Download your pocket coach for food peace and better body image
Does this sound like you?
You’ve been dieting on and off since you were a teenager.
You’ve lost and regained the same weight over and over again.
You find yourself uncontrollably binging on foods in the evenings and put this down to emotional eating.
You frequently skip meals or deliberately eat less to compensate for overeating the day before.
You feel guilt, shame and regret when you overeat foods you deem to be “treats” or “off plan”.
You feel like all you do is think about food, eat food, track calories/macros/points/syns and then worry about food.
You delay things in your life for when you reach a certain goal weight – relationships, career changes, even happiness!
You’ve said the words “I’ll be happy once I reach [X]lbs”
You might exercise because you feel like you ‘should’, but you don't enjoy it and you choose workouts based on how many calories they burn.
All of this is taking a huge toll on you psychologically as well as physically.
BeyondTheScale is an intuitive eating app packed with CBT-based coaching courses, workbooks and journals on mindful eating, diet culture, emotional eating, body image and more…
App Features
COACHING PROGRAMME
Enjoy an extensive range of CBT-based courses to help you address issues around body image, emotional eating, intuitive eating, improving health and lowering stress and anxiety. You’ll also have access to community support.
INCLUDES FREE 7-DAY TRIAL
Get a taster of the coaching programme by working through The Essentials course during your free 7-day trial. Here I will introduce the concepts of diet culture, body acceptance, emotional awareness, intuitive eating and the Health at Every Size (HAES) perspective.
VIDEO LESSONS & DIGITAL WORKBOOKS
All courses are made up of a series of easy-to-follow videos, useful resources and downloadable workbooks for completing CBT-based exercises. The included PDF workbooks can be printed or completed digitally.
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Courses Within the App
Diet Culture
Just in case there's still a part of you that thinks there's a 'perfect' diet plan or regime around the corner for you to follow, we'll quash those thoughts in this course. Dieting, including calorie restriction, does not work long-term, and we’ll look at the research that explains exactly why diets don’t work. We'll look at what the tools of dieting look like, analyse your personal dieting history and examine the dieting mentality.
Body Acceptance
In this course, we'll discuss why self-compassion and body acceptance is essential for health and the damaging effects of body shaming. This part of your recovery journey is so important, as, without self-compassion and acceptance, you'll never be able to break away from the diet mentality and will never truly put your health (both physical and mental) above weight loss.
Body Awareness
This course is where we'll learn to listen to what your body is trying to tell you it needs most. Often dieters feel out of touch with their bodies and lose the ability to identify true hunger and feelings of fullness. It's also common to confuse emotional cues for physical which results emotional eating.
Emotional Eating
Based on CBT, this course will help you uncover the causes behind emotional binge eating and the strategies for tackling it. Often, it's viewed as an eating problem, when in fact, it's a sign that self-care and mental well-being needs to be prioritized. We'll work together to develop alternative coping mechanisms for strong emotions, drawing on the same strategies you would be taught in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Intuitive Eating
In the Intuitive Eating course we'll cover what is meant by Intuitive Eating and how it can help you gain freedom from dieting and improve your relationship with food and your body. We'll cover the main principals of intuitive eating and learn how to avoid turning it into 'just another diet'.
Health Beyond The Scale
This is where we'll look to the Health at Every Size Movement and the body of research that supports focusing on health beyond weight loss. This includes taking a gentle approach to nutrition and finding the joy in movement. We also look at alternative ways to keep tabs on our overall health.
….and more inside!
Based on CBT, the BeyondTheScale intuitive eating app can help you improve body image and serve as your pocket self-help coach for overcoming binge eating, overcoming emotional eating and ditching diets.
Within the app, we will cover why dieting doesn’t work long-term; how to escape the dieting cycle; overcome binge eating; become an intuitive eater; learn how to soothe your emotions without turning to food; reach a place of body acceptance; and improve your physical health.
You can work through the courses at your own pace, at any time and on any mobile device.
If you haven’t already, you can download the app for Android devices from the Google Play store, or download it from Apple through the App Store.
Begin your recovery journey today
Monthly subscriptions are available to purchase in-app.
People I’ve Helped
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"I haven't weighed myself in weeks, I just don't care about that number anymore because I'm enjoying my life, eating food I actually like and doing yoga too...and you know what? I feel damn good about myself for the first time in years! I cannot thank you enough, Karen!"
