December 17, 2024 • 33 mins
Does personalized nutrition and fitness coaching matter for creating results? YES! In this episode, two Couture Clients share their before and after stories and how having a coach who designs a personalized, step by step plan to help you reach your weight loss and fitness goals (and boost your metabolism, too!) can be a game changer! They share their experiences transitioning from passive podcast listeners to active participants in Couture's 1:1 coaching program and explain how a coach, a structured plan, and accountability led to significant health improvements, weight loss, and better overall well-being.
00:00 Welcome and Announcements
01:24 Client Introductions and Backgrounds
08:17 Challenges Before Coaching
13:21 Nutrition Struggles and Improvements
17:56 Results and Progress
27:39 The Value of Personalized Coaching
31:43 Conclusion and Enrollment Information
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Hey, everyone, and welcome backto the booster metabolism after
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age 30 podcast.
I'm Joe.
And today I'm excited abouttoday's episode because we're
going to be talking with a fewof our clients about how
personalized nutrition andfitness coaching can really be
transformative in your healthjourney.
Before we get to that topic,though, I do want to.
To share some things going on atcouture coaching with you.
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So right now we are activelyenrolling for January spots in
our metabolic makeover program.
That's our signature one on one.
Personalized nutrition andfitness coaching program, and
it's designed to help you startthe new year strong.
You'll get a plan tailored toyour goals and 1 thing about
that number 1, we are givingaway a free 12 week session to 1
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lucky listener.
And so all you have to do issign up using the link below in
the show notes for a chance towin.
And then also we are running aholiday promotion in December
that you can take advantage of.
We're calling this our new yearstrong start promotion.
You will get 10 percent off ofany coaching package and a
fitness box filled with.
All sorts of goodies to set youup for success in the new year.
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So it really is the perfect wayto kick off 2025 and there will
be a link in the show notes tolearn more about that promotion
and to claim your spot in ourprogram.
Okay, so I think those are allthe announcements I have so we
can get on to today's episode.
So I've invited some of ourclients to join me today to
share their journeys withcoaching with you.
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So I would say each of youtransition from being a podcast
listener, or maybe just someonepassively consuming content, to
working with a coach.
And I think you both have hadsome great results.
Let's start with introductionsshare your name.
A little bit about yourbackground and then what brought
you to coaching.
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You can just give first names.
Jillian, would you like to go1st?
Yeah, so I'm Jillian.
I live in Kansas City and I hadjust seen kind of weight gain
over the last, 2 or 3 years.
Couple of years more central anddespite working out, and not
really paying attention to mydiet, but I never had really
ever in my life.
(02:12):
That was my motivation turning50.
I was this is something I wantto do, at age 50 is try to get
in better shape and at leaststop this gain, because it just
seemed like I was gaining likefive pounds every year, and then
soon, sooner or later, you're 20pounds over wait, so that was my
motivation in part and to behealthy.
Yeah, and I know that you'vebeen listening to the podcast
(02:34):
for a bit, and you were even aguest on one of our prior pod.
Oh, yeah.
Jillian is a doctor.
And so you talked to us aboutmuscle as medicine.
How long would you say you and Iknow you're generally interested
in health and fitness, but howlong would you say that you were
consuming content before youdecided to get signed up with
coaching?
Maybe as long as you've had yourpodcast, maybe, has it been two
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years?
Yeah, I think it'll be twoyears.
Okay.
So I've probably been listeningsince the beginning I just
listened and learned a lot, fromthat.
But still, despite that wasn'tlike how many changes that I
needed to.
And so I think that's been thebiggest differences.
Maybe just knowing exactly whatto do, like the macro goals,
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exactly what to lift, and 10,000 steps, all of these things
in exact amounts.
I was doing a lot of this, butvery sporadically, So we may get
into a little bit of that morein a bit.
Kim, would you like to introduceyourself?
Yes.
Hi, my name's Kim.
I'm from Oswego, Illinois, whichis about 40 miles, 40 or so
miles outside of Chicago.
So, a friend of mine recommendedthe podcast to me just in
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talking because we had both goneto Weight Watchers when we
worked together and did that andwere somewhat successful during
that, but then, COVID andthings, my, my weight just
started going up as and I am apretty active, person and was
doing weights and all that kindof stuff.
And just getting frustrated, butnot paying attention to my diet
(04:04):
really.
I feel like I eat somewhathealthy, but I think I was
probably going over withportions and with the bad stuff.
So that's my.
background with that.
And had the metabolic coursepaid for that.
And then probably probably likearound July, I think it was this
past year is when I said Ihaven't, I've done like two of
the episodes.
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I put things into, I put macrosinto practice on and off, but
then something would always comeup.
So I would lose track and then Iwould just.
Go off the rails and not trackanymore.
And I guess not knowing, I hadused a macro calculator and
wanted, and put in, okay, thisis what my rough activity is,
and this is what I want to weighin that state.
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So it gave me some parameters,so I tried to follow that.
But then not knowing where to goafter that.
Yeah.
So then I think it was, Yeah,probably July between the time
of July and October when Irealized that it was a quarterly
sign up where I said, okay Ithink I'm gonna try this.
I'm gonna You know go from thecourse to actually getting
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coaching Okay, great.
Yeah, I'm sure that a lot oflisteners can relate to both of
you in terms of maybe feelinglike you're implementing some
components, but maybe not alland not sure why it maybe isn't
all working together.
But you shared a little bitabout what made you go from
listener to client, but can yougo back to the moment that you
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just decided to pull the triggerand sign up for coaching and
what it was that finally pushedyou into.
Doing it.
So I know for myself, I consumea lot of content and it takes me
a while to warm up to things.
And so I'm always curious, whatis the defining moment where you
go from content consumer todeciding that you're going to
try the one on one coaching.
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I think for me, it was again,still not seeing results.
And just, Seeing pictures ofmyself and how uncomfortable I
was feeling in my own body, likewith the way I looked in way
clothes were fitting I couldstill fit into the same clothes
from like a few months prior,but it didn't look right.
When I would, look back atmyself and even if I look back
(06:10):
at Christmas pictures from lastyear, I could see in my face
just how.
Bloated, it seemed to be.
And and yeah, unhealthy wise.
I realized that I probablycouldn't do it on my own.
Like it, at least to start tohave some guidance as to.
The steps to take, how I wasdoing and I needed some
accountability for myself, Ineeded to somebody else to, see
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and suggest okay, I see whereyou're, things are going here
and let's try this.
Okay, so maybe like a moment offrustration.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
What about you, Jillian?
What was like the moment ofdecision for you?
Yeah.
So my cousin was diagnosed withhepatocellular carcinoma in the
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summer, right around he and I,our birthdays are very close
together in July and it wasright after that and he has no
known liver disease.
It's usually you have liverdisease to get this and, but
he's obese, and, Many of theSchmitz are obese, this is our
natural history.
And so it made me realize, he'snot a drinker or anything,
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because it's usually, peoplewith some type of liver disease
or alcohol that are thinkingthis diagnosis.
