Inside WAG Nutrition Podcast

In our inaugural episode, we interview coach Chris Bossom. With a decade in the fitness industry and over 6 years as a WAG nutrition coach, Chris has a lot of experience and wisdom to offer WAG clients. We hope you enjoy getting to know us and those working directly with clients behind the scenes at WAG!

Save $50 off your first month of 1:1 nutrition coaching using the code 'INSIDEWAG' at checkout.

Links:

Follow Chris on Instagram: @thebossom

If you liked this podcast, be sure to leave us a review! Learn more about becoming your happiest, healthiest self at www.workingagainstgravity.com and on Instagram at @workingagainstgravity.

In our inaugural episode(s), we interview coach Josh Holton. Josh has been a WAG Nutrition coach for over 5 years, a loving husband and father, and a music fanatic. We hope you enjoy getting to know us and those working directly with clients behind the scenes at WAG!

Save $50 off your first month of 1-on-1 nutrition coaching using the code INSIDEWAG at checkout.

Links:

Follow Josh on Instagram @coachjoshholton

Follow WAG on Instagram @workingagainstgravity

If you liked this podcast, be sure to leave us a review! Learn more about becoming your happiest, healthiest self at www.workingagainstgravity.com and @workingagainstgravity on Instagram.

What if you could feel comfortable in your skin all the time, not just for a season? In today's episode, Adee and Michael are talking about ways you can sustain your progress and results over a long period of time. With a new mindset and a few practical strategies, you can build a system of habits that allows you to maintain a body you love forever.

Tune in to hear:

• 2:45 - How the behaviors that *got* you fit and the behaviors that *keep* you fit will be different
• 4:30 - The power of grit and perseverance
• 6:05 - Why people often struggle with motivation during maintenance
• 9:15 - How to change your strategies when what has always worked stops working
• 11:40 - 5 strategies to help you stick with it long-term

We'll be taking a quick break from recording new episodes to create space for some brainstorming and creativity in order to make this podcast the most productive for our listeners (you!) If you have an idea you'd like to share, please email us at [email protected].

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Emotional Eating: what is it and how can you gain control? Almost all of us will deal with this struggle at some point in our life. In today's episode, Michael and Adee are sharing their experiences with emotional eating, discussing ways this might present itself in your own life, and offering seven powerful strategies to overcome this common roadblock.

Tune in to hear:

• 1:30 Michael's own recent experience with emotional eating
• 2:45 Why talking about this struggle is important
• 4:00 Ways emotional eating might present itself in your life
• 6:30 The cycle of emotional eating
• 8:15 Seven strategies to gain control over emotional eating

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This week's episode is a deep dive with Adee! Michael interviews Adee on her nutrition coaching journey, her personal struggles and triumphs with dieting, and how the fitness industry has evolved. Listen in for a real conversation about everything from the ups and downs of owning a business to searching for motivation and more!

Tune in to hear:

• 1:35 - How Adee got her start in nutrition coaching
• 4:15 - Adee's growth as a coach over the past 7 years
• 6:45 - Adee's strategies for building strong and effective coach-client relationships
• 8:30 - Adee's biggest struggle as a coach and business owner
• 11:30 - Lessons learned on taking things too personally
• 13:45 - How the attitudes and goals of athletes have shifted in recent years
• 16:00 - The differences between eating for performance and eating for leanness
• 17:30 - How eating trends have changed in the CrossFit community
• 20:00 - Adee's personal journey with dieting and body composition change
• 25:00 - How coaching experience has transferred over to parenting

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There's something profoundly satisfying about putting pen to paper and writing down your inner thoughts. Journaling allows you to experience what's going on inside your head, process it, and think about it in a different way.

Today's episode is a deep dive into how and why you should make journaling a consistent part of your daily routine. Michael and Adee offer practical tips and strategies to make journaling a habit, provide some of their favorite journal prompts you can try, and share how journaling has changed their own lives.

What you'll hear:

• 2:15 The benefit of getting your thoughts out on paper
• 3:30 The practice of morning pages
• 4:30 Noticing patterns in your journaling
• 5:45 Michael's experience reading through old journal entries
• 6:30 How journaling can be a form of self-therapy
• 8:40 Using journal prompts for a more effective practice
• 10:00 Adee and Michael's favorite journal prompts you can try
• 11:40 Creating a consistent journaling practice
• 13:30 Turning your practice into an unbreakable habit

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We all know that sex is one of the most important parts of romantic relationships, but so many people don't like to talk about it. But Michael and Adee believe it's important to discuss, and it doesn't have to be controversial. In this episode, they unpack four practical strategies and mindsets for improving your sex life. These tools have helped them to get through the natural ebbs and flows that happen in any relationship, and they can help you in your relationship, too!

Topics:

• 03:03 – Why talk about sex?
• 03:54 – Masculine and feminine energy
• 11:22 – Spending time apart
• 17:21 – Impressing and surprising your partner
• 23:42 – Talking about your sex life
• 25:59 – Accepting the ebb and flow

Links:

• To read more of Esther Perel's work: https://www.estherperel.com

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Why is it that the person you're closest to is also the person you're most skilled at pissing off? Today's episode is about 8 surefire ways to piss off your partner. Michael and Adee are giving examples from their own relationship and sharing some ways they've overcome annoyances to meet each other's needs.

What you'll hear:

• 1:20 Giving unsolicited advice
• 2:40 Expecting too much attention
• 3:45 Failing to follow through on a commitment
• 4:40 Ignoring your partner
• 6:45 Spending too much time on your phone
• 7:30 Not acknowledging your partner's pain
• 8:30 Trying to fix everything instead of listening
• 9:35 Changing the subject when they're excited about something

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What do you do when your clients need more than a cheerleader? Do you feel confident giving them some tough love? Giving constructive feedback is an art, and can be critical for your clients to achieve real behavior change. Today's episode is all about how to tactfully and effectively deliver honest feedback. Michael and Adee are sharing their own experiences as coaches so you can learn how to give the tough love your clients need in a way that maintains their dignity and strengthens your relationship.

What you'll hear:

• 5:40 Michael's experience with aggressive feedback
• 9:05 Adee's background as a nutrition client receiving honest coaching and how that impacted her own coaching style
• 13:00 Questions to ask before giving advice
• 14:40 The Feedback Sandwich
• 17:00 How giving incorrect feedback can still be constructive
• 20:15 A template for giving feedback

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In today's episode, Adee and Michael are sharing one of the biggest parenting lessons they have learned so far: your attitude about an experience is more important than the experience itself.

While expecting, Adee and Michael heard many negative stories about parenting such as, "Say goodbye to your weekly date night" or, "You'll never sleep again." Recently Adee posted about her own positive experience as a new parent on Instagram and sparked a lot of conversation. This episode is a deep dive into how you can create your own story through the power of a positive attitude.

What you'll hear:

• 3:15 - The negative advice Adee and Michael received when expecting their first child
• 6:05 - How to manage expectations of pregnancy, birth and parenthood
• 9:00 - Why sharing a balance of positive and negative experiences on social media is helpful
• 14:00 - Accepting reality and avoiding negativity
• 16:05 - The biggest parenting lessons Adee and Michael have learned so far

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