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The Disrupting Obesity podcast is for anyone who’s looking to lose an extreme amount of weight and change their relationship with food so they can keep the pounds off. If you’re tired of feeling judged for being fat, of excluding yourself or being left out, and using food to comfort, reward, and cope with your emotions and the day to day, don’t waste time beating yourself up. You absolutely have what it takes to lose a significant amount of weight naturally in a way that you can sustain and that will ensure you keep the weight off too.
Hosted by Charlotte Skanes, a weight loss coach who lost and is keeping off over two hundred pounds, this show will give you the strategies and mindset you need to drop the weight. It’s going to encourage you and motivate you so that you can build the confidence and self-belief to find the healthiest version of yourself. It’s not about the food. It’s about your relationship with food. Once you start to change that relationship you can start disrupting obesity.
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Send us a text In this episode I dive into part two of my holiday survival series. This stretch between Thanksgiving and New Year’s can feel chaotic, emotional, and full of food that pushes every button you’ve got. So I’m sharing the tools, mindset shifts, and strategies that actually help you stay grounded instead of getting swept into the holiday eating vortex. I talk about the power of incentives and why giving yourself small rewards is not cheating. It’s strategy. Whether it is a long soa...
Send us a text In this Weight Loss Wednesday, I’m bringing back something I didn’t think I’d be doing again: a holiday Ask Whatever. I found a bunch of your holiday questions, so we’re doing a full festive Q&A. In this episode, I talk about: • How to track holiday meals when you can’t measure anything • Alcohol over the holidays • What I eat at Christmas and how I handle holiday food • Managing cravings and feeling like you can’t stop eating • Tips for night shift eating • How to s...
Send us a text In this episode, I kick off the first part of my Surviving the Holidays series. With Thanksgiving landing this week and the rest of the season barreling toward us, I wanted to give you tools that help you stay grounded, keep your sanity, and protect your progress. The holidays can be exciting, stressful, emotional, nostalgic, overwhelming, or all of the above. Food is everywhere and so are the feelings that come with it. This episode is all about helping you get ahead of that i...
Send us a text In this week’s Weight Loss Wednesday, I’m tackling another round of your questions. I love these episodes because they let me answer the things you’re genuinely struggling with in real time. Keep sending them in. They really do shape what this podcast becomes. I start with a question I know so many of us wrestle with: how to stop second-guessing the plan every time someone else has an opinion. Whether it’s oats, keto, fasting or the latest shiny little diet gimmick, the noise n...
Send us a text In this episode, I’m talking about something that has shaped my life in ways I didn’t even understand until years later, something my husband calls an "environment of yes". After I got sick, Shahn made a conscious effort to surround me with as much positivity and choice as possible. He created yeses in a season of my life that had been nothing but no, and it changed everything for me. Today I’m pulling back the curtain a little to share what that looked like, why it mat...
Send us a text In this tenth Weight Loss Wednesday episode, I’m answering your questions about navigating the final stretch of the year. The last quarter can feel intense, emotional, chaotic and tempting all at once, and I want to help you move through it with clarity instead of panic. I talk through everything from holiday body checking to seasonal darkness, guilt and shame spirals, maintenance expectations, and finding accountability without feeling boxed in. This is the season when mindse...
Send us a text In this episode, I talk about something most people don’t even realise is an option on a weight loss journey. We act like when things get hard, the only choices are to keep going or to give up. But there is a third option that can save your progress, protect your mental bandwidth, and stop you from falling back into that old start again cycle. I call it damage control mode. I explain what damage control actually looks like, why it’s not the same as quitting, and why it’s defini...
Send us a text Welcome back to Weight Loss Wednesday. I cannot believe we are already on our ninth edition of this series. You keep sending in brilliant questions and I truly love answering them, so thank you. Keep them coming. Today I am digging into emotional eating, holiday baking strategies, how my program works for those using GLP1s, my go to calorie tracking app, and a fun question about my favourite fictional characters. A little mindset, a little practical strategy, a little geekery. ...
Send us a text In this episode I am talking about what to do when you feel stuck, flat, or like you have lost your footing a little bit in your weight loss journey. This is not about starting over. I am not interested in the start stop cycle and I know you're not either. This is about refreshing your approach, clearing the mental clutter, and getting grounded again so that you can keep going. Sometimes we hit a point where it feels harder than it should. We feel like we are doing the right th...
