You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 277

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast where it's all about real clients real problems and real coaching and

Now your host master coach instructor Brook Castillo

Well, hello my friends

I'm so excited today. We are talking about weight loss struggles with one of my favorite students

I always say this for everyone that goes

One of my favorite students and weight loss coaches Natalie Brown and we are going to go through

What it's like for her to be a weight coach and we're gonna talk about what her

Life is like

Practicing full-time and then we're also gonna talk about what are some of the struggles that her clients are dealing with maybe some of the struggles that you're dealing with

When it comes to losing weight. So welcome to the podcast Natalie. Thank you. I am so excited to be here. Yeah, okay

So let's start with you just telling us a little bit about you. Okay, so I

Started I think like probably a lot of people early on the hamster wheel of dieting

I

After going through puberty my body changed and I thought that meant it was broken and the way to fix it was a diet

So I started dieting at 10 and I spent the next 20 years chasing the idea of skinny equals happy and

Tried everything and did everything and all of that time was also spent loading myself for not being right

Right, and I had the experience of getting to my ideal weight and

No sunshine and rainbows started appearing and I was like wait a second

maybe

There's more to it than my body equals my feelings and so I kind of started on the path of changing my thoughts and

The you know the definition of happiness for myself and soon after that

...