Episode #14: Losing Weight Without Willpower

Summary

Decades of push-pull, fad diets, as well as counting and restricting calories have led to diet brains. Your diet brain relies on willpower to make action plans and muscle through. You may even find that this works… or at least, it works until it doesn’t. Well, it’s time to release the reins on willpower forever, and I’m showing you how in this episode.

We all have willpower. I like to think of it as a bank account that gets filled up every Monday morning. But by the end of the week, it gets depleted and by Friday evening you’re left with the tattered crumbs of what used to be. This is totally normal for our human brains, but why is it that those high reserves disappear so quickly, and what can we do about it?

Tune in this week to discover what willpower actually is and why we use it. I’m sharing why this reliance on willpower presents such a problem, how it’s preventing you from achieving permanent weight loss, and of course, I’m sharing how you can start to lose weight sustainably without relying on willpower.

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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Why it’s no surprise that using willpower throughout the day leaves your human brain fatigued by the evening.
• How the countless decisions you have to make every day leaves your willpower depleted.
• Where I’ve tried relying on willpower in the past, and what turned things around.
• How to see the things you’re trying to force yourself to do using willpower as your only fuel.
• The deeper problem with relying on willpower and then quitting when we start to fatigue our reserves.
• Why relying on willpower to lose weight means you’re feeling resistance, looking for a chance to quit.
• Where the resistance you’re feeling is coming from, and what you can do about it.
• One tangible step you can start taking right now to begin recognizing and releasing your diet brain.

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