Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Ready to lose 40 plus pounds without giving up happy hours, weekend brunches, or date nights. Then it's time to uncover the hidden link between binge eating and toxic relationships. And finally break free from both. Welcome to the Hungry for Love podcast with Jillian Scott. Y' all ready? Let's go.
[00:00:24] Hey. Hey. Welcome back.
[00:00:26] Today we are going to dive into a couple of questions and things that have come up around the 2020 project. I wanted to take a few minutes to share a little bit about who it's for, who it's not the best fit for, what you can expect, all of those details, and then answer some of the most common questions that I've been getting. So there are three types of people who I see would be most suitable for this program, and I've broken it down, in a sense, based on how much weight you have to lose. There's always going to be a little nuance as to what's going, but I can give you a guide or an idea of here's what to expect.
[00:01:02] So with woman A, she has about 10 to 20 pounds to lose. She's got a little fluff, but also this kind of inexplicable belly fat. She's doing a lot of the right things, if not damn near everything. She's eating well and exercising. She's getting sunlight and trying to manage her stress. She's drinking water. She's doing all of the things in order to maintain her weight and maintain her health. But she also has some hormonal imbalances that are not being caught with standard labs. She's been told she's in the normal range, and so therefore she's okay. Her doctor is satisfied because it's not abnormal, but she's not optimal. And she's definitely not optimal for her body. And so one of the things that so often comes up is insulin resistance. Now, this happens as we age. It also happens starting in our 40s as our bodies stop producing as much estrogen. So when estrogen decreases, our insulin resistance increases just naturally. So it's like just because we are aging, just because our bodies are starting to shift in what and how much of various hormones it's creating, we will see this start to show up. So you could be eating really well. You could be eating a low to moderate carb diet, and you can still find yourself with this inexplainable belly fat and weight that comes on fairly quick.
[00:02:21] Maybe it's over the course of a couple months, maybe it's over the course of a year, but it's like you really haven't changed anything else. But you're feeling stuck and frustrated. And the solution in the past has always been to just eat less and exercise a little more. But you're already doing all that you can. You're already doing some hiit workouts and walking or running, or you're already exercising at the point where you feel like is what you can manage.
[00:02:47] You're already eating really healthy and really well. You're already making good food choices even when you're on vacation, even when you go out to eat and you're just starting to feel really frustrated and it's turning a little apathetic. It's turning into this, why bother if I'm not going to see changes on the scale? Why bother if my pants aren't going to fit better next week? That why bother will turn into the screw it, screw it, I'm not getting the results I want anyways. And that just further sends us down this spiral of continuing to gain weight instead of stopping it and addressing it when we're at this smaller amount. And so it's this kind of hope and pray, this wish and pray. But it's also laced with a lot of frustration and a lot of uncertainty. It was like, what the hell? Where did this come from? Why is it even here?
[00:03:33] The solution here is often there may be a little bit of emotional eating that's happening, a little bit of the fuck its that we need to get under control. But there's also likely some hormonal imbalances and GLPs that would be very effective at addressing the inflammation and insulin resistance that your body has right now.
[00:03:52] What we'll be able to do there in terms of finding that minimal effective dose is we will find most likely a micro dose. It'll be less than the standard starting dose that your body will respond really well to. But it responds so well to such a low dose because you already have a lot of baseline habits, you have a lot of things that you're currently doing.
