Change With Carlene Podcasts

Can diet and exercise alone solve all your woes. Probably not but they can help.In this podcast, Carlene shares an email she received from a mental-health group that espouses all Carlene has been telling people for years. And it is researched based.Fruits, veggies (especially greens), walking and gratitude have all been shown to increase wellbeing. On the website for this podcast, she has included the email she received and it has the links for you to go explore the actual research yourself. It's powerful. All these years working with obese women at RawFoodBootCamp.com has shown us just how true this is. Now even the non-obese, non-dieters can benefit from all that was learned and is now validated by scientific research. Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Has Life Treated You Unfairly?Do you believe if only your circumstances had been as good as others you’d do better?Do you blame the universe, your upbringing, your social status for your weight?Well, yes, life can be very unfair.But, so what. It’s the life we have and it’s our responsibility to make the best of it.Do not let the unfairness of life become an excuse for not always being your best.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Are you embarrassed to tell people you’re dieting yet again?Do you prefer to struggle alone rather than have loved ones roll their eyes at your new dieting plans?Get over it!Proper support from family, friends, and true peers is vital for success.Let Carlene explain how to go about getting that support, who to ask, and how to ask for it.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Do you find yourself finding ways to break your diet and it feels almost intentional? Often it is. No one wants to diet. It's easier to quit than to try and then fail. But we don't have to fail. If we understand our motives and we learn to recognize them, we can circumvent them and find success. Listen to Carlene talk about all the ways we sabotage ourselves to keep from dieting and living a healthy life at a weight we feel good at.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Are you waiting for that epiphany or aha moment for change to just automatically happen?What if instead you just consistently did what you’re convinced is the right diet and exercise program for you and let it seep into your soul. To become part of your current life without always fighting and struggling.Dieting is a mind game. Listen and maybe you can settle in and just let the weight loss happen.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

So you found your perfect diet and exercise plan.It works.Now you those guidelines are blurring and you’re pushing the edges to see what you can get away with.Stop!The only one you’re rebelling against is yourself.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

You may think being perfect is a quality to strive forYou would be wrongPerfectionism is a lieIt is an excuse to quit things that are hardIt is an excuse to not give your bestYou will never reach your weight loss goals if don’t learn it’s okay to be imperfectSupport the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

It takes the 3 Ps to succeed at weight loss:Patience to give your body time to lose the weight.Perseverance to stay strong long enough to get to goal.Practice behaviors you need to change.None of this happens overnight. Practice the 3 Ps if you truly want to change and learn to live fit and healthy for life.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Is your body not fit enough to start an exercise program? Does your mindset tell you it will never happen? Listen to Carlene tell you stories of how some have gone from multiple 2 minute walks a day to finishing a 10K in just 4 short months. It takes determination and practice. Our bodies want movement. Now to convince our minds.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Before any weight loss journey is started, it is so important that you take the time to research the best diet for sustainability based on your food choices and dieting personality. Basically, you need to sit with pen and paper, or whatever device you use to take notes and go through your dieting history. If you don't then your next diet will turn out like your last. Start right. Listen to Carlene describe why that's so important. Know yourself!Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Rock Bottom. We've all been there before, especially with dieting. Don't despair. As far as dieting is concerned it is the best starting point. It's a time to figure out what is most important and then go do it. No looking back. You've been at the darkest, now it's time to leave all that behind.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Counting calories went out of vogue back in the 90s.  It's time to take a look at them again and see the role they plan in your dieting success.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

We all have our favorite excuses to get away with breaking our diet and exercise plan.  We store them and have them handy. It's time to clean out that Excuse Cupboard and start making new habits that work.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Waiting for that mojo before getting up and getting going? It's time to stop waiting to feel like doing things as in dieting and exercising. It's time to get up and get it done.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Before you start any weight loss program, you need to be ready. This series is about getting your mind and body prepped for a successful weight loss journey. Qhzfx2Jq2tdzfSWE4osrSupport the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

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Third podcast in Coach Carlene's series of Preparing for Your Weight Loss Journey. This episode is about picking the right diet for you.  Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

This is the fourth episode in Coach Carlene's Preparing for your weight loss journey series. It is about exercise and the role it plays in weight loss.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

