STEPHANIE LUFT 18 LB WEIGHT LOSS
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PODCAST – TRANSCRIPT
SPEAKER (Josephine)
Hi everyone, welcome to the Love to Live Healthy show. I’m Josephine Fitzpatrick. Today’s topic is Hello, March, and our March Mantra is I want to love the body I live in. What I want you to do is I want you to start March feeling in control and feeling positive, reminding yourself that any wall that is put up you will break down with confidence and strength, because this is what you want and no one is going to take it away from you.
On a Monday, we always feel great and we are always ready for a weight loss week, but by Wednesday we tend to feel exhausted and overwhelmed. We end up having a lunch out or dinner out. We go off plan a little bit and then, before you know it, we say, “ah, we’re off plan”, might as well just keep going off. We have to remember if we want the best results, we have to stick to our program six days a week. Yes, of course, if you go off program, one of the best things about the Innovation program is you get right back on and you keep moving forward. But remember, every day is either going to be a weight loss day, a maintain day or a weight gain day, and only you are in control of those results. You need six weight loss days to see the best results.
Watch your weekends. Friday is a day we can start to be tempted to go off our path. When you are tempted, I want you to remind yourself that every time you take a step back means you have to make up that step first and then start losing weight again. So you have to think to yourself is it worth it? 99% of the time it’s not worth it and you will look back and you’ll think why did I waste all my hard work on a weak moment? Be a little hungry, look for the little hunger and embrace the hunger. It only takes two weeks to replace a bad habit with a good habit. So push yourself through the next two Fridays. Stay 100% clean on program and the scale will reward you fabulously. I want you to stay positive and remember how important your goals are to you. Think about how happy you are when you do the right thing and you live the program. Embrace that feeling. It makes you happy. You feel amazing on program. So stay focused. Fridays are fun and exciting when we’re entering the weekend, but when it comes to food, they are still Fridays and you must be on program if you want to see and feel the best results.
Some motivating goals. Short-term goal where do you want to be by April 1st? That gives you a month. You could lose one pound a week. That would be four or five pounds. It’s five weeks in March, so that would be five pounds. You could lose two pounds a week. That could be eight or 10 pounds. More importantly, where do you want to be 4th of July? Okay, that’s 20 weeks. I just recently did a video the other day that said for March 1st to July 4th is 20 weeks. If you lose the very least one pound a week, you will see 20 pounds of weight loss by July 4th. That is amazing and so worth putting in the time.
One pound a week doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you get to 4th of July and you look back and you are 20 pounds lighter, it’s going to mean everything. That one pound a week is going to mean everything. And one pound a week is very doable. It doesn’t matter what you have going on. It’s not even going to make you feel that hungry because you are not giving up that much for one pound a week. Commit, follow it and you will look back and be so happy you did.
Okay, listen, there will always be some kind of hurdle that is in your path and in your way. Social plans, stress, tired, even happiness can make you weak and overeat. Stay strong and jump these hurdles, because that is what’s going to take you to where you want to be. Mental strength is where your focus has to be. Remember and remind yourself daily what you want and how important it is to you. How do you want to feel on your next vacation or how do you want to feel this summer? Right now, you have the control to determine your results, but every day that passes will be one less day you have. I promise you, every hurdle you get over will help your next hurdle be even easier than the one before. Keep moving forward.
Work hard every day and remind yourself, when you are in the face of temptation, that there is no better feeling than feeding your body less and losing weight. Being comfortable in your own skin and being in control when you stay on program, especially in the most challenging of times, is when you will get the best results. If you speak to any of my clients, they will tell you yes, of course, staying to your meals and snacks is hard. Doing the five hour fast is hard. The detox is hard, eating less is hard, but as soon as you go off program, that is so much harder. So choose your hard.
Is it harder to be doing the right thing, feeling good, or is it harder to be off program, knowing I’m eating more but I don’t feel great? You immediately feel the loss of control and you will immediately feel thicker and bloated. You don’t want to do that. When you are on program, you’re not only losing weight, you’re losing body fat and that is why even one pound a week feels so good. So stay on program, stay mentally and physically strong and I promise you this spring and summer you will be ready for all the exciting plans you have, all the vacations, the graduations and beach days and, most important, you will feel good and you will love the body you live in. I hope this helps. I’m wishing everyone a beautiful, happy, healthy week. Much love and hugs from me to all of you.
~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick
Hi everyone, welcome to the Love to Live Healthy show. I’m Josephine Fitzpatrick. Today we have a very special guest, Dara Gelb. She’s going to share her story how she lost 15 pounds on the Innovation Weight Loss Program. But that weight loss not only changed her body, it changed her life. Let’s see if we can bring her in. Dara. Hi, how are you?
I’m good thank you. How are you?
I am great thank you. Dara you lost 15 pounds on the Innovation Program. You were sent to me because your daughter was having her Ba Mitzvah, right? So that was why you were sent to me originally. and it ended up being so much more. So let’s talk about that. The 15 pounds you did lose rather quickly, right?
I think I started like end of August, beginning of September. So it really I just came in looking for some, I guess, structure, some more routine, some flexibility within that structure, if that makes sense. And I was just ready for a change and ready to commit and it just became a whole life change that I could never have anticipated.
