Weightless

2 month digital weight-loss retreat to support your healthier, stronger & leaner body.

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Weightless is the long awaited holistic weight-loss program from Alice Nicholls.

Weightless is a holistic, eight-week digital retreat designed to nurture your body & mind. This program is crafted to help you achieve sustainable weight loss while prioritising your emotional well-being and self-care. Discover a new way to nourish your body, conquer emotional eating, and embrace a healthier, happier, leaner you.

Weightless

2 month digital weight-loss retreat

Retreat Information:

Starting June 21st and completing the retreat August 16th.

  • 8 live 1 hour group calls (hosted on Fridays at 12pm AEST)

  • 8 eBook Guides - connected to each module of the retreat

  • 8 podcast recordings of retreat information

  • Weightless Retreat recipe book - Whole-foods based nutrient-dense meals made for satiation, energy balance and flavour.

Retreat Schedule:

  • Week One: Introduction + fundamentals of nourishment.

    Creating awareness on the current model of consumption in the Western world, and pulling away from antiquated systems of ‘dieting’. Setting the mindset and emotional space to focus on self-care and long-term nourishment as a priority over short-term weight-loss at the expense of a healthy emotional state.
    My personal story: Sharing my own personal experience with body image, eating disorders, diet dogma and the path to dietary freedom and physical health.

  • Week Two: Emotional wellness.

    Understand different body types and Uncover the emotional roots of your relationship with food and learn powerful strategies to overcome emotional eating patterns. Develop a deeper understanding of your triggers and cultivate healthy coping mechanisms that support your emotional well-being.

  • Week Three: Preparing the House + Mind for Weight Loss

    Get your home and mind ready for your weight loss journey. Learn how to organise your pantry and fridge to support healthy eating habits. Develop a positive mindset and prepare yourself mentally for the changes ahead.

  • Week Four: Planning, Cooking and Prepping for Health and Weight Loss

    Dive into the practical side of weight loss with a focus on meal preparation and cooking. Understanding the methodology of plating meals that satiate and nourish. Explore a variety of delicious, easy-to-make recipes that are designed to support your weight loss goals. Learn time-saving tips and techniques to make healthy eating a seamless part of your daily routine both at home and out.

  • Week Five: Identifying Blocks to Losing Weight

    Identify and address the common blocks that hinder weight loss. Understand the areas of your life that create obstacles and learn practical strategies to overcome them. From stress and sleep to social influences, to specific dietary related choices that can de-rail progress and discover how to navigate and eliminate these barriers.

  • Week Six: Impactful Movement and Physical Activity

    Discover the joy of movement and how it can enhance your weight loss journey. Explore different types of physical activities that you enjoy, from yoga and dancing to strength training and walking. Learn how to incorporate regular exercise into your routine in a way that feels enjoyable and sustainable.

  • Week Seven: Building Healthy Habits for Life

    Establish and maintain healthy habits that support long-term weight management. Learn about the science of habit formation and how to create lasting changes in your daily life. Develop routines and practices that promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.

  • Week Eight: Celebrating Progress and Planning for the Future

    Reflect on your journey and celebrate your progress. Learn how to set yourself up for the future, and create a plan to maintain your weight loss and continue your path towards optimal health. Embrace your new habits and life with confidence and excitement for the future.

Weightless

2 month digital weight-loss retreat

How does Weightless differ from other weight-loss programs?

There are 4 key differences with Weightless when compared to other diet or weight-loss programs.

  1. We don’t begin by focusing on weight-loss. We begin, by focusing on gaining clarity, understanding and ownership of our environment, our behaviours, habits and emotional relationships with food. This is an emotional x nutritional x physiological retreat.

  2. We will not be measuring macros or weighing food which is absolutely a decision rooted in psychology. This will see a lower propensity for guilt and shame-based binges and less obsession with short-term results. Instead my approach will garner a stronger understanding of our own personal response to food and environment and increase the sustainability of your weight-loss.

  3. We are not going to have a major focus on exercise. While we will absolutely be learning about and leaning-into physical movement and the understanding of how this can support weight-loss and overall health, I won’t be no Drill Sergeant putting an hour of Cycle on your calendar each day and calling this a magic pill. The fact is, women can lose weight without even changing their movement patterns if we follow physical physiology.

