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I nodded in agreement with what you were saying so often I must have looked like a bobble head. I have been waiting my whole life to be the perfect size so I could do whatever it was that I refused to do at my current size. I have missed out on many opportunities, but I have been coming to the realization even before this video that I need to do whatever the hell I want regardless of how my body looks. Life is short and I’ve been thin and I honestly didn’t feel all that different about myself either way.
Sooo, fun, huh?? Wish I knew right off the top of my head what I find fun, but I’m stumped. I spend 99.9% of my time doing what I have to do, what others want me/need me to do or stuff for the house and dogs. I’m not sure what I find fun anymore and that makes me so sad.
I sat here for about 20 mins and really thought about what’s fun for me. It was illuminating bc all the things I think I do for fun, I do bc I think I have to do them, except for one thing which is dancing. I love to dance and that is what I’m going to do today!
I have been working on loving my body for several years and talk to it every morning expressing gratitude and gently asking it to recognize it’s need to digest food better, to feel satiation and to breath in fresh air. I thank it for al it’s miraculous work it has done for me the past 64 yrs.
My grandkids are visiting and it is raining so we are going on an indoor outing today. I am making dinner tonight. I will do my best with the food and not distractions today. Should be fun.
Hi Sarah!
Your enthusiasm and honesty about life and living are so spot on. I’ve followed you for a while and I think the most amazing thing is how this knowledge differs from what we’ve been taught all our lives about how to relate to food and our bodies. Thanks to you, I honestly feel like I love my body more now than I ever have in my life, with all of its lovely imperfections included. Today I am going to sign up for a yoga class that I have loved in the past. Unfortunately, the dedication and routine just slipped away from me with a few life obstacles, but I miss that connection dearly. So, the registration form is in my hand and I’m ready to go!
Thank you! Laura
Sarah,
I loved your video. I have spent my life believing that everything will be fine and I will really be happy if only – I lose weight, I retire, I do this or that. I joined Weight Watchers lost the weight and over time I gained the weight back. I have been disgusted with my self and I have not been treating my body with love. I realize that distracted eating is a problem I need to address. So distracted eating and having fun are the two things I am going to work on starting today. I am headed out to the garden to do some work before it gets too hot and this evening I will go for a bike ride! Looking forward to your next video. Thank you!
Hi Sarah,
Loved the video. Not sure what I will do for fun yet, but I am certainly going to sit down to eat my lunch 🙂 I have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride over the past two years, gone from being very fit to waking up with rheumatoid arthritis, so each day can be very different. I find on the bad days that I do seem to eat all the bad stuff. Can’t wait for the next video XX
Hi Sarah
Thank you! I could relate to every single word. I have reached a point in my life where I am at my all time highest weight and I feel tired and sad all of the time. I have struggled with my weight all of my life and when I finally got to my goal weight at the age of 22 I became pregnant almost immediately! My son is now 5 years old and I weigh more now than I did at 40 weeks pregnant and I feel embarrassed and ashamed about this.
Today for fun I am going to take my son to the park and then once he is in bed I am going to enjoy a film without distractions! Distraction is something I am guilty of a lot – when I’m working, eating, playing with my son, etc. So it’s a habit a need to break in many ways.
I’m about to have lunch so I will do so without distraction and I’ll do the same again at dinner.
Fauve
1. My relationship with my body has always been bad. I’ve been overweight since puberty, and while my mother never made me diet, she was always complaining about her body (and she was smaller than me) and never told me I was beautiful. I definitely have always thought that I would be happier and have more fun if I was thinner and beautiful and confident.
2. For fun today I am going to go to an open mic night and hear and maybe play some fun music. I am also going to try to go for a walk on my lunch break with some fun music to energize myself.
Hi Sarah
Thank you for your video, I found a sense of relief in watching it. It’s like being given permission to be nice to yourself!
