Follow Your Gut
Dive into my best tips for sustainable weight loss, vibrant health, and unstoppable body confidence.
Episode 175: 10 Tips to Lose Weight Without Tracking Your Food - Part 2
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So you want to lose weight but you're sick of having to pull out an app or calculator every time you want to take a bite of something tasty.
I hear you. That's why I wanted to load up your tool kit with incredibly effective, science-back strategies to help you reach your weight loss goals without tracking a damn thing.
Last week we got into the first 5 habits to implement, so don't forget to start there.
Already listened? Then you're ready to move on to our second batch of tips and tricks!
6. Always...
Episode 174: 10 Tips to Lose Weight Without Tracking Your Food - Part 1
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So you want to lose weight, but you're sick of counting calories, tracking macros, logging points, and in general having to pull out an app every time you want to take a bite of something tasty.
The good news is, if you look at the healthiest, longest living countries in the world, food tracking is virtually unheard of.
Proof that it can be done!
Here's what swap that calculator for...
1. Eat slower.
"...researchers looked at data from 60,000 people with diabetes over a six-year period. The...
Episode 172: 13 Habits to Improve Your Self Esteem - Part 1
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Confidence is not a personality trait. It is a skill. And everyone has the ability to hone it.
And it's important that we do. Because our self-esteem impacts every area of our life. It impacts...
- Our romantic relationships - are you avoiding physical intimacy because you're self conscious about your body?
- Our platonic relationships - are you not setting healthy boundaries because you struggle with people pleasing?
- Our work - are you not asking for that promotion or starting that business...
Episode 170: 10 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism Today - Part Two
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Last week we dove into the first 5 action steps you need to take to boost your metabolism and make weight loss easier.
If you haven't checked that out already, click here!
If you did, you're ready to dive into part 2...
6. Choose strength training over cardio.
In part 1, I mentioned that restoring the glucose reserves in your muscles is a big part of your post-exercise metabolic boost. Meaning, you want to prioritize workouts that use up a lot of glucose, requiring more work from your body...
Episode 169: 10 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism Today - Part One
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Eat less + Move More = Weight Loss!
That's what we've been told for decades, right??
Except that it isn't true... as a nation, over the past 20 years we have eaten less and moved more, and obesity is still on the rise.
How??
Our lifestyles have been fueling metabolic dysfunction and simply dieting, counting calories, and hitting the treadmill aren't cutting it anymore.
And even if dieting does work, who wants to count calories and restrict their...
Episode 167: 6 Proven Ways to Boost Your Immune System Naturally
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With fall around the corner and another uptick in covid cases, I thought it was about time to dedicate a podcast episode to improving your immune health.
I can tell you from experience, my immune system used to be shot.
I got bronchitis multiple times per year.
Whenever I did get sick it would linger for weeks, if not months.
And I landed myself an autoimmune disease. (I know, good times!)
These days, my Hashimoto's is in remission, I get sick maybe once per year, more often than not I can stop an...
Episode 166: WE REBRANDED! Welcome to Follow Your Gut!
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I'm going to be real with you... this is not the podcast episode I had planned for today.
Last week I wrote a fantastic guide on how to ramp up your immune system naturally as we head into fall and another covid wave.
However, when my co-host Gio and I went to record it this morning... poof! The guide was gone.
But we roll with the punches here and my girl Gio came to the rescue with a great idea while my tech guys tried to find my missing blog post.
You may have noticed that a couple of weeks...
Episode 165: 4 Mindset Mistakes That Are Actively Halting Your Progress
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I've said it before and I'll say it a thousand more times...
In the game of health and weight loss, your mindset will fuck you up more than a cheat day ever will.
How you speak to yourself, how you perceive setbacks, how you think about obstacles, and what you focus on is the difference between you taking another step forward or quitting.
It's the difference between you staying consistent or swinging from one extreme to another.
It's the difference between you feeling grateful when you...
Episode 164: Weight Loss and Your Liver... The Connection You Never Knew About
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This podcast/blog is alllll about getting to the actual root of stubborn weight.
Because far too many people are gaslit and shamed about their weight struggles.
They're made to feel like they need to starve themselves to get results.
Or like their body is simply broken and they'll never be able to have the body they want.
Or like they're just plain stupid and don't know how to count calories.
Well the buck stops here.
If you've truly put in the effort to not just follow diets, but to...
Episode 162: Kat's Library... These 11 Books Will Change Your Life
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If you've been listening to this podcast/reading this blog for a while and you like the way I think about food, healing, mindset, and life in general, I have a secret for you...
I wasn't born thinking this way.
I know, shocking. I had to learn, and practice, and stumble, and relearn, and unlearn, again and again and again.
And my greatest teachers have been the books that line my shelves (or let's be real, my audible library).
These authors have been my guides, helping me work...
