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Let’s be honest:

Quitting your diet feels amazing.

Like taking off a too-tight bra and breathing for the first time all day.

I’ve done it more times than I can count—not because I was lazy, but because I was exhausted.

Not from effort… from all the sneaky, invisible ways dieting wears us out.

We don’t quit because we’re weak.

We quit because what we’re doing is unsustainable.

In this episode, I break down:

• Why quitting gives you that wave of relief—and what it’s really trying to tell you
• The hidden ways diets drain your energy without you noticing
• How to give yourself a break without blowing up your progress

You don’t need to “toughen up.”

You need someone to help you stop doing this shit the hard way.

Click play now and learn how to keep going—without feeling like you’re constantly running on fumes.

Alright, everybody. Welcome back. So today, we're gonna talk about why quitting your diet feels fucking amazing sometimes.

Now seriously, I know nobody likes to say it out loud, but I will because it's true. There is something about finally giving up on a diet that in the moment, it just feels like the biggest relief ever.

When you have been trying so hard to lose weight, you have been pushing, working hard, giving up so much shit that you're starting to get angry, wore out, and tired, and when all of that just feels like it gets to be too much for you, guess what feels great? It feels really good to finally say, that is it. I'm done. I just need a break from this diet bullshit.

And I know I quit so many diets, And for a little bit, when you quit, good god, does it feel really good.

I mean, it feels like the world's weight has been lifted off your shoulder. It feels like, thank god I don't have to keep trying so hard. I can finally do what I wanna do.

It feels like you just gave yourself permission to just live your life without a bunch of rules, expectations, and let downs. Now I am not gonna judge you for it.

Yes. I run a weight loss program that has helped tens of thousands of women. But I will tell you, you should not feel bad because quitting feels good.

I used to quit diets all the time, and not just diets. I would quit on myself on believing that I could change.

I would quit thinking that weight loss was even possible for me. Like, I would do the quitting like a queen. And especially if the scale wasn't moving or I messed up a few days in a row, boy, quitting felt amazing in those moments. And you know that feeling When you keep trying so hard and nothing seems to be working, you just wanna say, fuck this. If I ain't gonna lose weight, then I might as well do and eat whatever the fuck I want.

So when I was losing my hundred pounds, right before I hit two hundred, y'all know what that means.

When you wanna be under two hundred, it's like you are a dog with a bone. You want it so bad and you are not gonna keep obsessing and chewing and gnawing because you want it so bad.

So when I was I started at over two fifty. I always say, I don't really know what I weighed in the beginning. I was too scared to weigh. And once I'd hit two fifty, I didn't wanna weigh anymore because I didn't wanna see the number.

I really wish I knew what I started with. Know? Like, now I really wish that I'd been brave enough to just get the number, cry for a minute so that I, for the rest of my life, would know this is where you came from. So the way I always say it is I was somewhere north of two fifty, and I had lost enough weight, and I was just teetering on that two hundred.

And you know that you want to see that sweet ass two to drop to a sweet ass one.

It feels like you conquered the world when you hit Wonderland. So for a couple of weeks, I'm weighing in, scale's not moving, and I was okay. I like, I was rocking and rolling, a two week blip. I mean, I'm not gonna say I got on the scale and when it didn't move, was like, yay.

I wasn't thrilled and excited, like, you know, wind would blow up my skirt, but I wasn't in the duder either. I was just like, alright. Like, I was like, alright. This is where we gotta, like, double down.

This is where we get serious. Not every week we're supposed to lose weight. That's okay. So that's a good cheerleader.

Then a couple more weeks goes by and nothing happens.

And I was like, well, alright. I gotta stay focused. I I need to just, like, not get off my game. But I will tell you, my disappointment had went from about a two to a five.

And I was bouncing around that awful one to two pounds also, which means, like, it wasn't just flatlining. It's like there was one week where it went up, and I had to really listen to my brain freak out. And I was like, nope. Nope. Nope. I'm not gonna freak out.

My brain is saying, what's wrong with you? And I'd be like, nothing's wrong. We're gonna just keep going. And I got more, I would say, adamant and focused. I had to really make myself not be an asshole to myself.

Then weeks five and six, nothing. It just held steady. In fact, was still up that one pound.

And then my brain went ape shit.

It was like, oh my god. You're working so hard.

Nothing's working. You're never gonna get below two hundred. I mean, it just was yelling and screaming, and it was pissed. I was pissed. And it was in this moment when I remember literally and I think I even muttered the words out loud to myself standing in the bathroom saying, fuck this. If I'm not gonna lose weight, I'm just gonna eat whatever I want.