I love that. That’s amazing, and you came in just wanting to look and feel better.
I work in the summer and I had just been in a place where I just wanted to make some positive changes for myself and this program really just seamlessly fit into or I seamlessly kind of fit it into my life and my lifestyle and, with your help and support, it just really worked.
That’s amazing. I know the bar mitzvah was in November.
Yeah, it was the BA Mitzvah was end of November
Im sorry the BA Mitzvah. it was end of November. And I remember one thing I loved is when you said you felt like a princess that day. And that was so special to me because that was really our goal. We wanted you to feel the best you could feel. You know, and really when you change and have that confidence, it’s a big deal. You know. It changes who you are and how people look at you, because you’re walking with confidence rather than feeling like, oh, I don’t feel good and you know it’s this big beautiful day.
It was like one of the first times, I think, I’ve worked in my adult life, that I’ve worked really hard for something and seen like a real change, not only with how I look and feel or like look physically, but how I present myself and feel about myself.
It’s not always easy, you know, and there are days, like we’ve talked about, that are, you know, you feel hungry but never starving, but feel hungrier than others. There are some weeks and the holidays was challenging to work through, but I think that the best thing that I’ve found through you and your support is really like the ability to restart successfully, that like having a bad day, you know, and making choices that you can allow yourself to make and then forgive yourself and start over. I think that I have been able to say to myself like this was a rough day, I enjoyed it. Or maybe like the experience that I was having was different than just my average day where I could make choices that are all on program, but that that’s okay, that it doesn’t always mean there’s going to be a change in the scale. You know, up or down, that I have to learn to enjoy the choices that I’m making and if I have a rough go, that that’s okay and I have you and I can report to it you know and your feedback and support really helps. I really can’t imagine it not helping anyone that’s trying your program.
Thank you. I appreciate it. I know the food has really helped you and I love that you’ve really learned how to eat it and you’ve learned how to enjoy it and spread it out. You don’t sit and eat a full meal, but you eat what you need and you’ve really learned to listen to your body like that. I think that’s really important. I find I get a lot of feedback from clients who listen to the podcast that they tend to just eat what’s in front of them. I know for you especially, like I even see, because when you send me the food you’ll have like three rainbow balls but you’ll only eat one because you only need one, or you’ll eat two and you’ll separate it, but you eat it when you need it.
Yeah, I think that I have definitely been more of a picker my whole life. I’ve always been tasting and I’ve always been able to eat in modification or make choices, but I just got to a point in my life, like over 40, where it was just starting to affect just how I looked and felt. I think the products that you have are amazing. I think that it’s allowed me again to have so much flexibility and food that tastes good, because what you always say is that if you’re eating less, you have to really enjoy what you’re eating.
And I really do love the food on the program. Then when I go out, like being able to have your support and really enjoy the food that I have. I start my day and I graze, like I take it, I’ll take some water, I’ll have some coffee and then, if we go out and I have a meal, I’ll sometimes come home and know that I have a dessert that I can enjoy myself, because I like to have a little bit of something sweet at the end of the night. I think what I really love is that I don’t have to count calories and I don’t necessarily have to look at all ingredients, like if I follow the program. I know I’m making good choices and I’ve seen the results of that.
Yes amazing results. What would you say is your favorite food is here.
Oh it’s so hard to pick one. I mean those rainbow protein balls are like damn. The truffle balls I’ve tried this week are amazing. But I mean all the food is good. I love the pastas, I love the cheese quesadillas, and obviously those muffins in the morning. But I’ve been having variety with them all. like my morning meal i like the protein PB bar. I just I love like being able to spread it out. Some stuff is crunchy, some stuff is softer.
I was thinking about you the other day. Do you remember when you had COVID and use to make them bring it to your door?
Oh my God, I just had everybody like heat it up and leave it right at the basement door and I would like come up and take my food and go back down. I really needed that delivery because I didn’t want to, you know, rely on anybody else to kind of make the food. It was really like it gets me through, yeah, and I enjoy it.
Like I was telling you I always keep a bunch of your snacks in the car for like when I’m on the go and I teach all day and then I drive all afternoon, most of the afternoon, so I keep snacks in the trunk and it really helps, and I think I’ve also learned to plan better than I ever did and I think planning like is really key the key to my success with the program being able to plan you know what you’re eating and plan for the times where you think you’re going to be off program and and then really make the most of the days where you can stay on.
Yes even when you went away with your hockey weekends you did great.
Yeah, I’ve learned to like, say no and to know that that’s okay, not only with the program, but you know, we talk about it every week, like in life too.
So one thing which I love about your story and I find that so many clients are going to enjoy it and really learn from it and be inspired from it is the weight loss wasn’t the only the big part of it, of course it’s great because you look amazing, and we love that. We always say, everything is great in life when you are thin and fit in your clothes, but it changed so many other areas of your life, and that’s what I want to touch on, because that I feel is so important and I feel like so many people will relate to that.