[00:04:11] And so what we need to do is just better identify where is the gap, where's the issue, what's truly happening with your hormones and then bringing on these very low doses of GLPs and finding that sweet spot for your body so we slowly titrate up, you'll be able to maintain without stressing or obsessing about food and exercise. And then so long as there's not another diagnosis, be able to come off. If you have an autoimmune disease, this is something where you may need GLPs longer term, whether it's for the rest of your life or not, I don't fully know because I don't think we really have a lot of data on that and a lot of even just like anecdotal data, not to mention research data. But what GLPs do is they decrease inflammation and they decrease insulin resistance, which are two drivers of autoimmune conditions. And so one of the things that I would do with a client who has autoimmune is we're going to cycle on and off of the different peptides. So maybe you start with tirzepatide, you cycle on, you maintain for a bit, then we cycle you off, then there's a month, maybe two, where there's a gap and you're not on anything, then you start on the semaglutide and then there's a cycle there. But we're helping your body to stay really sensitive to these lower doses. We're not staying on it forever. Long term, we're truly finding what works best for you. And then in that, titrating down and switching different peptides, depending on what your goals are, will make a plan. And there are various strategies in terms of coming down on your dose and how you dose to ensure that you're still seeing the effects and also still feel good in your body. You're still maintaining your results, but you are able to come down in that dose. And it's not that we want to come down as soon as humanly possible, we want to come down after our bodies have had time to heal. I guarantee somebody in this group, you're going to lose £20 in 20 weeks, real easy. That is not a question now, how long you want to stay on. It's not just about losing the weight, it's about what can you maintain. And so you might find that your body does best with one to two years on a very low dose of something cycling on and off before coming off of a peptide altogether or coming off of a glp, one peptide altogether.
[00:06:23] This does not have to be a problem. I think we can be really quick to look at, well, I've lost the weight, but it's not just about losing it, it's about can you maintain it with habits and can your body maintain it with the internal systems and the healing that it's already had? So if you've been on a peptide, let's say you started something this year and let's say you've been on three months, for example, you may need to be on a low dose, not Fully titrating down. But you may need to be on that lower dose for the rest of the year and then next year coming down a little bit more in that dose. But this is what I've found is that people who are on, whether it's a weight loss journey or a health and healing journey, it's one to two years before they're able to truly stay very low in their cycle of maybe one dose every two weeks at a very low amount and their body still responds to it. That's because they've already had two, maybe even three years of their body healing with the peptide.
[00:07:23] Everybody's body is going to be different. But I also want to be very clear in setting the expectation and also sharing. This is why I'm offering either one round or two rounds. I'm offering close to a year's worth of support. Because even at £20, it's not just about losing that £20 once. It's about helping your body to heal and maintain that weight long term for the rest of your life. If you are 50 years old and you want to be maintaining this weight for the next 10 to 20 years, maybe forever, you may need two years on a peptide to help your body actually heal and recover and function the way that it's supposed to.
[00:08:01] Now, from here, we're going to like, just build and start to stack on habits. So with woman A, you've already got a lot of habits dialed in. One of the things I also do is just check for the mindset piece and the emotional habits, the emotional eating. There may be a little bit of light cleanup we can do there.
[00:08:16] With woman B, you've got maybe 20 to 40 pounds to lose. So a little more weight and your internal systems likely need some extra support. You also likely need a little more support in terms of habits. You'll also likely need additional support with hormones. And with GLP support. You likely have hormonal imbalances and some insulin resistance. Even if it's not showing up on labs or even if you're still in this, quote, normal range with other hormones. And what your general care doctor would say, it does not mean that your body's functioning optimally and it does mean that your body is actually doing what it's supposed to, Especially when I look at things like thyroid. This is something that not a lot of doctors know how to handle and know how to address. Now you throw an autoimmune condition and make it. Hashimoto's on top of it. Now even fewer doctors know and they're Gonna tell you just to eat less and exercise more. And I wanna punch these frickin people and the mother loving face. I can't tell you how infuriating it is. This is going to be a new era of managing my emotions around people who don't know their salt. Especially when they do have an MD at the end of their name. Especially when they do have the education.
[00:09:29] In my opinion, doctors are supposed to be knowledgeable and so many are just they're not in this area. And I find that to be very disheartening and frustrating.
[00:09:40] And so this is why I've done so much of my own research. It's why I'm doing my own work. I'm going first, I'm testing things on myself first, I'm exploring things because I also recognize this is just going to keep going until I actually find a solution like my own personal problems and issues and health things like they're just going to keep getting worse.
