Weight Loss For Women: empowering health, strength and nourishment

Feeling stressed? Have you listened to our latest podcast episode?

Theresa and I chat about how you can change you mind about stress! The truth is that you aren’t restricted to your past frameworks. You CAN overcome them with a few simple changes and reframing techniques.

Untangle your past and current stressors, and finally start making progress toward becoming that women you know you can be! (And here’s a twist: It doesn’t necessarily mean adding more.)

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Theresa Piela @livingrootswellness

Dr Huberman

SHOW NOTES

01:03 - Theresa's background and what she does

02:15 - Working as an EFT practitioner

03:23 - Brain rewiring

04:30 - How a well-balanced and well fed system is so much more resilient to stress (Vit B3 and Niacinamide)

05:47 - Listening to your body and physical symptoms when you're already pushing to hard (Hyper awareness)

08:05 - Building stress resilience

08:32 - What stops women from making progress

09:08 - The central nervous system and stress (Hyper aroused and depleted state)

10:49 - Knowing where in the spectrum you are

11:34 - Slowing down: the exhale technique (Taking deeper breaths)

12:28 - Window of tolerance

12:53 - Asking yourself what your body really needs right now, what you can control what you can let go of

18:53 - Why we need to focus on recovery

19:14 - Being honest with yourself and knowing what you really want

21:40 - Embodying confidence

23:19 - Balance by tally

24:38 - Learning to say "no"

26:30 - Being in a toxic relationship or a job that you hate and how this affects you

29:23 - Strategies on how you can overcome stress

30:30 - Acknowledging what you feel

35:57 - How do feel you about the "feeling"

37:42 - What is breathwork

38:15 - The two parts of autonomic nervous system (Sympathetic and parasympathetic)

40:13 - How to do breath work

41:38 - Non-sleep deep rest (NSDR)

44:35 - Circadian rhythm and the benefits of getting a dose of sunlight

If you’re a busy mum, you can probably relate to Amy Weldon’s story…

With six kids, Amy is always on the go! When her husband got sick 10 years ago, they decided to take their health into their own hands. Yet, when 2020 hit, and after two miscarriages, Amy knew she needed more help.

Eventually, she signed up for our program and since then, has lost 13 inches (gaining muscle and losing body fat!), sleeps better, and has seen vast improvements in her mental health. Her transformation in even just this short amount of time has been incredible!

Amy says, “As women, especially as moms, we tend to invest in our children in so many other ways. I look at it as an investment for my entire family. It’s not just an investment into yourself. Because when you invest in yourself, you are a better mom and wife.”

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SHOW NOTES

00:41 - Amy's background

01:25 - Her health and diet history

02:41 - Going through 2 miscarriages

04:19 - Putting on so much weight after following a restrictive diet program

05:46 - What she was hoping to achieve when she joined the program

06:46 - How long she's been in the program

07:01 - How her body composition changed and improved

08:49 - Loving lifting weights

09:35 - Her health improvements

10:16 - Prioritising sleep

11:05 - Gaining confidence

12:05 - How much calories she's on and what sorts of food she's eating

13:16 - What she enjoyed most about the program

14:32 - What she find the most challenging part about the program

16:12 - The advantages of planning ahead

17:11 - How the food fits in the family

19:17 - Her advice to women who are still siting on the fence about joining the program

20:53 - How coaching and support helped her achieve great results

22:39 - Her advice to other women who are in the same journey

Let’s talk about binge eating and trauma… In this latest podcast episode, Stephanie, a somatic eating counselor for over a decade, unveils the intricate emotional factors involved in binge eating.

Emotional eating and binge eating can actually be a message from your body, signaling dysregulation of some kind. Yet, we often simply beat ourselves up when we overindulge in ice cream, cookie, chips, etc. So, here’s what you can do instead to overcome binge eating once and for all!

