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Women's Wellness ON AIR WITH ELLA

005: Diets are Stupid & Calorie Counting Doesn't Work - Carrie Brown

Women's Wellness ON AIR WITH ELLA

Ella Lucas-Averett

Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

5699 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This episode is for anyone who has ever struggled with yo-yo dieting, wondered why counting calories didn’t work, or thought they could never cook for themselves.

Carrie Brown made treats for the Queen of England and taught me how to cook. As cookbook author, photographer, blogger and co-host of the wildly successful podcast The Sane Show with Jonathan Bailor, Carrie is a master at making healthy eating a reality for those of us who are less talented in the kitchen. She learned from personal experience that diets don’t work, and she is ready to explain why and what to do instead! Spoiler alert: she wants you to eat more, but better, and exercise less, but smarter.

In this episode, I drill Carrie on how she went from a world-renowned pastry chef (making treats for the Queen of England!) to restaurant blogger, to advocate and voice-of-the-people for the *SANE lifestyle.

Things We Talk About…

- How Carrie gained weight, felt like a total hypocrite as a food blogger, and the circumstances that transformed her life

- Carrie’s personal experience with how frustrating and unsustainable the “calories in, calories out” methodology is

- The difference between losing weight and burning fat

- Ella’s revelation 2 years ago that cooking is easy if Carrie’s helping you. (If Ella can do it, you can, too!)

- How your bathroom scale is measuring the wrong thing

- How your body will regulate itself – so you can stop trying to control it

- Diets are stupid. Period.

- How to add / hide / cram loads of veggies to your diet without even realizing it

What Does *SANE Eating Mean, Anyway? 

*SANE is an acronym for determining how healthful a food is for us. In short, *SANE foods are very high quality, healthful foods and inSANE foods are low quality, unhealthful foods. *SANE eating means focusing on nutrient-dense foods containing water, protein, fiber, and whole-food fats. It generally means avoiding sugar of all kinds, grains, highly processed oils, many fruits, and starchy foods.  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We have demonstrated for the last 40 years that eat less and exercise more does not work,

0:06.2

and yet we still keep doing it.

0:08.6

We keep on doing it because we don't know what else to do.

0:14.3

Welcome, you're on air with Ella, where we share simple strategies and truths from people

0:19.5

who are doing something better than we are.

0:22.1

Whether it's wellness or fitness and fat loss to just living better and with more energy,

0:27.3

or changing your mindset to accomplish more in your own life and succeeding however you define it.

0:33.0

This is where we share the best of what we're learning from the experts and we're learning more every day.

0:38.6

Live better, start now.

0:47.3

Hi everyone, I'm so glad you're here today. I am joined by Carrie Brown, a woman very special

0:53.4

near and dear to my heart, even though we've

0:55.5

never met in person, and I'll explain why.

0:57.9

But first, a little bit about Carrie.

0:59.8

Carrie is an ex-professional pastry chef.

1:02.8

She was quite renowned, actually, and she's now turned cookbook author, freelance photographer,

1:07.5

recipe developer.

1:09.0

She trained at the National Bakery School in London,

1:11.3

and she has now turned her talents to creating scrumptious, sane food, which will explain later,

1:18.0

to help the world eat smarter, live better, and to put the healthy back into healthy.

1:22.7

The reason I knew Carrie Brown's name long before she knew mine is because she is the co-host of one of the best

1:29.6

podcasts out there on how to live healthy and how to live well. She is the podcast co-hosts, also

1:36.5

recipe developer and food photographer for the calorie myth, which you may have also heard of as

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