  4. You’ve got me! 🤍 But look, 🤣, I’m too close to you to spin garbage to you in a pink-and-white-coloured app that doesn’t even know your name. It’s too intimate here for me to deliver a Retreat with no feeling or heart or nuance and understanding of the grey areas in our experiences. We have spent too much time together, you and I, for you to not know that even if we aren’t sitting across from each other, I’m maniacally attempting to get as much feeling and matter as I can into the communication and information I share with you..

    An unlike a detached little app or email bot, you can hit ‘reply’ when something hits you in the heart or the gut and you can say ‘Al, hey’. ‘This bit’. ‘But what about…?’. And I will answer you. I may be young in the scheme of my life, but at 42 years old, My Love, I have lived in this body and through experiences that have taken me to the floor with food and body image and my connection with myself. I have felt so much. In drunkenness and in sobriety (Both metaphorically and literally speaking) I have sought the truths and trialled the processes required to be in a healthy, stable and fulfilled space with my physical experience and weight to such a degree that I am at the point where we personally intersect in some magical way. I see you.

If you resonate with any of these, I’ll see you in Weightless

  1. You want to lose some weight or change your body composition (reduce fat)

  2. You’ve tried dieting before and it’s never ‘stuck’

  3. You look to other women and compare yourself (wondering why what they do doesn’t ‘work’ for you)

  4. You’ve made ‘deals’ with yourself around food before and broken them every time

  5. You’ve ended a ‘planned’ way of eating or a diet program in a binge or ‘break-out’ eating session

  6. You think you’re doing ‘all the things’ and nothing is helping you lose weight

  7. You want to learn whether hormones, physiological or emotional reasons outside of your diet are affecting your weight

  8. You feel sad that you don’t honour or care for your body better

  9. You wonder why you keep over-eating in times of emotional distress

  10. You’ve had enough of the current diet paradigms and you’re ready to say ‘fu*k it’ and try something new!

Guest practitioner Chantel Hutnan.

Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, ADAPT Practitioner, Kresser Institute of Functional Medicine and Ancestral Nutrition with a Bachelor of Pharmacy.

Chantel brings a wealth of knowledge to the area of hormonal support in weight management and inflammation. In her words: “Women have unique physiological needs based on how we are hardwired hormonally which influences everything to do with our health - including our mood, emotions, our skin, hair, nails, bones, our metabolism, our gut health, our immune system - all the things. We fluctuate over the course of a month and over the course of a lifetime.”.

In Retreat week five, we will host a live call with Chantel to talk about the fascinating subject of weight and hormone health and how interconnected these can be.

You can find more information on Chantal on her website or Instagram.

Weightless

2 month digital weight-loss retreat

Personal experience.

I’m not a ‘naturally-thin-despite-what-I-eat-or-how-I-move’ body-type.

Even though that would be easy to think.

In the past I’ve heard things like ‘Easy for you to say’, or ‘You wouldn’t have to worry about the piece of cake anyway right, so just say yes’. Shallow phrases that show no real knowing of a person.

And ‘easy’ if you mean that discipline of choice creates ease in my life. Sure.

But the cake? Oh, I’ve worried about the cake. I worried about the cake for so many years. I didn’t allow myself the cake because the cake was bad. I said no to events because of the cake. I pretended I was full and I didn’t want the cake. The cake haunted me. Then I ate one bite of the cake, and then I ate the whole cake and then I binged for days.

The Cake caused a lot of worry in the past actually. The Cake is part of the reason why we’re here…

Because today… nope. I don’t ‘worry’ about the cake. Not because I don’t put on weight easily or don’t consider my physical health. It’s because I know when it comes to my weight, it’s…

NOT ABOUT THE DAMN CAKE.

I’m a mesomorphic body-type that easily puts on fat and muscle and I’ve proven this to be true many times throughout the course of my life.

