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Body Like You

by Aimee Richardson

This podcast is for everyone who is tired of thinking about food all the time with nothing to show for it. Join me as we go deeper than what's on your plate into the brain skills that result in real change. You don't need another nutrition coach telling you to eat more vegetables or that we all have the same 24-hours in a day. Real change starts in your brain by changing your thoughts about your body and yourself. This is mindset coaching on steriods!

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  1. 54. REWIND: Your Inner Critic Is Not Your Enemy: How to Coexist with that Nasty Voice Inside of Your Head

    Work with Aimee: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition While I’m away on vacation (and enjoying a head cold without a voice), please enjoy this replay of one of my most popular episodes, all about your inner critic. You know the voice. It pipes up after a...

  2. 53. The Dreamy Why: Why Your Motivation Should Be Selfish

    Join my free workshop: The Problem Is Not Your Plate 📅 Tuesday, October 6, 2026 🕕 6pm Central / 7pm Eastern 💻 Live on Zoom (I'll send the replay to everyone who registers) In the workshop, I'm going deeper into the behavior patterns and brain tools that help you change how you eat without...

  3. 52. The Big Mindset Shift for High Achievers that Leads to Forever Fat Loss

    Join my free workshop: The Problem Is Not Your Plate 📅 Tuesday, October 6, 2026 🕕 6pm Central / 7pm Eastern 💻 Live on Zoom (I'll send the replay to everyone who registers) This episode is just the starting point. In the workshop, I'm going deeper into the behavior patterns and brain tools that...

  4. 51. The Insecure Overachiever: Why Food Feels So Hard for This Personality Type

    Join my FREE LIVE Masterclass: The Problem Is Not Your Plate for people with Type A personalities who excel at everything but food. If you're disciplined in every part of your life but your weight, you don't need more food facts, You need to work with your brain to do what you know you should be...

  5. 50. Why the Scale Has So Much Power Over You (And How to Take It Back)

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] Want more of me? Join my email newsletter ❤️ IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! We all have a story about the scale. For some of us that number can end a day before it's begun, decide...

  6. 49. Calories Are Not Your Enemy

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] Want more of me? Join my email newsletter ❤️ IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! Calories have a terrible reputation, and it's costing us. This week, I make the case that calories…

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  7. 48. "I Know What to Do, I Just Don't Do It": How to Create Your Own Motivation

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] Want more of me? Join my email newsletter ❤️ IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! You dominate everything else in your life: your career, your finances, your workouts. So why does food...

  8. 47. You're Not Failing, You're Just Human: The Truth About Self-Trust and Fat Loss

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] Want more of me? Join my email newsletter ❤️ IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! In this episode of Body Like You, I'm talking about self-trust, and why the way most of us define it is...

  9. 46. It's Ridiculously Easy to Eat Enough Protein (Yes, even for you)

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition Want more of me? Join my email newsletter ❤️ "It's impossible for normal people to hit 100 grams of protein." "Protein's overrated. You only need 50 or 60 grams." I've been hearing...

  10. 45. Why "I Already Blew It" Feels So True: 5 Fat Loss Brain Glitches

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! You mess up one meal and think, "Well, I've already blown it, so it doesn't matter what I eat now." It feels completely true in the moment, and it's…

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  11. 44. Debriefing: The Brain Tool That Ends the Restrict-Binge Cycle

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition Enjoying the podcast? I'd love to hear from you! Ever ended a weekend of overeating by promising you'll "start over on Monday"? In this episode of Body Like You, I teach…

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  12. 43. Obstacle Prediction: How to Solve Food Problems Before They Happen

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! In this episode of Body Like You, I'm teaching one of the simplest and most powerful brain tools I know: obstacle prediction. It's something I use in...

  13. 42. How to Be A C Student: Why Perfectionists Don't Lose Weight

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! If you've ever gone all-in on a diet, nailed it for two weeks, then quit the second you slipped, this episode explains why. I tell the story of the...

  14. 41. Radical Responsibility for Feeding Yourself

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! In this episode of Body Like You, I’m talking about what I call radical responsibility for feeding yourself: the decision to stop letting busy...

  15. 40. Why Eating Clean Is An Emotional Crutch That Isn't Helping You Lose Body Fat

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! In this episode of Body Like You, Aimee talks about the emotional tension around calories, clean eating, and fat loss. Many people come to fat loss...

  16. 39. Are You Chasing Fat Loss...or Approval and Admiration?

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you!

  17. 38. Thoughts That Encourage Self-Sabotage: It Shouldn't Be This Hard

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! Why do “easy” healthy habits sometimes feel so hard? In this episode, we’re breaking down one of the most common limiting beliefs in sustainable fat...

  18. 37. Why Exercising to Burn Calories Keeps You Stuck

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! What if exercising to burn calories is actually keeping you stuck? In this episode of Body Like You, we’re rethinking fat loss, calorie burn…

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  19. 36. Thoughts That Encourage Self-Sabotage: It's Not Fair That She Can Eat Whatever She Wants

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! Have you ever looked at someone who seems to eat whatever they want, stay effortlessly thin, and thought, “It’s so unfair”? In this episode, I unpack...

