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- Featured Speaker Mike Matthews
- Book Title Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body & Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body
- Guest Website Muscle for Life
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/muscleforlifefitness
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Guest Bio
Mike Matthews is a bestselling fitness author and entrepreneur, and the creator of MuscleForLife.com and Legion Athletics.
His simple and science-based approach to building muscle, losing fat, and getting healthy has sold over a million books and helped thousands of people build their best bodies ever, and his work has been featured in many popular outlets including Esquire, Men’s Health, Elle, Women’s Health, Muscle & Strength, Elle, and more, as well as on FOX and ABC. - Length (mins) 24:58
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Have you ever had one of those days when you just couldn't get enough of your favorite comfort foods? That's the very definition of "emotional eating."
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- Featured Speaker Hollis Lance Liebman
- Book Title Complete Physique Your Ultimate Body Transformation, Eat Clean, Burn Fat, Build Lean Muscle
- Guest Website Hollis Lance Liebman
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/hollis.liebman
- Guest Twitter Account @hllpac
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Hollis Lance Liebman has won national body building competitions, trained celebrities like Hugh Jackman and Jane Lynch, and worked as a fitness magazine editor and photographer.
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Emotional vs. Conscious Eating with Hollis Lance Liebman
This episode of Talk Fitness is in partnership with The Vitamin Shoppe, where knowledgeable health enthusiasts are standing by to help you thrive every day.
Lisa Davis (Host): I am so lucky to get to do this show Talk Fitness Today because I get to talk to fantastic people and one of them is the wonderful Hollis Lance Liebman. He is back. We are talking about his book Complete Physique Your Ultimate Body Transformation Eat Clean, Burn Fat, Build Lean Muscle. If you missed our last interview, you can go to itsyourhealthwithlisadavis.com and on the home page you will see Talk Fitness Today, just click on the graphic and you can listen. We talked all about the book. Today, we are going to talk more about the book. We are going to talk about the mental side of things. We are going to talk about emotional overeating and conscious eating and all kinds of good stuff so Hollis, welcome back.
Hollis Lance Liebman (Guest): Oh, thank you for having me and again, Happy New Year to everybody. Thank you again, for having me.
Lisa: It’s so good to have you on. You know Hollis, you mentioned in our last interview that you had been bullied as a kid and I was picked on a lot. I was very skinny. I mean skinny, skinny, skinny and very uncoordinated and I know I have mentioned this before, but I think I might have mentioned this with you in another interview we did, but I not only got picked last, but they fought over who got stuck with me. So, I was – and I went to school with the same kids from kindergarten all the way through high school and it really sucked because it seemed like no matter what I did, how I changed, I was still just like that uncoordinated nerd kid. And it really affects your self-esteem and I remember eating peanut butter sandwiches at night and trying to gain weight and this and that and then my mother used to like hide junk food because she was super healthy but then that lead me to bad habits and it’s interesting how the self-esteem and my long story is trying to get to the fact that it’s very easy to become an emotional eater when you have all these things going on in your life and so I was curious about if that was something that happened to you or was it more that you turned to the body building because I know you mentioned that because of the bullying?
Hollis: I don’t think I’m unique that much in regards but many of us have been bullied. I think it what we do with it in our life. Look at you now with this very successful show you have so here you are. I don’t know where your bully is today, but here you are. So, for me it was never to get revenge on the bully, but I just thought it was so cool that I just learned at a very young age that our body is the one thing we have control over. Maybe because of all the He Man cartoons I watched and GI Joe and subconsciously all the muscles were implanted in my brain but when I saw a friend that I grew up with work out one day, I never knew he had muscles and I was like wow, where did that happen from and I just thought it was so cool that all the anxiety and fear because let’s face it, that’s what bullying does. I could put that energy somewhere else into a war against myself and I used that word war because it was a war a positive way of letting out all this angst and terror and horror into a positive thing of bettering myself and I just think that body building, the gym, writing, whatever your listeners might fall in love with is a very positive thing to displace negative energy and I was fortunate to be able to marry my two loves of life, the body building and writing and here we are and I have this book.
And I learned from the master on writing Robert McKee the famous author of Steering, to tell the truth. He signed my book tell the truth and I asked him what’s the greatest lesson you can teach and that’s what he wrote and when I write, I am always telling the truth, even when I do my children’s books, I’m still trying to tell the truth even if it is fictional medium. Tell the truth to me means let it out, pour your heart out, be real because somebody is going to feel as you do and it’s going to resonate with somebody else. And tell the truth, I think writing is a very powerful, beautiful medium that can touch people and people know when you BS them and they know when you are being real. And life is too short, why not be real.
Lisa: You know, I do want to have you on my other show to talk about your children’s books I have been meaning to say that. So that’s exciting. Yeah so, for you, I wish I had had that. To me, what happened is when I was made fun of for being unathletic, rather than being like well I’m going to prove to them I’m athletic; I was just like okay, I guess I’m unathletic. And this is back in the 70s and 80s, so I just kind of turned away from it and it wasn’t until I was 17 that I started swimming. My family joined this club that had a pool and I was like wow, I’m really good at this and it kind of shocked me because I just thought I was such a loser and I was never good at anything in that regard, anything athletic and I thought wow, I wish I had discovered this sooner. So, I’m so glad that you were able to go to the gym. I know you mentioned in our last interview about your mother taking you to the Y when you were 13 and that’s when you started getting into working out. Whereas for me, I just I shied away, and I think that’s such a shame when that happens to a kid where they are not encouraged because they are told they are no good. So, it’s complicated.
Hollis: Well, yes, however I would say to me I don’t think it’s as important as when we discover our passions but rather that we do. So, whether you discover it at 13 or 25, you are doing it. And some Oscar winning actors and actresses started their careers very late and some early. And I think the point is, that we discover these things. In my case, I would probably be dead or in jail if I didn’t discover body building. I’m joking. But no, not really. But a positive place to displace my frustrations as a youth. And I was no different, but millions of people go through this, so I think what I’m trying to say is if you find a passion, something you care about, something that makes you put foot A in front of foot B every day, you owe it to yourself to take it to its fullest extent or explore it. You never know where it might lead. And I think that’s very important.
Lisa: Yeah, that is true. And my love of swimming, is what led me and also my parents are very health conscious and led me to want to work in the health field and there are a lot of other reasons too as well, but that was sort of that impetus and you’re right. I mean, I was 17, it wasn’t like I was 110 so I did discover it. But I want to go back to the emotional eating. Because I think that’s something that a lot of people struggle with. Let’s talk about that and talk about the mental side of things too and your book.
