January 1, 2026 • 7 mins
Making a resolution to eat healthy in the new year, but don't want to give up sweets and foods you love? Health Coach Hunter Stoler joins Read Shepherd and Dana McKay on the iHeartRadio Holiday Talk program to discuss his tips for healthier alternatives to your favorite foods. Follow Hunter at @healthwithhunter on Instagram for lots of great tips! Ryan Gorman is off for the holidays as Read & Dana host the national show. We'll be back to normal programming January 5, 2026.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
While the holidays are supposed to be a happy and
fun time with our friends and family, there always seem
to be two areas where we feel a little guilt afterward.
Did we put too much on the credit card and
did we eat too much? Well that's where our next
guest comes in. Hunter Stoler is a certified health coach
who's Health with Hunter social pages have hundreds of thousands
(00:21):
of followers. His videos offer tips to get healthy and
to feel good. Hunter, thanks for joining us today and
full disclosure right off the bat, Hunter, my doctor wants
me to lose a few pounds, so give us an idea.
Where do we Where do folks like me get started
on eating healthier? And well, yeah, dropping a couple of pounds.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Absolutely, Thank you both so much for having me. And
just a little bit of background. I lost fifty pounds
a few years ago and have been able to maintain
that weight loss while also building muscle.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Along the way. And I've done it in a very
sustainable way.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So I've been able to help hundreds of men and
women lose weight and achieve their body goals.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And I'm sure you would be no different from that.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And I think the holiday time is honestly a harder
time to start a weight loss journey, just because you're
surrounded by so many events and depending on who you are,
what holidays you celebrate, it could be a struggle. But
what I'd like to say is whether you're taking a
Christmas dinner, Thanksgiving dinner, whatever it is, for example, that's
one meal out of many meals that you're.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Eating every day.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
If you're having three to four meals a day, we
are putting so much focus on if you slip up
on one of those four meals, which is only twenty
five percent of the day, that I would much rather
you focus.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
On the seventy five percent.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So so many people love to focus on those little faults,
and I say, control those controllables and make sure if
you have a heavy dinner, your breakfast, lunch, and.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Snack are on point, on target, filled with protein.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And fiber, so you're full, satisfied, and you feel good
going into that big meal.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
So Hunter, one of my biggest issues when it comes
to eating healthy is it's almost like some of the
best foods are there like a addictive Like once I
eat cool ranch doritos, I continue to crave cool ranch doritos.
So is there like a trick to getting those addictive
kind of flavors or those addictive I don't know. Maybe
(02:13):
it's chemicals that are in the food out so that
then you can focus more on eating healthy.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Stuff one hundred percent. And that used to be me.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I used to feel inflame, bloated, and I used to
have cystig acne all the time, and I thought that
was a normal way to live until one day I
just woke up and realized this is not normal. Enough
is enough, and I needed to put my foot down.
And that's when I started learning about portion control. And
it's that methodology that you could have it all, but
not all at once. I think when someone is addicted
(02:41):
to Dorrito's or any chip or you know, cookies, there
are so many yeah Oreos, big ones. Yeah, are so
many brands out there that now make single served baths
of these.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Foods that are healthified.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So, for example, you're addicted to Nacho cheese or cool
Ranch Doritos, there's brands like Coday and Simple Mills that
make chips and cookies made of actual real ingredients that
still satisfy that ish that.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
People have for Doritos.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But you're right when you say that the foods are
addicted because there are ingredients like MSG mono sodium glutamate
in those dorritos.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That actually are addictive. And that was me with dia coke,
for example.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I used to be a dia coke addict and I
would have three or four big gulps a day from
seven to eleven, which is crazy to think about, and
I would think, oh, it has zero calories, it's part less.
But then I realized about all of the you know,
the aspertain and artificial sweeteners in these drinks. And then
when I when I went cold turkey with dia coke,
and I'm honestly happy I did, and I found better
(03:40):
swaps like Olipop, Poppy and Swoon where those satisfy that
craving but I'm not getting all the junk in them.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Taking that a step farther, Hunter, I think one of
my problems has always been that I associate food with
a certain like activity, like if I'm sitting watching TV
in the evening or not, I really, you know, I
kind of have something beside me to munch on sometimes
ice creams or whatever, or just before I go to
bed too, which I know is bad.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Okay, I know, it, but I still do it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, so one of my biggest shifts for that again,
I really do. I'm a very firm believer that there
is a healthy swap for everything, and I am, like you,
I am an ice cream junkie and I need it
almost every single day, and like that is my food
of choice. Like I'm such a sweet person that savory food.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Comes last to me.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And I'm not sure if you guys feel the same
way about that, But there are better swaps for ice cream.