  20. 35. What If You're Too Close to Your Own Patterns With Eating To See What Actually Needs To Change?

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! What if the thing keeping you stuck isn’t a lack of discipline, but the fact that you’re too close to your own patterns to see what actually needs to...

  21. 34. Thoughts That Encourage Self-Sabotage: I've Worked So Hard, Fat Loss Should Have Happened By Now

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition And I'd love to hear from you! In this episode, we’re unpacking the Heaven’s Reward Fallacy and how it quietly sabotages fat loss, body image, and long-term behavior change. If...

  22. 33. Maycember's Here Again! How to Stop Abandoning Your Body When Life is Crazy.

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition In this episode, I’m talking about what happens to your health habits when life gets chaotic, especially during the end-of-school-year madness of Maycember. After a family medical...

  23. 32. Thoughts that Encourage Self-Sabotage: Nothing Has Ever Worked for Me, and This Won't Either

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition In this episode, Aimee unpacks one of the most painful and common limiting beliefs around body change: “Nothing has ever worked for me, and this won’t either.” This belief often...

  24. 31. Thoughts that Encourage Self-Sabotage: I Can't Change Because of Other People

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition In this episode, Aimee explores one of the most common limiting beliefs that keeps people stuck: “I can’t change because of other people.” Aimee unpacks how fears about upsetting...

  25. 30. Bought Sense: Why Failure Is the Cost of Real Change With Your Body and Everything Else

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition Happy eating!! Have you ever noticed how babies fail over and over in their efforts to walk, but never quit? Even if they have a few tantrums along the way? Imagine if babies could...

  26. 29. Why “I Deserve This” Is Keeping You Stuck

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimee.nutrition Happy eating!! Have you ever gotten to the end of a horrible week or a bad day at work and said, "I deserve to DoorDash?" Or if you're out to eat with your friends, do you get...

  27. 28. Liking Your Body On Vacation Part 3

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimeer Happy eating!! This episode is packed with practical tips for eating well on vacation without overcomplicating it. We cover simple ways to stay more consistent while still enjoying your…

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  28. 27. Liking Your Body On Vacation - Part 2

    For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimeer Happy eating!! In this episode of Body Like You, Aimee shares practical tools for improving body image on vacation and navigating the emotional challenges that can come with beach trips,...

  29. 26. Liking Your Body On Vacation - Part 1

    I would love to see if we'd work well together! For 1:1 coaching inquiries, find me: Web: framenutrition.co Email: [email protected] IG: @coachaimeer Why does body image get worse on vacation? In this episode, Aimee explores the psychology of body image on vacation and explains why so many...

  30. 25. Summer Body Anxiety: How to Build Real Body Confidence Without Crash Dieting

    The weather is getting hotter, and your next vacation is on the horizon. Maybe you're planning something involving bikinis or swim trunks. And while that sounds like a lot of fun, you're also feeling a bit nervous about how you look in a bathing suit. Or, maybe you feel a general sense of body...

  31. 24. Urge Surfing for Cravings: A Self-Compassion Approach to Emotional Eating.

    Hey friends! We're back for a second week talking about cravings and how to manage them. And if you know anything about behavior change, you already know you're not going to hear anything about willpower or discipline here. But managing cravings and emotional eating does require the willingness…

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  32. 23. The Wanting is Not the Liking: Cravings and Food Noise 101

    Happy eating, everyone. This week I'm kicking off a little series on the part of pleasure eating that tends to upset everyone. It's the compulsive, relentless drive to eat things that we know aren't the best for our bodies or don't align with our goals. Most of us have experienced cravings, and...

  33. 22. Can You Want to Look Better and Be Healthy Without Damaging Your Body Image?

    Happy eating, everyone! This week I'm talking about a very common fight I see in the online health and wellness community. On one side, you have people who say, "It's perfectly normal to work out for vanity." or "Everyone works out too look good. Stop pretending." On the other side, you have…

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  34. 21. Why Do Scale Fluctuations Still Upset Me Even When I Know They’re Normal?

    If you’ve ever watched the scale jump up and instantly felt your mood drop, even while your rational brain says “it’s just water weight," this episode is for you. We break down why intellectualizing scale fluctuations doesn’t calm the emotional hit, especially when fat loss is your goal and the...

  35. 20. People Versus Food: A quick tool to help you reorient yourself when food noise is yelling for your attention

    Hi friends! Aimee's back, post-laryngitis Ever notice how food can hijack your attention at parties, dinners, or restaurants—especially when you’re a food-focused person? In this episode, we unpack a simple mindfulness tool called “People vs Food” to help you decide in advance whether a social...

