Transform with PLANTS

What does it actually look like to thrive - not just survive - on a plant-based diet as you get older?

In this special episode I sit down with three extraordinary women who have dedicated their careers to this exact question:

👉🏻 Registered dietitian and plant-based nutrition pioneer Brenda Davis

👉🏻 Registered dietitian and longtime collaborator Vesanto Melina

👉🏻 Dr Charlene Black.

Together they bring decades of clinical experience, research and real-world results working with plant-based seniors.

This isn't about whether plant-based eating is safe. It's about how to do it brilliantly - with energy, strength, sharp thinking and genuine vitality - at every age.

WE COVER:

✔️ How to thrive on plants in your 60s, 70s and beyond - not just get by

✔️ Protein and muscle: what you actually need and how plants deliver it

✔️ Bone strength, calcium and the truth about plant-based eating and osteoporosis

✔️ Key nutrients to pay attention to as you age - B12, omega-3s, vitamin D and more

✔️ Brain health and cognitive vitality on a plant-based diet

✔️ Energy and appetite: eating well when your hunger signals change

✔️ Practical strategies for plant-powered seniors to look and feel their best

If you're a plant-based senior, or you're supporting one - this conversation is full of wisdom, warmth and genuinely useful guidance.

📗 Becoming Vegan by Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina — https://plant-poweredseniors.com/

🌿 Free Plant Powered Weight Loss Masterclass — Monday 26 October: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/masterclass

💚 Book a free Weight Loss Audit call: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/transform

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Have you ever had one off-plan meal turn into a week of giving up?

Gave into dessert, and it turned into an all-out binge?

It’s ok… there’s nothing “wrong” with you…

You're doing something I see all the time - you're spiralling.

The mistake was never the problem.

The spiral after the mistake - that's where your progress actually gets lost.

In this episode, Kerryn breaks down why we spiral after an off-plan meal, the psychology of shame and emotional eating, and a practical 6-question reset framework you can use immediately to stop the spiral in its tracks.

IN THIS EPISODE:

✔️ Why one difficult meal can turn into three days of giving up - and what's really driving it

✔️ How your thinking drives your emotional state, which drives your action & your results

✔️ The 6-Question Reset: a simple framework to get curious instead of critical after any setback

✔️ The "next best decision" - why perfection is never the goal, and what to do instead

✔️ How to be okay with who you've been - and talk to yourself with the compassion that creates real, lasting change

✔️ Why the most successful people aren't the ones who never fall - they're the ones who always come back

LINKS:

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/transform

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

Most doctors were never taught that food is medicine.

Dr Michael Klaper has spent 35 years trying to change that.

In this episode Kerryn Sawyer sits down with Dr Michael Klaper - physician, plant-based pioneer, former NASA nutrition advisor and author of Moving Medicine Forward - for a conversation about what conventional medicine is missing, what the evidence actually says about reversing chronic disease through nutrition, and why he is now teaching medical students what he was never taught himself.

In this episode:

✔️ Dr Klaper’s personal story - from conventional medicine to plant-based nutrition pioneer

✔️ What he experienced in his own body when he changed his diet

✔️ The evidence linking food to heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and chronic inflammation

✔️ Real patient stories of disease reversal through nutrition

✔️ Why most doctors are still not having this conversation - and what is happening in medical education

✔️ The Moving Medicine Forward initiative - teaching future doctors what current ones were never taught

✔️ His new book and where to get it

Links:

✔️ Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Moving-Medicine-Forward-Doctors-Nutrition_and/dp/1637748264

✔️ Moving Medicine Forward: http://www.movingmedforward.org/

✔️ Dr Klaper’s website: http://www.doctorklaper.com/

✔️ Book a free weight loss audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/transform

✔️ Grab my free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

✔️ Join my free Facebook community to be part of these LIVE episodes: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

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🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

Do you recognise this pattern…

You’ve been going really well. Eating healthy, on plan, feeling good, you're feeling it in your body, your clothes are getting looser and the scale is finally moving.

