093: Essential Skills for Weight Loss

The more self-help books I read on the subject of weight loss and our relationship with food, the more I realize that common threads keep appearing amongst so many of the books. The concepts that continue to appear, book after book, year after year, are the concepts containing some truth. When I read “How to Do the Work” by Dr. Nicole LePera I was struck by the similarities between her four pillars of reparenting and the four pillars I stress as essential skills for learning weight loss in a sustainable way. And that’s what I’m talking about today: the four pillars that will assist you in growing the skills you need for weight loss and change.

I want to take you through the four pillars in detail, so you understand what they’re about and how they assist you. That’s the journey we are on in this episode. The four pillars - emotional regulation, loving discipline, self care, and reconnecting with joy - contain messages that guide us in healing past wounds and re-setting current patterns. I see them as coming from a loving space, and not a space of deprivation or punishment. The key to essential skills is understanding how we think, how we feel, and what choices we have the power to make to guide us through change. I hope you find this as helpful as I do.

About host Michelle Tubman:

Michelle Tubman is an emergency physician in Alberta, Canada. She is also an overweight woman who has struggled for decades with her own weight and body image. She has spent her adult life constantly battling the urge to overeat with her desire to be thin and healthy. As a physician she understood the nutritional aspects of a healthy diet, but having the knowledge wasn’t enough to produce the changes she wanted in her body. And so she pursued extra training in life coaching, nutrition coaching, the science of habit formation, and eating psychology. And this is where the magic is. There is so much work that needs to happen on the inside before we can see changes on the outside.

Michelle founded Wazya Health to help successful, professional women who, after years of dieting, understand that optimal weight and health is more than calories-in-calories-out. She wants to help women listen to that quiet voice inside that tells them there’s deeper work to be done when it comes to weight and body image.

093: Essential Skills for Weight Loss

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