The Road is Tough. Don’t Go It Alone.

Self-doubt. Second-guessing. Loneliness. Isolation.

These are key barriers to progress and change. Each of us struggle with these every single day. Many of us have turned to food as solutions to some of these complex problems, and that value for food has left us with even more self-doubt, second-guess, loneliness, and isolation, reinforcing our problem rather than alleviating it.

Introducing the Eat Like a Bear ENGAGE community, where we refocus our values to achieve the life we desire

ENGAGE is a private community with members motivated by pursuing their long-term goals for health and vitality, committed to self-discovery, hard work, and focus.

First and foremost, it’s a safe space

As the Eat Like a Bear! community has grown, we have been challenged to host discussions on some of our key topics of interests while providing a safe haven at the same time. A key example is recipe sharing, which we have not allowed in the community for nearly two years. The core reason is that recipe sharing takes an extreme level of moderation when the discussion involves tire-kickers and members unwilling to take time to learn our core principles. It sets up a dynamic of confusion rather than success. We have effectively solved this problem with our private ENGAGE community because those tire-kickers will never even find this page, much less join.

The private Eat Like a Bear! community is for any of our community members seeking a safe place to provide acceptance, compassion, and open minds, all with a focused desire on meeting our long-term goals to live a more healthy and vibrant life.

Core Values

This private community is a based on core values of hard work and determination.

Community Features

Does this community replace the free Facebook community?

Our active community on Facebook has driven massive success over our 3+ year history, and we plan for its role to continue. It provides support for many people, and we actively encourage everyone to continue to make use of it. We are committed to maintaining the core user experience there and expect that tens of thousands of members will continue to lean into it.

However, there have been many things we have simply not been able to afford to offer there. As it is, our free community and its related resources (notably the Three-Day Challenge) operate at quite a significant financial loss, so we have been limited in the resources we have been able to build into it.

We see ENGAGE as a budget-friendly solution to offering additional support to members seeking more. It includes forums and features members have requested for years, via member-funded financial support. The community framework is also based in an Eat Like a Bear psychology that is unique in weight loss and also not available in much of our core food-related content.

This private community, then, is a good venue to get exposure to core psychology of success content, especially as it relates to food choice. All of this content comes from Amanda Rose’s work in the community for over three years, providing leadership driving historic levels of success in weight loss. Those who want added access to community leaders will find it right here in this forum, for under $1/day.