My body image and physical weight and form has been influenced by many factors. After quite a traumatic childhood, my teen years saw me bury myself in disordered patterns of behaviour that included both under-eating and anorexia, taking a flip to a binge-eating disorder and abuse of weight-loss medications. At the time I ‘wished’ I could be bulimic, but I never had the ability of being able to make myself throw up, which I was actually so utterly frustrated by at the time. 🥹

I yo-yo’d from puffy and unhealthy to skinny, miserable and unhealthy.

In my 20’s I spent so much time abusing my body both with drugs and alcohol and also in the gym, with restriction of foods and obsession with patterns of eating that included getting hooked into every diet phase you can imagine.

I still experienced emotionally triggered disordered eating that would see me bingeing during times I met with difficulty in life (inevitable), and then due to the guilt of this, bingeing again in a cycle. For years and years I lived this way.

I made deals with myself on when I would eat, what I would eat, how much I would eat. I chose dogmatic restrictive diets consciously as a way of excusing myself away from ‘bad’ foods, I ate one bite of cake that turned into the whole cake. I went to bed so full I couldn’t sleep.

As I worked on healing my own trauma - a 12 year experience so far - and began my education in Nutritional Medicine, I found a focus on nourishment over restriction, strength and whole-health over trying to be ‘skinny’ at all costs. I connected my emotional triggers with my physical response and this gave me space to make better choices in the heat of life. I also learned nutritional and physiological information that meant I made better decisions for how I fuelled my body when I made these choices.

The volume of work I have done via therapy and education to see and hear myself and to see and hear how women in general show up within the psychology of eating, to understand how the body thrives and what she needs to be satiated, healthy and well, and to create a life where food and body-image-freedom exists with as little dogma as possible has brought me to a space I would be proud to see mirrored throughout our community.

I’ve been to the deepest places of guilt and shame and of obsession over food and body image. I’ve been addicted and obsessed and then aware, and conscious and in ownership of my body, my mindset and my health.

I do put on weight easily and I always have, and if I responded unconsciously to my inner and the outer world, I would look a lot different today and I would feel a lot different today. This is where awareness, ownership, and self-responsibility comes in and this is such a huge component of what ‘Weightless’ is about.

Weightless

2 month digital weight-loss retreat

FAQ’s

  • Firstly, the Universe sings a note of praise that you’ve finally chosen to approach your vision for weight-loss within a healthier space. ‘Laaaaaaaaa’. Then onto the administration side of things. You will receive an email directly from Alice that will outline your welcome + dates to look ahead to. Weight-less begins on June 21st and your first live call is held on this date. This will be the first time you need to show up! After this you will have weekly deliveries of content and reminders of your live calls + recordings sent out after the live calls.

  • While my training and education is in nutrition, naturopathy and via the school for the psychology of eating (and personal experience), I will not be acting as your medical practitioner, nor able to diagnose or treat conditions relating to your weight-loss. I will be speaking to common diagnostic tools, physical reasons for weight gain and difficulty losing weight, and will advise on where to look for testing if this is what you require. What I have found is that the dietary approach and recommendations I offer in Weight-less, when followed, typically see a shift in perceived physical concerns relating to weight.

  • Tsk, tsk. 😉 Interestingly (sadly), Google searches show highest results look similar to this ‘How to lose 3kg in 3 days’. This kind of approach is how we find millions of women 30 years into dieting and still completely unsatisfied with their physical form. Following my approach, you may lose weight in week one or two. However the reality is that my personal goal and how I have created Weightless, is for you to lose weight consistently, sustainably and in a healthy manner, week by week until you reach your healthy optimum weight.

  • The recipes within Weightless prioritise whole-foods, with a focus on protein, healthy fats and smart carbohydrates. All recipes include easily accessible ingredients. There is a variety of protein sources, favouring animal foods, however if you are vegetarian or vegan then I have alternatives to share with you and discuss the value of with you. The recipes will include breakfast, lunch and dinner options with the focus on ‘cook once, eat twice’.

  • Yes. The recipe book will give an idea of a meal plan for a two week period of breakfasts, lunches and dinners with a shopping list attached to this. You can then flex your own plans based on what you enjoy and learn within Weightless to plan your meals and shop accordingly. (There will be foundations you will learn that will allow you to focus well in and outside your home).

Weightless

2 month digital weight-loss retreat