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#137 - Can I drink alcohol and reach my body and health goals with Craig McDonald Jul 27, 2022

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In this podcast, we’re talking about booze! If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know I used to drink a lot, I was a loose cannon 🤣 For a long time I used it to have fun and as a coping mechanism.

I still love alcohol but I don't love how excessive drinking makes me feel.

I don’t drink much anymore. I just can’t handle the hangover and lack of sleep. I’ll have a few cocktails when we go out with friends or over holidays, but no more crazy binges!

So, the question: Can you drink alcohol and reach your body goals and health? Technically, yes BUT… (listen to this podcast episode to find out more!)

In this episode, Craig and I discuss:

➡️The effects of alcohol on the body

➡️The link between alcohol and estrogen

➡️How alcohol interferes with sleep

➡️How to track alcohol along with tracking your food

➡️What’s in alcohol?

➡️How drinking impacts fat loss and training

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SHOW NOTES

02:30 - Can you drink alcohol and still reach your fat loss goals?

02:54 - How alcohol affects the body

03:39 - How alcohol interferes with sleep

04:27 - How to track alcohol along with tracking your food

04:41 - What’s in alcohol?

07:58 - The impact of drinking when you're in a fat loss or muscle gain phase

11:29 - Why drinking just makes it easy to fall off the wagon

14:08 - How alcohol causes poor training performances

15:25 - Why Craig stopped drinking

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#136 - Losing 22.5 kgs, improving her thyroid issues and eliminating PMS with Katie Littlejohn Jul 25, 2022

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Katie is 45 years old and is a public servant working in Western Sydney. She has been obsessed with food her whole life. As an adult, she was either following a diet or binge eating. And she (like me) used to think sugar was poison!

But today, Katie has found newfound freedom. She’s lost 22.5 kgs, doesn’t think of food 24-7, and no longer experiences PMS. She’s also managed to combat previous thyroid issues through this pro-metabolic way of eating, and hasn’t touched alcohol in 12 months!

In this episode, Katie and I chat about:

➡️Past restrictive diets Katie followed

➡️The all-consuming thoughts revolving around food

➡️How Katie lost 22.5 kgs (and maintained it!)

➡️PMS (and the improvements she’s seen)

➡️How many calories she now eats each day

➡️How she found food freedom

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SHOW NOTES

02:05 - Katie's background

03:05 - Her diet history and all the crazy things she's done in the past trying to lose weight and get healthy

05:54 - What made her join our program

06:13 - Her experience with bad PMS and fatigue

09:19 - How much weight shes lost and how she’s maintained it

09:59 - Other improvements she's seen when she joined the program

11:18 - How many calories she eats

13:08 - What she enjoyed most about the program

14:10 - What she's found challenging

17:18 - How the food is fitting in with her family

19:07 - Her advice to women who haven't joined the program yet

19:47 - Her thoughts about trying to reach her goals without coaching support

20:18 - Her advice to all the women who are listening

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#135 - How to approach your training and nutrition while on holiday with Craig McDonald Jul 20, 2022

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A lot of our clients ask us how to approach their training and nutrition while on holidays. I used to be in this mentality where I would restrict leading up to a holiday, then I would use the holiday as a binge, free-for-all. I’d drink a heap of alcohol every day and eat sh*t food. Then, after my holidays, I’d go right back to the restrictive diet.

I don’t do that anymore, and I definitely didn’t do that on Craig and I’s most recent holiday, so we thought this would be a good one to hop on and discuss! In this episode, we chat about:

➡️What we tell our clients to do when on holidays when it comes to nutrition and training

➡️What happens if you go off track on holidays

➡️How much damage can you actually do

➡️What we did during our recent holiday

➡️Training on holidays

➡️What to do when you get back

And more!

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SHOW NOTES

01:40 - What we tell our clients to do when on holidays when it comes to nutrition and training. Should you track on holidays?

03:57 - How much fat you can just actually gain in a short amount of time

05:48 - What happens if you go off track on holidays and how much damage can you actually do

08:16 - Our recent holiday experience and why we lost weight

12:00 - What to do when you get back

14:29 - Training on holidays

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#134 - The importance of Magnesium with Matt Blackburn Jul 18, 2022

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Matt needs no introduction! We always get great feedback when we have him on the podcast. The last time, Matt and I chatted about vitamin C. This time we’re talking everything magnesium.

