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🗓️ 21 March 2022
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0:00.0 | Half-size-me episode 528 brought to you by the Half-size-me community to join go to halfsizeme.com forward slash join |
0:30.0 | Friday. Don't you know it feels good to be alive. You could be |
0:36.1 | a |
0:58.3 | Hello, welcome back to another half-size-me episode. I am your coach Heather and it has occurred to me. |
1:04.5 | I haven't told you much about my story as of late. I always know we get new listeners to the show. |
1:09.9 | This might be your very first time tuning into today's episode and I just like to give you a quick back story. |
1:15.4 | So I had struggled with my weight my entire life pretty much ever since third grade and always in the obese to morbidly obese |
1:23.2 | category. I struggled with binge eating as young as nine. I really had a rough relationship with food. |
1:30.0 | Been on and off pretty much most commercial basic diets that you can get your hands on. I've rotated through them, |
1:38.8 | especially through my 20s and what ultimately happened was when I got pregnant when I was 30 with my first son |
1:45.8 | had a moment of clarity or insight that if I wanted his relationship to be different with food. |
1:53.6 | I had been a teacher. I'd worked with at risk youth. What I knew was he really wouldn't listen to me as much as |
2:00.9 | watch my behaviors and then kind of model that. So I wanted to have a different experience for him. |
2:07.4 | So I can't tell my kid, hey, eat vegetables when I'm not eating vegetables. You know, eating all those |
2:11.6 | pizza every week, probably not a good idea when I'm doing it, right? So I had to be willing to go about my |
2:17.3 | weight loss in a totally different direction. In the past, it had always been what can |
2:23.6 | I do to lose the most weight in the shortest period of time? How can I lose the most weight for this event? |
2:29.4 | It was always very time driven, losing as much as possible in a short period of time. |
2:34.6 | And there was a very simple quote that I for some reason had always come across and I appreciate it from Albert Einstein, |
2:40.7 | which is we can't fix the problem from the same level of thinking that created the problem. |
2:46.0 | AKA we can't keep doing the same behaviors. We can't have the same thinking around the problem and think that the problem |
2:53.9 | in of itself is going to change. I had to change how I thought about weight loss, how I approached weight loss, |
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