377. ARLENE'S STORY: How Arlene Lost 15 Pounds in Her 50s (Without Living in the Gym)
Hot, Healthy, Never Hungry
Lauren Hubert MS, RD
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
If you're a planner in your career, but winging your weight loss — how do you expect to see results when you're not giving your goals the same energy and focus as your job?
In today's episode, I'm joined by my 1:1 coaching client Arlene, who went from feeling stuck and plateaued to losing 15 pounds in just 90 days, all while juggling her career as a busy attorney.
When the old approaches she relied on (like eating 1,000 calories a day) stopped working, Arlene knew something had to change. The challenge wasn't just what to do, but how to make sustainable changes while balancing her career, travel, and social life.
In this episode, Arlene shares the exact shifts she made to start prioritizing herself, lose nearly a pound per week, and stop overthinking food. You'll hear why a less restrictive approach (especially when eating out) actually worked better for her, and how she made it all fit into her real life.
If you're an ambitious woman who wants to look your best, feel confident, and have more energy without putting your life on hold, you're going to love this conversation.
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🎙️Episode 184: CATHERINE'S STORY: Fat Loss in your 50's (12 Pounds Down in 9 Weeks)
🎙️Episode 208: 5 Easy Habits To Lose Fat In Your 40's (Losing Weight As You Age Series)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to a very special episode of Hot Healthy, Never Hungry, |
| 0:11.6 | because we are here with someone who is a very special client of mine. We're about to have a |
| 0:16.5 | conversation we haven't had on the podcast before. So if you are a woman who I can speak for myself, |
| 0:22.6 | like I deeply care about my career. I deeply care about feeling my best, looking my best for my |
| 0:28.3 | personal life, of course, but also like I want to be the best woman I can be as a dietitian. |
| 0:32.7 | And I feel like the lovely guests we have today, she is very career focused and driven and ambitious and has such an inspirational story about how she's been able to lose weight with all the things that she's struggling. So welcome to the podcast, Arlene. Thank you so much. I'm really so honored that you've invited me to be here. Oh, I know. I'm honored. You said yes. I'm the lucky one here. Don't get that twisted. I know so much about you and it's so funny whenever I've guessed on. I'm like, you know, I feel like I know your whole story because I've worked with you the past three, four months. But obviously listeners here are brand new, hopping on, see the title of the show, but, you know, they want to know the behind the scenes. So before we dive into all the career and |
| 1:11.6 | eating out and how you've been able to lose weight, kind of going back to the beginning, |
| 1:15.9 | what even inspired you to reach out and send that? I think it was a DM to me. I don't think |
| 1:22.6 | you even apply to my website. You sent a DM to me and we're like, you know, it's time for me |
| 1:26.6 | to prioritize my health, my fitness, and losing this weight. That is exactly right. I did send you a DM to me and we're like, you know, it's time for me to prioritize my health, my fitness, and losing this weight. |
| 1:29.5 | That is exactly right. I did send you a DM, which might be the first time I've ever done that also. |
| 1:34.5 | Oh my gosh. Wait, I love that. So I had gained weight steadily over the last several years. And I'm 51 now. The things that I had done in the past just weren't working anymore. |
| 1:46.1 | And you know how Instagram has its algorithm. Your Instagram account popped up on my |
| 1:51.3 | Instagram last year during the summer and I started listening to your podcast and I'm in my car a lot. |
| 1:57.5 | So I listened to a lot of your podcast. And so when you started talking about |
| 2:01.2 | Fit Girl Fall, I decided I would join that program and had some success on my own, but really thought, |
| 2:07.7 | gosh, I think I need more guidance and more one-on-one. And that's why I applied or DMD you, |
| 2:14.6 | rather, about coaching and ended up in the 90-day FitBay Body Program. |
| 2:18.9 | That's incredible. And I feel like, you know, it's so funny that I know your age, |
| 2:24.0 | but until you just said it, I'm like, I like forget your 50 in your 50s. Like I literally |
| 2:29.0 | forget it because, you know, it's so interesting. I think this will resonate with any woman |
| 2:32.6 | listening to the show, even in her 40s, but 50s, 60s and beyond. We never talked about the fact of like what your age was. No. Really ever inside of coaching. I bring that up because a lot of women, that's the first thing they say to me, hey, I'm older. My body feels different. And I'm sure that is, you know, things you've probably thought at one point or another. But I just almost want to dwell on that for a second because |
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