Pegasus Rising

Website: www.riselean.com

Creating and executing a highly-refined, world-class program which helps people with weight and eating problems restore health, food freedom, and an empowering relationship with self that lasts for life.

Founder & Owner

Rose Alley

Founded and put together the team of Rose Alley, a pan-Asian women's magazine focusing on self-development, wellness, and happiness of Asian Women. 

Interviewed women leaders in all walks of life and different parts of the world. Launched a couple campaigns on the global level, including anti-domestic violence campaign #EndDV. This campaign, reached millions globally, was supported by UNFPA and various national and cross-country NGOs. In 2017, this mission was featured on Chelsea Show on Netflix — where it was placed at the center stage, led by Rose Alley's founding member Vidhi Chandra and cheerled by a team of world-level celebrities and impact-makers.

Rose Alley's mission: 

"Aspiring to inspire, Rose Alley is a magazine that is dedicated to helping young Asian women achieve confidence, beauty and happiness. Beyond the mission of becoming the inspiration engine for young Asian women, Rose Alley also aspires to set a successful example of how a group of people from vastly different cultures and professions can seamlessly collaborate on shared vision."

Rose Alley was paused 2 years after its inception. Whenever ready, we will bring it back.

Founder, Editor-in-Chief

PwC Consulting - People & Organization

Consultant

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Dionex)

HR Officer

Fiat Group IVECO global headquarter, Italy

Human Resources International Operation Intern

FIAT IVECO China headquarter

HR intern

Have you got my free training '14 MINUTES OF GOLD' — a smart, scientific, and stress-free formula for ending food addiction while automating weight loss? 

You, my friend, should've got it last year if you struggle with the issue. Find it in my Featured area 👇.

Here are some fun tidbits about me and what I do:

- I'm a big simplifier. I show people how to rewire their brains for automatic, lasting weight loss with unbridled food freedom. I said 'automatic,' I mean it. And part of it involves removing >95% of 'work' while getting greater results. 

- I love my game. Academically trained in Neuroscience, I've been coaching for 9 years and have worked with folks from 7 countries.

- I've been there. 20 years ago, I lost 50 pounds together with binge eating disorder. And I lost the 50 by re-embracing unbridled food freedom into my life. 

-  I'm a weirdo. I might just be the only weight loss coach on this planet who surprises clients with delicious cakes delivered to their doors — and they see they are forever liberated from what used to be their worst nightmares and addiction. 

- I love my parties. I've coached corporate athletes, executives, scientists, therapists, doctors, and successful business owners — some are 7-to-9-figure entrepreneurs. I enjoy being the dolphin that leads the sharks. My take: High achievers heal differently. 

You can find me on MSN, USNews & World Report, Entrepreneur Magazine, Entrepreneurs on Fire, etc. 

What you see as Mt. Everest is nothing more than a small hill when you work with the right expert.

Get your 14 Minutes of Pure Gold in Featured 👇 and feel confident again.

Life is short — 4,000 weeks if you have 80 years. Get over food addiction and stop compressing life now.

Entrepreneurs are a different species. We’re the ones who step into risk and go against the odds. The numbers say 99 out of 100 fail, but we still lean in—because the pull of building something that might truly change lives is just too powerful to resist.

Today, I want to celebrate two entrepreneur friends I’ve recently reconnected with:

Sushmitha Kanukurthi  — Founder of Nvven and mom of two here in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s built a health-tech platform that helps families eat better by planning meals not around calories, but around real nutrition. After coaching people to sustianbaly overcome weight and food addiction for years, I can confirm that counting calories and macro isn’t the answer to physical and mental health, and eating food based on real nutrition value is key. 

Hans von Meister  — A decade ago Shanghai, Hans saw many students were disadvantaged by not knowing how to communicate or present themselves effectively. He founded LOZO, a highly successful public speaking training institution that’s helped transform countless shy, nervous kids into confident speakers. His purpose resonated with me because growing up in China, I felt the same gap. The education system there didn’t emphasize speaking with confidence, even though it’s such an essential life skill. I had to pick it up myself later by signing up for two Toastmasters in Manhattan at the same time — so that I could train twice a week instead of just one. At that time, I really wished I had learned to speak better when I was younger especially when seeing how many opportunities I had missed just because of the lack of that one essential skill.