Hollis: Well, yes, the mental side of things basically to me is about fortifying the self, it’s about in my case, with these books these fitness books, I’m always trying to outdo myself and tell the truth. So, fortifying oneself in anyway that one can. For me that might equal taking a photo from my last shoot and saying I’m going to look better than that. It could mean being strong when you are going out with someone or friends that don’t follow your lifestyle. I have been on many dates where I have to eat in the middle of perhaps making out or whatever and it’s about being true to you. So, the mental state is to me it’s just about what can you do to ensure your own success and as I said earlier, I think if you fall in love with something you owe it to yourself to see it through. I was so dead set on bettering the book I did prior to this that I was willing to do almost anything, turn over any stone, leap any height I needed to do to do so.
So, the mental process is sometimes you have to go to a place that is maybe a little dangerous or a little scary to you in order to harness the will and the strength and the power to get things done. And that’s okay. I think, is basically the great challenge of how good can I be. Very few of us in any endeavor, any endeavor, baseball, race car driving, authorship, whatever it might be, in my case, with my parents and I do believe I had the greatest parents ever, they were, I believe they found out how great a parent could be and I just think to me, that’s a big thing in life is whatever endeavor, how great can I be and when you fortify yourself with all these questions, how can you not succeed. That’s really one of the best things that I could say about that.
I will say this, without putting another whack down, a former book, I’m very, very proud of as well, they did not put the gorgeous female model on the cover and I begged them, and I said if you don’t because the book is for both sexes. It’s not – I feel we will lose half of our readership and it’s not getting the book out as successfully as it could. And they went and published the book and I’m thankful and it was all good, and I said to myself that no matter what it takes, in mental preparation for this book, you will have the female on the cover because she is as important as you to this book. And I fought, and I begged for it and it happened with the publisher.
So, I might be going in circles, but mentally, to your listeners, do whatever you can to make your dreams and goals a reality. It’s sort of like mental lining that armory if you will that build up and when you – let’s face it, everything in life worth having is tough, everything. And we all question why am I doing this, but when you have that checklist to go back to, the answer is so apparent and obvious, you continue on seamlessly on your journey. And to me, without the mental, physical will not follow. If you don’t have the mental down, without the why then the what is not going to happen. So, I think you got to check yourself and – it’s like when you go into a store at least for – I don’t want to sound sexist, but I think for men, when we go into Target, we go in knowing exactly what we want and generally come out with finite amount of items. Perhaps, some females go in there and maybe not knowing what they want and sometimes come out with a whole lot of items. Sometimes good by the way and sometimes the man goes oh I didn’t think of that. So, I don’t know what my point was, but just making that joke. But I think when you go into an endeavor with an exact plan, you are going to get very clear and specific in what you want, I believe you will get more out of it.
Lisa: Yeah, I think that’s such great advice. I want to go back to this okay, so you have to eat while you are making out? Okay, we have to go because it is just like because you were going to train, and you have to eat like a certain amount every hour or something because that’s what stuck in my head. And I know if I didn’t ask, the audience would be like what the hell. What’s going on with this eating while making out stuff?
Hollis: That particular, yeah, I was dating this one girl one year and when we are kissing and making out and it was great and my watch alarm, when I have had, remember those, my alarm went off on my watch and she’s like what the hell. And I swear to you, I literally, I reached under the seat and pulled out like chicken breasts and rice. And she was like are you kidding me? And I said listen, I’m going to be in basically my underwear on stage in about five weeks, I have got to get my meals in. It was a little weird. I can’t remember if we went back to kissing after that. I might have had gum or Binaca after the chicken got stuck in my teeth, but the point is that is where I needed to go to get my goals accomplished and I was at my grandfather’s funeral one time and I remember I didn’t eat for another hour and a half and I remember the whole family was there and everybody is staring at me. Now my grandfather who I was close to passed and we’re Jews and the Jews eat. That’s what we do.
Lisa: Yeah, I’m Jewish too. I get it.
Hollis: Okay, so you get it. There you go. And actually, my question to you is pastrami, corned beef or brisket if you can only have one. Which one?
Lisa: Oh, I like brisket.
Hollis: Nice choice. Good choice. It would be nice if we could both have that after this interview. Anyway, I digress. So, basically, that’s – the point of that story is you know, I stuck to my guns and I didn’t eat until I was supposed to. I wound up winning the show and again, I just knew at a young age, just do what you need to do to fortify yourself. The bully had taken so much from me. I needed to do something to build myself back up and I just learned the mental keys if you will to make things happen. I was willing to go places that other people weren’t, go distances other people didn’t think they could to get things done.
Now I know you want to get into emotional eating
Lisa: Well I have to ask you about your grandfather first because, so I’m guessing that you didn’t engage in all the food and they were like why are you not eating? Or did you pull out your chicken and rice, is that what happened?
Hollis: What happened was we are all sitting at a restaurant. I had nothing. I think I had water. That’s it. And then an hour and a half later, in the car, I remember I pulled out my yams and my chicken I think it was and I ate when I was supposed to. And I remember getting some looks, but I’ll tell you something, when you are at a body building show and you do well, in that case I won, and your father who was not only the most well versed with words, verbiage, cries. You know you did right. And that’s what happened.
Lisa: That’s incredible. Well, I think – I mean it sounds like no matter what we are doing, we have to have that mindset and we have to stick with that even if other people are going to give us funny looks. But let’s talk a little bit about the emotional eating. What advice do you have for people, because that can be tough?
Hollis: Sure. Well let’s define it. Emotional eating is when we use food to make ourselves feel better. And it is basically eating our feelings, or instant gratification and you know we do this because we live sometimes in a cold callous world and we want to feel. When we are stressed or anxious or tired or sad, we want to [inaudible][00:13:44] and let’s be honest, great food feels amazing. But only for a fleeting time. And then we are stuck with often guilt. I used to do a thing where I would cheat on my diet and there I’m using that word diet and that was when I thought back then being a diet and not a lifestyle and I would say – I would punish myself and I know some people do this. I would say okay Saturday night you are going to cheat, you are going to eat, you are not going out tonight. And I would like eat so much I would get myself an upset stomach and I would not allow myself to go out. And it is basically yo-yo syndrome, punishment. I was good all week, I was perfect all week and then punishment and I think to help people, we have to stop even now it’s brand new 2018, right. We have to set goals high, but we have to not over-expect things. We have to do 40 miles an hour from the start. We have to do things slow. It’s okay to wish and want, but I think to over project oneself is going to set one up for failure.
