the scales of wellness

Weight loss strategies and mindset shifts for lawyers

New Names Revealed!
Justin Burks Justin Burks

New Names Revealed!

Voila! The Scales of Wellness is the new name of this podcast!

Listen to today's episode to hear about the new names of my coaching programs and my yoga membership as well.

Find out the reasoning behind the rebranding and why I chose the names I did.

Along the way, as always, get some powerful insights about your weight loss journey that will change your thinking forever.

Book a consult call now: https://calendly.com/legally-balanced/60min

Reach out to me - Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com.

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Addendum to Episode 22
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Addendum to Episode 22

Here is a link to my workshop that Sherri mentions in her words of wisdom for you:

Your Best Year Yet: Lose Weight with Self-Love (available for $35- part of this cost will support Indra's Grace Yoga Studio in Weatherford, Texas)

https://www.indrasgrace.com/workshops-on-demand/

Follow the link and scroll down until you find the "Your Best Year Yet: Lose Weight with Self-Love" workshop. Watch it within 7 days!

Check out Indra's Grace Yoga Studio in Weatherford, Texas - they offer transformative and healing in-depth yoga classes, workshops, and retreats, both online and in-person:

https://www.indrasgrace.com/

It is truly a special place!

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I Lost 17 Pounds and This was a Last-Ditch Effort for Me: Client Interview with Sherri Jones
Justin Burks Justin Burks

I Lost 17 Pounds and This was a Last-Ditch Effort for Me: Client Interview with Sherri Jones

Join me for a client interview. Sherri shares her victories from Trust the Journey Weight Loss Coaching program. She also brought the honesty, including what she was thinking when beginning: "I didn't think this would work."

If you have doubts about your abilities to lose weight for good, you need to listen to this!

Get into my coaching program at the current price before July 15th - Book a consult call now: https://calendly.com/trust-the-journey/60min

Here is a link to my workshop that Sherri mentions in her words of wisdom for you:

Your Best Year Yet: Lose Weight with Self-Love (available for $35- part of this cost will support Indra's Grace Yoga Studio in Weatherford, Texas)

https://www.indrasgrace.com/workshops-on-demand/

Find Sherri's gorgeous art on her website here:

www.sherrijonesart.com

Follow Sherri on Instagram so you will keep up with her recent news and be sure to know when her book is published:

https://www.instagram.com/sherrijonesart/

Check out Sherri's Even Just a Little YouTube channel here:

https://youtu.be/0cM9idLe4W8?feature=shared

Email me with your takeaway and your victories! kathy@kathybedward.com.

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Enjoy the Fourth of July Without Overeating
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Enjoy the Fourth of July Without Overeating

Holidays like the 4th of July can fill you with dread, thinking about all the food at the neighborhood barbeque that you're going to need to resist. Giving in to temptation can send you spiraling for weeks or months.

Spending a holiday alone can be challenging in its own way.

Today's episode will tell you how to approach any holiday with ease, with a combination of strategy and mindset changes.

Email me with your takeaway and your victories! kathy@kathybedward.com.

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Rewards, Treats, and Bribes
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Rewards, Treats, and Bribes

Do you use food to bribe yourself to do the stuff you dread doing?

Do you reward yourself at the end of a hard day of work with a glass of wine or a cocktail? Or a burger and fries so you don't have to cook?

Learn how using food as a reward or bribe messes up your relationship with food and holds you back from losing the weight you want to lose.

Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com.

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How to Decide What to Eat
Justin Burks Justin Burks

How to Decide What to Eat

It can be overwhelming to decide what to eat. We're drowning in conflicting and confusing information. When you can't decide, you revert to old habits and stay stuck and overweight.

Today's episode will help you decide with more clarity, in a way that moves you closer to your weight loss goal.

Let me know what you think! Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com.

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The Pit of Despair
Justin Burks Justin Burks

The Pit of Despair

What is the Pit of Despair and do you spend time there?

If you do (regardless of what you call it), today's episode will resonate for you. Get some ideas about how to visit there less often and move out more quickly.

If you don't (and also if you do), use the parallels I draw to help you learn how to change your relationship with overeating.

That alone will change everything about your experience with losing weight.

Email me at kathy@kathybedward.com to get the replay of the Drop 12 Pounds in 12 Weeks Challenge: Logical Weight Loss for Lawyers. Replay available until June 14.

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Forgive Yourself for Getting Fat
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Forgive Yourself for Getting Fat

Are you angry at yourself for gaining weight? Do you say things to yourself like "I can't believe I've let myself go?" Are you horrified when you see photos of yourself?

Today, we talk about how those thoughts and feelings get in your way when you're trying to lose weight and what you can do about it.

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Drop Perfectionism, Drop Pounds
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Drop Perfectionism, Drop Pounds

If you're a high achiever (and I am betting that you are!), you likely have perfectionistic leanings. In today's episode, we dive into what perfectionism is and how it will hold you back in your weight loss efforts.

