204: The Problem Behind The Problem (My Mom’s On The Show!)

204: The Problem Behind The Problem (My Mom’s On The Show!)

Today is a special & emotional episode! My mom is on the show! Yup, we are discussing the problem behind the problem – where my unhealthy relationship with food & body image began and how she coped with raising an overweight child.

While I don’t think our past defines us and I certainly don’t think we’re stuck there, I absolutely believe it is important to evaluate your self-limiting food & body image beliefs and begin to ask “Are these true?” and find ways to move beyond them.

You don’t want to miss this emotional episode!

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The Problem Behind The Problem

In today’s episode, my mom and I tackle so much including:

  • Specific choices she made and how they impacted how I view food and my body
  • The development of unhealthy relationships with food & body image
  • Helpful and unhelpful strategies related to raising an overweight child
  • How her body image impacted the way I thought about food
  • What might have happened if she took a different approach
  • How restriction and forced exercise shaped the way I look at health

I want to give another huge THANK YOU to my mom for stepping outside of her comfort zone, admitting where she made mistakes and having this honest conversation with me to hopefully help others and open up conversations about weight, shame and body image.

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204: The Problem Behind The Problem (My Mom’s On The Show!)

203: Happy Anniversary, Primal Potential (Will You Join Me?)

Today is Primal Potential’s 2nd anniversary!

THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart, for your support, trust and encouragement.

What a wild ride it has been!

I hope you’ll take a few minutes to listen to today’s episode on Primal’s anniversary. Today, I’m opening up registration for ASCEND, the first ever Primal Potential Women’s Transformation Weekend.

Listen to hear all the details and click here to be one of the 50 women to join me in downtown Nashville, TN this November!

Tickets are on sale now!

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This women’s weekend workshop will transform you & change your life. There are only 50 tickets available and you absolutely want to have one of them!

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204: The Problem Behind The Problem (My Mom’s On The Show!)

202: Non-Food Influences on Blood Sugar

In response to the recent episode on the 3 stages of carbohydrate intolerance, I got an email that merits further discussion.

I want everyone to understand that while yes, our food choices drive blood sugar and are primarily responsible for our fat loss and lack thereof, there are non-food influences on blood sugar.

That’s right – there are physiological and lifestyle factors that drive blood sugar & insulin significantly enough to influence fat loss and today we’re investigating those things.

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Non-Food Influences on Blood Sugar

In order to reach our highest fat loss potential and optimize our health, we have to understand both the food and non-food influences on blood sugar.

We need to evaluate the ways by which we can increase blood sugar as well as the factors that influence how we decrease or stabilize blood sugar.

Three ways by which blood sugar is increased include:

  • Eating – this includes but is not limited to consuming carbohydrates. The extent of the blood sugar increase depends on what and how much you eat
  • Glycogenolysis – breaking down stored muscle or liver glycogen to glucose
  • Gluconeogenesis – generating new glucose from a non-carbohydrate substance like protein. This can be triggered in response to low blood sugar and/or stress

The factors that determine how quickly blood sugar drops after an elevation include:

  • Your activity level
  • When, what and how much you last ate
  • Your carbohydrate tolerance
  • Your insulin sensitivity
  • Your baseline (include glycogen storage capacity)

Factors which determine what happens to the glucose in your blood include:

  • Your activity level
  • Your fuel needs
  • Your muscle glycogen status

The potential uses for glucose in the blood include:

  • Immediate energy
  • Glycogen storage
  • Fat storage

For specific strategies on improve your blood sugar response and reducing fat storage, listen to the full episode!

Don’t Forget to Save The Date!

The first ever Primal Potential Women’s Transformation Weekend is November 3-5th in downtown Nashville, TN! Tickets go on sale 7/12/16.

Resources

Carbohydrate Intolerance Whitepaper

Stress & Fat Loss

Episode 009: Carbohydrate Spillover

Carb Timing

Carb Strategies for Effortless Fat Loss

Golden Rules of Carbs & Fat Loss

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204: The Problem Behind The Problem (My Mom’s On The Show!)

201: How To Stop Making Excuses & Exceptions

I recently read “Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable” by Tim Grover and he introduced a personality classification that I found to be thought-provoking.

His classification describes people who get things done and reach their highest potential versus people who don’t.

