155: Drop the Dieting and Start Loving the Feeling of Community and Support: Opening April 1, 2026

If you’re like a lot of people, you might think transforming your health means sacrificing joy and white-knuckling change like you’re hiking up a mountain with an adult goat strapped to your back.

But what if the health transformation that lasts the rest of your life comes from re-examining the relationship you have with your body and with food and to make changes that truly feel good?

In this episode, I share my approach behind Drop It Club, my plant-powered weight loss program that’s rooted in thriving, not restricting. I talk about why most traditional diets fail, and how embracing imperfection, support, and self-compassion is what leads to lasting change. When you shift your mindset, healthy choices become natural and freeing versus restrictive and punishing.

I dive into:

• The unique structure of Drop It Club and the power of focusing on food, movement, and mindse
• A bit about our exclusive Circle community
• How my skill-building workshops help reshape habits and mindset
• Why curiosity and self-awareness are key to understanding your body and your patterns<
• How perfectionism quietly sabotages progress and the beautiful thing that happens when you let it go

If you’re tired of diets that drain the joy out of eating and living, this is a totally different and loving way forward. Whether you want to lose weight, feel more energized, or simply build a healthier relationship with your body, this episode will meet you where you are.

Helpful links

• Clean Food Dirty Girl Drop It Club: Plant-Powered Weight Loss that takes a low fat WFPB approach

Transcript, auto-generated, may have errors

Hey there, this is Molly and welcome to this episode of the Clean Food Dirty Girl podcast.

Every time I start recording, doing a live video, or having a coaching call, I close my door—and without fail, as soon as I start, Sweet Pea is at my door. The “Droplets” on our connection calls know all about this; they hear it happen all the time. As soon as I got on to record this podcast, here is Sweet Pea at the door. I’m just going to leave it going because I’m not even going to start this again. So Sweet Pea, come here. Jeez. Well, I mean, it’s a cute problem to have.

All right, so it’s been a while since I did an episode like this. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of interview-style talks with different experts just to get reliable, solid information about whole-food plant-based eating and nutrition. It’s been great inviting people on the podcast and having those conversations, but I wanted to jump on here and just make one of these quick ones—first of all, just to say hello, and also to tell you about our Drop It April registration.

Last January, we launched Drop It Club, which is our plant-powered weight loss program. It is about weight loss, but it’s about so much more, and it is drastically different than anything else out there. The focus is on getting ridiculously healthy in a way that is kind, abundant, supportive, and even loving. We focus on the food, of course, because the food is really important. We focus on delicious food that you actually look forward to eating. This is the type of food that supports you in a powerful way to reach a healthy weight for your frame while feeling and looking amazing. It also helps protect from chronic lifestyle-related diseases and helps with inflammation and so many other things.

There is the whole-food component, but there is also a coaching component that focuses on mindset. Because I have a background in both whole-food plant-based eating and coaching, I really wanted to put those two things together to have the best of both worlds. The coaching helps people follow the guidelines. Most people know what to do—eat healthy and move your body—but the problem is that most people don’t follow through on a consistent basis. So much of that has to do with mindset, avoiding the “all or nothing” approach or perfectionism, and looking at how your beliefs are either supporting you or not serving your goals.

We’ve been running the program for over a year now. We decided last year that we were going to close enrollment in January and then open it just a couple of times a year. That is coming up from April 1st to April 15th, 2026. You’ll be able to join then, and we won’t have another enrollment until probably the summer or fall.

One thing we’re doing differently this time is that earlier this month, we opened a Circle group for the Drop It community. The people in Drop It Club are lovingly referred to as “Droplets.” Circle is a platform that houses communities—kind of like a Facebook group, but much more helpful and less distracting. It doesn’t have ads and it’s very organized. We have different spaces for different topics to share pictures, wins, and discussions. The Droplets are some of the most wonderful, fabulous people, and they make this program special because they understand the struggles and challenges. There’s a ton of support just by being part of a community of people who are going through something similar.