In this episode, we discuss:

➡️The function of magnesium in the body

➡️Why Matt takes his magnesium with his coffee

➡️How poor soil impacts the food we eat

➡️What types of magnesium you should avoid

➡️The best types of magnesium (and why!)

➡️The benefits of magnesium

➡️How often you should take magnesium

And more!

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SHOW NOTES

05:47 - Benefits of donating blood

06:07 - The connection between systemic iron overload and magnesium

07:04 - What is magnesium and its functions in the body?

09:39 - How and why Matt takes his magnesium with his coffee

10:55 - What is the best magnesium test

12:38 - The relationship between sodium and potassium

13:15 - Great sources of potassium

15:10 - How poor soil impacts the food we eat

16:57 - What is our daily requirement for iron?

17:08 - The connection between magnesium and iron

18:18 - Different types of magnesium

20:07 - What types of magnesium you should avoid

20:40 - The best forms of magnesium

23:31 - Recommended dosage of magnesium and when is the best time to take it

27:55 - The benefits of magnesium

33:15 - Is there a connection between magnesium and body odor?

35:05 - Does magnesium help with muscle soreness and recovery?

36:57 - Why I take magnesium

38:13 - How many grams of magnesium are in 1 gram of Shilajit?

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#133 - My Training & Body Composition goals for the next 12 months with Craig McDonald Jul 13, 2022

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Now that we decided on no kids, I’m getting serious about my training again and setting some new training and body composition goals. When I first met Craig and he taught me how to lift I fell in love with powerlifting. I competed in a few comps and loved it but since then I haven't had any serious goals, I've just trained.

After much back and forth with Craig I decided to be a bodybuilder for 12 months 🤣 Craig loves his body building.

In this episode, we chat about:

➡️My current goals, training, nutrition and body composition for the next 12 months

➡️When it’s appropriate to do a calorie deficit

➡️Why calories and food have to be relative to body composition

➡️My tips and strategies for when you’re trying to lose body fat (it's been a long time since I've eaten in a calorie deficit)

➡️The importance of building muscle

➡️The length of time losing body fat can take

➡️Sustaining your current body composition

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SHOW NOTES

02:51 - My current goals, training, nutrition and body composition for the next 12 months

06:24 - Diet and Training roles in body Recomposition

08:30 - When it’s appropriate to do a calorie deficit

14:17 - My tips and strategies for when you’re trying to lose body fat

18:12 - Body fat percentage range for women before doing a building phase

22:55 - Sustaining your current body composition

29:25 - The goal when moving to the building phase in terms of weight gain

38:24 - The benefits of having a coach

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#132 - Performance enhancing needles with Jim Bostock Jul 11, 2022

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Jim has been on the podcast a couple of times. Craig and I are friends with him and his wife Peri, they're awesome people. It’s hard to describe what Jim does but I always say he has a sixth sense when feeling people’s pain.

He’s helped Craig and me with so many injuries and niggles; it’s really incredible the work he does!

Now that I'm back into training full swing and doing a 5 day split I've been seeing Jim every 4-6 weeks for his athletes tune up.

In this episode, we chat about:

➡️The Bostock Needle Technique

➡️What the “Athletic Tune-Up” Involves

➡️Why a lot of traditional physio treatments don’t actually fix the issue

➡️Releasing “nerve locks”

➡️What issues Jim treats

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SHOW NOTES

02:10 - Brief background: Jim Bostock

07:27 - What is Bostock Needle Technique?

10:28 - How it improves training performance

12:40 - What the “Athletic Tune-Up” involves

13:59 - What happens when nerve locks disappear

16:56 - Why a lot of traditional physio treatments don’t actually fix the issue

22:54 - Releasing “nerve locks”

24:02- What are the other issues Jim treats

27:01 - How he treats athletes with pain

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#131 - Returning to training after being sick with Craig McDonald Jul 06, 2022

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Craig, my other half and co-founder of NuStrength, and I jumped on for a quick episode to chat about getting back to training after being sick.

We’ve noticed so many women have been sick lately, and have had to take time off from training. It can be really tempting to try to jump right back into your training afterward to make up for lost time. But this can actually be detrimental to your overall progress.