Just over 2 years ago I found my self in recovery from an eating disorder that had been with me for over 30 years. And as much as this has been much like shedding a an old skin, it has also meant that the ‘control’ I had over my eating is now gone. Although my new self struggles with eating in different and ultimately healthier way, it is still a struggle. As struggle to stop when I am full, to not compare myself to others, a struggle not snack aimlessly and mostly a struggle to get enough sleep.
It seems wrong not to put everyone else before myself. I need to give myself permission to look after me.
So today I am going to swing on the tire swing in our garden with my children.
I look forward to seeing the other videos
Lisa xx
Weightloss has been a constant issue especially as I get older. I love to dance, so I plan on taking a break and find my groove today. Maybe I will even have lunch outside today.
My number one struggle with my body is that I hate the way I look; I feel fat and unattractive at times. I enjoyed your video and hope this will help me. Right now, I am struggling to think of something to do for fun….
I’ve had a life long struggle with my weight and body image. I’m definitely an emotional eater.
I am going to go on a nature hike today after work for fun:)
I loved the video! I yoyo diet. I lose twenty pounds and all my clothes look great and I feel good but then a self sabotage and gain in all back. I am an emotional eater. Food makes me feel good for a moment, like a drug.
Hi Sarah,
Great opening video – thank you! My body struggle is overeating when I’m stressed and my job is very stressful. Quite boring but I really enjoy going for a run along the sea front and then tucking myself under a blanket and reading with some incense burning nearby so that is my plan for tonight! Lunch time now so will focus on my eating now and for dinner tonight. Thanks again!
Hi Sarah, thanks for a great and honest video that I relate to on many levels. I no longer want to be tormented by dieting and failing to stick to whatever the diet of the day is only to regain the lost pounds plus some extra, I love my two kids and my husband and yet I’m so very hard on myself because “I should know better by now”. “I get what I want in life through hard work, but why haven’t I been able to master this weigh thing yet?” And so on… I’m a positive person and yet this negative self talk keeps coming back! Today the company I work for has given us a day at the baseball park. I was thinking of bowing out but I will go and enjoy the day. I will relax and stop judging myself today. And when I feel judgement from others I will release it back to them.
Hi Sarah,
I think I was 12-13 when I had my first struggle with my body… I’ve never felt in my place, understood by the other for who I was. I didn’t had real friends. And now I’m 32 and I feel still like that (not about to don’t be understood hopefully I found “normal” people since) but I feel a gap between me and other people who seems to have a “easy” life. They have the job they love, find the perfect outfit because they don’t have any weight problems, they have money to have extra activities, they have friends who contact them… And me always struggle with everything and I’m lost in the dark and say “hellooo can someone hear me? I’m hear!! Where I should go? That way looks nice! But this one too! Helllooo??”
Today I have a big meating with a bug boss of unemployed office who want to force me to follow a course that I don’t want to follow. One more fight. But hopefully a friend contact me and I will have a drink with her and I will bring her to a bar that she doesn’t know in the center of Geneva, next to the river. So this will be my fun part and deserved moment of my day. I can’t wait!
I begun LMWL few weeks ago and I like when I eat whitout distraction and in general I stay more minutes after eating seeting at the table and watching outside, enying that moment of calm. (The first time it was weid because my front neighberhood was eating at the same time in front of me. 🙂 )
Wow! What an incredible, relatable and honest video. From the body jail analogy to the lack of fun problem- I am totally on one accord with you. I am an athlete- tennis player to be exact and I have body issues. Going in and out of like with my size daily. Learning to enjoy cooking again and being ok with a process has been a challenge. Today I begin a new journey. Im going to do yoga and give my niece and nephew a tennis lesson for fun! Excited for videos 2-3!!! Bless you and thank you for the transperancy. Sara R.
Hi Sarah.
Thank you for your video. You have a beautiful smile and vitality for life. It’s so refreshing. I have struggled with my weight for 35 years. What makes it worse for me is the fact that I am a therapist and always referred clients with weight issues on to see another Practioner. So I guess I’ve felt like a fraud. My overeating has been attached to early childhood loss and a relentless struggle. Just recently I discovered the impact that eating sugar can have on a body and have changed my food intake incredibly. My feelings around food have changed dramatically but I’m not quite there ( wherever there may be ) yet.
