She Lost 100 Pounds… FOUR Times (Here’s What Finally Worked) | HSM 743

Half Size Me

Heather A. Robertson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Watch this episode on YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/gmx6LIg2epA In Episode 743 of the Half Size Me Show, Heather reconnects with Amanda one year after giving her a surprising challenge: to stop focusing on weight loss and focus ONLY on maintenance. They chat about the past year, plus: Why focusing on weight maintenance can unlock lasting weight loss How Amanda broke the cycle of losing and regaining 100+ pounds How to shift from obsession to sustainable habits Why exercise alone isn’t the answer (and how to reframe it) 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 743 brought to you by the amazing Half-Size Me Academy to join us.
0:08.5	Please go to half-sizeme.com forward slash join.
0:14.3	Hello, lovely listeners. I am your host, Heather, and I am beyond excited today to do this coaching call with you. I was very excited
0:25.3	to bring Amanda back on the show for a follow-up from one year ago. She was originally in
0:32.3	episode 649, so almost exactly 100 episodes ago from today. And in that, I asked her to do something
0:40.2	extremely difficult. I asked her to maintain her weight for a year. She had done a fantastic
0:48.9	job of losing weight again after many losing and regaining, losing and regaining, losing and regaining,
0:58.5	losing and regaining. She had never actually been able, this was her fourth time losing
1:04.1	a hundred pounds. She had never been able to keep it off. She was really good at losing it,
1:08.8	which I hear this all the time, right? We're really good at
1:11.5	losing it. And even now with weight loss medications, we can be really good at losing weight. But
1:17.1	unless you're going to stay on the weight loss medication to keep it off, which I know a lot of people
1:20.5	are not wanting to do for various reasons, the regain part of this is so pervasive, right? That's the thing we need to be working on. That's the thing we need to be thinking about. It's the weight loss that people have done multiple, multiple times, but then they don't keep the weight off. And so when I got a chance to talk to Amanda, I had a feeling in my gut. She wasn't going to be thrilled with this option. I was throwing her way.
1:45.1	But she took it.
1:46.3	She said, okay, I'll do this thing. And then I was going to follow up with her in a year. I actually put on my Google calendar because I didn't want to forget. And it popped up in my Google calendar. Reach out to Amanda. It's been a year. And I reached out. She's like, I wondered if you were going to contact me.
2:01.6	And she, sure enough, had done the thing. and I reached out, she's like, I wondered if you were going to contact me.
2:08.2	And she, sure enough, had done the thing, but it was an amazing discussion.
2:14.8	You do not want to miss this because after this year, so many things happened to her in this year that were some things she couldn't have even foresaw
2:18.4	coming, some medical issues, things like that. But because she was focusing on this idea of
2:23.1	maintaining her weight, she had a totally different perspective. She saw how her lower brain
2:28.5	really flared up and then quieted down and how her relationship with food changed. And you really want to hear
2:35.7	this because so many people feel like the maintenance phase is difficult. They avoid it at all
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