Start Where You Are Weight Loss: 174-Pound Weight-Loss Success Without Dieting & How You Can Do It Too

This is the story my weight-loss success without dieting. I transformed my body from 304 pounds to 130 pounds by eating what I want. You can learn how you can do the same. I’ll teach you how.

For over twenty years, I’d been on what I call the diet-go-round, jumping from one diet to the next, hoping this next one would be the answer. It never was. I always lost the weight, sometimes a hundred pounds at a time, but then I’d always gain it back again in short order after I stopped following the diet. During those decades, I also struggled with two eating disorders, bulimia and compulsive overeating. At my heaviest, I weighed 304 pounds and wore a size 26.

To have weight-loss success without dieting, know it’s not about food

I had two decades worth of experience with nutrient guidelines, memorizing calorie counts, measuring food, and eliminating entire food groups. I had a vast knowledge about nutrition and weight-loss techniques. And yet, I still could never keep the weight off for more than a year.

Finally, in exasperation, I wrote a single question in my journal: If it’s not about food, then what is it?

That single question started my final weight-loss journey and transformed both my body and my life. What I came to learn is that weight loss isn’t about food at all. It’s about what you think about food and its role in your life.

To have weight-loss success without dieting, make a commitment

I also knew I didn’t want to live my life in a body that didn’t feel comfortable to me and didn’t feel like home to me. I refused to believe that there was no hope, even though the statistics said that the vast majority of people who go on diets of any kind gain all the weight back within 5 years. There had to be something else going on, and I got determined to figure out what that was.

I knew I needed to heal my relationship with food and also with myself.

• I wasn’t comfortable in my own skin so I stayed home a lot.
• I hid away in my room and didn’t much feel like I was truly showing up for my own life.
• I didn’t want to be seen, didn’t want to have my picture taken, didn’t want to risk stepping out of my comfort zone to go after what mattered to me.
• I was also having health problems with pain in my ankles, knees, and hips.
• I breathed hard when I went up a single flight of stairs.
• I was dangerously close to becoming diabetic.

And so, out of sheer desperation and because I didn’t know what else to do, I made a commitment to myself to save my own life.

To have weight-loss success without dieting, believe in your worth

I decided to stop listening to everyone else: their rules and guidelines and ideas on how I should live my life. I decided to start listening to myself: what did I want to do, what works best for me. That was a scary day because all the responsibility for how my life turned out was on me. But it was also an incredibly empowering and freeing day for the same reason, because all the choices were mine and mine alone.

I also remember feeling like I was at the bottom of a mountain, looking at the summit, which was my goal weight, and thinking: there’s no way. But I made a commitment to myself anyway to see my weight-loss journey all the way through to the end.

First, it took believing I was worth the commitment, which I hadn’t always believed was true. And second, it was choosing to make that commitment unbreakable, meaning no matter what I was not going to abandon myself and quit.

A 174-pound weight loss and maintaining it long-term seemed absolutely impossible to me at that time. Yet, I started anyway and I simply kept going until I finished. It was a combination of believing in my own worth and value and making an unbreakable commitment to my own health and healing that made what seemed impossible to me into I’m possible.

To have weight-loss success without dieting, listen to your body

I shed the weight naturally, without pills, surgery, disordered eating, expensive health products or interventions, or anything along those lines. I just listened to my body and let it be my guide, eating only when I was hungry then stopping when I was comfortably full.

That’s how I started and that’s what I do today to maintain the weight loss. I don’t have any restrictions on food except if I’m allergic to it. I eat whatever I want without judgment. That’s what I needed to do to heal myself and my relationship with food.

I also did some deep introspection as to why I was using food in a way it was never intended to be used. That introspection—the answer to the question, if it’s not about food, then what is it?—eventually became a book I wrote called, Start Where You Are Weight Loss^®.

I believe, from having lived it, that weight loss has very little to do with food choices and mostly to do with healing your mindset about food. Mindset is what my book aims to help you heal.

To have weight-loss success without dieting, trust yourself

It took me two years to shed the weight. As of today, I weigh 130 pounds and wear a size 2. I’ve kept the weight off for 9 years and counting.

I have no fear of gaining the weight back and not knowing what to do about it. I no longer have any eating disorders. I don’t live in fear, confusion, frustration, and shame about food. I got free. Your life can be that way too.

I transformed my body by trusting it and listening to it. I transformed my life by trusting myself and listening to my intuition. You can and need to do the same for your own life.

To have weight-loss success without dieting, refuse to give up on yourself

It doesn’t matter how slowly you go. Truly it doesn’t. The only thing that matters is that you don’t stop. So you keep going and refuse to give up on yourself. If you do that, you’ll get to where you most want to be—in a body that feels like home to you and to a life that makes you excited to be alive. Oh yes, you will.

Get off the diet-go-round. Get on with your life.^®

Stop wishing, start doing.
Create your own weight loss before and after success story.

My weight loss transformation & how it can help you have weight-loss success without dieting

You absolutely can break the diet cycle. I got free. Your life can be that way too.

I made my own path because I needed to get myself out of the crazy-making behavior I was having around food. I needed:

• no more dieting.
• no more restrictive eating.
• no weighing and measuring food.
• no off-limit foods.
• no more judgment around food.
• no more trying to figure out healthy eating or just what healthy foods to eat.
• no more judging my self-worth based on the scale.
• no more you’re-not-doing-it-perfectly diet rules that were only fueling my constant thinking about and obsession with food.

I needed to stop: searching for weight loss tips, wondering how to lose belly fat fast or how to lose weight fast, worrying about how to eat healthy or finding healthy snacks for weight loss, coming up with yet another healthy eating plan, trying to have quick weight loss, or forcing myself onto yet another weight loss diet. What I needed instead was to find, out of all the weight loss programs out there, the best weight loss program for me. Turns out, the best way to lose weight was to find out what works for me and do that.

• I’ve lost 160+ pounds naturally by simply trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and eating intuitively).
• I have maintained that weight loss for 9 years and counting by trusting myself and listening to my intuition (mindful eating and intuitive eating).
• I no longer have any eating disorders, including bulimia (bulimia nervosa) and binge eating disorder (compulsive overeating).
• I no longer have a fear of food.

Just imagine what you could be doing with your life if you’d just commit to having your own before and after weight loss success story. You could be: following your own dreams and reaching your own goals, cultivating your own passions, and making both your inner and outer worlds a more blissful and peaceful place.

I got that for my life. I want it for yours. I will teach you how.

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Let today be the day you make peace with your body and with food.

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