And there’s that little voice in your head saying “OMG, I think this is actually happening!”

And then something happens. A stressful week. A hard conversation.

One of those days where everything is just a bit too much.

And suddenly you're eating your face off.

Then the guilt and shame spiral… And you're sitting there thinking “WTF just happened?”

If that sounds familiar - this podcast episode is for you.

Because what I see again and again with the women I work with is that falling off has nothing to do with willpower or discipline.

It’s time to stop blaming yourself, and start understanding why this happens, and what you really need to shift the pattern.

IN THIS EPISODE:

☑️ Why doing well when life is easy is not the skill that creates lasting change

☑️ What is actually happening inside your brain when you fall off

☑️ The exact internal monologue that plays out on those hard nights

☑️ The Monday problem - why fresh starts keep failing and what to do instead

☑️ What real change stirs up - and why nobody warns you about this part

☑️ Why this is exactly where having the right support changes everything

LINKS:

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/transform

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

Ever reached for food in moments when you feel uncomfortable?

You know you’re not hungry, but you just have a compulsion you just can’t seem to control…

If that’s you - this week’s episode is going to land.

Most women who struggle with their weight already know what to eat.

The problem is not the food - it is what is happening underneath.

This week Kerryn was interviewed by fellow plant based coach Bianca Jayne Stares - The Plant Based Queen - for her “Her Plant Powered Tour” - a series of thirty conversations with leading plant based health experts through September.

They talked about emotional eating.
Where it starts, why it happens, and what to actually do about it.

They get personal, talking about their own stories of childhood experiences, our emotions, and emotional suppression with food or alcohol.

IN THIS EPISODE:

✔️ What emotional eating actually is - and why it has nothing to do with willpower

✔️ Why physical hunger and emotional hunger are completely different things - and how to tell them apart

✔️ Why it often starts before we even have a memory of it

✔️ How unresolved emotions keep coming back louder until we deal with them

✔️ Kerryn’s method to break the emotional suppression habit for good

If you have ever thought there was something wrong with you that you just couldn’t break this pattern and lose weight… this episode will help you realise there’s nothing “wrong” with you - it’s a completely logical learned behaviour.

And if you taught yourself to behave one way, you can retrain yourself to behave a different way.

BIANCA’S LINK:

🌍 Her Plant Powered Tour: https://overhaulhw.co.uk/herplantpoweredtour

KERRYN’S LINKS:

📗 Free Stop Overeating Cycles Guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/overeating

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

Most women going through perimenopause or menopause are told the same thing → your hormones are changing. Here are your options.

But what if that conversation is leaving out the most important part?

In this episode Kerryn sits down with medical intuitive and her tutor Emma Turton to explore a very different view of menopause - one that goes beyond hormones, beyond HRT, and into what is actually driving the experience for most women.

In this episode:

☑️ What women really experience in perimenopause and menopause

☑️ What the conventional medical response to menopause gets wrong

☑️ Why the hormones-only explanation misses the bigger picture

☑️ What is actually driving menopause symptoms beyond the hormonal shifts

☑️ What women can do about it that most have never been told

EMMA’S LINKS:

👉 Menopause Unf*cked Course → https://medicalintuitionschool.com/perimenopause-unfcked/

👉 Follow Emma on Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/emmaturtonhealth

👉 Follow Emma on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/emmaturton.medicalintuition

KERRYN’S LINKS:

💻 13 Pounds Down course info: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/13lbdown

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

My friend & plant based health & weight loss coach, Bianca Jayne - The Plant Based Queen - has created an incredible event that you’d be mad to miss.

30 of the world’s leading voices in plant based nutrition, women’s health, psychology and holistic health.

One per day through September.

All completely free.

In this episode I sit down with Bianca to talk about how she built Her Plant Powered Tour, who is in it, and why you need to register before September 1st.

