So Far So Good Coaching Podcast
by Valerie Busse
Warmly welcoming you to my podcast about my 80+ pound weight loss and journey describing how I renewed my thoughts and mindset around food and my body. I have so many tools to share with you to get unstuck and then turn things in your life around with so much momentum. Let's make it so much easier and so much fun together. If I did it after decades of the weight loss rollercoaster, you absolutely can too! I am ready to coach you!
Episodes
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223. Food and Grief
We have talked about navigating food and grief before on the podcast in various ways, but today let's get into a topic that is not always discussed. What do you do with the grief of realizing you might not be able to eat as much food as you used to when you were at your highest weight. Is that...
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222. Is Food Your Hero?
Today on the podcast we will explore what to do when food is on the throne of your life and how to eject it. We need a replacement. There are places it can be extra sneaky for example when food seems to be the problem (or villain) as well as the answer (or hero) at the same time. These lies can...
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221. Do I Have To Track Forever?
I get a lot of questions about tracking calories and macros and how I feel about it. Let's take time this week to look at the pros and cons. Everyone is different and also can be in different seasons with a willingness to track, or not. The short answer is we never have to track if we are tuned...
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220. Cake and a Latte (Relationship Encouragement)
I learned these two acronyms on the same day! Cake was from Marcus Warner who also has an amazing book with Jim Wilder called Rare Leadership which I constantly recommend. And then that same day I heard about cake I learned about the latte model from Starbucks so of course I had to laugh and...
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219. Food Negotiations
On today's episode we are going down the rabbit hole of our brains once again with regard to our internal negotiations. Do you find yourself wrestling or even arguing with yourself in your head? Have you ever considered this? Let's build some awareness around where we might be having some…
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218. Are You a Cow or a Buffalo?
Shout out to Rory Vaden who I believe is the original creator of a book on this topic for today's podcast which I have been thinking about constantly and integrating into my life! I hope you enjoy the quick and lighthearted way I unpack this as it's hitting close to home for me this week! Your...
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217. Do You Have A Healthy Identity?
Have you ever stopped to consider what your identity is? You've heard me ask this before. I always love to talk about values and identity before we even get started moving toward a goal. It's so empowering to work from your true identity and not an old looping broken record of a false identity....
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216. Fresh Scale Encouragement
I've talked to so many people lately working through various issues with the scale so I thought it was time for some fresh encouragement around the topic. Listen in for some reframes to the places so many people get tripped up. Whether you get on the scale every day, or have not been able to face...
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215. Maintenance Before Maintenance
Do you feel like it's way too soon for you to think about maintenance or are you getting really close to your goal and avoiding some concerns about it or even putting it on a pedestal? Here is the eposide just for you to get curious about what it might really be like. I wish I had gone down every...
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214. How Real Estate Is Like Weight Loss
If you have followed me for any length of time, you will know that my brain is constantly looking for connections to help people with weight loss. Real estate is no exception. What?! Yes! I was speaking to a highly respected real estate professional and after the call my mind was flooded with how...
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213. The Off-ramp From The Endless Diet Cycle
Posting this week's episode marks four complete years of weekly Podcasts and a few bonus recordings as well! So proud of this accomplishment! You will be seeing some changes coming and I hope you will continue to celebrate with me! This week let's discuss some ways to jump out of the endless loop...
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212. Tips For Eating Out Regularly And Traveling
On this week's episode, we dive into a topic may people struggle with which is having a lifestyle that includes lots of eating out and banquet style luncheons and dinners. Also, what should we do when we are traveling a lot for business and it feels like everywhere we turn there is more and more...
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211. How The Grocery Store Might Be Stumbling You
Excited to come to you this week with a topic I have never heard on a Podcast. There are several things that can be going on with people who have had a complicated relationship with food, and some or all of these things can converge on us when we enter the grocery store. We have all been told not...
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210. Why Overcorrecting And Doubling Down Are Not Helping
Offering you this week's episode as an awareness tool about how overcorrecting and doubling down might have not worked out in the end and how we can let those go forever. It sounds so promising that we will just get on "the horse" and "gallop" to the finish line but what is your "track record"…
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209. Clean And Dirty Pain and Anger
Sometimes we find ourselves in a soup of pain and/or anger and it can be difficult to see which end is up. In today's episode, I will unpack how you can filter your situation into some categories to get unstuck in a pain or anger cycle. Your pain and anger need to be looked at with compassion and...
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208. Food For Thought - 200 Weight Loss Prompts (176-200)
Welcome to the eighth and final episode which have been a new series dedicated to a beloved friend who inspired me to get all the prompts I could think of onto the Podcast! They will be here when you need a little pick me up or just some fresh motivation. I truly believe that any of these prompts...
