It can be hard to decide whether to pursue appearance related fitness goals or whether to work on your health, relationship with food or body image instead.
Neither are wrong, but one approach might make more sense for you than the other.
Sometimes what we think is beneficial for our overall health and well-being is more detrimental than we realise.
Going over some of the ironies and hypocrisies that are prevalent in the fitness industry today
Do you find yourself often reaching for a sneaky snack?
Feel like you eat well at meal times, but it's the snacks creeping in which are sabotaging your progress?
In this episode, we break down why we turn to snacks, whether it's ok to have a little snack here and there, and practical strategies to snack more mindfully and more in line with your nutrition goals.
Discussing the morality behind diet culture that could be likened to puritanical religious ideology
What is it doing to us and how do we fix it?
Recently, it seems that there's a new demon in the nutrition-sphere, we're all ditching seed oils in favour of coconut oil, butter, beef tallow and ghee.
But is this really what the evidence suggests?
Are we doing ourselves a disservice by replacing polyunsaturated fatty acids with saturated fatty acids?
This episode is a deep dive into several studies that look at what the body of evidence has to say.
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Why is it that sometimes what we say we want doesn't always line up with our actions?
In this episode we explore what self sabotage is & how we can overcome it to work towards our health and fitness goals.
There's a surge in 'right wing' fitness & with it, a heavy focus on extreme discipline, morphing our bodies to look a certain way and buying into conspiracy theories and alt-wellness pipelines in order to get there.
I believe many of us are missing the point of what health and fitness should be about, I think it's time that we took a step back and re-defined what success actually looks like when we're working towards health goals.
The best way I've found to shift my focus from trying to change my body, is learning how to appreciate my body. I've done that by shifting my training goals towards trying new things, learning skills and getting stronger - and by viewing nutrition as a way to fuel my different goals, rather than to shrink myself.
How do we know what type of body will make us the most happy if and when we finally achieve it?
This is the reality check I wish I had when I was younger and unhappy with how I looked.
We know that being overweight can be a risk to an overall health. But dieting has it's own set of risks as well that can't be ignored.
In this episode, we discuss the potential downsides of dieting, so that you can make an informed decision about whether that's something you'd benefit from.
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Discussing what happens to a woman's body as she transitions through menopause, along with some strategies that people can implement to make this transition a little more seamless.
Hope you enjoy!
Not your usual health and fitness guide to the holidays - more a conversation about not letting the overwhelm get to you and how to keep your relationship with food intact over the holiday period
Why do we sometimes have an all or nothing mentality around diet and fitness?
What should we do to overcome it?
Talking about how not focusing on fat loss this time of year might be the best option for you long term, even if you do have a fat loss goal, and what you can do instead.
Why do we crave certain foods?
How do we deal with cravings if we feel as though they are interfering with our nutrition goals?
The key to not bouncing back starts with whatever you are doing during your fat loss phase
In this episode we go through what you need to be focusing on before, during and after a dieting phase so that you can actually maintain the results you achieve as well
What defines a binge versus an overeating episode?
Is overeating a sign that something's wrong with us?
What is emotional eating?
How to break the overeating cycle
Continuing on from last week's discussion about how to know if you're taking it too far on your health and fitness journey.
If you want to skip the pre-amble, I get into the discussion at around the 18-minute mark (apologies - I went on a little too long this time!)
A discussion on 'skinny' influencers, how to know whether your health and fitness journey is helping you or holding you back, and some advice on what to do if it is
There's so much advice about nutrition out there, how do we know what's fact and what's fiction? This episode goes through the basics of nutrition literacy and how to spot red flags when it comes to claims about nutrition.