Yeah, I just I think I was often looking to others for happiness. I’m like a huge people pleaser and I think a lot of me was looking outside to make me happy, to make me feel better. And I think what I really learned through your program and through the working hard and seeing the benefits of that is that it’s okay to say no and and not have to explain everything. You know we always talk about less is more and that to really prioritize yourself and your family and what means the most to you. And it’s been a struggle for me but I wouldn’t change it for anything. I think I’ve learned so much just about you know how to approach friendships and relationships and work, you know, and life just through you and this whole process, I could never see myself giving it up.
I love that. I do think it’s so important when you lose weight, of course we love that you look good and we always say that’s so great, but really what it does, it gives you the confidence of not only what you’re capable of, but when you feel your best, how you look at other things differently. And so we’ve been talking about boundaries and we’ve spoken about prioritizing, and obviously I’m a big family person so I always say, like your family is your core, and that’s where you you should always prioritize and build off of that and then add everything else positive on to it. But the key is can you really do that when you’re not feeling your best?
Right.
That’s really what this is about is, when you get to that point of feeling your best, all of a sudden you can put things in order.
And I think you know I’ve always heard like if you’re not happy with yourself or you’re not doing the work from within like you really can’t be happy with anything else, but it really does change you and I don’t think I really understood that until going through this process with you, that you have to be happy with who you are and I think the weight loss and the work that I put in to do that and making a commitment to the program really helped me make you know what I really hope is some positive changes in my life too.
I love that, and they are already you, are making amazing positive changes we’ve seen that, which is unbelievable. I’m so happy about that.
I did want to touch on one more thing. I think is really important is that you did lose the weight fast and of course we had the Ba Mitzvah, so yeah for that. But you kept it off. You actually even got thinner after it, and I think what we have said is it’s really because you just needed structure and kind of new you. I think you kind of had all the fundamentals of what you needed to do. But you really just, I think once you had that structure and that control, it came right off.
And your support, I think, being held accountable, you know, learning first what I had to change, and having your support to be accountable through it, and I think when you write anything down, you’re going to be more successful. So just you know, texting you and then having that support if you need to be flexible, you know, and having, like you know, sometimes you say like stop, you know, like you’re being hard on yourself, stop, or like you know tomorrow’s a new day.
It really all just worked for me and because I’m really enjoying what I’m eating and I feel full, and so I’m able to say to myself, like do I really want the French fry in the car? Like is it worth it? Do I really like, want to, you know, eat the icing, you know, and there there are temptations, but I’m able to not do them because I enjoy the process. I’m able to kind of, you know, like you we’ve heard before in the podcast, do i really need it or do I want it.
It’s funny at the time I think I was thinking to myself I can still do what I could do in my 20s, and so I think your body changes, right, you know your life changes and I think the structure of it and, like I had mentioned before the the flexibility of the choices that you can make within that structure really worked. And you know the times we saw the scale going up a couple of times we made some changes and it went back down, and it just really works.
You know it’s a little like off topic, but going back to like weekends away, that it’s okay, that I don’t need to sit, if I’m enjoying, I can make the choices. And if someone were to tell me, you know, why aren’t you doing this ? I can say like I’m good with it, you know. Or I can just say I’m good. Im enjoying the experience and I can stay on program even if I’m not at home doing my normal.
Right, which I love, yeah, which is really important. And I do want to point out because I think this is so important, because this is like being a recurring theme in my podcast, you don’t exercise either.
Listen I, I’ve tried and I am still working towards like two things I’m really trying to drink more water and at least get out and and walk, because I think it’s just important for your overall you know health and well-being and mindset. But I really did this with all from food and with my commitment and with you, and the help and support that we get from you and just from eating. It really was little to no exercise.
Love it. You’re so inspiring. I’m so excited to share this. I can’t wait for everyone to see you before and after. I mean, I know how you’ve changed from the inside out, which I love and I it was such a gift to me to be able to see that. But when everyone sees you before and after, it’s amazing, so I’m really excited for that too.
Okay, honey. Well, thank you so much.
Thank you for you, for everything. I’ll see you next week.
Thank you, dara. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey with us. You are so inspiring. You showed us that the weight loss, of course, is so important on the outside, but how important it is on the inside because it can change your life with the confidence, the motivation, the inspiration that you get from feeling your best. I’m wishing everyone a happy, healthy week full of love and hugs from me to all of you.
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Transcript from the
Love to LiveHealthy Podcast
Josephine (Host)
Hi everyone, welcome to the Love to Live Healthy show. I’m Josephine Fitzpatrick. Today we have a very special guest, Hope from Port Washington, who lost 50 pounds on program. Let’s bring Hope in. Hey, there you are! Hi. you look great.
Hope (Guest)
Thank you. Thank you
Josephine (Host)
Thank you so much for being on. I really appreciate it. You have such a great story. I wanted to share it, so tell everybody how much you’ve lost.
00:59- Hope (Guest)
I have lost a total of 50 pounds.
Josephine (Host)
That’s insane I just can’t even believe it when I hear it.
Hope (Guest)
I can’t either.
Josephine (Host)
I’m so happy, you look so good. I can’t say it enough. I always say you look like Sandra Bullock. You really do.
(Josephine (Host) and Hope (Guest)
Both laughing
Josephine (Host)
So one of the things I love about your story that I feel like so many people would relate to is it’s not the first time that you were on the program.