So, what I like to do is to eat clean, whole foods, non-processed foods, most of the time and a couple of times a week; I will have a cheat meal. Cheat meals are quite big and that’s a whole other story in and of itself, but the point is, something really to look forward to. But what we want to get to is focusing with that and that is when we basically eat when we are hungry. We eat when we are supposed to, small meals throughout the day which drives us to do well through life, energy, so with that, you are burning fat and a big throwaway of conscious eating is obviously being aware is the first step but again, back to the mental acuity, is fortifying oneself. So, how long does it take to really after learning to cook rice in a rice cooker. I have a grill in the backyard. I throw chicken breasts on there, they are done in minutes. I microwave some vegetables. It may not be the healthiest way but look, we are all busy and it’s quick. It doesn’t take long to put clean foods together. That armed with the knowledge we talked about earlier about okay, you are at work, let’s say you didn’t bring food with you; there are always eateries around us and we can learn real quick about a healthy alternative in almost any kind of restaurant. So conscious eating is how we are supposed to eat, eating when we are hungry, when we are due and not rewarding ourselves with potentially damaging poisonous food for instant gratification. Two big differences in eating.
Lisa: It is, and you mentioned the small meals. So, what do you recommend to people? Like how many meals a day?
Hollis: I recommend to people and I always have an analogy because at first when I tell people they go really. A bridge is sturdiest not with two points but with four or five points pillars that support the bridge. So, four to five small meals throughout the day. Well that’s great Hollis, but I’m not a body builder and that’s a lot of food. If you are not hungry, you can always drink calories. So, if it’s breakfast and you are in the – you got to run, you have to take time for kids and get to work, you can always drink a protein shake if you just don’t have time or are not in the mood for eggs and traditional food. You must eat to lose and that’s where a lot of people go wrong. They will skip breakfast, or they will have a high glycemic, high sugar coffee beverage thing and maybe some kind of scone or something. All sugar basically or maybe even eat or not eat, have a light lunch, what happens at night. They eat everything. And if you by thinking ahead, by fortifying the bridge with a stone pillar in the morning and then eat less throughout the day, you eat evenly, and your energy will be up, so we must eat to lose and that’s huge.
Lisa: Now do you recommend having like a healthy fat, some sort of healthy carb and healthy protein at each of those small meals?
Hollis: Oh, yeah, I recommend at least a gram of protein per pound of body weight. So, if someone weighs 135 it should have in my opinion, 135 grams of protein a day, split throughout evenly each meal. So, what does that come out to? Thirty, thirty-five grams of protein something like that. But yeah, done slowly throughout the day. So anyway, to answer your question, I would have a protein at every meal, because protein is what we are. Everything else is energy. Everything else is movement. Fats and carbs are the other two big macronutrients are just energy. But protein be it vegetarian or animal, is what we are made out of. That’s our flesh. That’s our composition. So, therefore, we need to take protein in and again, I can’t say it enough, everything else is energy. So, I’ll have like a protein and then a complex carb for energy. So, say a rice, a quinoa, beans, brown rice or yams, something that is clean, non-processed, and will give us a sustained energy and of course I like to include in there yeah, the fat could be salmon or lean beef or sometimes I’ll put – sprinkle on some almonds on there and also have a fibrous carb, so broccoli, asparagus, lettuce, cauliflower, something like that that will help with digestion, you know fiber and digestion. And there you go. That’s really what a plate should look like.
Lisa: Yeah. It makes a lot of sense. It definitely does, and I think it – you know you mentioned the rice cooker. I can tell you how to make four different types of grains in a rice cooker. You can buy frozen vegetables, you can have chicken breasts that you cook on Sunday and have – chop them up and have them in your fridge. You can get different recipes for different types of healthy sauces and put it over. I mean there are things you can do. I’m not saying it is super easy, but it takes a little effort, but once you prep and once you learn how to do that; you are not just going to go to those foods you used to go to because you are going to have something made in the house.
Recently, my 13-year-old daughter, she’s always hungry. Constantly and this is endless. And so, the other day I felt bad I was sick all last week and so I usually have stuff all prepped in the fridge and I didn’t and she’s looking around and she’s like Mom, you have no – we have no real food, we just have these bars or these protein drinks and like where’s the real food. I was like, okay, okay, I’m sick, I’m doing my best. But I dragged my ass sick ass and went to the store and got some real food and did some cooking but it’s funny because I mean I should be happy I guess that she wants real food, right. But yeah, it can – things come up, it’s not always easy. But it’s definitely worth doing.
Hollis: Well you know what, I can’t speak of that experience. I don’t have the blessing of having children yet. I hope one day, but my point is that that’s cool that you did that and I – you went that effort to do that. But I also think it’s important that also being realistic as well in another regard in that sometimes mommy just doesn’t want to go to the store and cook. But, one thing I get excited about is finding little spots. Where I just moved, they have a chain I never heard of it called Captain Yates, and I’m not trying to give them a commercial here but it’s a fish place and all this fried stuff that looks amazing, but they have a dish in there, it’s rice, green beans and tilapia and I always tell them that’s what I want. I don’t want oil or butter, or any butter spray and they do it for me and they put Cajun spice around there and it takes ten minutes. It’s like 9 bucks and it’s fast. So, my point is learn about food establishments around you when you don’t – when mommy doesn’t want to go to the store and cook, which was good of you, and learn to eat out because it will be a huge dividend in your corner in regards to nutrition. And that’s in the book.
Lisa: Yeah that’s true, I mean there are times, yeah, everything is in this book. I mean this should be called like the complete book of health. You don’t need any others. Other than mine, which is coming out this year.
Hollis: I like that.
Lisa: Mine’s about clean eating for sexual health and also about connection, but that’s another story. Anyway, Hollis, we always have such a good time. The book is Complete Physique, Your Ultimate Body Transformation Eat Clean, Burn Fat, Build Lean Muscle. And you know I love having you on is I love how conversational it is and I feel like I kind of got off topic here and there but yet, I’m hoping that it’s fun for people to listen to because I’m having a blast and I just it feels natural. You are just so easy to talk to. So, tell us all the ways to find you.
Hollis: Likewise, I feel exactly the same.
Lisa: Good.
Hollis: Holliswashere.com or hollisliebman.com will have everything about me. Holliswashere.com which people thought was a wash service at first, I don’t know why, but I’m here to help people with their physiques. Whatever, holliswashere.com has everything about me.