And so I was like, okay, so heprobably had, like fatty liver
disease from obesity, as atrigger.
It's like a metabolic disease ofthe liver.
And then developedhepatocellular carcinoma.
So that was my biggest wake upcall.
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And I know this, I know like allrates of cancer, like all
cancers basically are higher inobese people, so I I know this
as a physician and I do a lot ofobesity counseling because
that's the bread and butter ofinternal medicine is all the
diseases associated withobesity.
But it was just like that.
I could not do this for myself.
Despite my efforts.
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Yeah, I think that's sofascinating.
That.
We can know all the right thingsto do and then just, and I
totally relate to that.
I'm the same also, like theability to put it together for
ourselves sometimes eludes us.
So I'm sure a lot of people canrelate to that.
Okay.
So let's talk about thechallenges that you did have
before having or getting acoach.
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What did you struggle with whenyou were trying to implement,
the fitness and nutritionadvice, from podcasts or other
content?
What did you struggle with themost on your own?
Jillian, do you want to start?
Oh, sure.
I think, I did watch or listento a lot of stuff about
weightlifting, but I neveractually have had a personal
trainer.
Showing me like, these are theset of exercises you need.
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And I've gone to tons of fitnessclasses, like over the last
decade, at least.
And so it was strange.
I wasn't going to any fitnessclasses actually in the last
like year.
I was just weightlifting on myown, but doing Peloton
weightlifting or YouTube,weightlifting session, those
sorts of things.
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And then wasn't really likewalking in 10, 000 steps, it was
just knowing exactly what to dothat I found was very helpful
from going to just nonspecifically doing it and
randomly doing it like how manytimes a week should I do this
every day, or one day, it wasjust like, I didn't know what
specifically what to do.
(09:26):
And I think that was the biggestdifference.
And then just being accountable,like everybody says, if you
write it down and measure it andyou have to show it to somebody,
it makes me think about, do I,do I want to eat this or am I
not going to do my weightliftingsession or something, that I'm
supposed to do and paying forit, I think is also I am a
person that, yeah.
(09:47):
I'm not going to spend money andnot use the product, whatever,
if I buy something, I need tolike, use it.
I feel philosophically likethat.
And so same with this, like myhusband will tease me you don't
have to do the 10, 000 steps.
I'm like I paid them to tell meto do the 10, 000 steps a day.
Like, why would I pay them to,and then just not do it?
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You know what I mean?
I just feel in terms of gettingyour value if you're going to
pay for it, you use it, yeah, noyeah, that you raise a lot of
good points.
And I think 1 that probably alot of listeners can relate to.
And I, again, certainly canrelate to this and is really
what inspired us to start thisbusiness is.
Nothing is more frustrating thanspending the time at the gym or
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lifting weights and not gettingany results.
And so just being able to nothave to figure out just I'll go
to the gym.
Just tell me what to do there.
Yeah.
And and that can be, that canmean all the world in getting
results.
You literally can be goingthrough the motions and not
really making much progress asfrustrating as that is.
(10:48):
Yeah, I can.
I think a lot of people canrelate to that.
Kim, how about you?
What were your struggles andimplementing all the content you
were.
Hearing and listening to on yourown.
And yeah, we, when we talkedbefore, I think I mentioned that
I, my intake was about 2courses, maybe 3 of the 4, of
the metabolic port, so just toexplain to listeners, we have a
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79 do it yourself course, whereit walks through how to set your
macros and some other things.
It's, several modules.
And so that's what you'rereferring to.
You bought that.
And yes, it sounds like you dida couple of the lessons.
And then that was it.
And I, I didn't have anybody toaccount for it.
So I didn't have anybodyselling.
You probably should listen tothe next 1 so that you could get
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your macros in place.
And, I think that that was oneof my struggles is actually,
first of all, listening, to toimplement and then I think
similar to what Jillian said, Ihad a a trainer 4 or 5 years ago
prior to COVID, that I was goingto a gym and I was, maybe one or
two sessions a week.
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We, we had paid for my husbandand I.
And then once that all ended,but I still had the workouts
cause I had everything writtendown.
So went back to the gym andstarted doing them again, saw
some results, but still not thesame.
Probably related to not havingmy food in order, which it was,
we all know is whatever, like 80percent or more than that of, Of
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if you're trying to, behealthier and look different.
So I was again trying to do iton my own with those workouts,
but then I actually put the gymover a year now just to save
money and bought Bowflexsecondhand Bowflex.
And then I think through thecourse, the one hearing about,
you don't need that muchequipment.
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Initially.
if you're struggling, we canwork around what the equipment
that you have, body weight.
And if you have weights and useall that stuff to get you
started with a workouts, likeagain, similar to Jillian,
something knowing what to do andhow many days to do it.
And think I was doing four daysa week on the Bowflex and just
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following somebody from YouTubethat did Bowflex exercises.
One.
One other question.
I want to ask both you on thispoint.
You both mentioned that you wereexercising.
It sounds but maybe nutritionwasn't exactly on point when you
were trying to do it yourself.
Comments about that, where youhad, you tried to, do that piece
of it on your own, or not andhow as a coach helped with that.
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Oh yeah.
I had even at one point donedownloaded the carbon app which
is, I'm forgetting his nameright now.
Lane Norton.
Yeah, it's Lane Norton'scoaching app.
And I don't remember what theyhad my macro set on there.
I also.
Wasn't really following itthough, cause there's, they do
have somebody monitoring it ormaybe it's just a computer
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monitoring it.
And every week if you plug it inand you're not like a goal,
they're saying try better nexttime.
It's very inexpensive, but evenwith that, and I think I
probably just wasn't at theright space in my life also to
even try that.
And it might've been a, two orthree years ago.
I can't remember when.
But other than that, and I justdidn't really have an idea of
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how much protein, I think I'vealways had quoted like a gram
per pound, a protein, but then Iwas just Whatever on my carbs
and fats and had no calorie, nosense of where my calorie goal
should be total, you know So Iwasn't really on point in terms
of nutrition or making much ofan effort other than trying to
eat more protein But like mytotal calories were just
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wherever and I would do thingslike at work.
We have a candy drawer You knowwith like miniature whatever,
Reeses or M& M's and stuff likethat in it, and I would,
sometimes when I would sign mynotes for the day, I'd eat one
piece after each note.
I was like, that's because itwas like, I was at a time where
I was like, Trying to findmotivation, right?
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I was like, okay, I can have aReese's peanut butter cup after
I sign in it.
I mean if you're signing 12,that's a kind of a lot of
Reese's peanut butter cups,yeah.
It sounds like a good rewardsystem at the beginning, but
Right, but not sustainable overtime.
Yeah, so doing stuff like thatYou know, when you're tracking
and I wasn't tracking was nottracking those at all.
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But when you're actuallyplugging in, Oh, six Reese's
peanut butter cups, you're likeokay.