What we decided to do, which is really different from anything we’ve ever done, is to give people who are thinking about joining Drop It Club an opportunity to get a taste of it before they commit. We are offering “Community Spring Passes” into the Circle community. When you do that, you can actually join the coaching calls, the workshops, and the accountability hours we do every month. These live calls and the community are a big part of why people are getting results and sticking with it.

The program is set up with three main components:

1. The Drop It Hub: This is the classroom where all the material is. It gives you the guidelines for all the phases, recipes, success tools, videos, downloads, and worksheets. It’s a blueprint of what to follow, including what adjustments and tweaks to make.
2. Weekly Connection Calls: These are coaching calls where I teach, inspire, answer questions, and invite people up for real-time coaching.
3. Accountability Hours & Workshops: The accountability hour is a place for Droplets to come together in breakout rooms and connect. We also have monthly workshops. For April, I’ve asked my trainer, Nicole, to put together a movement workshop. It will be an hour long, specifically for Drop It Club, using nothing but your own body weight, a chair, and a towel—no special equipment needed. We have different topics every month, like sugar, meditation, emotional eating, and batching. All the replays of past workshops are in the Hub.

I wanted to find a way to show you how awesome this is. I can share testimonials all day long, but if you can actually experience a little bit of Drop It yourself—participate in the calls, the April workshop, and the Circle community—it will give you a good understanding of our approach. It’s based on compassion, abundance, and patience. It’s a radically different approach that is a breath of fresh air for people.

I just got off a connection call right before recording this, and I asked the group, “Who here feels like this is hard? Raise your hand if this is sucking.” Everybody said, “No, this is empowering. I feel so good. This is totally doable.” Sometimes parts of the program are challenging, and that’s when we talk about it and tweak the guidelines. We are all so different. There is no one “best” solution, and I don’t want this to be so rigid that you feel doomed if you can’t follow a specific rule. Ultimately, I want you to walk away feeling that this is manageable and just part of your life.

If you compare this to a traditional diet—restricting calories or the deprivation model—it doesn’t last because it sucks. It’s not fun to constantly count or weigh everything you put in your mouth. This offers freedom and livability. It’s not something you go on and off; it’s a way you live your life because you enjoy it. The results are a side effect of that way of living.

That’s why it’s helpful to have a coach every week asking how you are navigating the road bumps and looking at your thoughts. I’m really involved in the process, and I love the community we’ve created. We have people who want to release 100 pounds and people who want to release five. We even have people who join just because they want to be as healthy as possible and see how their body operates when they are eating plant-powered, moving their body, and being mindful of their hunger scale.

So much of this is about putting on a “detective hat” and getting curious about your relationship with food. If you are focusing more on health than weight loss, this program is still totally for you. We do require a three-month commitment. I didn’t want this to be a quick fix. During those three months, you’re going to be imperfect. Life happens—weddings, birthdays, or big sadness—and you won’t always follow the guidelines. In this program, there is no “starting over.” You just keep making the next best choice. Three months is long enough to prove to yourself that you can keep moving forward even when you aren’t perfect. That is how you get results.

It is a plant-powered approach, but you don’t have to be 100% plant-based to join. We meet you where you’re at. There are many guidelines that have nothing to do with food, so you can still put those to use.

I would love for you to join us for this Community Spring Pass. April 1st through April 15th is registration. It’s free to sign up for the Spring Pass, and it will be active during those two weeks. The sooner you sign up, the better, because we have a lot of calls in those first nine days of April.

You can go to dropitclub.com to register or click the link in the show notes. I can’t wait to see you. I love seeing all the wins—not just the scale wins, but the mindset victories, like processing an emotion for the first time instead of eating it. There are so many skills to learn that spill over into your relationships and your job.

I hope to see you on a call soon. Have a beautiful rest of your day, and I will talk to you next time!