#009: Decoding Weight Loss with Karen Martel
05/01/20 • 49 min
Balancing the struggle to feel comfortable in your body while figuring out how to appreciate who you are, striving for overall health, and still working on weight loss and fitness goals is a juggling act. It’s not as simple as calories in, calories out, fasting all the time, or getting a daily workout in, and the modern woman is carrying a heavier stress load than ever before. In this episode, Karen Martel is decoding weight loss and the biggest barriers for women.
TOPICS:
- How intermittent fasting can negatively impact sex hormones and weight loss (2:48)
- Stress for the modern woman (6:50)
- Women, keto, and fasting: why more isn’t better (10:18)
- Decoding weight loss for women (13:27)
- Why keto works for men (16:52)
- Calories in, calories out, and why it doesn’t work (17:48)
- Timing fasting, feasting, and workouts with your cycle and age (22:24)
- Seasons of life and how they affect insulin sensitivity and weight (32:16)
- When to shift your priorities away from weight loss (34:02)
- Why being lean doesn’t equate to being healthy (42:52)
RESOURCES:
- If you have a copy of Made Simple, please leave a review and tag me on social when you cook from the book @thecastawaykitchen and @madewholecookbooks, and hashtag #madesimple
- Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
- Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
- Find Karen online at KarenMartel.com and follow her on social media @karenmartelnutrition
- Check out Karen’s podcast: The Other Side of Weight Loss Podcast
- For further reading: Dr. Jade Teta
GET BODY WISE:
- Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
- Find more from Laura Mar at cyclescience.org, and on social media @laura_mar.cyclescience
- Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]
Balancing the struggle to feel comfortable in your body while figuring out how to appreciate who you are, striving for overall health, and still working on weight loss and fitness goals is a juggling act. It’s not as simple as calories in, calories out, fasting all the time, or getting a daily workout in, and the modern woman is carrying a heavier stress load than ever before. In this episode, Karen Martel is decoding weight loss and the biggest barriers for women.
TOPICS:
- How intermittent fasting can negatively impact sex hormones and weight loss (2:48)
- Stress for the modern woman (6:50)
- Women, keto, and fasting: why more isn’t better (10:18)
- Decoding weight loss for women (13:27)
- Why keto works for men (16:52)
- Calories in, calories out, and why it doesn’t work (17:48)
- Timing fasting, feasting, and workouts with your cycle and age (22:24)
- Seasons of life and how they affect insulin sensitivity and weight (32:16)
- When to shift your priorities away from weight loss (34:02)
- Why being lean doesn’t equate to being healthy (42:52)
RESOURCES:
- If you have a copy of Made Simple, please leave a review and tag me on social when you cook from the book @thecastawaykitchen and @madewholecookbooks, and hashtag #madesimple
- Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
- Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
- Find Karen online at KarenMartel.com and follow her on social media @karenmartelnutrition
- Check out Karen’s podcast: The Other Side of Weight Loss Podcast
- For further reading: Dr. Jade Teta
GET BODY WISE:
- Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
- Find more from Laura Mar at cyclescience.org, and on social media @laura_mar.cyclescience
- Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]
Previous Episode
#008: Confident as Fu*k with Elle Russ
In this episode with Elle Russ, we’re talking about how to become Confident as Fu*k, cultivate self-esteem, why it’s your responsibility to reparent yourself, and how vulnerability is the key to overcoming shame. Elle Russ is the host of the Primal Blueprint Podcast, a speaker and writer, and the author of Confident as Fu*k and The Paleo Thyroid Solution.
TOPICS:
- The Paleo Thyroid Solution (4:20)
- Becoming the expert on yourself (11:55)
- Confidence versus self-esteem (13:04)
- How to reparent yourself (and why you should!) (17:49)
- Cultivating grit (25:54)
- How to confront and deal with shame (30:06)
- Turning your truth into your power (42:20)
RESOURCES:
- If you have a copy of Made Simple, please leave a review and tag me on social when you cook from the book @thecastawaykitchen and @madewholecookbooks, and hashtag #madesimple
- Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
- Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
- Find Elle online at ElleRuss.com and follow her on social media @_elleruss
- Check out Elle’s free thyroid guide
- Get a copy of Confident as Fu*k and The Paleo Thyroid Solution
GET BODY WISE:
- Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
- Find more from Laura Mar at cyclescience.org, and on social media @laura_mar.cyclescience
- Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]
Next Episode
#010: Laura’s Back!
Laura is back! We are together in Tampa where we are co-parenting and finding new ways to support ourselves by supporting each other. Even with familial support, life is hard right now ... and that’s okay. We are both very different in how we structure our day and our time to ourselves, and our kids bring even more variety to the mix. We thought it would be cool to share what we’re doing and what we’ve learned as we co-parent in this phase of life during the current crisis.
TOPICS:
- Laura’s back, what she’s been up to (00:48)
- Consequences of motherhood coming first, everything else second (02:45)
- How co-parenting with family benefits us as individuals (06:45)
- Our relationships with rest (09:43)
- Rediscovering passion within your calling (14:12)
- Empowerment through knowing ourselves and our bodies (22:47)
- Honoring yourself by slowing down (32:30)
- How our kids are responding to co-parenting (37:18)
- Future projects we’re planning together (41:59)
RESOURCES:
- The Cycle Science Private Class has sold out, but we’ll keep you updated with new classes in the future!
- Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
- Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
GET BODY WISE:
- Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
- Find more from Laura Mar at cyclescience.org, and on social media @laura_mar.cyclescience
- Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]
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