Weight Loss Blind Spots

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Why won’t your weight budge? You have weight loss blind spots. They’re not scientific, but practical missteps or misunderstandings people commonly make. If you feel like your weight won’t budge, it’s likely you have weight loss blind spots!

Common blind spots are things like not understanding the difference between fat loss vs. scale loss, not feeding your body properly, good and bad food mentality, having an all or nothing mindset, approaching weight loss like a dieter versus making habit changes for life and more!

In this Dish On Ditching Diets podcast episode, Megan explains common weight loss blind spots she has observed working with midlife weight loss clients for 11 years. These blind spots keep women stuck with their weight and frustrated.

Either because they mis-understand certain things (like the scale) or because they do not understand correctly how to lose weight without being a restrictive dieter.

If you want forever results, you can no longer approach weight loss like a dieter!

Want to go deeper to find out what is really preventing the stubborn weight from coming off? Sign up for this 3-part self-paced blind spots video workshop where I teach exactly what you are missing!

In this exclusive, science-backed workshop, you’ll identify the hidden reasons why you are not losing fat, the surprising truth about weight loss and calories plus the critical steps to fix your weight loss blind spots so you can lose weight without willpower, restriction, deprivation or extreme workouts!

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In this Dish On Ditching Diets Podcast Episode, You Will Hear:

Many women believe they are doing things right because of diet culture messaging.
Once weight loss blind spots are revealed and corrected, weight loss becomes easier and more sustainable.
Mindset shifts (recognizing progress, breaking all-or-nothing thinking) are often the real breakthrough, not just changes in food or exercise.
You are not broken — you just don’t see where the real problem lies.
Why temporary diets do not yield sustainable weight loss.
If you haven’t lost weight despite effort, something you’re doing or thinking is off. Get support from someone who can identify blind spots.

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Hello my friends! I’m so excited to talk to you today about weight loss blind spots. What are weight loss blind spots? Blind spots are things you don’t realize are impacting your lack of weight loss results.

Maybe you don’t understand certain things correctly. Maybe you’re not aware of certain things. Either way – blind spots are things you are not aware of that are causing you to stay stuck and not lose weight. Blind spots are not a scientific term; it’s just something I’ve come up with.

Now I’m going to preface our discussion today by saying this comes from a place of love and to help you get unstuck. So many women talk to me on social media frustrated because their weight won’t budge. They say things like I did everything perfectly and I didn’t lose weight.

Let’s think about this I’m doing everything perfectly and did not get the result I expected. If you took a class and got an F in the class. Would you tell everyone I did all my exams and homework perfectly, yet I got an F?

That wouldn’t make any sense. You got A’s, B’s, and C’s on your exams and homework yet somehow you failed? No one would believe that.

Yet when it comes to weight loss, we play the mental gymnastics of I’m doing everything right but I’m not seeing weight loss. I know you’re doing everything you THINK is correct to lose weight.

I know you’re trying your best. I know you’re putting in the effort.

But based on my 11 years’ experience helping midlife women losing weight as my full-time job, I know you have blind spots and you’re putting effort into the wrong things. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be stuck and frustrated. So, let’s get you unstuck!

I have a 60-year-old client who we began working together in March of 2025 and she was like Megan, I do everything right and I’m not losing weight. I think it’s my metabolism. I think it’s my age.

So, we began working together to get to the bottom of what’s going on. She’s now lost 20 pounds, and she said what she’s doing now feels effortless compared to what she was doing previously.

What she was doing previously was low carb and low carb diet was increasing hunger for her so she would snack a lot throughout the day. She was deficient in protein and fiber making her hungrier. She was also not eating enough earlier in the day.

All this was causing her to snack and crave sugar making her calories higher and keeping her at maintenance. She was also not tracking her food at all, so she had no idea where her calories were, and she was getting very few steps.

My client thought what she was doing was correct because she believed low carb was how you’re supposed to lose weight in midlife. I remember she even said to me, I don’t think my body can process sugar anymore, and I told her you would be dead if that were true. Because you brain needs sugar to keep you alive.

This is why diabetics would die without insulin. This is also why in the absence of sugar your body breaks down protein to give you the sugar you need. But this is what she had heard so she truly believed what she was doing was accurate.

Instead this approach was causing her to stay stuck at the same weight. Her approach was a blind spot. Also, her lack of protein and fiber were blind spots. Her not eating big enough meals and eating enough earlier in the day were blind spots.

Being sedentary was a blind spot. She legitimately believed what she was doing was correct for weight loss. But it wasn’t and now she’s losing weight almost effortlessly.