Lisa: Awesome. Alright Hollis. Well you can find me if you go to healthmediagal1 on Twitter, you can find the show Talk Healthy 2day on Twitter, Talk Healthy Today podcast on Facebook. Itsyourhealthwithlisadavis.com has Talk Healthy Today and Talk Fitness Today which we are doing obviously, and I just want to mention those shows were created by AIM Media, they do Clean Eating Magazine, Vegetarian Times, Muscle and Performance, Yoga Journal and so much more. So, check them out as well. I want to thank everyone for listening and stay well.
This episode of Talk Fitness was produced by The Vitamin Shoppe where trusted health enthusiasts help you thrive every day. Visit one of 800 stores across the country or head to Vitamin Shoppe.com for all your wellness needs. - Length (mins) 22:54
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- Audio File naturally_savvy/ns791.mp3
- Featured Speaker Michael Farca
- Guest Website Devil's Envy Spice
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Michael Farca Earned his Master’s in Social Work and began his clinical health care career as Forensic Clinical Social Worker. Developing into leadership roles he eventually left social work for Hospital Administration.
Building the business side of a clinical department he focused on growing the Internal Medicine Residency and fellowship training programs. Michael has dedicated over a decade to medical education and is currently board certified in Teaching Administrators for Graduate Medical Education (TAGME).
Since leaving the Hospital (public sector), Michael has become a serial entrepreneur in three different industries. He created a Medical Education Observership program for International Medical Graduates. He has developed a fully licensed general contracting company, and his newest endeavor includes building a family recipe into a fully licensed and operational Hot Spice company.
With the love and support of his wife, he believes that following your passions is a valuable lesson he can share with his two teenage children regardless if it’s a non-traditional non-linear approach. - Length (mins) 21:39
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- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis, MPH
TeleMedVIP's model of health includes individualized medicine, personal attention, and an ultimate goal of preservation of health -- all utilizing the advancements in telemedicine technology.
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- Featured Speaker Gerald Stansbury & Thomas Updike, PhD
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Dr. Thomas Updike has over 50 years of professional experience ranging from direct clinical services to senior executive management and leadership positions of non-profit as well as for profit organizations. Dr. Updike founded several commercial companies providing long term managed care as well as telemedicine services nationwide. He has served as the Governor’s Appointee heading Mental Health and Substance Abuse in several states. He is a proven leader and is skilled in developing boards of directors, strategic planning and community collaborations. Dr. Updike’s personal qualities of patience and warmth, exceptional work ethics and inspiring energy, along with his decisive and purposeful leadership style are congruent with the philosophy and core values which support the goal of creating a strengths-based work environment which is respectful of all. Dr. Updike’s company, TeleMedVIP, exemplifies his values and ethical principles.
Dr. Updike earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Lynchburg, his Master of Science Degree in rehabilitation counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University, his Doctorate degree in counseling with cognate in psychology and human medicine from Michigan State University, and has extensive post-graduate education from Harvard University, University of Virginia, Rice University, University of Richmond and New York University Post Graduate School of Medicine in the areas of executive leadership, mental health, forensic psychiatry, geriatrics, emergency services, fund raising and quality assurance.
Gerald Stansbury has dedicated the majority of his professional career to the behavioral health arena in Arizona and Texas through a variety of roles. These have included providing direct care services, developing programs and policies for managed care organizations as well as advocating for innovative ways to deliver quality services that make a difference to people’s health. Gerald joined TeleMedVIP as Chief Administrative Officer/ Vice President after spending the past couple years working with inpatient psychiatric hospitals here in Texas.
Gerald graduated with his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology while minoring in Religious Studies from Arizona State University. He received his Master of Counseling degree from the University of Phoenix. He is a Licensed Associate Counselor in Arizona and is a National Certified Counselor. When not working for TeleMedVIP, Gerald spends his time with his family, manages his behavioral health consulting agency, and contributes to the Uber Rock music website. - Length (mins) 25:15
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What's behind procrastination and how can you get things done sooner?
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- Featured Speaker Andrew Santella, Author
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Andrew Santella has written for such publications as GQ, New York Times Book Review, Slate, and the Atlantic.com.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is likely at this very moment putting off doing something important. - Length (mins) 9:26
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Make informed decisions about the medications you take.
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- Featured Speaker Su Robotti, Founder of MedShadow Foundation
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Suzanne Robotti founded MedShadow Foundation in 2012 after two major health issues drove her to become engaged in patient advocacy. Robotti's mother, like millions of other pregnant women in the 50s, 60s and early 70s took the drug DES (diethylstilbestrol) to prevent miscarriage and early labor. It did neither and instead left the pregnant women, children and descendants at risk for rare cancers, reproductive organ abnormalities and other serious medical conditions.
In 2010, Robotti's son was prescribed Ritalin for ADHD, but when the doctor was unable to reference any studies on the long-term effects of the drug, she decided against it. This raised a concern in her that parents were not aware of the lack of studies and this is an issue of informed consent.
Soon after she decided to start MedShadow because so many people are not aware of the lack of information on the long-term effects of drugs. MedShadow is a means of raising the discussion of risks alongside benefits of medicines into the public discourse. - Length (mins) 27:12
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Take control of your cognitive health by learning new things.
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- Featured Speaker Henry Mahncke, PhD
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Dr. Henry Mahncke is the CEO of Posit Science. He joined Posit Science at its inception in 2003 as Vice President of Research & Outcomes, where he led the first large-scale clinical trials of a publicly available cognitive training program.
He became CEO of Posit Science in 2011. Previously, he served as consultant at McKinsey focused on health care and video games, and then as a science and technology advisor to the British government.
Dr. Mahncke earned his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco, where he studied brain plasticity with Dr. Michael Merzenich. - Length (mins) 27:23
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Do you really have to diet?
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Making daily switches towards raw foods and fruits full of natural nutrients and toxin-blockers will have huge health benefits for your weight and your health in the long run.
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- Featured Speaker Reyzan Shali, MD
- Book Title Teaming Up Against Cancer: Simple, Powerful Ways to Beat the Odds and Take Your Life Back
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Dr. Reyzan Shali has over 30 years of experience advising cancer patients –- including her own parents –- through the complexities of treatments and its impact on the body and mind. Her specialty is equipping patients with the mental and physical tools that can spell survival.