This is the fifth and final episode in the Preparing for Your Weight Loss Journey. It's all about the importance of support and accountability and how to ask for it.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

By being here today, you are saying you want to fight through your cravings, to beat them. Plan on coming here often throughout your weight loss journey. Cravings come and cravings go, but every time we give into them, they learn how to defeat us. The only way to beat them is to fight them and win.Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

How are you doing? Did you fight off those cravings from Day 1? Are you ready for another day of fighting through?Were you surprised you could fight through a whole day of cravings without giving in? I know it’s hard, but trust me, it’s worth it.This workshop doesn’t work through the reasons cravings come, it’s all about the fight, the struggle, the win!

Day 3, and you’re still here. That is great. It means make it through today and tomorrow and you’re home free. This is what it takes.How are you feeling about the fight today?

Hey, Hey!! It’s day 4. This should be your last day of cravings. That bear is getting the message and should be gone by morning.How are you doing? Are you ready to beat that craving?Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

You did it! By today that bear should have hightailed it. But beware, there will be times he comes back to check up and see if anything is hanging around that he can glom onto.Are you feeling free today?Support the show (https://www.thinbraintraining.com/support-coach-carlenes-podcast-show/)

Carlene introduces herself and explains what Thin Brain Training means to her and what she hopes to accomplish with her podcast channel.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Today, we all seem to feel we need to accomplish so much. We need to take care of the world and we need to be the best at everything. If you were to write down your goals today it would become a list, a long list probably. But if I asked you to write down by each goal the last time you worked on reaching that goal, many of those dates would include cobwebs.It's time we take examine our goal lists and decipher what do we truly want. This audio is all about defining your true wants and then planning a path to achieve them. I recommend no more than 3 real wants at a time. When there are too many they all find behind. But you knew that already. Listen to the audio and get to work. What is it you want, what you really really want.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Once you figure out what you want, it's time to decipher how to get there. I like reverse engineering. I know where the end goal is, now what are all the things I need to learn and do to get there.This podcast is about reverse engineering. I do it for you with my want of building a 13-foot troll. There are so many things I have to learn or perfect to be able to get the guy I want. I need to know those things. Once I know them I can decide what do I need to learn, to buy, to practice to get them.Those things become my mini-goal list that I work on to get where I want to go. Once you define your want, make that list and create your path to successfully achieve your want.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Procrastination is the greatest foil to our dreams or is it the favorite excuse to not go after our dreams. When you want something you have to work for it. You have to work hard for it. That means every day that want needs to be part of your day either actively pursuing it with work and effort, learning more about it, or finding the people you need to succeed to get it.Surround yourself with reminders of what you want. Pictures, podcasts, google searches, Pinterest, whatever it takes to keep you want in the forefront of your mind then set time aside every day, even if it is just 10 minutes and you are just daydreaming about what it will be like when it happens. Some days you may be too busy to actually accomplish something or you try and get nowhere for that day. That's okay as long as you are mentally engaged with your want daily.Listen to the podcast and come up with your own routine and strategies for making your want part of your daily life. Then don't procrastinate, go get it done.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Listen to Carlene explain what Change With Carlene (CWC) is about and why she is so passionate about it.After 14 years of working with women to lose weight, she came to the conclusion that what women need more than weight loss is help to change behaviors and mindsets in their life. Not just for weight but when it comes to procrastination, impulse control, negativity, self-doubt, and fear of failure.Carlene uses all she has learned working with women hesitant to change to encourage and motivate women to find their way to becoming the best they can be. Check out one of her free workshops before joining a fee-based program and see if you and she are a good fit.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Today, half of the United States and many parts of the world decided to stay in lockdown until May 15th. I know you were hoping to get back to normal sooner than that. You need to be free! To go back to work, to feel confident about the future again and yet, that anxiety and stress is building. Today's podcast is about the importance of letting go of the worry, of taking those deep breaths and instead of reacting calming yourself so you can rationally respond instead. Take action on the things you can control and let go of the things you can't. Your health both physically and emotionally demands it.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Today's audio is about this idea that stay at home means imprisoned in our home. It's not and it's important that we don't go there. We are social creatures and need each other. Use the internet to meet up with people. Go out to parks and walk. Drive around just to get out of the house. We can do this. We need to be socially responsible but we also need to protect our own well-being in the confines of what we are asked to do for our community.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