Both friends remind me why this path, as uncertain as it can be, is worth walking.

Leslie Chen

Neuroscience Strategy To Eliminate Food Addiction and Get In Shape With Ease — Even If Nothing Has Worked In The Past | Helped 400+ Clients Worldwide

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If you’re a quiet builder or creator and feel discouraged because you haven’t grown a million followers yet, let me share what happened yesterday:

☕️ At the Starbucks drive-through, the barista who’s been making my coffee for over two years suddenly asked:

“Are you Leslie Chen? I’ve been reading your emails for a year — and had no idea it was you!”

I laughed and said, “How did you figure it out?”

He told me:
 “Last night I heard a Spotify interview. The moment you spoke, I recognized your voice. I recalled your name is Leslie too. I’ve been writing your name on cups for years, so I Googled you, saw your photo, and confirmed it’s you!”

That moment reminded me: you never know who’s quietly following you.

I never imagined my Starbucks friend was struggling with food addiction — or that my words had been helping him shift his mindset for this long. The connection ran far deeper than I knew.

Not everyone will hit ‘like.’ Not everyone will comment. But people are listening. They’re learning. They’re being impacted.

💡 Here’s the thought I want to leave you with:
 As long as there’s even one person who could benefit from what you share — say it aloud.

Like you, I don’t have a million people on my email list or social media. But people who resonate with me on a deeper level have always found me. 

I’m Leslie Chen . For 10 years, I’ve helped high-achieving men and women regain health, remove food addiction, while living as a holistically healthy, lean person — via Neuroscience tools that rewire patterns.

#entrepreneurship

In the next three minutes, I’ll show you the mental strategy to break free from an addictive relationship with food — or sever any attachment. 🥂

First, understand this: breaking free from food addiction involves two workstreams — psychology and chemistry.

Today, we’re focusing on the psychological side only. Let’s dive in.

You perceive food as irresistible because you’ve given it a persona in your mind. That persona automatically triggers emotional and behavioral patterns associated with it.

So, ask yourself this simple question:

👉 If food were a person, who would it be in your life?

Take some time and think about it, write it down on a piece of paper. 

My clients have answered things like:

“Needy mother.”
“A bully.”
“A toxic boyfriend.”

That’s the persona you’ve unconsciously assigned to food — and the emotions you feel around eating are anchored to that persona.

Relationships are built on perception. And here’s the one trick that can change everything:

If you change how you view yourself and/or food, the relationship will shift.

For example, instead of seeing food as a bully — a figure that triggers vulnerability — imagine seeing it as a friend who nourishes and empowers you.

Different personas activate different neural programs and associations in the brain — each defining how you categorize and approach the relationship.

It leads to different emotional, behavioral experiences. 

The goal is to let this persona shift happen naturally, without feeling forced or unnatural. 

This deeper transformation takes guided work — it’s what I do with my clients through working on memory and experience reshaping. But here’s one insight you can start with today:

If you’ve been viewing food as your enemy, remember this truth:

There was a time when food served you. Maybe it was there when you needed comfort, companionship, or relief — when no one else was.

It was the reason of my bingeing 19 years ago. For many of my clients, it was loneliness, stress, or exhaustion. The circumstances differ, but the bond was the same: food once made you feel safe.

A client realized: “Food not only served me, it saved me. Without it, I would’ve used substances, alcohol, slept with random people when dealing with all the loneliness at that time.” 

Yes, you have evolved, yet the way you interact with this old relationship food hasn’t. And when you realize it's never an enemy, the pressure is removed. When your mind acknowledges it's an ally, you are freed.

And the rest is simple and exciting — set new boundaries, create new experiences, and watch the relationship move into an upward spiral.

As I mentioned, full, lasting transformation takes much more work. But this little exercise can give you a brand new beginning.

I’m Leslie Chen. For a decade, I’ve helped high-achievers around the world end food addiction and restore lasting health and fitness — naturally, sustainably, and scientifically — through neuroscience tools that rewire deep patterns.

An Unfair Advantage: 

I’m just like you — I love putting on beautiful clothes, feeling great about myself, having big dreams, savoring delicious food, sometimes comparing myself to others who seem way ahead, and yes… getting frustrated when results don’t come as expected.

