378: How This Vegetarian Lost 30 Pounds Without Giving Up Indian Food with Neha Nautiyal

Biceps After Babies Radio

Amber Brueseke

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Postpartum, Weightlifting, Podcast For Moms, Fitness, Macros, Counting Macros, Reverse Diet, Macro Counting, Mom, Iifym

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode, I sit down with Neha Nautiyal, a vegetarian macro coach who lost 30 pounds—without giving up her beloved Indian food. If you’ve ever felt like macro counting means sacrificing your cultural dishes or eating separately from your family, Neha’s story will show you a different way. We talk about how she overcame the challenge of fitting high-carb, low-protein traditional meals into her macro goals, and how she ditched the “either/or” mindset to find balance. This conversation is...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Biceps After Babies Radio, episode 378. Hello and welcome to Biceps After
0:06.4	Baby's Radio, a podcast for ladies who know that fitness is about so much more than pounds
0:11.3	lost or PRs. It's about feeling confident in your skin and empowered in your life. I'm your
0:16.7	host, Amber Breezykie, a registered nurse, personal trainer, wife, and mom of four. Each week,
0:23.4	my guests and I will excite and motivate you to take action in your own personal fitness,
0:27.8	as we talk about nutrition, exercise, mindset, personal development, and executing life with
0:33.4	conscious intention. If your goal is to look, feel, and be strong and experience transformation
0:39.1	from the inside out, you, my friend, are in the right place. Thank you for tuning in. Now let's jump
0:44.2	into today's episode. Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of Biceps After Babies Radio.
0:51.1	I'm your host, Amber Breezyki. And if you have ever thought to yourself,
0:56.1	how the heck am I supposed to have my macros when the food that I love doesn't even fit?
1:01.5	You are going to love this episode. Because today I'm chatting with Neha, a macrocoach who is
1:07.5	vegetarian. So all my vegans and vegetarians listen up. And she's also Indian.
1:12.6	She comes from a cultural background that really has a lot of carbs and not a whole lot of
1:17.6	protein, as she said herself during the episode. And she shares that food is a big deal in her
1:23.5	family as it is for many, many cultures. And the problem was trying to mesh macro counting
1:31.7	with her Indian culture and all the food that her and her family had eaten for all of her life.
1:38.2	And when she first started macro counting, she thought that it meant that she had to cut all of that
1:42.9	out. She thought it meant that she had to eat a separate dinner from her family. She that it meant that she had to cut all of that out. She thought it meant that
1:44.7	she had to eat a separate dinner from her family. She thought it meant that she couldn't eat any of
1:49.2	the Indian food that she loved. And she learned very quickly that that wasn't the case. So if you're
1:56.5	someone who feels like it has to look a certain way or you can't eat food with your family or
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