Hope (Guest)
Right. So I think this is my second, or third time,
Josephine (Host)
it’s your third
Hope (Guest)
Yes, third, right, so, yes. So I remember coming to you years ago and I it worked for the time that I did it, but I was never as committed as I was this time, and I really feel like you need to be in the right frame of mind to really commit to taking care of yourself, which is what I did. So when I came back to you, it was September, it was two years ago, so we’re almost two and a half years ago.
I was in a place in my life where I really needed to make a change. My mother passed away five years ago, just recently, so I had been coming off of mourning from my mom, and then COVID happened and I definitely put on a tremendous amount of weight during COVID, I also think, in relation to losing my mom near the same time. So at that point, two and a half years ago, I got to the place where I was like this is enough, and I wasn’t feeling well. I have three children that I need to be around for for a really long time and I just I had had enough.
So when I came to you, I was determined and really focused on doing this for the last time. I knew, I’m making this truly my lifestyle and now I don’t look at it so much as a diet anymore For me. It’s a new lifestyle for myself and I’ve never felt better. And for anybody thinking about doing it, I can’t recommend it enough. You’re amazing. You’re here every step of the way. I mean having you in my life, on my side and in contact with me. You know, every day, whatever and whenever I texted you is super helpful and, I think, makes a huge difference in the journey.
Josephine (Host)
Thank you, I really appreciate that. I love being there for you. Just seeing you through it. I get the best part because I see you come to my office with such big changes every single time. You know, we just got to numbers we didn’t even know, I mean we knew you wanted to be there but seeing it and being there is a great place.
Hope (Guest)
I’ve never been at this number in my adult life that I can recall, maybe other than on my wedding day.
Josephine (Host)
That’s so great. I love that.
Hope (Guest)
I also think a key thing and something that you know I’m also really proud of is you know, I have genetic high blood pressure. So I was diagnosed with high blood pressure when I was 35 ish and now I’m 47 years old, I’ve always had to be on medication because it’s a genetic thing for me. But I never really understood so much the connection between weight and high blood pressure because you know, when I came to you two and a half years ago, 50 pounds heavier, I was on 40 milligrams of the blood pressure medication that I take and I see my doctor regularly. And now after losing the weight, I’m now on five milligrams, which is a huge change, and it’s all because I took control of my health. There is still this genetic component to my issue, which is why I am still on some level of medication. But there is a definite correlation between weight and health issues. That, as we all know.
Josephine (Host)
Yes. But now you are proof of that
So I remember the first day you came back and I remember you saying to me I just cannot be like this, I have to change, I just have to change. And you were so mentally ready and I tell clients all the time If you’re not mentally ready, it’s very hard to do, it almost has to click and it has to be like, okay, no matter what, I’m doing, this.
Hope (Guest)
Yeah, absolutely. And I feel like, look, I have had ups and downs with my weight. I would say most of my life, and especially most of my adult life, between gaining the freshman 15 and then some in college and just periods throughout my life I have struggled with my weight. But this time it’s like I was determined and it really was in my mind, a do or die moment. And I wasn’t at any risk really health wise, but in my mind it needed to be do or die for me to be so committed and to know that I had to do it, I needed to convince myself that I had no choice but to succeed. And that mentality just has kept me going. And you know, I’m there. I’m in a good place but of course as you know, there are always these five pounds left I want to get off so I can have a little bit of a buffer, but I’m incredibly proud of myself.
Josephine (Host)
You should be, And really, when you talk about those five pounds, I want everybody to understand you’ve reached your goal. I think twice already. Yes, you keep moving it.
Hope (Guest)
(LOL) Yes, exactly. That’s right, my goal keeps getting lower. Yeah, yes, that is very true. So I did. I achieved everything that I set out to, but you know how it gets. You know you want that little bit more.
Josephine (Host)
Absolutely, and you know you can do it now. I think even when we set your initial goal, you know you had quite a bit to go. So you were like this is where I want to be. But as you got closer you were like, oh wait, I’m losing, I’m doing it. And you were like I’m going to move it. And there’s nothing wrong with that, you know
Hope (Guest)
And I think I’ve really learned. You know you’ve taught me so much about it all. You know it’s changed everything. It changed my relationship with food and how I think about my day. You know there were so many years where you know I would joke with my sister that I, just I have an unhealthy relationship with food and I don’t think I have that anymore. You know there were so many years of my life where I think my whole day revolved around what I was eating when I was eating and what was going to be the next thing I got to eat, right, and now I don’t have that. You know I eat because I’m hungry. When I’m hungry, I eat because you know I want to, not because I’m so consumed by it, and that’s been a big shift mentally for me that I’ve noticed, which is great.
Josephine (Host)
I love that. That’s so important. I love these things and I even said it on the last podcast when it comes from clients who’ve, you know, proven the success. It means so much more coming from you, because I can tell everyone everything every day, but like actually hearing it all from someone who did what I said and has had the success that means everything.
And I’ve first hand seen your appetite change. You know, I think majority you would did the innovation, but you did do a five hour fast. I think now you eat more the fasting times only because it’s set. It’s set in your day almost.
