The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living - FFF 106: Extreme Weight Loss, The Challenges Of Losing More Than 200 lbs (Part 1) - with Chris Powell

FFF 106: Extreme Weight Loss, The Challenges Of Losing More Than 200 lbs (Part 1) - with Chris Powell

04/03/18 • 46 min

The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

This week you are in for a treat. We’ve got Chris Powell on the show. Chris is a transformation coach and he was the host of a program that we called “Obese: A Year to Save My Life” but in the U.S. it was called “Extreme Weight Loss”. We've had to split the episode into two parts. In this part, we'll be looking at how Chris ended up becoming one of the most popular transformation coaches in the U.S. We chatted about his experiences of working with people and helping them lose crazy amounts of weight like 200 pounds in a year. Chris had some serious challenges and boundaries to break. He helped people who were so obese they were struggling to walk, had years of terrible diet choices and hadn’t exercised in years. This really is an amazing episode, here’s part one....

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FFF 105: Healthy Eating For Children, Easy Tips To Help Your Kids Eat Better - with Dr Carrie Ruxton

This week we’re speaking with Dr. Carrie Ruxton who’s been a registered dietitian for nearly 30 years. She completed a Ph.D. in child nutrition before working as an academic, industry nutritionist and hospital dietitian. We chatted at some of the main challenges facing parents and children about installing a healthy diet, dealing with fussy eaters and the traditional aversion to vegetables. She also provided tips on how to survive the supermarket trip and we discussed if it is right to use food as a reward or a reprimand.

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FFF 107: Extreme Weight Loss, The Challenges Of Losing More Than 200 lbs (Part 2) – with Chris Powell

This is the second part of an interview that we started last week with US transformation coach Chris Powell. We'll continue to go behind the scenes on Obese A Year To Save My Life. What were some of the actual tactics and approaches Chris used to help people lose 100's of lbs of body fat? What happens once people start on the transformation and how do they keep motivated on their long progress journey. We discussed some of the challenges that they had and you will also find out the stumbling blocks and how Chris used community to help keep people on track.

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