Life can be hard, overwhelming, and full of things we don’t want to do but have to. Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest through the trees, but today we are joined by health & wellness podcaster Kat Macomson who created an incredible mindset reframe to help do just that. Learning how to become the CEO, CMO, CFO, and all the other boss babe titles changed her life and might just change yours too. Walk away from this episode feeling empowered to step up and be the ultimate CEO of your life.

Kat’s original “I am the CEO” podcast episode:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sRwtJJ5d3lItk7qjhwyJ0?si=518a655a74624f8b

Follow Kat on Instagram @katmac_fit

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Apply for 1:1 fitness & nutrition coaching:

excelerateathletics.com

Pregnancy (before, during, and after) can be one of the most confusing, challenging, and difficult times to navigate your health, nutrition, fitness, and body image. But, it’s also one of the most important. 

Today we are joined by Registered Dietitian, EA Head Coach, and most importantly…new momma, Megan Shelley! 

Over the next 35 minutes we talk postpartum depression, nutrition needs during each trimester, how to navigate exercise during and post-partum, nutritional needs for breastfeeding, and more!

You can find Megan at 

@megannshelleyrdn on Instagram

And if you’re interested in applying to work with her 1:1 you can do that here:

https://excelerateathletics.typeform.com/to/aNFZPJvc?typeform-source=linktr.ee

You can find Mallory at

@malssfitnfoods

Welcome to the new mini series Fast Fit Facts - inside the Excelerate Your Life Podcast! 

The goal of this series will be to deliver you the basics of all the parts of health and fitness you’re confused and overwhelmed about. ENOUGH OF DIET CULTURE MAKING THINGS SO COMPLICATED! Time to cut out that BS and get down to business so you can wave goodbye to food fear and info-overload foreva.

 In this episode, we're shedding light on the (formerly) confusing world of metabolism and TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) in a way that even a kindergartner could understand. I’m here to prove that health and fitness don't need to be a cryptic code deciphered only by gym bros in secret societies.

Instagram: @malssfitnfoods

Excelerate Athletics Fitness & Nutrition Coaching: excelerateathletics.com

• Key Takeaways:

  • Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDE) is the amount of energy a person expends in a day.
  • Resting energy expenditure, which includes basal metabolic rate (BMR), accounts for 70% of TDE.
  • Non-resting energy expenditure consists of exercise activity thermogenesis (EAT), non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT), and the thermic effect of food (TEF).
  • EAT, or purposeful exercise, contributes only 5% to TDE.
  • NEAT, or non-exercise movement, makes up 15% of TDE and includes activities like talking with hands and cleaning.
  • TEF, the calories burned digesting food, accounts for 10% of TDE.
  • Strength training is the most effective way to increase metabolism and overall energy expenditure.
  • Chronic dieting can decrease energy expenditure and negatively impact metabolism.

Being an athlete can be a weird journey. 

It can consume almost your entire life thus far, from some of your earliest memories and the moment you were old enough to kick a ball or swing a bat, to the day you age out of your sport and leave the cleats behind.

You go from it being your identity on a daily basis to it being just gone.

Navigating the post-athlete life can be challenging, from many different angles.

Figuring out who you are without it, and also what staying active looks like when you never had to be intentional about it before.

Today we are joined by former D1 Soccer player Nicole Neuwirth to discuss her journey post-soccer and how she’s managed to overcome the struggles and reach a place where she now helps former athletes find themselves and their health again! 

As always if you love to pod, please share and rate. 

Instagram Handles:

Mallory - @Malssfitnfoods

Nicole- @nicoleneuwirthfitness

Excelerate Athletics Fitness Coaching- @excelerateathletics

It’s kind of insane that the world expects us to know what we want to do for the rest of our life at 18 years old. 

My college transcript had 9 different major changes on it and guess what? I don’t use any of them now. 

If you feel lost and don’t know what your purpose is - this one’s for you. 

If you like the pod, please share and would love for you to follow along the rest of my content on instagram @malssfitnfoods! 

Just happy to be here and hope you are too

From never touching a vegetable and only eating PB & J's, to eating balls of mozarella because "keto" and thinking that was "healthy", my relationship with food and my body has been ALL over the spectrum. 

I went from never thinking about what I was eating to not being able to think about anything else. 

I think before we go any further in this podcast, you need to know a little bit more about how I got here today and why I am so passionate about helping people skip some of the stages I spent time in and get right to the understanding and empowerment when it comes to health and fitness. 

So buckle in and lets dive into my journey with health and fitness. 

Welcome to the newest podcast on the market (for the next 5 seconds at least) - the Excelerate Your Life podcast! Happy to have ya here, and I'm just happy to be here :) 

My only goal for the rest of forever is to bring people value and help them SIMPLY. Why are we trying to make things so complicated?! Everything about health, fitness, nutrition, self-improvement... it's not that deep. But everyone else wants to try to make it that deep.

Not here!

I hope to bring you the most simplified facts, resources, and education to help you EXCEL at all aspects of your life. And simultaneously, help you realize that you probably already are doing a pretty dang good job. It may just be a matter of who you're comparing yourself to.