Hope (Guest)
Right, I think by by almost, by default or by happenstance, I sort of do the five hour because I don’t really eat until around noon, only because, you know, I get up in the morning, I have a cup of coffee, but I’m not hungry yet. So I feel like I wait for my body to tell me that I’m actually hungry rather than saying to myself well, I’m awake and it’s the morning, so I’m supposed to have breakfast. I don’t feel like I need to have that meal, so I really tend to stick to the way my day just works between, you know, getting my kids to school and getting to work and doing all of my stuff in the morning. Now I really start my day with lunch, then I’ll have a snack, I have dinner and then I typically will have another snack, but I just I’m not eating a lot throughout the day, which is also a big change for me from before. I always felt like, well, I have to eat because it’s time to eat, whereas now I don’t feel that way.
Josephine (Host)
Exactly you are not eating breakfast just because someone said morning is breakfast time, or because 12 is lunch time.
Hope (Guest)
Right, exactly.
Josephine (Host)
And that’s the thing I was going to say you were kind of doing the five hour or just eating in a smaller period of time, because you are overall eating less because your stomach shrunk, and you knew you were really being conscious of like do I need this? Or, you know, am I hungry? Why would I eat if I’m not hungry? And then, of course, we know we’re also saving our food because we want to eat when we are hungry. Not just because it’s a time of day
Hope (Guest)
And I know everybody who does your program says this. But you know, having the cheat day is amazing. You know, knowing all week, that I typically do my cheat day on Saturday. So knowing all week that I have Saturday to look forward to is amazing. And the funny thing is is that it’s never a free for all. You know, I’ll have a bagel in the morning if I want that, because that’s something I love, or I’ll have, you know, a scoop of ice cream in the evening if I want. But I’m not gorging myself all day because I almost can’t, Like, I don’t have the appetite anymore to eat like that, which is also kind of nice. Knowing that I can eat what I want on that day makes the rest of the week, you know, so doable.
Josephine (Host)
Yeah, I agree. It’s the light at the end of a hard week.
I also want to touch on the food a little bit because I know you do a lot of the innovation food and I love that because we get questions all the time from people.
Hope (Guest)
And it’s funny because a lot of people in my life will ask me about your food versus regular food, because sometimes people don’t understand that you have this whole store full of amazing foods for anything you could want. I typically place an order if I’m not coming to see you on a Monday, so I have stuff in my refrigerator, in my cabinet, that I can grab throughout the week. I like knowing that I have that, that it’s portioned, I don’t have to think about it, I know what’s a meal, I know what’s a snack, and it just makes it easier and, especially at the beginning, it takes that guesswork out of it when you’re still trying to figure out how much of something to eat, what a portion should look like. It’s really helpful and it’s also delicious.
Josephine (Host)
Thank you. Yes, It’s great too because I know a lot of people just get to that place of really being hungry in the beginning, and if you don’t have something in front of you, it’s when you can just grab and go off so quickly.
Hope (Guest)
Yes, and that’s why all of your snacks are really helpful too, because it’s nice, especially at the beginning, when your body is still going through hungry phases, more so than two and a half years later. Knowing that I could grab something of yours that wasn’t going to affect my weight in a negative way was really helpful.
Josephine (Host)
Right, love that. I know I always say you’re so good at our taste testing, especially when we bring in all the new foods. You’re always giving me those positive feedbacks. You love trying the new.
Hope (Guest)
Oh, I love it. I love when you’re bringing in new foods.
Josephine (Host)
I love that. Yeah, that’s great. So tell me one thing what advice would you give somebody who was like questioning should I do it? Am I going to be hungry? That’s one of, I think, the biggest questions I get when somebody comes in, right? Am I going to be hungry?
Hope (Guest)
So I would say, without question, there is no reason not to do it. It is an incredible thing to do for yourself and it means spending some money on yourself, which I don’t often do. Like I said, I have three kids, so most of my finances and things go to them, but this was something that I needed to do for myself. So I would say, set aside whatever it is you can, if you need to, and to do this for yourself.
Don’t worry about being hungry, because there’s, and this may be weird to say, but there’s a little bit of me that at the beginning, I almost wanted to feel hungry. Because I forgot what that felt like. I forgot what it meant to be eating because I was actually hungry and not because I felt like I was supposed to be eating. So I would tell people not to be afraid of feeling that way and just know that there’s so much to eat, there’s so much variety, there are so many options. You’re never going to be hungry for long. It’s not like that, this isn’t a starvation plan.
In fact, there were times, especially and at the beginning I was doing the menu. You gave me my menu and the menu was three meals, three snacks, and I would plan out my day, and back then there were a lot of days that I was eating everything you gave me, all three meals and three snacks.
So, it’s a lot of food. I have never felt deprived and I’ve never been bothered by feeling hungry. And then, as I went along, like you said my stomach shrank and I was losing weight, I wasn’t as hungry. That’s when I went off of the three meals, three snacks, because I just didn’t need that much food.
