what's holding you back, a lot of times, the way that we do one thing is how we do many things and so when you change one thought, and then you change many thoughts as we do in coaching because we're just constantly analyzing thoughts and changing them, then all of a sudden, you just snowball into all of these areas of your life-changing because you have changed as a person. As I said, this isn't something I'm super passionate about and really when it comes to weight loss, even for women who I know have struggled with it, I do become somewhat passionate about it there because I hate hearing that women just constantly think about this and that it's a constant problem for some women because there's a quote out there, it's from the comedian, Sarah Silverman. She says, "Mother Teresa didn't walk around complaining about her thighs. She just got to work." I think about, "Gosh, if just, everybody did not have to worry about their weight anymore, what we could create as a society, especially as women--" Because we are just flooded with so many societal images about being thin and about looking a certain www.LindsayEPreston.com | © Lindsay E Preston Coaching LLC 2 way over and over and over again and so when you're flooded with those images, then, of course, it's just on the forefront of your mind over and over and over and over again. I hate that. It drives me crazy that women have to live that way because I just don't want them to have to suffer in that way. I don't think it's necessary. I would love to see so much more for them beyond something that's their weight. Even if their weight has gotten to a point where it's impacting their health, then I start to get even more passionate because I'm like, "Oh, we've got to get you to this place where you're really healthy so that you can get rid of some of your health issues and just be at a place where you are your best self." Because of course, I'm all about someone being their best self. Again, when it comes to weight loss, it's like, "Let's get this over with. Let's figure out whatever we need to figure out in your mind to make this a one and done thing and you never have to worry about this again." Because again, there's just so much more you could do with your life, so much more you could give back to in our society than worrying about the way that you look and how you weigh. It frustrates me that so many women have to go through this and I would love for every woman out there to never have to worry about this again. That's why I'm putting this episode out there. That's my why, is if this episode shifts you in a way where you just start to lose the weight and you permanently lose the weight and then it's one and done for you, you never have to worry about it again, awesome. That would be amazing, wouldn't it? To never have to think about your weight again. Gosh, I just know for me, as I said this past year or so, I've had this ongoing thought of, "Okay, you got to lose the 10 pounds." Then it became, "Okay, you got to lose these 15 pounds." That just took a brain space that didn't need to happen. Now that that's gone and I'm not even thinking about that anymore, I'm getting that brain space back even more to create things like two podcasts a week for you and give more to my clients and give more to my family and just be able to enjoy my life more versus thinking about the way that I look. It just is so much better on the other side of this. What I'm going to teach you today, I must admit some of the stuff is going to be uncomfortable for you.