Disrupting Obesity Charlotte Skanes

Welcome back to another episode in my monthly ‘Ask Whatever’ series, where I answer your very own questions! You can actually expect a few more than usual Ask Whatever episodes in the next coming weeks as I try to get through even more of your questions! Don’t hesitate to continue to send them my way! This week we will cover an array of topics from, calculating calories on very specific foods like if you are going out to eat, eating foods you love, my thoughts on plateaus and exercise. See the full list of questions I’ll dive into below! 

1. How do you eat only a small bit of delicious stuff?
2. How do you calculate how many calories a random piece of chicken has?
3. How often do we change our TDEE as our weight changes?
4. What guidance do you have with regards to alcohol?
5. Do you do things to bring back the muscle you lost?
6. Did you plateau? What steps did you take to start losing again?
7. I’m 60 and I’m losing muscle mass and I want it back. Do you consider women in peri or menopause in your ways to lose fat?
8. Do you use a continuous glucose monitor? Do you think it would be helpful?
9. What about when you go out to eat?
10. Do you enter your current weight into the TDEE calculator or your goal weight?
11. Can my deficit be created by exercise?
12. One of my problems is knowing what to eat.
13. Good For You Gladys – Question of the Week
14. Do you have a Greek yogurt hack to make banana bread like you do with this cake?

Don’t forget to check out the resources I mentioned below! And remember, keep trying, keep tracking, don’t be intimidated and don’t give up. You’ve totally got this!


Episodes Mentioned:
040 Stop Exercising to Lose Weight
009 Don't Exercise to Lose Weight

Looking for help on your weight loss journey? I’ve created a couple of resources for you:
• My cookbook Disruptor: 
https://charlotte-skanes.mykajabi.com/disruptor
• My free guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’,  which you can find here:  https://charlotte-skanes.mykajabi.com/getstarted
• My brand new weight loss workbook Disruptor, which you can find anywhere in the world through Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”.


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Why do I love flamingos? I share my secret in this episode, and what flamingos, resiliency and weight loss all have in common. If you’ve been feeling discouraged in your weight loss journey recently, use this episode as the pep talk you need to get back on track and motivate yourself to keep going! I also share a little bit about my lowest point while being sick because I want to help as many people as I can! So join me as I talk more about: 

• The “feathers” I hid behind when I was at my heaviest.
• How I handled the comments I received from people outside my immediate circle of support during my weight loss journey.
• Choosing to spread sunshine everywhere you go because you don’t know the impact your words will have on others.
• Being the most aware of my body and how trapped I felt when I was sick.
• How I overcame, embraced resiliency and looked forward, AND how you can do it too!

Even when it gets uncomfortable, you are capable of more! I mean it wholeheartedly: keep trying, keep tracking, don’t be intimidated and don’t give up. You’ve totally got this!

Episode Mentioned:
043 Scared Sh!tless

Looking for help on your weight loss journey? I’ve created a couple of resources for you:
• My cookbook Disruptor: 
https://charlotte-skanes.mykajabi.com/disruptor
• My free guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’,  which you can find here:  https://charlotte-skanes.mykajabi.com/getstarted
• My brand new weight loss workbook Disruptor, which you can find anywhere in the world through Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”.


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This might be a hard topic for some to hear, but I say it knowing it would have been something I would have appreciated being told at different times in my weight loss and weight gain journey, even if I hated it at first! I want to continue to be honest and authentic on this podcast, and hope you will join me as I dive into the many layers that surround denial. We’ll talk about where I realized I was in denial, common phrases of denial and how to approach them! Tune in to hear:

• Looking at denial from 2 different ways, while gaining weight and losing it.
• How a lack of knowledge is a form of denial, when it comes to understanding calories, tracking, and what I was unknowingly adding to meals.
• Awareness is the first step- calories are not the enemy!
• It’s possible to not eat “a lot” and still gain weight.
• If you’re gaining weight while in a calorie deficit.
• When you are not actively tracking as you go, it’s just food journaling!

The most important thing to remember is to keep going! Utilize the 3A Way and you will see how your relationship with food can change! As always: keep trying, keep tracking, don’t be intimidated and don’t give up. You’ve totally got this!

Episodes Mentioned:
012 The 3A Way
017 Spread Sprinkle Pour
039 Ask Whatever VIII: Common Calorie Questions
040 Stop Exercising to Lose Weight
Looking for help on your weight loss journey? I’ve created a couple of resources for you:
• The first one is my free guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’,  which you can find here:  https://charlotte-skanes.mykajabi.com/getstarted
• The second is weight loss workbook Disruptor, which you can find anywhere in the world through Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”.
• The third is my NEW cookbook Disruptor, designed to help with your weight loss!


