Lose Weight. Live Life. Podcast
174 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIf you are a busy professional or entrepreneur who would do anything to lose weight, and yet finds it impossible to stick to a diet, to eat less, or just what you know you should, this podcast is for you.
Listen in to learn how to stop overeating, lose weight for the last time and create a relationship with food that you love. All without diet deprivation and self-sabotage.
Listen in to discover how to…
- take time out for you – without taking anything away from your work or relationships
- reduce your hunger for food
- become the boss of your food brain so that it is easier to make healthier food choices that take you close to your weight goals
- manage your mind so that you do not desire food so much or feel deprived
- end emotional eating
- put yourself first without taking anyway away from your work or relationships
Your host is Clair MacKenzie, a certified life, health, and weight loss coach.
Clair uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help successful women, who are ‘done with dieting’, take control of their eating and create a relationship with food and themselves that they love. Clair lost 6 stone after struggling with her own weight for decades and decided to follow her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives. Before she was a coach, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles.
Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about the power of mindset to help women transform their lives.
You can find out more about Clair and her coaching programs at https://www.thebestyou.coach.
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Episodes
#24 - How to eat to lose weight when you’re not dieting
January 15, 2021 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBWhen I was struggling to lose my weight, I used to think that losing weight through not dieting was just another way of eating a healthy balanced diet, without all the extras, and to me that still felt like a diet. Now I understand that it’s much less about what and how you’re eating and more about your approach, and how you’re thinking and feeling about what you’re eating. Join me on this episode to explore the three key differences between dieting and eating to lose weight...
#23 - Weighing Yourself
January 08, 2021 06:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBToday we explore your thoughts and feelings about weighing yourself. We consider why we sometimes avoid weighing ourselves, why we sometimes weigh ourselves every day, or why we feel that once a week is the right thing to do. And we explore the idea that how often you weigh yourself is far less important than the relationship you have with your scales. So, if you’re curious about why you feel the way that you do when you get on the scales, or if you you’re not weighing...
#22 - Weight goals for the New Year
January 01, 2021 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBSo, if you’re reading this your survived 2020! Congratulations! So, what’s next? What are your intentions for 2021? One thing that I’ve discovered this year is that no matter what happens in my life, and I’m talking about those things over which I have no control, I can cope and show up in better support of others when I am taking excellent care of myself. So, I would love for you to consider a journey of self-care and creating a relationship with food that you l...
#21 - Food and your relationship with others
December 18, 2020 06:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBOn this episode we look at the sway or influence that your relationship with food has over your relationship with other people, whether they are family, friends or colleagues, and vice versa. So we also explore how your different relationships with other people impact what and how you eat. Have you given much thought to this? Do you eat differently, or talk about food differently, depending on who you are with? Do you have some friends who you are more likely to overindulge with t...
#20 - Christmas thought errors
December 11, 2020 06:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBIn this episode I talk to you about Christmas thought errors. What if I told you the reason that you, me or the average woman gains weight over Christmas has little to do with the parties and celebrations and the special Christmas foods available, and far more to do with a person’s thoughts, mindset and beliefs about Christmas. Your thoughts about Christmas parties and celebrations, Christmas food, family members and friends you see at Christmas and the perspective you have ...
#19 - Overcoming Overwhelm
December 04, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBIn this episode I talk to you about overwhelm. Overwhelm is something that many of us experience much of the time, but it can be especially prevalent at this time of year. Overwhelm is an emotion, a feeling which is a one-word description of a vibration in your body. There is no upside to overwhelm, it does not help us to get things done or be more productive, in fact it’s just the opposite. Overwhelm keeps us spinning our wheels and stuck. It prevents us getting stuff do...
#18 Coaching Support Systems
November 27, 2020 06:00 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBIn this episode I talk about weight coaching and life coaching and how you can use weight and life coaching tools to coach yourself. We explore the different options available to you, if you’re interested in private coaching or joining a small or large group programme for coaching, accountability, help and support. And I share a little about how life and weight coaching has helped me create a more intentional life. About Clair: CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COAC...
#17 - Taking care of you
November 20, 2020 06:00 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBSelf-care is more than being about just what we do. Who we are being, and what I mean by that is, how we’re thinking and feeling about taking care of ourselves is crucial. When we shift from thinking of, we’re at the bottom of the priority list, to being worth taking care of, as a matter of high priority – then doing the actions becomes so much easier. So, what keeps us from taking better care of ourselves? In this episode, first we explore how our belief systems, our...
#16 - Emotions to help you lose weight
November 13, 2020 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBIn today’s episode we take another look at emotion. So many women tell me how desperate they are to lose weight and then say that the reason that they can’t do it, is because they don’t feel motivated. Emotional awareness is an import part of the work that I do with clients because emotions are the reasons for everything that we want or don’t want to do in life, everything that we want to have or not have. And it’s important because it will be hard to figure out your e...
#15 - Snacking
November 06, 2020 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBToday’s episode is all about snacking. Your body and brain are not well adapted to the habit of snacking between meals. Snacking may well be the cultural norm, but that doesn’t mean that it’s good for you. When food is concentrated and refined in the way that many snack foods are, they become more desirable because of the dopamine surge response in your brain. In this episode we explore habitual snacking patterns and the steps you can take to change them. If your...
#14 - When Life Doesn't Go To Plan
October 30, 2020 06:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBToday’s episode is all about when life doesn’t go to plan. Right now, October 2020 every single one of us has experienced a year of unfulfilled plans and research is showing that people in the UK are more discontented now, more than at any other time this year. And that research has shown that uncertainty around what’s to come and challenges with making plans in life are contributing to that. So in this episode we take a look at how our brain thinks our future is more uncert...