Born in Iraq, Dr. Shali has maintained a steady refusal to live a life defined by a society that minimizes women, which has helped her challenge boundaries along the way. Dr. Shali’s journey as a physician began many years ago when she lost her father to cancer. That devastating event led to her lifelong goal of helping as many families and individuals as she can to improve their odds against this illness. Her mother was also struck by cancer, which has increased Dr. Shali’s determination to pursue her mission all the more. That journey led her to a successful practice in Southern California, where many of her patients have become friends. In connecting with people by speaking from her heart, the idea of her book was born. Dr. Shali is a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American College of Physicians (ACP). - Length (mins) 19:54
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Believe it or not, your weight is not purely a numbers game. Counting calories, footsteps and reps is just one small fraction of the formula.
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- Featured Speaker JJ Flizanes, Empowerment Strategist
- Book Title The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight & End Body Shame
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JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and Host of The Fit 2 Love Podcast Show. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core, and was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles by Elite Traveler Magazine.
Her newest book, The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight & End Body Shame debuted at #2 on Amazon’s Best Seller List and New Hot Release for Women’s Health.
JJ vividly reminds us that the word ‘fitness’ is not just about the state of one’s physical body, but also the factors which determine a person’s overall well being. And, for JJ, the key components in all these areas are ‘invisible’ — balanced support structures of nutrition, emotional centeredness and health.
A video expert for About.com and regular contributor for The Daily Love, JJ has been featured in many national magazines such as Shape, Fitness, Muscle and Fitness HERS, Elegant Bride, and Women’s Health as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox 11 and KTLA.
For her clients & followers, JJ designs customized coaching programs and unique, versatile approaches that harmonize the emotional, the mental and the spiritual. -
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5 Secrets to Long-Lasting Weight Loss
This episode of Talk Fitness is in partnership with The Vitamin Shoppe, where knowledgeable health enthusiasts are standing by to help you thrive every day.
Lisa Davis (Host): So glad you’re listening to Talk Fitness Today. You know we often hear about weight loss, lasting weight loss, what it takes, what’s involved, but you know it’s not really purely a numbers game and here to talk about this and more and actually to shed light on the five secrets of long lasting weight loss is the fantastic JJ Flizanes. She’s an empowerment strategist and a host of the Fit 2 Love podcast show. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness and Amazon bestselling author of Fit 2 Love, How to Get Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually Fit to Attract Love of Your Life and author of Knack Absolute Abs Routines for a Fit and Firm Core. I could go on and on and the whole show could be taken up with all of her amazing accomplishments. But I’m going to bring her in instead. Hello JJ.
JJ Flizanes (Guest): Hi Lisa. Thanks for having me.
Lisa: It’s great to have you on. Alright so I had JJ on my show It’s Your Health many moons ago and I’m so happy to have you on here now. It’s been far too long. So, I mentioned in the beginning, a lot of people think well it’s just a numbers game or if you just eat less, move more; but it seems a little bit more complicated than that. There’s a lot of other things that go into it. So, I love this and I’m really excited, so, let’s jump into this. Let’s talk about these five secrets. So, first one is know and love your gut.
JJ: Right. Digestion represents two things; how we digest our food and process nutrients and build our bodies and support our bodies. It also represents how we deal with life. When you are stressed out, or nervous or worried, your digestion is affected. And digestion is really where it is at in terms of nutrients and taking your food and utilizing it. We know our focus on calories, our focus maybe possibly what foods you eat or not to eat, yet if we are not looking at how our body is utilizing the foods and if it is working; which is what your digestion is going to tell you; though I missed the mark and people can be eating a lot of “diet food” and be gaining weight or keeping their bloat or not finding the results they want because they haven’t take the clue or the cue from the digestion which is telling them exactly what’s going on. And for instance, one of the ways that you can tell how your digestion is, is all the different symptoms people may or may not think are normal. The first one would be you know you have – if you are eating three meals a day, then technically you should be eliminating three meals a day. Yes, that would mean that you are having three eliminations and most people I think are lucky if they have one every couple of days or maybe have one and they think that’s normal. Well, it’s not normal. Well, it’s normal because it’s what you are used to, but it isn’t normal, it’s not an indicator of health.
And I don’t think people understand that. So, that’s one of the very first things, you are constipated if you are only having one elimination a day. And most people don’t think that way they think oh one is good. Well did you eat one meal? No, you had three meals and some sex. Well then what happened to the rest of it? So, there’s a block in the pipe. There’s a problem with how you’re taking things in and so digestion is really what I would prefer people to focus on first and indicators of good digestion which might mean eliminating certain foods that disrupt your digestion. Other factors that people think are normal, which are not, they are indications of bad digestion which are gas, and bloating and constipation and diarrhea or loose stool, IBS, obviously that’s what that is and mucus from blowing your nose to having lots of phlegm in your throat, skin issues, itchiness, scratchiness. Those are all indications of bad digestion.
Lisa: Yeah, I’m so glad that you mentioned all those. Because I think it’s true. I think because people are used to standard American diet, they are not going to eliminate as often. But we really need to be and if we are not, like you said that’s indicative that there is something going on there. Now would you recommend probiotics as well as something that is going to?
JJ: Absolutely.
Lisa: Because I have heard that can help yes.
JJ: Yeah, absolutely. Somebody I had done a show yesterday that was live, and someone written in and asked and said she was told she had bad bacteria in her gut and what she should do about it and of course it’s multifaceted in terms of what that approach is. Because there’s obviously taking out some of the foods that irritate you, but it is also adding in things that are supportive and probiotics are one of them and for sure, I would recommend across the board; that everybody be taking one. The reason why people need to be taking one is because we don’t eat fermented foods everyday or even every week or every month that our ancestors did to combat and help us breakdown some of the higher fatty, higher protein things in our diet. So, probiotics – a good enterically coated dairy free, gluten free probiotic would be an awesome thing to add for everybody.
Lisa: Now, I am dairy free, but talk to us a little bit about that, because why do you feel it is important to have a dairy free probiotic?
JJ: So, dairy while people might think oh, you do health and you have a restrictive diet, which I do, but I don’t feel restricted at all. I’m all about replacement not restriction. But when it comes to what foods in our bodies work and don’t work; I was a cheeseaholic for a long time, so don’t think for a moment what I’m about to say means I don’t like cheese. Okay. But cheese it not meant for us. We are not cows. In fact, cows don’t drink milk. Milk is for the calf to fatten the calf. Past that, the calves eat grass or corn or whatever you are feeding them. But cows don’t drink milk. So, that breast milk of that animal isn’t supposed to go in our bodies. We do not match the biology of a cow. Most human mothers do not give their breast milk to cats and dogs. Why would we think that we can ingest the breast milk of another animal? Now, again, like I said, I love cheese. It tastes good. A lot of it tastes good. But it is not meant for us. And unfortunately, there are so many people who don’t realize that their symptoms are created because they are ingesting dairy.
