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Before Dieting...

Bronwyn Fletcher

The podcast, "Before Dieting," addresses the underlying issues related to recurring weight and, before a woman resorts to yet another round of dieting. The core purpose of the Podcast is to communicate that there is a deeper truth behind these weight struggles It demonstrates to listeners that there is an emotional, not just intellectual, level that amplify the recurring weight problem. It seeks to provide insights and understanding that traditional dieting approaches often miss.

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8:14

The Four Stages of Change (And Why Fast Results Never...

Before Dieting... ·

2025/12/02

✅ Most women think weight change is about discipline, motivation or the right diet plan. While these help, there’s more to it. In this week’s episode of Before Dieting, I answer a question from Michelle about the four stages of change in the Weighting for Happiness® Project and why permanent change doesn’t come from forcing behaviour. Women are trained to expect speed and short-term results. But recurring weight patterns don’t begin in a week, and they don’t change in a week. They change when...

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6:09

Yo-yo dieting is not a failure of willpower

Before Dieting... ·

2025/11/25

Yo-yo dieting explained - and it's not a failure of willpower I've included a resource links at the end of these notes that enables you to map out your dieting model. In this episode, I explore why diets so often begin with intense hope, fueled by marketing and outside influences. The classic Yo-yo dieting cycle. Understand how your body's unconscious survival system interprets dietary restriction as starvation, often overpowering conscious willpower and forcing diet abandonment....

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12:03

Relief Eating: The type of eating no one talks about

Before Dieting... ·

2025/11/18

In this episode of Before Dieting, I answer a question from listener Karla about relief eating. An eating pattern many women have but almost no one is comfortable talking about. Relief eating is often mistaken for “bingeing”, but it’s something very different. You’ll learn how relief eating works inside your Eating System, why it appears suddenly, why it feels automatic, and why it’s one of the biggest contributors to weight regain. We walk through the three stages, so you can start recognisi...

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7:24

The weight of clothes

Before Dieting... ·

2025/11/11

🎙️ The Weight of Clothes: What Your Wardrobe Reveals About Your Weight Story In this episode, I’m sharing an exercise I’ve done with many women, one that turned out to reveal far more than any of us expected. It’s called The Weight of Clothes, though really, it’s a wardrobe exercise. I’ll walk you through what other women discovered and how you can try it yourself. What You’ll Learn Why your wardrobe can act as a mirror for your weight history.How clothing sizes reveal unspoken rules about

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10:57

Family Food Culture - Part 3 - Ingrid's story

Before Dieting... ·

2025/11/04

🎧 Episode Overview In this episode of Before Dieting, I bring the concept of family food culture to life through one woman’s story. Ingrid’s lifelong struggle with weight wasn’t about willpower or discipline, it was about an invisible eating system that began in childhood and shaped her adult relationship with food. Her story reveals why diets can’t address the root cause and how uncovering hidden food rules can help women finally regain agency over their eating. ✨ Key Takeaways 1. Diets

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11:09

Family Food Culture - Part 2

Before Dieting... ·

2025/10/27

In this episode, I explore the hidden lessons learned at family mealtimes. Across thousands of childhood meals, rules about eating, belonging, and control were silently taught and absorbed. Those rules still determine adult eating patterns today, often more powerfully than any diet. By revisiting your early food history, you can begin to see why willpower alone has never been enough and how reclaiming awareness of your family food culture is the first step to restoring agency over what and ho...

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9:15

Family Food Culture 1 - Access

Before Dieting... ·

2025/10/21

Episode Overview This episode explores how the rules of childhood food culture still shape eating today. Family food culture is more than mealtimes; it’s the unspoken rules, behaviours, and permissions that form the foundations of an eating system. Unless these rules are uncovered, diets can only ever be temporary fixes. Key Messages Family food culture is the invisible set of rules you absorbed around food in childhood.These rules were learned through meals, role models, and permissions, not...

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6:43

Rethinking Weight Goals

Before Dieting... ·

2025/10/14

Most women measure weight ‘success’ with a single number on the bathroom scale. That single metric is narrow, punishing, and often misleading. In this episode, Bronwyn explains why a range of measures makes progress visible, why SMART goals often backfire in weight cycling, and how to set outcomes that actually match what you want in your life. You’ll hear some goals are imposed from outside (family, partners, doctors, social media) and how ‘indirect goals’ like ‘I’ll be confident when I’m li...

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8:41

Questions can change your weight

Before Dieting... ·

2025/10/07

Questions can change your weight In this episode of Before Dieting, Bronwyn Fletcher explores how blame and shame hold you back from discovering the root cause of your recurring weight. Hear how the way out of this repeating weight cycle comes from the questions you ask. You’ll learn how: blame and shame shuts down inquiryinsight comes from asking shame-free and counterintuitive questionsasking deeper questions can get to the root cause of recurring weightPlease help other women find the podc...

