Most of us grew up with one simple rule about weight. Eat less, move more, and the numbers will follow. So you count every bite, you skip the bread, and you drag yourself through workouts you secretly dread.
For a while the scale moves. Then it stalls, the cravings get louder, and you feel worn out all the time. A few months later the weight has found its way back, and you're left wondering what you did wrong.
If that has happened to you, it doesn't mean you lack discipline. It may simply mean you were following a rule that tells only half the story.
Your Body Treats a Hard Diet as a Kind of Stress
Sarah Sanders is a professional yoga teacher and nutrition coach. She teaches studio classes of 50 to 100 people, and many of her students arrive after years of strict diets and punishing gym routines.
Her view is that calories in versus calories out is not the whole picture. When you starve yourself and force your way through exercise you hate, your body feels it as stress.
Stress raises a hormone called cortisol, and cortisol is linked to cravings and to the body holding on to fat. So the harder you fight your body, the harder it can fight back.
"Dieting and chronically working out don't change your body chemicals, and they don't change the way your body burns fat."
Sarah Sanders, in her video presentation
That explains why so many people feel tired, hungry and stuck even when they're doing everything they were told to do. They're working hard, but every bit of that effort is aimed against their own body.
Good Food, Gentle Yoga and Less Than 20 Minutes a Day
Sarah's answer is to stop the fight. Her program, called Brilliant Yoga, pairs yoga postures and breathing with plenty of good, satisfying food. You won't find any starving in it, and you won't be living on bland diet meals either.
Then come the yoga sessions. Certain postures and breathing patterns help calm your body's stress response, and Sarah has put together sequences you choose from depending on what you want to work on. Some are lively, and some have you lying on the mat, breathing slowly and letting go.
The daily commitment is small. The simple adjustments she teaches take less than 20 minutes a day, so they fit around work, family and everything else on your plate.
Sarah explains her two key secrets in a short video
It's free to watch, and it shows exactly how her approach works.
Watch Sarah's Free Video →
What You Get Inside Brilliant Yoga
The heart of the program is a 234-page ebook written by Sarah. It takes you from yoga philosophy all the way to step-by-step session plans, complete with clear instructional photographs. Everything comes as instant-download PDFs, so you can start reading on your phone, tablet or computer within minutes.
The ebook is set out in three sections:
- A quick startA beginner-friendly guide to yoga and weight loss that prepares your mind for the change, including a 12-question test that helps you get clear on why you want it.
- Your metabolism and your plateHow your body's own fat-burning metabolism works, plus a nutrition section built on plenty of good food and practical help with cravings.
- Stress and the posture sequencesWays to ease stress in body and mind, and a selection of yoga therapy sequences you pick from depending on what you want to work on.
A digital product. The picture is for illustration.- PLUS THREE BONUS GUIDES
- How To Stop Back Pain: treatment options explained, with simple daily tips.
- The Essential Guide To Pilates: the most useful Pilates exercises to combine with what you learn in Brilliant Yoga.
- Stretching And Calisthenics Made Easy: fitness through stretching, nutrition and lifestyle, with 10 do's and don'ts of working out.
You Don't Need to Be Young, Bendy or Already Fit
Sarah's students range in age from 12 to 90. In her classes you'll find teenagers, busy parents and grandparents working side by side, each at their own level.
The program works the same way. You set the pace, from gentle stretches on the floor to sessions that make you work, and you build from wherever you're starting today.
One sensible step first: check with your doctor before you begin any new exercise or eating plan, especially if you have a health condition.
One Small Payment, and Two Months to Decide
60-Day Money-Back Guarantee
Sarah gives you 60 days to try the program. If it isn't right for you, just email for a full refund, with no fine print.
Give Your Body a Kinder Way to Change
If years of strict dieting have left you tired and frustrated, Sarah's way gives you something different to try: good food, gentle yoga and a few minutes a day.
Start with her short video. It explains the two secrets she teaches, and you can decide from there.