For fun today, I’m just going to take that word ‘fun’ and run with it… Especially with my kids as for years they have had a compromised Mum. So thank you again I am learning lots 🙂
I once heard that “willpower” doesn’t work because at the end of the day, it’s just you against yourself and obviously you’re the one that’s going to lose. I am a detox coach. I’ve been leading hundreds of women through superfood cleanses to help them lose weight and have more energy. But my own willpower is at an all-time low, and I feel like a fraud because I’m not even able to make it through my own cleanses half the time. I’m 10 lbs. away from my “ideal” weight, but just when I’m about to reach it, I yo-yo back up to where I am now. Yesterday a friend invited me to a pool party. I’m embarrassed to go because she KNOWS I’m a detox coach, yet my own body is far from bikini-body ready. I’m judging my body and I’m judging myself. The opportunity to just let go of the willpower, and the shame, and the judgement feels . . . Crazy. And liberating. And fun. So I’m just going to go to the pool party today, drink Sangria, and have fun anyway. Thanks Sarah Jenks! Love you and love your work!
The biggest struggle I have with my body is just feeling like I’m always the fat one. I once literally starved myself to skinny, and I just remember feeling light and worry free about how others saw my body. I hate every roll. I hate when I jiggle. I hate that my clothes don’t fit anymore.
One thing I’m going to do for fun today…on a Tuesday?? How scandalous! I have an adult coloring book that I once loved to color in and I’ve felt that I haven’t had the time to. Instead of turning the tv on and drifting away into nothingness, I’m going to relax and color a page of my book! (Stay tuned, Instagram!)
My eating is intricately linked with my emotions. I eat junk when I am moderately stressed. I lose all appetite when I am very stressed and I eat perfectly well when I am happy.
2- today I will dance for fun!!! I will put some music on and just dance like no one is watching!
3- see you soon.
It’s hard to choose just ONE struggle. I suppose, even though I keep doing it,I feel like the thing that has has been the hardest has been getting my body back after my pregnancies.
I love being pregnant. I have had five of my own children, and carried three times for parents who couldn’t themselves. Even though I have gained weight and my body gets more and more changed, I wouldn’t give that up. BUT, I struggle with how I look as a pregnant woman – I don’t have that perfect baby bump, and I struggle afterwards to have all the baby belly and all the bits that have moved out of place return to what they “should be”.
I won’t give up getting pregnant though (not until doctors tell me to stop) because it gives me such joy to help families in need become whole…
I often don’t think about fun with everything that’s crammed into my day. Schedules for the kids and meetings, and on the go all the time. Most of what I do at the end of the day is just complete mindless droning and just things to keep distracted until bed.
Today, I’m going to take my kids out to the park and actually PLAY with them. Put my phone away – so no email, FB, instagram, twitter – just getting up and playing with my kids!
1.My number one struggle has been to accept my body even though I’ve been carrying around extra weight for decades. Fortunately, several years ago I made a conscious effort to get at least some form of exercise every day, whether my workout is in the form of shoveling snow, raking leaves, walking, biking or strength training. I look much better in and out of my clothes than I would when I didn’t exercise as consistently!
2. For fun, I’m going to color in the new adult coloring book I got last week! I especially need to do something fun because my dad’s funeral is in two days. His death wasn’t unexpected – he was in hospice care – and he had lived a good long life (he was in his 90’s), but it’s still a sad time. He’s in a better place now though and has rejoined my mom, so I do feel good about that.
Thanks for your video and the good messages within it!
Hello
I’m trying to figure out the #1 thing with my body….it’s hard!! Lol!! Hard because I have so many issues with it.
At this point in my life I’m going to go with my stomache. It’s bloated, big, flabby, stretch marked. I keep thinking “if only it were flatter and tighter I could accept my body.”
