Ep #103 Shame: How It Keeps You Stuck
Addressing the negative emotions that often drive us to eat is essential to implementing permanent lifestyle changes, living healthy and reversing type 2 diabetes. Shame is one of the most difficult negative emotions to address. Shame is the emotion that will erode the part of ourselves that believes we are capable of change. During this podcast episode, I discuss how to recognize shame and strategies for dealing with shame.
Ep #102 Developing Eating Protocols
When it comes to reversing type 2 diabetes, you need to make a lifestyle change not just implement an interim diet. Diets are typically short-lived and unsustainable. Most commercial diets are prescriptive, meaning they tell you what to eat or even force you to buy pre-packaged foods. Often, these diets do not take into consideration your individual likes and dislikes. This makes maintaining these diets difficult. I teach my clients to develop eating protocols that support their long term goals. These eating protocols are developed by the client and are consistent with what they like to eat. During this podcast episode, I discuss the 3 steps for developing eating protocols.
Ep #101 Q&A: Potatoes, Dairy & Food Protocols
During this podcast episode, I answer several common questions submitted by podcast listeners. Many questions are straightforward, such as “Why are Wheat Thins bad to eat?” but provide a launching off point for a more in-depth discussion on the problems with processed foods. Additionally, I discuss (1) how to create a food protocol, (2) whether potatoes and fruit are healthy for diabetics, (3) touch on the neurochemistry of several foods, such as dairy, and (4) many more questions.
Ep #100 Beyond Disease-Free: Optimizing Your Health
Client often engage my coaching services because they want to reverse their type 2 diabetes and stop insulin injections and medications. Typically, these goals are achieved in the first 3-weeks. For the rest of the 6-month program, we work on our thoughts, beliefs and achieving new goals. Often, this means clients start moving beyond just eliminating disease and begin working to gain better health, vitality, and longevity. For this 100th episode, I discuss my journey to health and vitality.
Ep #99 Your Health: How Positivity Undermines Success
In America, we are often told to “be positive” or “look on the Brightside.” This addiction to positivity, however, can undermine our progress towards goals. My clients often shrug off their failures by saying, “I didn’t do that bad” or “I’m still doing better than before.” Looking on the Brightside causes people to not glean the important lessons from feelings, which results in repeating the same counterproductive action. During this podcast, I discuss the dangers of toxic positivity and how to use feelings as data to improve health, reverse diabetes, and achieve health goals.
Ep #98 The Target Draws the Arrow
Achieving your goals takes time and practice. Clients want to achieve their goals quickly. They want to reverse diabetes and lose weight, but when it does not happen immediately, they think something is wrong. The good news is reversing diabetes can happen quickly, but goals like weight loss are dependent upon the limits of biology. During this episode, I discuss the biology and neurology of permanent lifestyle changes, and the mindset strategy to achieve them as quickly as biologically possible.
Ep #97 The Negative Effects of Stress on Health & How to Fix It
Living a naturally healthy life free from type 2 diabetes and other chronic conditions requires more than just eating right. Other non-food factors, such as stress, influence hormones and body chemistry. During this podcast, I discuss the effects of stress on your body and introduce evidence-based strategies for managing stress.
Ep #96 Managing Cravings
Learning to manage food cravings is essential to reverse your type 2 diabetes naturally. Often we turn to food for emotional reasons, such as stress, boredom or excitement. During this podcast, I discuss how to recognize and manage food cravings.
Ep #95 Getting Unstuck
When it comes to life, comparison is truly the thief of joy. It is also the way many of my clients unintentionally diminish the joy of simple pleasures. During this podcast, I discuss the one mindset that keeps my clients stuck. Understanding this mindset and implementing simple strategies is one way I help my clients to reverse type 2 diabetes and live a naturally healthy life.
Ep #94 Reversing Diabetes Basics
Are you looking to reverse your type 2 diabetes, stop the painful finger sticks, and end the cycle of doctor visits, medication, and more medications? Medical research shows you can reverse your diabetes naturally through lifestyle modification. During this podcast, I review the basics of reversing type 2 diabetes including cleaning up your diet, nutritional ketosis and intermittent fasting.
