Stop Looking for Another Workout Program or Another Diet. THIS is What You Actually Need to Lose Weight Postpartum and Keep It Off
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It seems like the SIMPLE thing to find workouts to follow and a diet to do, but doing those aren't the answer. We have to address DEEPER rooted issues, habits, and mindsets. So what IS the answer?
There's only one SIMPLE thing you need to know to lose weight postpartum and keep it off. Ready to hear all about it? Let's go!
If you aren't digging down deep into why you do what you do, shifting your thinking, and changing your habits (aka your automatic responses) and are only trying to change your ACTIONS — change won't stick.
So what kind of change DOES stick?
The kind of change that starts simple, stays sustainable, and becomes part of who you are.
How do you make that happen?
You find your Starting Point to lose weight postpartum and KEEP IT OFF.
That's the key isn't it? Avoiding long plateaus, not gaining weight back, and actually getting off the diet roller coaster. You do that by starting simple.
A Starting Point is simple because it is ONE action in ONE area of your journey that you MASTER over time. It falls either into your nutrition, your workouts, or your routine.
A Starting Point is sustainable because, again, you're doing ONE thing. Have you ever tried to change your whole journey overnight? You fall off after a few weeks or even a few days because multiple changes at once don't stick. That isn’t sustainable — ONE change or shift at a time IS.
A Starting Point is going to become part of who you are because you spend time fostering that action as well as being intentional and aware of what's going on in your mind and in your life as you follow through.
As you build on that (with what I call a Stepping Stone), the changes, your progress, and your LIFE begins to snowball!
And then you lose weight.
And then it stays off.
Because you've overhauled your LIFESTYLE, not just followed a diet and did some workouts.
See the difference?
Stop trying to find the next workout program or another diet to follow to lose a few pounds that you'll just gain back. Stop scrolling reels for the next trainer or coach to work with.
START figuring out your Starting Point and get to transforming literally your whole lifestyle!
That's what you want… isn't it? I hope so. I've lived in both places — and having your fall back being "healthy habits" because they're just innate — it's a huge blessing.
Being consistent and disciplined aren't hard because they're second nature. I want that for you. Get after it.
Are you ready to go from overwhelmed and stuck to disciplined and consistent in your journey?
Book your Starting Point Session and let's get you on track to your healthiest life!
FULL TRANSCRIPT
[00:00:00] It sure. Seems like the simple thing to find workouts to follow in a diet to do, but doing those are just putting bandaids on big old wounds that need more tending to there's really one simple thing that you need to know to lose weight postpartum and keep it off. Ready to hear all about it. All right, 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 love, you know, what to do to lose weight. But following through on those things feels impossible. You wish you could just feel like you're strong, confident self again, and want to be good example for your little ones, but you get thrown.
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, [00:01:00] 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 the sustainable approach to weight loss. Simple consistency in working on my mindset. I lost it all in just over a year, both times. 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 D nuggets on your salad, you are in the right place.
We're about to transform your journey. My. Get pumped up. It is tough. Love time.
Two of the questions that I get asked most often are along the lines of what workouts do you suggest for fill in the blank? You know, getting more toned up, getting lean, but not bulky. And building muscle are getting stronger or postpartum. And [00:02:00] then what should I eat or something along the lines of how many calories should I aim for et cetera, that kind of thing.
It's. Generic, when it comes to fitness or Nutri. But at the same time, we're looking for a quick solution. That's not addressing a deeper rooted issue. These are the wrong questions to be asking and it's okay for asking them. We just haven't been educated as a population, in my opinion. Of how to address deeper rooted issues and actually heal those deal with them, confront them and work from there, build the deeper solid foundation we're not taught to do that.
We're taught to just find the solution. And so what we're doing today is talking about building that foundation, strengthening it. So when you do take on a, a quote diet or start a new workout program, you're doing it from the right place, because if you. Digging down, deeper into why you do what you do and shifting your thinking and your.
AKA your automatic [00:03:00] responses, and you're just trying to change your actions. Change. Won't stick. That's why we fall off the wagon. So what kind of change does stick? The kind of change that starts simple. It stays sustainable and becomes part of who you are. I'm gonna say that again. The kind of change that sticks is the change that starts simple, stays sustainable and becomes part of who you are.
You better be so glad that in first grade I went to speech therapy to fix my list because that would've been really hard for me to say a short like 23, 24 years ago. So really glad because we need to keep it. Simple sustainable and become part of who you are. So you gotta find your starting point. This is what you need, where you start to lose weight postpartum, and to keep it off.
That's the key. Isn't it. Avoiding too long of plateaus, not gaining the weight back and actually getting off the dial rollercoaster. That's what we're ideally what we want, but it's like, is it possible? Is that just [00:04:00] something people talk about? Do people get like, hit with luck that they can get off of that rollercoaster?
I don't know. It's not luck. It is not by chance. It is not, they got struck by some magic bolt of lightning and look at them. They don't deal with that struggle anymore. It's because they started well, some people just don't deal with that as a struggle. But when you do what you need to start with is something simple.
It's your starting point. And you do that by again, starting simple. It's so starting point is one simple. In one area of your journey that you master. I'm gonna say that again, a starting point is one action in one area of your journey that you master. So it's either gonna be in your nutrition in your workouts or in your routine.
And it's gonna be in action that you master over the course of a couple weeks. A starting point is sustainable. Because again, you're just doing one thing. You're not trying to change your whole journey overnight. Have you ever tried to do that? [00:05:00] Where you go, okay. I'm gonna wake up in the morning and I'm gonna do all my meal prep for the week on Sunday and Monday, we're gonna just eat all the healthy food.
Now I'm gonna do my workouts every afternoon at 4:00 PM for 30 minutes. And this is gonna change my life. And then after a couple weeks, it gets old. You go back to your old habits, right? It's because you're trying to change like 5, 6, 7 different things all at once. And that's really hard to stay sustainable with.