Now, what to do for fun! Wow Sarah! I thought dieting was hard! It’s only day 2 of this program and I’m finding this “focus on me” very difficult! I find I’m focusing on all the reasons why I CANT have fun because I don’t know what I find fun anymore, and that scares the hell out of me!! When did that happen!!! At what point did I lose myself?? Better yet…why did I lose myself?? A question that has me wanting to bury my head in the sand and totally not deal with!!
But….can I afford to do that any longer?? NO!!
So….today I am going to work on my front garden which has needed to be done for 2 years now. I know by seeing it’s progression I will find joy.
Thank you Sarah:)
Ashley
Thank you for making the time to help each and every one of us!
1. My biggest struggle would be my depression. Unlike many, I never struggled with my weight. I’m carry more than before I was 40. My main problem is when I feel really down, I can’t be bothered eating. And that’s as unhealthy as binge eating after 3 or so days and I’ve just lived on coffee.
2. Because I’m in NZ and your email has come at 10.30pm, something that I can do now to make me happy, Is paint my nails. I was thinking about going for a walk but it is -4C and frosty out?
Hi Sarah,
What agree rand inspiring video.. Your words really hit a cord with me. I reflected back on my life and how much fun I used to have.
I recently left a very bad marriage/ relationship of 8 years. I have a beautiful boy and I want to get back to having fun.
1. My current relationship with my body is rocky at best. I am heavier than I want to be and I hate looking at myself naked. I know we(me and my body) need to get it together and become more solid.
2. For fun today I am going to leave my phone at home and go for a walk around my neighborhood and just be in the moment!
Thank you…
Wow. This video hit home on so many levels. I have never felt 100% comfortable with my body, but at age 49 I feel like I am getting closer! I have run the gamut of diets,since age 10, but am now beginning to see that my body does seem to have a natural rhythm of gaining and losing weight and I should not let that affect how I view myself as a person. I love your emphasis on simply caring for our bodies instead of trying to “shape them.” You have put me right at ease, and I can see you are on the right track. ? Can’t wait to see the next video. I am a big advocate of having FUN. Not positive what I will do yet today, but I think it may involve a fun dinner with my husband and trying some new foods! Thank you for what you are doing! Can’t wait to jump in.
My number 1 struggle with my body is my body shape and how I consider it looks less attractive when I am carrying extra weight like the extra 15kgs I am currently carrying. Unfortunately, it weighs on me heavily and truly affects my confidence.
It is 9:30pm at night where I am at the moment so I am a bit limited with fun things. My husband is out and I will be in bed before he gets home. So, my one fun thing for today is going to be to write him a love letter and leave it on his pillow.
Thank you Sarah for sharing these simple but oh so effective activities with us.
Hmmm, relationship with my body has been challenging at times, but I normally embrace all my curves. Have always been a larger gal and being 55, it’s really a health issue now. So, healthier is my new goal, but being happier is getting more difficult.
On this journey to live life to its fullest while becoming who I am without judgement. My fun thing is also listening to music and just dancing until I’m tired!
We can do this, if not one day at a time, one hour at a time. Thanks Sarah for the inspiration!
1.I don`t love my body.
2.lying in the sun
What a great email and video! As I was reading it I was thinking – yes, yes, yes – thats me, how did you know!
So …..
1 ~ My biggest deal is that my life is on hold until I’m slimmer.Im always trying the next plan or miracle diet that is going to change my life. Im stuck! Ive gone up and down roughly 30lbs and always so mad at myself when it goes up. I’ve forgotten how to be kind to myself and my body.
2 ~ Im going to sit in the sunshine and eat my lunch today and supper today with no phone, no Facebook and no emails.
3 ~ Sometimes I think I’ve forgotten what I like to do to have fun and enjoy myself. I love walking the dog, I love a good movie, I love to dance, I love to cook, I love the sea. Im going to do some of these things this week.
Jo xx