We are so used to grabbing on to the negativities and letting them drag us down. We can't do that right now. We have to look for the positives. Work with Carlene to block those negatives from getting a hold.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

This virus isn't going away in a day or two or even a week or two. We have to take control of our time to save our sanity. Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

We have had our lives disrupted before this. It's a temporary disruption. Let's look at it that way and ease the fear of where we're headed.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

This is a first in a series of podcasts Carlene is doing to help her clients through the coronavirus pandemic.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

If we base everything we do on how we feel in the moment, our creativity, our success will remain sporadic and most often unfinished. Life is not all rainbows and unicorns. To succeed at anything, we have to work for it. From dieting to becoming a rocket scientist from artist to rising corporate CEO. Emotions have nothing, can have nothing, to do with it. We must achieve what we need to do regardless of how we feel in the moment.Carlene is in her drill sergeant mode in this podcast. She has watched too many give up on success just because they live their lives based on in the moment feelings. We achieve because we do even when we don't feel like doing. If you need a kick in the pants to get yourself going, listen to this podcast. Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Have you lost sight of your dreams and goals because you are so caught up in the weeds of life that your path has been obscured? Pull out that machete and start clearing your sightline. Goals and dreams take hard work. Yes, your muscles will ache, the mosquitoes will bite you and the roots will trip you up. But if all that gold is worth fighting for, you have to work through the weeds and carve out the time each and every day to reach it.Let Carlene motivate you to do just that. Dreams and goal are attainable for those who don't give up and, and who are willing to fight to make them happen. Carve out the time you need to put into your goal and make your own dreams come true. No one else is going to do it for you.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Rock bottom is the perfect place for change. True change. Not let's try again change, but a complete overhaul. It can be a scary place, at first, but when you are so broken and don't know where to go, if you calm yourself, breathe, and sit quietly the inner you will find that spark of hope and help you see with more clarity than you have in a long time.The fall to rock bottom is brutal, but once you're there it can't get worse. It can't hurt more. Sure you may choose to stay there for a bit, a day, a week, a few weeks, but in the end, you know that there is only one person who can fix you, and that's you. Listen to my podcast. I've been there myself, rock bottom and while it hurts it offers a true time of reflection and through that reflection, we are finally able to listen to ourselves. I believe, deep down, we all know what we want and what we have to do to get it. We just get so bogged down in life, other people's expectations, and even our own, that we lose trust in ourselves. Rock bottom leaves us empty and with only ourselves to count on.It's a pivotal point for so many. If you're at rock bottom, don't despair. Use it. We are born survivors and innately have what it takes to protect and care for ourselves even if it means battling our own demons, looking for outside professional help, even going to rehab. Or the hardest thing ever: believing in ourselves. Be aware I am not a professional mental health expert. I am just a woman who has been there herself and who has helped many others seeking a way out of their own pits of despair. I share my own experience and what helped me, that's all. There are some things all the advice in the world can't help. Be open to that.If you are experiencing deep dark depression and are having suicidal thoughts, seek professional help. Here is the National Suicide Prevention Hotline: Call 1-800-273-8255Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Do you ever find yourself pondering how your life would be different if you made other choices in your life like what if I had or hadn't married my high school sweetheart. What if I had been born with different genes or to different parents? What if I had taken that job far away instead of playing it safe and staying put? What if that horrible thing had never happened.We all do it and it can be fun. But there is a dark side to it. What if we always feel we lost out by the choices or circumstances of our past and use them as an excuse to not move forward. I propose what if we play this game for forward movement and leave the past What Ifs for a palor game and nothing more.Please enjoy my new FREE Podcast as I explore this idea of past and future What Ifs using my own life for many of the examples.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Is there something you want to get done, or even have to get done and you keep finding excuses to justify to yourself that you just can't do it right now?At Raw Food Boot Camp we call those justifications excuses and we have realized that each of us have a handy cupboard full of them that we go to whenever we want to get away with something. I call it our Excuse Cupboard and man is it full.It's time to go check that cupboard out, when you don't need it, so you can see how cluttered it is and start breaking down and dismantling all the heavily used excuses. You need to look at them and see them for what they are: Your way of keeping you from your success.Listen to my free podcast on why we even have such a thing and what we have to do with its contents.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Have you ever examined the way you speak to yourself as you try to motivate yourself to get something done?This podcast is about looking at the actual terms we use and proposes there are better ways to say the same thing so our brains get the message that we want or desire what we want to accomplish.Listen then think about what you're trying to talk yourself into doing. Write down what you're saying to yourself, then come up with a more positive way to say it.It's like brainwashing ourselves!We use this method over at Raw Food Boot Camp as a way to walk away from foods not on our plans.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Heading into the third week of January and already resolutions are starting to wane?Listen to Carlene's free podcast for some butt kicking to get back to them and mindset changes and plans to help you get them done this year whether you feel like it or not!Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

