Is Weight Loss as Simple as Some People Say? Ending the Confusion for Good
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Weight loss can feel complicated for moms. We're relearning how to manage everything in our lives while also trying to weave in healthier habits so you can lose weight. It's A LOT. Add in all the noise of all the "experts" and trainers and influencers and it gets complicated FAST.
So in this episode we're ending the confusion for GOOD and you're learning the PILLARS OF WEIGHT LOSS that keep it simple!
Logically, it is easy to understand that weight loss is simple: eat fewer calories than you're expending day to day and making sure what you eat is nutritious, workout, and get adequate sleep.
But it feels a lot more complicated than that and that's because you're being told these big picture isms, but having to ATTEMPT to put them into practice in the day to day of motherhood.
Now I’m not saying weight loss is hard because of our circumstances as moms, I'm saying those big picture isms don't translate into our day to day — HOW do you consistently put into practice working out, eating nutritious food and the right amount for your goals, and sleep?
We've addressed the 3 PILLARS of weight loss already…
They are nutrition, fitness, and sleep/routine.
Not included: supplements, extreme diets that eliminate food groups, following set workout programs, biohacking
The above mentioned might CAUSE weight loss, but they are not the pillars. Pillars are things regarded as reliably providing essential support for something.
Nutrition, fitness, and sleep/routine reliably provide essential support for weight loss — they are the only 3 things that are consistent in everyone’s weight loss journey.
So how can you put these pillars into action in your real life?
Nutrition
Whole foods more often than processed
Eat to satiety
Be mindful over mindless
Have predictability
Fitness
Meet your body where it's at
Be consistent
Enjoy
Sleep/Routine
Baby stepping
Regularity
Working with sleep cycles
Wide lens view on routine
The extra foundational piece that is often not addressed is your mindset.
You want it to be:
Realistic with both your timeline and progress
:More good than bad”
Long term focus vs instant gratification
These are all things we go over in depth in Starting Point School so you can go through your personal Starting Point Process fully equipped by focusing on the foundational things, not these bright and shiny objects everyone out there is trying!
You’ll address underlying habits and get back into your health journey the right way, the sustainable way.
That way, 1 year from now, your baby is a year older and you are a year more disciplined.
Are you ready to go from overwhelmed and stuck to disciplined and consistent in your journey?
Join Starting Point School and let's get you on track to your healthiest life!
FULL TRANSCRIPT
[00:00:00] It's no lie that weight loss can feel complicated for moms. We're relearning how to manage everything in our lives with a little one now on our hips, sometimes literally, while also trying to weave in healthier habits so you can lose weight if that's a goal of yours. And it's a lot. Then add in cleaning up your nutrition.
Finding easy, but healthy snacks and recipes, working out, finding time to work out in your busy schedule, this influencer doing this or doing that, and that expert suggesting this and this new health friend coming out. I mean, it gets really complicated. Really fast. So in this episode, we are ending the confusion for good, and you're learning the pillars of weight loss that keep it simple.
Let's go.
Hey mama. Welcome to the Tough Love Mom podcast. I know you're here because you're ready to get consistent and finally lose that weight and you're not afraid of a little tough [00:01:00] love. You know what to do to lose weight. Following through on those things feels impossible. You wish you could just feel like your strong, confident self again and want to be a good example for your little ones, but you get thrown off by mom guilt and the unpredictability of motherhood.
It's frustrating. Taking on your journey. Postpartum is hard, but it's not impossible. Hey, I'm Liz, and I've been where you are. I gained a lot of weight in my pregnancies, 90 pounds and then 60 pounds. I needed to lose that weight to take control of my health, and honestly, just wanted to feel like myself again with a sustainable approach to weight loss.
Simple consistency in working on my mindset. I lost it all in just over a year, both. And I'm here to help you do the same. I believe that we have an ingrained ability to figure out what we need to do, make it happen, and do it in a way that AWS the world. If you're ready to stop falling off the wagon, create solid, routine, and healthy habits, and finally feel your best inside and out, all while enjoying Dino nuggets on your [00:02:00] salad, you are in the right place.
We're about to transform your journey. My. Get pumped up. It is tough. Love time.
Logically, it's fairly easy to understand how weight loss is simple. You eat fewer calories than you're expending day to day and making sure that what you eat is nutritious, that it's not, it's not just the calories. You're also considering, okay, what nutrients are in here? Is it nutrient dense? You know, not, not these empty calories.
You're working out and you're getting adequate sleep. We. Those are like the main things that you need to lose weight, but it feels a lot more complicated than that, and that's because you're being told these big picture isms, but you're having to attempt to put them into practice in the day-to-day of motherhood.
Now, I'm not saying weight loss is hard because of our circumstances as moms, but I'm saying that these big picture isms you. Eat less calories than [00:03:00] you're expending workout consistently get good sleep. That last one just makes me laugh for moms, but how do you consistently put these things into practice, working out, eating nutritious food in the right amount for your goals and sleep?
How do you do that and not make it feel complicated? Because it's really hard to get those, again, big picture isms, those big con, those you know, concepts that we all. It's hard to translate those into, into the day to day. So obviously we've addressed the three pillars of weight loss already in this episode.
Nutrition, fitness, and sleep slash routine. I like to kind of pair those together, but not included in these pillars. I want to just make a note here. These are things that are not included supplements, extreme diets that eliminate food groups following specific workout program. And biohacking, and this is not an extensive list.