Then I speak directly on how to overcome perfectionistic thinking without giving up the high standards that you want to keep.

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Exceptions to Eat Only When You're Hungry
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Exceptions to Eat Only When You're Hungry

I get it - schedules sometimes don't line up with your hunger. If you're in court all day or have 5-hour meetings, what do you do? How do you eat when you're hungry?

Today's episode will give you practical tips on handling these situations, as well as key ways to determine if your thoughts (and not your schedule) are truly the issue.

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5 Reasons to Change Your Thinking Around the Scale
Justin Burks Justin Burks

5 Reasons to Change Your Thinking Around the Scale

If you are going to lose weight in a healthy way, that includes your mental health. An integral part of that mental health is your thinking around the scale.

What are you currently thinking and feeling about the scale? Do you need to change it? Probably! Most of us have a tumultuous and emotional relationship with the scale.

Today's episode will give you 5 key reasons to change how you think about the scale.

Take a step towards healing that relationship and it will help you tremendously with losing weight with ease and self-love.

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Objection! Assumes Facts Not in Evidence
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Objection! Assumes Facts Not in Evidence

Today's episode will help you recognize when you ask yourself leading questions that are useless and self-defeating!

Most of your inner dialogue is on autopilot and your brain loves to ask you questions. It also loves to answer those questions. To lose weight for good, you need to be able to hear what you are asking yourself and learn to rephrase your questions.

Use what you learn in today's episode to ask yourself better questions and focus your mind on positive, helpful actions for moving you towards your goals.

Please rate and review the podcast!

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Unique Time-Sensitive Bargain Opportunity!
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Unique Time-Sensitive Bargain Opportunity!

This is actually episode 12! Sorry I said Episode 13! So much going on these days! I wanted to get this info out to you asap!

For two days only, you have a unique opportunity to win a Trust the Journey Weight Loss Coaching 6-month package at a bargain price! Don't let this pass you by!

Bid on a 6-month Trust the Journey package at the Fort Worth Library Foundation Cigar Smoker online auction:

https://fwplfcigarsmoker24.ggo.bid/bidding/package/14533200

Today's episode will tell you all about Trust the Journey - what's included, what result you can expect. And I share some client testimonials.

You can be the next Trust the Journey success story.

Support this great cause and lose weight with self-love at the same time.

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Help! I Screwed Up: Part 2
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Help! I Screwed Up: Part 2

Now that you've calmed your brain down after your "screw-up," now is the time for a mindset shift. Or several!

In this episode, you will learn:

  • How to stop shaming yourself after an overeat;

  • What questions to ask yourself instead of spiraling into shame and despair;

  • How to think about overeats; and

  • Why all of this matters.

  • Please rate and review the podcast!

Join me for my upcoming workshop at Indra's Grace Yoga Studio: Spring into Aligned Action: Powerful Non-Diet Strategies for Weight Loss That Feed Your Soul!

Sign up for the in-person option or the online option: https://www.indrasgrace.com/events/

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Help! I Screwed Up: Part 1
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Help! I Screwed Up: Part 1

Did you overeat? Eat foods that weren't on your plan? Keep eating while thinking that you absolutely should stop?

What if screwing up didn't have to mean that you give up and just eat everything?

What if you knew how to recover and get back on track? What if you discovered that you weren't even "off-track"??

Today's episode will give you Step 1 of a powerful strategy to get back in control of your brain after you make a "mistake".

"Screwing up" doesn't have to be a problem. Learn how to calm down your brain and take an effective step towards your ideal weight.

Please rate and review the podcast!

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All or Nothing Thinking
Justin Burks Justin Burks

All or Nothing Thinking

All or nothing thinking will stop your weight loss in its tracks.

In today's episode, I give you concrete tools to notice it and change it.

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How to Take a Shower
Justin Burks Justin Burks

How to Take a Shower

Think you know how to take a shower??

And what in the world does that have to do with losing weight anyway??

Guess you need to listen to find out!

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3 Lies the Diet Industry is Feeding You
Justin Burks Justin Burks

3 Lies the Diet Industry is Feeding You

Let's talk about 3 lies that the diet industry is invested in selling to you. I discuss how they are holding you back, the science behind why they are not true, and how to stop buying into them.

Let go of these beliefs and watch your weight loss become easier.

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Start Before You're Ready
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Start Before You're Ready

Don't feel ready to lose weight? Now is not a good time? Listen to today's episode to see why you need to start before you're ready and how to do it.

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Stop Giving Up All of the Foods you Love
Justin Burks Justin Burks

Stop Giving Up All of the Foods you Love

Going on a diet usually requires you to categorize foods as "good" or "bad." Or you're allowed to eat certain foods and not others.

To lose weight and keep it off forever, you need to stop following those rules and instead learn how to eat foods you love, like ice cream or bagels, strategically and in control.

Listen to this episode to learn how.

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