Lisa: Yeah, I’m glad you mentioned that, because I have been on that I should say the nondairy bandwagon for a long time and I’m not belittling it by calling it a bandwagon. It’s just it’s so frustrating when you talk to people. But milk is good for your bones. And milk is good for this, it’s like it’s kind of the dairy board pushing their agenda. It’s just really tough, right like how do you get this paradigm shift when there is so much that we have been indoctrinated with and it still makes me insane that kids are given milk at school every day. It’s just ridiculous. That’s a whole other subject.
JJ: Yeah, we need a whole show just on dairy, but and about marketing and the inaccurate views and the current research that Western Medicine keeps lying to and not pay attention to. But that’s how it just takes a while and so, more people are sick and so more people have issues than people go oh maybe we shouldn’t put pesticides in our food. People are dying about eating a peanut. What’s the problem? But until it’s more of an epidemic, people won’t pay attention because they think oh that’s not true. I don’t believe that. Well alright. So, yeah, I agree with you on the dairy. Again, and there are even organic dairy, while there are some benefits, you just risk the fact that your body doesn’t, won’t break it down. Because that protein in that dairy which is why actually butter is okay, because there is no protein in butter. There’s protein in milk and in yogurt and kefir and things like that, it’s the protein that is too big for us to breakdown and that’s why I recommend the dairy free probiotics because if you have a dairy sensitivity you are not even aware of; I have taken probiotics with dairy and then that has constipated me. So, it doesn’t even work. Because I don’t eat dairy and I took a probiotic that had dairy in it and it wasn’t working and I was like why isn’t it working? Causing a block because my body doesn’t take well to dairy. Especially when you remove it.
Lisa: Yeah. I definitely want to – I mean I would love to have you back a lot especially to talk about this dairy issue further. Alright, so the second one in the five secrets of long lasting weight loss is exercise smarter, not harder. Talk to us about this.
JJ: It’s amazing to me, still, after twenty years of being a personal trainer; even though I do understand. What you focus on is what you pay attention to. And when it comes to exercise, too many people just think well just exercise. Just go to the gym. Just go to a class. Just do anything. Do anything, it will all work the same. I mean not that that’s what they think it will all work the same. But heh, if I’m exercising, I should be getting results. But people this is science. And I – you would not tell somebody or accept a diagnosis from somebody if I said to you Lisa go shopping. Like you would have like twenty follow-up questions about that. Like shopping for what? Like going clothes shopping, grocery shopping, house shopping like what am I’m buying? Right, but people just are told to exercise more. What the hell. Exercise more. And so, when it comes to one of the things that I – that really bugs me about like the Fitbit community there are positive and negatives. But here’s the big negative. Oh my God I have to get my 10,000 steps. That’s like your focus for the day to get your 10,000 steps. Guess what. Your 10,000 steps is not going to make a big difference in your physical health. You walk more, you will burn a little bit more calories, especially if you are going from like zero to ten, fine. But if you are someone who gets 10,000 steps in all the time, you are going to plateau. Ten thousand steps doesn’t build muscle. It doesn’t increase your cardiovascular output. It doesn’t create endurance. It doesn’t create any of that. And people are so focused on this random freakin number, because they think that it is good for their health, that they bypass not doing proper exercise.
So, lots of people are doing the wrong exercises and then complaining that the exercise doesn’t work. And what’s really not working is that you have no idea what to do with exercise because there is a lot of science. And some exercises create and build muscle which creates your metabolism. And the higher your metabolism, the more calories you burn at rest. We want to be efficient with our time. I’m definitely not one who says go exercise more. I am going to say well what are you doing and is it working? Is it efficient? How do we best utilize your ten minutes to thirty minutes to 45 minutes, once, twice, three times a week to get the most bang for your buck? And it is a manipulation of science, not what class am I – you know someone asked me yesterday in an interview. What do you think people just find things that they like to do? And it is twofold. If you are someone who doesn’t exercise, who has got no habit, then yes, the first step is to create a habit and to find something that you enjoy doing, that you want to do. That’s very important. But be realistic about what you are going to get from it. Don’t go into a Pilates class that is on a reformer where you never get off like off of it and think you are going to lose 20 pounds. It’s not cardio. And it’s not even that much muscle building in Pilates either so you can’t go into a hatha yoga class expecting a transformation because that’s not what it’s designed to do.
And so, you find something you like to do to create the habit and if you already have the habit; it doesn’t matter if you like to do it or not, it is whether it works. If you want it to work, there are certain things that need to happen like resistance training in order to build muscle, build bone, increase your metabolism and get leaner. I mean you are not going to get it any other way.
Lisa: Yeah, that makes so much sense. So, it obviously, you need to do something with you are saying like either some kind of resistance, bands, weights, things like that. I was about to say, I love body weight.
JJ: You can use body weight. But again, there is a science of when you are strong enough to handle all the different forms of body weight you are using then how do you make it harder to get to the next level? Because, your body will adapt and once you adapt, you need to change what you are doing if you want more results. You are not just going to do this thing over and over again and you are going to keep getting results. You are only going to get results to the next level. It’s like going through school. You are not going to repeat first grade 12 times. You are going to go to first grade and then you are going to go to second grade and then you are going to go to third grade and things get harder and you learn more and you do different things and that’s the same with your body. You are not just going to do the same routine for five days a week or two days a week for like ten years. It’s going to stop working after the first three months.
Lisa: Oh wow. Yeah, that’s important to know.
JJ: Yeah, it’s science and that’s why I have a job. Because people say oh yeah well exercise doesn’t work. Like yeah, because you are doing it wrong. You don’t understand science and a lot of trainers don’t even understand science because there are several things that work in there. There’s the muscle building part and the metabolism increasing part. There’s the cardiovascular part, that is calorie burning but I wouldn’t even say – consider it a short-term strategy versus a long-term strategy. What’s going to keep giving back to you year after year and make sure you do some of that now and then the cardio piece, that especially women do and women over 50 who go through menopause and wonder why they are not losing any weight because they are doing the wrong exercises. So, it hasn’t changed, twenty years, I have been saying this same thing. For twenty years. And it is only until people get there and get frustrated enough that they actually call me or find somebody else that actually tells them the same thing and changes what they do. So, that’s why I wrote this book. It’s twenty years of my work basically all rolled into five simple secrets that are proven to work to make real change.