[00:09:59] So I need to do what I can to mitigate that. When you're in that 20 to 40 pound range, okay, there's likely some internal health stuff going on that we need to address.
[00:10:08] You likely need a little more support with habits, food choices, with saying effort, screw it around stress, around emotional eating, maybe around exercise and finding movement and building into weightlifting and being able to build in the habits that are going to have you being able to not just lose the weight, but be able to maintain your weight long term. And weightlifting. Strength training is really essential here because the more muscle we build, the more metabolic health we have. Especially when you're using a GLP and hormones. This is a really important piece to make sure that when you're coming off or you're just even decreasing your dose that you have now the baseline functional health markers for your body to be able to keep processing food the way that you're supposed to, to be able to maintain your body composition the way that you have now. And part of this is also it's learning how to love your body and it's learning how to live your life now as you're in the process of losing weight, figuring out how to do this easier and better and more consistently when on vacation and traveling and over the weekends and when things get really busy and over the holidays and these stressful season comes up, this is what it's all about, is really making sure that it's not just the losing, but losing and maintaining. So we're bringing in a little more help and support when it comes to habits and our emotional healing and emotional eating habits as well as with the hormones and GLPs.
[00:11:35] And then we just kind of keep stacking things. Right. So for woman c, you've got £45 or more to lose and I could pretty much guarantee you've got hormonal imbalances we need to understand and address. You've got some insulin resistance, inflammation, you may have a diagnosis as well. And you need more support with habits, emotional eating, loving your body now, living the life that you love, learning how to manage whether it's difficult teenagers or young toddlers navigating life after divorce. It's learning how to do that without the coping mechanisms, learning how to find your own peace and joy and love and finding so much joy in your life and in how you're intentionally creating it that you don't need to seek it in food.
[00:12:17] When you're at this 45 pound mark or more often, there's gonna be a little more with hormones that we need at least initially to clean up and a little more in terms of the GLP peptide that you're going to need. So if you are in that 40 to 50 pound range, you're going to need likely that standard starting dose or you're going to need to get at least close to it, depending on what you do have. We want to find that minimal effective dose. There's no morality in having the lowest dose possible. There's no morality in having the lowest dose of thyroid or the lowest dose of a blood pressure medication or the lowest dose of a glp. This is where we really want to find like what is best for your body, what can it handle, where can you still see the results?
[00:13:00] And you're also not getting any of the negative side effects or negative consequences. And then looking at what feels best for your body long term to maintain hormone doses might be a little bit higher in the beginning. You'll likely be able to come down as your body heals, as the GLP helps to heal internal systems. But you may need to be on that longer and more consistently.
[00:13:22] This is the framework that really gets applied to everybody. So that way it's customized and then we look at, here's how you specifically fit into it, your body, your lifestyle, your goals, your habits, your trauma, all of your own aspects and pieces go into this.
[00:13:39] This is an overarching framework for you to better understand how I'm thinking about it and how I would go about looking for and solving for the real problems underneath the weight.
[00:13:50] Now, this is also not the best fit for everybody.
[00:13:53] So here's who. This is not a great fit for somebody who's looking for a quick fix, right? So if you're looking for the fastest way possible to lose weight and you don't really care what happens afterwards, this probably is not the right program.
[00:14:06] Because the goal is not just lose 20 pounds as fast as humanly possible. The goal is to lose it in a way that allows you to keep it off and stop fighting your body.
[00:14:16] This is also not for the woman who secretly want somebody to do the work for her. And I say secretly because this isn't always the overt thought, but this thought of, well, I can just buy another program, throw some money at it, hire another coach, find the other person. There's going to be this secret magical fix for everything. What I want to do is walk beside you and help guide you. But healing your metabolism, changing your relationship with food and body, that still requires your own participation. I can't do it for you. And to be quite honest, I have never been the type that has wanted to follow you around and spat cookies out of your hand. I'm here to help you understand and identify why are you picking the cookie up? And so if you're not curious, if you're not willing to do some of that internal exploration, then this is likely not the best fit for you. Because it's not just about have more willpower. It's not just try harder. This is not just eat less and exercise more. This is a very comprehensive program and it does require your active participation.