And yes, I’m on the list.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

✔️ Dr Neal Barnard - Genetics, Menopause & Weight Gain - 2nd September

✔️ Dr Scott Stoll - Regenerative Way To Healing Pain & Injuries - 3rd September

✔️ Anita Marriott - Survive & Thrive in a Non-Vegan World - 5th September

✔️ Vesanto Melina — Plant Powered Seniors - 7th September

✔️ Kate Galli - Backing Yourself as a Confident Vegan - 9th September

✔️ Angela Crawford - The Psychology of Going Plant Based - 11th September

✔️ Brenda Davis RD - Plant Powered Seniors - 12th September

✔️ Kerryn Sawyer - Get Off The Emotional Eating Roller Coaster - 14th September

✔️ Karina Inkster - Protein vs Diet Culture - 15th September

✔️ Dr Dawn Mussallem - Cancer, Nutrition & More - 16th September

✔️ Callum Weir — Toxic Diet Culture — 26th September

✔️ Alixandra Brown - ADHD & Menopause - 27th September

✔️ Plus many more through the full series

REGISTER FOR FREE:

👉🏻 https://overhaulhw.co.uk/herplantpoweredtour

OTHER LINKS:

💻 13 Pounds Down course info: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/13lbdown

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

Teneale had tried three weight loss programs before working with Kerryn.

One helped her lose 15 kilos in 12 weeks on a strict meal plan.

And then the weight came back - because she had learned how to follow rules, not how to actually live.

Six months later, working without meal plans, without perfection, and without giving up chocolate - she is 10.6 kilos down…

Plus sleeping better, digesting better, experiencing less peri-menopause symptoms and feeling more energised than she has in years.

This is her story.

IN THIS EPISODE:

✔️ Three programs, three rounds of lost-and-regained weight - and what was missing each time

✔️ How a vet nurse with a crazy busy schedule built a simple food system that actually works

✔️ Why being allowed to eat chocolate meant she ate far less of it

✔️ How she handled emotional eating during a genuinely hard season without falling apart

✔️ The perimenopause symptoms that have settled since changing her food

✔️ Her honest advice to anyone stuck in the same cycle

LINKS:

💻 13 Pounds Down course - launching Sept 2026: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/13lbdown

📗 Free plant based weight loss guide (includes the PLANT plate visual): https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

FOLLOW KERRYN:

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

Behind every single action you take there’s a belief.

What you believe will determine the action you do or don’t take.

The action you take determines the results you get.

Your results will always confirm what you believe to be true.

✔️beliefs about yourself

✔️about what’s possible for you

✔️about what you deserve

✔️about what might happen

✔️about what you’re capable of achieving

Sometimes you don’t need a better weight loss plan - you need better beliefs.

Beliefs that don’t stop you executing the plan.

Beliefs that don’t see you drift backwards to old habits.

You might be holding one.., you might be holding them all.

Listen to find out.

IN THIS EPISODE:

👉🏻 Why beliefs feel like facts - and why feeling true and being true are completely different things.

👉🏻 How confirmation bias means we search for and create evidence for what we already believe.

👉🏻 Belief 1: It’s going to be too hard

👉🏻 Belief 2: I’ve failed before so I’ll fail again

👉🏻 Belief 3: I’ll miss out on joy and comfort

👉🏻 Belief 4: I need to be perfect or it won’t work

👉🏻 Belief 5: My body is broken

👉🏻 Belief 6: If I change, people won’t like me or I’ll lose love

👉🏻 Belief 7: I have to figure this out alone

LINKS:

💻 13 Pounds Down course info: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/13lbdown

📗 Free plant based weight loss guide (includes the PLANT plate visual): https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

🍏 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/transform-with-plants/id1896809452

🟢 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033mLr6xnmATiU1Ot7wbtL

FOLLOW KERRYN ON SOCIALS:

👤Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer

📸Instagram https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach

Cathy tried fourteen diets over 66 years of her life. She knew how to lose weight - she had done it many times. But she could never keep it off.

