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This week’s episode is a little different—it’s the replay of my most recent live Q&A.

I kicked things off by tackling one of the biggest weightloss struggles I’m seeing women face right now. Then I opened it up to rapid fire Q&A. Woman after woman asked me the questions that were keeping them stuck—and I gave them the straight answers nobody else will.

I got honest. I got emotional. And yes, I went off about some of the diet lies we’ve all been fed for way too long.

If you’ve ever felt like you can’t lose weight, this replay might be the exact thing you need to hear today—the little nugget of wisdom that takes you from “I can’t lose weight” to “Maybe I can.”

For those of you who are popping in on a Sunday

afternoon so that we can have some quality time together, I'm Corinne Crabtree, host of the losing one hundred pounds podcast with over sixty five million downloads y'all, which is crazy talk to me. I also run no BS weight loss amongst other things. And today, I just kinda wanna do a q and a for anybody that might have any questions about weight loss, anything you would love to talk about. You can just put those over in the q and a. I'm also gonna take a peek at the chat. If you wanna say hello to people, you can do that.

So I've what I like to do is I always like to start with a little something that I think will help you with your weight loss. And I was thinking about it this morning as I was drinking my coffee and trying to figure out, like, what would be really helpful? And so guess what's coming up?

Halloween.

And what is one of the biggest disruptors that we have?

Halloween candy. Now we're gonna talk about candy in terms of Halloween, but I would love for you to think about this. This works with a lot of different things. It works for all the different holidays.

It's gonna work with a lot of different areas of your life. So be thinking about how can I take what Corrine's fixing to tell us and put that into my life? So let us let's just start with Halloween candy. And a lot of the things that I hear from people is, well, I can't control myself around it. It's too tempting.

There's, like, a million and one thoughts. So if you have any thoughts about Halloween candy, if you wanna put them in the chat right now, that would be perfect so that I can make sure that I'm addressing everything.

So I was thinking about if you don't want to be tempted by Halloween candy, what is something that you could do that would really help you?

Because I know for a lot of you, it's hard to lose weight when you feel like your temptations are just laying around you. So I was thinking about, alright. If I don't wanna be tempted, what could I do? And I came up with three things that you could try. The first one is I did this for years. If y'all don't know, my son is actually born on Halloween. He's a Halloween baby.

I remember the doctor telling me, don't get your hopes up. Just because your baby's due on Halloween does not mean that you're gonna have a Halloween baby. I was like, oh, no. She don't know me. I bet you I had this baby on Halloween.

Lo and behold, my little goblin, he arrives at twelve thirty on Halloween. So as you can imagine, when you have a Halloween baby, then that holiday becomes kind of a big deal because it's his birthday.

And so once I lost my weight, I was, like, two hundred and fifty pounds when I had Logan, and didn't lose the weight like they told me I would. You know, I was basically nursing like a Jersey cow, and that weight was not coming off at all.

And so I just didn't buy candy until absolutely the last minute.

I watched so many of my clients buy candy in the beginning of October for Halloween, which is for the kiddos.

It's not for the adults. It is for the kiddos.

And yet, we will buy it weeks earlier.

Just it's like saying, I would love to spend a few weeks trying to use willpower.

I would love to spend a few weeks being tempted every time I turn around. I wanna spend time around the very food that makes it really hard for me to lose weight on.

I don't think y'all wanna do that.

So option number one, and you can write this down, is I will not buy the Halloween candy until the day of. So on your way home from work, or on your way to or on your lunch break, that's when you buy the candy. And you bring it home, you put it in the big ass bowl, and your job is to hand that shit out generously.

I live in a neighborhood full of kids, and last year, I swear we didn't get that many trick or treaters. I just I'm like, I don't know. Maybe Halloween's dying on a vine, and I don't know it. And so but I don't buy until the day of.

And I'm also very lazy.

I just put the candy outside, and I'm just, like, trusting that the kids are gonna take the candy.

Now here's the second thing that you can do.

You can always buy shit you don't like. Nobody says we have to buy the candy that is the best that I love.

When I buy candy, I usually buy things that I don't like eating.

