Weight loss advice wasn’t created for millennial moms.
Most programs assume you have unlimited time, energy, and mental bandwidth.
They tell you to meal prep every Sunday, track every calorie, exercise five days a week, eliminate your favorite foods, and completely overhaul your lifestyle.
That might sound good in theory. But if you’re a millennial mom balancing work, young kids, a marriage, a home, and everything else you’re responsible for, it’s simply not realistic long-term.
I know because I am a millennial mom of 3 with a busy full career and life.
After having my third son, I lost 50lbs in 4 months without exercising or overhauling my eating habits.
Since then, I’ve coached many moms to lose weight using the same simple approach.
I created At Your Goal Weight (my signature weight loss program) to teach that method.
Instead of adding MORE to your already full life, this Program helps you lose weight by doing less. You learn how to create a calorie deficit without counting calories, tracking macros, or following a restrictive diet—so you can finally reach your goal weight in a way that actually fits your life.
In this post, I walk you through what At Your Goal Weight includes, who it’s for, how my Lose More, With Less Method works, and why it’s different from traditional weight loss programs.
How I Lost 50lbs After Having My 3rd Son
When I decided to lose weight after having my third son, my life was full.
I had 3 boys at home. I was their primary caregiver (with no childcare). I was working about 20 hours per week.
And like so many moms, I was carrying the invisible mental load of running our home—meals, laundry, schedules, appointments, groceries, bedtime, and everything in between.
The traditional weight loss advice didn’t fit my life. I didn’t have hours to spend in the gym. I didn’t want to count every calorie or macro.
I wasn’t interested in making separate meals for myself or overhauling the way my family ate. I needed a faster, simpler approach that would require less from me—not more.
So instead of asking, “How can I do everything experts recommend?” I started asking a different question:
“How can I lose MORE weight by doing LESS?”
That question changed everything. I stripped away everything that wasn’t essential and focused only on what actually creates weight loss: a calorie deficit.
Over time, I refined a simple method that helped me lose 50lb in 4 months without exercising or overhauling my eating habits.
Then I started coaching other moms using the same approach.
Again and again, I saw the same thing happen: when weight loss became simple enough to fit into their real lives, they finally started making consistent progress.
That’s why I created At Your Goal Weight.
It’s the exact system I wish I’d had.
When Nutrition And Exercise Are Used For Weight Loss
One of the biggest reasons weight loss feels so overwhelming is because we’ve combined it with other goals.
Weight loss has one primary requirement: a calorie deficit.
Exercise is a health goal.
Nutrition is a health goal.
Those goals absolutely matter. I care deeply about both. But they’re different from the goal of losing weight.
When we use exercise to lose weight, we’ve unintentionally created two goals:
- Create a calorie deficit.
- Exercise consistently.
When we use nutrition to lose weight, we’ve also created two goals:
- Create a calorie deficit.
- Improve the quality of our nutrition.
Now, instead of focusing on one skill, we’re trying to build two at the same time.
For many millennial moms, that’s where weight loss starts to feel complicated or like it’s just too much.
I’m all for exercising.
I’m all for eating nutritious, whole foods.
But neither is required to lose weight.
The only requirement for weight loss is consistently creating a calorie deficit.
Inside At Your Goal Weight, I take an essentialist approach.
Instead of trying to improve everything at once, I believe in focusing on one goal at a time.
First, lose weight.
Once you’ve reached your goal weight, add another goal, like strength training, improving your nutrition, or optimizing your health, etc.
You absolutely can pursue all of those things.
I just don’t believe you need to pursue them all at the same time.
When you stop trying to improve everything at once, weight loss becomes dramatically simpler. And ironically, once you’ve mastered that first skill, you’ll have far more capacity to take on the next one.
The Power Of One Goal At A Time — My Essentialist Approach To Weight Loss
I’ve always believed in focusing on one goal at a time.
In fact, years before I ever coached weight loss, I was teaching this concept to my motherhood clients. Every January, I’d encourage them to resist the urge to make a long list of resolutions and instead choose one meaningful goal to focus on for the year.
Why?
Because life keeps on life-ing.
No matter how motivated you are in January, kids get sick, work gets busy, schedules change, and unexpected challenges come up. The more goals you’re trying to juggle, the easier it is for all of them to fall apart.
It may feel more exciting to say you’re working on seven different things at once.
But it’s much more effective to accomplish one.
When you focus on a single goal, you make progress faster. You build confidence. You create momentum. Then you carry that momentum into the next goal.
That’s exactly how I approach weight loss.
Inside At Your Goal Weight, I don’t ask you to lose weight, improve your nutrition, build muscle, optimize your hormones, heal your gut, and transform your lifestyle all at the same time.
I ask you to focus on one thing:
Creating a calorie deficit.
I teach you exactly how to do that in a way that fits your real life (without counting calories).
Then, once you’ve reached your goal weight, you can intentionally move on to your next goal—whether that’s strength training, eating more nutrient-dense foods, improving your hormone health, or simply feeling stronger in your body.
One goal at a time may not be the sexiest approach.
But after years of coaching moms, I’ve found it’s the approach that’s most likely to help you succeed. It makes weight loss feel simpler, more doable, and far more sustainable.
This Approach Works Better Than A Diet Because It’s Permanent
One of the biggest problems with traditional diets is that they’re designed to get you to your goal weight—but not help you stay there.
You follow a list of rules, eliminate certain foods, or eat in a way that doesn’t feel natural to you. Eventually, you reach your goal (or get close), stop following the plan, and gradually return to the way you were eating before.
The weight comes back because the diet was never designed to fit your life long-term.
That’s not what I teach inside At Your Goal Weight.
My goal isn’t to help you lose weight as quickly as possible by following a temporary set of rules. My goal is to help you learn a way of eating that you can continue for the rest of your life.
That means you don’t need to completely change the types of foods you eat.
Within reason, you can continue eating the foods your family already enjoys and the meals you already know how to make.
Of course, this doesn’t mean you can eat unlimited desserts or cake all day and expect to lose weight. You still need to create a calorie deficit.
But you also don’t need to eliminate bread, swear off pasta, avoid restaurants, or completely reinvent your kitchen.
In my own life, I’ve lost weight eating very different types of foods. When I lost 40 pounds after having my first and second sons, I was a pescatarian and hadn’t eaten meat in years. Later, when I lost 50 pounds after having my third son, I was eating meat again.
The foods looked different. The weight loss process didn’t. That’s because weight loss isn’t primarily about the type of food you’re eating. It’s about consistently creating a calorie deficit.
Nutrition absolutely matters—for your health, energy, longevity, and how you feel. It’s just a different goal.
Inside At Your Goal Weight, we focus first on learning the skill of weight loss. Once you’ve mastered that, you can continue improving your nutrition in whatever way makes the most sense for you, without having to start your weight loss journey all over again.
That’s why this approach lasts. You’re not following a temporary diet. You’re learning a lifelong skill.
A Final Note
You deserve a permanent solution—one that works while life keeps on life-ing. Because it will. There will always be busy seasons, vacations, holidays, sick kids, work deadlines, and unexpected challenges. The goal isn’t to wait for life to calm down. The goal is to learn how to lose weight within your real life.
That’s exactly what At Your Goal Weight was designed to help you do. If you’re ready to stop starting over and finally learn a simple, sustainable approach to weight loss, I’d love to help you. The method inside this program isn’t a quick fix—it’s a lifelong skill you can use to reach your goal weight and stay there.
