Welcome to my podcast! I’m so excited that you’re here. Let’s talk about Eat to Live and how to stick to it…or better yet…let me just give you the one reason you haven’t been able to stick to it up until now…as well as the solution!
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so i found eat to live in march
of 2013 and a friend of mine had
introduced me to the lifestyle i bought
the book and in one weekend
just a few days i devoured that entire
book i put like this big huge comforter
inside
of a non-working jacuzzi in the rental
that my dad and i lived in at the time
and i just read that whole book cover to
cover i had an instant
feeling and i’ve heard this from so many
people since that they had the same
feeling
that this was it right this was the
lifestyle that i was gonna be following
i also had an instant feeling that’s
gonna take me about three years to
perfect
sure enough it was about three or four
years before i really
got comfortable with variety and all
that and i say that because in the
beginning
i only found like one or two recipes
and they worked so well for weight loss
that i was terrified of trying anything
else
and so i lost a bunch of weight in the
beginning it also also was a very
tumultuous
time in my life i found that lifestyle
in march of 2013 and my father had been
diagnosed with cancer terminal cancer
just a month or two before
and if you guys by the way hear any
noises sometimes
you know i got kids i got cats uh i have
things that will be making noises every
once in a while and you might have just
heard vincent jump off the desk but
we’re gonna just pretend like these
things don’t happen as we go okay so
anyways
i you know had a bunch of things going
on my father was dying of cancer he was
to die just 10 months later
and i had just gotten divorced about six
months before
and you know lots of things going on in
my life
and eat to live sort of gave me hope it
gave me something to hold on to sink my
teeth into
literally during that time period you
know as my father’s life was sort of
slipping away
it was the thing that i could control
was the thing i could hold on to
i ended up losing 22 pounds in six weeks
it was wonderful results and i just knew
this was
it but i also knew it was going to take
a while to perfect
and then of course like i’ve heard in so
many other people’s stories as well
you know something happened life
happened
right so you start this lifestyle you
you get some really amazing momentum and
success in the beginning then life hits
you again
and so the topic of this particular
podcast this first podcast i wanted to
record for you is
why you can’t stick to the eat to live
lifestyle
because i know a thing or two about why
folks and myself particularly cannot
stick to it
consistently and so that i have created
an entire
career out of helping folks stick to eat
to live so stick with me
and i’m going to tell you more about my
journey and also how you can create more
consistency in your journey as well
you’re doing just eat to live or you’re
doing just basic healthy eating you
don’t even have to be 100 nutritarian to
learn some stuff from what i’m going to
tell you in this podcast
so stick around i’ll tell you all my
secrets as we go
[Music]
hi i’m sheri alberts and this is the
watering mouth podcast and i’m gonna
teach you to eat to live
lose the weight and love the process for
good
episode one
hello everybody i am so
excited to be here you have actually no
idea how long i’ve been wanting to do a
podcast it has been
i think i heard about doing podcasts i
mean a long time ago but then i actually
considered doing a podcast in around
so that was a long time ago but i really
didn’t feel like i had much to
contribute or i didn’t really know what
i wanted to talk about yet and now here
we are
what is it like eight years later or
something like that that i am ready
to give you as much information as i can
about what i know
which is the eat to live lifestyle and
how to stick to it so
let’s sort of set the tone for this
podcast in general now i
am sherry alberts i am a
certified life and weight coach from the
life coach school i’m also an
expert nutritarian i have been coaching
nutri
folks on how to eat nutritarian how to
lose weight how to stay consistent for
years and years and years and i just
this is my passion this is my life’s
work it has turned into
a wonderful business that i love that i
can help people and i want to tell you
all about that as we go
but first things first just want to let
you know i am
a wife i am a mother of three i have
two young twins they just turned one
i have a toddler who is about to turn
four
and i have two really annoying bratty
cats
and i’m telling you this to get to know
me a little bit more but also just so
you know as i said before
there’s probably not going to be some
perfection on this podcast and
just so you know if you’re listening to
this podcast i’m also planning on
always recording a video of me speaking
as well
every time i do one of these podcasts so
you could you might be watching this on
youtube right now but if you’re just
watching the podcast
know that there’s a video along with
every podcast that i do that i’m
publishing on youtube
every every other week or whenever my
publishing schedule
is so if you ever want to watch the
video of me but know
that the video is not perfect either
like right now
it is um 9 45 at night and the lighting
is
terrible but i just wanted to be able to
and also i realized that i
work best on video this is my you know
method of delivery for teaching
and so when i actually tried to record
this podcast just audio only it felt way
too awkward for me because i’m so used
to talking
on videos so i’m gonna try to have a
video every time so you can look out on
youtube for that or you can just listen