Now I can't eat dinner, cause Ihave no calories left, stuff
like that and planning it outand actually like putting it in.
And I've used I use thechronometer app.
I have used it for a while, butjust very sporadically, before
all of this it just really ishelped me to have some
accountability and have someserious, like actual goals for
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stuff for food and everything.
And that's been very helpful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kim, how about you on thenutrition side of things?
What it was where we were atthat would yeah, like where, how
has that changed or.
Yeah.
It sounds like from what yousaid before nutrition wasn't
exactly on point.
So how has that changed withhaving a coach?
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I'm almost speaking the same asJillian with the candy at work
to like.
Grabbing a couple pieces ofcandy oh, I, I deserve this kind
of thing.
And realizing how much itactually is for even the little
ones are small ones.
And, um, I was probably.
Somewhat okay with protein, butmaybe not as much as I'm, on my
(16:14):
cut right now.
So I think having that on pointI'm I've always eaten a lot of
vegetables and salads, and itwas always like that's, why am
I, why am I not losing weightwith salads, but even that adds
up surprisingly, and then wouldadd these honey sesame sticks to
get some crunch, and you, a fewof those, and, that's 150
calories that you're adding toyour salad.
(16:36):
No idea what fat I was eating,how much I was eating, even if I
thought it was healthy fat andyeah, and then carbs, same thing
I was probably obviously eatingway more carbs than I was
supposed to.
Yeah, this reminds me I waslistening to a fitness coach and
nutrition coach and, we hear alot of people and a lot of
listeners might be thinking likeI'm a healthy eater and you
(16:58):
probably both described yourselfas that way too.
And this coach was saying youfirst have to focus on quantity
of calories, not Quality ofcalories and people tend to get
that backwards because if you'rewanting to have progress or see
results you can eat a lot ofhealthy food but the calories
can be all out of whack.
And that can work in both ways.
(17:19):
And you can just not seeresults.
It sounds like getting a coachand having a macros budget has
helped you figure out quantity.
And then also the accountabilitysounds like it has been a real
useful to you, which again,that's everyone.
Everyone, especially withnutrition, I think, tends to do
better with externalaccountability.
And I think a lot of, that ismost commonly what we hear is
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there are very few people whoare like, oh, my nutrition is
totally on point.
That's usually what is out ofwhack and what where people need
the most sort of attention andhelp and handholding and
figuring out how to skin thatcat.
Okay let's now switch to talkingabout your results.
I think both of you came to us,with your metabolisms in a
pretty good spot.
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You hadn't been slashingcalories recently, you were in a
healthy enough, calorie spacethat we could immediately start
in on focusing on some weightloss.
And why don't, if you can eachkind of share how progress has
gone for you and really how acoach has helped you reach those
goals, where before maybe youweren't seeing progress.
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And you don't have to mentionlike numbers, but just generally
how things are going and and howcoaching has helped with that,
Jillian, do you want to start?
Yeah, I think cause Iimmediately basically I think I
did maintenance for just a fewweeks and then went into cut and
even on the maintenance I lostbecause I think I was just
eating like so many calories,like over 2000.
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Or 2200.
I have no idea really what I waseating, but it was enough to
gain on it, and so even justthat maintenance, I had come
down a few pounds and then wedid just another like 150 down
for the cut because my totalcalories are 1530 and that's
been very helpful and it's, it'sslow.
It's not even a pound a week,which is totally fine.
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It's, you always like to seethose early gains, I think,
because yeah.
It's motivating, to keep going.
So just that initially was sohelpful for me, just to put that
calorie leash on me.
And make me like think aboutthings, and helps also to log
ahead for the day, if I knowwhatever we're having for
dinner, I put that in so that Ihave a better sense.
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Okay, what can I have for lunch?
And what can I not?
And I tend to not eat a lot likeearlier in the day.
Like before for breakfast, Ijust do the protein coffee.
And that's helpful to get about50 grams of protein in with
that, and it, and just in termsof calories, it helps, just
because I it gets me going inthe morning.
For that yeah, and it sounds so1 thing our coaches do is
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calibrate things, look at your,how your progress is going.
And then rather than just okay,Jillian, these are your calories
go have fun are monitoring alongthe way.
So it does sound like, yeah yourcoaches adjusted things as
you've gone.
So do you feel like you wouldhave known what to do on your
own?
Not no, not in specific sense,or even a goal.
(20:13):
Like I probably would havethought my calorie goal needed
to be 1200, or something tolose.
Cause if you plug in, I think tomy fitness pal or something and
put a goal, I think it alwaysputs you usually around 1200 or
something.
I was also at one point going toFloddy's body lab.
I know this is deviating off ofthis the new gains, it's on
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those mega formers.
It's that Like it's very hard.
I would say very difficult andvery like super challenging, but
I never saw really my bodychange that much, and they even
have some little maybe two poundweights to, and I saw basically
nothing changed, but I did getbetter at doing it.
But no, like in terms of my bodyshape didn't change at all, and
(20:58):
now learning, I think that wasjust a waste of time, really, to
spend time doing that and money.
As a coach, as I'm thinkingabout that if you really love
that, we would probably workthat in as steps or just general
activity rather than towardsweightlifting or something, or
we would.
I think with everyone and Kim,you spoke to this, whether it's
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the equipment you have, or ifthere's you have a passion for a
particular type of exercise, wecan work that in.
It's just like how to fit it ina way.
That's still going to geteverything working together to
get you some results.
Yeah, definitely.
So that's another way I think acoach can be helpful is just to,
help you see if you love that,or if that was really important
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part of your life, how we couldfit it in, but what to count it
as, like that, we're going tocount that steps for the day, or
you can count 3, 000 steps forthe day.
I think once you realize howeverything works together, and
you have someone helping you seehow everything is fitting
together, you can make moreeducated choices about how you
spent your time.
Yeah, yeah, that's our mostvaluable resource that we have.
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And Yeah, spending an hourPilates, every morning between
five and six is not how I needto spend my time.
I don't know.
Yeah.
And I imagine that Pilates costsmoney too.
Yeah, it can help you focus yourresources, if you have someone
looking at everything and seeinghow you're doing.
Okay that sounds like goodprogress.
And you're still you're stillprogressing and and continuing
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to get results.
Kim, how has having a coach beenin terms of achieving particular
results?
Again, I want to last because itsounds very similar.
It's Jillian with when I firststarted and we did, tracking is
what my coach called it for theinitial 2 weeks to see where I
was at.
And Even though she told me toeat what I normally eat, I
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probably ate less, which wasstill around 2000.
Like I had an average ofprobably 2000 or more, little
bit 2100 possibly.
And I still lost weight duringthat time because I wasn't going
over on the weekends, which iswhat's something I did.
Like I took advantage probablyin I can have cake, I can have
ice cream that sort of stuff.
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So I honestly was tracking.
For those two weeks, and I waslike, maybe once I get to 1900,
I should probably, not haveanything else today or, things
like that.