At seventy seven years old, something finally shifted. Not because she found a stricter plan or a better set of rules (she was already plant based). Because she stopped following her brain and started listening to her body.

In this episode Kerryn talks with Cathy about the childhood patterns that started it all - an Italian mother who showed love through food and an English father who wanted her to lose weight - and the decades of restriction, rebellion and restarting that followed.

And about what actually changed. The moment Cathy discovered what true hunger felt like. What comfortably satisfied felt like. And how tuning inward - rather than tuning outwards (following external rules) - became the thing that made the difference.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• How childhood food messages created sixty six years of dieting patterns
• The restriction-rebellion cycle and why it always ends the same way
• Why knowing how to lose weight was never the problem
• What body-led eating actually feels like in practice
• How Cathy learned to trust her body’s signals - even around foods she thought she could never resist
• Why at seventy seven she knows this time the weight is gone for good

LINKS:

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

FOLLOW KERRYN:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer

Instagram: https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach

Do you find you eat well most of the time, and then suddenly you’ve eaten a block of chocolate and you’re thinking, how did that happen?

The answer is never about willpower or discipline.

It is about the nervous system doing its job.

Food is such an easy, fast way to feel good.

But it’s also exactly why you’re not seeing the weight loss results you want.

In this episode Kerryn breaks down exactly why this happens & how to stop doing it, so that weight loss becomes possible.

IN THIS EPISODE:

✔️ Why the nervous system uses food as a regulation tool

✔️ Polyvagal theory - the three states and what they mean for your eating

✔️ Why willpower cannot override a dysregulated nervous system

✔️ The gut-brain connection and whole food plant eating

✔️ Six practical steps for changing the pattern

LINKS:

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

The online wellness and nutrition & wellness space is full of conflicting information and a lot of misinformation - and it can feel impossible to know who to trust.

In this episode Kerryn Sawyer sits down with Callum Weir from Plant Fuelled Nutrition - a plant based nutritionist who has built a following by calling out misinformation with science - for an honest conversation about the nutrition nonsense and wellness waffle quietly getting in the way of real results.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Callum’s story - what brought him to plant based nutrition and why he started debunking misinformation
• The biggest nutrition myths in the plant based space right now
• Wellness trends with no scientific evidence behind them
• Supplements - what to consider, what to test & what to forget
• How to spot misinformation and know who to trust
• Callum’s 3 biggest takeaways

FOLLOW CALLUM:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plantfuellednutrition
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ErDXeJJwU/?mibextid=wwXIfr
• YouTube: https://youtube.com/@plant-fuelled?si=si9F7Ho_Uk9KDHB5
• Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/plant-fuelled-podcast/id1601491525

FREE RESOURCES:

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide:: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

FOLLOW KERRYN:

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🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

If you have been doing everything right with your plant based diet and still not getting the results you want - this episode is going to help you understand why.

Many people who are stuck with their health & weight loss goals are not stuck because they are not trying hard enough.

They are stuck because the thing that is actually standing between them and their goal has never been properly identified.

Sometimes we don’t understand how these habits can inhibit our results, and sometimes we are so close to our own habits that we just don’t realise we’re doing them.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why most people who are stuck are working on the wrong problem
• What the research shows about long term weight loss success - and why so many people rebound
• My client’s story
• How to get clarity for yourself to close that gap

LINKS:

📲 Book your free plant based weight loss audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

📗 Free plant based weight loss guide (includes the PLANT plate visual): https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

This episode is for anyone who’s been having a tough time - relationship stuff, life stuff, work stuff, anything - and has found themselves using food or anything else to cope with feelings they don’t know what to do with.

Not to shame that. To offer something different.

In this episode Kerryn Sawyer talks about what it actually looks like to allow the hard feelings - without food, without alcohol, without anything that leaves you further from the person you are trying to become.

