You Can Have Your (cup)Cake and Eat It Too.

It's a New Year and you know what that means in the fitness industry? Diet fads and trends come in full force capitalizing on your New Years resolution to 'eat better'. I brought my good friend Caitlin on to chat about how you can achieve your nutrition resolutions in a healthy way instead of becoming a victim to diet culture... let's set you up for success!

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I brought on my good friend Caitlin to discuss nutrition. Caitlin is a Nutritionist, personal trainer, group fitness instructor, cycle instructor. This bad bishh has built her own brand Footloose Fitness which is based around body positivity, saying ‘no’ to diet culture and ‘yes’ to educating yourself about healthy living.

Caitlin opens up about how her journey with food has changed her view about nutrition. She now strives to help others break barriers about food restriction and “good food” vs “bad food” ultimately leading others to a happier healthier life with food.

In this discussion we ‘have some chats’ about different topics that continuously come up in the health and fitness world.

- Diet culture: Not all diets are necessarily “bad”. Caitlin finds it more important to educate yourself. Don’t come off a 30 day diet and not know what you can and can’t eat. Invest in the time to learn about protein, carb, fat and how your body uses them.

- “Bad food” vs “good food” How to incorporate your favorite foods into your diet instead of creating food guilt.

- Carbohydrates: People are scared of them but why? She talks about how there is two different types of carbohydrates and how our body uses them for energy.

- Myth busting the “close your refrigerator at 6:30 p.m” Why this is not necessarily true for everyone and why it is important to look at your whole day in terms of nutrition.

- Difference between hobbit hunger and real hunger. How to break a habit hunger.

- What alcohol does to your metabolism. How to still incorporate alcohol with a balanced approach.

- 4 Tips for fat loss.

- 1. Tracking your food 2. Balanced meals 3.Strength training 4. Biofeedback (sleep, recovery, water intake, stress)