349. ALYSSA'S STORY: Losing 20 Pounds by Putting Herself First With Simple, Realistic Weight Loss Tweaks
Hot, Healthy, Never Hungry
Lauren Hubert MS, RD
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, I'm chatting with Alyssa, who lost 20 pounds by finally putting herself first — not through restriction or perfection, but by making simple, realistic changes that actually fit into her life.
If you're in a season of survival right now or navigating a major life transition… and you're tired of feeling uncomfortable in your skin while everyone else's needs come before your own, Alyssa's story is going to speak right to you.
After years of surviving, sacrificing, and pushing her own needs to the bottom of the list, Alyssa decided something had to change. Her journey is raw, relatable, and such an important reminder that when you start caring for yourself, everything else gets better.
Inside the episode, Alyssa shares:
✅ The simple, doable tweaks that boosted her energy, confidence, and weight loss results without giving up travel, flexibility, or the foods she loves
✅ How she ditched keto and the dieting rules for good and finally started building real momentum that yielded incredible results
✅ Why learning what actually matters for fat loss helped her create lasting progress
✅ What breaking old patterns has meant for her as a mother and her daughter as she heads off to college
✅ How shifting out of survival mode completely changed the trajectory of her health and life
By the end of this episode, you'll walk away with a clear understanding of how to begin seeing progress and where you can start… even if you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or stuck.
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Related Episodes:
🎙️Episode 244: Your Simple Guide To Losing 20 Pounds (Fit Girl Fall)
🎙️Episode 242: MICHELLE'S STORY: 20 Pounds Down & Being A Good Role Model As A Mom
🎙️Episode 203: How To Lose 20 (Or More) Pounds AND Keep It Off
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| 0:00.0 | It's funny because last weekend I actually just sent my sister a picture of a pair of shorts that have always been like my non-scale victory shorts. |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:08.5 | And they were too big. |
| 0:11.5 | Wow. |
| 0:12.1 | They used to be hard to zip. |
| 0:13.7 | Like I could wear them, but they were hard to zip, uncomfortable, didn't flatter me. |
| 0:18.0 | But they were too big, and they zipped right up if there was more zipper, where it could have kept going. And I put on a shirt that I've never worn before that I've had forever that it's like a mom crop top. Like it's not a true crop top, but I'll consider it. And I just, I felt good. And I sent it to her and I'm like, this is crazy, you know, because like I've learned from you, the scale does |
| 0:38.7 | slow sometimes and it does not move the way that you think, but the way that those clothes fit, |
| 0:44.1 | I couldn't believe the change. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to another episode of Hot Healthy, Never Hungry. |
| 0:58.5 | I am sitting down on this gorgeous day. I've had a great morning. I have my little Starbucks coffee in hand. I just was chatting it up a little bit with Alyssa. And now we're sitting down. And ladies, like, I don't think you understand this episode that's about to come |
| 1:11.1 | your way. We were just chatting and if you are going through any sort of life transition, |
| 1:17.4 | you're just going to love and eat up not only Alyssa's story, but just everything that she has |
| 1:23.1 | been through and the inspiration it's going to give you to get through just any change in your life |
| 1:28.2 | that's going on because I don't know if you're guys or anything like me. When change happens in |
| 1:32.4 | my life, sometimes I'm resistant to it because it feels uncomfortable, it feels different, |
| 1:37.0 | but oftentimes change can bring excitement. It can bring new things and change doesn't have to be |
| 1:42.3 | a bad thing. You can go from kind of dreading it to |
| 1:45.4 | actually thriving in it. That was a big part of my experience going from no baby to having a baby. |
| 1:50.7 | Anyway, we have Alyssa here. She's going to share how she's been able to lose 20 pounds, still travel. |
| 1:56.2 | She recently came up to Massachusetts, fun fact, my neck of the woods, if you guys don't know. |
| 2:00.3 | And we're going to |
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