So that kind of helps.
And then, I was given 17, around17.
5, which was a relief becauseI'm, I didn't want to go any
lower because I felt that Imight be too hungry or something
(23:29):
like that.
Like I was nervous about goingtoo low so that definitely, and
checking in every week andInches coming off.
So just talking through it witha coach every week and her
reaching out seeing if there'sanything that I she can help
with um getting ideas for how tonavigate stuff has helped, that,
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that's where it's helped me.
And I feel like my progress hasbeen, it's been good.
I've been going down in inches.
That's a little bit slower.
The first couple, even firstcouple weeks was a surprise to
me, but again, that's probablybecause like I said, I wasn't
doing the up and down with theweekends and stuff like that.
I was remaining pretty steady.
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Yeah I looked in on your resultsand you're definitely having
steady progress and losingpounds and inches as we go
along.
But I think you both point outjust in sharing your results, a
couple of interesting thingsthat maybe is not apparent to
people or not apparent when you1st start out on this journey.
So I think Jillian, youmentioned you would have gone
down to 1200 calories, but Ithink it's easy to say I'm just
(24:37):
going to eat 1200 calories, butyou both were eating somewhere
north of 2000 calories a day.
If you had just on your ownread, or, picked up some bad
diet that had you go down to1200 calories.
That wouldn't have happened.
Yeah, some of these things, theycan even seem very healthy, like
(24:59):
fish and vegetables, but, goingfrom 2000 to 1200 calories, we
would never put anyone'scalories that low, but would
that have been even asustainable for you or possible
for you?
I don't.
Yeah, and I've even tried, Ithink at some point I've tried
1200 and just gotten frustratedbecause I was like, I can't do
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this, yeah, I think the otherthing initially is I felt like
immediately this abdominalloading feeling like immediately
felt deflated.
Which that actually felt sogood, just because it was just
like so uncomfortable, feelingto me the other thing is like my
blood pressure so much better.
I'm like, very careful with myblood pressure.
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And I've been on blood pressuremeds for almost 25 years,
probably at this point.
Even though, I exercise a lotand ate, healthy, but I've been
taking less blood pressure medsnow, just with eating less and
having more prescribed exercise.
And then my heartburn is a lotbetter too.
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And that's been amazing.
And then I sleep better.
Yes, that is a very common.
Yeah, that's a common result.
We hear not maybe not why peoplecome to us, but I think it
probably is just getting thatnutrition, super consistent and
getting your body like goodnutrition and nutrients that
needs a lot of other things canhappen.
(26:23):
Yeah.
And I think, like, when we justare constantly cycling between
what I call free for all, orYOLO eating, and then these very
extremes, we don't get to seethe benefits of what just
consistent.
Good nutrition optimized for ourgoals, like how we can feel on
that.
It can feel pretty good.
And you can also be losingweight along the way.
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The other thing I was going topoint out, is that you both are
at different calorie levels.
So it really is, coaching isvery personalized.
So it's not like we have both ofyou, at the same calorie level
everyone starts out in adifferent place.
That's probably the mostimportant thing about coaching
is it really you have to takeinto account what you were doing
before how your body isresponding to things.
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So that's honestly why a lot oftimes just buying a program
online or, going somewhere andplugging things in and having it
spit out macros doesn't reallywork because it's not taking
into account what you've donebefore, we will not set anyone's
macros until we have a reallygood baseline of their
nutrition.
And so that's very important interms of seeing results is
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knowing where you're starting,calibrating things to that, and
then monitoring things asyou're.
Adjusting nutrition and yourexercise.
Okay, so I guess we'll just wrapthings up with what would you
say?
And it was probably just as asummary of things we've already
said, but what do you see thebiggest difference between
consuming fitness and nutritioncontent and then having
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personalized coaching beinglike, if you were talking to a
friend who Maybe it wasconsidering, pulling the trigger
on getting a coach or gettingsome sort of personalized help.
What do you think the biggestdifference has been for you in
terms of just listening topodcasts and applying it and
then actually having a coachcreate a plan for you having
check ins with that coach andthat external accountability?
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For me, listening is.
It's just a passive, intake andyou can feel good about it, you
know, I'm listening to all thesehealthy podcasts about how to,
eat and how to exercise andstuff, but it was really just
passive for me.
And though, so the differencewas turning into actively and
implementing it and knowingspecifically what to do, I think
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for me was the biggest thing andthen the accountability part.
Yeah, so yeah, getting a plan,doing the plan, having someone
to check in with about the planand yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Kim, what about for you?
What's the, what has been thebiggest difference between
consuming content and thenhaving a coach?
I think for me, it's been thelistening to the calls, like
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I've gone back and listened tosome of the coaching calls on
Saturday mornings and havingother people's experiences.
hearing them and getting peopletalking about going out to
dinner so I probably the samepassive.
I wasn't, I would listen to itand be like, ah, that might be
something I would do, butprobably not.
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Um, and in the accountabilitybut I do and that was one of the
aspects I liked about.
Being at Weight Watchers wasgoing to weekly meetings and
hearing other people's stories.
Some of them But some of them,hearing other people's journeys,
and that helps realize thatyou're not the only person
that's going through this.
Getting ideas on how to changerecipes.
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To make them a little bithealthier that realistically,
that one of the calls was one ofyour, the food prep, But I'm
just trying to eat like thewhole foods.
Now I'm putting those thingstogether.
Yes, the accountability havingsomebody to check in and is the
helpful getting ideas about frompeople who are going through the
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same experience about ways tomake meals healthier, more macro
friendly.
Yeah.
For listeners who aren'tfamiliar with Kim's talking
about is we do coaching callsevery week where, people can
come and ask questions.
And I do think that there's aphenomenon, like I've
experienced this in other partsof my life where you hear
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something, it sounds so simpleand then when you go to try to
implement, like it doesn't quitework that way.
Or You just have questions or,you have challenges that you, if
you don't, if you're in avacuum, and you're not getting
any feedback, and you're onlywith yourself, it can feel like
you're a gigantic failurebecause what you listen to
sounds so simple, but inimplementation, you have
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questions, or it feels a lotmore complicated.
And with those coaching calls Ialways say everyone is the same.
A lot of the struggles aresimilar.
A lot of the questions aresimilar.
And hearing someone else maketheir way through it can be
really comforting in a way andalso help you problem solve.
But, help you realize thatyou're not alone and, you're not
an idiot, maybe, and these arecommon struggles everyone has.
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So I think that is helpful.
And also, I think what you'retalking about is you've, it's
something that happens when yougo from listening to doing
right?
Recognize your challenges orwhere you're having struggles.
And yeah, you can ask questions.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think for sure.
There's no doubt about it.
Having a coach, you're going toget into action and then from
there fine tune, whatever thatyou need to it really can bridge
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the gap between knowing anddoing and, having someone
support you or a group of peoplesupport you and understand what
you're going through can bealso, something that really
helps you succeed.
So I think that's all I have fortoday.
