You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 225.

I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach and author, Cookie Rosenblum.

Today and every Tuesday, I'm here to be your coach and your guide to help you end your

emotional eating and lose that extra weight.

If you just found me welcome and if you're a regular listener, welcome back my friend.

Here is where we work together to end your emotional eating and habitual overeating and this is

the main focus of all the work I do. This is Weight Loss for the thinking woman who's smart enough

to know what doesn't work and is willing to dig a little deeper to make lasting change.

Here is where coaching meets psychology and psychology meets brain science and this is where

your problem ends. Today I'd like to share an interview with you with Amber. An Amber is a mentor

of the Freedom Group. You've all heard me talk about the Freedom Group and that is our monthly

coaching membership for smart women who want support and guidance and learning and understanding

new ways of looking at eating and weight. Amber is a former member of the program. She's been through

the whole program herself and now she is a mentor and what a mentor does is help other members

make progress and support them along their journey. I want you to listen to Amber's story because

there's lots in it that you will relate to. Amber struggled as a young teen and felt a lot of

the cultural pressure that many of us feel to lose weight even though she really probably didn't

need to. She went through periods where she really restricted her food, trying to fit this cultural

norm didn't eat enough and that led to a full blown eating disorder but there's the good news.

Amber overcame this style, the style of restricting and then binging, restricting and binging.

It's such a hard path to change but she did it and I admire her journey so much. She tried many

things including therapy and this is a story of how she came to understand her own mind, her own

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