How to Stop Overwhelm From Ruining Your Progress

Lean With Plants

Chelsea Mae Cullen

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

You’re trying to lose fat, but life keeps piling on stress, exhaustion, and overwhelm.

When you feel like you’re at your limit, your brain screams for relief—maybe through food, skipping workouts, or just saying “screw it” for the day. But quitting never actually makes things easier.

In this episode, I’ll show you exactly how to stay on track even when you feel like you’re drowning. You'll learn:

✅ How to interrupt the panic spiral with simple physical resets that stop stress from hijacking your brain

✅ How to shrink the goal so it’s impossible to fail (yes, even on your worst days)

✅ How to reframe feelings of deprivation so you don’t sabotage yourself

✅ How to delay cravings & impulsive decisions without using willpower

✅ How to shift from self-punishment (forcing yourself to be “good”) to self-care (staying on track in a way that feels sustainable)

If you’ve ever thought, “I just can’t do this right now”, this episode will show you how to push through without burning out. Let’s make fat loss easier — even when life isn’t. 🚀

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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. Hello, welcome to the podcast.
1:10.9	We're going to talk about how to keep going when things feel really, really difficult,
1:15.3	how to have some strategies to deal with overwhelm and deal with the pain of change
1:21.2	and everything that feels so hard when you are trying to lose weight or you're trying to make something happen in your life where
1:29.6	it feels very, very uncomfortable. And if you're going through that right now where you feel like
1:35.8	you're in the messy middle and you're frustrated about your own response to the situation,
1:41.6	then this episode is for you because I feel like I'm going through a little
1:45.5	bit right now. And I basically wrote this to help myself. So the first thing to understand is that
1:52.3	the goal is always going to feel really, really difficult. And when it comes to actually changing
1:59.1	who we are to achieve a different outcome, because right
2:02.4	now you're on some kind of trajectory for your life. If you want to change that trajectory by
2:07.7	changing your day-to-day habits, if you want to achieve a different outcome than what is
2:12.4	the default of where your habits are leading you today, then that is going to feel difficult.
2:18.2	And so what we're going to talk about is really understanding how to expect this to feel,
2:24.5	what feelings are normal.
2:25.8	I know I always feel a sense of validation or a sense of being seen when I can see
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