Its Never Too Late To Lose Weight: Greet Your 60s With A Strong Body And A Healthy Mind

Did you know that 95% of disease is lifestyle-related?   Could you ever imagine losing weight on holiday?   Have you ever considered getting a health coach, but you worry about the time you need to put in or the financial investment?   Learning new skills takes time, effort, and focus. Sometimes, the adventure of weight loss doesn’t feel very positive or inspiring. But, do not worry! Sometimes, you just need a health coach to push you in the right direction. In this episode, we will learn more about the role that emotions and thought patterns play when triggering our cravings and how to train yourself  into a positive thinking pattern that allows you to love food that loves you.  I have the honor of speaking with two of my coaching clients on their inspirational weight loss experiences so far with the guidance of yours truly as their health and weight loss coach. After this episode, you’ll feel inspired to “step up” your weight loss journey and begin that healthy, positive lifestyle that you always dreamed ab

Did you know that having excess belly fat threatens our cognitive abilities,  like thinking, making connections, and memory?   Did you know that just one incident of serious head-related trauma increases your personal risk of developing dementia?   Today, I had the absolute mind-blowing pleasure of speaking with Ralph Sanchez (MTCM, CNS)  who spent 25 years as a functional medicine specialist and complementary care provider. After discovering his own risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease, Ralph has spent the greater part of his career focused on researching the connection between Alzheimer’s disease and your body and health, including both diabetes and heart disease. He believes that mind and body are connected, and that your diet, health, and lifestyle can help increase or decrease  your risk for Alzheimer’s disease in many ways-- some that you may not expect! Listen as he explains the science behind Alzheimer’s disease and the connection that your diet, diabetes, and other factors may have on inc

You’re only nervous about getting lost if you don’t have a plan.   In this episode, we will discuss why I hate the saying “falling off of the wagon” when it comes to maintaining your health, diet, and weight loss goals. Life has many twists and turns, and we are only human. By expanding our mindset from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, we can always find out way back to our weight loss track no matter what we encounter in our journey. I will share ways to think about weight loss that will expand the way we think about our health goals in order to put you on the positive track towards your successful diet, weight loss, and healthy lifestyle!   If you like what you heard today, please go to Apple Podcasts and leave a review. The more reviews we receive, the more women will learn about the podcast and learn from these lessons. If you know someone who is struggling with food, send them a link to the podcast and maybe they can find something here they haven’t heard before!   What You’ll Learn in this Episode:

Are your thoughts towards yourself kind or cruel? Did you know that how you feel about yourself has a huge impact on your diet and weight loss journey? Would  you like to learn ten fantastic steps to help create self-love, self-care, and a sense worthiness through both the successes and challenges of your health and weight loss journey? In this episode of It’s Never Too Late to Lose Weight, join me as I discuss the importance of allowing yourself to experience all of your feelings and mistakes in order to create change and growth. Learn how to develop a positive mindset guided by self-love and self-care as you confront the challenges of both living with emotional baggage and creating a positive, healthy lifestyle. The inner narrative that we tell ourselves matters, and I want you to feel confident that you have all the tools that you need to be successful in accomplishing your weight loss and health goals.   Join me to learn ten ways to create a positive mindset with self-love and self-care at the forefront o

Did you know that it is estimated that as much as 15% of American adults suffer from some form of smell or taste disorder, and that your ability to taste flavor shifts as you get older? In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Banay Dara Abrams, a woman in technology with a  passion to use technology in order to help improve the health and overall quality of life for others. Using her doctorate in Computer Science, her MA in Counselling, and coursework in gerontology, flavor chemistry, and food science, Dr. Abrams hopes to help people understand the impact that their perception of flavor can have on their diet as well as how factors like aging, sensory dysfunction, and overall health can change their relationship with flavor and food. Our eating habits and food choices are heavily impacted by our relationship, ability to sense and detect, and our understanding of flavor. Listen as Dr. Abrams discusses aging, four different taste disorders that can impact your diet and healthy lifestyle choices,

We often think of vacation as a means of getting away from our restrictive lifestyles, and who can blame us? What if I told you that you can still have that refreshing and exciting vacation without compromising your weight loss goals and your healthy lifestyle? Listen for four amazing health tips! Whether it’s Aunt Mary’s lasagna or an International Pie Eating Contest that you envision while on your vacation, I will show you how to use your food journal, healthy and positive visualization techniques, as well as other healthy diet tips in for for your to reach your health and diet goals.  Using these four amazing, healthy lifestyle (and vacation!) tips, I will show you how to plan for a fun, relaxing, and healthy vacation with a positive and productive mindset. It’s never too late to lose weight-- whether you vacation in Italy or in the backyard with your grandchildren!  Let’s make your vacation a positive, exciting, and healthy memory where you reach your diet goals rather than a trip that you need to “recove

