On this episode of the Calorie Conundrum podcast Coach Strick explains what the Calorie Conundrum is and gives multiple examples. He shows how instead of blaming his clients for their failed weight loss attempts he asked better questions. These questions paired with more and more new information are causing us to rethink the conventional calories in vs calories out model. 

After discussing the Calorie Conundrum Coach Strick gives a brief summary of season 3 which included...

Episode 41 - Cardio for Fun, Weights to Transform with Kiki Smith

Episode 42 - Why Diet and Exercise Isn’t Enough with Jenn Malecha

Episode 43 - 7 Weight Loss Resources with Coach Strick 

Episode 44 - You Can’t Eat Love with Leslie Davis

Episode 45 - It’s Not All In Your Head with Tanya Pennington

Episode 46 - Exploring Your Metabolic Powers with Marc David 

Episode 47 - The Body Effect with Dawn Cuckow 

Stay tuned for more exciting episodes coming in season 4 of the Calorie Conundrum Podcast.... and remember when calories in calories out doesn’t work, that my friend is a calorie conundrum. 

On today’s episode we have Dawn Cuckow. 

Dawn struggled with her own issues with disordered eating but it was her debilitating PMS pain that sent her searching for answers. After finding out that when she changed her nutrition, she was able to completely eliminated her PMS pain Dawn changed careers. 

Dawn is now a nutritional therapist, weight loss coach, and bestselling author of the book “The Body Effect”. Her method gets to the root causes of why your body is blocking your weight loss, so it becomes easy to lose weight. It’s about finding a way of eating that works for you so you can create your unique path to healthy eating, feeling great, and lasting weight loss. 

Let’s hear what Dawn has to say about how you can make weigh loss easy.

On today's episode Coach Strick sits down with founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating Marc David. 

Marc is a nutrition expert, consultant, speaker, and host of the Psychology of Eating podcast. He is also the author of the bestselling books Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being and The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss. 

Marc was able to call upon his years of experience and knowledge to create The Institute for the Psychology of Eating, the world’s only health coaching program devoted to teaching the principles of Dynamic Eating Psychology and Mind Body Nutrition. The Institute has students around the world and champions an uplifting, inclusive approach to food and body that honors each individual’s unique physiology and psychology.

In this episode we discuss some of your metabolic powers that are often overlooked when attempting to follow a traditional calories in calories out weight loss plan. 

On today’s episode we have hormone and fat loss specialist Tanya Pennington-Miller. She is the founder of Nourish to Thrive her remote nutritional therapy practice that helps woman across the country lose stubborn weight by balancing their hormones through nutrition and lab testing. Tanya is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner that has competed in national figure competitions and Crossfit competitions in the past and stays active by running Spartan Races and riding mountain and dirt bikes. Being a woman over 40 she has had firsthand experience with low energy, weight gain, and hormonal issues. She now shares her knowledge and expertise with others in an attempt to affect as many lives as possible. Let’s hear what Tanya has to say about lab testing, your mind, and your right to feel tired. 

Fasten your seatbelt as our guest Leslie Davis takes us on a journey of weight loss and self discovery. In her book "You Can't Eat Love" Leslie has many helpful analogies relating weight loss with a road trip and shares many of those in today's episode. 

Weight loss can be a struggle and as Leslie says “When you hit a traffic jam in life don’t park your car, don’t get out, don’t walk home.” So, sit back, relax, and get ready to take this journey with your very best friend in the whole wide world. 

Leslie Lindsey Davis is an 8 time author. Her first book, “You Can’t Eat Love: how learning to love yourself can change your relationship with food” is an Amazon Best Seller in at least 4 categories and remains in the top 20 in at least 2 categories since it was published in January of 2021. Like so many, it took a moment of extreme sadness for Leslie to realize something had to change. She began on a journey to fix what she thought was broken. That was when she discovered the ‘myself-sized’ hole in her heart. That was when she realized she was not broken, just uninformed. She did not know how to love herself. Now, Leslie is on a mission to help others find their WHY to go on any journey of self-discovery, introduce them to their very best friend in the whole wide world, learn to love themselves, and live their best life.

If you have listened to this podcast in the past, you know that we often discuss many of the things that affect your weight loss other than the traditional calories in calories out philosophy. 

Things like your sleep, food quality, toxins, and your microbiome. But today I would like to talk about how to use some of the more traditional weight loss tools in more holistic ways. 

On today's episode Coach Strick discusses 7 free or cheap weight loss resources. 

Jenn is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner that supports busy, health-minded professionals in taking back control of their health by giving them access to the right lab tests and resources so they can find the missing pieces of their health puzzle. 

Using her vast experience in fitness training and health coaching which include overcoming her own health challenges Jenn creates personalized health-rebuilding programs for clients that are realistic and sustainable for long-lasting results empowering clients to be the boss of their own health. 

We talked about the importance of lab testing and how lab testing can help fill in the missing pieces to your health puzzle, Jenn highlighted how important it is to find the correct food for you, she demonstrated how pushing your body is not always the correct answer, and we discussed how having health resources and information can give you more options and improve your results. 

On today’s show we have the Trainer’s trainer Kiki Smith. Kiki is a self-proclaimed carb queen with over 20 years in the fitness industry and has help countless women over 40 lose weight.
She is the creator of the website eatmore2weighless.com and host of The diet rebel method with Kiki Smith Podcast. 

Coach Strick and Kiki discussed not so popular methods to lose weight including weight training, eating more, reducing cardio, and even bulking up! Listen in and see how your weight loss paradigm compares to that of Kiki and learn why she says Cardio is for fun and Weights are to transform.