Ingredients for Life #20: Core Training

In this episode, Romy gives a few tips on core training, what muscle groups you need to train and why it’s important to properly train them.

Plus, Romy and Michael answer a few more listener questions!

Ingredients for Life #19: Listener Questions

In this episode, Romy touches on the importance of preserving lean muscle mass while losing fat, and how exercise helps mitigate the effects of stressors present in your life.

Plus, Romy and Michael respond to the many questions sent in by YOU, via emails and voicemails!

Ingredients for Life #18: Choosing Your Foods

In this episode, Romy and Michael start off with a question from the live audience asking for some information on the story behind the egg whites/egg yolks debate.

Later, one of Romy’s clients, Melinda, shares the story of her weight loss journey, and how she’s been able to stay successful progressing towards her goals. She elaborates on meal planning for herself and her family, food costs, about the experiment she ran on pricing healthy foods vs “regular” foods, and more.

Ingredients for Life #17: Getting Back on Track

In this episode, Romy and Michael talk about dealing with setbacks in weight loss and fitness, and how to overcome those setbacks and get back on track.

It is possible to be eating right and exercising properly and still experience setbacks because of not providing your body with enough food to maintain the new healthy lifestyle you’re living!

Romy Recommends: Nutrition Bars

Romy prefers nutrition and protein bars that do not contain gluten or soy, so here’s a list of products that she recommends for her clients and uses for her own nutritional needs.

Ingredients for Life #16: David Ingalls, Zing Bars

In this episode, Romy chats with David Ingalls, registered dietician and co-founder of Zing Bars (Romy’s favorite bar!)

David tells the story of how Zing bars came into being, in terms of developing the nutrition bars, being aware of food allergies when creating their products (making sure they don’t include gluten, corn syrup, and other products).

Ingredients for Life #15: The Connection Between Sleep and Exercise

In this episode, Romy, Michael and Jeffrey talk about how schedule changes and shifts in sleep patterns can affect the new eating habits and workout patterns you may be working to build.

Regular exercise can not only improve your sleep, but also improve mental clarity and stress levels, and sleep deprivation can affect the hormones that can help you lose weight.

Ingredients for Life #14: Making Time for Exercise

In this episode, Romy and Michael discuss things you can do when it seems you don’t have time in your schedule for exercise, and how to set realistic exercise goals, setting a schedule to start with, then increasing the amount of time spent as time goes on.

Romy and Michael then talk about the reasons people give themselves as to why they don’t or won’t exercise, and several ways to try to overcome that mindset and make those positive changes: grabbing a few minutes whenever you can, creating a routine, having a workout buddy, and more.

Persistance

I often tell my clients that it took me three years of eating this way as a lifestyle change before really knew I had it. After reading Gladwell’s book, I did the math. During three years of ‘undoing’ my old habits and relationship with food, by ‘practicing’ how to cook, plan and organize my life around healthy habits, around 5-6 small meals a day, it added up to about 10,000 hours!

Ingredients for Life #13: Maintaining and Sustaining the Weight Loss

In this episode, Romy and Michael chat about the difference between people who lose weight and keep it off and people who lose weight and don’t keep it off.

Romy and Michael also talk about self-perception and body image, and the importance of the emotional components of the mind-body connection in changing the self perceptions that lead to self-destructive habits resurfacing.