Weight Loss for Women Over 40 - Lisa Duke Coaching

ACE for Weight Loss – How It Works

Dec 30, 2022

My ACE Weight Loss Methodology is a unique and innovative approach to weight loss that lasts.

We are solving the root cause instead of temporarily covering up the symptoms.

So how does it work?

ACE stands for:

AWARENESS. The next time you sit down for a snack in front of the TV after dinner, ask yourself, “if I am not hungry because I just had dinner, and I want to lose weight, why am I eating this?” We need to bring awareness to the eating we are doing for non-hunger reasons. It's the easiest eating to cut out without triggering deprivation.

CLEARING. We need to clear out all the non-hunger reasons we are eating. Are we reaching for chips when we feel stressed and angry? Ice cream when we feel anxious? Are we eating sweets because factory-food has been engineered to create addiction? Is there even something from childhood or a past life driving the non-hunger eating? Once we clear the drivers of non-hunger eating, we need much less willpower to chose not to eat when we are not in need of fuel.

ENERGY. This may sound a little woo-woo, but there's an energy of weight loss. Once we've cleared all the heavy stuff that's been holding us back, we naturally feel more optimistic and positive. We naturally choose lighter foods when we are eating for health and fuel. We act differently when we see the possibility is real.

Let's work together. Only $495 for 4 sessions, and everyone who completes all 16 sessions of the program is covered by my unconditional money back guarantee for up to a year after completing the program.

https://lisaduke.net/schedule to book your initial consultation for free today.

ACE for Weight Loss – Step 3

Dec 23, 2022

ACE – Step 3

Step 3 of my proprietary methodology to help you get to and heal the root cause of your excess weight is ENERGY.

It may sound a little woo, but there's an emotional state that goes with weight loss.

It's the energy of “it's working, it's working, it's working”.

It's a positive expectation that changes your behavior.

You see, the pleasure of looking and feeling more vibrant and alive that comes from eating food that supports your health in quantities your body can easily process can actually become more compelling than a bag of Halloween candy.

It doesn't mean you'll never have a treat again.

It means you'll be eating chocolate or ice cream or chips for pleasure and free from guilt and shame, and that eating those things will be something you occasionally choose to do, rather than feel compelled to do.

Or you may lose your taste for them forever and wonder what all the fuss was about.

When you are in the energy of overweight, the solution to overweight is invisible/impossible.

When you in the energy of your healthy weight, the solution is obvious/simple.

It sounds a bit ephemeral, and it's kind of tricky to explain, but like porn, you know it when you see it. 🙂

Let's get you into the energy of a healthy body that's at a healthy weight because it's eating healthy food in healthy quantities.

It's an energy you deserve to be in.

From here, so much more is possible.

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Step 2 – Clearing with The ACE Weight Loss Methodology

Dec 9, 2022

A few weeks into my program, my clients have awareness over what's been driving their overeating (and also, some tips on when and what to eat to flip them into fat burning mode and out of fat storage mode).

We are now well into the CLEARING phase.

We typically start with clearing the nervous system. EFT (tapping) is a great tool for this when someone is too triggered emotionally to talk through something rationally.

We also use the NOW technique, to allow clients to feel and process their emotions safely without using food as a drug.

Remember when I said I have used food to address boredom and restlessness in the evenings?

Using these tools does the same thing for me as eating – it helps me feel better, but without the “moment on the lips, lifetime on the hips” effect.

Once we've settled in and worked through the emotions, the logical mind comes back on line.

Coaching is a great tool for the logical mind. Clients have great “ah-ha” moments and shifts.

But there are some things that are deeper than the conscious mind.

With weight, childhood issues, ancestor trauma, and past life events can also be running subconsciously and sabotaging our results.

I use ThetaHealing with clients to help bring these issues from the subconscious to the conscious mind so they can be worked through and cleared.

So you see, there's a bit more to it than just “eat less, exercise more”.

Yes, your behavior will shift. You might start walking. You might shift from mostly processed foods to mostly the foods your body was designed to use as fuel. You might feel less urgency around eating.

And you might even use a little willpower here and there, and put a bead in your urge jar instead of reaching for the snack (either way, you'll get the hit of dopamine your brain wants, but with the urge jar you break your overeating habit!).

But you won't be trying to white-knuckle it.

As my client Kate said, “weight loss doesn't have to involve suffering”.

Let's get started. Your time is now, and you are ready for the next step.

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Awareness – Past Life and Ancestral Beliefs

Dec 2, 2022

Past life and ancestral beliefs can also be subconscious blocks to weight loss.