Coaching programme client, December 2017
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"The emotional eating module was LIFE CHANGING for me! I never realised that comfort eating was benefiting me on some level but it all makes sooo much sense for me now. I've been working really hard the last few months to tune into my emotions and pick apart my thoughts to figure out what I really need (it isn't wine - who knew! haha!). The worry journal exercise has stuck with me the most, it's been so helpful, thank you so much for all your help and the videos and workbooks!)"
Coaching programme client, May 2018
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"I've just got back from a restaurant with my hubby. I thought about what you said about 'unconditional permission to eat' and I ordered exactly what I wanted on the menu (no salad this time!) [...] It was just amazing like I could actually listen to my belly and stop eating without the mental battle and wanting to binge."
Coaching programme client, April 2018
Meet your coach
Karen Lynne Oliver, BA, MA, is the founder of Beyond The Bathroom Scale®, a hub of self-help resources to aid with recovery from disordered eating and body image.
Beyond The Bathroom Scale® was awarded “Most Innovative Digital Health Business” in the Acquisition International Awards 2020.
A former Social Worker, Karen holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology, specialising in health and society and holds a master’s degree in Social Work. She is retraining as a therapist specialising in the therapeutic treatment of eating disorders.
Karen has previously written HuffPost UK and has been featured in The Metro, The Cambridge Independent and Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Research shows that yo-yo dieting and weight cycling damages your metabolism, causes weight re-gain and increases your risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, chronic inflammation and loss of muscle. I bet these were all things you were trying to prevent in the first place, by dieting to lose weight, right?
Psychologically speaking, by dieting you’re much more likely to struggle with disordered eating, such as restriction, binge eating and even purging (which includes over-exercising with the intention of burning off excess calories). Sound familiar?
Let’s also talk about the financial cost of dieting. You probably pay gym membership to encourage you to exercise, but you hate the exercise you do because you’re only choosing the type that quickly burns calories. You may even pay slimming club fees to keep you ‘accountable’ to your diet. You buy health magazines, vitamins, protein shakes, diet drinks and health foods.
There's still a part of you that clings to the idea of finding 'the right diet' the one that will work this time.
But deep down you know that the next diet will fail too. You’re just not sure how to escape the dieting cycle or the binge/restrict cycle you find yourself stuck in.
Unlock the courses in the BeyondTheScale app and access an online self-help programme for people who want to heal their relationship with food, exercise and their bodies. (That's you, right?)
Within the app, we will cover why dieting doesn’t work long-term; how to escape the dieting cycle; overcome binge eating; become an intuitive eater; learn how to soothe your emotions without turning to food; reach a place of body acceptance; and improve your physical health.
You can work through the courses at your own pace, at any time and on any mobile device.
If you haven’t already, you can download the app for Android devices from the Google Play store, or download it from Apple through the App Store.
Begin your recovery journey today
Monthly subscriptions are available to purchase in-app
Legal Disclaimer
By purchasing an all-access pass to the BeyondTheScale app, you acknowledge and agree to the following.
This programme is not appropriate for people with severe, active eating disorders; if you are suffering from an eating disorder, or have suffered from one in the past please seek professional advice from your GP instead.
Although this course is intended to help heal your relationship with food and eating, for some it may be triggering for anyone who has a underlying eating disorder.
If at any point in the programme you suspect you have the symptoms of an eating disorder, you must seek the appropriate care immediately. Eating disorders must be treated by suitably qualified individuals such as general practitioners, registered psychotherapists, or a registered dietitian who specialises in eating disorders.
For Educational and Informational Purposes Only
The information provided in or through this Website is for educational and informational purposes only and solely as a self-help tool for your own use.
Not a substitute for professional advice
I am not a registered therapist, dietitian, personal trainer or any other kind of health professional and do not hold myself out to be. The information contained in this Website is not intended to be a substitute for health or wellbeing advice that can be provided by your own GP or health an wellbeing practitioner. The advice found on this Website should be treated as a suggestion, based on my own personal experience of what works for me, rather than from medical training. This programme is not a substitute for seeking professional help with eating disorders or other mental health issues.
Although care has been taken in preparing the information provided to you, I cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions, and I accept no liability whatsoever for any loss or damage you may incur. Always seek health care advice from a registered professional, relating to your specific circumstances as needed for any and all questions and concerns you now have, or may have in the future. You agree that the information on our Website is not professional health care advice.
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