Conscious Weight Loss – Frequently Asked Questions
This process is delivered online and by Zoom/phone to students and clients around the world.
We want you to have the information you need to make an informed decision to proceed. Here are the top 5 questions we receive but if you have others we want to hear from you, so Contact Us!
1. How is this DIFFERENT from every other time I've tried to lose weight?
We shift the focus away from diet and exercise. We start from the premise that you probably don’t believe that anything will work for you anyway. Instead, we focus on dialing down your resistance and self-sabotage. We dig into the root causes – everything that gets in the way of making better choices for yourself that support weight loss. Which means this is whole life coaching. We explore how you’re naturally wired, what you deeply value and what you want in your life beyond weight loss. Then we instill the life skills and greater capacities you need to unleash your potential and create your bigger life.
Your previous attempts were likely just about losing weight, whereas this approach is about losing your weight issue as well. We help you strip away the layers of judgement, guilt, and limiting beliefs that hold you back about your excess weight. Judgement that makes you think you’re a failure at this. Guilt that makes you feel you don’t deserve better. Limiting beliefs that convince you weight loss is hard. By addressing these mental barriers, the path to a healthier you becomes clear. Weight loss transforms from a daunting task into an elegantly simple and, dare we say, enjoyable journey.
2. Who is this intended FOR?
*Mental Health Professionals* *Coaches* *Educators* *IT Professionals* *Executives* *Entrepreneurs* *Healthcare Professionals* *Nutritionists* *Trainers* *Wellness Practitioners* *Caregivers* *Retirees* *Anyone interested in their personal growth and spiritual evolution*
Empathy and curiosity drive your professional life. You thrive in careers that help, teach, or innovate. You value insight and reflection, fueling a passion for self-improvement. You aspire to live a bigger life that can be of service to others and leave a lasting impact.
On a more personal level, excess weight clings to you, defying your efforts to shed it for good. This battle with the scale has waged for over a decade. As you’ve gotten older, you’ve lost your confidence to take risks and have stopped pursuing the adventures that once brought you joy. You long to reconnect with that spirited part of you that got buried beneath layers of struggle and self-doubt.
If you see yourself in any part of the descriptions above, you’ll respond well to this. We’re looking for people who want to invest in themselves and become true fans of their personal growth and spiritual evolution and we’re here to support that. We want to build lasting relationships where we can witness and champion you, especially where you’ve been holding yourself back. Let us help you craft the extraordinary life you deserve.
3. Can this still help if I do it WHILE taking weight loss drugs?
While this approach was designed to be a robust alternative to weight loss drugs, it can also be a powerful companion to medication by enhancing its effectiveness and reducing your dependency on it. As medication quiets the food noise, Conscious Weight Loss helps you listen for what’s underneath the noise and meet it with compassion, not avoidance. While medication reduces appetite, we help you understand how your appetite got dialed up to begin with. Medication is a biological support whereas we offer support on deeper intellectual, emotional and spiritual levels. This ensures you’re not bypassing your transformation with a drug – you’re walking hand-in-hand with it while developing skills and building capacities needed to sustain your weight loss.
Our clients find they’re able to lose weight on lower-than-average dosages because they’re not relying on the drug to navigate unprocessed emotions or unmet needs. And when it comes time to wean themselves off the drug, they’ve already built the inner architecture: self-regulation, identity alignment and embodied trust. Conscious Weight Loss helps you become someone who doesn’t need food to cope or a drug to override desire because you’ve learned how to lead yourself through those challenging moments. This isn’t just about losing the weight; it’s about stepping into that version of yourself and a life that can carry that weight loss forward, without the pharmaceutical dependency.
4. What are the methods, frameworks, science and philosophies this is BASED on?
Coach Kath deliberately bypassed existing weight loss methods when creating Conscious Weight Loss. Her aim was to surpass those conventional methods with innovation and greater effectiveness. Her expertise in university-level curriculum design and IT project management informed her robust learning and execution frameworks. She then delved into the science of habit change, personal development, and addiction recovery, first testing this in her own life and then with her early coaching clients. This led to a proprietary weight loss coaching process that yields remarkable and lasting results.
Conscious Weight Loss addresses the personal growth and spiritual evolution necessary for weight loss. Personally, it helps you develop cognitive strategies for emotional eating, procrastination and stress management. You’ll also learn about harm reduction principles and practices in unconditional love. Spiritually, it reconnects you with your authentic self and elevates your consciousness. This journey shifts you from struggle to joy and transforms you from Ego to Soul. This secular path blends powerful tools with profound wisdom to help you realize your potential, your bigger life.
5. How much TIME per week should I expect to spend on this?
Invest just one hour a week in the live sessions and you’ll be well on your way. Include the audio lessons and you’ll need another 20 minutes to an hour each week. Allow yourself 10 minutes of daily journalling – optional but valuable – and you’ll reap huge personal insights. We encourage you to treat all this like a college or university course: the more you put in, the more you’ll get out.
