The Diet Diaries

Today I’m talking with athletic trainer and movement educator Anna Hartman who specializes in working with professional athletes to help them optimize their performance. 

You’ll be amazed at how relevant Anna’s work is to everyone. So much of what we talk about is that even the most basic of self care practices around food, movement and knowledge of how our bodies actually function is what it all comes down to, whether you’re an NFL player or behind a desk all day.

This episode is packed with so much!

• what it’s like to be a woman working in the male dominated sports industry 
• how Anna manages her own nutrition and exercise while traveling 3-5 times a week during her on season (yes, a week) 
• how and why rebuilding trust with your body is the key to health and feeling good
• Learning that YOU are the expert of your own body not a doctor or anyone else
• Anna’s own journey with weight, nutrition and stress based eating patterns and the key changes she made towards feeling better and losing weight

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Today I’m talking about what to do when life is getting “lifey” and it feels like sticking to the goals you have feels impossible. 

The reality is that we need to show up for ourselves even when it feels inconvenient. The good news is there is always a way to do that, it just may mean relooking at what is actually doable for you right now. 

Sometimes things sound good on paper or in conversation, but in day to day life, its just too much. That’s ok. It doesn’t mean you give it all up and do nothing. It just means you need some support to figure out how to scale it back.

Because ANY small action matters. It counts. It adds up. It leads to change. There is no timeline or rush or deadline to meet. So do what’s doable for you-what can you be truly consistent with? That’s all you ever need to do 💗

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Today I’m talking with Christa Gurka, owner of Pilates in the Grove, physical therapist and business coach. 

This episode is packed with so much great conversation including:

• Why shorter workouts are often better
• How to find a way to exercise that you actually like
• How to shift away from the all or nothing mindset around exercise
• COVID weight gain
• Body shaming in the fitness industry

I think you’ll be surprised to hear Christa’s candid personal feelings about exercise (she doesn’t love it!) and how she approaches movement and self care despite that resistance. 

And as a Pilates instructor working in a “thin is better” culture, Christa shares her recent experience of gaining weight and the radical acceptance she’s found in this differently shaped body. It is incredibly honest and inspiring.

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Talking today about the scale. This one is going to make you a little uncomfortable, but that’s a good thing. 

I’m sharing my thoughts around why the scale is such a battle for so many of us and what we can actually do about it. Spoiler alert, it's usually not throwing it away. 

The reality is we can’t control the number on the scale.

But what can we control? What we eat. How we eat. Why we eat. And showing up to do the work on those things-and in that process, you’ll find that the scale number just doesn’t matter as much anymore. 

Your happiness comes from the choices you know how to make around food, not from a number.

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Today I’m talking with yoga teacher, birth doula and mom Samantha Harrison.

I’m really excited to share this conversation with you because we talk about not only Samantha’s background as a yoga teacher (thanks to Starbucks!) but her own personal journey and relationship with exercise and body image. 

Like many of us, Samantha came from a place of exercise as punishment and she shares how her yoga and strength training practice has transformed that over time. And how she helps her clients work through those same challenges as well.

We also get pretty candid about body image, especially in the context of working within the wellness/fitness industry and why it’s so important to normalize how bodies change over time, especially post partum. 

And there’s also lots of fun content around why movement (not just exercise) is essential and how to get going with this shift in mindset. 

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Today I’m talking about two big ideas that are at the center of a lot of the conversations around weight loss, disordered eating and body image.

The first is that the processes of rebuilding trust with food and losing weight are not mutually exclusive. You can do both at the same time-and in fact, if you want to lose weight, rebuilding trust with food is the only sustainable way to do it. 

The second, and directly linked to the first, is that creating restriction and scarcity around food drives the demand and desire to overeat and binge. 

As always I share some of my own personal experiences with this journey as a way to help you begin shifting some of your long held beliefs about what it means to be healthy and lose weight. 

I talk through some simple, tangible ways to begin moving away from the restrict/binge cycle and developing confidence in trusting your body which is one of the hardest, but most important skills we need to learn on this journey. Because confidence comes from taking action.

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Back with a guest on episode 39 and I’m talking with online strength coach for women Mark Breedon. 

Today we’re diving into approaching fitness and strength training from a weight neutral perspective and breaking down some of the big myths around lifting heavy weights. 

This conversation is candid and packed with a lot of topics that may challenge your beliefs around what it means to get strong: 

• Why strength training can be about how you feel and what you have the capacity to do day to day rather than achieving a certain look
• How you gain muscle and lose fat is often driven by genetics
• Why shifting away from aesthetics can make the experience and process of building strength empowering and enjoyable
• The incredible benefits of adding more muscle to your body and how we get comfortable with the scale
• Why its actually incredibly difficult to “bulk up” from strength training
• Why strength training is for every woman, at every age and how to get started

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Today I’m sharing my story of how at 41 years old I’ve finally discovered what I want to do when I grow up.

Going all the way back to elementary school when my fascination with science and the human body first started, through high school and college when my body image and battles with food began, I’m unpacking how all of that came together to shape my interest in teaching movement and now coaching nutrition.

The very deep, lived experience of battling my body and food for nearly 20 years and working to get to a place of acceptance, happiness and trust is where I am focusing my work in helping other women. 

Learning how to eat in a way that is nutritious, filling and delicious. Learning how to take away the fear and anxiety around going out to dinner or away on vacation. Rediscovering that exercise and movement has nothing to do with how many calories you ate the day before. Finding a body weight and size that is sustainable for life without restriction. 

This is what I was made to do. I’m so grateful to have finally figured it out.

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Hope I grabbed your attention with today's episode title. This is such an important topic and I want to connect with as many of you as possible about it.

I love Diet Coke. I drink it 4-5 days a week.

And its one of the most important parts of how I approach a healthy diet. 

Health is not just about eating nutritious food and tons of fruits and veggies. 

That is only ONE part of what it means to be healthy. 

Being healthy is just as much about eating food that you love as it is about eating food that is “good” for you. It's about moving your body in ways that have nothing to do with exercise. It's about understanding that eating in a way that you love impacts your mental health and that your mental health drives your physical health. 

So today’s episode talks about how we need to redefine what it means to be healthy and why this is essential for your relationship with food, exercise and your body.

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Getting really personal with today’s episode and sharing some intimate details around why Danny (my husband) and I made the choice to have one child. 

For me, the reason was entirely selfish. In the best possible way. And I say that because being selfish is perceived as totally negative, while being selfless is revered and celebrated.

And I think we have that backwards.

And it shows up in every facet of our lives. Because our collective inability to be selfish has become a detriment to our own health and well being. 

I talk about why being selfish is one of the most important things you can do -because it makes you the best possible version of you for you AND everyone else in your life. Taking care of everyone else first will never do that for you.

 

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