There are so many excuses not to exercise, but the truth is to be healthy we have to move. We have to. In this podcast Carlene shares her favorite story of Miracle Jan who went from chair bound to walking a 10k unassisted in 4 months. All because she was willing to push herself to change. You don't have to start an exercise program at full force, start where you are today and add a little push each time and before you know it, you will be stronger, healtheir and happier. Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Everyone hates counting calories. Let me explain to you what I have learned over my 13 years of helping women lose weight at RawFoodBootCamp.com. It's not as cut and dry as you think, but there is still great value in understanding the importance of knowing the value of what you eat versus what you expend each day.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Is there something you love to do that became more of a chore and stole your love of doing it from you? I realized last night that I had done this with my sculpting. No wonder I was procrastinating. When did I let the joy turn into dread?When did I allow my insecurities as an artist steel my joy in learning?Listen to my podcast as I explore what happened to me and possibly what happened to you. Follow along as I regain my joy and put things in the proper perspective and reclaim the artist within.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Today I am procrastinating. I have a project that I have to start and I keep pushing it off. Time is ticking away and I can't procrastinate any longer. I actually created this podcast as a way to procrastinate! Listen to the podcast. Then go to the Change With Carlene website and find the Dec 13, 2018 podcast on Procrastination. At the bottom there is a comment section. I will track my project there as I break through my procrastination and I welcome you to share yours and track your progress as well.Unfortunately no one is going to do the project for us. We have to jump the hump and just go do it! Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

I borrowed the Newsy newstation's moto of Be Informed Not Influenced because when it comes to dieting, especially picking out the new year's resolution diet, we tend to find the newest trend and go for it. Think about last year and the year before that and the year before that. Each year a new resolution and a new diet. This time, I'm going to do it. This time this diet will work.But it doesn't and for most by Valentines it's a done deal.This podcast, part 1 in a series to help you pick the right diet for you is all about being informed and not influenced when it comes to choosing that diet. Why not invest a little bit of time before the start of the year and figure out a diet you can do long term, one that will work for you and one you can then modify into the right diet for your life?Aren't resolutions about change? Make the right change. Be informed before you choose that diet and make 2019 the Year of You!Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Want to know why Carlene does these free podcasts and what makes her so good at what she does. Listen to the About Carlene podcast and know where she's coming from and how she could help you make changes in your life.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Are you overwhelmed or depressed during the holidays? Listen to Carlene's free podcast on ways to help you look at December with a little more light and how to grin and bear it without it destroying you.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Yes, you read that right. There are joys to be found in dieting. In my weight loss journey there were many more joys than struggles. Why? Because I wanted the joy. I cherished the milestones. I concentrated on the positives not the negatives and even on those days I felt deprived and tired of dieting I couldn't miss all that I was accomplishing.In this podcast I explain how joy is right there for all of us. If we look for it.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)

Dieting is full of struggles. Let Carlene help you understand that struggle better and equip you with ways to move beyond the struggle of dieting and turn them from debby downer moments into learning ones.The struggle during weight loss isn't all bad. It can better equip you for maintaining the weight loss permanently. Don't hate the struggle, accept it and teach yourself to get beyond it.Support the show (http://www.changewithcarlene.com/support-carlenes-podcast-channel/)