Women in midlife tend to limit themselves–thinking more about what they can’t do rather than the possibilities open to them. Midlife mindset coach Suzy Rosenstein joins me today to discuss thought patterns you may see in yourself and some techniques to dismantle and improve those. 

I hope you found this conversation with Suzy insightful and valuable. If you are enjoying the show, don’t forget to rate and review! 

Episode mentioned on HRT: Navigating Perimenopause and Menopause with Hormone Replacement Therapy and How it Affects Weight Loss with Dr. Rosensweet [Ep. 41]: listen HERE

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• Website: suzyrosenstein.com
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Suzy Rosenstein, MA is a master certified life coach and host of the popular podcast for midlife women, Women in the Middle®, with over 1.5 million downloads. She uses her upbeat approach about aging and being an entrepreneur over 50 to help you navigate the sometimes bumpy midlife road better and get the success and results you want with more time to enjoy your valuable time. 

Suzy helps you discover what you really want in your next chapter with the courage and commitment to pursue it so you actually love your life again!

How much do you cook from home? Do you hate it? Just not know how? Maybe you prefer restaurant food? 

Studies show that we get about 20% of our calories/intake from restaurants.  

But what about that other 80%? That is where you can really make a difference in your health. You don’t have to worry so much about those restaurant meals, if you are doing your best in your home kitchen.

I’ve got 6 ideas from my own experience as a home cook on how to get started and improve your skills.  This episode is perfect for beginner cooks and seasoned cooks alike. 

If you really want to improve your health, your food is the first place to start.  According to one of the researchers, "Our food is the number one cause of poor health in the country, representing a tremendous opportunity to reduce diet-related illness and associated healthcare spending." 

Study referenced 

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Whether you work out to improve your appearance or for your health, they aren’t actually separate. Steve Washuta is my guest today. He is a personal trainer with 30,000 hours of experience.  He has worked with women of all ages and he says this:

“When people are only focused on vanity, and they don't focus on their long-term health. I compare it to money. So ultimately, what do you want with your money? Of course you wanna make money now and spend it, but you wanna save for retirement because, You know, having money into old age matters.

“Well, you also want to save your body into old age. So if you're burning through your money too fast, or in my case, if you're wearing down joints and ligaments and you're pushing your body too hard at a young age, you're gonna deal with that later on in life. You're not saving your body later on. 

“So there are more proper ways to work out for overall health and wellness. That's being concerned with flexibility and mobility and making sure you're not doing too much high intensity and making sure it's not just vanity based. Asking yourself, taking a step back and saying, is this making me feel better? Do I actually feel great doing this?”

We also talk about some ideal training schedules for just getting started and for the more established exerciser! 

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About Steve:
Steve has over 30,000 in the Fitness Industry and is dedicated to helping the general population stay healthy into old age. Additionally, he authored, Fitness Business 101, to help young personal trainers and health professionals expedite their success in the industry. He hosts, The TrulyFit Podcast, and is a co-owner of a fitness software company under the same name.

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• Podcast: Truly Fit
• Website: fitnessbusiness101.com/
• Instagram: @stevewashuta

Hormones can be divided into four main buckets: hunger, sex, stress, and thyroid. Allison Occkial dives into how we can optimize these four separate categories and gives us actionable tips for weight loss and improved function! 

She is also a certified personal trainer and I asked her a few bonus questions about movement  and exercise, specifically for women. 

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Allison Occkial is a certified Holistic Health Practitioner based out of Cleveland Ohio. She is a certified Holistic Nutritionist, Fitness Trainer, and Functional Medicine Health Coach and had been working in the field since 2008. She does personal training in addition to working with clients virtually, offering wellness programs, virtual courses and functional medicine based health coaching. 

Her specialties include working with women who struggle with chronic stress, low energy, hormone imbalances, and thyroid and adrenal health issues. She believes in helping others reclaim their body and their health from a holistic, inside out approach. 

Her new passion is helping women improve their fertility & empowering other moms to find their healthy balance. 

In her free time, she loves spending time with her husband Brian and their 7 month old daughter Natalie. She also enjoys exercise, baking, reading, writing & being outside.

• Website: finessefitnesswithallison.com
• Instagram: wellnesswithally

A collection of 5 tips and tricks I use every week with one client or another–or myself! Sometimes I have tips I want to share with you that don’t make an entire episode. So I just lumped them all together in one!

