Tried every diet and still can't make it stick? Certified life coach and bestselling author Lizzie Merritt is here to tell you it's not your fault, and to explain a completely different approach to weight loss after 40 that starts with your brain and nervous system, not a food plan.

If you've counted calories, tracked macros, done the cleanses, and found yourself starting over on Monday more times than you can count, you will want to hear this.

Lizzie Merritt, bestselling author of LIGHT: The New Psychology of Weight Loss, explains why traditional diets fail so many midlife women, and what a brain-based approach offers instead.

In this conversation, we cover:

• Why your brain cannot build new habits when your nervous system does not feel safe
• Two common patterns that drive emotional eating in midlife women: people pleasing and perfectionism
• The LIGHT Method: a five-step framework that treats weight loss as learning, not rule-following
• Why changing 'I am trying to lose weight' to 'I am training to lose weight' matters more than it sounds
• What happens after you hit your goal weight, and how identity shapes long-term success

Lizzie also shares the one mindset shift that helped her clients break the start-over-Monday cycle for good.

Resources from this episode:

• LIGHT: The New Psychology of Weight Loss | https://amzn.to/4uCqyJm
• The Confident Body Podcast | https://confidentbody.coach/podcast/
• ConfidentBody.coach | https://confidentbody.coach/

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