Research shows that successful people use journals to track their goals in life. How can you apply this to your weight loss journey while building a healthier diet and lifestyle?   In this episode, I will delve into what a food journal is and how, when implemented consistently and appropriately, it can help you to reach your dietary and weight loss goals. Keeping a successful food journal is more than making a food checklist, and doing so can further your healthier lifestyle by fostering a deeper awareness of your motivations, food habits, and diet goals. You will leave this episode with knowledge, tips, and a fundamental understanding of the journaling skill to help keep your diet on track!   If you like what you heard today, please go to Apple Podcasts and leave a review. The more reviews we receive, the more women will learn about the podcast and learn from these lessons. If you know someone who is struggling with food, send them a link to the podcast and maybe they can find something here they haven’t hea

Changing your diet may seem daunting. What do you eat if there’s no bread, no carbs smothered in ooey-gooey cheese and no deserts? How many times have vegetables rotted in the bin because there was no time to figure out how to cook them?  We know eliminating foods that are bad for health is the right thing, but these foods are inexpensive, convenient and comforting. So, how do we make that switch and stick to it? By using simple meal plan strategies. Meal planning is an essential piece of the weight loss puzzle, but it must also be sustainable. The key to real sustainability is eating foods you like. A revelation, right? In this episode, I give you the foundation for creating your own simple meal plan with foods you’ll actually enjoy eating along with some of my favorite tips for simplifying the process.    If you like what you heard today, please go to Apple Podcasts and leave a review. The more reviews we receive, the more women will learn about the podcast and learn from these lessons. If you know someone

I have a conversation with Janet Morning Star Archer. Janet is a teacher and student of yoga, mindfulness, meditation and author of An Invitation to Pause. A combination of her mother being diagnosed with Dementia and her training as a Master Life Coach unleashed her passion, supporting women whose parent has dementia find a calm within. One of the tools in our weight loss tool box is mindfulness, as we’ve discussed in previous episodes.    Well, Janet has used mindfulness to find and keep her right-sized body, but, as you’ll hear, she doesn’t always get it right. She shares what tools she uses when she isn’t perfect and why they are so necessary to her mindfulness practice.   What You’ll Learn in this Episode: What mindfulness truly is How postpartum depression led Janet to mindfulness coaching How to use a mindfulness practice The importance self-compassion and humor in your mindfulness practice How mindfulness helped Janet lose and keep weight off Using mindfulness to disrupt perceptions and perfection Th

If you’ve raised a family, built a career or business or even crocheted a blanket, chances are you already have some grit. None of these things are without challenges. You’ve had learn new skills, face challenges, and deal with failure to persevere. You had the passion to stick with it. Grit doesn't evaporate as you age and we can actually develop more by creating new neural pathways with our growth mindset. Now, we may face obstacles and set-backs on journey to better health, but by applying our grit, we can truly create the right sized body we desire.   With the questionnaire below, you can assess just how much grit you have right now. Then listen to the episode to learn just how to develop and apply grit achieve your health and weight loss goals. Let's get gritty, perennials!    What You’ll Learn in this Episode: What is grit? How do you know if you have grit? (find out by taking this questionnaire) Why do want it? How do you get it, develop it and apply it to your weight loss journey? The skill subsets y

When you have a growth mindset, you can accomplish anything. For instance, I can now say I’m a true ‘master’ because I’ve just obtained my master weight and life coach certification from The Life Coach School. It wasn’t easy to become a master and it was fraught with challenges, but thanks to my growth mindset I was victorious! All leaders use a growth mindset to achieve their goals, from politicians (we hope) to billionaires to your local business owner. (Click HERE for more on mindset) Just like the summer garden we talked about in Ep #21: Getting Your Body Summer Ready, you’re planted the seeds and have been nurturing your own growth mindset. Now you can put it all together to take the reigns of leadership in your journey to your right-sized body. If you like what you heard today, please go to Apple Podcasts and leave a revie. The more reviews we receive, the more women will learn about the podcast and learn from these lessons. If you know someone who is struggling with food, send them a link to the podc

If you’ve been listening to this podcast, then you know I’ve been talking about the importance mindset lately. (If you haven’t, then you want to start with THIS episode) You may have uncovered that other people are a trigger for your over-eating. Someone upsets you, so you grab a cookie in anger, and then another and another until you feel absolutely horrible. Or maybe your own negative self-talk drives you to the scenario. Yet, consuming your emotions creates more problems than it solves. If you find yourself upset with yourself or someone else and then using food to comfort yourself in that moment, then you probably have an Emotional Eating Manual like I did. You may have started writing it as a child, continually adding ever since without even realizing it. When other people don’t follow it, you feel unloved, unworthy and you reach for food to soothe those feelings.  If your manual isn't helping nurture yourself or your relationships then it's time to give it up. Ditching it will lead you on your path to

