The Scales of Wellness

Kathy Bedward
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Weight loss strategies for busy professionals

  1. 6d ago

    The Rachel Pregnancy Test Episode and Why You Judge Your Own Urges

    Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min I'm sitting down to work, and out of nowhere, I get the urge to watch one specific Friends clip. Immediate reaction: that would be irresponsible. There's work to do. Then the negotiation starts. It's only five minutes. It won't matter that much. Except how often does anyone actually watch just one video? "This one looks funny too." "Just one more." And suddenly an hour is gone. In that moment, it feels like there are only two options: watch it and hope I "do better" this time, or grit my teeth and force myself to resist. But there's a third option, and it's the one nobody teaches you. Instead of judging the urge, get curious about it. Why this urge? Why this particular clip? Why right now? When I actually asked myself that, the answer surprised me. And it led to insights about myself that I hadn't figured out any other way. Here's the thing. This isn't really about Friends, or ice cream, or any specific craving. It's about what urges are actually made of, and why the same pattern shows up whether it's a TV show or a plate of food. In this episode, I walk through exactly how I traced one urge back to what was really going on, why the "just resist it" approach never works long-term, and why doing this for yourself is so much harder than spotting the pattern in someone else's story. If you've ever felt an urge and immediately called yourself weak, undisciplined, or out of control for having it, this episode is for you. Ready to look at your own patterns with someone who can actually help you see them? Book a free consultation call: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min Please leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you! Visit my website: http://kathybedward.com Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHING Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/ Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after that. Cancel at any time.  We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community.  Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You'll improve every aspect of your health. Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced and get your bonus Morning Routine That Will Help You Lose 10 Lbs. in the Next 8 Weeks

  2. Sep 21

    22 Lbs. Lighter Because Food is No Longer My Enemy: Client Interview with Michelle Smith

    Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min In this episode, you'll meet Michelle Smith, master piano teacher, pickleball coach, and all-around amazing human being. She had struggled for years with her weight, her relationship with food, her cortisol levels, and more. She tried keto, carnivore, and at the suggestion of her doctor, intermittent fasting. Nothing worked, and she in fact just got heavier. Listen to her story of what prompted her to join No Judgment, how she was convinced that she would be the one person who wouldn't lose weight, what she learned in the program, and the results that she has gotten (including her cholesterol going down 90 points!) To inquire about taking piano lessons and/or pickleball lessons with Michelle in Libertyville, Illinois, email her at zimbabart@comcast.net Listen to episode 60: Lessons Learned From Taking Piano and How They Translate to Weight Loss: https://www.kathybedward.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-taking-piano-and-how-they-translate-to-weight-loss Listen to episode 69: Stopping Food Noise: https://www.kathybedward.com/blog/stopping-food-noise Please leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you! Visit my website: http://kathybedward.com Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHING Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/ Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after that. Cancel at any time.  We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community.  Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You'll improve every aspect of your health. Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced and get your bonus Morning Routine That Will Help You Lose 10 Lbs. in the Next 8 Weeks

  3. Sep 14

    Why Your Doctor Can't Help You Lose Weight

    Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min Your doctor spent four years in medical school and years more in residency. Somewhere in the middle of all that training, nutrition got about 19 hours. What if I told you that number isn't a fluke? It's not one bad school or one distracted student. It's the norm, and it explains something most people have never actually stopped to think through: why doctors, who genuinely care about your health, so rarely help you lose weight in any lasting way. In this episode I walk through how doctors are trained, what they're actually equipped to do, and what they're not. I also get into something a lot of people don't realize: there's a good chance you're not even seeing a doctor at your next appointment, and what that means for you. Then I look at the massive industry that sprang up to fill this exact gap, and why so much of it has nothing to do with actually building health. If you've ever left an appointment feeling brushed off, or wondered why "eat less, move more" was the extent of the advice you got, or wondered why a $200 cream is easier to find than real help with your relationship to food, this episode connects all of it. Ready to get to the root of what's actually driving your eating? Book a free consultation call: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min Please leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you! Visit my website: http://kathybedward.com Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHING Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/ Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after that. Cancel at any time.  We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community.  Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You'll improve every aspect of your health. Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced and get your bonus Morning Routine That Will Help You Lose 10 Lbs. in the Next 8 Weeks

  4. Sep 7

    200 Hours Before the Keys: What Habitat for Humanity Knows About Keeping the Weight Off

    Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min I've never paid myself a salary from this business. Every dollar of profit this company makes goes somewhere else.  Why do I even charge money for my coaching in that case?  Let's talk about that, as well as where DO my profits go? And why? In this episode, I talk in detail about a specific charity that I care about deeply, and its impact, which I have no doubt will surprise you. Next (and this is fascinating) I connect the dots between how that organization operates and how my coaching approach works. If you've ever wondered what actually happens to the money you spend with a small business, or if you've ever wondered why my coaching approach works when so many other things haven't, this episode answers both. Ready to be part of the ripple effect? Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min Donate to Trinity Habitat for Humanity here: https://www.trinityhabitat.org/give Please leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you! Visit my website: http://kathybedward.com Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHING Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/ Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after that. Cancel at any time.  We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community.  Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You'll improve every aspect of your health. Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced and get your bonus Morning Routine That Will Help You Lose 10 Lbs. in the Next 8 Weeks

