90. Hacking Your Environment to Create Better Results
One of the biggest factors affecting your ability to achieve your goals is your environment. And your environment is more than just the physical space around you at this moment, it’s all the information that’s constantly streaming into your brain. In this episode of the podcast, I have a bunch of practical tips for hacking your environment to create better results toward all of your goals.
89. Fat-Adapted Ultrarunning Success with Kelly French
Kelly is an ultrarunner who came to me for help transitioning to the low-carb way of life. She made it through the tough transition period and went from being primarily a sugar burner to becoming a super-efficient fat-burning machine. Since adopting this approach, she’s run two ultramarathons with great success! She’s also become quite a bit leaner in the process and says she feels the best she’s felt in years.
88. Embracing the Growth Mindset
Whatever it is you want for yourself – to lose weight or run an ultramarathon – the right mindset will get you there. Today on the podcast, I’m talking about two very distinct mindsets – the fixed mindset and the growth mindset – and why embracing the growth mindset is the key to accomplishing everything you want in your life.
87. Weight Loss Is Not the Goal
As a weight loss coach for runners, I work with a lot of people whose main goal is to lose weight. There’s something much bigger at play here, and a more important goal that you should be focused on. In this episode of the podcast, I explain why weight loss is not the goal and the one thing that you should be focused on instead.
86. 7 Surprising Ways to Increase Your Metabolism
It’s pretty common knowledge that if you have a faster metabolism – meaning you burn more calories while at rest – you will lose more weight. What most people don’t know is that there are many different ways to increase your metabolism other than just running an extra 100 miles every week. So today on the podcast, I’m going to share 7 surprising ways to increase your metabolism so you can burn more calories, burn more fat, and become a lean running machine.
85. Understanding How Habits Really Work
If you really want to create change in your life, you have to focus on changing your habits, right? But most people just focus on trying to change the behavior and don’t focus on the things that are actually driving the behavior in the first place. So today on the podcast, I take you on a deep dive into understanding how habits really work so you can create the change you want in your life and make those changes last.
84. Fueling Strategies for Low-Carb Running
Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to fuel your runs as a low-carb runner. I’m here today to share my thoughts and my experience on this topic and offer up several different fueling strategies for low-carb running. I’m hoping by the end of this episode, you feel less fearful and more confident about your low-carb approach to running.
83. The All-or-Nothing Mentality
I think a lot of people get stuck on this idea of you can either drink or not drink and there’s no middle ground. This is the all-or-nothing mentality and it can make changing a habit feel extremely daunting. So in this episode, I’m taking a deep dive into the all-or-nothing mentality and proposing what might be a more effective way to change a habit.
82. Practicing the Art of Discipline
If there’s something big that you want for yourself, I’m telling you, there’s no magic formula, it just takes practicing the art of discipline to get it. So in this episode of the podcast, I’ll be exploring what it means to practice the art of discipline so that you can achieve everything you want in your life.
81. Good Stress, Bad Stress
We often think of stress as being something annoying, a mental or emotional issue, but stress can also have serious implications on our physical health as well. There’s another side of stress that’s considered not only good for us but actually required in order for us to grow and thrive as humans. So today on the podcast, I’m going to talk about good stress and bad stress – which types are detrimental, and which are considered beneficial for our health and wellbeing.