For 30 days, we'll focus on high-impact actions, gentle practices, and mindset shifts. You'll unlearn diet culture and start forming your holistic healthy weight practices (like how to eat without tracking your food). 

"The program as it's structured in the intense 4-week period exceeded my expectations. I honestly thought I wouldn't learn too much that was new to me, since I am a chronic 'over-researcher' and 'under-actor.' :) But I did very much take away new research and information, and the combination of live sessions and Facebook group interactions were very valuable."

- Andrea

We do this through a combination of daily individual work based on email action prompts from Rebecca,  focused weekly live meetings with your cohort members (12:00-2:00 p.m. EST) where we synergize our learning, and participation in our Facebook community.

We'll look at how you can approach your food, habits, and mindset so they all work together to create a lifelong JOYFUL practice tailored JUST FOR YOU. 

Details: 

• The LIVE classes will be held Saturdays in January (4, 11, 18, 25) from 12:00-2:00 p.m. EST (online, interactive classes).
• The community is offered as a Facebook group. 
• The daily action prompts arrive as an email (Monday-Friday) with a specific action.
• Live sessions and resources are available for six months (182 days).
• BONUS: Food Processing 101 mini-course
• This opportunity is limited to 25 participants.

3-5 hours/week for 4 weeks:

• At least 30 minutes, 5 days a week to complete course material and participate in the community.
• LIVE 1-hour group classes Saturdays in January (4, 11, 18, 25), 12:00-2:00 p.m. EST. 

"The live sessions and modules exceeded my expectations--I was surprised by how much I learned or how things I already knew landed in a different way."

- Lexi

Have you had the experience of taking in a great article or workshop and thinking, this makes sense? I'm going to do this thing! Only to find when you actually go to do the thing, it feels harder than it should. You feel pushed back and at square one.

That's because there are other factors at play creating friction that you aren't aware of.

Meeting together each week gives you a setting to bring that friction to light and leaves you with clarity on what to do about it.

I've seen so many shifts happen during live sessions that led to permanent changes. Which leads to permanent weight loss. That thing that feels elusive but is actually within your grasp.

It also offers a way to commune with others working out similar life challenges. We learn so much by hearing from others.

Our LIVE classes are offered each week on Saturday, 12:00-2:00 p.m. EST. You need to attend at least 3 of the 4 classes.

Definitely not. In order for the behaviors that lead to a healthy weight stick, they need to be woven into the fabric of your life (cue the fabric softener ad). 

It doesn't mean your family will be eating diet food (and neither will you). It means that the health-producing behaviors you'll come to love and rely on will naturally involve other people. We've got lots of strategies to help you transition the people in your life to partners in healthy living.

Fair question, especially since we've been taught to equate dieting and weight loss–they are NOT the same thing. There's a big difference between intention and deprivation.

A diet is designed to create immediate weight loss without regard to what you can sustain. We are the complete opposite. We focus on making the practices sustainable and let your weight follow. 

The answers are hiding in plain sight, but you need a new perspective to see them properly.

We approach weight as a holistic process.
This means your beliefs about yourself, emotional upheaval, inner life, time allocation, personal boundaries, ingrained stories, and much more are addressed. This is what makes it a unique and lasting process.

This program:

1. Is built to teach what you really need to learn. What that means is that after years of struggle and now, years of success, I identified all the parts you need to find lasting success and guide you through step-by-step.
2. Is specific for web-based learning because, in order for changes to be stable, buildable, and enduring, they have to happen inside your life. You learn in your home, in your day-to-day, in your body, and in your relationships. This is a grounding approach because that’s what’s necessary for long-term success.
3. Was developed by someone who's done it. You'll learn about losing weight without dieting traps but, more importantly, how you can keep it off. You can't find lasting success without that. 

Simple, but not easy.
I'll explain. Losing weight for good is about sorting through multiple aspects of your life, mindset, and environment.

We tend to think of weight loss as an internal personal matter. I either do the 'right' thing or do the 'wrong' thing, but that's not at all how it works. If you've been repeatedly frustrated by your inability to stick with something, make a 'good' choice, or stay away from sugar, let me tell you right now, you're operating on bad information.

That bad information encourages you to scrutinize your body and feel shame when you can't stick with a diet. You then go right back to the behaviors that keep you trapped in chronic weight gain. That cycle is utterly demoralizing, I probably don't have to tell you.

Back to simple, but not easy. Since there are quite a few things that need to be sorted through to produce lasting weight loss, I've taken great pains to make both the concepts and the actionable change simple to understand and execute.

"The course exceeded my expectations. All the material was presented in a thoughtful and clear way." Michelle K.

However (you knew there was a but), change of any kind is sometimes uncomfortable and requires effort. That's the why behind this program. It's a warm, simple, realistic path to finally sort through all the ways you're unwittingly creating weight gain and what to do about it.

On a final note, when has an easy solution to a lifelong problem ever worked?

No one is ever in a perfect state of readiness.

However, we've noticed a pattern among people who dive right in and see results.

They tend to share these characteristics. They:

1. Have a weight history that's mostly up with occasional periods of loss. The losses tend to be unstable because of how they were achieved.
2. Have some understanding of nutrition and a general interest in health. What's missing are the strategies to consistently apply their knowledge.
3. Ready to give up on diets and quick fixes. This is a big one. You've got to learn and stabilize yourself before losing weight.
   Value aging well. Will this next chapter bring infirmity or adventure? They're ready to invest in the latter.
4. Are ready to listen. Gaining weight often feels like an emergency. Then, the inevitable unsustainable diet.