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Stephanie Mara Fox, MA, CMBEC, CHC, CYT, is a Somatic Nutritional Counselor and Mentor with a Master’s Degree in Somatic Psychotherapy. She is the creator of Somatic Eating®, a body-oriented, sensation focused therapeutic approach to eating. She’s supported women, coaches, and wellness professionals all over the world, helping them to heal from disordered eating patterns, binge eating, emotional eating, chronic dieting, and body image concerns. She has been working for over the past decade to guide women in feeling empowered in their relationship with their food and body. Stephanie is published in the International Body Psychotherapy Journal, featured in Somatic Psychotherapy Today, VoyageDenver, Elephant Journal, Authority Magazine, and Your Recovery Revealed Summit. She is a teacher at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating and has supervised thousands of mind-body eating coaches. Stephanie is on a mission to guide others into a safe and regulated relationship with food so they can go out and create their Satiated Life.

Websites: https://www.stephaniemara.com/

https://www.somaticeating.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephaniemara/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephaniemarafox

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephmara/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stephaniemarafox

Contact: [email protected]

Receive 50% off my Intro to Somatic Eating® Mini Course here: bit.ly/3YQi5Td

SHOW NOTES

02:44 - Stephanie's background, practicing as a Somatic Nutritional Counselor

03:37 - Emotional eating and underlying trauma

05:10 - Physical hunger vs emotional hunger

07:17 - Binge and comfort eating

08:47 - Window of tolerance

10:42 - Alcohol consumption

11:17 - Fight or flight response

12:18 - Protective eating

14:36 - Fear response

14:58 - Connecting with food

18:45 - Interrupting emotional eating before it happens

21:01 - Bringing language to emotions

23:40 - Our TTC Journey

26:05 - Feeling your emotions

27:44 - Flowing with yourself with where you're at

29:06 - Starting to see our relationship with food as a doorway

29:45 - Trusting your body

31:10 - Stephanie's programs

32:12 - Working in baby steps

32:55 - Bringing in curiosity

Should you be doing high reps and lower weight if your goal is fat loss? In our this podcast episode, Craig answers this question once and for all.

Craig and I dig into the #1 thing that will have the most impact on fat loss, how muscle maintenance or growth effectively supports this, what goes into building muscle, the importance of muscle as we age, and common mistakes many women make.

Happy listening I hope you find this podcast helpful and don't forget to take a screenshot of the episode and share it on Instagram stories and tag me at @kittyblomfield. Each month I choose someone who has shared and they get a tub of Saturée Premium Collagen valued at $79.

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Craig McDonald @iamcraigmcdonald

SHOW NOTES

04:34 - The number 1 thing that drives fat loss

05:07 - Total daily energy expenditure

05:32 - Activity levels

05:59 - Hitting your protein target and why this is important

07:07 - Why you will really never know exactly how many calories you’re burning

08:25 - Do you need to do higher reps to burn calories and lose fat?

08:49 - Why you need to separate muscle building from calorie burning

09:56 - Strength capability and why this is important

11:02 - Losing body fat and losing muscle

14:05 - Why muscle soreness does not always mean muscle growth

18:12 - Can you lose weight without strength training?

18:46 - Health benefits of strength training

22:30 - How to build more muscle

23:32 - How our coaches customise programs specifically for each client

26:12 - Why it'll be so much more enjoyable once you learn how to strength train

27:28 - Seeing what your body is truly capable of

In this episode I sit down with Amanda Montalvo and chat about the copper IUD, what we know about how it works, its potential impact on your hormones and metabolism, and adjusting after having the copper IUD taken out.

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Amanda Montavlo @hormonehealingrd

SHOW NOTES

01:15 - Amanda's background

02:25 - Misconception about copper IUD

02:57 - What is the copper IUD

03:16 - How it can affect fertility and how effective it is as birth control

04:07 - Symptoms and side effects you may experience once you have it

04:20 - How it impact the egg cells and cervical mucus

05:13 - The controversies behind IUD

05:47 - How copper impacts your body

06:33 - How some women struggle since having the copper IUD

07:39 - The connection between stress and your cycle

08:15 - The risk of infection while having the copper IUD

08:56 - Your cycle as a health marker

09:53 - Understanding cervical mucus

11:54 - What happens when you keep it for a very long time

13:47 - Learning your cycle

16:14 - Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM)

