Pleasure Is the Strategy: Ditch Diet Culture + Design Your Best Life with Laura Conley
If hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the solution.
That's the through line of everything Laura Conley does and once you hear her say it, you won't be able to un-hear it.
In this episode, I sit down with Laura Conley, life and weight loss coach, founder of the Yummy Mummy Method, and host of the top 1.5% podcast Lose Weight for the Last Time, for one of the most refreshing and genuinely funny conversations about food, bodies, and what it really takes to get out of the cycle for good.
Laura figured all of this out the hard way. She was the woman who knew every diet, had every supplement, had tried everythin and still couldn't follow through. Then her daughter came home from a month in the hospital as a newborn, and Laura took a shower and started beating herself up for not being back in her pre-baby jeans. That was the wake-up call. And the Yummy Mummy Method was born from everything she figured out after it.
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Key insights:
Why she had a breakdown in the shower after her daughter came home from the hospital and what it changed
What emotional eating actually is and why most people don't realize they're doing it
Hunger hormones: insulin, leptin, ghrelin, and how processed food hijacks your ability to hear your body
Why willpower doesn't work and what allow power is instead
Healthy happy restriction: the middle path between 800 calories a day and eating whatever you want
The when-then game: "when I lose the weight, then I'll feel confident" and how to reverse it
Pleasure as a non-negotiable why women who don't know what they enjoy are more likely to reach for food
Almost immediate gratification: how to get a hit of reward without waiting six months for the goal
The five pillars of the Yummy Mummy Method
You are not bad or wrong. It's not your fault. And it might just be your responsibility.
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