While you want to rest and recover from your sickness, you also want to slowly build back up again. Craig talks about how exactly to do this and how to ease back into your regular training regime (and more!).

So, if you’re heading back into the gym after getting sick, this one is for you.

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SHOW NOTES

01:06 - Having the right mindset

03:19 - What's the best approach when returning to training after being sick

06:39 - How to reset your numbers and how it will help you recover and get back on track

11:05 - How to get back after a deload

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#130 - Losing 10% body fat, fixing her digestive issues and no more PMS with Maresa Zenner Jul 04, 2022

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For all the runners out there, this podcast is for you! Maresa was a dedicated runner since she was 15 years old. She ran marathons (including the Boston marathon) and ironmans. As of today, she is no longer a runner after realizing she ran for all the wrong reasons.

At 42 years old and after retiring from the military, Maresa experienced a total life shift. She noticed as time had gone on, more and more foods were starting to bother her. She wasn’t sleeping well, so she decided to get a health coach. After trying other coaches, Maresa joined our program and never looked back!

In this episode, we chat about:

➡️Maresa’s disordered eating past

➡️What tipped her over the edge

➡️What changes she’s seen eating and training this way

➡️How her relationship with food has changed

➡️How her break-up with running went

➡️Maresa’s advice for other women

And more!

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SHOW NOTES

02:56 - Maresa's background, health history, and issues in the past

07:07 - Her eating disorder

09:28 - Issues she experienced from running

12:45 - Her sleep and cycle issues

17:04 - What made her join the program

21:20 - The results she's seen since joining the program

24:50 - The benefits of eating liver and oysters

29:20 - How her relationship with food has changed

30:30 - How meal planning helped her

32:30 - What she enjoyed most about the program

33:31 - How her break-up with running went

34:30 - What are the things she find the most challenging in the program

35:37 - How she feels about weight fluctuations

38:38 - The importance of tracking

42:17 - Maresa’s advice for other women

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#129 - Nutrition Consistency: Why it's important if you have body composition/health goals and how you can be more consistent with Craig McDonald Jun 29, 2022

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What does it actually look like and mean to have nutrition consistency? In this podcast, Craig and I outline exactly that, and why it's important if you have body recomposition goals or want to improve your health.

In this episode, Craig and I discuss:

➡️What are macronutrients and why it’s important to hit your macronutrient targets if you want to see results

➡️Why tracking your food builds consistency

➡️How to be proactive with your tracking instead of being reactive

➡️We answer the question ‘Do I have to track forever?’

➡️How to plan ahead and how it will reduce stress and create freedom

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SHOW NOTES

03:51 - What are macronutrients and why it’s important to hit your macronutrient targets if you want to see results

07:40 - The importance of tracking ACCURATELY

14:12 - Tracking in a reactive way vs tracking proactively

15:30 - Do you have to track forever?

24:54 - How to plan ahead

27:00 - How planning will reduce stress and create freedom

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#128 - Transitioning from Veganism to a Pro-metabolic approach with Nyssa Bovenkamp Jun 27, 2022

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Nyssa is one of the most gorgeous human beings, inside and out! We actually met in an old business coaches program. If you don’t follow her, go follow her! Nyssa is one of the most authentic people I know. She shares her experiences so openly, and the shift in her beliefs around nutrition has been so inspiring!

Nyssa and I actually had different nutrition beliefs when we met. She was following a vegan diet and was experiencing a variety of health issues:

In this episode, we chat about:

➡️Nyssa’s journey and where it all started

➡️The health issues she experienced being vegan

➡️When she decided to not be vegan anymore

➡️How she got through the tough days

➡️Advice Nyssa has for women who are struggling with their body image

➡️Why learning to love yourself first is important

➡️The benefits of liver

➡️Advice Nyssa would give someone coming off of a plant-based diet

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SHOW NOTES

05:04 - Nyssa's fitness journey and where it all started

09:11 - The defining moment: when she decided to not be vegan anymore

10:08 - The health issues she experienced being vegan

11:39 - How she felt when she started gaining weight after being lean

16:46 - Advice Nyssa has for women who are struggling with their body image

20:29 - Why quick fat loss isn't sustainable

21:11 - How she dealt with emotional trauma