62. Stop Yo-Yo Dieting and Lose Weight For Good with Laura Conley

Laura Conley is a certified Life + Weight Loss Coach. Laura and is on a serious mission to help mamas who have been desperately struggling with diet drama to lose weight for the last time and free themselves from food forever. She gives a major sh*t about #freethemoms so that they can pass down a beautiful legacy to their children around food and bodies, weigh what they want, and live the life they have always dreamed of without the weight in the way. 

Intro - Losing weight for the last time

• Laura goes into depth about her personal journey with weight loss to becoming a weight loss coach
• “Never again will you talk to your body that way” 
• “My inner voice was going to become my daughters voice”
• “I learned to balance my hunger hormones.”
• “It's a mindfulness practice. Death of diet brain. Moving into body love brain”
• Emotional eater

[13:00] Permission to want to lose weight

• “It is OKAY to want to lose weight. You can give yourself permission to lose weight.” 
• “Just because you want to lose weight does not mean you do not love yourself.”
• “You can love and accept yourself, but still want to improve.”
• “You can't heal what you hate”
• “Acceptance is the only way through”

[22:00] Balance Hunger Hormones

• “Its a science of choice. I give suggestions and you choose for yourself.”
• “Our main hunger hormones are Insulin, ghrelin, and leptin”
• “Anything I ever did before never worked because I wasn't choosing it”
• “Physical hunger vs Hormonal Hunger”
• “Ghrelin tells you when you are hungry, i think of it like a gremlin
• “Hormonal hunger feels like an emergency”
• “88% of people do not have their hunger hormones balanced” 
• Physical hunger feels like a gentle “we need food soon”

[30:00] Mindfulness 

• "We can't change what we are not aware of"
• "Awareness is the start of every point of transformation. "
• "Until you make the unconscious conscious it will continue to run our lives and we will continue to call it fate."

[40:00] Commitment and discipline

• “Commitment and discipline get a bad rep”
• “Commitment is keeping your word no matter what. That means even when you fall down. You get back up. “
• “The secret is never giving up.”
• “The thoughts will come up. BUT Don't believe everything you think.”
• “Disciple needs to teach.” 
• “Look back at the mistake with love “
• “Don't beat yourself up, but also don't let yourself off the hook”

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