on the podcast
app whatever podcast app that you use so
let’s get into it alright
so that’s my little introduction here
let’s just talk a little bit about what
eat to live is so eat to live if you
don’t know
is a very healthy eating lifestyle by dr
joel fuhrman from his book eat to live
which i believe came out in the early
it is my favorite book it changed my
entire life it’s what everything i talk
about is all about
and it is a healthy whole foods high
nutrient plant-based
mostly you know mostly plant-based
lifestyle
and you can find all the information in
his books he has so many books dr
fuhrman
and his most recent book is called eat
for life
and that is sort of the updated version
of all of this so you can learn
everything you need to know in that book
or you can start with eat to live or any
other of his books they will give you
everything you need to know so eat to
live
is kind of i sort of consider it as this
end of the spectrum kind of therapeutic
end
of healthy eating and so when you
consider
that you sort of think okay maybe i
don’t want to be perfect maybe i don’t
want to have
all of that under control maybe i just
want to eat healthier than where i am
right now
that’s totally fine right especially to
listen to this podcast you don’t have to
be perfect on any of this
i’m going to give you information about
eat to live which i do feel is that kind
of
end of the spectrum the sort of the best
diet on the planet
you can do whatever version of that that
you are comfortable with
i have coached so many private clients
on
whatever version of that healthy diet
they’re looking for so feel free to make
whatever you like
that kind of you know lifestyle that you
want to follow but i’m going to tell you
how to do it
any version of that i will help you with
that okay so
why you can’t stick to eat to live now
as i
mentioned before i have some experience
with why i can’t stick to it and i know
that my
experiences are very similar to a lot of
folks in my audience as well so i’m
gonna
that’s what this entire podcast is about
is why you can’t stick to it
and how you can actually so i’m gonna
give you all my secrets all my tools as
we go
but just understand that um you’re not
alone first of all okay you are not
alone there are so many of us who are
doing the same exact thing out here in
our homes
working to make this lifestyle as
healthy as possible and to feel our best
and to
you know do the things that eat to live
says which is reverse and prevent
diseases
you know better digestion repair
things and just feel our healthiest
selves as well as longevity right of
course
i’m just going to make the disclaimer
that anything i say this is all
you know my information but i am not a
medical professional okay so
there’s my little disclaimer so do
everything with your doctor’s advice
okay
so why you can’t stick with it first of
all i did mention that i’m a life coach
right and i have been coaching this
lifestyle for
several years now since 2017 so it’s
been oh my gosh it’s been four years
now that’s crazy and i have taken on
dozens of private clients and i have
hundreds of not private clients but
group
clients currently in my eat to live
family membership which is a group
coaching membership
and i have coached thousands and
thousands of people
on my youtube channel and you know my
and my social media and all that i’ve
coached so many people
on this lifestyle so i do have some
pretty um
specialized knowledge in this field and
i do have a quite
an interesting perspective on why you
can’t stick to it and why you can’t stay
consistent and first of all i want to
tell you that it is not
your outside circumstances that are
causing that so for instance
it’s not the fact that your husband
doesn’t eat this way it’s not the fact
that your kids don’t eat this way it’s
not the fact that you have always been a
binge eater perhaps like me
or a food hoarder perhaps like me or
you know always had troubles with your
weight or done so many yo-yo diets or
anything like that it’s none of those
things
those are not the reasons why you can’t
stick to eat to live okay
it’s not your programming it’s not your
social programming it’s not the ads you
see on tv
right it is not outside circumstances
it’s not the fact that your
you know aunt norma just died or you
know
we went through a global pandemic or
just had a baby or anything like that
that’s not the reason that we don’t
stick to eat to live
the reason that we do not stick to eat
to live there’s only one reason
and it’s actually our mindset and what
do i mean when i say mindset you’re
going to hear me use this term a lot
i am a life coach certified from the
life coach school so these are the
methods that we learn in there and i’m
going to be telling you so much about
these
giving you these very specific tools and
one of the very specific tools that we
use is called the model
and this was created by brooke castillo
she’s the founder of the life coach
school and
you know when i say created by brooke
casio she created this framework but
what i’m about to teach you and what the
framework and the tools that i’m going
to be using in the future to explain all
of this to you
it’s stuff that we’ve known for a long
time you know
i mean thousands and thousands of years
about humanity and the way that humanity
works
the way that our brains work and how we
create results and things like that
it’s all stuff that we’ve known for a
long time but the framework that i’m
going to use that brooke created which
is called the model
is a is a very specific way of looking
at it and it helps us
kind of look at it in a very um
practical sort of way
so that when we’re looking at our life
and our circumstances and going oh
you know i’m having so much trouble
whatever why am i having trouble this is
