Jun 16 2023 38 mins 3
Corinne Crabtree of the NoBS Weightloss Program joined me today for a fantastic conversation on how having a Home Organizer has helped her and her family, how having an organized kitchen can help in your weight loss journey, and how taking the process in slow, easy steps will ultimately help you BECOME organized and not just organized your clutter over and over again.
Corinne Crabtree is a Master Certified Weight and Life Coach with a mission to help every woman break generational curses in order to improve their personal health and wealth. Corinne lost 100lbs 15 years ago and ever since, she has dedicated her life to teaching women how to do the same.
Corinne Crabtree is one of the leading voices in the weightloss and business industry. She’s the host of the wildly successful podcast, Losing 100lbs with Corinne, which has been downloaded over 50 million times in 160 countries. Over 1 Million women have taken her free weightloss course and Corinne now serves over 14,000 paid members in the No BS Weightloss Program.
After being a featured expert at The Life Coach School and having her business rank #1052 in the Inc. the 5000 Fastest Growing Businesses of 2022, Corinne founded the No BS Business Women’s Membership. The program provides online entrepreneurs with simple frameworks, tools, and focus they need to take action and build the business of their dreams. In addition, Corinne offers advanced weightloss life coach training for coaches, dietitians and medical professionals who want to improve their client's weightloss outcomes.
You can catch Corinne on Facebook and Instagram talking shit about the diet and online marketing industry. Her greatest passion is helping women get rid of their old shitty thoughts by using self-love to never quit on themselves again.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Hello. Welcome to the Hoss Lady Podcast, where I help you declutter your life and your home. Hello, everyone. It's Becky, the Hoss lady. I am coming to you from Michigan today as we are doing a summer family tour. We've been to Illinois and Michigan, and next is Kentucky, then Tennessee and back to Alabama. Super fun stuff planned, but that is not what I'm here to talk to you about today. Today, I have a very special guest that I think everyone will thoroughly enjoy. Corinne Crabtree is the owner, founder, and CEO of the Nobs Weight Loss Program, host of the Losing 100 Pounds with Corinne podcast, and owner and founder of the Nobs businesswomen membership. Oh, yeah. And she just bought a restaurant in her hometown where she and her husband will have their date nights, and I don't know how she does it all, but I found Corinne a lot of help.
Corinne Crabtree: Yeah.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: So I found Corinne over four years ago. We both lived in the Nashville area. We both have a son on the spectrum. And then I heard her drop the F bomb, and I knew I had found my people, and I have been in her membership ever since. So I have to say, it has changed my life, and I don't think anyone would argue that she is the most down to earth, no bullshit mentor and life coach that I needed to get my life together. And in her program, I lost over 70 pounds and started my business, two things I never would have believed possible until she taught me how to get out of my way and create the life I wanted. So without further ado, welcome, Corinne. Thank you so very much for being here today. I would love for you to tell my audience a little bit more about yourself and what you love to talk about.
Corinne Crabtree: Well, Lord, I don't know if there's anything left. You pretty much told all the things. I like to go to Vegas a lot. Well, like you said, I lost 100 pounds about 15 years ago, and I really wanted to help other people, especially women, just get out of their own way. For me, it wasn't so much that I didn't need another plan, for sure, and I didn't need somebody telling me what to eat and all that kind of stuff. What I really needed was to learn how to take smaller steps to be there for myself, to figure out the kind of life I really wanted to have and to just not talk like an ******* to myself. I was so mean to myself for so many years about my body and about my weight, and it wasn't until I started learning how to encourage myself, take things slower, just not be so impatient with me, I was just never going to lose my weight. And like you said, I started a business. And then because that business became successful, I started another business. To teach people how to start their own businesses. And then we did buy our own sports bar because my husband and I were terrified they were going to close it. We live in a small town. The only place we could go have a glass of wine and a beer. We were like, we have to buy this. We have to save it.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: But save date night.
Corinne Crabtree: Save our date night because we're committed to living here. We love Nolanville, Tennessee, but we collectively had over 30 years of restaurant experience between the two of us from back in the day. And so when people hear it, they're like, oh, my God, you bought a restaurant. It's like, look, we know what we're doing. We know how to work the back end. People constantly are asking me, how much do you have to work at the restaurant? I didn't buy that restaurant to get a serving job. We hired Good Health, just like I do in both of my companies. I do not work all the time. I plan my day. I follow my plan because I think it's interesting that this is an organization podcast, because one of the things that I learned a long time ago was to value being organized with my time.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Yes.
