025: Women's Health with Dr. Kelly Culwell aka Dr. Lady Doctor

12/05/18 • 42 min

The Fitnessista Podcast: Healthy In Real Life

This week’s episode is my last one of the season for 2018. I recorded 25 episodes since June and have had the most amazing time connecting with health and fitness experts all over the world. I’m so thankful to you all for your support with the podcast and for your incredible ratings and reviews. I’ll be back in January with even more content for you and already have some pretty incredible guests lined up. If you have anyone you’d like to hear in an upcoming episode, please let me know! Also, you can catch up on past episodes here.

The last 2018 episode is an important one: I’m talking all about women’s health with Dr. Kelly Culwell, who’s also known as Dr. Lady Doctor. She’s been an OB/GYN for over 20 years and has experience in 5 different continents. She has so much knowledge and information to share, and I hope you feel more empowered about your own health after this episode.

If you could pick your OB/GYN’s brain, what would you ask?

Here are some of the topics we discuss:

How to dread our annual OB/GYN appointments less?

What happens during a pap smear?

What we should and shouldn’t do before our annual appointments

What’s the #1 thing you should be asking your doctor?

Menopause: how common is early menopause and what are some of the symptoms we should look for?

What do you recommend for those who want a reliable birth control method but would prefer to avoid synthetic hormones?

Here’s a little bit about Dr. Kelly:

Dr. Kelly Culwell AKA Dr. Lady Doctor has seen more than 28,000 vaginas on 5 continents in 18 years. There is literally nothing she hasn’t seen when it comes to women's health!

Kelly has worked as a fellowship-trained Ob/Gyn, a Medical Director for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, Medical Officer for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and a Senior Medical Advisor for the International Planned Parenthood Federation in London.

Dr. Lady Doctor’s mission is to bridge the gap between women and their healthcare providers; empowering them to speak openly about their bodies and ask the rightquestions.

Resources from this episode:

Taking Charge of Your Fertility

Her top list of recommended sites

Find Dr. Kelly online here, on Instagram, and on Facebook

Thank you so much for listening and for all of your support with the podcast! Please leave a rating or review if you enjoyed this episode. If you leave a rating, head to this page and you’ll get a little “thank you” gift from me to you.

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If you could pick your OB/GYN’s brain, what would you ask?

Here are some of the topics we discuss:

How to dread our annual OB/GYN appointments less?

What happens during a pap smear?

What we should and shouldn’t do before our annual appointments

What’s the #1 thing you should be asking your doctor?

Menopause: how common is early menopause and what are some of the symptoms we should look for?

What do you recommend for those who want a reliable birth control method but would prefer to avoid synthetic hormones?

Here’s a little bit about Dr. Kelly:

Dr. Kelly Culwell AKA Dr. Lady Doctor has seen more than 28,000 vaginas on 5 continents in 18 years. There is literally nothing she hasn’t seen when it comes to women's health!

Dr. Lady Doctor’s mission is to bridge the gap between women and their healthcare providers; empowering them to speak openly about their bodies and ask the rightquestions.

Resources from this episode:

Taking Charge of Your Fertility

Her top list of recommended sites

Find Dr. Kelly online here, on Instagram, and on Facebook

You can listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.

Previous Episode

024: Jen from Peanut Butter Runner

Hi friends! I’m so excited for today’s episode because I interviewed my good friend Jen, and asked her many of the amazing questions you sent in via Instagram. It’s funny because I’ve followed her blog for years and years, and we’ve connected via email and DM so many times, but this was our first time actually chatting on the phone! She’s just as kind and wonderful as you’d expect from reading her blog.

Jen Eddins is pretty much a superhero. She’s a yoga instructor, group fitness instructor, personal trainer, running coach, author, single mom, and the blogger behind Peanut Butter Runner. It’s one of my personal favorite blogs to read, and if you haven’t made her sourdough bread yet, you need this in your life.

In this episode, we chat about:

How to combine power yoga with strength training

How she became an intuitive eater

How she balances everything she does (teaching, working, taking care of a baby solo)

The best breastfeeding food (it’s cake)

and her Zero 2 Run program, which you can check out here

You can follow Jen on her blog, on Facebook, and on Instagram

I loved having her on the show, and I hope you enjoy listening to this one.

You can listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.

Next Episode

026: Meal Planning Hacks with Ashley Reaver, MS, RD, CSSD

It's 2019 and so many of us and so many of us have goals of becoming fitter, stronger, happier and healthier in the new year. Nutrition is a huge part of this and how we set ourselves up for success (or don't!) can have a huge impact on our progress.

Today I'm chatting with Ashley Reaver about meal prep, meal planning hacks, and tips for getting comfortable in the kitchen. She shares so much amazing advice in this episode and I hope you love it!

We discuss:

What do you do if you don’t like to cook?

How to plan for a week of meals?

How can you minimize food waste?

What are some of the habits of her most successful clients?

What are some online resources for finding healthy meals?

Favorite travel snacks

and so.much.more.

Here’s a little bit about Ashley:

Ashley is the founder of Ashley Reaver Nutrition LLC and My Weekly Eats, a health and wellness blog and social media brand that focuses on easy, make ahead recipes and meal plans. When she isn’t working with her clients, Ashley is experimenting in her kitchen, spending time outdoors, or traveling with her husband, Eric.

Ashley is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Sports Special Dietitian who has a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University, completed her Dietetic Internship at California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona, and has a Masters of Science in Nutrition Science and Policy from Tufts University. In addition to nutrition counseling, Ashley has also worked at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the United States Department of Agriculture, and InsideTracker.

Resources from this episode:

The Instant Pot

6 tools for the beginner cook

Find Ashley on her blog here and on Instagram.

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