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I am excited to share with all of you something I don’t talk about on this podcast: I have a weight loss program! So in this episode I’ll be covering why I haven’t spoken about it until now, my heart behind the program, why I created it and everything you can expect from the program itself. The diet industry is toxic and unhelpful, and even though there are thousands of coaches and weight loss programs, for quite some time I’ve wanted to disrupt this area with my own mission for impact, so let’s dive into:

• Never seeing myself in any of the diet coaches out there, feelings of loneliness and the cycle of giving up.
• Why and how I began working on this for over four years.
• Everything included in the program, why I’ve chosen to do things a certain way and how I took my experience in writing to organize it all into valuable sections and pillars.
• If you’re not willing to do these particular things, the program won’t work for you.
• 2 Things I put on my list of what I’m working on daily: My mission!

Many of you should know by now why I believe you need to change your relationship with food before, during and after you lose weight and I hope this unique program allows you to do that if you decide to take it on! I’ll be releasing more information about the program closer to May 11th, so keep an eye on my website and my instagram @CharlotteSkanes for updates!

I can’t wait to help as many people as I can! Until then, keep trying, keep tracking, don’t be intimidated and don’t give up. You’ve totally got this!

Episodes Mentioned:
040 Stop Exercising to Lose Weight
009 Don't Exercise to Lose Weight

Looking for help on your weight loss journey? I’ve created a couple of resources for you:
• The first one is my free guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’,  which you can find here:  https://charlotte-skanes.mykajabi.com/getstarted
• The second is weight loss workbook Disruptor, which you can find anywhere in the world through Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”.
• The third is my NEW cookbook Disruptor, designed to help with your weight loss!


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Welcome back to another episode in my monthly ‘Ask Whatever’ series, where I answer your very own questions! Keep them coming, because if you’re thinking it, someone else is probably thinking it too! I also can’t believe we have made it to episode 50 of this podcast! I am beyond grateful for every single one of you who takes the time to listen in pursuit of not only weight loss, but doing it differently and seriously changing your relationship with food! Now let’s dive into each of these questions! 


1. How do you not think about food all day?
2. Can we disregard the calories in some vegetables like they do in some weight loss programs?
3. How long did it take you to lose so much weight?
4. My biggest fear is that I’m going to gain my weight back.
5. If the box of orzo says 200 calories a serving does that mean before or after it’s
cooked?
6. What led to your regain, especially after so long?
7. What do you recommend as a potato chip substitute?
8. Did you adjust your calories as you lost weight? How?
9. How many calories do you eat in a day?
10. Can you touch on weight gain from medications and how not to feel shame from
that?
11. How do you deal with loose skin after weight loss?
12. How do you get over the temptation to binge and go over in your calories?
13. How do you handle the bad pains of hunger with intermittent fasting?
14. How do you handle a calorie deficit when it comes to alcohol? Can I drink during
my window? How do I calculate it?
15. Do you have any tips for someone who’s pescatarian?
16. The  ‘Good For You Gladys’ Question of the Week!
17. I had gastric bypass x number of years ago and eat very healthy. I try to increase
protein and I’m gaining weight. Thoughts and suggestions?

Keep trying, keep tracking, don’t be intimidated and don’t give up. You’ve totally got this!

Episodes Mentioned:
020 I Miss Richard Simmons
012 The 3A Way
017 Spread Sprinkle Pour

Looking for help on your weight loss journey? I’ve created a couple of resources for you:
• The first one is my free guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’,  which you can find here:  https://charlotte-skanes.mykajabi.com/getstarted
• The second is my weight loss workbook Disruptor, which you can find anywhere in the world through Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”.
• The third is my NEW My cookbook Disruptor, designed to help with your weight loss!


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Grief is such a personal and universal thing that so many of us deal with. Although it is never an easy thing to talk about, I felt it was important to share my experience with grief eating and my relationship with food during a particularly hard period of loss in my life. I’ll talk about how I got through it and what to be conscious and aware of if you are experiencing something similar in your own life. So join me as I navigate:

• Eating for different emotions and associating food with people and grief.
• Reflecting on not having the time to grieve properly in the middle of loss, pregnancy, recovery and responsibility.
• Breaking down the 3 categories of comfort, reward and cope eating.
• Understanding when your emotional eating has become a problem and using the 3A Way to acknowledge, process and have a level of awareness with what you're experiencing.
• Why you need to keep tracking if you want to change your relationship with food.

I hope this episode encourages you to break out of any patterns or cycles of guilt and shame, because you will get through this! Always remember: Keep trying, keep tracking, don’t be intimidated and don’t give up. You’ve totally got this!

Episode Mentioned:
012 The 3A Way

Looking for help on your weight loss journey? I’ve created a couple of resources for you:
• The first one is my free guide ‘Getting Started for the Last Time’,  which you can find here:  https://charlotte-skanes.mykajabi.com/getstarted
• The second is my brand new weight loss workbook Disruptor, which you can find anywhere in the world through Amazon by searching “Disruptor Charlotte Skanes”.
• The third is NEW My cookbook Disruptor, designed to help with your weight loss!


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