Wise & Well

Meagan Maritato, Registered Dietitian, joins to give a deep dive on all things intuitive eating and how to move away from the "diet culture" mentality.

In this episode, we discuss

- Why weight loss is not always healthy

- Why you shouldn’t always comment on someone’s weight loss

- Why losing weight fast usually doesn’t mean you lost fat

- The long term effects of yo-yo dieting

- Losing the mind-body connection with dieting

- Rejecting “Diet Culture”

- Hitting diet rock bottom

- Honoring your hunger

- Learning to trust yourself again around food

- Why Intuitive Eating is not the same as eating whatever you want

Brittany Wehrle, Registered Dietitian and host of the Fueled and Well podcast, joins to discuss how she has moved from a dieting mentality and toward an intuitive eating approach within her own life and with her clients.

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Austin Vetter, founder of FreshChef Meal Prep, joins the show to discuss how he overcame his childhood mental health struggles and emotional eating... which is what led to him to create a meal prep service that delivers local quality fresh food right to your door. 

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In this episode, you'll hear...

- Struggling with childhood anxiety

- Carrying childhood trauma through life

- Relying on food as an emotional crutch

- Why pain is often what leads to true change

- Dealing with food guilt

- Why your lowest weight may not be your healthiest

- Making peace with food

- Generational perspectives on mental health

- How strength training build resiliency outside the gym

- Why weight loss is not the only thing that makes you healthy

- How your physical habits can change your mental health

- Austin’s top 3 Fresh Chef meals on the menu

Kristi Carlson, Gut Health Practitioner, joins the show to help simplify gut health. We go over some of the most important factors that impact your gut and actionable steps to improve your health today. 

In this episode we cover...

- The impact of stress and cortisol on the gut

- The importance of being in a rest and digest state when eating

- How underrating can wreak havoc on the gut

- The best way to make dietary changes

- The impacts of low carb diets

- Different types of fiber and how much you need

- Why some veggies are tough on digestion

- The truth behind food sensitivities

Meggie Owsiak, owner of the online retail account Everyday Best Buy, joins the show to walk through how she built her own business while working a full time job. Even more impressive, Meggie did all this while being a wife and a mother of two very young children. 

The 3 biggest things you'll take away from this episode...

1. Pursuing your passion IS possible regardless of where you are in your life...

2. Living a life of meaning has a radical impact on your mental health... even if it does come with some struggle

3. And most importantly... you don't have to sacrifice your life and family to do it

Brittainy Cherry, local author and also my very first coaching client, joins me to discuss how we worked together on improving her relationship with food and fitness.

Brittainy pursued weight loss much of her life. Every diet had failed her previously. Once we stopped focusing on weight loss and shifted the focus to FEELING healthy, everything changed.

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Betty Guerrero, a Registered Dietitian AND bodybuilder, joins me to discuss about health inside and out. 

In this episode you'll hear...

- What it's like to be an RD on Instagram

- Why health is much more than looking lean 

- Focusing on mindset first before making diet changes

- Why BMI is not a great metric for overall health

- Creating healthy habits regardless of your weight

- Supplement recommendations

- Why intermittent fasting is so not the same for every person

- Simple healthy habits that MOST people will benefit greatly from 

Marci Nevin is an online fitness coach that focuses on helping her clients achieve health inside and out through flexible dieting, strength training, and mindset work. This is part 1 of my series with Marci.

In this first episode, you will hear 

- How self-hate first drove Marci into fitness and nutrition

- What led to her obsession with calories, clean eating, and working out

- How flexible dieting changed her perspective on "food rules"

- Why strength training is such a game changer

- The "Satisfaction Cup": How to find true holistic health

Vatche Shakarian, a weight loss coach, joins to discuss how he battled childhood obesity and what led him to change his entire lifestyle and lose 100 lbs. He now believes that he did it all wrong and wants to help you avoid the same mistakes he made. 

In this episode...

- Vatche's obesity as a child and dealing with fat shame

- What made him go all in on his weight loss journey

- The mistakes he made along the way and why he would do it differently now

- How weight loss can turn into an unhealthy obsession

- Why fat loss doesn't need to be so complicated

- The lifestyle and mindset changes needed for true balance

- How to lose weight without eliminating your favorite foods

- His response to the people online who send him hate for discussing fat loss

Join me for my first solo episode as I talk through making sure your goals align with your habits and daily mindset. 

In this episode...

- Why it's so important to assess our goals periodically

- My personal journey of switching from a weight loss mentality to a strength building mindset

- An exercise you can do today to better understand your goals