Carlene Jones
Obesity Weight Loss Coach

So Far This Year, my clients have lost over 291 lbs!

Author of: Fat Brain Lies ©2009
Founder of: ObeseMe est. 2009
Founder of: Raw Food Boot Camp® est. 2005
Private Weight Loss Journal: I Beat Obesity

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We talked about the black hole of depression today.  The black hole that makes us not care and makes us eat.  Sometimes I have fallen into the hole by accident.  Other times I have defiantly jumped in.  No matter how many times I find myself into that hole, Carlene reaches in and pulls me out; thank God!  Today she said, "stay away from the black hole.....find happiness."  Today I decided that Carlene is right.  The black hole only brings misery and pain.  Today I stayed away from the hole.....I didn't even get near it.  Thank You Carlene!
~Cheri

Click here to read how I helped Cheri prepare for her zip line adventure on Richard Simmons Cruise last year.

Cheri is going to zip line again this year with us while at the Pagosa Springs Live Boot Camp.

Breaking Fat Behaviors Workshop I -IV

Each program is 4 Weeks

This is a continuous series of programs, you must do them in the order they are offered.

Full Program open to Returning Members
Audit Option to everyone else

These new 4 week programs are designed as a workshop to help you break your fat brain behaviors. There will be daily assignments that will force you to address your fat behaviors so you can get rid of them once and for all and start living a healthy non-food obsessed life.

These five programs are a continuation of the Finding Your Perfect Diet program.

All subjects below will be addressed within these five programs. Each Breaking Fat Brain Behaviors program will build on the previous one. For example, we will discuss Mindless Eating, Eating out of Boredom, eating for Comfort, and how to always be prepared in all programs as these are some of the biggest problem areas. We will start with minor changes to behaviors then as we progress through the five programs we will work at buiding stronger defenses for life-long success. No change happens over night, gradual ones work best. We will approach everything as progression, not over-night cure.

Here is a list of subjects covered:

Fitting Health into a Busy Day

One of the biggest complaints people make on these programs is that they don't have time to plan and prepare healthy food for themselves and that they can't squeeze in exercise. We will examine the reality behind this and work together to find ways to realign your life so you find the time you need and no longer use this as an excuse.

Eating away from home.

For some reason even the most health minded person feels that when they are out with friends or away on travel or vacation that eating poorly and not exercising is acceptable. We will focus on how to make better choices, how to travel with healthy food, how to travel and maintain your exercise, and how to socialize with your friends without feeling left out and deprived.

Mindless Eating

We will focus on how to stop mindless eating. This is one of the worst fat habits most of us have. We will find ways to recognize mindless eating and then develop individualized techniques for removing this type of eating from your life.

Choosing Junk over Heath

As I run the 6 Week Finding Your Perfect Program, many have a hard time giving up the high sweet, high fat, and high salt foods. They feel these foods make them happy. We will examine this belief and find alternatives to some of the extreme foods that keep you unbalanced. We will also cover false cravings and how not to fall for them.

Eating out of Frustration and/or Boredom

We will focus on that antsy feeling you get when frustrated and bored that makes you start pacing the kitchen and eating everything in the cupboards and fridge. This is a long learned fat habit, so there is no guarantee you can break it in a week, but we will work on finding alternatives that will actually work for you in place of eating thousands of calories.

Eating as a Reward

This is a definite problem for many. Even as children our parents rewarded us with candy and ice cream if we were good. There has got to be a better system. First we will work on breaking the idea that if you are good you should get a food treat, and then we will work on finding alternative ways for you to reward yourself that are not food related and that you will actually do.

Impulse Eating

On of the things that trip even the most ardent dieters up is impulse eating. We will work on learning to discern the difference between impulse eating and eating with intention. This is a hard change that does not happen overnight. It takes diligence and honesty to remove the habit of impulse eating from your life, but if you want lifelong health it must be broken.

Family/Best Buddy Rituals.

From date night with the significant other to tortilla chips and salsa night with a movie with the kids, or night on the town with your best buds, these rituals can become a hard habit to break. You feel as though you are the odd man/woman out. You think that if you ask for change that everyone will hold it against you. Together we will work on how to make successful changes in your family rituals, how to get your family/SO/friends on your side, and how to start new rituals that embrace not just health but fun as well.

Self-Sabotage

One of the hardest things for many is breaking some of these self-sabotage methods that have become so innate. More often than not, we are our own worst enemies when it comes to sticking to a program. We fall into pity pots bigger than the Grand Canyon and make no effort to get out of them. We look at our butts and convince ourselves it doesn't really matter because we will never be good enough. There will be no psycho-analyzing in this focus. We will work on breaking away the lies for our self-sabotage and face the truth that we do this to ourselves just so we can eat the foods we want.

The Fear Factor

This goes along with Focus 3. Many use fear as a reason to end a successful diet. Fear of success and fear of failure. We will explore some of these fears and find ways around them. Again, no psycho analyzing, no delving into painful pasts. We will work on exposing the validity of the fear and then find ways to move past it. I believe there is only one way to get beyond an obstacle. Don't stand there with a hammer trying to pound it into pebbles, instead find a way over, under or around it.

Burnout

One of the biggest things that happens to long term dieters is burnout. Whether it is with the food or the exercise. We will work on how to keep variety in your diet and keep it from being so boring all the time. We will find things to do with our lives that replace eating so that sense of will I ever get there is diminished. We will discuss the gung-ho syndrome and how to avoid it.

Milestone Fatigue

One thing that has always amazed me as I have coached people with large amounts of weight to lose is how when they hit a major milestone they lose their oomph. It is like they have summitted early and can't regain the momentum to continue on. This has happened to just about everyone I have worked with when they hit their 100 pound gone mark. We will discuss ways to be prepared for this and how to circumvent it. As part of this we will also talk about how frustrating it can be as you reach these big milestones and the scale stalls just one pound before!

The Major Emotions

We will create Plans of Actions for the following emotions:

• Stress
• Comfort/Lonliness
• Sorrow
• Celebration
• Old Wounds
• Honest Fear

Cutting the Cord.

I do not believe in substitute eating. Sure maybe today while you are in my program you will eat carrots instead of candy when you are stressed, but the minute you leave and declare yourself done, the candy will be right back. Instead we will work on how to cut the cord completely between emotions and food. This is not always easy because many of us don't want to do it. Instead we want to use our emotions as a gateway to our favorite foods.

There are three payment options to these program.