17:36 - Knowing your body better

18:23 - Working with a practitioner

19:30 - How to support your body when you plan to come off the copper IUD

22:08 - How much time should you give yourself to balance out your estrogen

22:51 - Copper and estrogen

24:03 - Addressing the basics first

24:56 - Recovery after taking the IUD out

25:55 - How long it took before Amanda fixed her estrogen dominance from copper toxicity

27:21 - Painful periods

28:31 - Looking up the symptoms

29:40 - Fertility and birth control track

30:20 - Eating enough food to lower stress and symptoms

34:23 - Why it takes time in order for you see results

36:32 - Building stress resiliency

37:55 - Sleep deprivation and hunger

39:02 - How do you know that you need to eat more food

39:45 - Building connection and spending your time with your community to lower stress

40:29 - Knowing when you're already pushing too far

41:53 - Finding that balance

42:40 - Learning the value of your cycle

43:38 - Why menopausal symptoms is not normal

48:52 - The benefits of lifting weights

One of our amazing coaches, Kathleen, is back on our podcast. We’ve had many of our coaches on here, but now we’re going through different client case studies with each one. If you haven’t listened to the previous episode with Kathleen, go back and give that a listen. She was a classic over-exerciser, under eater but has made incredible changes and had an amazing transformation

So, I wanted to get Kathleen on here to show you how you can reverse engineer the body or body composition you want.

In this episode, Kathleen and I discuss:

➡️Why it takes 12-18 months for most transformations

➡️Once you've built the body you want why you can do less work to maintain it

➡️Why it’s beneficial to build muscle when losing weight

➡️Can you lose weight without strength training?

➡️How muscle is beneficial through menopause

➡️How Kathleen approaches body recomposition for clients

➡️Healthy body fat percentages (and where most women are most happy)

➡️Why “getting lean” takes discipline and precision, if you want to do it in a healthy way

➡️How we approach lifting to get you to your desired body composition

➡️Why this journey is never linear

➡️Making sustainable lifestyle changes

➡️How everything is simple once you learn it

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Kathleen Knauf @kathleenknauf

SHOW NOTES

01:40 - Kathleen's background

02:49 - Building the body you want

04:39 - Why majority of the women we work with are under-muscled

05:32 - Unrealistic expectations

05:50 - Why it takes 12-18 months for most transformations

06:56 - The brilliant thing about building muscle

07:50 - Why it’s beneficial to build muscle when losing weight

10:17 - Can you lose weight without strength training?

11:20 - Muscle vs fat

12:02 - How having more muscle is beneficial through menopause

12:30 - How Kathleen approaches body recomposition for her clients

13:29 - Healthy body fat ranges

18:28 - Why it takes discipline and precision to achieve a lean body

23:53 - How we approach lifting to get you to your desired body composition

24:32 - Skill acquisition

26:20 - Fueling the body appropriately

27:23 - Focusing on strength training

27:57 - Why this journey is never linear

31:08 - Making sustainable lifestyle changes

31:58 - Becoming a new person and falling in love with lifting

33:35 - Fear of lifting and become bulky

35:10 - Consistency and self-sabotage

37:13 - Are you just making excuses?

41:15 - How everything is simple once you learn the foundations

I have the guys from Bathing Evolved back on the podcast! A while back, they contacted me and sent me some of their awesome bath bombs. I was looking at them and noticed that they contained tea tree oil which is an endocrine disruptor, so I let them know. They did their own research and took the tea tree oil out!

Will and David are such nice and genuine guys, so I wanted to get them back on to talk more about bathing and how it can affect our health, hormones, and metabolism. In this episode, the Bathing Evolved guys and I chat about:

➡️Their company’s humble beginnings

➡️Hidden toxins in beauty and hygiene products

➡️How certain chemicals act like estrogen in the body

➡️The history of bathing

➡️The link between metabolism and bathing

➡️The benefits of getting magnesium via the skin

➡️The problem with a lot of Epsom salt brands

➡️The best way to bath (And how to use Bathing Evolved products)

➡️Depriving yourself and the power of doing nothing

➡️The niacin sauna detox

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Bathing Evolved @bathingevolved