And it was in that moment that I was at a crossroads.

It wasn't until that sentence came out my mouth that I realized, Corinne, you have been working so hard, and you are not giving yourself credit for the hard work you're doing.

I remember just thinking like nothing's working. I'm like, so many things are working. Scale's not working, but my god, you're working harder in the gym than you've ever worked. You're eating more fruits and vegetables than you've ever ate in your life.

Like, I just was like, you've got to recognize there are other things we have to acknowledge in this moment or you are going to Shittsville.

It was in that moment where I was just like, you cannot go back to how you were.

Old Corinne ate when she was disappointed. Old Corinne ate food when the scale didn't cooperate, And that is why she weighed over two hundred and fifty pounds. So if you wanna be new Corinne, there's only one other option. New Corinne has to realize eating your face off because you're mad, disappointed, frustrated, and giving up hope is not the answer.

And I just remember thinking logically for a hot second. I mean, I'm not saying all this happened in, like, ten seconds on the scale. I fumed for probably one hour. This was me managing every sentence that came in my brain all day long and for a couple of days about I kept saying, it makes no sense.

You eating will not get that scale to move. And if the thing you want the most is for the scale to move, you cannot eat in reaction of it. End of story, period.

I think that was one of the first times when I allowed myself to just realize you can be pissed. You can be angry.

You can be disappointed.

You can be so scared that you're not gonna lose any more weight, and you can keep going at the same time because eating won't fix that.

It just won't. It was such an important thing for me to realize.

And then guess what?

I took some time to really look at everything that I was doing in the week.

I found a couple places that I could make a couple of new healthier changes.

I found a couple places where I wasn't drinking enough water.

I realized that I wasn't getting enough sleep.

I was telling myself that five hours a night of sleep is plenty, and I decided to go for six.

And I started putting my bed myself to bed thirty minutes earlier. And instead of waking up at four in the morning to work out, I woke up at four thirty and was like, you've just gotta work out faster before your son wakes up.

But we've got to try to sleep.

And I just looked at some of the behaviors and was just like, let's fix what let's do things that we know could fix the scale.

So I examined my behaviors. What I didn't do is let's do things that will alter the scale in the wrong direction, like quitting and eating. Because it was in that moment when I started thinking about, alright. This makes no sense.

The only thing that's happening is the scale's not moving, but you're doing a lot of right things. Let's figure out what you can fix. Guess what? I got relief from that.

Now I didn't need to quit to get relief from all of my disappointment. I got relief from trying to solve a problem for myself.

You can get relief in any way you want.

Quitting is one of them.

But to me, it is the option that when you quit, you have now given up every opportunity for what you most want to ever work.

So the moment I wanted to quit, it just taught me so many lessons.

And the one I want you to hear is that when you want to quit, it is a sign to reflect on what's really going on either in your mind, in your habits, or just in your life.

Every time I quit a diet in my whole life, it was never because my diet was too hard.

It was because Corinne was just being too hard on herself.

Now some diets I did do, they were completely asinine, and they were hard as fuck. I am not gonna lie about that. But the real problem I had to fix to lose my weight was I was always so hard on me throughout the process, whether the scale went down or up, what I was eating, the behaviors I did, everything was so hard on me. And the way I talked to myself the entire time was awful. I was always trying to motivate myself through fear, motivate myself by commanding myself, demanding things, telling myself, you need to do this or it's not good enough. I was such a asshole that I realized the quit that I needed the most was to quit those behaviors, to quit talking to myself like that. Because if I didn't, then I needed to get relief from me.

And quitting my diet was a surefire way to shut down the part of me that was being such an asshole to me.

So the real problem, again, was that I had to that I had to fix in order to lose weight, was being hard on myself.

So much so that no diet from the asinine to the doable shit I teach today was ever gonna work until I figured out how to quit being hard on me.

So back when I dieted, I would mess up and I would go straight to beating myself up every single time. I would say horrible things to myself, and the only way I knew how to stop the beatdown was to quit the diet because quitting for a moment gave me that break from me and all of my asshole self talk. It let me off the hook emotionally. It gave me a few days of just eating without caring at all.

Like, I would finally feel free for a little bit. I would finally feel like I can just breathe.

But it wasn't real peace.

But for a few days, it at least felt peaceful. It felt better than what I was doing.

But, unfortunately, like quitting, a diet usually does, it doesn't solve anything long term.

I would quit my diet.

I would go right back to all my emotional eating, gain some weight over days, weeks, or months, and then I would be miserable again. Asshole self talk was right back.

But I wasn't talking to myself about an asshole for messing up my diet. Now I was talking about my asshole myself to an asshole for being out of control, for being too fat, for I would constantly be hating myself.

