No Weigh: Honest Takes on Food, Your Body & Life After Diet Culture

No, you haven’t imagined it. The podcast has a new name!
After five years and 250+ episodes as The Busy Woman’s Guide to Wellbeing (and The Busy Woman’s Guide to Fitness & Wellness before that), it’s time for a change.
In this short episode I explain why I’ve finally listened to my gut, what No Weigh is all about, and what you can expect from me over the coming weeks and months.
In this episode:
Why the podcast has changed, and why I did it in one morning instead of faffing about for weeks
How my work with women has changed, and why the show needed to catch up
The big fear that keeps so many of us stuck on the diet rollercoaster: “If I stop dieting, am I giving up on myself?”
What we’ll be talking about from now on: emotional and comfort eating, quietening the food noise, ditching the guilt, breaking the all-or-nothing cycle, and feeling better in your own skin
Where fitness fits in now (it’s not going anywhere, but we’ll be looking at it through a post-diet-culture lens)
A note for long-time listeners: the back catalogue is all still there

Coming up next week:
How to stop dieting without piling on the weight. If dieting has stopped working but still feels like your safety net, this one’s for you.
What do you want me to talk about?
I’d love to hear what you want covered on the show. Drop me a DM on Instagram at @lifeeditwithalix and tell me. I promise I’ll get to it.

I used to introduce myself as a perfectionist. Like I deserved some sort of medal for it.
Turns out it created mostly stress, self-doubt and a lot of half-finished projects I never let see daylight.
In this episode I’m getting into why so many of us (especially women, especially the capable ones) hold on to perfectionism so tightly, and why it’s the very thing killing your consistency with food, movement and pretty much everything else.
In this episode:
How perfectionism showed up for me — from abandoned business ideas to apologising profusely for cancelling a client because my kid was ill
Why women are more likely to wait until they’re “perfectly qualified” before having a go
The good girl conditioning that taught us approval = being perfect (oldest child, only girl… you can guess how that went)
How diet culture keeps moving the finish line so you’re never quite done
The all-or-nothing trap: waiting for the perfect time to start, then binning the whole thing after one “bad” meal
What postnatal breathing taught me about trying less hard — and why 80% often works better than 100%
A live example of me letting go (this episode is coming out on a Tuesday. Old me would’ve needed a lie down.)

Try this: pick ONE area of your life where you’re demanding 100% from yourself and it’s not working. Drop it to 80%. See what happens.
Struggling with consistency and still calling yourself a perfectionist? Grab my free workshop, Consistency Codes. It’ll show you the patterns that keep resetting your progress — and why more effort isn’t the answer.
👉 lifeeditcoaching.com/consistency-codes
Come and tell me where you’re going to 80% - I’m over on Instagram.

You said you weren’t going to today. And yet here you are, on the sofa with a cup of tea, three biscuits down and no real memory of deciding to open the packet.
Or it’s Thursday, you’ve had a rubbish week, and the first glass of wine has somehow become the third.
This isn’t a willpower problem. It’s reaction mode: the state where stress, busyness and the pressure you put on yourself push your brain onto its well-worn shortcuts. When you’re there, everything becomes about feeling better right now, and your bigger goals don’t get a look in.
In this episode I share:
What reaction mode actually is, and why pretty much every busy woman is living in it more than she realises
Why your brain reaches for the same “solution” (wine, chocolate, the fridge raid) every single time
The hidden layer: it’s rarely about what happened that day, and usually about what you made it mean about yourself
Why awareness feels woolly in a world obsessed with quick fixes, and why it’s still the first thing I work on with every client
One simple exercise to try this week: pick one moment and work your way backwards

If you keep getting a certain distance with your goals before ricocheting back to the start, this one’s for you.
Let me know what moment you’re going to work on over on Instagram @lifeeditwithalix, and send this to the friend who texts you “why do I always do this” every Thursday.

What happens when someone who gave up dieting six years ago drops her calories by just 300 a day?
Apparently, a full-blown flashback. Within days the food noise was back. So was the bargaining (“if I skip this at lunch, I can still have that dinner”), along with the 5pm “sod it, I’ll eat anything that isn’t nailed down” moment I’d honestly forgotten used to be my normal.
I lasted less than a week. And it turned out to be one of the most useful weeks I’ve had in ages.
In this episode I share:
Why I decided to try building muscle and losing fat this year, without scales or photos
The surprisingly big difference between 2,000 and 1,700 calories (spoiler: it wasn’t the hunger that got me)
How the same “failure” that used to send me spiralling became simple information
What it means to put peace at the centre of your decisions, and why that doesn’t mean giving up on results
The third option between rigid dieting and total chaos, which nobody tells you exists

If you’ve ever promised yourself “this time will be the one,” this episode is for you. That includes the version of you who’s already planning next Monday’s fresh start.
Come and say hi on Instagram @lifeeditwithalix, and if this one landed, send it to a friend who’s still on the Monday-reset merry-go-round.

Ready to join me inside Ditch the Diets? Find out more and claim your space here.
If you want to know what happens inside, you can also listen to THIS bonus episode.
In today's episode:
You've already tried stopping diets, eating more mindfully, or intuitive eating. But when it tipped you into just feeling completely out of control you decided it didn't work and you're "just one of those people" who needs a plan.
But I believe everyone can eat more mindfully (and cut out the food noise at the same time). There's just one step that's missing to help you finally nail it. Today we'll talk about:
The real difference between intuitive and mindful eating, and why our expectations make us feel like we're failing at it.
Why "one slice of cake and then stop" isn't mindful eating. It's another diet rule in a nicer outfit.
How years of dieting have trained you to override your body's signals, so "just listen to your body" feels like being handed instructions in a language you don't speak
The missing foundation: rebuilding trust and communication with your body before you try to eat mindfully
An introduction to the React to Respond method: going from "oh shit, I need to fix this" to noticing what's actually going on, with curiosity instead of judgement

Ditch the Diets doors close Friday 2nd October. If you're done dieting but don't trust yourself without it yet, this is where we build that trust together, with individual coaching on your own patterns. [JOIN HERE]
Find me on Instagram: @lifeeditwithalix