And whether you are dairy free or you enjoy dairy,
there's brands like Thrown and out there that are made
using coconut milk that are incredibly delicious. And then there's
other brands like ice Cream for Bears and Cosmic Bliss
that you could find that your traditional.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Grocery store that are made of real ingredient.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So so many people fall for, you know, the Hershees
and all of the Drunk and Ben and Jerry's ice
creams that are a hundreds.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, one hundred plus crams of sugar per plant,
whereas we could go for better ones that are we
know at things like actual honey and maple syrup, and
they might cost a dollar or two more pint.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But I like to think of it and compare it
to you're going to an ice cream shop or for
ros and yogurt shop every night or every other night.
That could be fifteen dollars, whereas this is like seven
dollars for a pint, and it's less than you multiple days.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
But my biggest thing is if.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know that you're on target and on point with
your meals throughout the day, and you if you're on
a weight loss journey, you're allotting a few calories and
you're devoting a few of your daily calories for that
late night dessert.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Just build it into your day and don't be stressed
about it.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And then when it comes to foods like ice cream,
what I'd recommend is don't bring the pint to your
couch or bed. We've all fall victim to that. What
I'd recommend instead is, you know, scoop out a few scoops,
put it in a bowler cup, and then put it away,
and then bring it to your couch or bed so
that you're able to have a somewhat portioned dessert.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Hunter.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You have all of this stuff on social media, right
because I follow you on Instagram, and I see you
showing all of these great props that are a replacement
for the foods that are really bad for us.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yes, so health with Hunter on my social media as
I'm pretty much on all of those, and I I'm
all about making health simple for my viewers, my followers,
friends and family, and it's all free information on my
social media. Instagram is definitely where I post the most
because people think that there's no healthy swap for whether
it's a coffee creamer, which I'm very passionate about my
(06:27):
coffee because I'm obsessed with it, and they think so
many things. They also loves to think that, you know,
they see one bodybuilder or a girl who looks amazing
and a bikini on a beach, and they think that
the way that that person eats is the way that
they need to eat. And I'm all about the idea
of bioindividuality, which I learned when I was becoming a
health coach, which is there's no one size fits all
(06:48):
to nutrition or fitness or health. You need to find
what works for you and you need to keep going
at it because when it comes to weight loss, calories
matter the most, and especially around the holiday season, I
don't want you to get so stressed about you know,
I'm slipping off. I'm having mashed potatoes and gravy at dinner,
or you know, I'm having a biscuit with my meal.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
For dinner, Like that is one food.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I want you to focus on everything that's on your
plate that's nutrient dense and beneficial for you. And I
try to take the stress and the anxiety away from
grocery shopping and the holiday meals.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
On my social media as.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well, we're talking to certified health coach Hunter Stoler. Hunter,
thank you so much for joining us today and happy holidays.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Thank you you too,
While the holidays are supposed to be a happy and
fun time with our friends and family, there always seem
to be two areas where we feel a little guilt afterward.
Did we put too much on the credit card and
did we eat too much? Well that's where our next
guest comes in. Hunter Stoler is a certified health coach
who's Health with Hunter social pages have hundreds of thousands
(00:21):
of followers. His videos offer tips to get healthy and
to feel good. Hunter, thanks for joining us today and
full disclosure right off the bat, Hunter, my doctor wants
me to lose a few pounds, so give us an idea.
Where do we Where do folks like me get started
on eating healthier? And well, yeah, dropping a couple of pounds.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Absolutely, Thank you both so much for having me. And
just a little bit of background. I lost fifty pounds
a few years ago and have been able to maintain
that weight loss while also building muscle.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Along the way. And I've done it in a very
sustainable way.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So I've been able to help hundreds of men and
women lose weight and achieve their body goals.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And I'm sure you would be no different from that.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And I think the holiday time is honestly a harder
time to start a weight loss journey, just because you're
surrounded by so many events and depending on who you are,
what holidays you celebrate, it could be a struggle. But
what I'd like to say is whether you're taking a
Christmas dinner, Thanksgiving dinner, whatever it is, for example, that's
one meal out of many meals that you're.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Eating every day.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
If you're having three to four meals a day, we
are putting so much focus on if you slip up
on one of those four meals, which is only twenty
five percent of the day, that I would much rather
you focus.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
On the seventy five percent.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So so many people love to focus on those little faults,
and I say, control those controllables and make sure if
you have a heavy dinner, your breakfast, lunch, and.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Snack are on point, on target, filled with protein.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And fiber, so you're full, satisfied, and you feel good
going into that big meal.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
So Hunter, one of my biggest issues when it comes
to eating healthy is it's almost like some of the
best foods are there like a addictive Like once I
eat cool ranch doritos, I continue to crave cool ranch doritos.
So is there like a trick to getting those addictive
kind of flavors or those addictive I don't know. Maybe
(02:13):
it's chemicals that are in the food out so that
then you can focus more on eating healthy.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Stuff one hundred percent. And that used to be me.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I used to feel inflame, bloated, and I used to
have cystig acne all the time, and I thought that
was a normal way to live until one day I
just woke up and realized this is not normal. Enough
is enough, and I needed to put my foot down.
