Episode 40

#40: (Re)Write Your Own Story

Welcome back to The French Weigh with your host, Karen Gombault. 

What story are you telling yourself about your weight loss journey? That it has been hard? A constant uphill battle? All consuming? 

How you think about your weight loss journey matters, and it directly influences your energy, attitude, mindset and results. And that’s why, it’s time to look at your past experiences and rewrite them into a story that is empowering and that serves you. 

I'll be sharing my personal weight loss journey over the past 40 years, and how each experience, whether it involved dieting, emotional eating, or intense training, shaped my mindset and has helped me remain at my goal weight for several years now. 

We'll explore how positively reframing past experiences can strengthen your resolve and ultimately help you maintain a healthy lifestyle. Instead of looking at experiences from my past and only seeing the negative outcomes, I look at the lessons learned. Reframing those moments with compassion allows me to move forward and stay committed. 

“When I look at my story and just tell myself that I showed up for me, I had my own back. For example, I never tell myself, I need to get back on track, and I never tell my clients, you need to get back on track. You just need to keep going. You just need to take one more step.” 

Through coaching, mindset shifts, and rewriting my story, I have learned to trust myself and love my journey, and I want the same for you too. Tune in to this episode of The French Weigh and learn to love your story too.

Key Takeaways From This Episode

  1. The Power of Positive Reframing: How positively reframing past experiences can boost mindset and influence current efforts 
  2. Insight into my decades-long journey and the pivotal moments that shaped me 
  3. Emphasizing the importance of mindset, as opposed to solely focusing on strategies 
  4. Emotional eating and mind management 
  5. Coaching and Mindset Shifts: How working with mindset and macro coaches helped me transform my approach to weight loss 
  6. Compassion and Self-Empathy: The significance of treating oneself with compassion throughout the weight loss journey

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About the Podcast

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About your host

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Karen Gombault

I’m Karen, and I know firsthand the challenges of balancing a passionate career with personal health.

As a former CEO with 30 years in corporate leadership, I’ve lived the pressures of work, travel, raising a family and emotional eating.

For years, I tried every diet, counting calories and macros, even training for marathons, but nothing worked long-term.

It wasn’t until I focused on how I thought about myself and my weight that I finally lost the last 10 pounds and have kept it off over 7 years.

Now, as a coach and mentor, I help ambitious women think differently and lose weight permanently.