Josephine (Host)
Right, exactly. And I really do love what you just said too. I actually should use that on brand new clients when they come in. When you said, .. Don’t you want to feel a little hungry? You’re obviously here because you haven’t had that feeling, and sometimes we forget to embrace that Like OK, that means we’re in the reverse and we are doing the right thing, and taking in less and losing weight.
Hope (Guest)
Right it was almost like I forgot. I didn’t understand what being hungry really felt like back then. Because then it was, I was just eating all the time, or eating more than I needed, and then I was feeling sick and I was like so disappointed in myself for eating as much as I was eating. And then when you start this and you realize you eat what you need, and that feeling of hunger you’re like, oh right, that’s what it feels like I’m supposed to be hungry through the day. That triggers to tell me I’m supposed to be eating now
Josephine (Host)
Exactly and how much more you enjoy when you are eating. Because you are no longer eating just to eat.
One thing I have to point out, because I love this and I tell clients this all the time, Hope does not exercise. She lost 50 pounds and she doesn’t exercise.. It’s absolutely so motivating for people to hear that because you know people are very busy. And im not talking about moving. You’re so active. You have three very active kids. You’re always on the go. You’re always running here or running there. I’m talking about true gym exercise.
Hope (Guest)
(Laughing). So I know it’s kind of embarrassing, yeah. So look, I’ve never been one to embrace and really enjoy the gym or working out. I don’t like it. I wish I did. I want to like it, I know it’s good for my health. And I keep saying I’m going to start lifting, you know, even light weights, just because, you know, at 47 years old, I kind of need to be doing something. But yes, I did. I managed to lose 50 pounds without, you know, traditional exercise, right, like you said, I am constantly on the move. I am a single parent to three teenagers who have very busy schedules and sports and things, and I work full time. So you know, there’s not a lot of time for me to, you know, to dedicate to exercising, but I’m also running around all the time. So I am, you know, active in that way.
Josephine (Host)
Yes very active. But the reason why I brought that up is because people will use it as an excuse. Like I always tell them as long as you’re moving like not just sitting at a desk from morning until night and then going into bed. As long as you’re moving, that’s enough. But don’t use not being able to get to the gym as an excuse or not a reason to not lose weight.
Hope (Guest)
Right, and that’s something that I love so much about you and this program is that I didn’t have to take on spending hours a week in a gym to make this work, because it’s about the relationship with food, understanding what you’re eating, the right food, the right calorie intake, all of that it works. So, you know, for those who liked exercising can do it, great, but you don’t have to, and that was very that’s really important to me because, like I said, even if I had the time, I probably wouldn’t be doing it because I don’t like it.
Josephine (Host)
(Laughing) I know you don’t, and that’s what I loved about it, and I thought that was so important for people to hear, because sometimes people are so afraid they’re like I don’t have time to exercise, I can’t be doing this if I don’t exercise and i’m not going to lose. Not the case.
Hope (Guest)
But I also love that you are okay with the fact that I don’t exercise and that you tell your clients that that’s not a reason not to do this, because you know I’m sure there are other you know nutritionists and weight advisors out there that say you have to work out like that. I love that you are not like that, that you get that it’s not for everybody, it’s not on everybody’s schedule and it’s hard to do and it shouldn’t prevent anybody from getting healthy and doing this for themselves.
Josephine (Host)
I love that so many people are going to be so inspired by you. I am. Every time you walk in my office, I am inspired by you.
Hope (Guest)
Well you know I couldn’t have done this without you. You know that and for anybody watching, it’s been two and a half years. I still go to see Josephine. I used to go at the beginning it was every two weeks and then it was every three and now I’m coming like once a month. But I love coming to see you sitting in your office for the time that we have together. It just keeps me on track and I said you are like, you’re my therapy and I love it. So I literally could not have done this without you and your support and everything these two and a half years and I’m not going anywhere.
Josephine (Host)
That makes me so happy. Thank you so much. I love you. Thanks, for the beautiful talk and I am wishing you to have the best day. I know you’re running out and I don’t want to hold you.
HOPE (Guest)
Thank you. I’ll see you in a couple of weeks.
JOSEPHINE (Host)
Thank you so much. Hope. You are absolutely amazing 50 pounds lighter. What an inspiration to so many people. And thank you all for listening to the love to live healthy show. Thanks for tuning in and I’m wishing everyone a happy, healthy week. Much hugs and love from me to all of you.
~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick
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TRANSCRIBED: THIS WEEK EPISODE OF THE LOVE TO LIVE HEALTHY SHOW WITH JOSEPHINE FITZPATRICK
Hi everyone, welcome to the Love to Live Healthy show. My name is Josephine Fitzpatrick. Today’s episode is how Can I Get Quick Weight Loss? How do I lose the most weight in the shortest amount of time? Clients ask me this question every day.
Last week’s episode, if you listened, was all about the three top ways to lose 5 to 7 pounds in one week. We went over the regular innovation, we went over the detox and we went over the five hour fasting All great ways to get 5 to 7 pounds off in one week. Now we are going to talk about doubling down. We’re going to double down and change it up enough so that our body gets confused and when our body gets confused, it will help us keep those numbers going. We want to keep continuing to lose weight, and that’s why we’re doubling down.