I struggled with weight too. When I first came to the U.S., I put on 50 pounds in just six months — a mix of not knowing the food at all and stress-induced bingeing.

But I had one unfair advantage you may not have had:

I grew up seeing people (myself included) eat freely while maintaining a healthy weight effortlessly.

You grew up seeing people diet hard, suffer, and still remain stuck.

That difference is fundamental:

I never believed food was my enemy.

You probably still do.

That’s why I lost my weight peacefully, without fear of food.

And that’s why fear still holds you back. Fear of food leads to self-sabotage — and it weakens your body’s natural ability to lose weight through diets.

Otherwise, we’re the same. And if you switch off the old perception of food and weight loss, you can achieve the same results too.

How can I be so sure? Because I’ve worked with 400+ clients from around the world. They didn’t just change their perspective — they reset their psychological and sensory patterns so their bodies stopped resisting results.

And when that happens — when food freedom is real, and your mind and body are finally aligned — weight loss stops feeling like a grind.

It feels like a cruise.

“What do you mean by a cruise, Leslie?”

On average, my clients lose one pound per week — while becoming fully free around food.

They say: “But I didn’t do anything — no dieting, no gym, no counting, no pills!” 

Don’t just take my word for it. I have plenty of client stories shared on this platform, and you’ll find plenty more elaborate stories on my website — from 3-minute client testimonials to 40-minute deep interviews. 

You’re way closer than you think.

I’m Leslie Chen  — Neuroscience-based weight loss and food addiction coach. 

I help people reset life-long problematic weight and eating patterns (for example, excessive food cravings, impulsivity) so that they live life with full presence and freedom.

Eliminate food addiction while automating weight loss | Award-Winning Coach for CXOs | Neuroscience-based approach rewriting eating & weight patterns | Ease. Self-trust. Self-Sovereignty. Find your spark back.

I bet you can’t imagine my face this morning.

I was walking downtown and passed by an art studio owned by an artist I know. Through the window, I noticed a small crowd forming a circle, all looking intently at something.

Curious, I stepped inside. As I made my way through, I finally saw what had everyone’s attention:

On a 48” x 36” canvas was a painting in progress — of me.

The oil colors were still fresh. The artist, Abdul, was there with his brush in hand.

I froze. Mouth wide open. I could hardly believe what I was seeing.

Abdul looked up, smiled, and said: “Hey my friend, I was going to surprise you with this when it’s done, but now you’ve found out.”

I asked him: “Why?”

He replied: “You are a beautiful lady, I did this to thank you.”

“Thank me? For?” 

Months ago, at one of his gallery shows, I had noticed a smaller piece tucked in a corner: a beautiful painting of a yellow building surrounded by golden and ruby foliage. 

The building happened to house a national coffee chain, and its outdoor seating area looked spectacular. 

The coffee chain’s logo and name were clearly shown in the picture. On impulse, I told Abdul: “Why not take a photo of this and send it to the person who runs the coffee chain? Maybe he’d want to buy it.”

He did. The client bought the painting with a very generous fee. And since he loved it so much, he wanted Abdul to do more pieces for his house and the corporate space. 

“You saw what I didn’t see!” Abdul said. 

“I’m the same surprised as you are!” 

To me, it felt like a spiral of good karma. One small act led to another, then another, weaving into something unexpectedly beautiful.

When I first took that photo at 7 a.m. on the Thames with Belinda (London’s best photographer), all I thought of was how freezing it was and how to not look cold. I had no idea it would one day be painted onto canvas in an art studio in the San Francisco Bay Area — and that I’d stumble upon it being created in real time.

I asked Abdul when the painting would be finished. He said: “Probably around Thanksgiving. I’m busy with new projects as you know, and I don’t want to rush this one.”

I smiled. “That’s perfect — my birthday is right around Thanksgiving.” 


I’m Leslie Chen. For 10 years, I’ve helped high-achieving men and women regain health, remove food addiction, while living as a holistically healthy, lean person — via Neuroscience tools that rewire patterns.

I write about food addiction, sustainable weight management, and sometimes entrepreneurship.