Like, I don't like anything with coconut in it, and I don't like anything with mint in it. I don't like Nerds. I don't like those kinds of things. Here's what I don't buy in Halloween candyland. I don't buy Milk Nuts. I don't buy Carmelo.

I don't buy Snickers. I don't buy Butterfinger. I don't buy Reese's.

Those are the candies that Corinne can get down on.

And if I want to have that candy, then I'm going to go to the store and I'm going to buy me one and I'm going to come home and I'm going to really enjoy it. What I'm not going to do is eat the stuff I love when I'm tired, stressed, needing comfort, bored, angry at my husband, pissed off at the world, tired because my boss gives me four hundred things to do.

I am done with that.

Done.

And I think a lot of women wanna be done with that. You know what we wanna do? We wanna be able to eat the foods we love and lose weight. But we can't eat the foods we love if the if we train ourselves. Here's when we eat these foods. We eat them when we're pissed, we eat them when we're angry, we eat them when we're tired, we eat them when we're, feeling like we're not good enough, we eat them when we feel guilty because we need a break but we won't give ourselves one, we eat them when we're trying to push through the day, I'm eating them because I'm bored. I'm eating them because I don't have any other pleasure in my life.

I'm eating it for a million reasons other than I actually like these foods.

Now, most of us when we're emotionally eating, guess what we're doing? We're not picking foods that we don't love.

We are picking the foods that we love to eat.

My contention in all of weight loss is no fucking body will have a hard time losing weight if you eat the foods you love when you're actually hungry.

And you stop it enough because you're not trying to solve some kind of bullshit emotional problem.

If you were only eating the things you love when you truly wanted them, and it was gonna be a great experience, and you were gonna really enjoy it, you would not have a weight problem.

It's all that other shit that gets in the way.

So we are going to not buy candy until the day of. The second thing that we can do is we can always just put shit around us that we won't be tempted by. So you buy stuff that you won't eat, that you don't like.

Now here's the third one.

Let's say you do want to buy delicious candies.

That you are known as the woman of the neighborhood who has delicious candies and you wanna be seen as that woman, then here's your other option.

When you buy it and this was there was a Google experiment done not too long ago. They did it at their corporate offices. And what they did was is they took M and M's, popcorn, candy, Cokes, sodas, all kinds of chips, things like that. And they put them in the break rooms, and they made them easily accessible. So if it was M and M's, they were stored in clear jars. If it was this a machine a soda machine, it had all the sodas and just water on the bottom. Chips were in a basket on the counter.

They tracked through cameras how often people were snacking and how much, and so they got a baseline.

Then for another month, they changed everything.

If they had M and Ms, they were no longer in a clear jar. They were just in a same place, but in a jar you couldn't see through it. So you had to like look in to see what was there. In the soda machine, they took all the sodas out except for the bottom row, and they put water all the way through it. They subbed out the chips. They put them in cabinets.

But on the counters, they had fruit.

So all the places where the food had been easily accessible, where you could see it easily, they made it to where you couldn't see it easily, where you kinda had to look for it. And they made the good choices very obvious.

They saw a seventy five percent reduction in snacking.

People were not going for sodas anymore. Most people were grabbing water because it was the first thing that they were seeing.

They weren't eating near as many M and M's because every time they would go to the break room, they couldn't just see them. They were more likely to grab a piece of fruit.

Some people did look for chips and stuff, but they tracked those individuals, and they were eating significantly fewer of them. And it was for this one scientific psychology hack.

What you see and what is at your eye line is what you're naturally gonna gravitate towards.

Because our brains, that's the way they work. What you can't see doesn't trigger certain thoughts to eat it. It doesn't make you think like, maybe I am hungry. Maybe I do have a craving. Maybe I do want that.

So the third option is if you wanna bring in the good stuff, then you don't keep it in a big wide ass open bowl sitting in your living room, sitting right next to your front door where you can easily walk by and grab it.

This also works, like, let's say you like, during the holidays, you work in a teacher's lounge or you work in a nurses, like, you're a nurse or you're a doctor or whatever. You've got break rooms where food is bountiful. I had a client tell me the other day.

