Jade is a personal trainer mixed with science nerd, mixed with natural medicine geek, along with part philosopher and a little bit of hip hop. He is also an expert in female metabolism. For his full bio check out https://www.jadeteta.com/jade-teta-about. He's got quit the impressive background! 

I could have talked to Jade for HOURS. We start by diving into the four jobs that we have as humans:

To earn a living

To care for our bodies with health and fitness

Personal relationships

Personal development

Then we dive right into the topic du jour: the metabolism! Jade explains what a healthy, optimized metabolism looks like. He reminds us that the metabolism is speaking to us all the time. We just have to interpret what it is saying. Lucky for us Jade explains how we can read the signals that our metabolism is sending. 

Jade came up with a great acronym: SHMEC

Sleep

Hunger

Energy

Cravings

If SHMEC is in check, all systems are firing! And if they aren't he tells us what we can do. 

One of my favorite quotes from the podcast is, "We have to stop being dieters, and start becoming metabolic detectives."

As you start to understand your metabolism, you can implement the four toggles that Jade explains to us:

Eat less, exercise less

Eat more, exercise more

Eat less, exercise more

Eat more, exercise less. 

Jade explains that the metabolism is not a calculator, it's more like a barometer. The job of your metabolism job is to manage stress. It's simply responding to the signals that you are sending. 

To drive home the point of using the different toggles, Jade reminds us that attaining weight loss and maintaining weight loss ARE TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT THIGS. What you do to attain it, you have to do to maintain it. 

Next we start talking about my FAVORITE topic: personal development. "You have to change who you are emotionally and mentally before you can change who you are physically." You have to change on a deeper level for that change to stick around. You have to give up old patterns and thought processes. 

And finally we have a discussion on intuitive eating and I love Jade's perspective on it. I can't wait for you to hear it.

Make sure you check out Jade's podcast, Instagram and website for all he has to offer. He's one of the good guys!

https://www.jadeteta.com

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