Lou has been in our WinAtLife program for about 18 months now. She is 45 years old, works full-time, and has two kids and her partner also has two kids.
Lou has suffered for a long time with endometriosis. Prior to joining the program she had 5 surgeries as well as an ablation which of course did not fix her issues. Once she started nourishing her body with pro-metabolic food, eating more and lowering stress so many of her issues improved!
In this podcast episode, we chat about:
➡️Lou’s health history with endometriosis
➡️How she is no longer suffering from endometriosis symptoms
➡️What Lou used to eat prior to pro-metabolic eating (she always thought she was eating so healthy and eating enough)
➡️What she eats now and how many calories she eats daily
➡️How Lou has finally got rid of her chronic thrush
➡️Why the process isn’t linear but how it continues to...
Today, I’m so passionate about sharing it with women (I’m always sending people to their articles - such good info!).
In this podcast episode, we asked Dr Ray Peat a ton of questions! We chat about:
➡️PUFAs and the beginnings of the ‘health’ myth surrounding them
➡️PUFAs vs other fats
➡️How PUFAs impact your metabolism
➡️How and why your anti-aging creams and other products might actually be pro-ageing
➡️The effects of fasting on metabolism and immunity
➡️The importance of muscle mass
➡️Why excess estrogen increases chaos in the body
➡️Why the body needs sugar
➡️What causes diabetes
➡️How and why caffeine can bring on a stress reaction
➡️The protective effects of coffee
➡️A healthy range of body fat for women - you'll be surprised at what this is!
➡️HRT and the pill
➡️What causes menopausal symptoms
➡️The importa...
With everything happening in the world this last year, I just started to think what more there was to life. I imagined making another human with Craig and this is gonna sound cheesy but I love him so much 🤣.
At first, Craig wanted to keep this to just us. I’m a bit of an over sharer and I’m very transparent but this was something we initially decided to just keep to ourselves. After we went to the fertility specialist late last year, I asked his permission to share more about this, so with his blessing, I’ve been opening up more about our journey.
With all of this going on and me opening up more to everyone about this, I decided to sit down with Emma Sgourakis - The Nutrition Coach, friend and business partner to chat about pregnancy preparation/pregnancy and mainstream advice vs a pro-metabolic approach.
We discuss:
➡️What you can do for your body when trying to have a baby ...
She is actually located in Vancouver but is from Australia. She was an Olympic lifter, has an amazing physique, and is an awesome person. Today, she also helps women get stronger, fuel their metabolism, and break-free from restrictive diets (similar to what we do!).
We all decided this was a good opportunity to sit down and talk about women’s expectations, what they want to achieve versus what it actually takes, and roadblocks that come up, as well as how you can try to close those gaps.
We chat about:
➡️Diet culture
➡️ The type of training that will support your metabolism and build muscle and why this is important when it comes to a healthy and sus...
There are always going to be people that disagree with you and that's ok but sometimes, when something challenges a person’s belief system, people can get a bit nasty… But we know that this is often not the entire story each and every time, so we decided to have a chat about this whole ‘cancel culture.’
When it comes down to it, we are all just doing our best with the information we currently have. Kate and I dive deeper into this whole topic:
We talk about:
➡️ Realising that there isn’t ONE truth out there and that there are many different perspectives
➡️ A lot of different avenues can make you a healthier human being so blocking one perspective from your circle may not be the best idea
➡️ Different mindsets, such as being tired, hungry, or even drunk, can play a role in people’s reactions
➡️ You don’t have to respect another’s opinion but you have to allow people to ha...
In this podcast we will address both sides of the supplemental Vitamin D debate.
A few notes for the listening audience.
Vitamin D and its metabolites have many names, through out this interview it is good to know which ones are being discussed.
👉Cholecalciferol/ supplemental D3 is obtained by food, supplement and produced by body via sunlight
👉Ergocalciferol is D2, not produced in the human body, but is created by exposing certain plant-derived materials to ultraviolet light.
👉Calcidiol / ""Stored"" D / 25OHD/ 25-hydroxyvitamin D
👉Calcitriol/ ""activated"" D / 1,25D
In this podcast we discuss
👉What is vitamin D?
👉The rat poison -Cholecalciferol connection. Should we be worried?
👉Is low vitamin D the symptom of poor health or the cause?
👉Why you do NOT want high levels of 1,25 (active) Vitami...
Meg is a Nutritional Therapist. She works with women to improve their health via nutrition. Meg and I both come from similar disordered eating backgrounds. We’ve both tried all the restrictive diets, attempting to control our weight and also thinking we were doing things right. Oh, how far we’ve come!!
If you struggle or have struggled with disordered eating, give this episode a listen. We’ve been there too and understand how hard it is to truly break free from obsessing over the number on the scale and how you look. But it is possible!!
In this episode, we chat about:
➡️Meg’s background and how she got into helping women
➡️The fad and restrictive diets we’ve done and the symptoms we experienced
➡️How we both us...
Jim is a nerve-lock specialist and both Craig and I just love him. After 3 visits with Jim, Craig’s shoulder was back to normal and he could return to training.
Since then, we’ve sent hundreds of people to Jim. He’s just so amazing and has such a special gift. If you have pain, get on his website and get to Brisbane and see him!! We’ve had people with 10 years of neck pain that Jim has helped in just a few visits. It’s just incredible.
So, I thought it was only fitting to sit down and have a chat with Jim about pain and how it manifests within the body. We talk about:
➡️ How stress, emotions and trauma can manifest as pain in the body
➡️ How pain is your body’s way of telling you something is wrong
➡️ Pain is a good indicator of how your subconscious body is doing
➡️ Ho...
Well, that used to be me. I trained 6-7 days per week and I really thought I knew what I was doing! But my body certainly didn't look like it does now. That all changed when I met Craig.
I get this question all the time from women "how should I train to achieve a toned and athletic body"
So I decided to sit down with Craig and talk about the training methodology he used to transform my body and 1000's of other women's bodies in the Winatlife Program.
Craig is known as ‘the sausage’ amongst the women in our program, a nickname he picked up after I called him sausage on a live one night 😂 I’m ‘the fog horn’ - the more vocal of us two. But Craig is the other half of our company and he really is the one that saved me from myself and hours of cardio I was doing.
One of the first dates we had was in the gym. I remember he asked me to show him a deadlift and he ended u...
Like me, she loves a good chinwag 😂
Leila is a Heath and Performance Coach of 18 years, riding the uncomfortable journey of healing and putting weight loss last. She talks about her struggles as someone who has always been fit and energetic to struggling to work, mother and live.
She talks about her struggle with Hashimoto's and the confronting journey of what it’s like to be overweight as a health and fitness professional and accepting that 30kgs of weight gain is part of the healing journey and healing her metabolism. She also talks about doing the inner work and how it's one of the key foundations to loving your body.
Leila has a story that I'm sure so many women can relate to.
I hope you enjoy this podcast as m...
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