You gotta do one thing at a time and a starting point is sustainable because you're doing one change at a time. You're mastering one action at a time. It can feel in the moment when you're just focusing on that one thing. Like, is this ever going to give me progress, but it will because down the road you can build on that and that change.
Stick and the change after that will stick. And the one after that will also stick and it's gonna become a complete lifestyle change. You fall off after a few weeks or even a few days, because more than one change at once, won't stick, it's not sustainable. [00:06:00] Okay. One change or shift at a time is a starting point.
Is also going to become part of who you are because you spend time fostering that action into a habit. You, you spend time being intentional and aware of what's going on in your mind and your, in your life. As you follow through, you start to notice how it's making you feel, how the people around you are responding to the changes that you're making.
And as you start getting more aware of what trigger. You to fall off of the wagon, you can respond with intention because you're only focusing on one starting point. You stay the course. And as you build on that with what I call a stepping stone. So after you master starting point, your next step on that journey is a stepping stone cause you already got started.
Right? So we're gonna keep moving on stepping stone down that. And it's another action again, likely on the same path. So if you start in the nutrition realm, we're probably gonna keep you in the nutrition realm for a few steps, and then we can focus on workouts, maybe head back to nutrition after a few [00:07:00] more weeks.
So as you build on that starting point and take different stepping stones over the course of a few weeks in a few months, The changes and your progress and your life begin to snowball, and then you lose weight and then it stays off because you've overhauled your lifestyle, not just followed a diet for a few weeks and did some workouts for a few weeks.
You see the difference. There's a difference between following some sort of program. And not that they're bad. Like they're great. As long as you're again doing it from the right place, doing it with the right mindset. And when we don't focus on making incremental small changes, when we focus on trying to do too much at once, and yes, there are people who that can be the difference maker for them.
But for majority of the population, we need to take one change at a time. Life is crazy. . I mean, all the mom has said Amena that like, life is crazy enough that if we're trying to do too much at once on our plate, you know, if it's for us, it's the first thing that's gonna go because we [00:08:00] often prioritize others above ourself.
So I know you want to prioritize your health and to do that in a sustainable way, that's gonna fit into your life. Instead of become this extra burden on your back, you need to make one small change at a. So stop trying to find the next workout program or the next diet to follow, to lose a few pounds that you'll eventually gain back.
Stop scrolling reels for the next trainer or coach to work with. Literally get off of social media, please, and start figuring out your starting point and get to transforming literally your whole lifestyle. That's what you want. Isn't it? I hope so. I mean, if you're a listener I'm gonna make you believe that's what you want, because it is so it's so freeing.
You don't know what you don't know, but when you get to the place where your life actually starts to change, man, does it feel good? You're like, how did I live any other way before this? What you want is that lifestyle change? Because I've lived in both places. I have lived in the. you know, trying to just put a [00:09:00] bandaid on a gaping wound, trying to just do the right things and take the right actions.
And when things get difficult falling off and falling back into old habits, that weren't good for me. And I've also been in the camp of having my fallback and, and I'm not changing now, but I've been in the, in the place. And I am in the place where my fallback, my natural, my innate. What I go my baseline, I guess that's the word in my baseline is these healthy habits because they're just innate and it's a huge blessing.
And it's what I want for you being consistent and disciplined. Aren't hard because they're second nature for me. And it's, you can do that. You can do that, but it's by making small changes over time. It's by not trying to just change your actions all at once. It's by not just trying to change. A, you know, one thing at a time, but from the wrong place, you've got to look at everything that you're doing.
Figure out what's gonna be the first spot that's going to actually make impactful change for me. And how can I build on that over a long course of time, [00:10:00] you gotta commit to a, to a timeline you've gotta, and don't actually give yourself a timeline. Sorry, we've talked about that. Don't set a timeline, but what I'm saying is you've gotta commit to long term change.
You've gotta commit to this journey. I mean, it's called journey because it doesn't. Right. It's our whole life. So you gotta commit to this being a long term thing, a long term process. And that's okay. So if you're ready for that, if you're ready for the long term, if you're ready for sustainable change, and if you're ready to actually stop slapping bandaids on stuff that needs tending to, if you're ready to start digging down deep and figuring out what's actually keeping me stuck, where can I start?
What's what point do I need to start at to make real change in my life right now? If you're ready for all. Ready to find your starting point. So you can overhaul your actual lifestyle instead of just your, your habits. Let's go, let's go. It is a process, and we're gonna dig into your life. We're gonna dig into your goals, your struggles, but we're gonna do it together.
You will not be alone in this process. You and me are gonna come up [00:11:00] with a starting point plan. That is perfect for you. Doable for you in the season of life? I cannot wait. I cannot wait. Head to thet of mom.com/coaching to book your session. I only coach about eight women a month with, and we're just a few days left, um, out from August with a few spots already booked out.
So that's the tough level of mom.com back slash coaching. I will see you there again, dig down deep, figure out. Are you wanting to make these changes? What is holding you back the most? Don't just opt for something new, something that so hesitant to use the word quick fix, because it's so overused and has a stigma about it that can make us feel bad.
So I don't wanna use that for this, but don't just opt for something. That's. Again, a bandaid on something that needs deeper healing on something that needs more tending to it needs a professional to stitch it up. Let's find your starting point. Let's get you on the path to weight loss the right way, because that is what creates sustainable change.
Actual [00:12:00] lifestyle change. Because that's what sets the example for our kids. It's what changes the way we think about ourselves, the way we feel about our bodies and our journey. That's where real change happens. So let's get after it. Let's do this. I'll see you on your session. Have an awesome, awesome rest of your week, girlfriend.
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