You’ve spent all day sticking to your food plan and following your weight loss protocol. Yet, when the sun is setting the urge to eat can be overwhelming. The highlight reel of your problems, your obstacles and challenges from the day begins to play in your mind, so you reach for the cookies. If only you had more willpower, you wouldn’t sabotage your path to a healthy body, right  Wrong! Unhealthy eating at the end of your day isn’t because you lack willpower at all. It’s because you have formed a habit. You reach for food to solve problems like stress, anxiety, or boredom. Well, perennials, you can the strategies I outline in this episode to create new habits and curb your desire to eat in the evening. With three simple steps, you’ll be on your way to your right-sized body and a happier, healthier, you. If you like what you heard today, please go to Apple Podcasts and leave a review. The more reviews we receive, the more women will learn about the podcast and learn from these lessons. If you know someone who

In this episode, I share the evolution of my own relationship with my body and my weight. From teen me to my current self, I share the roles that my mindset and my lifestyle played in weight journey. You may relate to the feelings and habits of my younger self and perhaps you still struggle in the area.       Yet, growing older doesn’t have to mean accepting bad habits and toxic relationships. It can be the time you intentionally decide to practice self-care and self-love to find peace of mind. It’s at this stage you finally have the freedom an authenticity to “do you,” as the saying goes. For me, turning 60 was an opportunity to redefine my life and relationship with food to create my right-sized body. With the right tools, the right mindset and right support, you, too, can create the life and body you’ve sought for years. And when you, trust me, it’s amazing! If you like what you heard today, please go to Apple Podcasts and leave a review.  The more reviews we receive, the more women will learn about the po

 I’ve been reflecting on the essential changes I’ve made in my life to cultivate health instead of struggle. I realize now that it was an awareness and understanding of my thoughts and feelings that allowed me create a healthy mindset for losing weight and healthy eating. The challenge and obstacles to wellness and my right sized body are gone. I found an effective strategy for crafting a healthy mindset in asking the right questions. A more beautiful question removes struggle from your mindset. If you’re stuck in your weight loss journey then you may not be asking yourself the right questions. In this episode, I share how you can use questions to get unstuck and move towards your right sized body goal.   What You’ll Learn in this Episode: The difference between empowering and disempowering questions How your brain (and mindset) responds to questions The value of asking the right types of questions The 3 important questions you should ask yourself every morning    Featured on the Show: A More Beautiful Ques

In order to have a healthy mindset, we must change from the inside out. In last week’s episode, Healthy Lifestyle Mindset – Part 1, we talked about how we can create a healthy mindset using science.  We learned how we can forge new neural pathways, building habits that serve our health and overall well-being. In Part 2 of Healthy Lifestyle Mindset, we build on the science by exploring the math and drama of weight loss. Our language, emotions and overall history with food and ultimately ourselves can create unnecessary drama that keeps us from being our best selves.  As we practice intentionally identifying and  removing the drama from the equation, we begin to make better, healthier choices. With intention and without the drama, we are free to create the results we truly desire.    If you like what you heard today, please go to Apple Podcasts and leave a review.  The more reviews we receive, the more women will learn about the podcast and learn from these lessons. If you know someone who is struggling with f

Losing weight is just the first step in becoming healthy and fit. We often make the commitment, but when confronted with temptation, our brains are programmed to give into in temptation. It’s the reason one slice of pizza can quickly turn to into three or more. We can become addicted to thinking and feeling certain ways even if it does us harm. Science tells us we have the power to prune out old neuropathways that don’t serve us, replacing them with new neuropathways that do. In part one of this two part series, I share how you can use this science to change your mindset and build lasting, healthy habits that serve our body and keep us successful in your weight loss journey. What You'll Learn from this Episode: What mindset actually means The 3 cause and effect chemicals for brain activity and bodily functioning How to create new neural pathways around eating healthy foods How to change your mind/body chemical State of Being Featured on the Show: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza Start

For me, summer used to be about getting my body ready for bikini season. It was always a struggle to feel comfortable and maintain my weight. Now in at the beautiful age of 65, the meaning of being summer ready has shifted from bikinis to health and vitality.   To help you in your summer readiness, I think the the analogy of you as a garden is perfect for cultivating your right-size body. We start preparing and nurturing our gardens in the spring. We tend to it all summer long to produce a bountiful harvest. Creating an abundant, joyful life requires the same preparation and nurturing, so our harvest is plentiful.   In this episode, I take you through the steps of preparing, planting, nurturing and maintaining the healthy garden of you. With a combination of whole foods, exercise, fun, self-care and creating simple plans, you’ll reap a healthy body and mind.     What You'll Learn from this Episode: The 5 steps for cultivating the garden of you The benefit of summer sun and exercise What kinds of simple plans

In this episode, you’re going to learn how a combination of your values, planning, and mindset will mean you can take your dream vacation and not fall off the wagon. It’s not going to be an easy concept to wrap your head around, but if you can plan other aspects of your life with purpose, why not your rest and relaxation too? Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.beauprecoaching.com/20

This week I have something special for all of you. I interviewed Ari Whitten; somebody who I greatly admire. It’s a long one, but this podcast is packed full of information on topics you may have never even considered would help you on your fitness journey. Tune in for incredibly in-depth insights into light-therapy and the effect that light has on our physical condition. Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.beauprecoaching.com/19