#13 Making it easier to lose weight
October 23, 2020 05:00 - 22 minutes - 21.6 MBToday’s episode is all about how to choose what and how you eat carefully, so that your body is ‘fat adapted’. When you are fat adapted your body is efficient at using its own fat as a source of fuel and energy. And this is what you want when you’re losing weight because, not only will the weight come off more easily, but it will be easier not to overeat because you will feel less hungry. But unfortunately, many of us, especially those of us who are overweight, are not fat a...
#12 When you think you can't lose weight
October 16, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBIn this episode I talk to you about the reasons you can’t lose weight and how to overcome them. We consider how medical and physical challenges, life-style difficulties, having an out-dated diet mentality and your thoughts about yourself and your own abilities are keeping you stuck. We then look at how we can apply Dan Sullivan’s 4 C's Formula ™. Dan identified a series of stages that successful people go through every time they achieve a new breakthrough in their lives. I explore...
#11 Creating momentum with ending overeating
October 09, 2020 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBOur inability to lose weight as quickly as we would like is one of the greatest challenges, we face with weight loss. With learning most skills, we know that the more time we put into it, the more we concentrate that time, the quicker we get the results. For example, when learning to drive we can choose to take a lesson a week for maybe 4 or 5 months, or we can go on a one-week intensive course and expedite our results. And we cannot do that with weight loss. Ev...
#10 Living your best life
October 02, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBWhat does it mean to live your best life? In today's episode we explore that question and consider how it's less about what you have and do, and more about who you are being. We look at how, when you are regularly eating to feel better, it's a sign that you have an opportunity to make your life better. When life's amazing you don't need food as a copying mechanism or to look forward to at the end of the day. And it's not necessarily about changing your life, sometimes just c...
#9 Thinking You're Not Good Enough
September 25, 2020 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBBeing self-critical is a part of being human. And when we are overweight or obese, often we link our thoughts about not being good enough to our weight and our inability to lose it, or our inability to lose it and maintain that loss. The problem with doing this, with thinking negative thoughts about ourselves when we tend to use food to help us to feel better, is that we are making the situation worse. We are adding fuel to the fire. When we tell our selves things that...
#8 Feeling compelled to eat
September 18, 2020 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBOn today's episode I talk about what's happening when you feel compelled to eat, and what you can do about it. Most of us often feel compelled to eat things, knowing that it has nothing to do with physical hunger. Oftentimes we think something will taste really good so we desire it, and sometimes maybe we're feeling frustrated and want something to take our mind of what we're frustrated about, or maybe we're feeling in need of some comfort and we want those foods that make u...
#7 Eating your feelings
September 11, 2020 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBEverything that you do, and everything that you don’t do in your life is determined by how you think doing or not doing those things will feel. Each time you decide to eat something it’s because of you think, eating whatever it is, will impact how you are feeling. You might want to eat something because you believe the taste will be pleasurable. You might want to eat something because you are feeling discomfort and eating whatever it is will take you out of the discomfort and ...
#6 A New Normal
September 04, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBToday’s episode explores ‘normal eating’. I look at what ‘normal eating’ is and consider why we may be wrong when we think that we want to eat like a normal person. Then I show you what creates your thoughts around what is ‘normal’ when it comes to food and eating. And finally we take a look at how we are influenced by others because of our thoughts about what’s normal and what’s expected. CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTR...
#5 When you feel conflicted
August 28, 2020 08:25 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBSo today I am talking to you about when you feel conflicted over food choices. Maybe this shows up for you at the end of the day when you promised yourself you would eat healthily but you desperately want something sweet or a glass of wine as a treat, and you’ve worked really hard so you deserve it. Or maybe you notice it most when you’re out for a meal and everyone else is ordering dessert and a part of you wants dessert and a part of you wishes you could be strong ...
#4 How to eat right for you
August 11, 2020 13:37 - 16 minutes - 15 MBToday’s show is all about how to eat right for you. Many of us tend to feel deprived and restricted when we go on a diet because we tell our selves we’re not allowed certain foods. Today I talk to you about why you want to create your own way of eating that isn't about losing weight as quickly as possible by restricting what you eat in a way that feels depriving, but is about creating a way of eating that feels like self-love, because it enables you to get to, and ma...
#3 Why you eat when you don’t want to
August 11, 2020 13:30 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBToday I am talking about why you eat when you don’t want to. And what I mean by that is; why is it that a part of you wants to eat and a part of you doesn’t. I used to be desperate to lose weight. I knew what foods to eat and what foods not to eat. I loved fruit and vegetables and yet I still ate chocolate and ice cream. I still had too many crisps and dips on a Friday night. And when I ate these foods, sometimes I would feel conflicted and other times I would simply forget tha...
#2 What is weight loss mindset?
August 11, 2020 13:27 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBToday we explore what a weight loss mindset is and why you want to have one. We consider the reason you’ve not lost your weight yet, or not managed to lose it without regaining it yet, is because you’re not thinking thoughts, and nor do you hold beliefs, that create those weight loss results. And I teach you how to use a mindset framework called THE MODEL to help you shift your weight loss mindset so that you can create the weight loss, the relationship with food and ...
#1 Welcome to the Lose Weight. Live Life. podcast
August 11, 2020 13:21 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBWelcome to the very first episode of The Lose Weight Live Life podcast. I am SO excited to be bringing you this show. It’s my passion in life to help women who are struggling to lose weight because I know how frustrating and miserable that can be. This isn’t a podcast about telling you what to eat and how to fit exercise into you already busy life. This is a podcast that’s going to help you transform your relationship with food and yourself, whilst you create a life y...