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207. Food For Thought - 200 Weight Loss Prompts (151-175)
Welcome to the seventh of eight episodes which are a new series dedicated to a beloved friend who inspired me to get all the prompts I could think of onto the Podcast! They will be here when you need a little pick me up or justsome fresh motivation. I truly believe that any of these prompts could...
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206. Food For Thought - 200 Weight Loss Prompts (126-150)
Welcome to the sixth of eight episodes which are a new series dedicated to a beloved friend who inspired me to get all the prompts I could think of onto the Podcast! They will be here when you need a little pick me up or just some fresh motivation. I truly believe that any of these prompts could…
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205. Food For Thought - 200 Weight Loss Prompts (101-125)
Welcome to the fifth of eight episodes which are a new series dedicated to a beloved friend who inspired me to get all the prompts I could think of onto the Podcast! They will be here when you need a little pick me up or just some fresh motivation. I truly believe that any of these prompts could…
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204. Food For Thought - 200 Weight Loss Prompts (76-100)
Welcome to the fourth of eight episodes which are a new series dedicated to a beloved friend who inspired me to get all the prompts I could think of onto the Podcast! They will be here when you need a little pick me up or just some fresh motivation. I truly believe that any of these prompts could...
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203. Food For Thought - 200 Weight Loss Prompts (51-75)
Welcome to the third of eight episodes which are a new series dedicated to a beloved friend who inspired me to get all the prompts I could think of onto the Podcast! They will be here when you need a little pick me up or just some fresh motivation. I truly believe that any of these prompts could…
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202. Food For Thought - 200 Weight Loss Prompts (26-50)
Welcome to the second of eight episodes which are a new series dedicated to a beloved friend who inspired me to get all the prompts I could think of onto the Podcast! They will be here when you need a little pick me up or just some fresh motivation. I truly believe that any of these prompts could...
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201. Food For Thought - 200 Weight Loss Prompts (1-25)
Welcome to the first of eight episodes which are a series dedicated to a beloved friend who inspired me to get all the prompts I could think of onto the Podcast! They will be here when you need a little pick me up or just some fresh motivation. I truly believe that any one of these prompts could…
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200. Grace Upon Grace
Today I am over here soaking in an ocean of gratitude and grace for 200 eposides! Thank you for listening! This episode is dedicated to my Auntie Jo who recently passed away. She and my Uncle Bud were true gifts to my life and their unconditional love was something I needed more than I knew. I…
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199. How To Have An Abundant Cognitive Budget
On this week's eposode I am hoping to bring to your awareness a reminder that we only have so much cognitive space in the day before exhaustion sets in and our brain wants to buffer. How can we be sure we are operating from abundance and not scarcity around our time and our ability to operate in...
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198. The Biggest Weight Loss Lies
If you have been listening for any length of time you know I wholeheartedly believe that the truth will set you free! I love to shine a bright light on sneaky little lies that keep people stuck. Be free my friends! Be aware of how these three biggest lies take your power away. Listen in and let's...
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197. How To Be Safe With Emotions
If you are someone who dreads the thought of facing your emotions, today's episode invites you in with some guard rails. I hope you won't pass this one by whether you feel like you have complete emotional mastery, or are just considering dipping your toe into your emotional world. I hope you can...
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196. Emotional Metabolism
Maybe you have never thought of this before, but I bet the moment I open your awareness to the concept it will make perfect sense that there is a connection between metabolizing food and metabolizing emotions. Listen in and let me know if you think you are pausing to take the time to digest and...
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195. What If Your Body Is Right?
The first step to considering if your body might be right would be to consider if you are considering your body on a daily basis in the first place. How many years did I walk through life never giving body a second thought, other than to wonder why it was working against me. Anyone else? What if…
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194. Net Positives and Net Negatives
Hopefully by now you have heard me discuss my Master Cerfication I completed last year in Financial Coaching. Listen in as my inner accounting nerd comes out yet again, and you'll see how this concept of net positives and net negatives can help you in area of your life! I'd love to hear what some...
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193. Do You Have Fear of Maintenance?
You may think that when you reach your healthy goal you will be so thrilled that any fear would have completely vanishished. In today's eposide I wanted to slow down to check in with you to see if you have any sneaky fears lurking under the "hood" that might be slowing your progress or stopping…
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192. Noticing Sneaky Stumbling Blocks
This week let's gain some awareness around some sneaky thoughts that might try to come in and stumble us when we are aiming for a goal. Be sure to go back to eposide 191 if you have not already listened to understand why pausing to notice is so helpful in the first place. I am always open to your...
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191. How Noticing Is Better Than Focusing
On today's episode I wll be sharing a conept I heard on the Huberman Lab Podcast with Ellen Langer that has stayed with me and regularly gives me pause for redirection of my own mind. I have also "noticed" it bringing my clients peace as we practice this together. It ties beautifully into my...