Thank you.
Kim and Jillian for sharing yourjourneys.
Your, experiences are soinspiring and I know are going
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to resonate with so manylisteners out there.
Again, to everyone listening,please don't forget that we're
actively enrolling in ourJanuary metabolic makeover
program.
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So make sure you sign up thismonth to take advantage also of
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Links about both of those thingsare in our show notes.
And thanks for tuning in today.
And let's make 2025 yourhealthiest year yet.
Okay.
Thanks everyone.
Hey, everyone, and welcome backto the booster metabolism after
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age 30 podcast.
I'm Joe.
And today I'm excited abouttoday's episode because we're
going to be talking with a fewof our clients about how
personalized nutrition andfitness coaching can really be
transformative in your healthjourney.
Before we get to that topic,though, I do want to.
To share some things going on atcouture coaching with you.
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So right now we are activelyenrolling for January spots in
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That's our signature one on one.
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it's designed to help you startthe new year strong.
You'll get a plan tailored toyour goals and 1 thing about
that number 1, we are givingaway a free 12 week session to 1
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lucky listener.
And so all you have to do issign up using the link below in
the show notes for a chance towin.
And then also we are running aholiday promotion in December
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We're calling this our new yearstrong start promotion.
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So it really is the perfect wayto kick off 2025 and there will
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and to claim your spot in ourprogram.
Okay, so I think those are allthe announcements I have so we
can get on to today's episode.
So I've invited some of ourclients to join me today to
share their journeys withcoaching with you.
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So I would say each of youtransition from being a podcast
listener, or maybe just someonepassively consuming content, to
working with a coach.
And I think you both have hadsome great results.
Let's start with introductionsshare your name.
A little bit about yourbackground and then what brought
you to coaching.
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You can just give first names.
Jillian, would you like to go1st?
Yeah, so I'm Jillian.
I live in Kansas City and I hadjust seen kind of weight gain
over the last, 2 or 3 years.
Couple of years more central anddespite working out, and not
really paying attention to mydiet, but I never had really
ever in my life.
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That was my motivation turning50.
I was this is something I wantto do, at age 50 is try to get
in better shape and at leaststop this gain, because it just
seemed like I was gaining likefive pounds every year, and then
soon, sooner or later, you're 20pounds over wait, so that was my
motivation in part and to behealthy.
Yeah, and I know that you'vebeen listening to the podcast
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for a bit, and you were even aguest on one of our prior pod.
Oh, yeah.
Jillian is a doctor.
And so you talked to us aboutmuscle as medicine.
How long would you say you and Iknow you're generally interested
in health and fitness, but howlong would you say that you were
consuming content before youdecided to get signed up with
coaching?
Maybe as long as you've had yourpodcast, maybe, has it been two
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years?
Yeah, I think it'll be twoyears.
Okay.
So I've probably been listeningsince the beginning I just
listened and learned a lot, fromthat.
But still, despite that wasn'tlike how many changes that I
needed to.
And so I think that's been thebiggest differences.
Maybe just knowing exactly whatto do, like the macro goals,
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exactly what to lift, and 10,000 steps, all of these things
in exact amounts.
I was doing a lot of this, butvery sporadically, So we may get
into a little bit of that morein a bit.
Kim, would you like to introduceyourself?
Yes.
Hi, my name's Kim.
I'm from Oswego, Illinois, whichis about 40 miles, 40 or so
miles outside of Chicago.
So, a friend of mine recommendedthe podcast to me just in
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talking because we had both goneto Weight Watchers when we
worked together and did that andwere somewhat successful during
that, but then, COVID andthings, my, my weight just
started going up as and I am apretty active, person and was
doing weights and all that kindof stuff.
And just getting frustrated, butnot paying attention to my diet
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really.
I feel like I eat somewhathealthy, but I think I was
probably going over withportions and with the bad stuff.
So that's my.
background with that.
And had the metabolic coursepaid for that.
And then probably probably likearound July, I think it was this
past year is when I said Ihaven't, I've done like two of
the episodes.
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I put things into, I put macrosinto practice on and off, but
then something would always comeup.
So I would lose track and then Iwould just.
Go off the rails and not trackanymore.
And I guess not knowing, I hadused a macro calculator and
wanted, and put in, okay, thisis what my rough activity is,
and this is what I want to weighin that state.
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So it gave me some parameters,so I tried to follow that.
But then not knowing where to goafter that.
Yeah.
So then I think it was, Yeah,probably July between the time
of July and October when Irealized that it was a quarterly
sign up where I said, okay Ithink I'm gonna try this.
I'm gonna You know go from thecourse to actually getting
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coaching Okay, great.
Yeah, I'm sure that a lot oflisteners can relate to both of
you in terms of maybe feelinglike you're implementing some
components, but maybe not alland not sure why it maybe isn't
all working together.
But you shared a little bitabout what made you go from
listener to client, but can yougo back to the moment that you
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just decided to pull the triggerand sign up for coaching and
what it was that finally pushedyou into.
Doing it.
So I know for myself, I consumea lot of content and it takes me
a while to warm up to things.
And so I'm always curious, whatis the defining moment where you
go from content consumer todeciding that you're going to
try the one on one coaching.
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I think for me, it was again,still not seeing results.
And just, Seeing pictures ofmyself and how uncomfortable I
was feeling in my own body, likewith the way I looked in way
clothes were fitting I couldstill fit into the same clothes
from like a few months prior,but it didn't look right.
When I would, look back atmyself and even if I look back
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at Christmas pictures from lastyear, I could see in my face
just how.
Bloated, it seemed to be.
And and yeah, unhealthy wise.
I realized that I probablycouldn't do it on my own.
Like it, at least to start tohave some guidance as to.
The steps to take, how I wasdoing and I needed some
accountability for myself, Ineeded to somebody else to, see
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and suggest okay, I see whereyou're, things are going here
and let's try this.
Okay, so maybe like a moment offrustration.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
What about you, Jillian?
What was like the moment ofdecision for you?
Yeah.
So my cousin was diagnosed withhepatocellular carcinoma in the
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summer, right around he and I,our birthdays are very close
together in July and it wasright after that and he has no
known liver disease.
It's usually you have liverdisease to get this and, but
he's obese, and, Many of theSchmitz are obese, this is our
natural history.
And so it made me realize, he'snot a drinker or anything,
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because it's usually, peoplewith some type of liver disease
or alcohol that are thinkingthis diagnosis.
And so I was like, okay, so heprobably had, like fatty liver
disease from obesity, as atrigger.
It's like a metabolic disease ofthe liver.
And then developedhepatocellular carcinoma.
So that was my biggest wake upcall.
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And I know this, I know like allrates of cancer, like all
cancers basically are higher inobese people, so I I know this
as a physician and I do a lot ofobesity counseling because
that's the bread and butter ofinternal medicine is all the
diseases associated withobesity.
But it was just like that.
I could not do this for myself.
Despite my efforts.
