How Joanna lost 30lbs, transformed her habits and found food freedom after decades of yo yo dieting
Lean With Plants
Chelsea Mae Cullen
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
As we mark Joanna’s one-year milestone with Lean with Plants, I wanted to share how she’s lost the 30lbs and now can KEEP it off after starting dieting at just 7 years old.
In this episode we dive into escaping decades of yo yo diets and fads, gaining confidence and building habits and becoming yourself again after motherhood and weight gain
It is truly an honour to see someone transform before you eyes like Joanna has, and her story is sure to encourage you too.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. My name is Chelsea and if you are struggling to lose weight on a plant-based diet, then this podcast is for you. While there are thousands of books, podcasts and resources about the benefits of a plant-based diet, the reality is that being vegan does not |
| 0:22.0 | guarantee losing weight. If you are feeling frustrated and confused about where to start, |
| 0:28.7 | or you know exactly what you should be doing, but you just can't seem to rustle up enough |
| 0:34.1 | willpower to do it, then keep listening. In this podcast, you'll learn the truth about plant-based weight loss, but just as importantly, |
| 0:42.1 | how to use proven methods of behavioural change to turn what you know into lifelong habits that |
| 0:48.3 | lead to getting and staying lean. |
| 0:51.3 | Can't wait to get started. |
| 0:53.1 | Let's do this. |
| 1:07.6 | Music lean. Can't wait to get started. Let's do this. So I'd love to hear from you, Jo, Joanna. Tell me a little bit about your dieting history and how much weight you've lost. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. So I guess I'll just start by saying like, I was born and raised in Texas. My parents are immigrants from Hong Kong. |
| 1:25.7 | So for as long as I can remember, I have always, |
| 1:29.8 | I always knew that something was off like that I wasn't skinny. So I grew up in the 80s. |
| 1:38.3 | And when I look back at pictures of one with a child, I think I kind of vacillated between |
| 1:42.7 | being average and being chubby. But when I |
| 1:46.3 | think back to when I was a child, I mean, I don't have to go into like all the examples or whatever, |
| 1:53.5 | but I was definitely teased for being fat. I had like the church ladies come up and pinch my arms at potlucks and ask if my |
| 2:04.1 | mommy had put me on a diet. I was a child. And for sure like the culture that I was brought up in, |
| 2:12.0 | there was a lot of value in being thin. And so I watched my father was always very, very skinny. But my mom, |
| 2:23.4 | you know, always told me stories about, oh, you know, when I first got married, I was like 100 |
| 2:28.0 | pounds. And she's like about the same height as I am, you know. So I was 100 pounds. And then when I got |
| 2:33.1 | pregnant with you, I was like 180 pounds. |
| 2:36.3 | And so that was like a terrible thing, right? So it's like you create, you begin to create this belief |
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