I would be constantly worrying what everybody must be thinking of me. But the worst part was I also had guilt stacked on top of that huge regain. And I would wonder constantly, why can I not get my shit together?

So when quitting so with quitting, when I looked at it, it wasn't giving me all the relief that I thought it actually was. I noticed a pattern. I was bouncing between the pain of my life, being overweight, hating how I looked, feeling like a loser, worrying that my husband was gonna leave me, thinking that was being a bad mom, displaying terrible eating habits to my child, and then I would bounce over to the pain of losing weight and dieting and being like, oh my god. You have to do this.

You have to do this. And if I ate something that was off plan, oh my god. That means you're lazy. You're undisciplined.

You must not want it bad enough.

Quitting was actually putting me square between two bad situations of my own choosing.

So when life felt too hard, busy, or too much, I would always quit trying to lose weight.

When my life felt like it was too much, I quit eating my face off and started a new diet.

It's like, I would be like, alright. My life is hard, so I need to quit the diet. It's like, oh god. My weight is hard.

I need to go diet. It was back and forth like that for, like, thirty years. And I finally realized I was never quitting because I didn't care about losing weight. I wasn't quitting because I couldn't lose weight.

I was quitting because I needed relief from me.

And that's what I see in my clients all the time. I was working with one of my nobious women this week, and she told me she was ready to give up. She was just like, post it in the Facebook group. I'm just ready to give up. And she tagged me, And she said that she had so much resentment building up in her that the weight wasn't coming off easily and that no matter how hard she tried, nothing was working.

So I was like, alright. Let's dig in. Let's figure this out because I wanna help you decide.

Is this actually a problem where the weight won't come off? Maybe you need to go see a doctor, or what's really going on here?

Because all I want for my women is for them to be able to lose the weight that they really want. So we dug in. She was doing a lot of bullshit eating each week every time she was pissed.

When the scale didn't budge, she was eating pretzel bites. She told me, she's like, well, last week when the scale didn't go down, you know, I had a big ass plate of pretzel bites, but I was good for the next three days. I was like, oh, well, rather than focusing on you being good, how about we figure out why do you feel like you need to eat pretzel bites when the scale doesn't go down?

And it was because she was beating herself up so bad, she needed to shut the voice off.

She need like, she was just like, it never occurred to me until we dug in that she could change how she's there for herself anytime she's not perfect.

And she was just like, my mind is blown. She's like, I just didn't realize how hard I'm being on myself. I just thought the the program is a problem. I just thought, like, life is the problem. I didn't even think I could be the problem.

And not me being the problem because I'm lazy, undisciplined, or somehow too stupid to lose weight.

Me being the problem because anytime I'm scared, anytime something's not going the way I think it should, I'm freaking out internally, and I'm making it mean terrible things about me.

So we just kept poking around, and she realized she was the her biggest problem. She was resentful at herself.

She wasn't resentful. The scale wasn't going down. She was really resentful that she couldn't figure it out, and I was like, we can figure this out.

The first thing we can do is that that every time the scale doesn't go down, we don't eat over it.

You come talk to me first.

You go to our coaches first. You reach out to our community first. You let us know how you're feeling. You talk about it instead of eat about it.

And then we just started looking at all the other places where she was doing some emotional eating. And she just she told me, she was like, this is the best money I spend.

She was like, Corinne, I don't give myself credit for anything. I kept showing her all the things that she was doing right. She's like, well, I didn't even give myself credit for that stuff. I was so focused on what I'm doing wrong.

And I said, well, let's give yourself credit for what you're already doing, and let's look at the things that you're doing wrong and not make you wrong about it. Let's just figure out why it keeps happening because there's always a solution. There's always a good reason. And if you really know and you have somebody helping you find the good reasons, you feel relief that quitting gives you.

There's nothing more powerful than to have somebody show you.

Something you keep beating yourself up over and you think it's because something's wrong with you and somebody says, no. It's not actually that. It's actually logical. Let me show you why it keeps happening. All of a sudden, you feel enormous relief.

I'm not broken. There's a good explanation. Oh, now that I have a good explanation, I can see what I need to try, what I need to do differently in those moments. Y'all, that is the best relief we ever get.

The best relief we ever ever get is when we realize nothing's wrong with me.

I don't have to beat myself up.

There's usually usually with every emotional eat, there's a very logical reason why we do it.

So this is what I want you to hear. Quitting feels good, but it's not what you actually want. What you want is peace. You want rest.

You want someone, even if it's just you, to say, you know, you might be doing a little bit better than you think.

It's not as bad as you are afraid of.

