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Welcome back to another Ask Coach Heather episode. I am your coach Heather and today I'm

going to be working with Amy in my coaching with Amy today. We're going to talk a lot about how she feels she's at the highest weight she's ever been.

She wants to really work on losing some weight and getting to a healthier place. So we talk about how to go about taking a deficit, how she can start to even plan in doing intentional maintenance break.

So she's able to keep the weight off long term. I think this episode will help people, especially if you're just struggling with getting a basic structure down.

That is sustainable for you. Now before we get to Amy's coaching episode, I want to just share something pretty important and significant with you today.

I realized that this January, January 2022 marked my 10 year anniversary of getting to my wake goal and maintaining within a certain range.

And that is huge for me. If you are a long time listener of the show, you know my story pretty well. But some people this might be your first episode.

You might have stumbled into the half size of me show this year for the first time. But my weight has always been a struggle for me.

I had my first binge episode at eight. I struggled with gaining weight, emotional eating, binge eating, all through my young elementary middle school, high school, college years.

I had one bout of losing the majority of the weight in high school. And then because I really didn't have good maintenance strategies, I didn't really contend with my binge eating behavior.

I gained it all back and then an extra 90 pounds. And I hit my all time highest weight after having my first kid in 2006.

And I made a decision that after this life of battling my weight of going on diets, restricting, binging, gaining more weight than what I even lost, that I had to go about this differently.

And when I set out in 2006, it literally started with me pushing my baby in a stroller around the block one time. That was the launch if you will of half size me.

Now, that was a launch of Heather starting something different. It wasn't anything impressive as far as like there was no big startup.

I didn't clean out my pantry. I didn't buy all the new diet foods and the supplements and make that that promise yet again to myself that things this time were going to be radically different.

I didn't do any of that on purpose because that's what it looked like every other time. It was always a big build up to this big thing that was supposed to create all this massive change.

I was supposed to lose all this weight in so much time and it had all this weight behind it, which was this this had to be big.

So I got big results. I decided when I looked at my kid and I thought about how I wanted to show up as a parent and what I wanted their life to look like and how that I wanted it to be different for them.

I thought to myself, whatever I do, I can't stop and start. It has to keep going. It has to get me to a new lower weight, but keep me there.

It had to have maintenance as a mindset behind it because what I had always done in the past was about the quick results.

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