How Sharleen Lost Weight And Built Unshakeable Habits After Years Of Failure
Lean With Plants
Chelsea Mae Cullen
4.9 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Sharleen shares her inspiring journey of losing 15 lbs, preparing for hip surgery, and finally breaking free from the all-or-nothing mindset that held her back for years.
For so long, weight loss felt impossible. She knew what to do, even showing up at the gym consistently for a year, but still couldn’t understand why the results never came.
Through coaching with Lean With Plants, Sharleen discovered simple, practical tools that made the process not only achievable, but sustainable.
With a new sense of confidence, Sharleen now knows the weight she’s lost is gone for good. More importantly, she’s built trust in herself too. Proof that change is possible when the focus shifts from willpower to real behavior-change strategies.
Join us as Sharleen shares how she moved from frustration to freedom, why this time feels different, and how she’s embracing a healthier, more hopeful future.
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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 |
| 0:21.9 | guarantee losing weight. If you are feeling frustrated and confused about where to start, |
| 0:28.6 | 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 |
| 0:38.7 | truth about plant-based weight loss, but just as importantly, how to use proven methods of |
| 0:44.1 | behavioural change to turn what you know into lifelong habits that lead to getting and staying |
| 0:49.9 | lean. Can't wait to get started. Let's do this. |
| 1:13.5 | Hello, hello, welcome to the podcast. I say this a million times and I will continue to say it every single episode. |
| 1:22.2 | I am so excited for this one because I had the pleasure of interviewing Charlene who has lost 15 pounds inside of Lena plants. |
| 1:28.6 | Most importantly, was able to prepare for her hip surgery, get out of the all or nothing thinking that she had in the past, find out why she wasn't able to lose weight, finally do something where she's built |
| 1:33.5 | confidence in herself, where she knows that she can continue to reach her goal, and she knows |
| 1:38.2 | that all of the weight that she's lost for the first time is gone forever. So without further |
| 1:43.1 | ado, let's listen to this episode. |
| 1:45.3 | Tell me a little bit more about your story and kind of where you've come from in terms of |
| 1:50.4 | like your dieting history. I was always the little girl who was maybe, you know, just a little |
| 1:57.1 | bit tubby, a little bit, you know, I was never skinny. And I was a little bit active, |
| 2:03.3 | but not really. My parents divorced when I was young. I think that made me very nervous, |
| 2:09.1 | bouncing back and forth between the houses. You know, one of my earliest memories of sneaking |
| 2:14.2 | food was running to the kitchen after dinner when the lights were off in the |
| 2:18.5 | kitchen, but I would open the refrigerator door and I would squirt the whipped cream right in my mouth. |
| 2:23.0 | And my mom didn't understand like why I was maybe gaining a little bit of weight, but I was, |
| 2:28.8 | you know, I was sneaking food. I think I was just nervous. So I started in middle school and at age 11, I had kidney failure. |
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