[00:15:20] Now you still get to love and enjoy your life. This is not going to take up all day, every day, but it does require a little more time and effort, particularly in the beginning. I remember when I created these discovery worksheets to help me better understand my emotional eating patterns. I probably would spend like an hour on them in the beginning.
[00:15:40] But then I got so quick and so good I could do it within two minutes of walking out of a restaurant. I was so fast and I was like, oh, this is it. And I could distill it down into what was actually happening here. And there were times when there were still other emotional patterns that required me to spend a little more time and energy sitting down and journaling versus just doing it in my head. But there's so much quickness that comes with the repetition and the willingness to really take your time in the beginning. Somebody else who would not be quite the right fit is somebody who's unwilling to consider new perspectives.
[00:16:12] So if you are absolutely convinced that calories, carbs, and willpower are the Only thing that matter, you are going to find yourself very frustrated. I think both of us might. Because you're going to look at things like stress and nervous system regulation and inflammation and hormones or emotional eating and metabolic health as being not essential or as being a waste of time or not important or not not the real thing.
[00:16:36] So if your thoughts are I just need to try harder or I just need more willpower, probably not the right fit for this. But I also don't know that you would still be listening to this podcast if it was there. So we think there's a difference between I notice I have this reliance on willpower, or I notice I tend to think I just need to try harder, but I want to let go of that habit or that belief versus somebody who's holding so tightly to it, as this is truth and you want to fight me on it. It might be a fine line, but there's a clear distinction between somebody who's like, okay, this is what I'm telling myself. Help me to stop believing it. I don't want to keep fighting for this anymore, but I notice this is what's happening. When you're open to new perspectives and you're open to the coaching, or you can self reflect and you're aware that this is what's happening even when you don't like it or you don't want it, that's an important piece. So it's not that you have to be perfect in any way. It's more that you're self reflective, you're self aware, you're open to new ideas and perspectives, you're open to hearing the hard truth. And even when something feels really true to yourself, to your experience, that you're also open to seeing things differently. And last but not least, the woman who isn't ready to stop fighting herself, this is not going to be the right fit for you. So if you still believe that the answer is to punish yourself harder, to restrict more, to be more disciplined, you're likely not going to be ready for this. And that's okay. I don't say this to shame anybody or to be exclusive or to push people out, but more is just we need to take that step back sometimes and have an honest conversation with ourselves about what do we think is required, what am I really looking for? Am I ready and wanting this type of support and this type of approach?
[00:18:20] Part of why I'm explaining the process a little bit more and sharing some of these details is because I want people to be able to recognize that's not What I want or yes, it is. And I think being able to see when you don't align with a particular philosophy or protocol or coach, the more that we can see how we don't align with something, the better. Because if it's not me, then go find somebody else. Go find the right program that is gonna be the right fit for you, but get support.
[00:18:48] The 2020 project is not for women who want another diet. It's for women who are ready to create a different relationship with food and their bodies.
[00:18:57] So now let's talk about some of the common questions or hesitations that I've been getting.
[00:19:04] I think, number one, one of the big thoughts is I should be able to do this naturally and I should be able to do this on my own. Those are slightly different things. A lot of times it's, I should be able to do it on my own. And in conjunction with that is also I should be able to do this with just diet and exercise. The problem is that as we age, we are more susceptible to. To insulin resistance, especially as women, and we stop producing estrogen. And so when that decreases, your insulin resistance increases.
[00:19:33] So not only are there changes in hormones that are now impacting our metabolic health and how our body is functioning, but then we also have just a life of physiological trauma, right? A life of stress, a life where that has been building in the body, and now we see it manifested. But often we need help and we need support at that physiological level.
