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Ever feel like the last 10 pounds are the hardest ones to lose? Like you’ve done the diets, counted the calories, tracked every bite, and somehow those final pounds just won’t budge?
In this client spotlight episode, you’re meeting Ari, graduate from the Mindful Weight Loss Academy, full-time working mom of two, longtime chronic dieter, and physical education teacher who lost 40 pounds on her own through restriction and tracking, but felt completely stuck trying to lose the last 10. She was exhausted from logging food, cycling between being “perfect” and starting over, and feeling like a prisoner to MyFitnessPal.
In just four months inside Mindful Weight Loss Academy, Ari lost her last 10 pounds without dieting, without counting calories, and without giving up cake, girls’ weekends, or anniversary trips. But the biggest transformation wasn’t the number on the scale. It was breaking the all-or-nothing mindset, learning to eat to true satiety, and finally feeling free around food for the first time in 25 years.
We talk about what actually helped her lose the “stubborn” last pounds, how she stopped eating to discomfort, why the hunger scale changed everything, and what it feels like to never have to track a calorie again. If you’ve been stuck thinking the last 10 pounds require more restriction, more control, or even medication, this episode will show you another way.
Mindful eating isn’t just for those last 10 lbs—it’s for anyone who wants REAL change that lasts. So if you’re tired of dieting and ready to lose weight in a way that actually lasts, press play. Ari’s story proves you don’t need more discipline. You need a different approach.
xoxo,
Jackie
P.S. Want to see Ari’s before & afters? Check out our Instagram highlights and celebrate her journey!

MORE FROM JACKIE: 
<< Ready to lose weight, fix your metabolism & reach your body transformation goals without restriction? Apply for my 4-Month + 1:1 Coaching Program, Mindful Weight Loss Academy, to permanently lose weight, create simple delicious meals & stick to your healthy habits for LIFE: www.themindfulweightloss.com >>
🙌🏻 Ready to Sustainably Lose Weight WITHOUT Counting Calories? I’ll show you how in 3 easy steps! Grab My FREE Quickstart Guide To Permanent Weight Loss: https://eatright4life.ck.page/quickstart-guide
👋🏻 Follow me on Instagram: @the.mindful.nutritionist

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Can we talk about the fact that this episode drops on Labor Day, which feels like the perfect day to have this conversation? Because Labor Day is basically the unofficial funeral for "I'll just get back on track this summer." The pools are closing, the kids are back in school, and suddenly you are staring down the fall stretch wondering where the last few months even went. I already know what a lot of you are about to do. You are about to treat today like a reset button, a new meal plan, a new workout split, new everything starting Tuesday. I need to stop you right there, because that instinct is the exact thing that has been keeping you stuck.
I am taking you back to every January 1st I lived through in my 20s, sitting down to plan the entire year, a new workout program, a new meal plan, a whole new version of myself starting on Monday. What I did not realize for years is that every single one of those resets actually erased whatever I had already built the week before, even the stuff that was working. I was not building on progress, I was demolishing it and starting from the bottom over and over again on every symbolic date on the calendar.
We are getting into the three shifts that break this cycle for good. Why the fresh start effect feels so motivating but usually just becomes an excuse to throw out what is already working, why you do not need a new plan for the last four months of the year but instead need to protect the one or two things that are genuinely sticking, and why waiting for a symbolic date to finally start is its own trap. Your habits do not care what day it is, and neither should you.
You do not need a reset. You need to stop interrupting the progress you have already made.
xoxo,
Jackie

MORE FROM JACKIE: 
<< Ready to lose weight, fix your metabolism & reach your body transformation goals without restriction? Apply for my 4-Month + 1:1 Coaching Program, Mindful Weight Loss Academy, to permanently lose weight, create simple delicious meals & stick to your healthy habits for LIFE: www.themindfulweightloss.com >>
🙌🏻 Ready to Sustainably Lose Weight WITHOUT Counting Calories? I’ll show you how in 3 easy steps! Grab My FREE Quickstart Guide To Permanent Weight Loss: https://eatright4life.ck.page/quickstart-guide
👋🏻 Follow me on Instagram: @the.mindful.nutritionist 

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Do you feel like you should be farther along by now? You are eating well, moving your body, trying to stay consistent, and the scale is just not moving. Maybe it has not moved in weeks or even months. That little voice in your head starts wondering if maybe this just is not possible for you. Being stuck is not a sign that weight loss is not possible for you. It is a sign that what you have been trying is not working for your body right now, and those are two completely different things.
I am taking you back to one of the most frustrating seasons of my own weight loss journey, about 30 pounds into losing 65 pounds total, when the scale just stopped for months. My response was to do what most women do, eat less, work out more, track more carefully, and the scale still did not move. I was working so hard on losing weight that I completely missed the fact that I was fighting against my body instead of supporting it, and that is when everything finally shifted.
We are getting into the three shifts that move the needle when nothing else has worked. Why you need to stop trying to force weight loss and start supporting your body instead, why auditing your stress load matters more than auditing your food log when it comes to breaking a plateau, and why changing one thing for 30 days beats changing everything for three days every single time. I also share the research on how long it actually takes a new behavior to become automatic, and why picking just one non-negotiable is so much more powerful than overhauling everything at once.
You are not stuck because you are not trying hard enough. You are stuck because you have been trying the wrong things, and now you have three brand new ways to read that signal and respond to it.
xoxo,
Jackie

