Description

Jenn always seems to know just what we need. As many of us are getting into the nitty gritty of our food choices, habits, routines and cravings, Jenn brings us back to earth with this week's episode! What if what we need isn't the magic bullet we're waiting to find while scrolling instagram or reading news headlines but is actually a return to the fundamentals. Like always Jenn makes it simpler and more fun to reach our health and weight goals. This episode may be the reminders you need to help you refocus and recommit. The timing is perfect!! Listen in. 

Outline:

• Welcome back & meet Lora
• Lora's story: podcast listener to podcast member, working with Jenn then joining the podcast from the other side of the microphone
• Intro today's topic
• Protein & fiber, balancing blood sugar
• The role of the bread basket
• The importance of blood sugar for energy
• Noticing our own bodies' signs
• Why we start with the nutrition side and then get into the routines, cravings, habits
• Portion sizes
• Go back to your tracker...are you tracking?
• Check-in with starches, grains & diary - food group or condiment?
• Hunger
• Activity & Exercise
• 3 fundamental components
• The big myth of cardio
• What to do
• Finding the time
• The mental side
• Remember why you started
• Measures of progress: scale, BMI, energy, sleep, stress, confidence, clothes
• Body composition
• What we focus on
• Relax about it all and the stress factor
• Our environment - the things & people
• Focus on long term health & yet one day/meal/hour/minute at a time
• Pay it forward
• Final thoughts

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Quotes:

"A serving of avocado is 1/2 an avocado, not the 1/16 of a slice we tend to allow." - Jenn Trepeck

"Weight loss isn't magic, it's science."  - Jenn Trepeck

"Quality in, quality out. Get up and move more."  - Jenn Trepeck

"Perfection not required."  - Jenn Trepeck

Our brains can register hunger and satiety when there's quality nutrition. Our brains cannot register satiety when they are hungry and what they're given are chemicals."  - Jenn Trepeck

"Have your starches, grains and dairy grown into a food group from a condiment?"  - Jenn Trepeck

"Expand your definition of exercise."  - Jenn Trepeck

"Muscle makes the difference."  - Jenn Trepeck

"Maybe you hit your goal and it's time to set the next milestone?"- Jenn Trepeck