Send us a text In this week’s Weight Loss Wednesday, I’m answering your questions about some of the most common challenges on the journey, from feeling shame around tracking to the pressure to get your macros just right. I talk about how to handle the guilt that can come with calorie tracking, why it’s so important to see the truth instead of avoiding it, and how to stop the exhausting cycle of starting and stopping. I also explain why I believe calorie awareness matters more than macro math,...
Send us a text Let's talk about surviving one of the most tempting holidays of the year. With candy, chips, and treats everywhere you look, Halloween can easily throw off your rhythm. This episode is all about strategies that help you enjoy the holiday without losing control, feeling guilty, or dragging regret into the rest of the last quarter. I explain why our sense of urgency around Halloween candy doesn’t make sense anymore, and how to quiet the food noise by reminding yourself that cand...
Send us a text In this Weight Loss Wednesday, Charlotte answers some of your most common and most real questions about weight loss, sustainability, and those tricky day-to-day choices. In this episode: Intermittent fasting and coffee creamer Does a splash (or a glug) of creamer ruin your fast? Charlotte breaks down the technical vs. practical answers, why calories can’t tell time, and why your morning ritual might be more important than the rulebook.What to do if you’ve already made drastic ...
Send us a text In this fourth and final instalment of the Weight Loss Nevers series, Charlotte wraps up with two powerful reminders to help you stay grounded in your journey. These last two “nevers” are some of the most common traps people fall into when trying to lose weight, and learning to avoid them can make all the difference in building momentum that actually lasts. Key Points Never set unrealistic goals Setting extreme targets may feel motivating at first, but it can quickly set you u...
Send us a text In this Weight Loss Wednesday, Charlotte answers more listener questions about everything from loose skin to sweeteners. She gets into the mindset shifts that make weight loss sustainable, the math behind TDEE, and why the slow-cooked frog might just be your new favourite metaphor. In this episode: How much control we really have over loose skin (and what actually helps)Why self-loathing after yo-yo dieting is a spiral that can be interruptedWhat happens to your TDEE as you los...
Send us a text In this episode, Charlotte continues her “Weight Loss Nevers” series with numbers 7, 8, and 9 — three more things you should never do when trying to lose weight. She starts with the idea of never eating when you’re not hungry, digging into how emotional hunger, boredom, and habit can all blur the lines between needing to eat and wanting to eat. Charlotte explains how awareness develops in stages, and how learning to pause and ask questions helps you take control of your choices...
Send us a text In this episode, Charlotte answers more listener questions for another round of Weight Loss Wednesday. She talks about when to recalculate your TDEE, explains what JLOI really means, and responds to a heartfelt question from a parent trying to help their adult child lose weight. She also opens up about why she doesn’t do meal plans, what happens when someone else tries to “fix” your weight for you, and shares the truth about how much she’s actually made from her viral reels on ...
Send us a text We’re back with Part Two of the Weight Loss Nevers series, and this week Charlotte unpacks Nevers 4 through 6, three simple rules that quietly change everything about how you eat, think, and treat yourself. Never #4 – Never eat with full hands If your hands are still holding your food (or your phone) while you chew, you’re not really present. Charlotte explains how putting the fork down between bites slows your pace, helps you notice fullness, and builds self-trust around food...
Send us a text On this week's Weight Loss Wednesday I'm answering 5 questions. We're taking a look at: PlateausMacro TrackingEating WindowsSubstitutions and Recipe BuildingA slightly snide question about yours trulyLooking for help on your weight loss journey? I’ve created a couple of resources: • My NEW Membership Community Flamingo Forum! Join HERE: https://charlotte-skanes.mykajabi.com/disruptor-our-community • My Immersive Weight Loss Experience: Sustainable 7 • My Cookbook 'Disruptor' • ...
Send us a text We’re kicking off a brand new series: the Weight Loss Nevers. Most of the time you hear about what you should do to lose weight. But in this series, I’m breaking down the things you should NEVER do if you want your weight loss to last. These are the traps, the shortcuts, and the self-sabotage patterns that only make things harder. In this episode, I share the first three “nevers”: Never weigh yourself more than once a week. Daily weigh-ins will mess with your head, drive you...
Send us a text I'm answering 4 of your questions this week: What do you do when you reach your calorie goal for the day, but it is early in the day and you are still hungry (or anticipating hunger later in the day)? When you were at 338 pounds what was your calorie intake when you started dieting that worked? What about the sugar? Where do you get all your fabulous earrings?Don't forget to send me your questions too! Looking for help on your weight loss journey? I’ve created ...
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