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7:24

When food is love

Before Dieting... ·

2025/09/30

🎧 Podcast Show Notes – Episode 1, Season 2 Title: Food Is Love: Carmela’s Story and the Hidden Systems Beneath Overeating Episode Description: Welcome to Season Two of Before Dieting. I’m your host, Bronwyn Fletcher, and this season we continue identifying the root causes of women’s recurring weight. Causes that diets alone can never fix. In today’s episode, we dive into Carmela’s story. A woman whose eating system was built on comfort, ritual, and family belonging. From joyful Friday night

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7:19

Rules

Before Dieting... ·

2025/09/29

When it comes to weight loss, most advice stops at “eat less and move more.” But what if the real reason you can’t lose weight, or keep it off goes much deeper? In this episode of Before Dieting, Bronwyn Fletcher takes a closer look at the eating rules you absorbed in childhood and how they quietly shape your behaviour as an adult. From “finish everything on your plate” to “don’t be greedy,” these rules often run on autopilot, steering your eating without you even realising. Through the story...

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6:10

Weight Is a Puzzle, Not a Problem

Before Dieting... ·

2025/09/09

In today's episode, I help ditch the blame, step away from diet culture, and rethink what really causes recurring weight. Forget the old story that says being overweight is just about overeating and needs a simple diet fix. Bronwyn makes the case that diets aren’t one-size-fits-all, and if you’ve ever felt like a diet “failed,” it wasn’t your fault. We talk about how western thinking jumps to quick solutions, why diet hacks are everywhere, and why habits like “drink a glass of water bef...

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8:20

The Eight Types of Eating – Seeing the Whole Picture

Before Dieting... ·

2025/08/28

The Eight Types of Eating – Seeing the Whole Picture Show Notes Most people think eating comes in two forms, either overeating or dieting. In this episode of Before Dieting, Bronwyn Fletcher introduces the Eight Types of Eating, a framework that makes the invisible visible. From Functional to Relief eating, Bronwyn explains how each type plays a role in your food story, often operating under the radar. You’ll learn why understanding these types isn’t about rules or willpower, but about seeing...

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6:27

What Diet's wont solve

Before Dieting... ·

2025/08/28

Summary: In this episode, you’ll meet Amy, a woman who’s spent over half her life trying to lose weight. Using systems thinking, we explore how her relationship with food was shaped by childhood experiences, family dynamics, and unspoken rules about appetite and body size. From stolen snacks to over-catered freedom, Amy’s story shows why long-term weight issues are never just about food. What You’ll Learn: Why Amy’s weight struggle didn’t start with dietingHow childhood rules around food shap...

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6:01

Why you need more than a diet

Before Dieting... ·

2025/08/28

Why you need more than a diet In this episode, Bronwyn shares the backstory of the Weighting for Happiness project and the journey she took to uncover what really sits beneath a persistent weight struggle. Drawing from over a thousand honest conversations with women, Bronwyn explains why quick fixes and diets never tell the whole story and introduces the three investigative programs she developed to help women finally make sense of their eating patterns. Key Topics: Why “bite-size” epis...

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6:11

Gettting off the Diet Roller Coaster

Before Dieting... ·

2025/08/27

Getting off the diet roller coaster Explore why diets so often begin with intense hope, fueled by marketing and outside influences. Understand how the body's unconscious survival system interprets dietary restriction as starvation, often overpowering conscious willpower and forcing diet abandonment. Learn why abandoning a diet isn't a failure, but instead a predictable outcome driven by biology. Discover the phenomenon of weight "overshoot," where post-diet weight regain often exceeds the sta...

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8:20

The Eight Types of Eating – Seeing the Whole Picture

Before Dieting... ·

2025/08/13

The Eight Types of Eating – Seeing the Whole Picture Show Notes Most people think eating comes in two forms, either overeating or dieting. In this episode of Before Dieting, Bronwyn Fletcher introduces the Eight Types of Eating, a framework that makes the invisible visible. From Functional to Relief eating, Bronwyn explains how each type plays a role in your food story, often operating under the radar. You’ll learn why understanding these types isn’t about rules or willpower, but about seeing...

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10:29

Hunger Appetite Hungering

Before Dieting... ·

2025/08/07

✅ Podcast Show Notes Episode Title: Appetite, Hunger and Hungering: Why Knowing the Difference Matters In this bite-sized episode, Bronwyn is joined by Lisa for a conversation that untangles three terms that are often used interchangeably but have very different meanings: hunger, appetite, and hungering. Together, they explore: How hunger is about the body’s need for foodHow appetite is about the want for a particular food, regardless of needHow hungering signals something deeper and un...

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13:31

Karen's Story

Before Dieting... ·

2025/08/07

Show Notes In this episode, we meet Karen, a woman determined to lose 20 kilos and desperate for the next ‘right’ diet. But when we mapped out her weight chart, she saw something she’d never noticed before, the connection between life events and the numbers on the scale. What looked like sabotage turned out to be survival. Her eating wasn’t a failure of willpower; it was a system at work. One that had kept her going through grief, stress, and pressure. What You’ll Hear: Why Karen thought her ...

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6:27

What diets won't solve

Before Dieting... ·

2025/08/07

Show Notes In this episode, you’ll meet Amy, a woman who’s spent over half her life trying to lose weight. Using systems thinking, we explore how her relationship with food was shaped by childhood experiences, family dynamics, and unspoken rules about appetite and body size. From stolen snacks to over-catered freedom, Amy’s story shows why long-term weight issues are never just about food. What You’ll Learn: Why Amy’s weight struggle didn’t start with dietingHow childhood rules around food sh...

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