How to Balance Special Dinners with Weight Loss (Without Sabotaging Your Progress) | HSM 739

Half Size Me

Heather A. Robertson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Watch this episode on YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/d9V9s1aT61o In Episode 739 of the Half Size Me Show, Heather talks with Samantha about her struggle with external stressors, unpredictable schedules, and emotional eating. They also chat about: practical strategies for dinners and dessert protecting her weight-loss goals reclaiming control over what she eats and more! Subscribe to Half Size Me Podcast Premium for access to our library of HUNDREDS of hours of past episodes! As a subscriber to Half Size Me Podcast Premium, you will get: --Access to the entire 650+ episode archive --Access weekly episodes a day EARLY --Access to EXCLUSIVE, subscriber-only episodes including the Coaching Karolina and Coaching Sarah series --Access to subscriber-only audio responses to “Ask Me Anything” questions Become a podcast premium subscriber today and make Heather and the Half Size Me show a part of your weight loss journey! Do you want to get support and connection at a price you can afford? Then check out the Half Size Me Academy here: https://www.halfsizeme.com/hsm-academy/ About Half Size Me The Half Size Me™ Show is a weekly podcast. It will inspire and motivate you no matter where you are in your weight loss journey. Whether you're just getting started losing weight or having worked on your health and wellness for years, this show is for you! The Half Size Me Show is hosted by Heather Robertson, who lost 170 pounds over a period of 5 years and has maintained since 2012. Heather did it by learning new eating habits, getting regular exercise, and changing her mindset. On her popular weekly podcast, The Half Size Me Show, Heather shares her own lessons and struggles with you, and she shows you how to handle the real challenge of any weight loss journey... weight maintenance. Be sure to subscribe to The Half Size Me Show and join Heather every week as she shares information, inspiration, coaching, and conversations with REAL people who've learned weight loss isn't only about losing pounds, it's about finding yourself. Disclaimer: Heather is not a doctor, nurse, or certified health professional. What worked for her or her guests may not work for you. Please talk with your doctor, dietician, or other certified health professionals when seeking advice about your own weight loss or weight maintenance plan. All information included in The Half Size Me™ Podcast and on HalfSizeMe.com is for informational and inspirational purposes only. For additional disclaimer information, please visit HalfSizeMe.com.

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0:00.0	Half-Size Me episode 739, brought to you by the amazing Half-Size Me Academy. To join us, please go to
0:08.5	half-sizeme.com forward slash join. Hello and welcome back to the Half-Size Me show. I am your
0:16.6	host, Heather, and today we're going to be talking to Samantha. She needs a little bit of coaching
0:23.0	because she is really struggling with the chaos of homeschooling and hubby having different
0:29.8	days off and kind of just the general stress of everything. And so what ultimately ends up
0:36.9	happening is she's finding she tends to emotionally
0:39.7	eat and struggles with actually sticking to her plan. So we're going to be talking about how she can
0:46.7	start to create better structure with this schedule irregularity and where she might need to be
0:53.1	focusing on eating at maintenance a couple
0:55.3	days a week versus trying to stay in a deficit and how she can start to work on increasing
1:01.1	her sleeping and starting to improve the quality of her sleep. So if you struggle with this,
1:07.8	inconsistent schedules, maybe hubby is off on different days maybe you're homeschooling
1:12.4	or working from home this episode with samantha is going to be super helpful for you now today is
1:20.4	the day today is april the sixth and it is the beginning of my brand new workshop that I am super excited to bring to you.
1:30.3	It's going to be cart smart, spend less, and eat better.
1:35.3	And the reason I put this workshop together is through the Academy, the HSM Academy,
1:42.0	I've been sharing how I've changed up my meal planning, how I'm saving roughly
1:47.1	$800 a month. We used to budget $2,000 a month for groceries, and now we're only budgeting for
1:53.5	$1,200. And I went through a process of really cleaning up how I buy groceries, how I meal plan. I've changed all that up.
2:02.8	But what I love about this is I used to be one of those crazy couponers, like back in the day,
2:09.2	the, let's just say, from 2007 to 2011-ish in that range, when you could still go buy five
2:15.4	newspapers and they had oodles of coupons and I would get up early
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