Weight Loss for Foodies podcast | Ditch the Diet and Lose Weight with Shari Broder – Details, episodes & analysis

How do Italians eat pasta every day and not gain weight?

Why do they have the lowest obesity rate in Western Europe?

Why they don’t gain weight as easily as Americans do? 

In October, I was really fortunate to spend two weeks in northern Italy. I visited  Venice, Verona, Florence, and Tuscany, specifically the medieval walled hill towns of San Gimignano, Siena and Volterra. They were each wonderful in their own way. I had a fantastic time, and really loved it there. 

While I was there, I talked to a few American expats. One American woman in Florence told me, “I’ve been living here for a year and have lost 10 pounds without doing anything. I eat pasta every day. Plus I can eat dairy and gluten here with no digestive problems. Back in the States, I couldn’t tolerate those foods.”

I can’t tell you how many people have told me stories like this.  Americans who visited Italy told me that they drank wine with one or two meals a day, ate pasta, desserts, not to mention those breakfast croissants, and did not get the indigestion they normally got back home, and did not gain weight.

The Italians are known for their fantastic cuisine. Italy was the EAT in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love.  And for good reason. 

Have you ever wondered why Italian cuisine is so delicious? And how do they eat that carb-heavy diet filled with pasta, bread, croissants (see typical Italian breakfast to the right) and other delicious things, and not have the obesity problem that much of the rest of the world is experiencing? 

Italy has approximately half the obesity rate as the United States. 

Tune in below (or wherever you get your podcasts) and learn how you too can eat like an Italian.

If you’re ready to learn to eat in a sustainable way that is in tune with your body’s hunger and fullness signals, to end emotional and drop down to your healthy weight, sign up for my online Weight Loss for Foodies program.

In it, you’ll go beyond what I talk about in the podcast, and can download worksheets to practice what you’re learning and guided audio practices. The cost is less than half of the price of the coaching program. 

Learn more and sign up HERE.

How many times have you heard this saying?

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

So many people get stuck and have difficulty reaching their weight goals (and any other goal for that matter) because they get caught in a repetitive pattern of doing the same thing that doesn’t work, or that makes things worse,, over and over again.

Maybe you keep stopping at that bakery on your way to work, buying three pastries under the pretense that you’ll share them or save some for tomorrow, then eat them all. 

Maybe you binge on chips after dinner while watching TV every night. 

The Weight Loss for Foodies method is all about achieving permanent weight loss success by changing your habits and developing a peaceful relationship with food and eating. 

Some people can dive right in and do all of the things that I recommend.

But that doesn’t work for everyone. 

For many people, what works the best is to take baby steps  to break patterns of overeating or emotional eating that you keep repeating to your own detriment. 

Stay tuned to learn how you can get out of your rut and start making progress by taking baby steps to change your eating habits.

And stay tuned for a very important announcement  at the end–and it isn’t a sales pitch! 

Is exercising easier for you than managing your eating, but it isn’t producing the results you want? 

Do you exercise like crazy to make up for overeating? 

Do you hate exercise and avoid it like the plague? 

Unless you’re training for a half-marathon or something else intense, exercise alone isn’t going to get you to your weight goals. 

Are you surprised to hear that? While you can  lose some weight through exercise, it doesn’t make up for bad eating habits. 

It takes a lot less time to eat less than to exercise more!  

But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t exercise. 

To be truly healthy, exercise is essential, regardless of how much you weigh. 

But if you expect it to make you thin, you likely will be disappointed. 

Tune in  and learn the role of exercise in weight loss, some benefits of exercise you may not know about, and how to fit it into a healthy lifestyle.

Weight Loss for Foodies is now available as an online, self-paced course without coaching. You’ll learn even more than what I discuss in the podcast, and can download worksheets to practice what you’re learning and guided audio practices. Learn more and sign up at my website, sharibroder.com

What’s the philosophy behind my approach to food, eating and weight?

Why did I feel called to become a coach despite being very happy with my fascinating practice as an arbitrator and mediator? 

You already know that there are thousands of diets out there. And by diets I mean regimens consisting of temporary approaches to changing how much and what you eat so that you can lose weight, usually as fast as possible. 

There are also lots of approaches that claim to be non-diet, or lifestyle approaches. Most of those are also really diets, like Weight Watchers, Slimming World, Paleo, Keto and Intermittent Fasting. 

So why am I so passionate about the Weight Loss for Foodies method? Why is it more effective than any of those options? Why can actually make you happier? Hint: it isn't because you'll lose weight.

Listen to learn the nine reasons why I feel like an anti-diet evangelist for this program.  

I’m going to be opening the doors to my Weight Loss for Foodies group program in early January, so if you want to be notified, make sure you click on the link below and get on the waitlist!