In addition to habit eating, stress/emotional eating, and limiting beliefs, when we just can't get ourselves to do what we want to do to improve our health there can be another type of block in the way.

Now this gets a little woowoo, so no worries if that's coming up for you. I was not raised to believe in past lives, and frankly I still don't know if I believe in them or not.

But I can definitely tell you I've had the experience of visualizing snippets of a story like scenes from a movie, and I've had the experience of looking at and understanding that story and then having a shift because of that.

And I've worked with clients who have had similar stories come up that aren't memories from this lifetime, but have been getting in their way without them even being conscious of the stories.

So where do these stories come from?

They very well could be past lives.

Or they could be someone else's story that we are accessing from the collective unconscious.

For all I know, they could be alternate dimensions or snippets of a dream or a bit of a movie we saw as a kid.

They could even be something our mind is making up in the moment in response to the questions we are asked.

Here's the kicker – I don't think it matters.

What I know from my own experience and from working with clients is that once the brain has a story – wherever it's origin – that helps it understand why it is doing a certain thing, it is able to then make peace with that story and let it go, which allows for different behavior in the future.

It's a bit of magic.

I've seen similar things happen with ancestral beliefs.

If you have a long line of ancestors who suffered from famine, your line may have only survived because your people know how to get the most out of a calorie.

You may have sayings or habits that come down the family lines.

When these stories are brought to consciousness and honored, we can then recognize that times have changed and shift into behavior that is appropriate for a time of abundance and relase the habits of scarcity.

Ready to release your subconscious blocks to weight loss? I look forward to working with you.

Awareness – Limiting Beliefs

Nov 25, 2022

During the Awareness phase of my proprietary ACE Weight Loss Methodology we often discover limiting beliefs interefering with weight loss in addition to the habit eating and stress/emotional eating already discussed.

So what are limiting beliefs?

A limiting belief is a rule that lives inside your head and affects your behavior either consciously or subconsciously.

Most of these rules are totally made up.

For example, one category of limiting beliefs is any sort of “I AM” statement that stops you from doing what you want to do to improve your health.

“I'm overweight. I've always been overweight. I'll probably always be overweight.”

These are all limiting beliefs.

Now it may be factually correct that you have always been overweight, but can you soften the statement to something that allows for a little wiggle room – for the possibility of change?

“Up until now I've always been overweight” – still true, but see how it introduces the possibility of the future being different?

“I'm a member of the Clean Plate Club.” Ok, well good for you, but breaking news, the plates grandma used are tiny compared to the plates we use today and the enormous platters restaurant meals are served on.

I get not wanting to waste food, but if you are overweight to the point where it is impacting your health, then eating it is not a good use of it, either. Maybe get a dog or a compost bin if you can't stand to put food in the trash. But damaging your body to avoid throwing away a half-eating baked potato is not a great life choice, right?

When our subconscious beliefs are made conscious and our conscious beliefs are questioned the possibility of change from the thought level arises.

You don't have to believe and obey everything you think, friends.

Awareness – Stress & Emotional Eating

Nov 18, 2022

In addition to habit eating, in the Awareness phase of my ACE Weight Loss methodology we also often find stress and emotional eating.

Lots of potential clients coming to me knowing they are stress eaters or emotional eaters, but some people are so good at using food unconsciously to cover up their emotions that it's not until they try to cut out eating when they are not hungry that the emotions come up.

Either way, once you realize the problem is your feelings, all you need to do is to swap out the solution.

If the only solution you have for the problem of feelings is to eat, of course you will continue to gain weight – especially when things are tough!

Luckily, replacing the maladaptive coping mechanism of overeating in response to feelings is easy with the tools I teach clients.

Once they master tools such as EFT and self-coaching, they never have to reach for food as the only tool in the toolbox.

We'll talk more about solutions once we get to the Clearning phase of my ACE Weight Loss Methodology, though, so keep following me to learn more about that.

The Awareness Phase – Habit Eating

Nov 11, 2022

Stage 1 of the ACE Weight Loss Methodology is Awareness.

Become aware of and start to cut out eating when you are not hungry.

While there are lots of reasons we eat when we aren't hungry, many of the reasons are just habits.

You can cut out your habit eating to lose weight without physical hunger..

The 4 Cs of habit eating are:

1. Clock.
Stop eating because it’s a certain time of day if you are never hungry then.

2. Calendar. You don’t have to gorge yourself just because it’s a certain day of the year. “Halloween candy” is available year round at the grocery store and gas station.