Lisa: Oh, that’s awesome. I like that. You know you just mentioned menopause, so I had my uterus taken out several months back because I had a ginormous fibroid and, so I went like just straight into menopause, but I was taking hormones a little bit and now I’m taking hormones, but it’s really important to balance and replenish your hormones. So, let’s talk about that.
JJ: Yes, secret number three is about balancing or replenishing your hormones because your hormones are your building blocks for your body and they keep you young and vital and optimized and we sort of again, like that western mentality, western medicine mentality of like oh well, I’m going to age, I’m going to break down and I’m going to decline. Well, that’s a choice. You don’t have to do that. If you do nothing, yes, that’s what will happen. But, we have, I’m not a fan, I do not support synthetic hormones, so Premarin, Prem Pro, things like that, I do not support synthetic hormones because they are synthetic. But I do support bioidentical hormones and I do support all kinds of homeopathic, Chinese medicine, herbs and acupuncture. All kinds of other ways, naturopathic ways for you to increase your hormone production. Exercise will help increase your hormone production. Good resistance training will help increase your hormone production. So, making sure that you work with a functional medicine physician or if you can’t find one, you can pay for your own blood work. You don’t have to go through a physician, which most people don’t know. Places like Life Extension, and Everly Well have home tests that you can take, or you can order online exactly what you want, and I have got them all listed in the book and I have got a sheet on the website as well, you can download it. Take to your doctor or take to the lab to say these are the tests that I want, and it gives you a very comprehensive profile of your metabolism and of all the hormones that make up your metabolism, from your adrenals to your sex hormones to your thyroid to your iron, even in your vitamin C and are all really important and most people are just going to the doctor and letting the doctor lead them and say well let’s do. And they test things like TSH, the thyroid stimulating hormone and TSH is one of those tests that has such a large range that you can be – you can have a thyroid problem for years and it won’t be detected because that range is so large. It’s one of the most general tests out there and I definitely recommend not to rely on that. But you do need to work with a physician or at least the lab, to start getting some of these numbers and take control because what happens is you decline and then you go oops, now what, right and if you kind of get out ahead of it, you won’t decline, and you can actually just be optimal, maintain your vitality and be healthy, healthy, healthy, healthy then death versus healthy, decline, decrepit, decrepit, decrepit and then dead. It’s just a choice. And it’s a lot easier to maintain a better weight, more muscle, active tissue, strong bones, strong joints when you combine so far, all the things we talked about, cleaning up your digestion, adding in good resistance training and exercise that is specific and adding the hormones so your body can hold on to all that.
Lisa: Yeah, I agree, and the book is the Invisible Fitness Formula, Five Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame. I want to definitely touch on the ending body shame after we go through these. The fourth one is to fully embrace and process your feelings. Oh my gosh, I’m always saying that to my daughter. It’s so important. We cannot just keep things in and just let it build up and not process our emotions.
JJ: Yeah and so it works like this. We have a thought, or we observe something and immediately, we have an interpretation and that interpretation creates a feeling. And if it’s a negative feeling; that’s energy and somehow that energy needs to be like a calorie, utilized or stored. So, if it is not expressed; it is not released, it’s stored. So, between disease, poor digestion, repressed feelings and multitudes of addictions that we all have; that’s another reason that people face; especially with weight loss because if they are emotional eaters, or they don’t know that they are emotional eating, they tend to focus on calorie counting and exercise. And you are not going to win that game, when you are not underneath the hood of a car fixing the engine. The engine that’s the issue and we have to settle some of those emotional and mental issues, release them, transform them, transcend them, leverage them and let them go and be what they are supposed to be versus holding them, repressing them, and that’s really what happens. I talk a lot in that secret about the addictions that we all have.
Most people when they think of addiction think of drugs, or alcohol, but truly and those are definitely hard addictions; we all like the most common addiction is control issues. Most people have control issues and that’s an addiction. And that can lead to emotional eating because you are trying to control how you feel and you feel uncomfortable when negative feelings come up so rather than express them or be with them; because it makes you uncomfortable to feel out of control; you eat, or you shop, or you sleep, or you work. Workaholism is another one, right this state that we are in it’s like oh I’ll just work. I won’t sit and feel my feelings, I’ll just distract myself with work, but I’ll tell myself oh but I’m making money. Oh, but I’m helping people. At what cost? The imbalance of a lot of how we handle this stuff is what creates this emotional need to numb and where we use, selectively use food. Even if you are not identifying yourself as an emotional eater, we all do it at some point, out of either boredom or I just feel uncomfortable or I’m just going to eat because – people think when they – when smokers give up smoking and then they gain weight, they want to say oh it’s an oral fixation. No, it’s not an oral fixation. Just because somebody quit the act of an addiction; whether it be drinking or smoking or some kind of harder drugs, unless you change the emotional energy underneath it; it’s just a habit. The habit doesn’t mean anything. It’s the impulse that’s the issue and so you are just going to replace it with something else. So, food usually ends up being what people replace giving up alcohol and smoking with.
Lisa: Yeah, that makes so much sense. And again, I’m so impressed JJ with all the great work that you have done, and I love your matter-of-factness. And it is like you just tall it like it is which is very refreshing. Alright, the last one is get the courage to connect. I like that. Connection is really important.
JJ: Well we think we’re connected because of technology and with that great and like you know I love – I have built a really a strong community through my podcasts and that feels awesome. But until it manifests in your life, and until you utilize it as accountability and true human connection; it’s kind of false. I mean it’s not false in that it’s not a real relationship; but we aren’t digital humans. We are physical flesh and blood vibrational beings who have an experience and so the courage to connect is twofold. The first one is about having the courage to actually connect with yourself to do this work. Because most people don’t want to which is why they say program after program, year after year, joining the gym, doing a diet, doing a cleanse every couple of months, doing a marathon. Oh my God. Do you know how many people are marathon addicts? And it’s because they want to lose weight. So, they just do marathons. Because they are like that’s how they maintain their weight, yet marathoners off-season, usually gain a lot of weight and they have no muscle because they don’t cross-train, most of them. Anyway, so oh they are a marathoner, they are an athlete. Okay. Maybe. But what do they do off-season? Are they healthy off-season? Do they pay attention? Do they do – or do they just use marathons to control their weight because during the off-season, or whenever they are not training; they are indulging or using food to know, which a lot of people do. The courage to connect is the first is to connect with yourself and to be honest and real about what is going on with me and what do I need and asking for support.