These are just a couple things that came to mind. These things can cause weight [00:04:00] loss, but they're not the pillars of weight loss. They're not the things that build the foundation pillars are things like, here's a definition, cuz you know I'm all about the definitions. They're, they're regarded as reliably providing essential support for something, nutrition, fitness, and.
reliably provide essential support for weight loss. They are the only three things that are consistent in everyone's weight loss journey. And if they're not being addressed in a foundational way, in a way that is lasting in a way that you can keep up, no matter the circumstances, if in your journey right now they're not being addressed in that foundational way, you are either having struggles losing weight, or you will eventually.
Those other potential factors that can cause weight loss, like supplements, extreme diets, biohacking, they're not foundational, they're not gonna change the way you approach it. So how can you put these pillars into action in your real life? [00:05:00] Let's start with nutrition. Have whole foods more often than you have processed foods.
Eat to satiety. So eat to that feeling of fullness and be mindful over mindless. And then so when I'm saying mindful over mindless, think about what you're doing. Bring your logical brain. and then having predictability with your nutrition. Those are the main ways in the nutrition pillar that you can make it sustainable and actually create and build this pillar with fitness.
You need to meet your body where it's at. Be consistent and enjoy what you're doing. The workouts you're doing should match the season that you're in, both in time and in. What's doable? What? What's enjoyable for. . And then when it comes to sleep in routine, the best thing you can do to get adequate sleep, if that means you need to go to bed earlier or wake up earlier, whatever season you're in is baby stepping that change.
Not trying to go from, you know, 7:00 AM wake up to a 5:00 AM wake up without changing your bedtime, without baby stepping it backwards. Having [00:06:00] regularity in your sleep routine, ideally working with your sleep cycles, so waking up in a lighter stage of sleep and having a wide lens. on your routine overall instead of getting frustrated in the moment to moment and trying to stick to an exact schedule, if you have that flexibility.
Um, and bonus that none of these extras like supplements or biohacking or, um, these extreme programs and diets, nothing that they talk about is your mindset, because that is like the foundation under all three of these pillars. I mean, literally, if you go to. Podcast catalog. It's in our telephone mom squad on Facebook.
Um, but if you, if you go in there, you'll find the podcast catalog. And if you just search the word mindset, you are gonna have like dozens of episodes that will fix that right up . Because mindset is a huge part of your journey. It's a huge part of creating sustainable weight loss. [00:07:00] It's honestly, you, you have to address it first.
You want your mindset to be realistic, both with your timeline and with your. You want to have the mindset of making, you know, just having more good than bad, good days than bad days, more good choices than not so good choices, you know? And, and most of, most of the time it is. We just don't recognize that.
Cause our brains are wired to notice the negative. And you also want your mind mindset to have a long-term focus versus always giving in to instant grad. . Now I kind of brushed over those quick because I want to respect your time , and I know I've got three episodes a week coming out, so obviously I don't wanna be in your ear all hours of the day.
Um, but cuz I want you to go out and implement these things, I want you to go out and take action. So I went quick through those because I wanna respect your time today. And these are all things that we go over in depth in starting point school. So you can actually go through your personal or starting point process fully.
With a, with a [00:08:00] knowledge base and a confidence that what you're doing to get disciplined and lose weight and how you're doing it will work. Cuz you're focusing on the foundation and you understand these foundational pillars where you really dive into each of them. So you go, okay, that's how I'm, that's how I can be more mindful over mindless in my nutrition.
I give you actual practices, actual strategies that you can implement moment to moment throughout your day to be more. , I, I talk you through and give you resources for that sleep and routine and being able to baby step and work with your sleep cycles because that's really important. So we feel rested when we wake up.
When it comes to fitness, I give a ton of recommendations for different workouts to do, um, so you can meet your body where it's at and actually enjoy where you're doing in the season that you're in. All these things I talk about in depth in starting point school. Um, but again, these pillars of weight loss, they're not bright and shiny things that everyone out.
Is trying because they're simple and they take a [00:09:00] long time to build up. But in starting point school, you're gonna have accountability as you do that because it will take time. But we're addressing underlying habits. Instead of just sticking band-aids on these problems that really need addressing, they really need healing.
You're gonna get back into your health journey the right way, the sustainable way. You're gonna build up these habits one at a time. You're gonna feel confident about it, cuz you can actually follow through without overwhelming yourself. But that way, one year from now, your baby's gonna be a year older and you're gonna be a year more disciplined.
You're only will have gone forward little, if any falling off the wagon will have happened. And even if you did fall off the wagon, you're gonna rebound because you made changes in your habits in the most sustainable way. This is how I lost 150 pound, 150 pounds after my two pregnancies. It's how moms all across the US are getting discipl.
And finally consistent in their journeys and seeing the scale move, but more importantly, gaining confidence because the shame and frustration [00:10:00] from falling off doesn't come up for them anymore. You'll approach your journey the right way. So get on the wait list for starting point School because doors open super soon, December 29th, and I can't wait to see you implement these pillars, learn about these pillars, and actually embrace them and live by them and walk them out and lead by example for your.
So you can make real lasting forever change starting point school.co. Get on that wait list. I'll see you in there, and in the meantime, go get after it. Before you go. Thank you for spending this time with me on the Tough Love Mom podcast. If this episode encouraged you in any way, the number one way you can thank me is to leave a review letting me know how this show has impacted you.
Then send this episode to another mom friend, or. Take a screenshot, post it on social media and tag me so I can personally thank you for helping me on this journey to impact thousands of moms. I'm so grateful to be on this journey with you, sister. Until next time, get [00:11:00] after it.