3. Company. It’s ok to gently tell mom that a certain food that was your favorite when you were 4 isn’t your thing any more (maybe try to tell her before she fixes it, though).

4. Clean Plate Club. Real talk, plates were smaller then. Put your leftovers in the fridge. It’s fine.

Stopping your habit eating is a great way to lose weight without going hungry.

Introducing the New ACE Weight Loss Methodology

Oct 21, 2022

Eat less move more.

Meal plans and exercise plans.

Willpower.

Absolutely it works – for awhile.

But do you want to lose weight for awhile? Or would you like for food and weight and your thighs to be a non-issue going forward?

That's what's different about my methodology.

We aren't temporarily covering up the true issue by following a program that works short term, only to have the weight creep back up once you go back to normal life.

It's like painting the stain in the ceiling every 5 years instead of fixing the root cause – the leak in the roof.

My ACE methodology is completely different.

Instead of focusing only on what you are eating and how/if you are exercising, we get to how you are thinking and how you are feeling and remove the drivers of being overweight, which means the weight comes off naturally.

Want to try it out? It's backed by a money-back guarantee for anyone who pays for and attends all 16 sessions.

It's only $395 for the first 4 sessions.

Sign up today for a free initial consultation to start.

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I look forward to working with you soon.

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Hormones & Weight: Insulin

Aug 5, 2022

Wondering why you just can’t lose weight? It’s possible insulin is the reason why.

Insulin is a hormone that your body releases in response to sugar in the bloodstream. It tells your body to store that sugar as a fat.

As long as blood sugar remains high, your body will stay in fat storage mode, and you won’t be able to access the fat on your body and use it as fuel.

So then the question becomes – how do we get our insulin down so our bodies can switch from fat storage mode to fat burning mode?

There are a couple of ways.

Reduce the amount of processed sugar you are eating. Processed sugar doesn’t exist in nature, so your body did not evolve (was not designed) to deal with it. Processed sugar spikes your body’s blood sugar up really high, which then requires your insulin to spike up really high. This can also lead to energy crashes and that “hangry” feeling, which you will also reach for a snack to cure.

Reduce the amount of processed flour you are eating. Many people don’t know this, but flour breaks down into sugar in the body very quickly and will follow that same process that sugar follows – spiking blood sugar, spiking insulin, leading to crashes and hanger. Even the starch in potato chips turns into sugar in the body and follows this same pattern!

If you aren’t willing to reduce the amount of sugar and flour you are eating, you can still find ways to at least give your body a break between spikes. Cutting out snacks between meals allows your body to recover.

You can also prolong the fast you are already doing. You see, everyone fasts – when we are asleep! Even if you eat the exact same total volume of food and the exact same types of food, if you cut out snacking after dinner and delay or skip breakfast, that gives your body a chance to access fat stores at least during that part of the day before you start spiking up your sugar and insulin.

If you are constantly nibbling on sugar and flour based treats from when you first get up until when you get to sleep, your body won’t be able to access the fat on your body for fuel, even if you are watching your portions and calories, because getting blood sugar under control takes precedence over all other functions.

Need support on how to get yourself to do this? That’s where I come in! Go to lisaduke.net/schedule to book your initial appointment today.

The Urge Jar

Jul 1, 2022

So what’s an urge jar, and how does it work to help you stop snacking when you aren’t hungry?

Well, here’s the idea behind it. If you aren’t hungry and still want a snack, that feeling of wanting the snack is an urge.

If you remember the story of Pavlov’s dogs, the dogs were trained to anticipate being fed and to drool every time a bell was rung. The way they untrained the dogs was to ring the bell but not feed them, so eventually their brains were reprogrammed to not associate the bell with food any more.

You can do the same thing with your own brain.

Right now you are trained to eat every time you feel an urge, which strengthens the neural pathway of urge to snack.

The next time you feel the urge, instead of rewarding the urge, you just want to allow that urge to be there for 1 minute. If you do that, you’ll learn that an urge is just a feeling, and feelings usually pass after 60-90 seconds if you can stay with them in your body.

Not rewarding the urge with a snack over time will weaken the neural pathway, and over time the urge will stop coming up for you.

Once you’ve sat with the urge, give yourself the reward of moving a bead to the jar. It seems silly, but you are actually using the primitive brain against itself. The primitive brain loves to watch those beads fill up the jar. So instead of rewarding the urge to eat, you are rewarding the practice of allowing the urge.