I feel compelled to write this today. In the past few weeks, thanks to the work I do and the relationships I’ve built through this work, a series of moments have unfolded that felt almost unreal, like pieces of a long-held dream quietly clicking into place.

Last Friday, I actually pulled over on the side of the road just to take a breath and ask myself if the conversation I’d just had really happened. I’m still amazed by the expansiveness of life when it begins to respond to who you truly are.

I can’t share the details here, and there are still things I want to keep discreet now. But I can say this: I feel an immense sense of gratitude to everyone who has supported me, believed in me, heard me, and challenged me. Every bit of it helped prepare me for what I’m embracing next. 

The real reason I wanted to write this, though, is because of a revelation that has fundamentally changed my experience of life.

For years, I lived as only a fraction of myself. Maybe 10%. The other 90% I hid away believing it wouldn’t be accepted — that I was too different, too intense, too much. That belief came from being ridiculed, questioned, and misunderstood throughout my childhood. The fear: if I ever showed the whole of who I was, I’d lose connection with the world.

Entrepreneurship changed that. Not overnight, gradually.

When I began dedicating myself to solving a real problem — food addiction — I had to stop thinking about how I appeared and start focusing on creating something that truly worked, even before the world responded. It forced me to connect with people on a raw, human level —  honesty, empathy, and authenticity.

Over time, I noticed something profound: the more I revealed myself, the more deeply people responded, the more I was truly heard. It was eye-opening because, for as long as I can remember, I’ve carried a fear of not being heard even by the people closest to me.

Some people’s deepest fear is not being safe. Mine was not being heard — or accepted.

Stopping hiding was when a deep shift started. People I never imagined meeting appeared, drawn to my purpose, and became allies. Opportunities I couldn’t have planned found their way to me.

Just recently, I heard that my work had been discussed at a casual meeting of a small circle of global business leaders and policymakers as an inspiring topic. One person I deeply respect told me he discovered me because someone mentioned my name at a gathering.

I’m not skilled enough to nail algorithms, nor am I the loudest. But what I’ve learned is that openness — genuine, unguarded openness — is magnetic and trumps all. It invites the world to meet you halfway.

So what’s the core message here? Let you be seen. I’m not just talking about the 10% you feel comfortable being seen, but also that 90% that built you. It may feel like surrender, and it will come with rejection and criticism, but that’s the cost of leading with impact.

The world doesn’t need a polished version of you. It needs the real one.

In America we call today the Super Full Moon Day. In China we call it Mid Autumn Festival and it has been a tradition for 1300 years. This morning, I woke up to pictures of the moon from around the world on my WeChat wall — California, DC, NY, Inner Mongolia, Paris, Torino, Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai etc. Whether it’s Super Full Moon Day or Mid Autumn Featival, we share the same moon, the same earth, the same love for peace and union with our dearest ones. And this beautiful full moon unanimously carries the meaning of union in various cultures, which makes it even more precious in the time of divisiveness. 

There is one Chinese line I’d like to share in spirit of the beautiful moment of union. 

”海上生明月，天涯共此时。” —— Though oceans apart, we stand under the same moon tonight.

The east and the west, the depth of time/history, the expansiveness of space, and the language whispering love and greatness across all cultures collapsing into one. That’s union. 

Happy Mid Autum Festival / Super Full Moon Day 🌕 🥂

It’s easy to say, “I just want to drop 30 pounds.” It’s much harder to admit, “food controls me.”

Because it cuts into identity. And if you’re strong-spirited, Type A, driven—a leader—saying that out loud can feel like admitting you’ve lost control in front of the most basic thing. That’s a real stigma. And it hurts.

I understand it because I’ve been there: 

Years ago, I was a daily binge eater who was 50 pounds heavier. I had the discipline and willpower that won me national level awards, scholarships, and recognition. Yet with food, I felt powerless.

- At 2 p.m. every day, I had to walk to Down The Road café for a cookie.

- If I ate a square of chocolate, I had to finish the bar.

- I cleared every plate, hungry or not.

- I said ‘no’ to social life because I feared eating in public. 

For the whole time, I believed I was weak. And I felt embarrassed because no matter how much effort I put in to ‘manage’ my food issue, I still couldn’t trust myself. 