  5. Aug 31

    The Simplest and Messiest Weight Loss Tool You're Probably Not Using

    Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min You catch yourself standing at the pantry at 8pm. You know you are not hungry, but you are most definitely WANTING food. And you have no idea why. What if I told you that there is a tool that can help you figure out exactly why you do this? It costs nothing. It does not require a meal plan, a tracking app, or anything fancy or expensive.  It's one of the most extraordinarily fast and effective tools you can use, and there's a very good chance you already own everything you'd need to start tonight. I have had many clients who initially told me that this tool was not going to work for them. As they work with me, they usually find that it's become one of the most useful parts of their whole process. This tool will slow you down. It will show you the real reasons behind wanting to overeat (it's never actually random). You can then make progress towards your weight loss goal instead of just feeling the pull of a craving and eating without knowing why. In this episode, I walk you through what this tool is, why it works, why you're probably not using it even though you've heard of it before, and why the version of it that you're picturing right now is almost certainly wrong. If you've ever eaten your way through your feelings, if you've told yourself "I'll figure out why later" and never did, if you've already written yourself off as someone this won't work for, this episode is for you. Ready to get to the root of what's actually driving your eating? Book a free consultation call: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min Please leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you! Visit my website: http://kathybedward.com Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHING Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/ Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after that. Cancel at any time.  We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community.  Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You'll improve every aspect of your health. Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced and get your bonus Morning Routine That Will Help You Lose 10 Lbs. in the Next 8 Weeks

  6. Aug 24

    Stop Starting Over and Start Course Correcting

    Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min What is one thing that you do for yourself every day just to make yourself happy? To make your life more fun? (Please share!) One of my daily non-negotiables lately is listening to one song every day that makes me feel good. The other day it was Foo Fighters' "Learning to Fly." I put it on, then went and watched the music video, and ended up down a whole rabbit hole about the band. And somewhere in that rabbit hole, this week's episode was born. Because here's something most people don't know. Planes are off their planned course an estimated 90 percent of the flight. Not occasionally drifting. Off course almost the entire time. And they still land exactly where they meant to. Nobody watching that flight would call the pilot a failure for drifting. So why do we do that to ourselves over one off-plan meal? What if you could get to the point where being off track stopped meaning something is wrong with you, and started being just... normal? Where a hard day didn't require a Monday reset, a "clean" restart, or starting completely over? In this episode I dig into where this all-or-nothing belief actually comes from, what real course correction looks like instead, and why this one skill might change a lot more in your life than just how you eat. If you've ever had one bite of something "off plan" and decided the whole day was ruined, if you've ever quietly given up on a goal after missing it a few times, if you've ever wondered why you keep starting over instead of just continuing, this episode is for you. Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min Please leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you! Visit my website: http://kathybedward.com Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHING Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/

  7. Aug 17

    I Can't Afford Coaching - Let's Do the Math

    You've researched mattresses for three weeks straight. Read every review. Compared five brands before you'd commit. You've sat with a spreadsheet open comparing credit card rewards, or spent a Saturday afternoon test driving four different cars before signing on the dotted line. But have you ever sat down and actually calculated the return on investing in your own body? That's what I'm doing in this episode. Running the real numbers on what you actually get back when you invest in losing weight, the physical return and the mental return, because most people only think about one of those, if they think about either at all. What if you could get to the point where losing weight wasn't just about a smaller number on the scale, but about a calmer nervous system, better boundaries in every relationship in your life, and a body that works better for longer? In this episode I walk through the physical benefits most people already sort of know about, and then the mental and relational benefits almost nobody calculates, things like finally being able to say no to people without guilt, or watching the restrict-binge cycle just disappear. And I explain exactly why none of this shows up when you lose weight through a diet, and why it only shows up one specific way. If you've ever thought "I'll deal with my health later," if you've ever spent more time researching a mattress than thinking about your own body, if you've ever wondered whether this work is really worth the investment, this episode is for you. Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation call here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after that. Cancel at any time.  We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community.  Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You'll improve every aspect of your health. Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced and get your bonus Morning Routine That Will Help You Lose 10 Lbs. in the Next 8 Weeks

  8. Aug 10

    When Your Spouse or Family Doesn't Support Your Weight Loss

    Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here and let's talk about your goals and struggles: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min You're at dinner, feeling good about where you're at. Then your mom asks if you are really going to order the burger and shouldn't you get a salad. Or your husband orders dessert and slides it toward you, despite the fact that he knows you are trying to lose weight and weren't planning on dessert tonight. Or, even worse, he says "Oh just have dessert. I mean why bother with a diet, it's not like you're not going to lose it this time either." If you've ever felt like the hardest part of changing your relationship with food isn't the food at all, it's the people closest to you, you are not imagining it, and you are definitely not alone. What if you could get to the point where you finally understand that none of this is actually about you? And stop needing your family members to support your weight loss goals? I'm walking through the different ways spouses and family members can seem to sabotage your efforts, what's really going on underneath it (it's not what you think), and exactly what to say back, without starting a fight and without losing your resolve. If dinner with your spouse has ever felt like a negotiation, if a comment from your mom has ever derailed your whole week, or if you've ever wondered why the people who love you don't seem to want you to succeed, this episode is for you. Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here and let's talk about your goals and struggles: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30min Please leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you! Visit my website: http://kathybedward.com Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHING Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/ Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after that. Cancel at any time.  We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community.  Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You'll improve every aspect of your health. Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced and get your bonus Morning Routine That Will Help You Lose 10 Lbs. in the Next 8 Weeks

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Weight loss strategies for busy professionals

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  • Creator
    Kathy Bedward
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    139
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Scales of Wellness
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