If you want to get started implementing my guidelines now, join Ditch the Diet Tribe, my free Facebook group, by requesting HERE.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re celebrating Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanzaa, the New Year or any of the many celebrations this time of year.  You know there will be lots of food. ‘Tis the season for lots of food. 

Do you associate certain foods with this time of year? Maybe it’s the only time of year you eat potato latkes or roast turkey with stuffing and gravy or pumpkin pie.

Although the restrictive diet mind associates having an abundance of delicious, special food available for the holidays with overeating and feeling out of control around food, I can assure you don’t have to feel that way.  I actually enjoy the holidays even more since I stopped gorging myself every time! It’s so much easier to have fun when you don’t feel like the stuffed turkey!

Yes, I used to routinely eat too much during the holidays. I know how you feel.

I also know how you can change your mindset so that you don’t feel out of control and don’t overindulge. 

LISTEN to learn how to navigate Thanksgiving and other holidays and occasions in a healthy, even more enjoyable way. 

Download the Negative and Positive Food Beliefs Think Sheet from my website now!

What’s the difference between people who succeed at losing weight and keeping it off, and those who don’t? 

It isn’t giving up carbs or sugar.

It isn’t fasting, cleanses or detoxes.

It isn’t exercise.

It isn’t willpower.

It isn’t ANY diet. 

Most people who lose weight think they lack motivation. But that’s not it.

What the unsuccessful people really lack are the beliefs and the plan that will help them achieve their goal. 

Listen below  to learn how to come up with a plan to help you establish great new habits that will stick so you can lose the weight and keep it off.

Does that sound like a strange topic for a podcast?

Am I going to teach you how to transform from Clark Kent into Superman? 

From Peter Parker into Spiderman? 

Not THAT kind of identity change. 

It’s about working with your subconscious mind to  create your subconscious identity as a person who is naturally slim.  You don’t have to wait until you lose weight to view yourself and act like someone who is naturally slim. In fact, your chances of success will be much greater if you start being that person right now. 

You have to stop thinking of yourself as an overweight person who struggles to lose weight and develop an identity that will support your goals!

So listen to learn how to change your subconscious brain, which is where your current identity resides, into one that matches that naturally slim person deep inside you!

Do you ever think you want to end your battle with food and eating and your weight more than anything else in the world? But somehow you can’t stop yourself from overeating? 

Despite your best intentions, do you eat too much at dinner, then munch out in front of the TV all evening? 

Or decide that you’re only going to eat when you’re hungry, but when people bring food to share to work, you eat a bunch of junk because it’s there?

Are you tired of getting in your own way?  

It’s probably your subconscious mind at work. 

In this episode, you’ll learn  about the role of your subconscious mind and how it can work against your efforts at weight management and other things in life. But don’t despair!

Your brain is the most powerful tool you have, and you can learn how to use it to change your subconscious programming and consequently, change your results.  

LISTEN to learn how to mine your subconscious beliefs, notice what role they’ve been playing in your life, and what you can do to get the results you want.

Do you associate eating with hunger? Or do you eat for all kinds of other reasons? 

The reason we feel hunger is because that is our body’s way of telling us it needs fuel. If we eat when we’re hungry and stop when lightly full, our body gets the amount of food it needs to be a healthy weight. When we do that, we can eat the foods we love without dieting or deprivation and not gain weight

But most people don’t eat this way, and that has a lot to do with epidemic levels of overweight and obesity these days.  In our culture, we’re encouraged to eat when we aren't hungry and overeat by many sources, especially companies marketing their food products and family members. 

If you want to stop eating for those non-hunger reasons, and stop obsessing over your food choices, I’ve got a simple way to do that. 

There’s one question you need to ask yourself when you feel the urge to eat but aren’t hungry. 

Listen to learn what that question is and how to apply it to your life.

I never anticipated doing a podcast on this topic. 

My focus as a coach is on teaching foodies :

1. HOW to eat: in tune with your body’s hunger and fullness signals, consciously, savoring your food; and 
2. WHY you eat: when your body needs food, which is when you’re hungry, and not to avoid difficult emotions or dealing with our problems

I don’t tell you WHAT to eat. That’s because that’s your body’s job. When you listen to it, your body tells you what to eat. Plus most of you already know about nutrition and want to eat a primarily healthy diet. 

But a few listeners have asked how I plan my meals. Given that I want to help you develop a peaceful relationship with food and eating, eating well and enjoying your food is a big part of that. And decent meal planning can help.

So here it is! 

I try not to be one of those podcasters who spends the first 10 or 15 minutes of each episode talking about myself. You have better things to do with your time. But if you want to know how I plan my meals, you need to know something about my life. 

The reason for that is that how you plan meals is a personality thing.  We all have different levels of organization, so if what I do doesn’t sound like it can fit in your life, that’s fine.  

Listen below to learn how to plan your weekly meals so that you can eat and live deliciously, and save some cash in the process. 

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