Here’s what I want you to know: You are not weak.  And you are not alone.

Strong, successful people struggle with food control more often than you think. In fact, if you’re a high-achiever, chances are you’re also more impulsive—because the very traits that fuel your success are scientifically linked to food addiction.

I see this every week in my Zoom classroom: Fortune 500 executives, TEDx speakers, bestselling authors, entrepreneurs with seven- to nine-figure exits, physicians, neuroscientists, and rising corporate stars. All extraordinary achievers. All wrestling with food behind the scenes.

You aren’t struggling because your mind is weak. You’re struggling because your powerful mind has been wired—psychologically and chemically—to:

- believe food is the enemy; 

- unconsciously turn a simple thought of food into powerful cravings;

- make you crave the wrong things; 

- push you to finish everything hungry or not; 

- tie emotions to eating

The good news? Circuits can be reset.

And once they are, food stops running your life, and you’ll finally live life on your own terms. 

————

I’m Leslie Chen — an award-winning neuroscience-based weight loss and food addiction coach. 

Over the past 10 years, I’ve helped 400+ high-achievers sustainably regain their food freedom and body confidence with ease and fun.

** What Women Think About When Food Is No Longer The Center Of Life **

A client took me to a South Indian restaurant in the Bay Area. It was our first time meeting in person after 10 weeks of Zoom calls.

She’s turning 39. I’m turning 40. Our birthdays are just one day apart. Both Scorpittarians (if you know, you know). Two optimistic, passionate immigrant women from India and China. The conversation was buzzing, the energy was vibrant, and my grandma’s goat curry paired perfectly with a glass of Chardonnay.

At one point she laughed, “My husband asked if my coach wanted to meet me for lunch just to test how you eat.” We both burst out laughing.

But my favorite part of our time together?

We talked about dreams.

Her dream: launching her own interior design business to bring beauty and aesthetics into spaces. 

I brainstormed with her on low-hanging fruit, opportunities, and action steps (switching to  my entrepreneur hat from my weight loss coach hat.) 

Here’s something I’ve noticed again and again: 40–50% of women who break free from food struggles with me end up starting a business project.

It’s natural. Once they reclaim confidence, mental space, and time, new horizons open up.

Where food once consumed all their attention, clarity about who they are—and what they’re meant to build—takes its place.

Women are meant for big dreams. And during and beyond my program, I cheer them on.

I’m Leslie Chen , a neuroscience-based weight loss and food addiction coach. 

In the past decade, I’ve helped 400+ high-achievers permanently overcome chronic weight and eating struggles by rewiring the psychological, physical, and biochemical patterns that make weight loss and food freedom happen naturally—by default.

Yesterday I asked a client: “What was your first impression about me?” — Full of curiosity as she once she said to me “the moment I saw your face, I decided to work with you.” 

“Oh this is what I told my kids: ‘I’m gonna work with this super cool Asian lady who’s very fast and smart like the mom in Fresh Off The Boat!”

I looked at her and thought “Damn, she reads me!” Under my sometimes quiet and calm look is the gal who has 22 tabs on the browser atm, called out the fake monks on Madison Avenue, and once convinced a thief with his hand in her pocket to buy her Starbucks instead, on the street of Shanghai (and he gladly did).

My biggest moment of crisis so far: being surrounded by six police cars full of armed officers in Paris. 🤦🏻‍♀️ A few hours later… I had a date with one of them.

Well Jessica Huang and Leslie Chen do have one thing in common: seeing the best potential outcome in any circumstance. 

I told another client, a young pastor — after his mission trip to Bosnia — that I was not just helping him, I was helping the Pope 35 years from now. And I will always remember his reaction when hearing that: 

“If God chooses me to be that vessel and puts me at that place, I’ll do the work for him. “

Weight Watchers nailed its name: it’s turned millions into watchers of weight — letting numbers dictate their lives, circling the same struggle day after day. Exactly what the name promised.

Rise Lean will do the same — but differently: we help people rise. Lean. Confident. Finally free from food and weight struggles — living without the baggage.

They build better dieters.
We build free people.

After 15 years of bingeing — and two straight months of daily binges right before joining Lean Instinct Formula™ — the pattern has been broken. And this is only Week 4. 