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Episodes referenced:

The Self Coaching Model: episode 4
Falling off the Wagon: Why It’s Simply Not True: episode 18

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Did you know emotions are 50/50? You experience about half positive and half negative emotions. It sometimes doesn’t feel that way, and so we try to stop having negative emotions but buffering against them. 

In this episode I take you through how I teach my clients this concept and how to recognize your false pleasures vs. the well being activities you want to include more of in your life. 

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Amy Stein and I discuss her journey to wellness through natural living, connecting with Mother Nature and breath work. We dive into primary programming and emotion work. We cover a lot of ground in this topic but it was so fun! It’s a little more woo-woo than you typically hear in my podcast and you’ll hear me push back a little with Amy and play devil’s advocate with some questions. We really came to some common ground with the breath work so I asked her to record a bonus clip of a mini breathwork session. It was delightful to go through that with her. 

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Amy’s mission is to educate and empower those who are struggling with their health on how to reconnect to their bodies' innate intelligence using Mother Nature as a guide. She finds that when we awaken to our inner light and wisdom we can sync the mind with the body and spirit. Amy combines the “power of the plants” along with energy medicine techniques and breathwork to allow you to live in harmony in your body and environment as your authentic self.

• Website: www.mindbodyspiritbreath.com
• 5 Ways For Whole Body Healing free ebook
• Free Healing Journal

If you feel like there is too much to do with weight loss, here’s your blueprint of where to start. 

I outline the 6 basics you need to do not only for weight loss, but also your overall health. In applying each of these over time, you will find that your foundation of health improves and you will reach your natural weight.  

Listen to the end for the tip on getting started! 

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NEAT, Total Energy Expenditure, and the Effect on Weight Loss [Ep. 34]: LISTEN HERE

The Hunger Scale Episode: LISTEN HERE

Study referenced from the NYT article: HERE 

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Overwhelm.  We’ve all felt it but how to get out of it? 

In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked link between overwhelm, stress, and their impact on our health and weight loss. Our guest Bryana Gregory, a pharmacist and stress-management expert, shares her insights and practical tips for breaking free from the overwhelm cycle and achieving better health and wellness. We discuss supplementation as well as nutrigenomics and how you can find out more about your personal nutrition needs. 

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Dr. Bryana works with high-achieving women to help them squash overwhelm and live a rich lifestyle full of wellness and abundance. Dr. Bryana is a licensed pharmacist focusing on functional approaches to healing the body from the inside out and she believes that our society is highly and unnecessarily overmedicated to treat overwhelm, yet the root cause is not properly addressed. Dr. Bryana focuses on the long-lasting impact of overwhelm on our health and how to course correct for lasting wellness. Dr. Bryana works with women one-on-one and in group settings to teach her actionable 5 Step Process for Squashing Overwhelm. As a former professional golfer, Dr. Bryana understands how a busy schedule and life full of overwhelm can affect overall health, as it does for so many. Dr. Bryana is on a mission to help you identify your personal sources of overwhelm, simplify your lifestyle and heal your body from the inside out.

• Website: www.bryanagregory.com
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Have you heard of hormone replacement therapy? Most of us have and unfortunately many are worried about using it. Or we just don't realize the importance. Dr. Rosensweet labels the early 2000’s study on HRT and then the resulting press coverage as “outrageously odd, crazy, misogynistic.” Basically it was completely incorrect and led to women being afraid to receive HRT.  

In this episode, you will learn here how incredibly protective hormones are to women’s health. Remember that menopause is actually a fairly new occurrence in human history. He says “You know, for the couple hundred thousand years humans have been alive, there was no such thing as menopause!”

We are living longer, but we want to also live better, and you’ll see here today that hormones are essential to making our health span match our life span. 

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MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: this podcast is for informational purposes only. Please discuss all treatment with your personal physician or medical care provider and come to your own conclusions. 

About Dr. Rosensweet:

Dr. Rosensweet graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1968. Since 1971, he has been in private medical practice, with offices in Florida, New Mexico, California, and Colorado. Early in his career, Dr. Rosensweet trained the first nurse practitioners in the United States and was in charge of health promotion for the State of New Mexico.

He is a nationally known lecturer and presenter at The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), The Age Management Medicine Group (AMMG), and more. In 2019, he was called to Washington to speak in front of The National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) on “The Safety and Efficacy of Bioidentical Hormones.”

Dr. R is the Founder of The Menopause Method and The Institute of BioIdentical Medicine, where he has been training medical professionals to master cBHRT using the most advanced and modern tools. His protocol has been used to treat more than 12,000 women.

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• Website: www.menopausemethod.com
• Instagram: @menopausedoctor

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