MORE FROM JACKIE: 
<< Ready to lose weight, fix your metabolism & reach your body transformation goals without restriction? Apply for my 4-Month + 1:1 Coaching Program, Mindful Weight Loss Academy, to permanently lose weight, create simple delicious meals & stick to your healthy habits for LIFE: www.themindfulweightloss.com >>
🙌🏻 Ready to Sustainably Lose Weight WITHOUT Counting Calories? I’ll show you how in 3 easy steps! Grab My FREE Quickstart Guide To Permanent Weight Loss: https://eatright4life.ck.page/quickstart-guide
👋🏻 Follow me on Instagram: @the.mindful.nutritionist

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Do you wake up feeling on it? The yogurt bowl is perfect, the salad at lunch is perfect, the snack is exactly 150 calories. And then 9pm hits and you come home exhausted, the kitchen is calling your name, and something shifts. The chips, the cereal, the ice cream, whatever is in the pantry, you cannot stop. Then comes the guilt, the "I already messed up so I might as well keep going," and the promise that tomorrow will be different. Nighttime eating is not a willpower problem. It is your body and your mind sending you a message you have been ignoring all day.
I am taking you back to my college apartment, deep in my own weight loss journey, doing everything right by diet culture standards all day and then completely snapping after 10pm, going straight for the ice cream or cereal in my roommate's fridge and not being able to stop. I thought I had a nighttime eating problem, but what I actually had was an all-day restriction problem, and the nighttime eating was just the inevitable result.
We are breaking down the three real messages your food noise is sending you at night. Why under eating during the day is one of the strongest predictors of losing control at night, why using food as your only coping tool for stress makes complete sense and what to build instead, and why the forbidden fruit effect means the foods you restrict hardest during the day become the ones you cannot stop eating after dark. I also share how this exact shift helped one of my clients, a teacher completely wiped by stress eating, lose 50 pounds.
You were never broken and you were never weak. You were hungry, stressed, and restricted, and your body did exactly what a hungry, stressed, restricted body does. Once you know what your food noise is actually trying to tell you, your nights get a whole lot quieter.
xoxo,
Jackie

MORE FROM JACKIE: 
<< Ready to lose weight, fix your metabolism & reach your body transformation goals without restriction? Apply for my 4-Month + 1:1 Coaching Program, Mindful Weight Loss Academy, to permanently lose weight, create simple delicious meals & stick to your healthy habits for LIFE: www.themindfulweightloss.com >>
🙌🏻 Ready to Sustainably Lose Weight WITHOUT Counting Calories? I’ll show you how in 3 easy steps! Grab My FREE Quickstart Guide To Permanent Weight Loss: https://eatright4life.ck.page/quickstart-guide
👋🏻 Follow me on Instagram: @the.mindful.nutritionist

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If you have been losing and gaining the same weight on repeat for years, I want to ask you something. Are you doing the same thing that created the cycle in the first place? Today I am breaking down exactly why you keep losing and gaining the same weight, and it is not because you lack willpower or because your body is broken.
I am getting personal in this one, taking you back to my own yo-yo years from 15 to 19, the counting out 10 carrots, the intense BBG workouts, losing 10 pounds every summer like clockwork and gaining it right back every single time. I walk you through what is actually happening inside your metabolism during that cycle, why a severe calorie deficit gets read by your body as a famine, and why that response slows your metabolic rate, breaks down muscle, and ramps up your hunger hormones until the weight comes roaring back.
We are getting into the three things your metabolism actually needs to break the cycle for good. Why eating more to lose more through something called reverse dieting works, why swapping cortisol-spiking cardio for strength training and walking changes everything, and why building something sustainable instead of something impressive is the only plan that actually lasts. I also share how this exact shift is what finally helped me lose 65 pounds and keep it off through two pregnancies, postpartum, and building a business.
You have lost this weight before. The question was never whether you could lose it, it has always been whether you could keep it. This episode gives you the truth about what your metabolism actually needs so this can be the last time.
xoxo,
Jackie

MORE FROM JACKIE: 
<< Ready to lose weight, fix your metabolism & reach your body transformation goals without restriction? Apply for my 4-Month + 1:1 Coaching Program, Mindful Weight Loss Academy, to permanently lose weight, create simple delicious meals & stick to your healthy habits for LIFE: www.themindfulweightloss.com >>
🙌🏻 Ready to Sustainably Lose Weight WITHOUT Counting Calories? I’ll show you how in 3 easy steps! Grab My FREE Quickstart Guide To Permanent Weight Loss: https://eatright4life.ck.page/quickstart-guide
👋🏻 Follow me on Instagram: @the.mindful.nutritionist

RELATED EPISODES:
118 ー Why Everything You've Heard About Your Metabolism Is Wrong (And What Actually Works for Weight Loss)
117 ー Is Food Noise Sabotaging Your Weight Loss? Here's How to Silence It Naturally (No GLP-1 Needed)
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100 ー 10 Lessons from 100 Episodes: What It Really Takes to Lose Weight & Keep It Off
99 ー 5 Questions That Helped Me Lose 65 Pounds Without Counting Calories!

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