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Finally hit your goals with no stress, guilt, or deprivation
With all the diets and food plans out there you might be wondering if the world really needs another one. No it doesn’t. So we didn’t make one.
Instead, Eating Skills helps you master targeted behavioral skills that are proven to get results without dieting.
No forbidden foods
Expert coaching
Proven results even if other approaches failed
When you sign up you’ll get immediate access to our private coaching community where we walk you through everything you need to take full control of your eating and nutrition.
Rachel Honeyman
Oceanside, NY
ES
Back in Control of Eating and Enjoying Food More Than Ever
I’d let my eating get pretty out of hand for a couple of years, put on a few extra pounds I wasn’t too happy about, and was generally feeling out of control when it came to food. Every time I tried to make a change, it just felt overwhelming and like I’d have to be miserable for X number of months before I could finally see a change.
But working on my eating skills has been a totally different experience. Within 2 weeks I’d completely cut out snacking, just by making a few small adjustments to my meals. And slowing down my eating and being more present in my meals cut my appetite down from NONSTOP OMG I COULD EAT A HORSE AT ANY TIME OF DAY to that of a normal person.
I no longer feel like my appetite and cravings control me, and I’m able to enjoy my food way more. And that’s all without cutting a single food group or type of food from my diet. And yeah, I’ve also lost 5 or 6 pounds, which is super cool. But the changes in my relationship to food and the feeling of taking real steps to align myself with my values have actually been way bigger and more important to me.
Break Out of the Diet-Failure Cycle
If you’ve tried popular diets or food trends, you know how this goes.
You buy the books and fill your fridge with the things you’re allowed to eat. And right away you start seeing progress…
…until you’ve got a sick kid, a work deadline, and half a leftover pizza in the fridge. Then it all falls apart.
That’s the problem with rigid diet rules. They’re brittle.
Which is why dieting and food plans end up failing for the vast majority of people. Often leaving them further from their goals than when they started and feeling more hopeless than ever.
That’s where skills come in.
Why Skills Eat Diets for Lunch
You can’t win a tennis match just by following all the rules. You have to practice your serve, footwork, shot placement—skills that help you win actual points. The latest research in behavior change and motivation shows that in nutrition, just like in sports, skills are key to success.
No-Fail Flexibility Helps Keep You On Track
Life doesn’t play by diet rules. Like when you’re roadtripping through a small town with a backseat full of hungry kids. Since skills don’t rely on sticking to a rigid plan, they help you roll with the punches and still stay on track with your goals.
De-Guilt Your Food Life
Diets teach you to feel guilty when you eat the “wrong” foods. Eating Skills are different. They help you pause and make decisions that align with your values and goals. So you can enjoy food without feeling guilty.
Make Sticking to Your Goals Easier and Easier
There’s a reason learning to ski starts with falling down a lot. New skills are hard at first. But the more you practice the easier they get. As you practice Eating Skills, making the food choices you want gets more and more effortless.
Whether you’re trying to lose weight or build muscle, eat for an Ironman or reset your office diet…
Developing your Eating Skills will help you make painless progress in the direction you want to go.
But just like any new skills, it can be tough to figure out how to use and apply them well in every situation. So we designed Eating Skills to give you all the coaching and support you need so you’re always clear on how to get results.
Coaching & Community for Lasting Change
Skills take practice to build but once you do, they can last a lifetime. We designed Eating Skills to help you practice consistently so that sticking to your values around food becomes a seamless part of your life.
Personalized Coaching
From day one our coaches will guide you through the process and answer your questions as they come up. They’ll make sure you’re always clear on how to get results, even in tough situations.
Research-Backed Skills Course
Our Eating Skills course walks you through learning and applying your new skills, starting with the most actionable so you can start getting results right away.
The Eating Skills Community
The coaching and course both live in our online Eating Skills community. So you get the camaraderie and accountability of dozens of people working on similar things right alongside you.
You already know that making food changes takes some work. And of course we can’t do that work for you. But we’ve done everything short of FedEx you one of our coaches to make sure you’ll never feel stuck or uncertain.
It’s all easily accessible from your smartphone or computer so you’ve always got access to all the Eating Skills resources.
With Eating Skills you’ll get results that matter to you while still being able to enjoy what you love about food.
Here’s how a few clients described it:
“Putting yourself in the driver’s seat rather than following rules—that has improved the quality of my life immeasurably.”
“I think one of the huge benefits has been not going to food as the default stress reliever.”
Jenn Wood
GMB Client Support
ES
Lost 6 Pounds Over the Holidays "Without Even Realizing It"
Chocolate chip cookies are the only thing that got me through the first year of raising twins. But it was getting out of control. I tried all the big names in diet companies. But I dreaded those diets because they made me obsess about every single thing I ate. And weighing in constantly was at best short-term motivation, and at worst totally demoralizing.
As I’ve been working on eating skills my anxiety and obsession around food has started to fade. The voice in the back of my head that said “screw it! you’re going to fail anyway” didn’t fit in because I wasn’t depriving myself yet I was still losing weight. Over the holidays, I lost 6 lbs without even realizing it — because these skills have now become a habit.
Since starting, I’ve lost 52 lbs. But that is really the least of it. I’ve gained self-compassion, and confidence in myself and what I am actually able to do with the right tools.
Larry Franks
GMB Client
ES
Feeling Full Between Meals with Less Snacking
So far I think all the skills and info have been very valuable. Just being conscious of snacking as stress/procrastination has helped me avoid it. Stopping to think about it, and keeping snacks out of arms reach makes the urge manageable.
The plating approach has helped with meal planning/prep, as well as what I order when I eat out. Previously veggies and fruit were in the 1/4 of the plate, if at all. Swapping the proportions has helped me stay fuller between meals, which has reduced the temptation to snack.