Corinne Crabtree: In order to get everything that I get done in a day. It's not because I do a lot. It's because I'm very organized and very selective about what I will put on my calendar, what I won't put on my calendar. I stay away from bullshit if I catch myself putting things on my calendar because I'm people pleasing stuff. That's something I need to solve for myself. Being organized with my time has helped me be able to just do more. So we spend 2 hours a week at that restaurant for work purposes, and we meet with the key management. We have a kitchen manager, we have a general manager, and we have a bar manager. We meet with them for 2 hours a week. We help them make decisions, give them a list of things to work on for the next week. And we're like, See you next week, because we don't want to be bothered when we're here on date night. Restaurant.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Got to keep that separate. I love that.
Corinne Crabtree: Exactly.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Yeah. So speaking of organization and kitchens and things like that, of course the restaurant has its own little character. But for a weight loss conversation when I'm helping people with their kitchens and you know, how I teach, like a decluttering process is, you know, I recommend clearing out the space as best you can, putting anything back into the pantry without making sure it actually has a plant, that you're going to eat it or whatever. And what are your thoughts on when someone's starting a new diet or starting a new program or something like that? What are your thoughts about doing, like, a major pantry purge at the beginning of that new diet plan.
Corinne Crabtree: I don't think there's anything wrong with doing a pantry purge. It's how we've been taught to do one, is the real problem. And I don't mean like baskets and Bins talking about most people. They do a pantry purge because it's like, here's all the foods I no longer can eat, and if I have them in my house, I'm just going to eat my face off. So I'm getting rid of everything. And then we **** off our family because they're like, hey, where's the M and Ms? Where's my chips? Where's my favorite foods?
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Right?
Corinne Crabtree: Or we do it from this restrictive mindset, as if I can't be around these foods. And I get it. A lot of women feel that way, because for years, if you are around certain foods, if you have over eight, it will make sense in your brain that somehow the food is doing it to you. Food is the problem. Food is never the problem. I have yet to meet anyone who said, girl, I was good all day, sitting on my couch and suddenly the Twinkies came running out of the pantry and they just hopped in my mouth. Can I break twinkies legs? It's never the problem. It's always what we miss out on is no one's teaching us that if I'm eating food at night, food is not the problem. If I'm eating food at night, it's probably because I have a problem in my life that I'm not willing to face yet, or that it's going unrecognized. And so when I think about pantry purges, I tell people, I want you to organize your pantry in such a way that's going to make your weight loss life easier for you. So if you go in and it's easier to get a hold of better choices, and you have moved stuff that you use in emotional moments to where it's harder to get to them, it's not that you've solved your problem, it's that you've given yourself some space. That in the moment when it's time to make a decision, when you're stressed out and you're tired and you feel like the demands of the day are on you. If you're having to, say, climb a ladder to get your tips, then you have time as you're climbing the ladder, to think, do I really want to do this right? This do I want to be like, what's really going on for me? Because I teach, we have to address the root causes of why we eat. We can't just keep throwing away Oreos. Oreos aren't doing anything to us.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Right?
Corinne Crabtree: But we do have to throw away unrealistic standards, not setting boundaries. We have to throw away people pleasing. Like, if we're going to purge something, we got to purge that **** out of our life so that at night, if we want to have an Oreo or two, we can like a normal person, we're not eating them to cope with our life.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Yes, you're eating it on purpose?
Corinne Crabtree: Yes, with enjoyment. No one eats Oreos, a sleeve of Oreos after a bad day because they're ****** at their boss and their kids and will tell me, those Oreos were so delicious. Usually they hoover them down. They don't remember the taste. And when they're done, they feel like **** about themselves. And what they've done is they were like, well, I don't want to think horrible things about my children, so I'll eat a bunch of Oreos, so now I can just think horrible things about me.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Oh, wow.