This program requires patience and a willingness to keep an open mind. Then come the lasting results.

Glad you asked. Just buying this program will not magically transform you. I appreciate the business, but I am also invested in your long-term success.

As with any education, you'll get out of it what you put into it.

Be prepared to set aside time most days to read and watch the videos. We recommend 30 minutes, 5 days a week.
You'll be asked to do exercises and try new approaches to eating and movement. Stay open to trying new things.
Come to a least 3 of the 4 LIVE classes. That's an additional one hour per week.

This program isn't a simplistic diet you can do in 15 minutes a day and that's why it works (for a lifetime). Leave time to take in the material and apply it to your life. The transformation is in the doing.

It's for anyone who struggles to keep a healthy weight and wants to learn once and for all what it means to take care of themselves.

It can be just as distressing to never be able to get a handle on 20 pounds as 50. Not only that, but they're essentially the same problem. One has been allowed to accumulate for longer.

It's also for anyone modeling weight and health to the next generation. If you want to end the painful legacy of dieting and self-denial, this approach will help you create a new story about weight and self-care.

Not necessarily.

At some point, we all have health issues to contend with. You need to be able to move each day, not work out (unless that’s what you like), but move; walking, biking, swimming, stretching.

You could start without doing the movement and bring it in as you heal. No two people progress the same way because we all have different lives and bodies.

Definitely.

If you can eat real food (as close to its natural state as possible), you’ll be able to eat for the program and beyond.

You’ll never be asked to eat things you don’t like. You will experiment with new foods for ease of preparation and pleasure.

You can:

1. Post in the community forum.

2. Email us directly. Monday-Friday we offer a 24-hour turnaround time.

3. Bring it group meetings.

So, lots.

No, you haven't. You've tried a whole bunch of things that were all diet-culture products. 

What do I mean?

• Apps
• Food tracking
• Carb restriction
• Fasting

It doesn't matter how they're packaged. They all artificially and temporarily restrict your eating and remove your internal locus of control.

"I cannot tell you how different this was and how much it put me in control of my weight, food, and exercise choices.

It's fundamentally different from everything I tried - and 1000% better."

Elizabeth 

I get it. Take a moment to check in with yourself and see if those feelings of defeat come from quitting diets. If so, you were right to drop them. What was being asked of you was unsustainable. Failing at diets doesn’t determine your success with this program or anything else.

While we’re at it, let’s reframe what success means. Since this isn’t a diet, it isn’t about putting immediate pressure on yourself to lose weight. Yes, that’s important, but the immediate goal is to learn. And I have a hunch you’re an excellent learner.  

I approach teaching and coaching this program as a step-by-step process; because of that, it’s designed to create small wins that build (and last).

We also know it’s completely normal to have more and less focus while doing a program. We’ve built periods of engagement and rest. And, there’s a reason you get lifetime access–because this is a lifetime process. We regularly update the program with new insights and resources. When you feel ready to learn or need a refresher, it’s there for you.

Have you had the experience of taking in a great article or workshop and thinking, this makes sense? I'm going to do this thing! Only to find when you actually go to do the thing, it feels harder than it should. You feel pushed back and at square one.

That's because there are other factors at play creating friction that you aren't aware of.

Group coaching is effective because each week, it gives you a setting to bring that friction to light and leaves you with clarity on what to do about it.

I've seen so many shifts happen during group coaching that led to permanent changes. Which leads to permanent weight loss. That thing that feels elusive but is actually within your grasp.

It also offers a way to commune with others working out similar life challenges. We learn so much by hearing from others.

That’s exactly right, which is why this program isn’t a prescriptive diet. One size fits all approaches mean two things:

• Many important things are left out.
• It doesn’t fit you at all.

The idea isn’t to replicate what I do. That’s me and my life. You need a way to see and understand your lived experience.

Through my experience, years of research, and working with members, I’ve developed a process that shows you how to handle the issues inside your own life and build the healthy weight practices you love.

Me too! Each of us has a unique body that is more or less responsive to hoarding energy (my way of describing weight gain). In ancient times we would’ve been very successful humans (able to live on a single berry for a week!). Now it adds a bit of challenge, but it’s more manageable than you think. A decade past my fifty-pound loss, I still put on weight really easily, but for minor fluctuations, I don’t. We’ve been oversold setpoints, metabolism issues, and way undersold correcting (or engineering) our personal environments. 

But, have you gained it back each time? This is NOT a diet, it's a recipe for lifelong weight loss - a formula that you tailor to YOUR life with simple actionable steps you can practice every day. Diets are about restriction. Our approach is about enjoying each and every meal and never feeling deprived.

I’ll let you fill that one in (go to the gym/eat more salads/quit takeout). It’s so tempting to simplify the barriers to a healthy weight by telling ourselves stories about how one day we’ll do ‘what’s right.’ 

That reductive thinking keeps people trapped in bodies that don’t feel good. I know from experience lasting weight loss isn’t about narrowly addressing one or two things. 

It’s about deeply reframing the issues and then changing the right things.

Confession, I find the gym really boring. If what I had to do to keep the weight off was get on an elliptical every day, it wouldn’t have worked. No, thanks. You can add to that list 90% of the workouts I see advertised.

Speaking of which we are so heavily marketed to we can’t even entertain the idea that organic, joyful movement that results in a healthy weight exists outside of pre-conceived workouts. I would tell you they do and that sane approach is part of what I teach.

I’ll leave you with this: fitness isn’t a thing you buy. It’s something you cultivate.