One thing I do want to tell you is I really believe the healthiest program you can do is the signature innovation 3 meals and 1 to 2 snacks. It’s slow, it’s steady, it’s 1 to 2 pounds a week, but it’s great because while you’re losing weight, you’re learning at the same time to incorporate healthy habits into your daily life, and that’s what makes it so great.
However, that does not work for everyone. That doesn’t work for someone who has resistant fat or maybe has a medical issues or going through menopause. This is how I came up with the doubling down. This is why I created the 5 hour fast and the detox and doubling down on them, because if you have resistant fat and find it impossible to lose weight or if you have medical issues, or if you just stuck with your weight loss, these methods will help you lose the weight, regardless of why your body is resistant.
I use it all the time with clients who try to lose weight and struggle to lose 1 pound. Maybe it’s genetic, maybe it’s medical, doesn’t matter. They’re struggling to lose that 1 pound and that is not motivating. Who is going to stay on a diet when you can’t lose a pound because you have resistant fat or because you have a medical issues or because you’re going through menopause. I created these because they work and when clients see the results, they are so excited.
But please, before you try weight loss, make sure you consult your doctor.
What is Doubling Down: What I find to be the best and I’ve used it on thousands of clients is the combination of the fasting and the detox Not one, not the other, but both in the same week. I call it doubling down. You’re taking two great weight loss methods, two quick weight loss methods, and you’re combining them in one week and it confuses the body so much that it gives you amazing results. Not only does it work great, but the clients love doing it because it’s mentally exciting. It’s not the same thing all week over and over. It makes the time go faster and you feel like just when you had enough of one, you’re starting the next one. And, of course, one of the main reasons they love it is because they see the results. And when we see results, everything feels worth it.
I originally started the doubling down for clients who really had resistant fat. They just struggled. They would go on their regular innovation program or was on any weight loss program and they would lose a little weight and then it would just stop and it would not move, no matter how little they ate.
Once I started these methods, their weight loss took off. Every week they would see two to three pounds. That’s a lot of weight loss for someone who has resistant fat. That’s a lot for someone whose body is running so much slower because they have a medical issue or menopause. So when you see weight loss like that after trying so hard, and you can’t get a pound off. You are so excited it works.
METHODS: First, let’s go over the detox and the five hours. For those of you who are new, not sure or just need a refresher. The five hour fast is when you do two meals and one snack and you do it in the same five hours every day Monday through Friday. It’s what I would refer to as a breakfast or lunch for your first meal and a dinner for your second meal and then a snack for your third. They are all on program healthy meals/snack. If you’re not sure, listen to our last podcast I gave examples.
The detox is when you do one detox drink, one meal with two cups of veggies and one MCT muffin, unlike the five hour where you have to do it in the same five hours every day. It doesn’t matter what time you do the detox. It doesn’t matter what order you do it in, although I tell clients all the time start with the drink, because the drink has the appetite suppressant in it and it will help you not feel hungry. I see clients do these methods all the time and they do really well with them. We must remember we’re always drinking water throughout the day. It’s very important to stay hydrated.
5 HOUR FAST: The first thing you want to do is figure out what your five hours are that you’re comfortable with. If you have already done the 5 hour in the past you might already know what you’re capable of. But if you haven’t done the five hour you have to figure out what you can do in that week. For example, if you’re planning on doing the five hour and you’re going to eat from one to six, but you have dinner plans at six o’clock on Thursday, well, you can’t do the five hour from one to six because you have to be done eating at six. So it’s very important to know what your week looks like and if you’re capable of doing it and if you are, what would be the five hours that you can do it in?
Okay, so let’s now start the double down with your week.
If you are doubling down, this is what your first week would look like.
You want to start with three fasting days and two detox days. So your first three days are fasting and your last two days are detox, or you can reverse it and start with three detox days and two fasting days. The key is the first three days are the same and the last two days are the same, regardless of if you do the detox first or the fasting first.
So say, the first week you do the fasting Monday through Wednesday and detox Thursday and Friday. Then you would do a regular weigh-in on Saturday morning, and continue a regular innovation weekend on Saturday and Sunday of 3 meals and 1-2 snacks. You would incorporate one cheat meal and one cheat dessert on Saturday or Sunday.
The following week you can reverse it and you can do three detox days and two fasting days and again Saturday morning you weigh in and you do a regular innovation weekend with your cheat meal and cheat dessert or drinks -if you’re drinking and you’re over 21.
Normally what I do with clients is I start them on the regular innovation week. I see how they do, and I see how their weight loss goes. Then I will go to the detox for a week, and then I will have them do the fasting for the next week. This gives me an idea of how they do and what they are capable of doing.
So start by doing one week of each. Figure out what you are capable of first, then you can double down once you’ve tried all three.
This is how your first couple of weeks would look when you’re doubling down.
Now, listen, it’s hard. Detox is hard, weight loss is hard, fasting is hard. For some, even regular innovation is hard. But you have to know if you want to lose weight, you have to put the work in. So you have to figure out what works for you both mentally and physically and do it.
Start by figuring out your week. See what works for you. When you figure out your week and you see what works for you, that’s what’s going to make all the difference and that is when you can begin.
