The Grey Area of Fat Loss Goals with Lucia Hawley, NTP

With all the stigma surrounding diet culture, diets, and ethics, it can be difficult to know how to approach weight loss with your clients. Luckily, there are women out there like Lucia Hawley who take an ethical approach to healthy, sustainable, and long-term weight loss.  Healthy Fat-Loss  Lucia explains how she works with her clients on more than just mindset in order to truly have weight loss success. The approach she takes looks at mindset, underlying health problems, and disconnecting from diet culture and previously held beliefs in order to reframe thoughts. The best tip Lucia has for sustainable weight loss is consistency. Consistently taking steps to lose weight, while also recognizing that there might be periods where following the diet principles don't align with your personal values are also okay. Lucia says that she encourages her clients to reframe their mindset around setting and reaching the goals they want because when they do this, they're more likely to be successful. This approach can be useful for more than just weight loss goals as well! Lucia is also a big proponent of self-talk and using this technique as a way to reframe how we think about what we want and what we're doing. By practicing self-talk, we can actually start to understand how and why we're behaving and reacting in the ways that we are. But diets actually appeal to people for so many reasons. It's that "shiny, new toy" syndrome that so many of us experience combined with the initial response in weight loss by our body. However, this response is unlikely to last long-term unless we alter our mindset about health, wellbeing, and weight-loss. Lucia says that we need to treat ourselves the way we treat other people, with love and compassion, rather than the criticism that's so much more common. When we start treating ourselves kindly, we can see other motivators for weight loss, because, let's face it, shame is not a viable weight-loss tactic. What kind of decisions and habits can you make today that will allow you to reach the goal that you eventually want to reach? Let me know in the comments on the episode page!   In This Episode Why solely doing mindset work might not solve what's going on in your body if you have a gut problem How you can truly disconnect from diet culture Why you should focus on consistency when it comes to losing weight How you can reframe your mindset around setting and reaching your goals for maximum success What self-talk is and what role it has in reframing how we think about what we want Why diets appeal to so many people What happens when you treat yourself with the love and compassion you show other people What some of the other motivators are you can use to start losing weight   Quotes "For people who are starting to step out of being immersed in diet culture without consent, it's just this world we've grown up in and when we're stepping out of it, I think we have to make space to have conversations around things like fat loss, body image, and body composition without feeling like we have to swing from one extreme to another." (21:14) "No matter what we do - period - in business and in life, our actions are always going to trigger other people. It's up to them whether they want to share that with us." (29:34) "Self-talk in terms of appetite, to me, just means that we have to recognize the stories we're telling ourselves, respect the fact where those come from, and then hold our own hands." (46:38) "Once you have the gameplan, it's about being present with experiences and trusting the process." (55:54)   Links Find Lucia Hawley Online Listen to The Devoured Podcast Follow Lucia Hawley on Instagram | Facebook Running an online health business? Join the 2020 Inner Circle Mastermind Got a question you'd love to hear me answer on the show? Leave me a voice message here! Join the Fed and Fearless Society on Facebook Follow me on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Pinterest