Words to Lose by
autor: Amy Grisdale
55 - Don't Give up What You Want Most for What You Want Now
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A weekly dissection of a different popular weight loss mantra to help us learn and grow in our journey towards self-improvement. Host Amy Grisdale lost more than half her bodyweight in 2021 and has maintained it ever since. All she wants now is to help other people enrich their lives by loving themselves more and develop a better relationship with their body.
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- 55 - Don't Give up What You Want Most for What You Want Now · 53 minPerspective is so important. When we’re hungry, craving something or at our emotional tether, we lose sight of the full picture. We’re zoomed in all the way on that moment, not…
- 54 - Trust the Process · 38 minSometimes our efforts feel like they aren’t working. Even worse, we can be so convinced that the process can’t work for us that we’re reluctant to try. The trust is vital. That’s…
- Bonus Minisode - Be Wonderful · 20 minI have long aspired to be wonderful in every sense of the word. Striving to get there was part of the challenge, but the hardest bit was changing how I saw myself. When I was…
- 53 - Make it Right, Don't Make it Worse · 43 minIt's so tempting to let a problem slide, be it an issue at work, a relationship that isn't working or our food habits. The thought of tackling things head on can be so…
- 52 - You Can't Outrun a Bad Diet · 27 minShort episode alert! It’s pretty straightforward. High calorie food is simply too high calorie to fit into a balanced diet in anything other than a small quantity. Sometimes we…
- 51 - The Impossible is Conquered by the Obstinate Repetition of the Possible · 38 minYou might be convinced it’s impossible to lose weight. You feel like you’ve tried everything, but nothing changes. Having spent 10 years at double the healthy weight of someone…
- OPPOSITE DAY - bEiNg oVeRwEiGhT iS a cHoIcE · 43 minI can see why people think this, particularly if they themselves have never been overweight. As someone who’s been through it I understand how we can wind up with weight problems…
- 50 - Don't Wish for it, Work for it · 37 minIt would be lovely if there were magical solutions to our problems. Sadly, that’s beyond the realm of possibility. What is possible though, is starting the work. It might not…
- 49 - Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail · 42 minLosing weight can be a battle, but having a plan can shield you from the hardest blows. Personally, I succumb to my urges to overeat the quickest when I haven’t planned a healthy…
- 48 - Watch Your Habits, Not Your Weight · 44 minA common pitfall in weight loss is to get side tracked by your goal weight. I would stand on the scale every day and do the mental maths to see how far away I was from success…
- 47 - If it Doesn’t Challenge You, it Doesn’t Change You · 43 minLosing weight the natural way is a struggle. But in that fight, you get stronger. You change. You end up a new person. You emerge from the battle ready to face the rest of your…
- OPPOSITE DAY - SwEaT iS fAt CrYiNg · 46 minThis is yet another piece of toxic diet culture that I think has the potential to do more harm than good. I’ve relied on it myself for far too long. It sends the message to my…
- 46 - What Do You Want More? · 40 minYou can ask yourself this question every time you make a food decision. You might want the snack, but you might well want to lose weight more. It's up to you to decide. If you’re…
- 45 - Abs are Made in the Kitchen · 43 minYes, it’s cliché. But the fact that diet is the most important factor in weight loss can never be repeated enough. So many of us eat too many calories to stay at a healthy…
- 44 - Be the Fit Girl You Want to be · 39 minYou might think once you get to your goal weight, you’ll be able to become a whole new person. Why wait? In fact, shifting how you view yourself can both create new habits and…
- 43 - Give it a Minute · 39 minArrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz gives such fantastic advice on writing comedy that it’s applicable to other areas of life. This line was about not scrapping your…
- 42 - Fitness is in the Mind · 1 godz. 1 minI concede, it’s not all in the mind. But so much of being in shape is mental, some say as high as 90%. Even if you feel like you have no fitness, you are still the owner of a…
- 41 - Nobody Else Can Do it For You · 37 minI always imagined being able to afford a trainer to whip me into shape. I thought that would make it easier. But it doesn’t. Weight loss is hard, even with someone else there…
- BONUS - Myths to Bust by · 26 minEverybody knows I love a good debunk, so this week I’ve taken time to address some rumours I’ve heard about calories. The rumour in question came from AI, so maybe it’s my own…
- 40 - Nothing in Nature Blooms All Year Round, So Don’t Expect Yourself to · 41 minWe have high expectations of ourselves. We’ve been programmed to believe we need to get up and give 100% every day if we want to succeed. But that’s not how nature works. Nothing…







