Salad With a Side of Fries Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss

One Team: You and Your Body

Episode Summary

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. We dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. Do you feel like sometimes you try to do things and your body is not responding? Instead of fighting with our bodies, is it possible to improve our health and work as a team? Today’s episode of Salad With a Side of Fries, Jenn discusses how you can work together with your body to improve your overall wellness, instead of playing tug of war and expecting your body to function without listening to it. Tune in to hear how you and your body can be one team, where cravings may come from, how other factors like hormones, stress and sleep affect your body, and a whole lot more. Become A Member of Salad with a Side of Fries Jenn’s Free Menu Plan A Salad With a Side of Fries A Salad With a Side of Fries Instagram

Episode Notes

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. We dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.

Do you feel like sometimes you try to do things and your body is not responding? Instead of fighting with our bodies, is it possible to improve our health and work as a team?

Today’s episode of Salad With a Side of Fries, Jenn discusses how you can work together with your body to improve your overall wellness, instead of playing tug of war and expecting your body to function without listening to it. Tune in to hear how you and your body can be one team, where cravings may come from, how other factors like hormones, stress and sleep affect your body, and a whole lot more.

IN THIS EPISODE:

●      [05:00] How sleep can be affecting your wellness.  

●      [11:00] Analyzing your body for things you’d like to change.

●      [20:00] Mood and hormones.

●    [24:00] A woman’s 28 day cycle impacts not just her reproductive system, but her brain health, metabolic health, immune health, her stress response and gut health.

●    [27:00] We expect ourselves to thrive without skipping a beat, even if we aren’t taking care of our bodies.

●    [32:00] The grace to say every day is different can help us shift from judgment of what we are experiencing to observing what we are experiencing.

●    [41:00] Where to start learning the language of your body. 

●    [43:00] Your body is your vessel that carries you through life to do the things that you want to do and impact the people around you. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

●      Instead of fighting with our bodies, we want to focus on listening to what it is telling us to improve our health and work as a team.

●      In addition to diet, many factors affect our health including stress, hormones, gut health, and lack of or too much sleep.

●      Working with our bodies by doing things such as balancing our blood sugar and listening to our bodies helps make everything easier. 

QUOTES:

"When you feel like your body's not responding, what if you relax a little and ask what your body's trying to tell you." - Jenn Trepeck

"The body knows how to be healthy, the body knows how to heal, the body knows how to function. We have to get out of the way." - Jenn Trepeck

"Blood sugar and cortisol are some of the biggest endocrine disruptors." - Jenn Trepeck

RESOURCES:

Become A Member of Salad with a Side of Fries

Jenn’s Free Menu Plan

A Salad With a Side of Fries

A Salad With a Side of Fries Instagram