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Yeah, I think that's sofascinating.
That.
We can know all the right thingsto do and then just, and I
totally relate to that.
I'm the same also, like theability to put it together for
ourselves sometimes eludes us.
So I'm sure a lot of people canrelate to that.
Okay.
So let's talk about thechallenges that you did have
before having or getting acoach.
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What did you struggle with whenyou were trying to implement,
the fitness and nutritionadvice, from podcasts or other
content?
What did you struggle with themost on your own?
Jillian, do you want to start?
Oh, sure.
I think, I did watch or listento a lot of stuff about
weightlifting, but I neveractually have had a personal
trainer.
Showing me like, these are theset of exercises you need.
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And I've gone to tons of fitnessclasses, like over the last
decade, at least.
And so it was strange.
I wasn't going to any fitnessclasses actually in the last
like year.
I was just weightlifting on myown, but doing Peloton
weightlifting or YouTube,weightlifting session, those
sorts of things.
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And then wasn't really likewalking in 10, 000 steps, it was
just knowing exactly what to dothat I found was very helpful
from going to just nonspecifically doing it and
randomly doing it like how manytimes a week should I do this
every day, or one day, it wasjust like, I didn't know what
specifically what to do.
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And I think that was the biggestdifference.
And then just being accountable,like everybody says, if you
write it down and measure it andyou have to show it to somebody,
it makes me think about, do I,do I want to eat this or am I
not going to do my weightliftingsession or something, that I'm
supposed to do and paying forit, I think is also I am a
person that, yeah.
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I'm not going to spend money andnot use the product, whatever,
if I buy something, I need tolike, use it.
I feel philosophically likethat.
And so same with this, like myhusband will tease me you don't
have to do the 10, 000 steps.
I'm like I paid them to tell meto do the 10, 000 steps a day.
Like, why would I pay them to,and then just not do it?
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You know what I mean?
I just feel in terms of gettingyour value if you're going to
pay for it, you use it, yeah, noyeah, that you raise a lot of
good points.
And I think 1 that probably alot of listeners can relate to.
And I, again, certainly canrelate to this and is really
what inspired us to start thisbusiness is.
Nothing is more frustrating thanspending the time at the gym or
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lifting weights and not gettingany results.
And so just being able to nothave to figure out just I'll go
to the gym.
Just tell me what to do there.
Yeah.
And and that can be, that canmean all the world in getting
results.
You literally can be goingthrough the motions and not
really making much progress asfrustrating as that is.
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Yeah, I can.
I think a lot of people canrelate to that.
Kim, how about you?
What were your struggles andimplementing all the content you
were.
Hearing and listening to on yourown.
And yeah, we, when we talkedbefore, I think I mentioned that
I, my intake was about 2courses, maybe 3 of the 4, of
the metabolic port, so just toexplain to listeners, we have a
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79 do it yourself course, whereit walks through how to set your
macros and some other things.
It's, several modules.
And so that's what you'rereferring to.
You bought that.
And yes, it sounds like you dida couple of the lessons.
And then that was it.
And I, I didn't have anybody toaccount for it.
So I didn't have anybodyselling.
You probably should listen tothe next 1 so that you could get
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your macros in place.
And, I think that that was oneof my struggles is actually,
first of all, listening, to toimplement and then I think
similar to what Jillian said, Ihad a a trainer 4 or 5 years ago
prior to COVID, that I was goingto a gym and I was, maybe one or
two sessions a week.
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We, we had paid for my husbandand I.
And then once that all ended,but I still had the workouts
cause I had everything writtendown.
So went back to the gym andstarted doing them again, saw
some results, but still not thesame.
Probably related to not havingmy food in order, which it was,
we all know is whatever, like 80percent or more than that of, Of
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if you're trying to, behealthier and look different.
So I was again trying to do iton my own with those workouts,
but then I actually put the gymover a year now just to save
money and bought Bowflexsecondhand Bowflex.
And then I think through thecourse, the one hearing about,
you don't need that muchequipment.
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Initially.
if you're struggling, we canwork around what the equipment
that you have, body weight.
And if you have weights and useall that stuff to get you
started with a workouts, likeagain, similar to Jillian,
something knowing what to do andhow many days to do it.
And think I was doing four daysa week on the Bowflex and just
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following somebody from YouTubethat did Bowflex exercises.
One.
One other question.
I want to ask both you on thispoint.
You both mentioned that you wereexercising.
It sounds but maybe nutritionwasn't exactly on point when you
were trying to do it yourself.
Comments about that, where youhad, you tried to, do that piece
of it on your own, or not andhow as a coach helped with that.
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Oh yeah.
I had even at one point donedownloaded the carbon app which
is, I'm forgetting his nameright now.
Lane Norton.
Yeah, it's Lane Norton'scoaching app.
And I don't remember what theyhad my macro set on there.
I also.
Wasn't really following itthough, cause there's, they do
have somebody monitoring it ormaybe it's just a computer
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monitoring it.
And every week if you plug it inand you're not like a goal,
they're saying try better nexttime.
It's very inexpensive, but evenwith that, and I think I
probably just wasn't at theright space in my life also to
even try that.
And it might've been a, two orthree years ago.
I can't remember when.
But other than that, and I justdidn't really have an idea of
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how much protein, I think I'vealways had quoted like a gram
per pound, a protein, but then Iwas just Whatever on my carbs
and fats and had no calorie, nosense of where my calorie goal
should be total, you know So Iwasn't really on point in terms
of nutrition or making much ofan effort other than trying to
eat more protein But like mytotal calories were just
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wherever and I would do thingslike at work.
We have a candy drawer You knowwith like miniature whatever,
Reeses or M& M's and stuff likethat in it, and I would,
sometimes when I would sign mynotes for the day, I'd eat one
piece after each note.
I was like, that's because itwas like, I was at a time where
I was like, Trying to findmotivation, right?
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I was like, okay, I can have aReese's peanut butter cup after
I sign in it.
I mean if you're signing 12,that's a kind of a lot of
Reese's peanut butter cups,yeah.
It sounds like a good rewardsystem at the beginning, but
Right, but not sustainable overtime.
Yeah, so doing stuff like thatYou know, when you're tracking
and I wasn't tracking was nottracking those at all.
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But when you're actuallyplugging in, Oh, six Reese's
peanut butter cups, you're likeokay.
Now I can't eat dinner, cause Ihave no calories left, stuff
like that and planning it outand actually like putting it in.
And I've used I use thechronometer app.
I have used it for a while, butjust very sporadically, before
all of this it just really ishelped me to have some
accountability and have someserious, like actual goals for
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stuff for food and everything.
And that's been very helpful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kim, how about you on thenutrition side of things?
What it was where we were atthat would yeah, like where, how
has that changed or.
Yeah.
It sounds like from what yousaid before nutrition wasn't
exactly on point.
So how has that changed withhaving a coach?
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I'm almost speaking the same asJillian with the candy at work
to like.