Corinne Crabtree: Yeah, we substitute that. We don't even understand how sometimes our eating is so much more deep. I can't tell you how many times when Logan was little, when he was like under a year old, I will be honest, he was on the spectrum. I did not know it, but he was a difficult baby. He cried all the ******* time. There was like, God helped me if the siren went off because he was like lit for an hour, screaming, crying. And I hated my life. Yeah, I thought I had ruined my life having a child. And that is so hard to deal with. Not so much that I felt bad, that I felt bad about my life. I thought something was wrong with me because I wasn't loving every minute of it. I thought something was wrong with me because I didn't like my child. And I would eat at night so that I could not like me because that felt normal. Not liking your child felt like I was going to hell.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Yeah.
Corinne Crabtree: We have to think about when it comes to pantry purges. Every diet is going to tell you to clean out your pantry. I would even tell you, I would love for you to organize your pantry. I would love for you to make space for healthier foods. I would love for you to walk in and it feel like a respite and not just like a junk drawer. I want all that for you, but not at the expense of you doing it because you tear through your closet thinking, I'm so lazy, I'm so bad, I can't have these foods around me. Because from there, pantry purges are never going to work.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: I think that you really touched on a point of you're so down on yourself and you're calling yourself lazy and you're calling yourself whatever. And when I see women who come home and their house is just piles of paper and piles of laundry and piles of this and that and this and that and they don't have that structure like you were saying, the time, organization and making sure they put a plan down of what they're going to do, when they're going to do it. And they just try and go things like willy nilly. And they sit down at the end of the day and they're looking around at all their stuff and they just want to avoid it. They want to avoid life, so they do go to things like food to buffer and get out of their own mind and to have a kitchen or a pantry, having a plan in place for all of these things in your life. You're taking out so much of that exhaustion and so much of those issues that you're no longer tempted, I guess, to go straight to the pantry and grab the first thing you see, which is usually the oreos. Right.
Corinne Crabtree: I was just going to say one of the things I think is important, and this is just me, because we are very organized here at my house, but we haven't always been that way. And truth be told, if I didn't pay you to come do it for me, there's no way in hell we'd be this organized.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Yeah.
Corinne Crabtree: Unless I was putting it on like I was making time and space to do it. And I'm a big believer in a little bit at a time, even when you came. Like, I want all of you to think about this. If I was going to have to do it all myself, I would do it just like I tackled 100 pounds of weight loss a small change at a time.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Yes.
Corinne Crabtree: This week the goal is these three drawers, and next week it's like this half of my closet. Or just the shoes.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Right.
Corinne Crabtree: I love the idea of breaking it down small. Because when you're tired and you're exhausted and your house is all crapped up, it's not because something's wrong with you. You are overextended. When you're tired, the last thing you want to do is come home and organize ****.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Right.
Corinne Crabtree: I mean, unless you're Becky, who loves organizing. But most of us, we love the after. We don't love the process.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Right.
Corinne Crabtree: We have to plug it in in small amounts.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Yeah.
Corinne Crabtree: So I think it's just important that people realize that it's like, figure out these small places. Because I really do think when it comes to overeating in particular, your environment can trigger you.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Absolutely.
Corinne Crabtree: That's why it's important, like with your closets, to be making sure you don't keep clothes in there that trigger you to feel bad. Anything that you can do in your environment that helps you be at peace, I would say start planning to get it done in small chunks.
Becky, The Hoss Lady: Yeah. And one of the things that I teach, like in June, for example, starting today, June 1, we're doing a monthly challenge where every single day you take 15 to 30 minutes. You don't get to go over that. And I give you a task and it doesn't matter what room you're going to do it in, but you go do that little task. Because tidy people do tiny things all day long. It's not a one and done situation. It's kind of like losing weight. You're not going to sustain a 40 pound weight loss if you did it drinking cucumber water for a week, you're going to need to make it a lifestyle. So I try and incorporate. If you do these little 1530 minutes things every day, you're not going to hate the process. And I feel like that ties into what you've taught us in no BS and the weight loss program. Because if you don't love the process, you're never going to continue and you're never going to sustain and maintain your weight loss. So I feel like so many people get the idea of a purge, either a pantry purge or a garage or anything, that it's going to be this hellacious, exhausting experience. And they feel like it has to be done in one day, and they