  36. 19. Why Body Comparison Happens And How to Stop the Spiral

    Have you ever been mid-workout, feeling strong, energized, proud? Then you glance in the mirror, see someone with the perfect body, and your mood drops instantly? That jealousy-anger-sadness-shame spiral is more common than you think, and it isn’t proof you’re a bad person. In this episode, Aimee...

  37. 18. Why Perfectionism Keeps You Stuck (and What to Do Instead)

    When perfectionism shows up, it doesn’t just raise your standards, it tries to protect you from vulnerability, judgment, and uncomfortable emotions. In this episode, Aimee shares how quickly the brain can turn “not perfect” into “this will be a failure.” You’ll learn why intellectualizing often...

  38. 17. Do You Actually Need a “Perimenopause Plan” to Take Care of Your Body?

    Perimenopause has become one of the loudest and confusing conversations in health and wellness In this episode, Aimee Richardson cuts through the noise to unpack what’s actually happening to your body during perimenopause, and what’s just fear-based marketing designed to sell you supplements,...

  39. 16. If you want to enjoy more discipline, you have to start with more capacity first.

    Discipline isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something that emerges when you have the capacity to change. In this episode, Aimee reframes discipline as an outcome, not a personality trait, and introduces a more compassionate, sustainable approach to behavior change. Instead of relying on...

  40. 15. What if discipline isn’t about willpower, grit, or suffering at all?

    In this episode of Body Like You, Aimee challenges the cultural belief that discipline is a personality trait reserved for “good” or “hardworking” people. Instead, she breaks down the psychology of behavior change, explaining why knowing what to do with nutrition, exercise, or body image rarely...

  41. 14. What Your 2026 Goals Are Really About: Leverage the Psychology of Motivation to Get What You Want (and Need)!

    t’s a new year, and once again, your body goals are calling. In this episode of Body Like You, Aimee breaks down why wanting to change your body often comes with resistance, mixed emotions, and frustration — especially when it comes to weight loss, fat loss, exercise, dieting, and health goals —...

  42. 13. First Listener Q&A! Mind Body Lag: Why You Still Feel Bigger After Weight Loss + What Supplements and Protein Powder I Use

    What happens when your body changes but your brain has not caught up yet? In this Q&A-style episode of Body Like You, Aimee explores mind body lag, also known as phantom fatness, a common experience after weight loss, body composition changes, or dieting. She explains why you may feel larger than...

  43. 12. How Treating Your Body Like a Person Creates Lasting Self-Compassion

    What if the key to taking care of your body wasn’t more motivation, but a better relationship? In this episode, Aimee introduces a powerful reframe: treating your body as if it were another person you care about. Instead of pushing, criticizing, or trying to fix your body out of fear or...

  44. You're Not Unmotivated: How Compassion Creates the Fuel that Fear Never Could

    Why does motivation disappear the moment you need it most? Why does changing your body feel so urgent… and yet so impossible to sustain? In this episode of Body Like You, Aimee explores the real fuel behind lasting change—and why most of what we’ve been taught about motivation actually works...

  45. 10. The Real Reason You Panic When You Can't Workout

    This week, Aimee starts with how to nourish your body when you’re sick and your routine gets thrown off. But knowing how to eat when you're sick or injured isn't usually the biggest obstacle. Beneath the practical questions about nutrition, there’s often a quiet sense of urgency. A low-grade…

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  46. 9. Introducing C.A.R.E.: the tool I use to prepare my brain for events, parties, and functions as a food-focused person.

    In this episode, Aimee walks you through her signature CARE Method—a simple, powerful mindset tool designed to help food-focused eaters navigate parties, events, and any environment filled with delicious, high-dopamine “pleasure foods.” You’ll learn how to: ✨ Connect with your emotional state...

  47. 7. Curating Your Pleasure Eating Experience

    In this episode, Aimee takes you inside one of the most powerful mindset shifts she teaches her clients: curating your pleasure eating experience. Just in time for the season of treats, traditions, and food-driven moments, Aimee breaks down why pleasure eating is emotional, complicated, and...

  48. 6. Are you someone who wants to change, but feels overwhelmed? Here's the first place I'd tell you to start if you were my client.

    Ever feel like you want to get healthier but have no idea where to start? You’re not alone. In this episode, Aimee opens up about losing 80 pounds, quitting smoking, and learning how to care for her body without falling for diet culture traps. You’ll hear why calories aren’t the enemy, how small...

  49. Is Time your biggest obstacle to making real change with diet and exercise? Why time is never your issue, and what's really going on.

    This week Aimee discusses everyone's favorite limiting belief, "I don't have enough time." We're busier than ever these days, and it feels impossible to do everything well. There's a reason our brains offer up a lack of time as a good reason to not begin or continue health-seeking behaviors. It's...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

This podcast is for everyone who is tired of thinking about food all the time with nothing to show for it. Join me as we go deeper than what's on your plate into the brain skills that result in real change. You don't need another nutrition coach telling you to eat more vegetables or that we all have the same 24-hours in a day. Real change starts in your brain by changing your thoughts about your body and yourself. This is mindset coaching on steriods!

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