[00:19:57] Not only is that often the thing, but typically when it comes to, like, emotional eating or binge eating, that's not something we just willpower our way through. And to be quite honest, even as a Christian and somebody who believes in prayer, you cannot pray your way out of emotional eating. You can't. We have psychological reasons as to why we are reaching for food, why we are avoiding emotions.
[00:20:20] That needs a different approach.
[00:20:22] Typically, what I have found is that most people can't do it for themselves because they've never learned how.
[00:20:28] You can't solve for the right problem and the right answer in a broken system, just like you can't heal in the environment that made you sick. Right? We need to get out of it. We need a new perspective. We need a different approach. If you already had my thoughts on what I'm going to teach you, you wouldn't be emotionally eating right now.
[00:20:47] This is where we have to recognize there are gaps. It's not just about information.
[00:20:51] It's about understanding how things actually manifest and show up in the body at a physical level as well. As that emotional level.
[00:20:59] My view is we have science and we have medications and we have peptides and we have bioidentical hormone replacement. We have things that are going to help support us in the journey. Why not use them?
[00:21:10] I can help you with the emotional eating piece 100%, but I think you are still gonna be frustrated and fighting your body without some level of hormones and or GLPS to help support you. Just my other side take and this idea of doing it on your own. I think this is interesting because this was also one of my concerns and one of the things I told myself years ago. I actually wrote an email about this recently. I remember thinking and telling myself in like 2018, I shouldn't pay for support. I shouldn't join a program until I'm doing all of the things I already know how to do for free and I'm doing them perfectly.
[00:21:44] And thank God I did not listen to that. Truly, I thank God that I let go of that belief because that was really holding me back and keeping me stuck. The reason why I wasn't doing it consistently or I wasn't doing what I quote knew to do for free, that is what needed to be addressed. And that's what this program was that I joined was from another life coach helping people with emotional eating and weight loss. Right. It was like I understood things in theory as a concept, but I did not understand how do I actually apply this to myself, even from the place of understanding. Okay, if my thoughts and emotions are driving my habits, how do I change that? There was what we can know in our head, which was different than what I could embody in practice.
[00:22:30] And I needed help. I needed support, even though I felt like I already knew what to do. If you're not getting the results that you want, you need some support. You need some help. And part of it is making sure that you find the right program that works for you, for your body, for your mindset, for what you're going for.
[00:22:48] All right, number two, I've already tried everything. That can be a big hesitation or kind of one of the common themes that I see. Not like this you haven't. You might have tried intuitive eating, but not with me and my approach that also prevents you from emotionally eating.
[00:23:05] You might have learned how to eat healthier foods, but not in a way that truly allows you to moderate and eat off plan without saying fuck it and going off the rails and eating your face off for an entire week.
[00:23:17] You might have had your hormones tested a few years ago, but not with someone like Me to help you interpret your results, to ensure that comprehensive testing was actually done, that you're testing for the right pieces of information, and to show you what's optimal, not just normal.
[00:23:32] You might have tried GLPs before, but ended up nauseous and projectile vomiting in month two. But not with me, where I teach you how to properly titrate up and find that right effective dose for your body so that you actually feel better when using it.
[00:23:48] Or Maybe you tried GLPs before and you lost 30 pounds in three months, but you used it more as a monotherapy and you didn't really change any other habits and then you gained all the weight back within three months when you stopped using it instead. I'm going to teach you did not learn how to do this with me, where I'm going to teach you how to lose weight sustainably, maintain your dose as you continue to build habits, so that way you have the lifestyle pieces for when you titrate off without gaining weight.
[00:24:19] No going off of it cold turkey, and no going off of it without already addressing so many of the other pieces that we need. We have to do this in tandem.
[00:24:28] So my honest and very short answer is, you can't tell me that you've tried this. But I also know that it is hard to believe in yourself when you've tried before and failed. When you've lost weight before and then regained it, it's easy to feel stuck and frustrated and just tell yourself, I've already tried it all. I've tried everything already. And so I want to lovingly say, no, you have not tried this. And the way that I am teaching it now.