The next step is about actually finding a community of people who will keep you accountable and be honest with you while loving you and supporting you. Most people surround themselves with their friends and family who tell them what they want to hear. Which keeps them exactly where they are. So, if they are like oh I have – you know it’s a blame game, the victim game. Oh, this person upset me. Oh yeah, they’re terrible. Like okay, so having – it’s hard to make change when you are the only one doing it in your area, in your family or your friend circle and so when – it’s really important to find a community of people who are doing what you are doing to support your growth; otherwise if you are just like looking and comparing yourself against people around you; A if you are out ahead trying to do something different, the likelihood is you are not being supported probably even threatened by that and then most likely you are going to quit or give up because you don’t feel like – you feel weird and different. Like you are the only person doing it.
So, there are other people on the same path and finding them helps you actually realize what it is you need to do and realize your goals. And not just think about it and talk about it. You know, I’m doing a live event next weekend here in Los Angeles and I have got – I made it so people could come to the live event or by a virtual ticket. It is called Releasing What Weighs You Down and one of my clients asked me who is local, she said are you really going – I’ve been training her for years and she said are you going to say anything different at the event than something I have already heard. And she said it as I was leaving, and I really thought about that and I thought first of all, it’s not about what I’m going to say; because there all four of those speakers and this isn’t a workshop; this is about what you are going to do. Like this is about not an hour-long session. This is about a retreat about you taking a deep dive within yourself and creating the time and space to process, identify and release some of the stuff with tools and things that we are going to provide, other speakers and myself. But it’s not about what I’m saying. People can listen to words, read a book, listen to my podcast, listen to your show, and you are like oh, you have all this information. But are you doing anything with it? Are you actually creating the base to sit with yourself and express your feelings? Or are you just in the rat race and that momentum of crazy, right that we get in and then just thinking that oh, but I know that. Yeah, I get that. Alright, but are you doing it? So, to me, I created the event because people need to actually take the time to do it and if you don’t do an event, how many people are actually going to take a day or two days out of their life to sit with themselves and process their feelings and identify their blocks and really work on this stuff. Most people aren’t and even if you go to therapy or have a coach; you’re going to do what, an hour? Once a week, twice a week? I mean, it’s not the same. So, to finding a community, communing with the community, being accountable in the community is what is going to support the process from start to finish.
Lisa: JJ, tell us how we can sign up. Like I want to do this. It sounds amazing.
JJ: Well, you can go – so jjflizanes.com my website. The first time you are in there, I believe there will be a pop up that comes up about the event. But the event is called Releasing What Weighs You Down and literally that’s the URL. Releasingwhatweighsyoudown.com. There is no T in weighs, it is W-E-I-G-H-S, so releasingwhatweighsyoudown.com. Again, there is a virtual ticket for those that can’t make it to LA that will get it the week after, so you can do like a home study course. And the price will go up after next Friday once we start because it’s just the virtual ticket and I’m going to actually add things and make it into a different product which will be at the higher price point. So, if you are interested in coming, there are seats left. I would love for people to – I really just want the people who are like who get it, who are yeah, oh yeah, I totally have a block, like I know that every year I do the same thing, I gain the weight, I go to the gym, I go on a diet, and then three months later, it doesn’t work, and I’m frustrated again, I’m doing it again. Like you get it. You know there is a cycle and a pattern, and you understand that it’s deeper than just what goes in your mouth and if you are going to the gym or exercising.
So, this will help release those blocks and I’ve got some amazing speakers; one of them Lisa, she’s a healer, energy healer. She actually clears inherited emotional DNA. Like it’s so cool. And she’s so powerful. She’s amazing. But we are going to do all kinds of fun stuff but regardless of whether people come to the event or get a virtual ticket; here’s the bottom line; is that weight loss and dieting and weight loss is not about food and exercise. It’s just really not. Yes, will it make a difference if you help fix your digestion and have your hormones tested and get that balanced and do proper exercise for your body that gets you the results you want? Absolutely. But there’s still the whole side of us that is emotional and that sometimes you use food or other things to numb or self-sabotage and that stuff needs to be cleaned up. And if you are not going to clean it up; you are going to be stuck in your patterns. So, clean it up. Find a way to commune.
Lisa: JJ, you are so incredible. You know I did say that I wanted to touch briefly, we only have a couple of minutes left, but talk to us about the ending body shame which is so huge and so difficult to do and so prevalent, or I find it difficult to do, but tell us a little bit about that and what we will find in the book The Invisible Fitness Formula around this.
JJ: So, all of it still has to do with ending body shame. Right, each piece so for instance digestion and the more you learn about your body, I created a five-month transformation program that goes with the book, it’s literally a five-month every week, you get a lesson and a video, and you go point by point through every one of the secrets we just talked about in the book. And I have some people on it and one of the people who – one of the ladies who signed up kind of right away, we had a call maybe a month after because she had some great feedback for me and I wanted to get her opinion about the program and I’m still tweaking it and making it better as I always do; and she said you know I have been on a lot of programs and the way that you explained it, the food part made it really easy to do. And that was really powerful for me to hear because easy for me to eat the way I eat and live the way I live because I understand the science about what things do to your body. And the more I think you understand; the more respect you have and it’s not a blind. So, that people that don’t have any relationship with food tend to abuse food. But the more you can respect food and understand what it does in your body, you make better choices. Same thing with the exercise and same thing with some of these emotional issues that I said that we also are going to be dealing with at the event.
Body shame has to do with loving yourself and has a lot to do with ideas that are not yours that are projected onto you, ideas of society and the only way to sort of make peace with that is to kind of go within and do some of that work. But it does help to love and respect your body on a new level with information. Not saying information is going to make you feel all warm and fuzzy, but it will help you to make a deeper connection and that’s to me important for the ending body shame conversations that when you understand on a deeper level, you have respect and an awareness, and that awareness can help you to love yourself a little bit more.
Lisa: JJ, I think you are fantastic. I’m so glad you came on this show. Again, the book is The Invisible Fitness Formula, Five Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame. Give us your website one more time, JJ and spell it for us as well.
JJ: Yup jjflizanes.com. jj F-L-I-Z as in zebra A-N-E-S as in Sam, jjflizanes.com and if you are interested in the event, releasingwhatweighsyoudown.com.
Lisa: Alright, everyone, thank you so much for listening to Talk Fitness Today. You can find me @healthmediagal1 on Twitter and also @Talk Healthy 2 Fitness. Thank you so much for listening and stay well.
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