"Stop thinking of food as “good” or “bad”. There’s just food and the context in which it is eaten."
Carter Good
Jun 28, 2021
EFR 493: Stop Dieting and Start Living - Secrets to Sustainable Weight Loss with Carter Good
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EFR 493: Stop Dieting and Start Living - Secrets to Sustainable Weight Loss with Carter Good
As with any journey of self-improvement, weight loss starts and ends with mindset. “Stop thinking of food as ‘good’ or ‘bad’,” says today’s guest, Carter Good. “There’s just food and the context in which it is eaten.”
The struggle to form healthy nutrition and lifestyle habits comes down to the stories that you tell yourself around every decision you make, big or small. Carter himself attributes his past obesity to “using food as an emotional suppressant.”
Carter goes on to say, “It’s really about reframing things and getting people to a place where they don’t feel like they have to make better choices and they have to exercise, but that they get to do these things.”
Carter Good is a weight loss coach and the founder of the Leaner for Life community. He shares the story of how he lost 100 pounds in eight months, and why the hardest part of his journey came only after he lost all that weight.
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Key Highlights
Why do so many people struggle so much with weight loss, and why is it even harder to
keep it off?
Awareness precedes change. Carter shares some actionable steps to keep track of your progress in a way that keeps you motivated to hit your fitness goals.
Learn how you can trust yourself to make healthy food-related decisions and have this confidence ripple into every other area of your life.
What makes a good weight loss coach and how do you find one?
Carter explains why developing healthy relationships with food and with your body is the biggest win you could possibly have on your health and fitness journey.
Powerful Quotes by Carter Good
Stop thinking of food as “good” or “bad”. There’s just food and the context in which it is eaten.
The problem isn’t “losing 50 pounds”. The problem is all these habits that you’ve developed that aren’t in alignment with losing 50 pounds.
Awareness precedes change.
Losing weight is easy. Keeping it off is the hard part.
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