[00:24:54] And I also want to honor that fear of failure, because that is often what comes up is, what if I fail again?
[00:25:02] And here's the truth. You can go through the rest of your life being afraid of disappointment, afraid of failing, afraid of getting something wrong, afraid of making a mistake. Or you can choose to believe and you can build the skill of being able to handle any and every emotion that comes your way. Even failure, shame, disappointment, regret, all of it.
[00:25:24] That is easier said than done. I 100% get that. Because even now I have a human brain, I am still gonna want to avoid certain emotions at times. I am still going to not even always recognize I'm doing it. But be avoiding or resisting certain emotions, that's just part of life. That's part of how we're wired. Especially when we've grown up with somebody really narcissistic and really negative.
[00:25:46] We don't want to be anything like them. And so we don't want to feel the disappointment. We don't want to feel the shame or the guilt. We don't want to feel anything negative. Whether we're trying to or not, we can prevent ourselves from taking any sort of risk because we don't want to feel it. And this is what we have to be willing to look at and to say, okay, I have a human body just like everybody else. And the more that I try, the more that I explore, the more I'm going to get closer to finding that right answer and that right solution. The way that I think about it is like a pyramid. We're going to work our way from the bottom to the top. In the beginning, there are so many different options and so many different solutions, and it's like there are so many different things to try. But as you try things and certain things work and certain things don't, the smaller the options get to where it's like, now we are really honing in on, here's what's actually happening in your body. Here's what's actually going on. Here are the gaps. Here are the missing pieces. Here's where you actually put your time, energy, and focus.
[00:26:41] And it might take a little bit of time to go through all of that to find those missing pieces for you, but you're losing weight along the way. You're building a healthier relationship with food and body along the way. You're building better habits around exercise and sunlight. You're starting to love your life instead of making food the primary source of your joy. Right. We're doing so much along the way, regardless of what the scale is doing.
[00:27:04] So I get the fear of failure is probably really heavy, especially when there's constant patterns of losing weight just to regain it. And that's really why I'm doing this. That's why my biggest thing is not just about losing the weight. It's about helping you to have the systems to have the habits in place, to be able to keep it off for life. All phases of life, all stages, regardless of what's going on. There's a philosophy that I started with dating that I think could be really helpful here. As I started dating different people, I noticed I was leveling up the type of person that I was dating last year. And it started with, ooh, he's a really great guy, but I'm not that physically attracted to him. And then it became, oh, he's a really great guy, and I am physically attracted to him, but there is Something just off in our personalities and we don't quite click.
[00:27:53] And then it became, oh, wow, he's a really great guy and I am attracted to him. And our personalities do really click. But I don't know if our religious views quite line up. But I'm getting closer and closer to my future person.
[00:28:06] My view and my approach has been, if not him, it's someone better not to say that, to dismiss or judge or insult any of the guys that I dated, but more from this place of finding the right person for me. That's the type of approach we want to have when it comes to weight loss. If not this, then something better. If not this. Like, if I don't find the real issue and the real problem here, it's getting me closer and closer to figuring out what is the real problem.
[00:28:37] But that's why I have made this so comprehensive. To look at habits and lifestyle change, to look at emotions and emotional healing. Not just emotional eating, truly healing. From emotional abuse to hormones to GLPs and really helping your metabolism to heal and repair.
[00:28:55] This really is the full gamut. This is how we make sure we cover all of our bases.
[00:29:01] I want to honor that fear of failure and let's feel the fear and do it anyways. Let's decide we're not going to live life being afraid of what does or doesn't happen. Let's decide that we want to end up on our deathbed of like, thank goodness I took those risks. Thank goodness I chose to do this and I chose to put my health and make that a priority. And I spent the time and the money and the energy to figure it out. I guarantee that's what I'm going to be saying. I know I'm already saying that. Thank God I did not give up on myself. Thank God I kept going and I kept investing even after things didn't work the first time around or they didn't work in certain programs.