I started to think about the thousands of people I’ve worked with who are trying to burn fat and improve their bodies and I could see similar trends in the ways they think & act.

I have classified into three groups which I’m calling wishers, wanderers and warriors.

In today’s episode I’m going to help you see which category your past choices represent and help you move from where you are now to the warrior category.

That’s right, this episode is about how to become a warrior. It’s about how to stop making excuses and exceptions and start crushing your goals.

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How To Stop Making Excuses & Exceptions

How do you make choices? Like a wisher, like a wanderer or like a warrior?

In today’s episode I’m going to describe the wishers, wanderers and warriors and help you understand how you can become a warrior and stop making excuses. Do not miss the full episode!

Wishers have a desire but take little action

They have goals and the might even feel passionately about them, but they aren’t consistently taking action to move towards them.

Wanderers are seekers with short attention spans

They jump from plan to program to approach, never developing the consistency required for sustainable results & never learning what works (and what doesn’t) for their own bodies.

Warriors show up to work every day

They stay focused on the day at hand and ask themselves, “what can I do today to move towards my goals?” Then they do it!

Wishers need to be told what to do

They are looking for meal plans, food lists and for someone else to provide the instructions. They might not follow them, but they want the answers to come from someone else.

Wanderers create a “best case” plan

They have a plan and can follow it when all the conditions are in their favor.

Warriors steer everything to their advantage

A warrior’s choices are not dictated by their circumstances. They do the best they can no matter what gets thrown at them.

Wishers watch others and compare

They are preoccupied with what others are doing & thinking and they compare their results and efforts against others.

Wanderers watch others and plan

They might not compare, but they are always jumping on board with what others are doing, regardless of whether or not it works for them.

Warriors run their own race.

Others watch them.

What other people are doing or saying has nothing to do with what they need to do.

Wishers give in to temptation

They make decisions based on impulse

Wanderers give in to excuses

They justify indulgences with circumstances

Warriors make no excuses.

They don’t give in.

Wishers perform when its comfortable

They do the work when they feel like it

Wanderers perform when they are prepared

If the stars aren’t aligned and the circumstances are beyond their plan, they crumble.

Warriors perform

Warriors refuse limitations

Warriors practice calm confidence

Warriors take responsibility

Warriors expect to succeed and so they do.

In today’s episode, I’ll share how you can stop making excuses and become a warrior TODAY.

Resources

Relentless: From Good to Great To Unstoppable

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200: 6 Lessons That Change The Game

We’ve got another book club episode today! On a recent road trip I listened to Ryan Holiday’s new book Ego is the Enemy and there were so many powerful lessons! I just need to share them with you! Many of these are game changers!

I was a big fan of his earlier book, The Obstacle Is The Way so I was eager to get my hands on Ego is the Enemy. It did not disappoint.

In today’s episode I’m sharing the 6 lessons that change the game when it comes to fat loss, health and happiness.

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6 Lessons That Change the Game

There were 6 primary lessons that I believe powerfully apply to fat loss, health & happiness that I gleaned from Ryan Holiday’s Ego Is The Enemy. In today’s episode, I share those lessons and how you can apply them to your health.

Ego is the enemy of what you have and what you want.

Ego can keep us from true success by hiding the truth about our choices and our abilities.
Ego crosses out what matters and replaces it with what doesn’t.
Ego tells us what we want to hear when we want to hear it but gives us a short-term fix with long-term consequences

Humility and reality are the cure for ego

Be humble in your aspirations

Be gracious in your success

Be resilient in your failures

Unfortunately, I think the more common approach in dieting is:

Unrealistic in our aspirations

Critical of our success

Defeated in our failures

Make it a mantra: every next choice is a new chance.

Engage in activities that move you forward. Eliminate activities that do not.

Are the things you’re doing moving you towards your goals?

Talk depletes us.

Talking & doing compete for the same resources.

The relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other

Be more objective (and less emotional)

Is your passion an asset or a liability?

Purpose: passion with boundaries

Realism: detachment with perspective

Be committed to the daily work without being attached to the daily results.

It’s about what you do with what you have

Materiam superabat opus: the workmanship was better than the material

It’s what you do with what you have that matters far more than what you have.

The work is never done & that’s a good thing.

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137: Always Hungry

Ego Is The Enemy

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