SHOW NOTES

02:19 - How Bathing Evolved started

04:13 - Synthetic fragrances and chemicals from bath salts that may harm you

05:11 - Tea tree oil exposure

06:27 - Environmental toxins in beauty and hygiene products

07:53 - How certain chemicals act like estrogen in the body

09:26 - The history of bathing

10:59 - The connection between metabolism and bathing

12:08 - Magnesium and its benefits

14:20 - Epsom salt

15:40 - Thiamin (Vitamin B1)

16:39 - Some of the other ingredients in their Revival products and their benefits

19:19 - Digital detox

21:21 - The best way to bath (And how to use Bathing Evolved products)

24:18 - The niacin sauna detox

Should you be tied to the number on the scale? Is this the only way you should measure your progress? So many of the women we work with have always only focused on one data point - scale weight. Yes, you want to look at weight BUT don't forget about what that weight is made up of - muscle and fat.

So, we wanted to talk about this in more detail. In this episode, Craig and I discuss:

➡️What is body composition?

➡️What makes up the number on the scale

➡️What happens when you diet hard with a drastic calorie deficit

➡️What is required to build muscle

➡️Why muscle makes it easier to sustain weight loss

➡️The importance of taking your time to achieve body recomposition

➡️Our advice for achieving the body you want

➡️How weightlifting is a skill you have to practice

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Craig McDonald @iamcraigmcdonald

SHOW NOTES

06:48 - Being obsessed with the number on the scale

08:09 - Can you build muscle and lose body fat at the same time

09:12 - What is body composition?

13:24 - Body fat vs lean mass

13:58 - Growing muscle and why you need to eat more

14:14 - What it takes to build muscle

15:39 - Losing body fat without strength training

17:05 - Why the process of body recomposition takes time

22:07 - Our advice for achieving the body you want

26:26 - How weightlifting is a skill you have to practice

30:14 - Going back to training after time off

33:43 - Celebrating micro-wins

Charlotte has had a really fascinating journey! As one of our coaches, she actually comes from an insane 100 km ultra-marathon background. Over time, this took a huge toll on her body, which led her to eventually join our program. Since then, she’s become one of our adoring coaches who we love and who helps other women achieve their goals.

In this episode, Charlotte and I chat about:

➡️Her ultra-marathon history and working as a PT

➡️Symptoms Charlotte had before changing her lifestyle

➡️What Charlotte learned in the program

➡️Not feeling exhausted all the time

➡️Why Charlotte wanted to become a coach with us

➡️Transformations Charlotte has seen in other women

➡️How transformations take time and effort

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SHOW NOTES

01:32 - Charlotte's background

02:23 - Professions she tried to pursue before joining WAL

04:07 - Her ultra-marathon history and working as a PT

08:11 - Symptoms Charlotte had before changing her lifestyle

09:47 - Why she joined the program

10:32 - What she learned in the program and the results she'd seen

11:33 - The improvements in her sleep and energy

12:26 - What drove her to become a coach

14:16 - The types of women she work with and common issues she helps them improve

15:24 - How our program differs from other weight loss program out there

16:06 - How transformations take time and effort

16:36 - Maintaining

17:36 - The importance of having the data to see your improvements

Melissa is one of our awesome clients. She is 38 years old and a mum to three boys. She lives on a farm in South Australia, and six months in, Melissa has seen incredible results.

For anyone that has struggled with digestive issues or IBS, you might relate to Melissa’s story. In this episode, Melissa and I chat about:

➡️Her diet, health, and training history

➡️How she lost over 40 cm

➡️Her digestion and IBS journey (and where she’s at now)

➡️What food she’s eating while losing weight

➡️How eating this way is working with the rest of her family

➡️How she got her happiness back!

➡️Melissa’s advice to other women

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SHOW NOTES

01:17 - Melissa's background

02:04 - Her diet, health, and training history

03:20 - Her digestion issues and IBS journey

05:56 - How long she's been in the program

06:32 - How she lost weight and over 40cm

07:49 - How her digestion issues and cramping improved

10:12 - How many calories she's on and the foods she is eating

12:02 - How the food fits in the rest of the family

12:48 - What she enjoyed most about the program (Getting her happiness back)

14:25 - What she found the most challenging about the program

16:08 - Her advice to women who are sitting on the fence about joining the program

17:58 - How the coaching and support helped her achieve her results

19:38 - Melissa's advice to other women who are on the same journey