You don't need to quit.

Usually, anytime you want to quit your diet, it is literally code for you need to care for yourself a little bit better.

Because quitting almost always comes on the back end of a lot of bullshit thinking about ourselves. And if you've never been taught how to do that, that is not your fault.

Most of us were raised to put everyone else first, to earn love through work, to prove our worth by not needing anything.

And when we do need something, we feel selfish, we feel guilty, we eat instead of asking, we quit instead of resting. So let me offer you this.

What if you just had a day where the only thing you have to fix instead of quitting was how you treated yourself?

I want you to think about that.

You spend a day instead of quitting on your diet. Every time you want to quit, you know this is a day that I probably need to treat myself better than I'm used to, better than I normally do.

And it starts first with recognizing that you don't really to you don't really want to quit trying to lose weight.

What you actually want is, I just wanna feel better.

I just really want to not beat myself up over this.

I want to quit self sabotaging that makes my weight loss feel harder than it is. What I really wanna quit is my emotional eating. I'm not really wanting to quit losing weight.

I wanna quit the parts of it where I doubt myself, where I have too harsh expectations, where I make myself right or wrong and no in between. That's what I really wanna be quitting. Because on the other side of quitting all that is that relief that I'm wanting.

So the next time you wanna quit, I want you to I want I want it to be your quitter day, which means I'm gonna quit the right things.

I'm not gonna quit the diet. So here's what I want you to do.

I want you to say, I am today, I am going to reset my mind and body because what I wanna quit is being hard on myself.

And that's what today is all about.

And then here's how I would do it if I was you. First thing in the morning, I would get up and I would first drink a glass of water. I know that sounds crazy, but I want you to hydrate your body with eight or more ounces of water. But I want you to do it first thing because it's gonna wake your brain up and it's gonna signal to your body, hey.

We're going to take care of ourselves today. So we're going to drink water first. If you have to go potty first, that's okay. I keep water next to my bed.

And literally, the first thing I do when I hit the floor in the morning is I grab my bottle of water and I am drinking it on the way to make my potty.

Then on this is your, you know, I'm gonna, like, treat myself better day.

I'm using wanting to quit my diet as a signal it's time to treat myself better today.

We are going to move your body for one to fifteen minutes.

So we're gonna drink water, pee if you need to, then for one to fifteen minutes I want you to either stretch, go for a little short walk.

I just don't want you checking your phone or doing chores like you do every single day. We wanna break the pattern of you just jumping into life, and we wanna signal to our body, today is the day that I'm intentionally going to take a little bit better care of me than I normally do.

And then I want you to take a very big deep breath after you've done a little bit of movement. Literally, you just want to, like, stretch standing up or sitting in a chair folded over for one minute, that counts. It's just a signal to your body. So take a deep breath when you finish, and I want you to ask yourself, what do I need most today?

I want you to think about it, and then I want you to write it down.

But ask the question, and then for the love of God, after you've come up with something, I want you to start your day with some breakfast.

Too many of you are not eating breakfast first thing in the morning because you don't think you need to, but on the day that we're gonna take better care of ourselves, I want you to go ahead and nourish your body first thing. I know that you might not be hungry.

I don't care if it's a piece of toast, piece of fruit.

I don't care if it's a muffin cup. I eat the Kodiak muffin cups, eggs, whatever it is. Forever, I wasn't hungry first thing in the morning, and I realized after a while I was having energy dips, I started this day of rest, like treating myself a little bit better than usual. I started eating breakfast again. Now I wake up and I'm hungry.

I had just turned off the signal, and I noticed that I needed more energy through the day and breakfast has been helping me. So don't be afraid to just eat you a little breakfast. Now we're gonna go to lunch. So that's all you gotta do to start the day off that helps you see how you're gonna take a little bit better care of yourself for the day.

Then we're gonna do lunch. We're gonna do something different than your usual routine.

I want you to go outside for a minute.

You could watch a show you love or listen to a podcast for ten minutes, thirty minutes, whatever.

You could read under a blanket.

My brother, when he worked for, a big health care company, every day, especially in the winter, he would go out to the garage. He'd turn his car on.

He'd lock the doors, and he would recline his seat back, and during his lunch, he would take a ten minute nap. He even had a blanket in his car that he would put over him.

Those who want will do.

If you're if you work from home like I do, take a quick bath, and then I want you to eat your lunch. Except on this day when we're treating ourselves a little bit better, I want you to eat your lunch, and I want you to do it slower than you usually do, and I want you to savor it.

I want it to be an experience.

You can eat what you want, but for today, while you're doing it, your job is to pay good attention, to really enjoy it, and to be connected to food and yourself.