the way that we can figure out
why we’re having trouble so just stick
with stick with me on this one i’m going
to explain it a lot more as we go but
the general concept here
is that it is our mindset and when i say
mindset i mean
actually our thoughts actually i mean
the thoughts in our head
are creating our results they are
actually the thing that is creating
um our weight right the weight on the
scale the number on the scale
they are creating um our choices with
food everything that we’re eating during
the day or not eating during the day
as it were they that our thoughts are
what is creating all that i’m going to
give you a little bit more information
as we go here so hold on one sec
but if it’s our mindset and our thoughts
that create all of our issues with food
that’s the bad news but guess what the
good news is that we have the power to
change it
right that means that we don’t have to
rely on something outside of us in order
to create that change that is the best
news in the world
because that means that this the more we
practice it the better we get at it the
better
we’re going to be able to use these
techniques
and the fun part about what i’m going to
teach you on this podcast and in all my
other videos and everything
is that if it’s your mindset and it’s
your thoughts that are controlling
everything
this is a technique that will work for
weight and
food but guess what it works for
everything else in our lives too
all of the struggles that we have in our
life and all it can all be
worked on and worked out using these
techniques so that’s really fun
now the general idea here is that and i
was talking about this model
part of this model is that our thoughts
create our feelings
okay now if you’ve never heard this
concept before it might be a little
tough to understand in the beginning but
i just want you to go with what i say
okay
and just maybe suspend your disbelief
about some things and maybe just go with
what i’m saying you don’t have to
believe it yet
but just start to look for evidence of
this in your own life
and then that way i just
i’m gonna constantly be like flicking
the cat to get her to stop like licking
her
and purring and things while we’re on
this podcast but anyways okay
you will see that on the youtube video
if you want to see that but
just go with what i’m about to tell you
and look for the evidence that this
might be true
and see how this might actually be
playing out in your life and how you
might use it to your advantage
to improve things right so the idea is
that our thoughts create our feelings
but then the other important part is
that our feelings create our actions
so thoughts create feelings feelings
create
actions now this is actually a very
common model um it’s not just brooks
model it’s actually the
cognitive therapy you know cognitive
behavioral therapy model
it’s been talked about in so many
self-help books and
you know all these different places this
is a very
common type of model that we use now
brooke expands it a bit so we’re going
to be talking about that in the future
as well but the basic concept our
thoughts create our feelings our
feelings for our actions now we’ve
talked about this idea of actions
and what i mean actions if you put a
set of actions together over and over
and over again do the same actions over
and over again it becomes a habit
okay so you can look at actions as
habits actually
so if our thoughts and another way we
can think about thoughts beliefs as well
so
our thoughts create our beliefs create
our feelings
and emotions and our feelings and
emotions create our habits and actions
then what we say is that the sum of our
habits
and actions equals our results so
if our results on the scale are that we
weigh more than we would like to
it just goes to it just goes to say that
if our thoughts create our feelings
feelings
actions actions create results if we
want different results
all we have to do is change our thoughts
right now
that’s interesting and exciting because
if we want different results
it’s all in our mind it’s all in our
head all we have to do is change our
thoughts
but this is where it gets tricky because
everyone always ends up saying okay well
then how do i change my thoughts
right that’s the first question and i
hear that on every single private
coaching call i ever do with anyone
there’s always that moment of oh i can
see that i’m thinking this now how do i
change it
how do i get out of that pain how do i
change that that’s what we’re really
going to be focusing on in this podcast
as we go
so stick with me but the first thing
that we can do
in order to change our results and to
get to that place where we can change
our thoughts is number one we need to be
aware we have to have awareness of even
what we’re thinking anyways now
in my experience with coaching private
clients in the past
a lot of the issues that we have or the
struggles or the behaviors that we have
created have become
subconscious or unconscious right
they’ve been sort of
relegated to that place in the brain
where we don’t even think about it
anymore
and that’s why we can end up you know at
the bottom of a bag of doritos before we
even notice it
right we can we can end up at the bottom
of
you know a bag of oreos before we even
notice it that’s because
our actions have become so habitual they
have become
so habitual that they just turn
subconscious and we don’t even notice
that anymore like
me for example i would notice a pattern
of mine
several years ago that every time i
would have to send out an
email for the website or i would have to
send out an
important email or do some type of an
important task for work
i would be halfway to the kitchen before
i would even notice
i was walking to the kitchen because i