In this episode:

• Why food becomes such a powerful escape when life gets hard - and why it never actually resolves anything
• What is happening in the brain when the reach for food kicks in during stress
• Why the circumstance is never the real source, the story your brain is producing is
• The skill of feeling instead of eating - and why it is the most powerful thing you can build
• Why waiting for life to calm down before focusing on your health is keeping you stuck
• What it looks like to stay on track - not perfectly, but consistently — even when everything else is hard

Links mentioned:

• 📗 Free plant based weight loss guide (includes the PLANT plate visual): https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide
• 📲 Book a free discovery call: https://calendly.com/kerryn-sawyer/discovery
• 👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Have you ever eaten when you weren’t genuinely hungry - and wondered why you could not stop yourself?

It is not a willpower problem. Your body has a sophisticated biological hunger system. Your brain has a completely separate reward-driven system.

And when the brain’s system is running the show - it generates urges that feel exactly like hunger but are not.

In this episode Kerryn decodes both systems, explains what drives brain hunger, and gives you four practical tools for telling the difference in the moment.

In this episode:

✔️ The biology of true hunger - ghrelin, leptin and the body’s natural signals

✔️ What brain hunger is and what triggers it

✔️ Why stress makes your brain mimic starvation

✔️ The Broccoli Test

✔️ The 20-minute craving arc and the PAUSE

✔️ The question underneath every emotional urge

✔️ How to start rebuilding trust with your body

Links mentioned:

📗 Free plant based weight loss guide (includes the PLANT plate visual): https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free discovery call: https://calendly.com/kerryn-sawyer/discovery

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

EPISODE DESCRIPTION

What if the key to losing weight on a plant based diet wasn’t eating less - but eating differently?

Calorie density is the most powerful and yet most under-taught concept in sustainable fat loss. And in this episode Kerryn explains it completely - the science, the scale, and the simple PLANT Powered Plate that makes it practical every single day.

Kerryn shares her personal story of discovering this concept through her own whole food plant based journey - and how it finally explained why the weight had shifted so easily without counting, tracking or restricting.

In this episode:

• What calorie density is and why it is the most sustainable fat loss model
• The calorie density scale from vegetables to oil - and where everything else sits
• What cooking and processing does to food’s calorie density
• Why smoothies are fine and juices are not - the fibre distinction
• The PLANT Powered Plate walked through letter by letter
• Why this beats calorie counting for long term consistency and results

Links mentioned:

• 📗 Free plant based weight loss guide (includes the PLANT plate visual): https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide
• 📲 Book a free discovery call: https://calendly.com/kerryn-sawyer/discovery
• 👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

Follow Kerryn elsewhere:
👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐http://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/

EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Have you ever cut your calories hard, lost weight, eased up even slightly - and watched it all come back?

You probably blamed yourself. Most women do.

But that pattern is not a willpower failure.

It is a physiological survival response that your body has been refining for hundreds of thousands of years. And once you understand it, everything changes.

In this episode Kerryn explains exactly what happens inside the body when you restrict too severely - the adaptive mechanisms, the hormonal shifts, the famine response - and what to do instead to create weight loss that actually lasts.

In this episode:

• Why the restrict-rebound cycle is a survival mechanism, not a personal failing
• The savings account metaphor that makes it all click
• The science: adaptive thermogenesis, leptin, ghrelin, and set point theory — explained simply
• 3 client examples of restriction, struggle, then success with a different strategy
• The calorie density approach: working with your body, not against it
• Key takeaways and practical next steps

Support:

• 📲 Book a free discovery call: https://calendly.com/kerryn-sawyer/discovery
• 👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share
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In this episode I sit down with my client Venetia for one of the most honest, raw and powerful conversations I've had on camera.

A lifetime of yoyo dieting never got to the root cause of why she put on the weight.

