391. MADELEINE'S STORY: Losing 20 Pounds After Realizing Keto Didn't Fit Her Life
Hot, Healthy, Never Hungry
Lauren Hubert MS, RD
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
If what you used to do to lose weight worked in the past but no longer fits your schedule or lifestyle, you're not alone.
In today's episode, I'm joined by Madeleine from the Hot & Healthy Membership to talk about how she transitioned away from very low-carb dieting and keto toward a more balanced, sustainable approach to fat loss that actually fit her real life.
Like many women, Madeleine believed being more restriction would lead to better results. But over time, trying to maintain keto while working intense hours as a pharmacist in her residency program became unrealistic and exhausting. Keto worked for her — until it didn't. She wanted a way to lose fat, feel confident in her body, and still enjoy eating out and spending time with friends without constantly feeling restricted.
In this episode, Madeleine shares how she slowly reintroduced carbs despite being afraid to at first, how she shifted her focus from just losing weight on the scale to body recomposition, and the habits that helped her become leaner, stronger, and more confident than ever before.
If you've ever wondered whether you can lose fat without cutting out entire food groups and carbs, this episode will show you exactly what's possible and how to do it, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome back to a very special episode of Hot Healthy Never Hungry because we are here with |
| 0:13.6 | Madeline. |
| 0:14.6 | And I emailed Madeline from the membership and I'm like, Madeline, can you come on the podcast? |
| 0:20.8 | Girl, you are down not only 20 pounds, but in like one of our from the membership and I'm like, Madeline, can you come on the podcast? |
| 0:26.9 | Girl, you are down not only 20 pounds, but in one of our first communications via email. |
| 0:30.2 | I literally wrote this down because I wanted to bring it up. |
| 0:34.1 | You said, I never thought I could do this without crash dieting. And I was like, as soon as I saw that statement, I was like, gosh, we're going to have such a good episode today because there's so many women out there that don't realize what they're |
| 0:43.4 | able and capable of achieving when it comes to their weight, their physique, their confidence, |
| 0:48.5 | their diet, right? Like enjoying their diet in this process. And I just thought that statement |
| 0:53.3 | encompassed everything that we're going to talk about today. So thank you so much for coming on the show. Yeah. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. This is going to be so fun. For me bringing up this statement about the crash dieting, I want to revisit the past, which I actually don't know too much about. So I'm going to be a nosy |
| 1:11.0 | Nelly. I know you said keto when we were off camera for a second. When you did crash diets before, |
| 1:16.8 | what kind of dieting did you experiment with or try that didn't work for you? That kind of |
| 1:22.1 | obviously led you on this like more sustainable path. What did you do before, you know, |
| 1:26.4 | finding a more sustainable path towards weight loss? |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah. So kind of going into COVID, I was a third year in pharmacy school. I was getting |
| 1:34.7 | closer to graduation. And I wasn't loving the way I looked because we were doing a lot of late |
| 1:40.5 | night studying, a lot of unhealthy snacking. I was like, man, I don't love the way my body |
| 1:44.9 | looks. So I started running because you couldn't go to the gym in COVID. Yes, I remember those days, |
| 1:51.6 | and it was really depressing those days, especially if you lived in a cold environment like myself. |
| 1:56.2 | We had moved from Florida to Massachusetts, and I couldn't even go on a walk anymore in the |
| 2:00.5 | wintertime, and nothing was open for the gym. Yeah, and I couldn't even go on a walk anymore in the wintertime, |
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