In fact, the client hasn’t binged once since starting. 

Me: “When the thought of bingeing pops up (and it still does because it’s a year-long habit), how easy is it for you to walk away from it?”

Client: “4 out of 5, with 5 being the easiest. I’m not just resisting anymore. It’s not a 5 yet only because the thought is still there, even if it’s faint.”

Me: “Great. We’ll eliminate the thought of bingeing next. How does it feel now?”

Client: “Liberating, finally feeling in control!"

As the creator of Lean Instinct Formula™ and having guided hundreds of people through the path, results like this are expected.

There are two types of solutions: 1) The make-me-feel-better solution. 2) The real solution that actually solves the problem.

More than 90% of people settle for #1. Why? Because wanting to solve the problem often feels more satisfying than actually solving it. The brain is wired to resist change—it clings to survival patterns.

That’s why most solutions on the market exist to make you feel better, not to truly solve the problem.

For example: I’ve asked thousands of people who have expressed interest in working with me, “Why did you do WeightWatchers/fasting/keto again, even though you already knew it didn’t work for you?”
 The most common answer: “I just needed to feel the problem was under control.”

It’s a soothing mechanism, like a pacifier. 

This is exactly why #2—the real solution—isn’t for everyone. Not every mind is fully capable of supporting the change as changing is anti-human nature, no matter how badly someone says they want it.

Last week, I became a private client of a top expert—someone I trust to walk me through the fire and take me higher. He doesn’t hand me a band-aid. He teaches me the solution.

Expensive? Five figure for a short period. 
 A lot of hard work? No doubt.
 I didn’t blink when joining as no one can deny me the best experience I deserve—including myself. 

And even as a teenager coming from a modest family background, I’ve bet on myself and gone all in. That mindset has transformed my life to the level most people around me couldn’t comprehend at that time. And I’ve kept making leaps this way.

If you’re like me—a true solution seeker who can’t stand the what-if question because you know your potential is limitless —struggling with chronic food and weight battles and are serious about ending them, I work with clients like you. 

It means you are ready to face the second kind of solution vs being soothed by first kind.

It also means you are probably the top 10% who are built to win and you just need to know the right direction. 

We’ll sit down together, get honest about the real problem, and create the solution that ends the struggle once and for all.

Tap “Book An Appointment” to make this happen.

Fine, I'll confess now. I teach people to lose weight without restrictions, yet technically, I’m on three “diets” at once:

- CICO (Calories In = Calories Out)
- Intermittent Fasting
- High Protein + Plant-Based

But here’s the twist: I didn’t choose any of them. I never track calories. I never time my meals. I never force myself into rules.

They just… happen.

Because my body regulates itself on autopilot. 

Take intermittent fasting. A doctor on a podcast once said: “The best way to reduce visceral fat is a 12–12 intermittent fasting plan—12 hours eating, 12 hours fasting.”

I LOL’ed. 

I finish dinner at 7. I eat breakfast at 7:30. By their definition, I’ve been intermittent fasting for years—without even knowing it.

Same with CICO. I’ve stayed at 122 lbs for years. That means my CI=CO. No tracking apps. No spreadsheets. Just balance.

But here’s the part most people miss:

If you’ve been killing yourself to diet, you are doing the exact wrong thing because instead of training your brain to associate weight management and eating with ease, you are training it to associate with hardship and failure. 

***I'll say it again, please read slowly as this is the key:***

Instead of training your brain to associate weight management and eating with ease, you are training it to associate with hardship and failure. 

That wiring which runs on its own once established is what kills the results. 

And on the food psychology level, the harder you try to control food, the harder food controls you.

This is why many people feel they are losing their sanity and still can’t make things right. 

👉 The truth is, food freedom isn’t about “doing” diets better.

It’s about shifting into a state where overeating, overthinking, and overindulging just… don’t show up anymore.

This means your brain and body respond to food and eating differently, and your body experiences flavors, textures, and portions differently — so that your satiety, preferences, and craving responses shift to deliver all the results. 

You no longer do the heavy-lifting, your newly established patterns carry out things for you on autopilot. 

That’s freedom. And that’s when your body naturally settles into its healthiest, leanest, most sustainable state.

