Real Change. Lasting Results. Life Beyond Obesity

A community and knowledge center, with guidance and accountability
for the obese on their weight loss journey

Learn to alter habits, make changes to how you view food and exercise, and move beyond obesity with life changes that last.

Who makes up our membership…

Life Time Dieters

We were you. It takes courage to step out of the comfortable and tackle the habits, traditions, fears, and just daunting work it takes to break free of losing and gaining cycle we’ve all been caught in. The ultimate goal for each person who joins our community is to learn to live a life where food and exercise are just part of your daily routine and not seen as a burden or punishment that you resent having to do.

Those Utilizing GLP-1 and WL Surgery

We invite anyone using GLP-1 drugs or who have undergone weight loss surgery and are losing the weight but are lost when it comes to what to eat to stay healthy, how to eat when there is no appetite, and how to deal with weight loss issues such as flabby hanging parts, hair loss, and the responses of family and friends who while supportive have a hard time looking you in the face. We’ve been there!

All or Nothing Types

If you believe you cannot do moderation and need fast weight loss to achieve your goals and do great in the beginning of all plans, but when you slip tend to give up and look for something else, then you need us. While all or nothing is great for fast weight loss it only works when your in the all in mindset. The problem with it is the minute you drop the all in, the nothing sweeps in and you lose all your good work.

What We’re About…

Community

You’re not alone. We’re in this together. Regardless of your weight loss method, we, the obese, share similar issues, stumbling blocks, fears and stories. Face it, if you could have done this on your own, you would have.

Knowledge

Coach Carlene has been helping the obese for 21 years over at Raw Food Boot Camp. She has learned so much regarding why we struggle with weight loss, avoid change, and self-sabotage our efforts. At Shed and Sustain, her goal is to share that knowledge with as many obese women and men she can.

Accountability

Support, encouragement, accountability to keep you on track. Work with our community, and/or work with Coach Carlene. Being accountable and being part of a community is a powerful path to success.

Life-time Changes

It doesn’t matter how you lose the weight. Without change, weight loss is not sustainable. You must rewire your thinking and learn things like not giving in to emotional or impulse eating. Easily said, but not done. Old habits, brain pathways, traditions and dieting ploys have to go. That takes determination, practice, patience and discipline. Words most dieters hate.

The truth is, regardless of how easily you lost the weight, those food noises, old habits and excuses have been laying low. The minute you give up your method of loss, they pounce. That takes us off guard and we succumb. You must work on these old ways while losing weight if you want to sustain the weight loss for life. There is no cure for obesity, but we can learn to integrate healthy living as part of who we are once we accept it’s a good thing and not a cruel game the universe throws at us.

Moving Beyond Obesity

We are all about accepting that we don’t want to live an obese life any longer yet with all our dieting and exercise, maintaining our loses long term has evaded us. Together we will work on how to integrate a satisfying, healthy routine for life, not just for a quick fix. Coach Carlene is all about keeping the weight off for life and will work with anyone transitioning from GLP-1s or that All or Nothing mindset.

The Diets We Support…

Almost All Weight Loss Methods Welcome

There is no best way to lose weight. All methods work if they are geared around health and sustainability. Whether you are doing fast weight loss, sustainable steady weight loss, had weight loss surgery or are using GLP-1s, you are welcome here. We do not support fasting or juicing for weight loss. Nor do we support living on smoothies or taking wl drugs outside the GLP-1s.

Coach Carlene loves her Rawk Starz Diva plan for fast weight loss but believes strongly in the benefits of a whole food diet. And while fast weight loss was her thing over at Raw Food Boot Camp, she now believes we should all lose weight on a diet we can sustain long term. Quick fixes unravel pretty fast. Learn to eat and exercise for your body and who you are as a person, and make it just part of who you are.