[00:29:41] I am so proud of the fact that I didn't give up on myself. And I hope that you also have that belief in yourself that you can also feel that same level of pride that you didn't give up even when it got hard, even when it felt really dark, even when it didn't seem like there were any other options or you felt like you were running out of options. You never gave up on yourself. You never gave up on your goals and your dreams.
[00:30:05] Okay, so some other questions that I've gotten have been more around GLPs, in particular of I'm curious, but I'm also hesitant or I want to learn more, but I'm also scared. And I think this is just a very nuanced conversation around Tell me more about what you're scared about. I share these to hopefully create a sense of peace and comfort in having a conversation with me. But there will be space to be able to bring this up. Tell me what has you feeling hesitant. Tell me, what are you scared about? What is the fear specifically? And I think with GLPs, there's just been such bad publicity and bad press and people with bad experiences, and maybe you've had your own negative experience.
[00:30:45] So I get that. I really do. I understand that there's this approach and the way that things have been done for the most part. And even with today's telehealth world and companies selling a starting standard dose as if it's a micro dose and people getting really sick on it, this is why I have taken the time, the energy, the money, and I have invested in myself and in my education around GLPs because I wanted it for me, but I also knew I wanted to be able to help sift through all the bullshit for clients as well.
[00:31:16] So tell me, what specifically are you scared of? Because we have far more data around it being restorative, regenerative healing than of it being negative. But just like we wouldn't dose somebody really high on testosterone or really high on blood pressure medication, or let's say you had like seizure medication you needed to take. We're not just throwing these big massive doses at somebody. We're looking at what is the effective dose that gets the job done without being more than what their body needs.
[00:31:47] Not too little, not too much, finding that right dose. And it doesn't mean that we are arbitrarily jacking up the dose on people just because that's what the clinical trial said. That's really what doctors. That's what they have to follow in order to maintain their license, in order to maintain their malpractice insurance. A lot of doctors cannot prescribe any other way.
[00:32:07] And a lot of doctors have not taken the time or effort to actually research and look at them being used any other way. So they're not going to prescribe them to you any other way. They might be chiropractors or physical therapists or medical spas that don't know any other way. So they're just going with that standard dosing model. And that's not right for everybody.
[00:32:28] Some people, yes, that might be exactly what they need, but not everybody needs that. And I guarantee had I started with even half of that, I would have been miserable.
[00:32:39] So if you've been sensitive to other hormones, if you've been sensitive to other medications, I'm your girl. I can definitely help you. The other two questions that tend to come up are either, one of two flavors. One is I don't have that much weight to lose, maybe only have 10 or 12 pounds. And then I get the flip side, which is I have more than 20 pounds to lose. And so if you don't have that much weight to lose, if it is more in that 10 to 12 pound range, great, let's do something about it now. Get on board. Let's go. I'm going to help you not just lose the weight, but be able to maintain it. And I'm going to help you develop that long term strategy for how to do it, how to do it with hormones, with peptides, to be able to cycle through and to do it in a very steady and controlled state, making sure that you do also have the right habit pieces lined up. Because as we age, as we get into our 40s and 50s, you don't want to be doing a bunch of hiit workouts. You actually are going to find that is going to drive your stress and cortisol levels higher, which will keep the weight on.
[00:33:39] Sometimes we actually need to do less when it comes to exercise. You might be in that 10 to 12 pound weight range or maybe it's 8 to 12 pounds. You might have significantly less than 20 pounds to lose.