So in Lean Instinct Formula™, we don’t have food rules. We never set food disciplines either. Yet clients’ decade-long binge eating and weight issues disappear on their own.  

Because when you rise to a higher dimension, the struggles of the lower one simply stop existing.

My name is Leslie Chen  — neuroscience-based food addiction and weight loss coach. For 10 years, I’ve been helping high-achievers worldwide remove food addiction, over-eating, emotional eating problems while getting fit sustainably — with ease.

If the way you manage weight shrinks your life and makes it small by keeping you obsessed with food and stopping you from exploring the world, stop it. 

The real, sustainable solution does the opposite:

It expands your life. It makes you healthier, freer, and more alive by taking the real blockers, limits, and obsession away. 

How do you achieve it? 

By shifting the brain and sensory patterns that lead to over-indulgence, weight gain, and food addiction into those leading to natural, passive self-control and long-lasting fitness. 

Food freedom and fitness go hand in hand. 

Can you achieve it?

No sugarcoating — not everyone can right now given where they are on this journey. 

But I’ve spent the last decade helping peope rewire their brain using neuroscience to solve their food and body struggles for good.

And if after a thorough, real conversation I tell you that you can — you can.

“I don’t have a food routine that helps me get fit while satisfying me.”

Then you must have one.

It’s not a diet meal plan that restricts make makes you doubt everything. 

It’s a structure that allows flexibility, ease while taking away the fear that joining a party or eating out will ruin your entire progress. 

And it can be very simple. ❤️

Leslie Chen  — helped 400+ holistically solve food addiction and weight problems over a decade decade, using neuroscience.

When you learn from a champion, you’re not just picking up a skill — you’re absorbing the entire embodiment of excellence.

And if you’re going to invest your precious time and energy into learning, why not learn from the very best to maximize both the experience and the outcome?

Today, I want to celebrate my horseback archery coach, Luo Chengqiang. While his name may not be widely known here, he just ranked #12 in the world (and #1 in China) at the 17th World Horseback Archery Championship — the biggest stage in the sport, with hundreds of top competitors from 70 countries.

This summer, I had the rare privilege of training 1:1 with him in Inner Mongolia. 

Shadowing a champion — no matter the field — is a powerful opportunity. Because when you witness how the world’s top 0.0001% operate, you don’t just learn technique… you see mindset, discipline, and mastery in motion.

A side note about this guy:

He’s 48, and he started this sport when he was 31. He didn’t start it early, and it has been 15 years of consistent hard work for him to become extraordinary on the world level. 

Behind every victory there’s lasting grit and massive passion.

“Leslie you are so disciplined!” “Do you know how big of a binge eater I used to be? For years, I carried deep shame about it.”

Nowadays I talk about it with my clients with laughter — how I use my darkest and most embarrassing stories as fuel for their success and empowerment.

Just to give you an idea:

Imagine this girl having three big bagels 🥯 fully stuffed with cream cheese and jelly for breakfast… and starting a full lunch just 1.5 hours later.

I even had a nickname — “The Beauty of Tang Dynasty.”

Why? Because during that era of China, women were universally fat and proud of it.

“Oh, you just love food too much,” they said.

No. I didn’t love food. 

I didn’t want it.

I just couldn’t control myself — and I had truckloads of self-resentment that I swallowed right along with the bagels and chocolate cakes, bite after bite.

You can’t even fathom it if you’ve never experienced it.

But if you have, you totally get that feeling — of being possessed by something else, driven out of control to the point where you don’t even recognize yourself anymore. That is your everyday reality. 

And I can boldly claim this:

I don’t think any of you binge eaters and dieters out there can go as crazy as I once did.

On the dieting side: 14-day water fast — anyone done that?

I’ve spoken to thousands and the most extreme things one has done was roughly half of that at one time.

But I’m blessed to have fully recovered from that darkness and to be able to talk about that chapter of my life with humor and liveliness now.

Back then, twenty years ago, I had no idea that my deepest struggle would one day become the hope for hundreds of clients I’ve served.

I’m Leslie Chen , a neuroscience-based food addiction and weight-loss coach.
 For the past decade, I’ve helped 400+ people worldwide break free from lifelong food and weight struggles — and slay the dragon of bingeing — once and for all.

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