just had a habit of oh this is scary
this is hard i don’t want to do this
right now i’m going to go get a snack
take a break i need a break
right i need to get out of this pain and
this kind of behavior once you repeat
this so many times it just becomes
automatic it becomes something that you
just do without even thinking
and this is why weight loss can be so
mystical to so many folks it feels like
something they just don’t understand
they can’t
possibly figure it out it doesn’t make
any sense i don’t even notice when i’m
having these binges or these overeats or
whatever i don’t even notice it so how
could i change it if i don’t notice it
we don’t even notice the extent to which
we’re doing things so for instance
you know we we might be having a you
know a nice meal for lunch and then we
realized we’re having a piece of fruit
and then after that we realized we’ve
made another you know
thing of pasta or something like that
and after that we noticed we’re
you know looking for some chocolate or
whatever some kind of a dessert
and then just a couple hours later we’re
thinking about more food again and it
just kind of keeps going on in the cycle
but we don’t even
think about it we didn’t even notice it
and we
and here’s the thing if we don’t notice
it we can’t
change it okay so that’s the big concept
that i want to
show you is that you know i give you
this model thoughts create feelings
feelings
actions actions create results but if we
don’t even notice
what the actions are how can we even
work through any of the other things
okay
so the first thing the first step that
we have to work on is our awareness of
what we’re doing so number one the
awareness of our habits
the actions we’re talking about are
awareness of our results even so this is
a really good one too i always like to
talk about this
it’s it’s like when we’re starting off
on a healthy eating journey
some of us don’t even like to weigh
ourselves anymore so we have no
idea where we are on the scale we have
no idea where we are compared to where
we used to be kind of a thing
it’s like not checking our bank account
balance ever
right so let’s say you know your
paychecks are coming in whatever and
someday
you know one day you finally you get one
of those overdraft fees and you’re like
how could this happen
well if you haven’t been checking your
bank account balance
it’s really easy to know how it could
happen right because we’re not even
paying attention and when we’re doing
the same thing with our health or with
our weight loss
things get away from us we do a lot of
subconscious unconscious type of actions
and then we don’t even realize how far
we’ve taken things
until we see a picture of ourselves and
we can’t believe we look like that or
you know we we see a video of ourselves
and we can’t believe we let it get that
far
because when we’re looking at ourselves
in the mirror all the time every day you
know seeing ourselves we just were used
to how we look
and it’s not until we see a photo that’s
sort of out of context for our brain
that we can truly see and of course the
camera adds a little bit maybe right but
we can truly see kind of how far things
have gone
and so it really does come down to
awareness just as
if you were going to start to get your
finances in order you would first need
to know
what your balances are right so you even
know where your journey is headed where
you’re going and so that’s the first tip
that i want to give you
we’re going to dive into this so much
more as we go but why we can’t stick to
the eat to live lifestyle
is because of our mindset it’s because
of our thoughts because
we haven’t even been checking our
results right
we haven’t even been checking in fully
with the actions that we’re taking
so we don’t even notice when we’re
eating that whole bag of doritos plus
this plus that plus this plus that we
don’t even notice how often we’re doing
it we’re not even aware right
we’re definitely not aware of our
feelings and if our feelings are
creating our actions then
you know that is a really important
piece of the puzzle to be
really understanding and feelings i’ll
just give you a spoiler alert
are the most important part of this
whole equation almost well all the
pieces are really important but we’ll
get into why
each one is so important as well and
then if we’re not if we’re not even
in touch with our feelings then how can
we be in touch with our thoughts that
create those feelings
and it’s fun because when i see a client
when i first start talking to a client
and they’re like i didn’t even
i’ve never even thought of that before i
didn’t realize that my thoughts were
connected to my feelings
and never even understood how my
emotions came up i thought they just
came up right
when we start actually looking at all of
these pieces
that’s when we really start to get that
clarity that mental clarity that starts
to allow us to
change and that’s actually one of the
most important things to keep in mind
and i’m going to be repeating this
so many times so you understand this
very important concept
concept is that first is awareness
and it’s actually the awareness of the
situation
that creates change so as i was telling
you before with these clients who come
to me and say oh but how do i change my
thought then right
how do i change my thought well that’s
not it we don’t just change our thought
what we actually do is become aware of
the entire situation that’s happening
and once we see everything for what it
is
that’s when we start to automatically
change this this idea that
you know if you’re in enough pain you
will change right
so when we can see the situation for
what it really is instead of
numbing out somehow that’s when we
actually start to create that change
okay so so step number one is that
awareness