We know you’re busy and probably struggle to make time for your weight loss efforts. The homework assignments work with your existing routines. We get you focused on what matters, making meaningful choices and practicing what will move the needle for you. You’ll start with small, manageable steps that bring a sense of progress even when your capacity is limited.
6. Can this be covered by my employee BENEFITS plan?
Check with your benefits provider about wellness, personal or flexible spending accounts. They might be able to reimburse you for some or all of your coaching fees. That said, there are two things people always say after going through Conscious Weight Loss: 1) “I wish I had discovered and done this much sooner in my life, not only for myself but for how I show up now with the people I care about” and 2) “I would have readily paid multiple times the fee given the profound improvements I’ve made in my life and how I feel about myself now”
Questions to Ask About Any Weight Loss Approach
It’s hard to know how to compare one weight loss approach to another. Here are the key questions to help you understand how and why Conscious Weight Loss is purposefully different from everything else out there.
1. Does the approach encourage CRITICAL thinking?
Life is peppered with the unexpected. Skills and capacities help you respond to the unexpected. Weight loss approaches that try to control and plan everything in advance are avoiding the very experiences you need for developing effective skills and building greater capacities. ‘Just tell me what to do and I’ll do it’ approaches may seem appealing, but they stifle your critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
Conscious Weight Loss recognizes that critical thinking is the bedrock of skills development and capacities building. It results in wisdom that enables you to handle life’s complexities. You are better able to assess problematic situations and yourself with clarity and remain open to discoveries. This sparks intuitive insights and self-correcting actions. By thinking independently and putting this into practice, you build trust in your own abilities.
2. Does the approach teach NATURAL relationships with food, movement, my body and self?
Daily life is full of ups and downs, yet most weight loss approaches ignore these fluctuations. They rely on controlling rules and external accountability to force new habits. This not only overrides your natural responses, it devalues them. Similarly, any approach that insists on you being one way to lose weight and another way to maintain it, is not natural. The very notion of a ‘maintenance stage’ makes the approach highly questionable.
Conscious Weight Loss acknowledges the ebbs and flows of life as we help you develop your natural style and rhythm within this. Your efforts are grounded in choice, not control, so they feel natural and can withstand the tests of life. And regardless if you are still losing weight or adjusting to your new weight, you’ll always be using a consistent set of skills and capacities that foster lasting change.
3. Is the approach substantial enough to improve my life BEYOND weight loss?
Conscious Weight Loss is a step-by-step process that guides you from struggle to joy, and from Ego to Soul. Other approaches might happen upon mindfulness, self-love, or a better life. However, this approach intentionally cultivates higher consciousness, unconditional love, and a bigger life. This journey goes well beyond weight loss by redefining your relationship with yourself, freeing up your energy for greater pursuits and nourishing your entire being.
A good weight loss approach should have a positive ripple effect on related areas of your life. It can typically improve your sleep quality and energy levels. It can often ease longstanding physical pains. It can create a positive trend in your blood sugar levels if you have diabetes. And it may even lead to a reduction in your medications.
A great weight loss approach does all this and more. It brings optimism and possibility back into your life in a way that has you excited to get out of bed in the morning. You aren’t susceptible to a number on the scale artificially propping you up or ruining your day. You’ve learned how to navigate all this with relaxed trust and deep calm. Haven’t found this approach yet? It’s time for Conscious Weight Loss.
4. How does the approach COMPARE with Conscious Weight Loss?
We welcome comparison with any other approach out there. In fact, here’s a few we think have some merit. Geneen Roth/Marianne Williamson/Matz & Frankel? Thoughtful writing but no structured coaching process. No BS Weightloss? Practical instruction but simplistic and lacks a soulful dimension (also heavy use of profanity). The Livy Method? Strong community but largely behavioural with a repeating 12-week sprint and limited depth. Even IFS for Eating Disorders, with its psychological depth, lacks the breadth of a long-term transformational arc and the context of a bigger life. Each of these approaches offers an important part of the solution, but none address the inner work of weight loss as cohesively as we do.
Conscious Weight Loss brings fresh insights like a great book can, but then distills them into an innovative and structured coaching process. We provide a complete blueprint for understanding the complexities of your weight issue, including disordered eating, merging practical wisdom with compassionate guidance. We foster both small and large group communities so you receive the personal support and broader championing needed to deepen your sense of self and achieve a higher level of consciousness. This progressive journey delivers the rigor of psychological transformation and the liberation of soulful alignment – developing skills and capacities you’ll carry for life. Conscious Weight Loss is your most complete path – reshaping every aspect of your Bigger Life in a Smaller Body.
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