She said she was back at school, and she was like, you just will not believe the teacher's lounge. And she said, it is going to be a literal, candy bomb went off the closer we get to the holidays. And so she started practicing ahead of time. We talked about it. And she said, I took your advice. Because all I asked her was one simple thing.

How often do you have to go in there?

And she says, what do you mean? I said, like, alright. How often do you actually have to walk into the lounge, and how often do you have to walk by it? Like, when do you have to?

And she said, well, honestly, I only have to go check my mailbox. Like, every other like, the rest of the day, I wouldn't even have to go in there. I could just go different routes and do different things. And I said, why don't we just try for right now for a week?

You take an alternate route and you only go to check your mail.

And you do it after you've told yourself, I'm gonna go in there and I'm gonna see food.

Not today, Satan.

Because it's not that she can't have those foods. It's just that she's like, you know, when I'm just sitting back and thinking about losing weight and stuff, I plan plenty of foods I love because you teach me that.

But when I go in there, that's like, when I'm just thinking about it, that's not what I really want. But when I go in, I just end up eating it. And I said, alright. We're gonna go in prepared now, and we're gonna go in once a day. So we only have to say no to this shit once a day.

And we're gonna come up with something that you can tell yourself before you go in that gets you grounded into, I'm not gonna eat that because I know I'm not hungry right now. And I know that's not the food that I really want. What I really want is to really enjoy my dinner tonight. I don't wanna go home and feel guilty that I ate this food.

I don't wanna go home and feel bad about that. I'd like to go home knowing I've got an amazing dinner planned for myself.

She didn't eat it all for a week. She said it's crazy.

Just being prepared for that one instance and then not walking by it. She was like, I have been struggling with this for weeks.

Sometimes the simplest solution is literally talking to it, talking it over with somebody like me.

We come up with a solution and we're solved.

So you can either not buy your candy until the day of.

You can buy shit you don't like, and you can also just not keep things in eyesight. The same thing happens during the holidays.

So if we're talking Easter, we're talking Hanukkah, we're talking Christmas, we're talking Thanksgiving, fourth of July, whatever. You can always wait until the last possible minute to buy things that you will be tempted over.

You can always buy things you don't even like. Like, other people might like them.

But you're like, you know what? I have plenty of other things I'd rather enjoy. I just don't wanna be mindlessly eating this stuff.

Or if you're a baker, like, during the holidays in particular, what I work on with my clients is this.

Don't keep it out in your kitchen to where every time you walk through your kitchen what's easy to do when you got a plate of cookies sitting out or a pan of brownies?

Taking a chunk off every time you walk by, popping it into your mouth.

Those are the easy things we can do to lose weight. Weight loss doesn't always have to be hard. Sometimes the most obvious solutions are sitting in front of our face, but because we're so damn committed to weight loss being hard, guess what we do? Not think of the easy things.

So think about ways that you could do that.

Now let's say you do want some. It's like, girl, you don't know me.

That Halloween, I want the candy. I wanna enjoy it just like I did when I was ten years old. Alright. I've got some ways for you to do it. The first is what my members are gonna do. So inside, no BS. They don't even know the shit's coming yet.

In the middle of the month, I'm dropping a surprise challenge on them, and we're gonna work on it for thirty days. And I'm gonna be working with them inside of our Facebook group and on our coaching calls and stuff, kind of calls like we do today. In fact, I just wrapped one with them right before I came on here.

Here's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna buy our favorite candy in a bag, and we are going to if you don't know, when you work with me, I make you do a daily food plan of foods you want to eat. And on that plan, it should take care of your taste buds, your nutrition, your emotions, and your life. So, like, if you have a really busy life, you should have Uber Eats on there a lot. And on Uber Eats, we should know the kinds of things that you're gonna eat. Just like me, I have to order Uber Eats tonight. I was just upstairs talking to my husband, and I said, which one of the four places do you want to go to? And he's like, I'll pick karaoke.

I know I always get the salmon sushi platter every single time.

I already have it planned.