Special Edition: Jenn on Share a Latte

Salad With a Side of Fries Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss

Are you wondering how to make 2024 your best year of health, but you are unsure of how to start? Or did you kick off this year with an intense new regime and you are already “falling off the wagon?” Tune in to hear tips on how to take control of your wellness path once and for all!

This week, Jenn is sharing an episode where she was interviewed by Min Sukree, host of the Share a Latte podcast. In this interview, Jenn shares where her wellness journey started and how she became the incredible health coach that she is today. Jenn and Min discuss consistency and how diet and exercise culture has led us to believe that fitness is all about intensity. Jenn debates this and gives concrete examples of how we can ditch the intense workouts and diets that are so difficult to maintain. She talks about tangible steps you can take to maintain consistency on your journey and how to make your health goals more manageable, so that you can stick to them. Jenn describes the two paths within her new six month Resolution Revolution Coaching Program that launches this month. She describes what the program will entail, who it’s for and the potential shifts that clients may experience throughout the program. Tune in to find out if her new program is right for you, and if it isn’t, what you can start doing today to make 2024 your most successful year yet when it comes to your health.

If you are ready to make permanent changes to your health in 2024, sign up for Jenn’s 2024 Resolution Revolution Group Coaching Program.

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.

IN THIS EPISODE:

● [4:50] Jenn talks about her personal health journey and how she got to where she is now.

● [13:26] How did Jenn’s health change after 2007 with the education she was learning?

● [16:21] How does Jenn incorporate the science behind health and fitness to influence and create change?

● [22:06] How can you eat out and still stay on track with your health goals?

● [29:22] What is Jenn’s experience with falling off the “consistency wagon?”

● [30:50] What is the difference between consistency and intensity?

● [34:07] Jenn describes her new Resolution Revolution Coaching Program that launched in 2024.

● [39:20] What results will people expect from the program?

● [40:40] What is a non-health objective goal?

● [42:14] What is Jenn’s coaching method around her program?

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

● [16:00] Understanding the science side of things can result in a behavior change and a shift in our thought process.

● [22:26] If your plan does not allow you to live your life, then it’s not the plan for life. Creating a realistic plan that allows you to be a part of the holidays, vacations, and every day life is where the magic will happen.

● [30:45] If you are pushing for super intense exercise, it is much harder to be consistent: to find the hour or the energy to do the HIIT, that takes a lot. That intensity is harder to maintain. Consistency and Intensity are often inversely related, the less intense, the easier it is to be consistent. The more intense something is, it’s harder to be consistent. If consistency is the objective, then our objective is something less intense that we can maintain. So, the objective can be moving out bodies every day, and that may look different every day, making it easier to maintain.

● [43:38] Part of Jenn’s program focuses on a detox, because sweets, salt and fat are acquired tastes. This means that we learn they taste good, and that the more we have them, the more we want them. The more we have them, the sweeter or saltier or fattier something needs to taste in order for it to register. Starting with a detox can help clean out your system and get the benefits of all of the nutrition that you give yourself and reset your tastebuds. At first, the cravings may be tough, but as you add foods back in, your awareness of your cravings is dramatically different.

QUOTES:

[13:50] “I believe that the difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it is understanding why.” - Jenn Trepeck

[18:35] “Talking about diet culture, we’re told to ‘eat less, move more’. If that was how the body works, would anybody have a problem? Clearly there’s more going on.” - Jenn Trepeck

[19:21] “It’s not the calories that matter, it’s the quality of those calories that matter.” - Jenn Trepeck

[25:52] “When I look at a menu in a restaurant, what it’s telling me is essentially what they have in their kitchen. It’s a recommendation but not a prescription. So if I want this salmon, but veggies instead of their mashed potatoes or rice, I can ask for that.” - Jenn Trepeck

[29:30] “That’s the thing about consistency, there isn’t an on or an off, we just keep going. So if you think you have fallen off (the wagon), then you are not focused on consistency. There is no on or off, you just keep going. Stop starting over..” - Jenn Trepeck

[40:15] “So everybody’s results are going to be different. It depends on what you’re looking for and what’s going to make a difference in your life. Having said that, these are the tools about just being human and fueling our system. I think it’s actually really important to have non health related objectives.” - Jenn Trepeck

[45:11] “For most of us, we’re going to do about six weeks without grains, and that’s not about deprivation. It’s about how the average American eats more grain than an Olympic athlete is recommended to eat on race day, that’s a lot of grains. By removing them for a period of time, not only does it help our digestive system, but it allows us to find a handful of new favorite meals that don’t rely on the grain and starch. Then we can add them back in, in a proper proportion. Your grains and starches, we actually want to think of them more like a condiment than a food group, something that is going to add pizzazz to your meal rather than be the main part of it.” - Jenn Trepeck

RESOURCES:

Nutrition Nugget: Stop Starting Over

Share a Latte Podcast

Jenn’s 2024 Resolution Revolution Group Coaching Program

Become A Member of Salad with a Side of Fries

Jenn’s Free Menu Plan

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