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190. Vagueville
All aboard the train to Vagueville! Choo Choo! Okay jokes aside, we all spend more time than we might realize in what I call the town of Vagueville. Our brain really likes it there! It's cozy and nothing ever changes in that small town. Sometimes we need to rest our brain and I am all for that!…
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189. I Love You And
Today on the Podcast we are slowing down with one of my favorite words at the moment. It's the word and. What a powerful word it is! I have really spent some time shifting from using the word but, to using the word and... and (see what I did there?) I have seen transformation in myself and others...
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188. An Open Conversation About Feeling Hangry
In today's eposode we are diving into all things "hanger" and how I have changed my thoughts around this due to a recent situaton that came up in my own life. Listen in as I unpack this one from all angles. Is being "hangry" even a thing? Listen in and as always please let me know your thoughts....
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187. Brain Candy Part 6
Welcome the final part six in our series called Brain Candy. I will be bringing you some quick, fun, and actionable items for your brain to consider. I know that any one of the five topics in each part of this series could be the one that unlocks your brain and sends you on the path right to your...
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186. Brain Candy Part 5
Welcome to part five of our series called Brain Candy. I will be bringing you some quick, fun, and actionable items for your brain to consider. I know that any one of the five topics in each part of this series could be the one that unlocks your brain and sends you on the path right to your…
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185. Brain Candy Part 4
Welcome to part four of our series called Brain Candy. I will be bringing you some quick, fun, and actionable items for your brain to consider. I know that any one of the five topics in each part of this series could be the one that unlocks your brain and sends you on the path right to your…
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184. Brain Candy Part 3
Welcome part three of our series called Brain Candy. I will be bringing you some quick, fun, and actionable items for your brain to consider. I know that any one of the five topics in each part of this series could be the one that unlocks your brain and sends you on the path right to your highest...
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183. Brain Candy Part 2
Welcome to our series called Brain Candy. This is Part 2. I will be bringing you some quick, fun, and actionable items for your brain to consider. I know that any one of the five topics in each part of this series could be the one that unlocks your brain and sends you on the path right to your...
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182. Brain Candy Part 1
Welcome to a brand new series called Brain Candy. I will be bringing you some quick, fun, and actionable items for your brain to consider. I know that any one of the five topics in each part of this series could be the one that unlocks your brain and sends you on the path right to your highest...
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181. Why Your Brain Does Not Care About Your Goals
So many people find themselves stuck in the loop of "I know what I should be doing it but I am just not doing it at the moment" and I can relate! Why does this happen and how can we get ourselves out of that loop? Listen in as we start to ask our own brain what is going on here. I hope you hear...
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180. Three Quick Things
Happy New Year Friends! Seems like everyone I have been talking to lately is in need of that warm, gentle hug, so let this one be an opportunity for you to just think of these three quick things to bring some health your way in whatever way you need. This can be with anything you are struggling...
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179. Sabotage and Peanut Clusters
It's that time of the year when we can find ourselves having big plans for the next year while at the same time a little voice inside wants to tell us "why bother" because we will probably sabotage the whole thing like we have done before. Ever been in this place? I have! Well, today I will give...
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178. Awareness Reps
If you have been listening to the Podcast for any length of time you will hear me talking about the importance of awareness over and over. I am confident that the concept is not lost on you and at the same time how can we keep slowing that down to become even more aware? And the reason we want to...
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177. Five Million Dollars
Today we are going on a little brain journey as I share one of my most transformational thoughts as well as how I was able to build on it over time. I don't want to spoil the fun and tell you all about it here so please listen in and I hope it has the same powerful impact on you or someone you...
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176. Food Interviews
Today we are marching all the foods into the office for a warm and friendly discussion about their performance. How is this food actually working for you as the boss and how can we be sure we like who is on the "payroll?" Let's get right into it! Are you ready for transformation? Let's get on a...
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175. Overcorrecting
In today's episode we slowing down to consider where we might be overcorrecting and how this can stumble us. Another term of the moment would be.... coming in hot! Let' see if we can pause to consider the current context and season we are in! Where have we decided every single thing in our world...
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174. Metacognition for Thanksgiving
Today I am coming in with a special episode for you just in time for Thanksgiving in the United States. Of course this concept will apply any day you listen to this episode and for any event you have coming up. Did you know we were created with this special gift to be able to think about what we...
About this show
Warmly welcoming you to my podcast about my 80+ pound weight loss and journey describing how I renewed my thoughts and mindset around food and my body. I have so many tools to share with you to get unstuck and then turn things in your life around with so much momentum. Let's make it so much easier and so much fun together. If I did it after decades of the weight loss rollercoaster, you absolutely can too! I am ready to coach you!
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Valerie Busse