I’m using this client as an example of what I so commonly see with clients who I work with who say they’re doing everything right but not losing weight or women I speak to on social media who tell me this.

The other day a woman commented on one of my videos saying she ate 1700 calories for 30 days and fasted on alternate days and didn’t lose any weight. So, fat loss isn’t Amazon prime and when I heard this, I thought okay her blind spot is that she doesn’t understand fat loss takes more than 30 days.

Her second blind spot is that she doesn’t understand the scale and that she needs to be taking measurements, not just looking at the scale. Her third blind spot is fasting for 24 hours every other day. Like can you do that until your 85+ years old?

Because like I always say if you can’t do something until your 85+ years old then you won’t get results that you keep forever. Many people are dieting vs. creating a forever lifestyle. If you want forever results, a diet will never be the solution because it is temporary.

Like if you dog had to lose weight and your vet said you should starve your dog every other day would you logically think that makes sense? I’m guessing you would think that’s a bit extreme, or at least I hope you would. Like if your dog had to lose weight, you would feed them slightly less of the portion sizes of the food they already eat and walk them more.

That would be the logical thing to do so why when it comes to our weight loss as women why do we think it makes sense to fast every other day or do low carb? It makes no sense. You can still eat more than your body needs with fasting or low carb.

Let’s talk about another client I coached recently who had a blind spot. She lost a pant size last year and she’s had multiple new demands placed on her time this year which have caused her to stay stuck, and she was finding it difficult to track her food and get her steps.

When I was coaching her the other day, she told me I have not lost any weight. I said, wait. Is that true that you haven’t lost any weight? She then said OKAY, you’re right I lost a pant size. But I haven’t lost enough weight was her response.

Basically, as I was coaching her which I do by asking my clients a lot of questions to uncover what’s keeping them stuck, we discovered that she didn’t believe she could lose weight.

Even though she already lost an entire pant size, her brain had erased all that progress. Her mind was keeping her stuck because internally she was telling herself – if I put in the effort and work, I’ll probably not lose weight anyway. I’ll probably stay stuck.

This was my client’s blind spot. She didn’t realize that her negative belief was preventing weight loss. Tracking food is easy. It takes two or three minutes. But tracking your food is not easy when you’re telling yourself it probably won’t matter, and you probably won’t lose weight anyway. This is a blind spot women have. You don’t realize how you talk to yourself is causing you to do things that keep your weight stuck. I’ve seen this a million times with clients.

When you look up a calorie calculator online, there isn’t a little disclaimer next to the calculator saying oh, by the way – if you talk to yourself like a jerk (like my client did), your calories aren’t going to work because you won’t track them anyway.

I have yet to see an online calorie calculator that says that. But the truth is most women would never know it’s their negative beliefs causing the lack of weight loss. They would say I did everything perfectly and calories don’t work for me. It’s a blind spot.

How would you know this is a blind spot unless this was your full-time job? There is no way for you to be an expert in sustainable weight loss and behavior change. You are likely an expert in tracking calories or tracking WW points or cutting foods out or being restrictive with foods or exercising in an extreme way or doing unsustainable things with food to lose weight.

You are an expert at dieting, but where is that getting you? It’s keeping you stuck at the same weight.

If you are doing everything correctly to lose weight, you would have lost weight already. You’re not doing some things incorrectly if you are not losing weight. You THINK what you are doing to lose weight is correct, but if you are not seeing results what you THINK you are doing to lose weight that is correct, is not in correct for losing weight. Someway, somehow.

It’s not correct because it’s not getting you weight loss results. And don’t you dare think like a jerk and say you haven’t lost any weight if you actually have. Like the client example I just gave you, she lost an entire pant size. You have to start showing your brain where progress HAS been made.

But if you truly have lost nothing then something is not correct.

I know this hard to hear because you are trying your best with what you know. But what you know is diet stuff (like low carb and fasting) and your brain is so filled with this diet stuff that it is keeping you stuck, making you feel guilty with food, causing you to deprive then overeat foods you think you shouldn’t be eating and causing you to swing back and forth between extreme dieting and eating like normal.

Meanwhile, your weight stays the same and you feel frustrated and depressed. You have blind spots and that is why many women struggle.

My client Patty who was on this podcast in episode 150 said she dieted 30 years and never lost any weight. She said she realized she didn’t know how to lose weight correctly. Now she’s lost 20 pounds at almost 60 years young.

