102. Choosing Your Struggle
If you’re like most people then you’ve most likely never considered the fact that you are actually choosing your struggle. In this episode of the podcast, I explain what it means to be choosing your struggle, and offer up some insights for you to start making better choices in your life.
101. What to Do When Life Throws You Curveballs
Recently, I’ve been thrown a big curveball. I’ll talk more about that in the episode. But instead of sitting around feeling sorry for myself, I’ve decided to do everything I can to get through this tough period feeling good about myself and being as positive as possible. This episode of the podcast is all about what to do when life throws you curveballs. Because you always have a choice in how you respond to every event in your life, even when it feels like you don’t.
100. The Best of the Running Lean Podcast
In this “best of” edition of the Running Lean podcast, I feature a dozen or so of your favorite moments – and mine – from the first 100 episodes. I wanted this 100th episode to be my way of saying “thank you” to all of you for listening and for allowing me to be a part of your health and fitness journey. I am beyond grateful for all of the love, support, and encouragement I’ve received since I started this podcast back in January of 2020. And I can’t wait to share the next 100 episodes with each and every one of you.
99. Overcoming Your Limiting Beliefs
One of the biggest problems I see with people who attempt to make big changes in their life is a total lack of belief in themselves. In this episode of the podcast, I’m taking a deep dive into limiting beliefs – what they are, how they’re keeping you stuck, and I’ll offer some practical tips on overcoming your limiting beliefs.
98. Marathon Recap: What Worked and What Didn’t
The 2021 Flying Pig Marathon is officially in the books! I did some things differently this training season from a fueling perspective. So in this episode of the podcast, I’m going to go over how I fueled differently this training season and for the race itself, what worked and what didn’t, and what I would do differently next time.
97. Eliminating Expectations
We all have expectations, every single one of us. You expect things to go a certain way and when they do, it’s amazing and you feel great! When things don’t go the way you expect them to, you get frustrated and you feel terrible. In this episode, I explain why having expectations is the cause of most of your frustrations, and how eliminating expectations just might be the answer to achieving everything good you want in your life.
96. The Ultimate Guide to Sugar Substitutes
Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of questions around this topic of sugar substitutes. Questions like, “Which sugar substitutes are best?”, “Which ones should be avoided?”, and “How will these affect my running performance?” These are all great questions, so in this episode of the podcast, I decided to put together the ultimate guide to sugar substitutes.
95. Getting Your Family’s Support with Your Weight Loss Plan
One of the hardest things about losing weight is feeling like no one is supporting you in your weight loss journey. Why is this? How can we get the support that we need to be successful with being healthy, and with this new way of life? In this episode of the podcast, I’ve got some helpful tips for getting your family’s support with your weight loss plan.
94. Which Diet Is Best?
There’s a lot of chatter out there in the world about which diet is best. So in this episode of the podcast, I’ve decided to make things a little bit easier for you. I’m going to explain why there’s so much conflict around which diet is best and offer up some actionable tips on how to make the right choices to help you reach your health and fitness goals.
93. How to Tell When You’re at Your Natural Weight
I talk a lot about losing weight and eventually getting to your “natural weight” but I’ve never really taken the time to explain what your “natural weight” is. So in this episode, I’m going to talk about some of the standards we use to determine ideal weight, and why they don’t work for everyone, what “natural weight” means, and how to tell when you’re at your natural weight.