If you’ve lost weight and gained it back, tried every program, or felt stuck in cycles of restriction, sabotage, and shame — you don’t have a willpower problem.
You have a pattern that keeps pulling you back.

At ShiftGrit, our weight loss therapy doesn’t focus on what you eat. It focuses on why your nervous system keeps pulling you toward the very behaviours you’re trying to change.

When It’s Not About Food — It’s About the Loop

You know what to do. But in the moment, something takes over — and you eat, avoid, delay, or spiral.

This isn’t a discipline issue. It’s your Walnut Brain running a threat response.

Most clients who come to us for weight-related struggles have underlying identity-level beliefs like:

  • I’m not good enough
  • I don’t deserve to feel good in my body
  • Taking care of myself is selfish
  • I always mess it up eventually anyway

Those beliefs act like emotional landmines — and food becomes the short-term way out of the discomfort.

We don’t shame that. We decode it.

What Weight Loss Therapy Looks Like at ShiftGrit

We don’t track your calories or ask you to “just stick to it.”
We help you change the internal rules your brain is running.

That includes:

  • Pattern Theory: Mapping the belief that’s fueling sabotage, guilt, or binge/restrict cycles
  • Reconditioning: A five-step emotional intervention that removes that belief at the source
  • Cognitive Integration: So you walk away understanding why it’s not about the food — and never was

The outcome? Food stops being a battleground.
Your body becomes something you care for, not punish.

This Isn’t About Losing Weight. It’s About Losing the Pattern That’s Holding You Back.

When your nervous system believes you’re allowed to feel good, strong, and safe — the behaviours follow.
Not out of pressure. But out of alignment.

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💬 Not in the Loop — or Ready to Break It?

Whether you’re in Calgary or Edmonton, ShiftGrit offers therapy that does more than help you cope — it helps you repattern the beliefs and reactions that keep you stuck.

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