But I promise you, if you do this and you’re struggling with any type of resistant fat, if you’re struggling with any type of medical issues or menopause this is going to work for you. So give it a try, see how you do. I know you will be really happy you did it.
You will say “yes it was challenging but it works amazing”
You can always reach out to me and ask me any questions. I’m always here for you. Okay, I’m wishing everyone a happy, healthy week. Give it a go, give it a try, see how you do and let me know.
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If your week is feeling a little challenging I want to remind you that you are not alone. One of the hardest things about holiday weekends is retraining the brain and the appetite to get back to eating on program and eating less. You will have a few tough days and by mid week you will feel back in control. Just stay focused and don’t give in to temptation. Think about your goals and what is truly important to you. Everything will feel better one on program day at a time.
By the weekend you will be ready to get back on the scale and have your cheat meal. Then next week instead of taking it one day at a time maybe take a leap and do the detox for 5 days or the 5 hour Fasting for 5 days. If you are feeling inspired and motivated then give yourself that jump to get to your next new low.
Remember the detox and 5 hour fasting is not something you have to do every week. Some clients do the detox every week with weekends off and others love the 5 hour fasting and live on it. But some will do one or the other and do it once a month. Some even combine the detox for a couple of days and the Fasting for a couple of days. You do what works for you. The most important thing is to keep moving forward and feeling your very best while you are doing it.
With November ending and December beginning we have to remember we will need to prepare in advance for all the holiday parties and vacations.
December is so busy it always tends to feel like the shortest month of the year. It’s a great month to enjoy when you need to — and the weeks you have nothing going on is when do everything you can to stay on program and get the very best results.
Remind yourself when you are doing the right things how great you feel when you are getting dressed or when you are going out or something as simple as putting on a pair of sweatpants. Everything feels better when we are doing our best to be our best.
Stay in the positive mindset of giving 100% on the days and weeks you can, because those 100% days and weeks will make a big difference in your results at the end of the month
It’s up to you to live WITHOUT the regrets of
should have, would have, could have
BUT I DIDN’T
~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick
I really wanted to write this blog before the big Pink Promises event that takes place this month on September 28,2023. As many of you know I work with a lot of Doctors, Surgeons, Oncologist. They refer clients to me all the time and while many are in remission others are right in the middle of chemo. In the last 15 years I have seen first hand how much all the research has helped all types of cancer but especially breast cancer.
When I was a kid the word Cancer meant death. And everyone was so afraid of it – but today while we might be still afraid of the word, we know there are treatments and these treatments are now what saves lives. Thats why Events like Pink Promises are so so important. Because they have to keep doing the research so even the most challenging cases can be put into remission.
I always preach about how important it is to be proactive. Make your doctor appointments and go for your tests. But even when you do that doesn’t mean it prevents it, but it does mean you have a better chance of catching it early. When we catch it early it’s always going to give us better odds of survival. But it’s still so scary! It’s very scary for us to make the appointments every year so we are proactive – all the while knowing that when we walk into our test – we can walk out 30 min later with a changed life. And what was once normal will never be normal again. And it’s knowing this can take place with every appointment is what can sometimes stop us from going in the first place. But I want to be the first to remind you that NOT GOING is NEVER a good idea. I will tell you first hand both my mother and my sister did that and it resulted in quick death. My mother never went to the doctor. In fact I think the last time she was there was when she gave birth to me. So at 58 years old when she started seeing rapid symptoms it was only 6 months until cancer took her from us. It was one of the worst times of my life. So you think we would all learn from it but unfortunately my sister did not. Instead she went to the Doctor at the age of 53 and they found something and she never went back. She never told any of us until her symptoms were no longer able to be hidden. I am telling you this because what I want is for you to be educated on how important it is to make your appointments, no matter how scary it is you must go have your yearly tests before you have symptoms– and never ignore symptoms you may have.
What I find most interesting is that while research has helped so much with treatments – we still don’t know exactly what causes so many different cancers. We believed for the longest time it was hereditary but now we have learned that only 10% of cancers are hereditary and 90% of cancer is actually environmental and lifestyle. And we also know cancer loves to fester and grow in fat cells. So when it comes to prevention we know a healthy weight and low body fat is very very important. And taking care of yourself from inside out should always be a priority.
But at the end of the day you can do all the right things and may still be diagnosed and you may never really know why – but what you will know and can be confident about is that the research that takes place every day is providing us with treatments that are more advanced than ever. And that’s why supporting events like Pink Promises is so important.
Donate today because the more research the better chances of survival for even the most aggressive cancers. It’s not about living forever it’s about not be taken away too early. The research that the BCRF does give us the best possible opportunities to live our life, and get back to our new normals and return to our new hopes and dreams even after being diagnosed.
So take the moment today and donate. The link is below. It can be $5 or $5000 every dollar makes a difference in someone’s future.
https://give.bcrf.org/event/pink-promises-2023/e490892/register/new/select-tickets
The Event is September 28th. Tickets are still on sale today in the link above. It’s a beautiful luncheon, so if you are available buy a ticket and call a friend, and have lunch, and know that you are helping future research that is going to save someone’s life.
Every Human Life is worth the same and worth saving
~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick
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