This does not take a long time to do.

Most of you can figure out if you have a fifteen minute lunch, you can eat for ten, you can deep breathe for two minutes, or listen to a like, listen to your favorite uplifting song with earbuds and be right back at work if you need to be.

Do not sit there and make excuses that your life is set up so much so that you can't treat yourself a little bit better than you normally do.

Everyone who has the privilege of listening to this podcast does not have a life where they can't figure out a way to treat themselves a little bit better than they normally do.

Welcome to the modern age. Most of us have forgotten to even try. Most of us will sit and feel guilty for doing it or make up reasons why we can't, and it's almost always baseless.

Baseless.

I have emergency room physicians who do stuff like this, who are on call for twenty four hours. And in any of the small breaks that they get, they say, the first minute that I have a break, I immediately go to the bathroom. I sit on a toilet, and I do deep breathing, and I listen to a song because I might not get to do anything else, but I am gonna collect myself during that time.

So don't listen to your excuses. Remind yourself. You're just trying this out, and if it feels awkward, if excuses come up, if guilt shows up, the only thing that's happening right now is I'm doing something different than I normally do, and that is why my brain's freaking out. And I always like to ask myself because I even have a hard time doing stuff like this. I literally scan the room and be like, is anybody getting harmed right now?

And the answer is always no. If no one is in moral danger and getting harmed, I'm not doing something wrong. I'm just doing something different.

Now both the breakfast and the lunch thing, we're talking, what, fifteen minutes max at breakfast. If you do the whole fifteen minute walk, we're talking twenty. If all you have time for is slug water, take a piss, deep breathe for a minute, ask a question, and eat breakfast, now we're up to fifteen minutes.

Same thing with lunch.

If you only got a ten minute lunch, eat and listen to a song while you do, but eat slowly.

And then deep breathe for one minute, that's your difference. The key is your body needs to sense that you are making a concerted fucking effort to treat it better today so that your body can say, maybe I don't need to quit a diet to feel better.

Maybe I need to treat myself different to feel better.

Then what we're gonna do at night is we're just gonna pick one or two things to do, again, that signals you give a shit, that you are just trying to treat yourself a little better. Put on some calming music in the background while you cook.

Read a small smut novel. Like like me and my coaches, we love smut. So many of us are reading smut all the damn time.

Tickles our fancy.

It is a good way to wind down. We do a lot of that.

Go to sleep early.

Scroll funny videos guilt free. That's one of mine. I scroll Instagram. I love following comedians, all kinds of bullshit, and I just let sit there and laugh.

And then you end the night with reminding yourself, today, I took care of me.

That is the most important. You end the evening telling yourself, today I took care of me. You want to remind your body.

And then when you're eating dinner again, what I would love for you to do is treat it like the other meals.

Eat it a little slower than you normally do.

Your goal is to truly enjoy it, not to scarf it down, not to feel guilty while you're eating, not to multitask and stuff.

This is a day where we are trying on doing things a little bit differently in an effort to enjoy our life in the micro moments. We need to show ourselves that quitting a diet isn't necessary.

Quitting the hard parts of our life is what's really needed.

If all you want to feel is relief, I promise all of you there are so many ways to get it, and quitting on your dreams is one of the ways to do it, but it's also the worst way to do it.

So this is the shit that I teach in No BS all the time.

Like, this is what all diets should be teaching.

Nobody's talking about this stuff. Diets are all about you can do hard things. You need to suck it up. You know? I'm like, no shit we can do hard things.

I do hard shit all the time. You do shit that's hard all the time. You know what? Losing weight should be a way that we're caring for ourselves.

Losing weight should be filled with shit like this that makes our life easier, not fucking harder.

We don't need one more area of our life to do hard things. We're experts at it. I get so sick and tired of seeing people say that.

Women will say that to women. I'm like, really? Women need to do more hard things? I think we're eating because we're doing too many hard things.

Why don't we work on that part of the equation? Because we fix all that, guess what? We're gonna be normal fucking eaters. We don't eat normally right now because we're doing too many fucking hard things and we're hard on ourselves.

So important that when you are losing weight that you're working with the right people on the right things.

And that is what we do in No BS. So remember this, you do not want to quit losing weight.

You want peace, you want relief, you want rest, you want to feel in control of your life. That's what you really want. So we need to figure out what we need to quit in our life that's preventing us from that. And your diet shouldn't be that. Not the way I teach it.

Alright. Y'all have a great week.

Do your day of treating yourself better, your day of I'm not quitting.

And if you are on social, let me know how it goes. I would love to know how it goes. Y'all have a good one.