Follow Your Gut
Dive into my best tips for sustainable weight loss, vibrant health, and unstoppable body confidence.
Episode 144: What Causes Weight Loss Plateaus and How to Break Through
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Summary
Weight loss plateaus.
They are annoying. Frustrating. Defeating. Discouraging. And all around sucky.
They also are inevitable on any weight loss journey, so instead of fighting the unavoidable, let's understand why they happen and what you can do to get that scale moving again (without doing anything you're going to regret later).
Why do plateaus happen?
When you start to lose weight you tend to lose it quickly because - spoiler alert - a good amount of it is water weight. Initially your body...
Episode 121: "Fat Burning Foods"... Fact or Fantasy??
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Raise your hand if you've found yourself foregoing your morning coffee for a cup of hot lemon water or a giant glass of celery juice.
Or if you've ever kept that cup of joe, but added spoonfuls of coconut oil to it.
Or if you've put yourself through the gag-inducing shot of apple cider vinegar before your meals...
All in the name of dropping a few stubborn pounds.
The question is, do these diet tricks belong in the giant book of weight loss hoaxes? Or is there scientific merit to any of these...
Episode 104: 5 Hard Facts You Need to Know About Weight Loss
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Summary
Have you ever gone on a weight loss journey and had a freak out moment because...
The scale went up even though you were doing everything right.
Or you self-sabotaged and ate a whole pizza after you were so good all week.
Or you felt your motivation drop and couldn't figure out how to get it back.
The reason we freak out is because we feel these things are not supposed to happen and it leaves us feeling totally out of...
Episode 81: Top 10 Ways to Naturally Boost Your Mood and Motivation
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Have you ever experienced this: You have a goal to lose weight. And even though reaching that goal would mean everything to you, even though you know how much more confident you would be in your relationship, even though you know you'd have more energy for your kids, even though you know how amazing it would be to feel good in your own skin again, you just can't get yourself to take action.
The days come and go and you just feel sluggish, apathetic, maybe even a little hopeless. You can't seem to hype...
Episode 75: How to Eat MORE Calories (and Speed Your Metabolism) Without Reaching for Junk
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Between diet culture constantly telling us to eat less and move more, trends like intermittent fasting limiting the hours we can eat, and trying to include more and more plants in our diet, it can be shockingly hard to get ENOUGH calories in to lose weight.
Believe me, I know that sounds bananas and borderline like an oxymoron, but it's true. You can eat TOO LITTLE, slow down your metabolism, and bring your weight loss to a standstill.
Truth be told, the clients that come to me struggling with...
Episode 50: 4 Reasons Your Metabolism is Shot and You Can't Lose Weight
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Summary
Last week, we talked all about what mental shifts you need to make to get off the yoyo diet train.
But if you've been on that sucker for a while and you've spent years cutting calories, cutting food groups, and increasing your workouts, chances are pretty good your metabolism is all kinds of jacked up.
I see it all the time with new clients, they come to me saying things like, "I only eat 1200 calories per day and workout hard 7 days per week, but I can't lose an ounce."
Yup, that's extreme diets at...