She didn’t know what she didn’t know. She knew how to diet, but she didn’t know how to lose weight correctly and sustainably and how to catch the mindset hurdles we all fall into.

If this is you and any of this is resonating with you. I want you to go to the show notes. Because if you’re saying yeah, this is me. I want you to go to the show notes where I have a short DIY workshop for you to help you figure out where your blind spots are. I’m going to talk to you about the technical weight loss blind spots as well as the approach and mindset blind spots that keep people stuck.

Let’s discuss a few more examples. I had a client awhile back who was doing a lot of things right. The only thing she needed to work on was getting her steps up, and she knew it, but she went to her doctor and told her doctor she was doing everything perfectly and wasn’t losing weight. She told me this!

I said what makes you believe you should be losing weight without getting your steps up. As we dug into her thoughts about this, she was thinking she never has lost weight before – nothing has ever worked for her.

She also told me she was too busy to get more steps. The truth was my client was doing many things right, but this one area she hadn’t mastered yet. So, she was not doing everything right.

She wasn’t doing everything perfectly and her weight was just not budging for no good reason. Her negative belief in her ability to lose weight was sabotaging her.

When you are busy, it is very easy to blow off your steps or tracking because you’re living in a fixed mindset. Unconsciously, you’re thinking to yourself well those extra steps won’t make a difference anyway so why should I inconvenience myself.

That is self-sabotage. She was not doing everything right and not losing weight. She is doing many things right, but she was not doing everything right and not losing weight.

That was not true even though she was trying to convince her doctor it was true and she didn’t realize she was even doing this. She legitimately believed she was doing everything right and she thought she should be able to keep her steps the same and lose weight. It was a blind spot for her.

As a coach, I see these things a lot working with clients and my job is not to shame someone or put them down but rather, help them see where the disconnect is in their thoughts and how that is preventing them from taking the actions they need to lose weight.

Another client I worked with a few years ago, said to me one time – well, I’m still not losing weight. I said what makes you think you should be losing weight. She said oh I guess because I’m eating more protein and fiber and not binging on sugar as much and getting more steps. I’m doing more so I think I should be losing weight.

In this example, my client had a blind spot not realizing she still needed a calorie deficit to lose weight. And we hadn’t worked on that for her yet, because we had been working on her no longer restricting foods, improving her relationship with food, her emotional eating patterns, food noise and her negative self-talk.

You can’t go into a calorie deficit with all that junk going on. It will make your food issues a million time worse, and you will stay stuck with your weight and even more frustrated. So, again this was a blind spot. She didn’t realize healthy habits aren’t the same as a calorie deficit.

As a coach, my job is to highlight to clients where progress been made outside the scale. I try to consistently reiterate to clients where they ARE making progress because our brains are so wired to look at the negative and then you just feel bad.

I’m not making progress so why should I bother? Nothing works for me so why should I keep going? That’s all self-sabotage, and if I don’t highlight progress to clients, they will sabotage themselves and my job as a coach is to get in front of that, so they stay on the path.

Because the truth is, if you are making progress, you are guaranteed to get to your goal. It just a matter of time.

My job also is to help clients see their weight loss blind spots and where they were not doing things correctly or they didn’t understand something correctly. That’s why I have so many of my clients on this podcast to share with you their blind spots were and what they learned to help you in your journey see what things may be stopping your weight loss.

Anyways, all that to say if you think you’re doing everything correctly and you are not losing weight, you have blind spots. Things you don’t realize.

Things you don’t understand correctly about weight loss or the scale that are causing your weight not to budge. Many people think weight loss is simple and yes, it’s simple but it’s not easy because behavior change is hard.

Anyone can diet for 30 days or 60 days, but changing your lifestyle to a forever healthier lifestyle, getting stronger and fitter requires you to change your behaviors and mindset.

That is the hard part, and why counting calories doesn’t work for most women. You keep trying to shortcut the process with a short-term fix. If you want results that last, you can’t just diet the way you’ve always done.

I promise you are not broken. I promise it’s not your conditions or your hormones or your age or your metabolism. Those things may make things challenging, but doesn’t mean you can’t get stronger, fitter and lose some body fat. You absolutely can! You simply have blind spots that you’re unaware of.

Get help from a coach who can help you get to the bottom of what’s been keeping you stuck not someone who’s just going to tell you what to do. If you feel like you’ve done everything correctly and your weight hasn’t budged, something is off, and of course, I know I can help you.

So, if you want help schedule a weight loss consultation with me and I will talk to you about how I can help you get unstuck.