Follow Your Gut
Dive into my best tips for sustainable weight loss, vibrant health, and unstoppable body confidence.
Episode 198: From Novice to Expert - How to Move Up the Ranks as a Health Warrior
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Do you ever want someone to just freaking tell you what to eat? What's good? What's bad? What's allowed? What's not?
I get it. That is the simplicity and clarity we need when we're new to any skill.
If we're just starting piano, we can't start with chords and using both hands at once. We have to learn note by note, pluck it out finger by finger.
But eventually, if we want to get good, we have to progress. We have to learn the more advanced skills, navigate the greater complexities, until eventually we...
Episode 197: The Secret to Getting Yourself to Change
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Tell me if you've experienced this situation before...
You're scrolling social media, and one of your favorite health coaches comes on with a really inspiring post and you think to yourself, That's it... I'm doing it.
You have a conversation with her, you hand her your credit card, and then you go to start the program and suddenly all that motivation you had when you saw that post disappears.
You don't really want to follow her suggestions, you find yourself dodging her calls, you rebel against...
Episode 195: I Had a Horrible Cheat Day... Now What?!? Part 1
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We've all been there... you're so good all week, avoiding the vending machine, ordering salads for lunch, cooking healthy dinners, saying no to dessert, and then it finally arrives:
Cheat day.
And you think to yourself...
I deserve this.
It's just one meal.
I'll get back on plan tomorrow.
This is the last time I'll have this for at least a week, better make it count.
And so you get the burger and fries. And the milkshake. And the soda. And the day is already ruined so that night you also...
Episode 194: How to Survive an Elimination Diet (Part 2)
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If you know me, you know I am not a fan of deprivation for deprivation's sake when it comes to dieting.
I don't think we should be cutting out foods willy nilly, and I certainly don't think we should cut out entire macronutrients.
However the old adage is true: one person's superfood is another person's poison. And sometimes there are certain foods that cause a reaction in our body that prevents us from looking or feeling our best.
And the only way to truly know what those foods are is through an...
Episode 192: 6 Ways to Celebrate Life Without Junk Food
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Do you ever get stuck in the middle between your ideal body and your ideal lifestyle?
Like, you want to be lean, and toned, and feel good in your skin, but you also want to relax and enjoy having fun with friends and family - celebrating birthdays, holidays, and heck, making it to the weekend.
Well, this is where that all-to-common all-or-nothing thinking comes into play. We think we have to either be super strict with our food and have the body we want or we can have fun...
Episode 191: 8 Ways to Release Negative Energy Without Binging
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Do you ever feel like everything in your life is coming up roses, but there's that one thing just that one little thing that you can't seem to conquer no matter how hard you try?
And the discomfort of that stuck-ness, of that frustration has you wanting to reach for anything that will give you a nice little dopamine hit: food, social media, alcohol, anything that can stop you from feeling like you want to crawl out of your skin.
Well, that was me last week.
I told my therapist recently that I've never...
Episode 188: 6 Ways to Supercharge Your Superfoods
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I'm always the person who's looking to get any extra edge I can when it comes to my health. I don't want to be 'normal'. I don't want to be 'average'. I want to optimize my body and my health and see how far I can go.
But I know not everyone is like me. Some of us are just trying to put one foot in front of the other and get to a place of even feeling ok on a day-to-day basis. Which is totally fine too!
Whichever category you fit into, this episode is for you because we are going over ways to...
Episode 187: 6 Journal Prompts to Reignite Your Motivation
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It's been exactly one month since the new year began and statistically 80% of people will bail on their resolutions in the next couple of weeks.
But the buck stops here. We are going to reignite our motivation and keep trucking forward. We are going to be the 20%. We are going to dig deep and tap into our inner most desires and our brightest visions for our futures so we can continue making strides towards our goals even as the shininess of the new year wears off.
But remember, it only...
Episode 186: 10 Things We're Leaving Behind in 2022 - Part 2
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We're 4 weeks into 2023 and I know when a new year starts we set our eyes on who we want to become.
But we sometimes forget that in order to evolve into the next version of ourselves, we have to let go of the parts of us that don't serve us anymore and that are keeping us stuck.
To be clear, this is not about judging ourselves for past mistakes we made or past versions of ourselves that no longer resonate with us.
This is about showing gratitude to those parts that helped us at one...
Episode 185: 10 Things We're Leaving Behind in 2022 - Part 1
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We're 3 weeks into 2023 and I know when a new year starts we set our eyes on who we want to become.
But we sometimes forget that in order to evolve into the next version of ourselves, we have to let go of the parts of us that don't serve us anymore and that are keeping us stuck.
To be clear, this is not about judging ourselves for past mistakes we made or past versions of ourselves that no longer resonate with us.
This is about showing gratitude to those parts that helped us at...