Grabbing a couple pieces ofcandy oh, I, I deserve this kind
of thing.
And realizing how much itactually is for even the little
ones are small ones.
And, um, I was probably.
Somewhat okay with protein, butmaybe not as much as I'm, on my
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cut right now.
So I think having that on pointI'm I've always eaten a lot of
vegetables and salads, and itwas always like that's, why am
I, why am I not losing weightwith salads, but even that adds
up surprisingly, and then wouldadd these honey sesame sticks to
get some crunch, and you, a fewof those, and, that's 150
calories that you're adding toyour salad.
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No idea what fat I was eating,how much I was eating, even if I
thought it was healthy fat andyeah, and then carbs, same thing
I was probably obviously eatingway more carbs than I was
supposed to.
Yeah, this reminds me I waslistening to a fitness coach and
nutrition coach and, we hear alot of people and a lot of
listeners might be thinking likeI'm a healthy eater and you
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probably both described yourselfas that way too.
And this coach was saying youfirst have to focus on quantity
of calories, not Quality ofcalories and people tend to get
that backwards because if you'rewanting to have progress or see
results you can eat a lot ofhealthy food but the calories
can be all out of whack.
And that can work in both ways.
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And you can just not seeresults.
It sounds like getting a coachand having a macros budget has
helped you figure out quantity.
And then also the accountabilitysounds like it has been a real
useful to you, which again,that's everyone.
Everyone, especially withnutrition, I think, tends to do
better with externalaccountability.
And I think a lot of, that ismost commonly what we hear is
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there are very few people whoare like, oh, my nutrition is
totally on point.
That's usually what is out ofwhack and what where people need
the most sort of attention andhelp and handholding and
figuring out how to skin thatcat.
Okay let's now switch to talkingabout your results.
I think both of you came to us,with your metabolisms in a
pretty good spot.
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You hadn't been slashingcalories recently, you were in a
healthy enough, calorie spacethat we could immediately start
in on focusing on some weightloss.
And why don't, if you can eachkind of share how progress has
gone for you and really how acoach has helped you reach those
goals, where before maybe youweren't seeing progress.
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And you don't have to mentionlike numbers, but just generally
how things are going and and howcoaching has helped with that,
Jillian, do you want to start?
Yeah, I think cause Iimmediately basically I think I
did maintenance for just a fewweeks and then went into cut and
even on the maintenance I lostbecause I think I was just
eating like so many calories,like over 2000.
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Or 2200.
I have no idea really what I waseating, but it was enough to
gain on it, and so even justthat maintenance, I had come
down a few pounds and then wedid just another like 150 down
for the cut because my totalcalories are 1530 and that's
been very helpful and it's, it'sslow.
It's not even a pound a week,which is totally fine.
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It's, you always like to seethose early gains, I think,
because yeah.
It's motivating, to keep going.
So just that initially was sohelpful for me, just to put that
calorie leash on me.
And make me like think aboutthings, and helps also to log
ahead for the day, if I knowwhatever we're having for
dinner, I put that in so that Ihave a better sense.
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Okay, what can I have for lunch?
And what can I not?
And I tend to not eat a lot likeearlier in the day.
Like before for breakfast, Ijust do the protein coffee.
And that's helpful to get about50 grams of protein in with
that, and it, and just in termsof calories, it helps, just
because I it gets me going inthe morning.
For that yeah, and it sounds so1 thing our coaches do is
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calibrate things, look at your,how your progress is going.
And then rather than just okay,Jillian, these are your calories
go have fun are monitoring alongthe way.
So it does sound like, yeah yourcoaches adjusted things as
you've gone.
So do you feel like you wouldhave known what to do on your
own?
Not no, not in specific sense,or even a goal.
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Like I probably would havethought my calorie goal needed
to be 1200, or something tolose.
Cause if you plug in, I think tomy fitness pal or something and
put a goal, I think it alwaysputs you usually around 1200 or
something.
I was also at one point going toFloddy's body lab.
I know this is deviating off ofthis the new gains, it's on
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those mega formers.
It's that Like it's very hard.
I would say very difficult andvery like super challenging, but
I never saw really my bodychange that much, and they even
have some little maybe two poundweights to, and I saw basically
nothing changed, but I did getbetter at doing it.
But no, like in terms of my bodyshape didn't change at all, and
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now learning, I think that wasjust a waste of time, really, to
spend time doing that and money.
As a coach, as I'm thinkingabout that if you really love
that, we would probably workthat in as steps or just general
activity rather than towardsweightlifting or something, or
we would.
I think with everyone and Kim,you spoke to this, whether it's
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the equipment you have, or ifthere's you have a passion for a
particular type of exercise, wecan work that in.
It's just like how to fit it ina way.
That's still going to geteverything working together to
get you some results.
Yeah, definitely.
So that's another way I think acoach can be helpful is just to,
help you see if you love that,or if that was really important
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part of your life, how we couldfit it in, but what to count it
as, like that, we're going tocount that steps for the day, or
you can count 3, 000 steps forthe day.
I think once you realize howeverything works together, and
you have someone helping you seehow everything is fitting
together, you can make moreeducated choices about how you
spent your time.
Yeah, yeah, that's our mostvaluable resource that we have.
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And Yeah, spending an hourPilates, every morning between
five and six is not how I needto spend my time.
I don't know.
Yeah.
And I imagine that Pilates costsmoney too.
Yeah, it can help you focus yourresources, if you have someone
looking at everything and seeinghow you're doing.
Okay that sounds like goodprogress.
And you're still you're stillprogressing and and continuing
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to get results.
Kim, how has having a coach beenin terms of achieving particular
results?
Again, I want to last because itsounds very similar.
It's Jillian with when I firststarted and we did, tracking is
what my coach called it for theinitial 2 weeks to see where I
was at.
And Even though she told me toeat what I normally eat, I
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probably ate less, which wasstill around 2000.
Like I had an average ofprobably 2000 or more, little
bit 2100 possibly.
And I still lost weight duringthat time because I wasn't going
over on the weekends, which iswhat's something I did.
Like I took advantage probablyin I can have cake, I can have
ice cream that sort of stuff.
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So I honestly was tracking.
For those two weeks, and I waslike, maybe once I get to 1900,
I should probably, not haveanything else today or, things
like that.
So that kind of helps.
And then, I was given 17, around17.
5, which was a relief becauseI'm, I didn't want to go any
lower because I felt that Imight be too hungry or something
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like that.
Like I was nervous about goingtoo low so that definitely, and
checking in every week andInches coming off.
So just talking through it witha coach every week and her
reaching out seeing if there'sanything that I she can help
with um getting ideas for how tonavigate stuff has helped, that,
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that's where it's helped me.
And I feel like my progress hasbeen, it's been good.
I've been going down in inches.
That's a little bit slower.
The first couple, even firstcouple weeks was a surprise to
me, but again, that's probablybecause like I said, I wasn't
doing the up and down with theweekends and stuff like that.
I was remaining pretty steady.
