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Bronwyn Fletcher
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S3E47 The Four Layers Behind Weight Regain
Diets tell you what to eat. Understanding the Four Layers Behind Eating explains why.🔦 Download your free comprehensive Infographic, "The 4 Layers of Weight Regain" here …
S3E46 Definitions and Boundaries to solve recurring weight gain
The weight regain boundary problemThe Weight Ecosystem link I reference in the episode that can start your weight regain solution.Today we look at:Why do weight regain explanations begin and end with…
S3E45 The Hidden Logic of Relief Eating
Why does relief eating feel so overpowering, secretive and difficult to interrupt?In this episode of Before Dieting, Bronwyn Fletcher explores relief eating through the lens of systems thinking.…
S3E44 When Weight Regain Is Really About the Life You’re Living
Soraya spent years believing her weight problem was about food. Like many women with recurring weight regain, she became highly skilled at dieting, cycling between strict calorie restriction during…
S3E43 Midlife weight gain: The Role of Trust in Weight Regain
Maggie’s story doesn’t start with food. It starts with trust.In this episode, you’ll hear how a lifetime of dieting and weight regain can sit on top of something far less visible; a loss of trust…
S3E42 Weight regain isn’t solved with better eating habits
If you’ve been trying to fix your weight with better habits, this episode explains why that approach keeps failing.Last week, we introduced the idea that systems are not habits.This week, we go…
S3E41 Systems Are Not Habits: Why Weight Regain Keeps Happening
Understand your recurring weight by starting with Your Weight Ecosystem diagnostic.✅ SHOW NOTES When women say ‘I just need better eating habits,’ it sounds logical.But what if that assumption is the…
S3E40 Body Fat and Weight Regain: What Your Eating System Is Really Doing
In this episode, Bronwyn challenges one of the most entrenched beliefs in weight loss: that body fat is simply the result of overeating.Instead, she introduces a systems thinking perspective that…
S3E39 Why Weight Keeps Coming Back: The Hidden Problem with Simple Stories
Most women can explain their weight problem in a sentence.‘I’m an emotional eater.’‘I’ve got a sweet tooth.’‘I just need more discipline.’These explanations feel true. But they’re often only telling…
S3E38 Childhood Food Agency: When you weren’t allowed to choose.
Childhood Food Agency: When you weren’t allowed to choose.Episode overview Most women assume that as adults they should know what ‘enough’ food looks like. But portion confidence, stopping cues, and…
S3E37 Why Diets Fail-Childhood Food Access and the Eating System.
Podcast Episode 37 - Show NotesThe real drivers of weight gain start in childhood, long before dieting ever entered the picture. In this episode we explore Childhood Food Access.This is the autonomy…
S3E36 How Childhood Food Rules Drive Weight Regain
How Childhood Food Rules Drive Weight Regain✅ Katherine wasn’t allowed to eat between meals.✅ Fiona wasn’t allowed to ask for food at all.✅ Different families.✅ Different rules.✅ Same result - both…
S3E35 Why Nicole Eats Chocolate at Night, The Eating System Behind Weight Regain
Nicole starts her day with a green smoothie and ends it eating chocolate bars she hides in the laundry cupboard. She wants to lose weight, she knows what to eat, and she follows the same plan every…
S3E34 Why Being Good at Dieting Doesn’t Stop Weight Regain - Lia’s Story
Why Being Good at Dieting Doesn’t Stop Weight Regain - Lia’s StoryIn this episode of Before Dieting, I explore a question that perplexes most women:If I lose weight, how do I stop it coming…
S3E33 Food Story vs Eating System: The Real Root Cause of Weight Regain
In this first episode of a ten-part series, I unpack the food story and eating system of Donna, a woman in her late forties who has struggled with weight regain for decades.Donna knows how to lose…
S3E32 What causes weight regain
In this episode, I set the container for the next ten stories.Ten women between 40 and 60.✔️ Multiple rounds of weight regain.✔️ No eating disorders.✔️ No dramatic pathology.✔️ No extreme cases.Just…
S3E31 Systems Thinking vs Therapy
Systems Thinking Isn’t Therapy; It’s the Diagnostic Layer to solving weight regainWhen weight keeps returning, the default assumption is often psychological.That the problem is low willpower or…
S3E30 Listener Questions on Access, Agency, and Shame
The last three episodes on childhood food access, agency, and Alison’s story prompted a strong response. Many of the questions that came in weren’t about definitions. They were about recognition.In…
S2E29 Allison's Story - What happens when food Access and Agency are missing
Alison’s story traces how a tightly controlled childhood around food quietly evolved into adult weight gain, dieting, and a powerful shame system and how understanding that story changed everything.…
S2E28 Childhood Food Agency: When you weren’t allowed to choose.
Most women assume that as adults they should know what ‘enough’ food looks like. But portion confidence, stopping cues, and self-trust don’t appear automatically. They’re built through early…
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