But once that became obvious, the real work began, and now she’s 20lb lighter.

Venetia had been vegan for years.

She thought she was eating healthy because it was plant based.

She cared deeply about her health. But the weight wasn’t shifting.

She didn’t feel like a great advertisement for vegan living!

What she didn’t realise… She might’ve been “vegan”, but she wasn’t eating for fat loss.

Plus she didn’t even realise she was using food and wine regularly to comfort herself at the end of the day.

Adopting a PLANT Powered Plate was only the first step.

The real work was shifting the patterns underneath that led to inconsistency and emotional eating.

Now a lifetime of emotional eating has dissolved!

WHILE going through an extremely stressful personal challenge.

Life didn’t get “easier” - she got stronger from within.

THAT’s what built consistency, and what’s led to steadier and more consistent fat loss every week.

Her energy is returning. Her clothes are getting looser.

And she’s regained her self confidence and inner power.

This is not a polished before-and-after.

It's a real woman, mid-journey, telling her truth.

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WHAT WE COVER:

→ Why being vegan for years didn't solve the weight problem

→ The childhood roots of emotional eating and fear of hunger

→ How a stressful home environment was driving her eating - without her realising

→ What shifted when she started working on the internal piece alongside the food

→ The Plant Powered Plate and 1lb of vegetables a day - what that actually looks like

→ Identity work - moving from feeling lost to being powerful woman with standards

→ How she lost 20lbs while going through a stressful break up

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You've tried losing weight using willpower. You've tried motivation.

And every time life gets hard, both disappear - and you're back where you started wondering what's wrong with you.

Nothing is wrong with you. You've just been using the wrong tools.

In this episode we go deep into the neuroscience of why willpower and motivation are fundamentally unreliable foundations for lasting change - and what actually works instead.

IN THIS EPISODE

• What willpower actually is neurologically - and why it always runs out
• The Radish and Cookie experiment that changed how scientists understand self-control
• Why motivation is dopamine - real, powerful, and completely hijackable by stress
• The tussle happening in your brain between present pleasure and future reward
• How habits actually form in the basal ganglia - and why willpower can't create them
• The habit loop: cue, craving, routine, reward - and the golden rule of habit change
• The wine rack story - and why your environment is running your behaviour right now
• Decision fatigue and the Israeli judges study that explains why 7pm is the worst time to make food choices
• The PLANT Habit Builder - a five-step system that works with your brain, not against it
• Why identity is the foundation that makes everything else permanent
• V's story - the client who stopped stress eating not through effort but through identity shift

TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 — Opening
• 3:00 — The willpower myth - what it actually is and why it depletes
• 8:00 — The motivation myth and the dopamine tussle
• 18:00 — The neuroscience of habits - meet your basal ganglia
• 28:00 — Environment over willpower - design your life for the woman you want to be
• 38:00 — The PLANT Habit Builder
• 45:00 — Identity — the foundation that makes habits permanent
• 52:00 — Q&A
• 57:00 — Close and discovery call invitation

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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Welcome to Episode One of Transform With Plants - and the question I get asked more than any other:

Why am I not doing what I know I should do?

You know what to eat. You have probably known for a while. So why does the gap between knowing and doing feel so impossible to close?

In this episode Kerryn teaches the CTEAR model - the exact framework she uses with her coaching clients to explain why your brain works against you, why willpower always loses, and what is actually driving every choice you make around food and your health.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Why the gap between knowing and doing is never about willpower
• The CTEAR model: Circumstance, Thought, Emotion, Action, Result
• The motivational triad - how your brain is wired to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and conserve energy
• Why two women can approach their goals with different mindsets and have completely different experiences and results
• A client story that might sound uncomfortably familiar
• What Kerryn will be covering in future episodes of the podcast

LINKS MENTIONED

• Book a free discovery call: https://calendly.com/kerryn-sawyer/discovery
• Join the free Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share
• Get the free plant-based weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide