Every diet depends on one thing:
The fact is that every single diet that has ever existed, has depended on one thing: Your ability to repeatedly override desire for the food you deep-down prefer.
But what if reducing the desire itself is easier than endlessly resisting it?
That single idea changes everything.
Because women do not struggle with weight simply because they lack nutritional knowledge.
Most already know what they “should” eat.
The struggle comes from conditioned emotional and behavioural patterns that continue operating automatically.
This course is designed to help interrupt those patterns.
Not through force.
Not through shame.
Not through deprivation.
But by changing the relationship between desire, emotion, habit, and eating.
Is "automatic weight loss", achieving a healthy weight without diets or food plans, actually possible?
A science-based approach focused on changing food preferences – so you are never at the mercy of food ever again …
The question of whether or not automatic weight loss is possible is an important one, and it has a simple answer that might help you to have confidence in trying the method.
The answer is:
No, if you think the word “automatic” means “magic wand” because magic doesn’t exist.
No, if you think the word “automatic” means using willpower alone to make challenging or unpleasant changes to your lifestyle, like going on a diet, joining an exercise program, or depriving yourself of your favourite food, or using discipline to follow a healthy eating program.
However, if you understand that “automatic” means reducing or completely removing the actual urges to eat too much, too often, or too densely (as in food that doesn’t support our wellbeing), then we can say with confidence that yes, automatic weight loss is possible.
Where does the automatic weight loss method come from?
Hi and welcome …
I’m Christine Sutherland, developer of the Automatic Weight Loss Method, which helps people to identify the unconscious drivers (called “conditioned reponses”) that lead to all of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviour that comprise urges to eat too much, too often, or too energy densely, and to eliminate (“extinguish”) that conditioning through validated psychotherapeutic strategies known as “disruption of reconsolidation”.
I’m a peer-reviewed and published clinical researcher, a published author, and ran a psychotherapy practice for many years, including being a registered clinical supervisor for people working to qualify as registered counsellors with the Australian Counselling Association.
In the +40 years of my career, I have strived to help people get better outcomes, more easily, and usually to make it fun!
I’ll say more about how science supports automatic weight loss below, and how and why it works, so please read on, and be prepared to be surprised …
Many people who struggle with weight are not lacking effort
The fact is that people are working against deeply ingrained preferences that we are are not designed to resist forever, which is why our our National Health & Medical Research Council, and Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Cared reported in 2002 and 1997 (see references below*) that some 96% of people who lose weight on a diet put back the weight within 2 years, and the same proportion who lose weight through an exercise program put back the weight within 12 months.
And now with the advent of the miracle, life-saving drugs such as the new GLP-1 medications, we see that people generally start regaining weight as soon as they stop the medication, and do so four times faster than if they’d lost the weight through dieting or exercise.
Even a significant proportion of people undergoing bariatric surgery (for example stomach banding) still struggle to lose weight.
People have been applying massive effort to weight loss for many decades, and yet rates of overweight and obesity are still climbing, so asking people to apply more effort, is a failed strategy.
YOU didn’t fail, the strategy failed.
To do better, we have to understand the real cause of our unhelpful or unhealthy eating ... because it is NOT lack of willpower
Food cravings, choices, habits, and preferences, including emotional eating, are strongly influenced by learned preferences and automatic responses.
Willpower is a limited resource, and when our choices require repeated conscious restraint, fatigue is common and the cost of staying consistent can become too high. This is the point where people tend to “explode” out of their diet, or slowly find old habits creeping back until they’re right back at square one.
So the right question, the most helpful question, is what can we do about these learned preferences and automatic responses, all of which are “conditioned”.
A core insight for you ... preferences can change ... but how?
These urges, cravings, preferences etc are not fixed, it’s just that we thought they were and we didn’t have a way to really impact them. Willpower looked like the only option.
However we now know that conditioned responses of all kinds can be eliminated, and usually quite quickly and easily, using strategies involving “disruption of reconsolidation” of each thought, feeling, or behaviour that has made us overweight.
It’s really important to recognise that when effort remains the primary strategy, we are always working against ourselves.
But when we eliminate the conditioning, preferences shift, behaviour often follows with less effort, and food choices feel natural rather than forced.
That’s what the automatic weight loss method is about.
What this approach involves
The Automatic Weight Loss Method is delivered as a self-guided ebook or one-day training program that explains both the psychology behind preference change and how to apply it in practice.
It is designed to be used gradually, without rigid rules.
The focus is not on restriction or willpower and does not rely on calorie counting, strict meal plans, or ongoing discipline.
Who this approach may suit
The Automatic Weight Loss Method may suit people who feel frustrated by repeated dieting cycles, are interested in a scientifically-grounded perspective, and recognise the fragility of methods which rely on willpower or self-discipline to maintain results.
The method may not suit people looking for rapid results (although that can happen, speed is not the focus) or a highly prescriptive program.The method shouldn’t be regarded as a quick fix.
It is also not a substitute for medical or specialised support where that is required, as there are medical and other circumstances where weight loss is not a helpful priority.
The scientific foundation of the Automatic Weight Loss Method
This approach draws on established psychological and scientific principles related to habit formation, preference learning, and behavioural change.
It has been shaped through clinical experience, clinical studies, and practical application rather then trends or short-term interventions.
The focus is not on dramatic transformation, but on understanding and resolving patterns that influence everyday choices and working systematically with them over time.
So while transformation can be dramatic, especially where overeating has occurred due to “overliking” of specific food, the approach is gentle and natural, no urgency and no pressure.
There is simply no need.
What you'll receive
You can access the Automatic Weight Loss Method in two ways.
Firstly you might choose the short but comprehensive ebook priced to be accessible for everyone at $7 AUD (or paperback) that explains the approach in detail and guides you through applying it at your own pace.
Includes:
- Clear explanations of the psychological framework
- Practical guidance designed for gradual use
- A structure you can return to as needed
Or you might choose the one-day training program, “1-Day Food Freedom Challenge” normally $197 but for the relaunch reduced to $97 AUD.
Includes:
- The ebook “Automatic Weight Loss Method”
- 7 short demonstration videos, each one designed to be both simple and easy
- One specific-food transformation process
- Rapid behavioural shift
- “Tiny proof” experience
- Emotional relief
completion in one day - A free support community to ask questions and debrief
Getting started
This approach is intended for people who want to permanently resolve patterns rather than force unsustainable change.
Outcomes will necessarily vary and individual progress is respected.
Lasting change does not have to feel like constant effort
For many people, lasting change begins with understanding rather than control.
References:
Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, “Promoting Healthy Weight”, 2002.
National Health & Medical Research Council, “Acting on Australia’s Weight: a strategic plan for the preventio of overweight and obesity”, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1997.
Note: more recent documentation (2024) from our Health Department and other bodies show clearly that current strategies focused on education and community infrastructure that supports activity and healthy eating, have not stopped overweight and obesity rates rising. We believe this different approach is more important then ever.