How Kristine Found a New Perspective on Weight Loss in Menopause

What if losing weight isn’t the only thing you need to change before you can finally feel better about your life?

Kristine came to me wanting to lose weight. She had spent years thinking about food, worrying about her weight, and wondering why she couldn’t seem to make the changes she knew she should be able to make.

She had lost 20 pounds before, only to regain it. She was tired of the constant churning in her brain about food, calories, carbs, her appearance, and what life would be like if she were thinner.

But something unexpected happened when we started working together.

Kristine began to feel relief before she had lost the weight.

She started recognizing when she was actually hungry instead of eating because of external cues or assumptions about what she should be doing. She learned to let herself get hungry, pay attention to fullness, and question the stories she had created about what other people expected from her.

And as that mental noise quieted down, she became more present in her own life.

In this episode, Kristine shares what changed for her, why she realized she didn’t need to keep waiting until she lost weight to feel better, and how changing the way she thought about food, hunger, and herself gave her a completely different perspective on weight loss.

If you’ve been working hard to lose weight but feel exhausted by how much mental space food and your body take up, I think you’ll recognize yourself in Kristine’s story.

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What You’ll Learn From This Episode

• Why Kristine believed losing weight would finally make her life better.
• How years of thinking about food and weight created constant mental churn.
• Why she experienced relief and greater freedom before losing the weight.
• How learning to recognize physical hunger changed the way she approached eating.
• Why eating when she wasn’t hungry was connected to external cues and stories she had created in her own mind.
• How she learned to question what she thought other people expected from her.
• Why allowing herself to get hungry felt like a completely new experience.
• How becoming more present changed the way she experienced her life.
• Why changing your perspective can be an important part of your weight loss journey in menopause.