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Yeah I looked in on your resultsand you're definitely having
steady progress and losingpounds and inches as we go
along.
But I think you both point outjust in sharing your results, a
couple of interesting thingsthat maybe is not apparent to
people or not apparent when you1st start out on this journey.
So I think Jillian, youmentioned you would have gone
down to 1200 calories, but Ithink it's easy to say I'm just
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going to eat 1200 calories, butyou both were eating somewhere
north of 2000 calories a day.
If you had just on your ownread, or, picked up some bad
diet that had you go down to1200 calories.
That wouldn't have happened.
Yeah, some of these things, theycan even seem very healthy, like
(24:59):
fish and vegetables, but, goingfrom 2000 to 1200 calories, we
would never put anyone'scalories that low, but would
that have been even asustainable for you or possible
for you?
I don't.
Yeah, and I've even tried, Ithink at some point I've tried
1200 and just gotten frustratedbecause I was like, I can't do
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this, yeah, I think the otherthing initially is I felt like
immediately this abdominalloading feeling like immediately
felt deflated.
Which that actually felt sogood, just because it was just
like so uncomfortable, feelingto me the other thing is like my
blood pressure so much better.
I'm like, very careful with myblood pressure.
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And I've been on blood pressuremeds for almost 25 years,
probably at this point.
Even though, I exercise a lotand ate, healthy, but I've been
taking less blood pressure medsnow, just with eating less and
having more prescribed exercise.
And then my heartburn is a lotbetter too.
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And that's been amazing.
And then I sleep better.
Yes, that is a very common.
Yeah, that's a common result.
We hear not maybe not why peoplecome to us, but I think it
probably is just getting thatnutrition, super consistent and
getting your body like goodnutrition and nutrients that
needs a lot of other things canhappen.
(26:23):
Yeah.
And I think, like, when we justare constantly cycling between
what I call free for all, orYOLO eating, and then these very
extremes, we don't get to seethe benefits of what just
consistent.
Good nutrition optimized for ourgoals, like how we can feel on
that.
It can feel pretty good.
And you can also be losingweight along the way.
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The other thing I was going topoint out, is that you both are
at different calorie levels.
So it really is, coaching isvery personalized.
So it's not like we have both ofyou, at the same calorie level
everyone starts out in adifferent place.
That's probably the mostimportant thing about coaching
is it really you have to takeinto account what you were doing
before how your body isresponding to things.
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So that's honestly why a lot oftimes just buying a program
online or, going somewhere andplugging things in and having it
spit out macros doesn't reallywork because it's not taking
into account what you've donebefore, we will not set anyone's
macros until we have a reallygood baseline of their
nutrition.
And so that's very important interms of seeing results is
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knowing where you're starting,calibrating things to that, and
then monitoring things asyou're.
Adjusting nutrition and yourexercise.
Okay, so I guess we'll just wrapthings up with what would you
say?
And it was probably just as asummary of things we've already
said, but what do you see thebiggest difference between
consuming fitness and nutritioncontent and then having
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personalized coaching beinglike, if you were talking to a
friend who Maybe it wasconsidering, pulling the trigger
on getting a coach or gettingsome sort of personalized help.
What do you think the biggestdifference has been for you in
terms of just listening topodcasts and applying it and
then actually having a coachcreate a plan for you having
check ins with that coach andthat external accountability?
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For me, listening is.
It's just a passive, intake andyou can feel good about it, you
know, I'm listening to all thesehealthy podcasts about how to,
eat and how to exercise andstuff, but it was really just
passive for me.
And though, so the differencewas turning into actively and
implementing it and knowingspecifically what to do, I think
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for me was the biggest thing andthen the accountability part.
Yeah, so yeah, getting a plan,doing the plan, having someone
to check in with about the planand yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Kim, what about for you?
What's the, what has been thebiggest difference between
consuming content and thenhaving a coach?
I think for me, it's been thelistening to the calls, like
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I've gone back and listened tosome of the coaching calls on
Saturday mornings and havingother people's experiences.
hearing them and getting peopletalking about going out to
dinner so I probably the samepassive.
I wasn't, I would listen to itand be like, ah, that might be
something I would do, butprobably not.
(29:21):
Um, and in the accountabilitybut I do and that was one of the
aspects I liked about.
Being at Weight Watchers wasgoing to weekly meetings and
hearing other people's stories.
Some of them But some of them,hearing other people's journeys,
and that helps realize thatyou're not the only person
that's going through this.
Getting ideas on how to changerecipes.
(29:43):
To make them a little bithealthier that realistically,
that one of the calls was one ofyour, the food prep, But I'm
just trying to eat like thewhole foods.
Now I'm putting those thingstogether.
Yes, the accountability havingsomebody to check in and is the
helpful getting ideas about frompeople who are going through the
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same experience about ways tomake meals healthier, more macro
friendly.
Yeah.
For listeners who aren'tfamiliar with Kim's talking
about is we do coaching callsevery week where, people can
come and ask questions.
And I do think that there's aphenomenon, like I've
experienced this in other partsof my life where you hear
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something, it sounds so simpleand then when you go to try to
implement, like it doesn't quitework that way.
Or You just have questions or,you have challenges that you, if
you don't, if you're in avacuum, and you're not getting
any feedback, and you're onlywith yourself, it can feel like
you're a gigantic failurebecause what you listen to
sounds so simple, but inimplementation, you have
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questions, or it feels a lotmore complicated.
And with those coaching calls Ialways say everyone is the same.
A lot of the struggles aresimilar.
A lot of the questions aresimilar.
And hearing someone else maketheir way through it can be
really comforting in a way andalso help you problem solve.
But, help you realize thatyou're not alone and, you're not
an idiot, maybe, and these arecommon struggles everyone has.
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So I think that is helpful.
And also, I think what you'retalking about is you've, it's
something that happens when yougo from listening to doing
right?
Recognize your challenges orwhere you're having struggles.
And yeah, you can ask questions.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think for sure.
There's no doubt about it.
Having a coach, you're going toget into action and then from
there fine tune, whatever thatyou need to it really can bridge
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the gap between knowing anddoing and, having someone
support you or a group of peoplesupport you and understand what
you're going through can bealso, something that really
helps you succeed.
So I think that's all I have fortoday.
Thank you.
Kim and Jillian for sharing yourjourneys.
Your, experiences are soinspiring and I know are going
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to resonate with so manylisteners out there.
Again, to everyone listening,please don't forget that we're
actively enrolling in ourJanuary metabolic makeover
program.
You can have a coach likeJillian and Kim, but spots are
filling up fast.
So make sure you sign up thismonth to take advantage also of
our new year strong startpromotion, where you'll get 10
percent off a coaching package,plus our fitness gift box.
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And don't forget to enter forthe giveaway for a free 12 week
session.
Links about both of those thingsare in our show notes.
And thanks for tuning in today.
And let's make 2025 yourhealthiest year yet.
Okay.
Thanks everyone.
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