we have to understand where our thoughts
and feelings and actions and results
even come from
and then just being so aware of that
process as it unfolds for us
day by day when we’re so aware of that
process
that’s when we start to make these
changes and that’s when we can start to
deliberately choose the thoughts that
we’re having okay
so to recap why we cannot stick to the
eat to live lifestyle
or any healthy eating lifestyle or our
exercise program or
our budget or right insert anything here
there’s so many different i mean this
applies to everything in our life but
why we can’t stick to it why we can’t
stay consistent
it’s because of our thoughts because our
thoughts are creating these stories and
i’m gonna give you an example here
um to sort of tie this up for you so you
can see how this works in my life or has
worked in my life and then maybe you can
see how it works in yours as well
so for me we say thoughts create
feelings feeling actions
now for me my story had always been
several years ago and you can even see
this on my youtube channel i have
blogged
and vlogged for years all of these
things why can’t i stop binging why
can’t i stop overeating why can’t i lose
the weight all that
you’ll see that all on my youtube
channel i’ve done you know vlogs
every day for over 200 days at one point
back in 2016 2017 you can see all those
videos on my youtube channel
now my thought so thoughts great
feelings feelings great actions my
thought was always when i walked into
the kitchen i got to the fridge
i thought if there was anything like
carby in there you know like
prepared pasta or prepared oatmeal or
maybe there was some bread in there or
whatever
i would notice that food and then my
brain would go oh
you got to have some and if you have
some you’re not going to be able to stop
eating it like you will eat the whole
thing
you’re going to devour it it’s going to
be amazing you’re going to love it but
you’re definitely not going to be able
to stop eating it
so that was always my story every time i
looked in the fridge
that thought would create a feeling of
now what does that create disempowerment
it creates
urge craving desire it creates
a lot of really strong feelings that are
hard to
overcome right because when you’re
having that very strong craving to eat
something
and you’re looking at it in the fridge
and your brain is telling you you’ll
never be able to stop
eating the whole thing you know what
then happens you eat it and you eat the
whole thing
right so for me that meant massive
quantities of oatmeal that i had
prepared for a week in advance right or
it meant
an entire loaf of bread or half a loaf
of bread whatever i could fit physically
in my stomach at that moment
i would just eat piece after piece after
piece of toast you know with whatever
and that was my story so look at how
that works my thoughts about how
i was going to binge and how i wouldn’t
be able to stop binging until i had
eaten you know to the point of just
literally not being able to eat anymore
it wasn’t about having a sensible meal
it was about just
eating and eating and eating right my
thoughts about that created my feelings
my feelings were like
disempowerment they were like
humiliation disgust shame
um craving desire and then
powerlessness right those were my
feelings when i opened the fridge every
time i would see a food like that
that’s how i felt and when you feel that
way when you think about those kinds of
feelings what do you do
you overeat right you overeat you don’t
plan your meals you don’t do all the
things you know
create those kind of healthy actions
and then when you do that enough you get
a set of results and the set of results
for me was always
either constantly gaining weight right
slowly but surely scale keeps creeping
up
or it’s this back and forth yo-yo all
the time of just being totally out of
control
so that’s a little description of how
thoughts can create feelings
feelings create actions and actions can
create results and that’s how it worked
in my life
and when we’re super aware of this we
can start to make those changes okay
so that is the podcast for today i am
so excited to start telling you more and
more and more of this information so
that you can gain
this um empowerment back in your own
life you can gain your own
power back and and i say back very
importantly
because you had this power before you
had this power to
um have this self-discipline to have
this self-love to have this
overwhelming sense of self-worth you had
all of that stuff when you were a little
kid in the very beginning right or when
you were a baby
when you first started out you didn’t
have you know when you were just born
you didn’t have
ideas that society put in your head
during your childhood or during your
teenage years or during
you know your 20s or in onward you
didn’t have anything
sort of clouding your judgment about how
amazing you
are and you are amazing and i’m going to
tell you all the time about that and i’m
going to tell you how
you can feel that inside of your own
heart too
so that’s the journey we’re going on the
journey we’re going on is to
as i said remember i said something
about feelings earlier we are going to
improve our
feelings so that we can eat better right
because notice every time we have
negative feelings that’s when we
tend to not eat so well so that’s what
we’re going to be working on doing is
having our thoughts create these amazing
amazing feelings
and when we have amazing feelings we’re
going to make amazing choices we’re
going to create
amazing results and we are going to do
this all together okay so thank you so
much for listening to this first podcast
from
Nourish Your Lifestyle i hope you share this
with your friends i hope you loved it so
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