Hi ThinWithin.com Tribe,
I am so excited to present to you today with, my very first podcast.
I thought the best topic for my first podcast, would be to share with you how I lost weight and what helped me shift my mind and body to lose weight, and how you can do the same.
My hope is that today's podcast will inspire you to step into your power and begin your journey to a thinner, healthier and more vibrant you.
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If you'd like more free resources to help you slim down without dieting and how you can heal your emotional eating, head on over to: https://www.thinwithin.com/free-resources
For Show Transcripts Please enjoy –
Hello, I'm Marna Thall, your host of the very first podcast, ThinWithin Results.
I'm so excited to have you here. So excited to help you change your body from the inside out and become the thin you, that I know is absolutely within you.
Today I thought I would start by talking to you a little bit about how I lost over 35 pounds in four months. So let's start with a little bit of backstory of what was happening at the time. When I was 12 years old, my parents owned a flower shop. My sister, mom, and dad were all delivering flowers to a hospital. My dad went inside to go deliver the flowers while my mom and my sister were sitting in the car. All of a sudden, from behind, a car came and plowed in to my mom and my sister! For the first couple days, my mom was just kind of complaining of a stiff neck, and then weeks later, she was miserable and laid up in bed. She was in and out of the hospital and struggled for years with pain.
About six months later after the car accident, my dad was putting away a wedding at our flower shop. It was late at night. He was on a ladder and suddenly fell back off the ladder onto a little candelabra point. They said he was so lucky. He was millimeters away from being a quadriplegic, and he removed the candelabra from the back of his head, dragged himself over to a phone, called 911, and then dragged himself back into the opening of the doorframe where they were able to find him and take him immediately to the hospital.
At this time, I was pretty thin 12 year old kid, and by the end of my 13th year, I was 35 pounds overweight. I struggled to lose weight for years. I remember that I was struggling to lose weight, I was mad at myself, I had lower energy, and my enjoyment of my life was starting to decrease and I just never felt comfortable in my skin.
I was always trying to figure out what I could do to lose weight, and when I turned 16, I would drive to the library and go through stack after stack of diet books and take my favorite ones home and bring them home and then start on them. I was so hopeful that they would work. But what I found was, that I just couldn't diet. I was struggling to diet and every diet I went on it just seemed like it never worked for me. I wanted to look better. I wanted to feel better. I wanted to stop being so self conscious. I wanted to stop thinking about food constantly, and the bigger I got, the harder it was to stop thinking about food and constantly stop thinking about losing weight. I was desperate to enjoy life.
I don't know why I couldn't diet, but I've been this way for as long as I could remember. If a diet told me not to eat something, I don't know about you and I don't know if you've ever struggled with this, but if a diet tells you not to eat something, I would just all of a sudden become obsessed with that one thing, and then in a matter of days or maybe weeks, I would just go ahead and binge on what I was told to avoid.
I tried lots of things – I tried Weight Watchers and I remember weighing in and if I didn't do well I remember that the woman weighing me would give me this smirk that made me feel terrible. And then, after the meetings, I would go binge on whatever it was because I was so hungry and so famished. Then I'd think, “Oh, I don't care, I've got a whole other week.” It was terrible cycle. I just couldn't figure out how to lose weight.
Then, one day I was in my dorm room, and I was watching that the business school students every month would learn from really successful authors, business owners, or managers and directors of companies. It was then that I had this aha moment sitting in my dorm and I thought, “You know what? If they're learning how to be successful business owners and managers, learning from successful people, well then why am I learning from diets? Why am I, struggling with diet after diet that doesn't work, why don't I instead start to learn from people who don't struggle with weight that don't struggle with being overweight that can naturally stay thin?” I had known a bunch of people like that in high school, and certainly there were several people like that in college that never thought about weight, or how many calories were in anything.
So as a psychology student it made a lot of sense to approach people from the mental side, not the physical, not the diet side, but the mental side. And so what I started doing was informally starting to ask naturally thin people what they did to stay thin, how did they eat, how did they relate to food. How did they approach, restaurants, what were they doing that, I simply was not doing?
What I found was that there were a whole set of ways of being that the naturally thin did that kept them looking and feeling and living thin, and I started copying them. And once I started copying them, I started to lose weight.
But then I found that there was one significant big difference between me and them. I was an emotional eater. I turned to food for comfort, for love, and for protection. I turned to food because at 12 years old, food was my comfort and it was my safety. Food was my security in an out-of-control time of my life; not knowing if my mom or my dad were going to be okay. It was a time where I had to take on a few more responsibilities and felt like the world was literally on my shoulders. I started to eat as a way to cope through that time. And so my natural instinct, whenever I felt out of control, was to turn to food to comfort me and nurture me.
I'm sure many of you who are listening have gone through something very similar, where you may have had a trauma or an experience where you turned to food. Maybe you have never emotionally turned to food ever before, and all of a sudden you started turning to food for love or protection or comfort or nurturing. I found that it was a great way to not numb out and not feel, to not have to think, and not have to deal with the world, or my problems or anything happening.
I lost a bunch of weight by learning how to eat and think and live thin. But then I would find my weight starting to creep up when I was emotional; when I needed emotional comfort and I had to learn how do you deal with the emotional eating part of my life and how do I deal with my emotions in new ways. Really, what it came down to, was separating my emotional world, from my physical world – my emotions from my eating. If I was hungry, that was time to eat but if I wanted food and I wasn't hungry, that was my signal to deal with my emotions in new ways so that I could stop turning to food as regularly as I was.
Through those ways of thinking and acting, my body started to transform. I started to socialize more, I began walking with more confidence, I began dating. I felt confident in my skin and I would go out to restaurants knowing that I could go out and eat anything I wanted and still be slimmer and and enjoy life. It was amazing! It felt so fantastic to finally step into a thinner body and a thinner life, and to finally feel confident knowing that I didn't have to diet to slim down. I just had to tune in.
Then I created, ThinWithin.com when I graduated. Four years later I created ThinWithin because so many people wanted to know what I did to lose weight and how I kept it off, and it just made sense. Here I was, 22, years old, figuring out how to start a business, and how to run a business, and I've been doing this work alongside some other jobs that I've had since then. I've been doing this work for over 20 years now, since I was 18 and I'm 44 at the time of this recording. So I've been doing this for a looooong time helping women.
I've found that slimming down is an inside job. It has a lot to do with how you think about yourself, how you relate to food, and your mindset. And so I wanted to start my Podcast by sharing my story so that you could learn a little bit about me and we could start getting connected.
I would love for you to comment and share your story.
I want to learn what your story is and where you're at with your journey to a lighter and slimmer you. If you're like me and you can't diet, I'd love to hear about that too. Share with me! I want to meet new people! I want to meet you! I want to know what you're up to.
I developed this Podcast to help you rewire your brain to think, eat and live thin, so please share, like and leave a 5 start review.
I can't wait to keep sharing the love, and if you want further resources on what you can do, just head on over to thinwithin.com, and you're gonna see something that says free resources. Just click that button and you can go through my program to help you slim down and lose weight. It's really important to start to get to the heart of why are you turning to food what's going on.
If you want to find me on social media, you can always head to my Facebook Page and Instagram. You'll find me there.
All right, everybody. Have a wonderful day. Stay tuned for the next episode.
Bye.
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