Make Eating the Way You Want an Effortless Part of Your Life
Before now these skills were only available through private coaching, which can cost thousands of dollars over the time it takes to get proficient in them. Eating Skills gives you the education, coaching, and community you need to transform your relationship with food for the rest of your life, all for a small fraction of what private clients pay.
Even if other nutrition approaches have let you down, Eating Skills will help you be confident in any food situation so you can finally make meaningful, stress-free progress on your goals.
Eating Skills Will Put You In Charge of Your Habits Around Food
If you put in the work you will get meaningful results. We can’t practice the skills for you, but we’ll be right there to help you get on track and troubleshoot any tough situations to help you stay that way. When you’ve got what you need from the program, you’re free to cancel any time.
Al B.
GMB Client
ES
More Freedom and Awareness with Food
I think more than anything my attitude toward food and eating has changed over the program. I’ve been surprised and have become more aware. I have a deeper understanding about how food works for me, and what I need to do to feel better and healthier. It has also grown with a sense of play and fun about it. I mean every now and then, I catch myself eating quickly, giggle, then think “what’s the rush?” It’s not so much about the discipline but the freedom of making choices and occasionally experimenting in different situations.
Rebecca Rashkin
Engineer & GMB Trainer
ES
Reframed How I Look at My Habits
Eating Skills has provided a means for me to confront the deeper issues behind the behaviors I'm working on changing. It has reframed the way I look at my habits and brought awareness to how my eating patterns are a reflection of what's going on inside.
It's been helpful to make the comparison between eating and physical skills training. For example, it's unsustainable to work out as hard as you can every day and only take rest when you are too exhausted to move. An effective fitness program involves planned active recovery, e.g. taking a walk instead of strength training. Before, I never planned for treats or fully enjoyed them because of the shame I felt from eating something 'unhealthy.' Now I plan for treats the same way I plan for active recovery (every week!) and still practice some of the guidelines (like eating slowly), while taking a short break from others (fasting between meals).
This program has been more difficult than I thought it would be, but like learning a handstand, it's worth every bit of the challenge.
Frequently Asked Questions
We’ve also taken the liberty of including the answers here, since the questions aren’t very enlightening on their own 😉
Proven Skills
Make painless, natural progress without backsliding, even if other approaches have failed.
Make painless, natural progress without backsliding, even if other approaches have failed.
Expert Coaching
The uncertainties around food and eating are stressful. Let our trained coaches answer your questions and help you de-stress your food life.
Accountability
You can count on a welcoming and supportive community with regular check-ins and reminders to help keep you moving forward and making progress.
Is there a specific food plan I have to stick to?
Negatory good buddy. You get to decide what, when, where, and with whom you want to eat. But you’ll learn a lot about what actually works for you, so over time you’ll find your habits shift to align more with what gets you the results you want.
Will I have to count calories?
Nope. You’ll learn some helpful rules-of-thumb for how to judge portion sizes and such, but you can delete your calorie tracking apps.
Can I do this if I'm intermittent fasting (or gluten free, vegan, paleo, keto, etc.)?
Yeah, the skills you’ll learn can help ease the stress and improve the results of virtually any eating style.
But it’s important to remember that if you want to see changes in your results you need to be prepared to make some changes in your actions. That doesn’t mean vegans need to start eating meat to hit their goals. But Eating Skills might not be the right choice if you’re extremely attached to the choices you’re already making.
Do I have to give up beer and chocolate?
Nah. You may find your relationship to some foods naturally changes as you progress, but there’s nothing you have to give up to succeed.
How much time does this take every week?
The course videos and materials only take about 30 minutes a week to learn everything you need. Then it’s up to you how much time you wanna invest in getting coaching and community support. Some weeks you might not need much, and other weeks you’ll probably be glad they’re there for you.
How long will it take to get results?
This may seem obvious but results are a product of changing your behavior. Anyone can change their behavior for a minute. It takes some work to change it for a year. But if you’re willing to do the work to make meaningful change you’ll start seeing results in the first month. The key is making the behaviors behind those results an effortless part of your life. Depending on your starting point, that might take some time. But we’ll be with you the whole way.
Will I have to buy a bunch of special foods?
Nope. No shakes, powders, supplements, frozen dinners. Nothing. You can get whatever food you want from wherever you want.
Will this help me lose 20 pounds for my reunion next week?
No. This isn’t a weight loss hack that’ll just keep you yo-yoing up and down the scale. This is skill development to improve your relationship with food for the rest of your life, so you can get sustainable results that matter to you.
Will this help me lose fat and gain muscle?
Yes. But this isn’t a “how I put on 30 pounds of muscle in 7 days” sort of program. If you’re ready to make natural, steady progress on your goals, this is a great way to do it.
Liz Maxim
Norfolk, UK
My Body is Much More Content
When I started Eating Skills I was already eating three balanced meals a day, lots of fresh fruit and veg etc etc, but I wasn't happy, or comfortable, and I was still craving food and snacking copiously. So something was 'off'.
Throwing the rule book out of the window and listening to my body had some unexpected results. How I eat now is not something I'd ever have chosen before Eating Skills but my body is much more content on it, I have fewer cravings and I have lost a little weight. Do I still emotionally eat? Definitely, but I know that I'm doing it and often why so I view it as a little piece of comfort rather than a descent in to a full on binge and it doesn't get out of control. That awareness is priceless.
Eating Skills gave me the courage to try, which I would never have had otherwise - and overall I'm pleased with where I've got to. Having battled with food for decades, the ability to ask my body what it wants and get an honest answer is something I never thought would happen.
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