And that's when I started learning about portion control. And
it's that methodology that you could have it all, but
not all at once. I think when someone is addicted
(02:41):
to Dorrito's or any chip or you know, cookies, there
are so many yeah Oreos, big ones. Yeah, are so
many brands out there that now make single served baths
of these.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Foods that are healthified.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So, for example, you're addicted to Nacho cheese or cool
Ranch Doritos, there's brands like Coday and Simple Mills that
make chips and cookies made of actual real ingredients that
still satisfy that ish that.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
People have for Doritos.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But you're right when you say that the foods are
addicted because there are ingredients like MSG mono sodium glutamate
in those dorritos.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That actually are addictive. And that was me with dia coke,
for example.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I used to be a dia coke addict and I
would have three or four big gulps a day from
seven to eleven, which is crazy to think about, and
I would think, oh, it has zero calories, it's part less.
But then I realized about all of the you know,
the aspertain and artificial sweeteners in these drinks. And then
when I when I went cold turkey with dia coke,
and I'm honestly happy I did, and I found better
(03:40):
swaps like Olipop, Poppy and Swoon where those satisfy that
craving but I'm not getting all the junk in them.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Taking that a step farther, Hunter, I think one of
my problems has always been that I associate food with
a certain like activity, like if I'm sitting watching TV
in the evening or not, I really, you know, I
kind of have something beside me to munch on sometimes
ice creams or whatever, or just before I go to
bed too, which I know is bad.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Okay, I know, it, but I still do it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, so one of my biggest shifts for that again,
I really do. I'm a very firm believer that there
is a healthy swap for everything, and I am, like you,
I am an ice cream junkie and I need it
almost every single day, and like that is my food
of choice. Like I'm such a sweet person that savory food.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Comes last to me.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And I'm not sure if you guys feel the same
way about that, But there are better swaps for ice cream.
And whether you are dairy free or you enjoy dairy,
there's brands like Thrown and out there that are made
using coconut milk that are incredibly delicious. And then there's
other brands like ice Cream for Bears and Cosmic Bliss
that you could find that your traditional.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Grocery store that are made of real ingredient.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So so many people fall for, you know, the Hershees
and all of the Drunk and Ben and Jerry's ice
creams that are a hundreds.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, one hundred plus crams of sugar per plant,
whereas we could go for better ones that are we
know at things like actual honey and maple syrup, and
they might cost a dollar or two more pint.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But I like to think of it and compare it
to you're going to an ice cream shop or for
ros and yogurt shop every night or every other night.
That could be fifteen dollars, whereas this is like seven
dollars for a pint, and it's less than you multiple days.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
But my biggest thing is if.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know that you're on target and on point with
your meals throughout the day, and you if you're on
a weight loss journey, you're allotting a few calories and
you're devoting a few of your daily calories for that
late night dessert.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Just build it into your day and don't be stressed
about it.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And then when it comes to foods like ice cream,
what I'd recommend is don't bring the pint to your
couch or bed. We've all fall victim to that. What
I'd recommend instead is, you know, scoop out a few scoops,
put it in a bowler cup, and then put it away,
and then bring it to your couch or bed so
that you're able to have a somewhat portioned dessert.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Hunter.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You have all of this stuff on social media, right
because I follow you on Instagram, and I see you
showing all of these great props that are a replacement
for the foods that are really bad for us.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yes, so health with Hunter on my social media as
I'm pretty much on all of those, and I I'm
all about making health simple for my viewers, my followers,
friends and family, and it's all free information on my
social media. Instagram is definitely where I post the most
because people think that there's no healthy swap for whether
it's a coffee creamer, which I'm very passionate about my
(06:27):
coffee because I'm obsessed with it, and they think so
many things. They also loves to think that, you know,
they see one bodybuilder or a girl who looks amazing
and a bikini on a beach, and they think that
the way that that person eats is the way that
they need to eat. And I'm all about the idea
of bioindividuality, which I learned when I was becoming a
health coach, which is there's no one size fits all
(06:48):
to nutrition or fitness or health. You need to find
what works for you and you need to keep going
at it because when it comes to weight loss, calories
matter the most, and especially around the holiday season, I
don't want you to get so stressed about you know,
I'm slipping off. I'm having mashed potatoes and gravy at dinner,
or you know, I'm having a biscuit with my meal.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
For dinner, Like that is one food.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I want you to focus on everything that's on your
plate that's nutrient dense and beneficial for you. And I
try to take the stress and the anxiety away from
grocery shopping and the holiday meals.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
On my social media as.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well, we're talking to certified health coach Hunter Stoler. Hunter,
thank you so much for joining us today and happy holidays.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Thank you you too,
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