[00:33:50] This is still the right program to make sure that 8 to 12 pounds doesn't turn into the 20 to 30 pounds a year or two from now. And if you've got more than 20 pounds to lose, I want you to think about this as your next £20 and you're looking at what do I need to do for my next £20 and then the next £20. And it's not always just do more. More is not always better. I'm going to help you develop that process and that protocol that's going to help you to be successful regardless of how much weight you have to lose. And then if you're in perimenopause or menopause or you're postmenopausal, this is perfect. This will fit your body, it will fit your lifestyle. This is exactly who it's designed for, is the woman who is in her mid-30s to mid-60s. Once you get postmenopausal, there's going to be a little more consistency. It's actually going to be even easier to dial in your hormones because your body's not arbitrarily making a different amount every month. So it's actually be even easier postmenopausal. But there's a little sweet spot between your mid-30s and mid-50s where things are just kind of haywire and things really fluctuate month to month. And we need to have that very flexible approach.
[00:34:58] So this is not set in stone. These are not the ten commandments that we are writing in stone. And now this has to be it forever and ever. Amen. You might find that you need to change your dose as you go, but I'm going to help give you the peace and the confidence and the ease to know how to do that and when to reach out for support or when it's time to do something a little different. Even knowing and understanding when to persevere and when to pivot. That is a huge thing I talk about with clients.
[00:35:24] And then last but not least, what the flaming hell is Voxer? I have gotten not quite that exact question, but more of, what is Voxer? How am I supposed to use it? What's it for? So Voxer is a voice messaging app, and this allows us to talk and communicate asynchronously. So you can pop on at 2pm and I can respond at 5pm when I'm making dinner. You can pop on in the middle of the night when you can't sleep and you're like, oh my gosh, I just remembered this thing that I'm really stressed about. Or you're replaying out a conversation with your ex and it's got you all worked up. It's like it does not matter what time of day it is. You can process through it. So you can verbally process, which I am a verbal processor, and I find that to be very helpful. But you can also ask questions to get coaching, to get support. You can use this in any number of ways. But rather than trying to set a day and time every week that we need to be on Zoom, this really allows us much more flexibility when it comes to scheduling. The 2020 project is for women who are tired of starting over every Monday, women who are exhausted from fighting cravings, hunger, the scale, and ultimately fighting themselves, and women who know there's got to be a better way. Whether it's £15 or £50 or more, you know that this weight isn't going anywhere. Despite your best efforts, you need a body that feels safe enough to work with you instead of against you. And that's exactly what we focus on inside the 2020 project.
[00:36:50] So if you've been following my work for months or maybe even years, and you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. Not because you're broken or you failed or you just need to try harder, but because you've carried this burden long enough.
[00:37:05] It's time to stop trying to figure it out all by yourself. It's time for support, and I am the best one in the space to help you do that.
[00:37:13] If this is resonating with you, if this is speaking to you, if there's that little nudge of like, oh, I have the desire, I want help, I'd invite you to schedule a free consultation and we're going to talk more about the 2020 project. And I am very open and honest with people as to whether I think they would be a good fit, whether or not that I can help them, and what are the potential obstacles and challenges that I could see coming their way. Not just if they don't get support, but even if they work with me, here's what's going to come up, or here's what I see happening, or what I would anticipate happening. And this comes not just from people and habits and knowing that, but also understanding how our bodies are wired.
[00:37:53] On this call, we are going to talk about your goals, your challenges, and whether this approach is the missing piece that you have been looking for.
[00:38:01] Because the strongest women I know aren't the ones doing everything alone. They're the ones that know when it's time to stop carrying it all by themselves.
[00:38:09] So you can find the link in the description or visit bodyyoucrave.com schedule. You're also welcome to send me an email and tell me more about your story, because I'd love to support you. Peace, freedom, ease with food and your body to feel good in your body again.
[00:38:27] It is on the other side. And I get that it can feel a little scary, it can feel a little intimidating, but it is possible for you, too.
[00:38:35] You are not broken. Your body, your metabolism, your brain, it is not broken. You're simply traumatized. And that's why things are showing up the way they are.
[00:38:46] And I'm going to help you to understand and to see clearly what the real issue is, so that we can start solving the right problem and you can start creating the real, lasting results and success that you truly crave.
[00:39:00] All right, y' all have a fantastic week. Here's to creating the life and body you crave.
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