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The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance

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The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance

Chalene Johnson

Wellness, Health & Fitness, Chalenejohnson, Personalgrowth, Fitness, Lifecoaching, Health, Personaldevelopment, Family, Mental Health, Organization, Nutrition, Diet, Goals, Relationships, Focus, Faith, Productivity, Advice

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Why is weight loss so hard? Wouldn't it be amazing if you could drop an extra five pounds without even trying? What if you could lose weight without counting calories, macros or extreme workouts? Well, it is possible!

In this episode of The Chalene Show Podcast, Chalene Johnson shares how she embraced a balanced, holistic lifestyle, prioritizing mental well-being, intuitive eating, and metabolic flexibility. Why she turned away from processed snacks, welcomed whole foods, and started focusing more on how her body felt rather than the numbers on the scale.

Her approach is about achieving a sustainable, joyful lifestyle, intertwined with self-love and a positive body image. Learn how Chalene and her husband, Bret, fostered mutual appreciation, deeper connections, and embraced indulgences guilt-free, such as their love for French fries, and debunking the notion of “cheat meals”.

Chalene adopted lifestyle habits like ‘diet phasing,’ allowing her eating patterns to be fluid and adapt to her environment and routines, rejecting restrictive diets. During their European travels, they observed and embraced the active lifestyle of the locals, incorporating more walking and meaningful conversations into their daily lives, enriching not just their physical health, but also their relationship.

It's not about being consumed with “doing everything right,” but about releasing stress and embracing a harmonious, adaptable approach to life, food, and relationships.

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0:00.0

Why is weight loss so hard? Wouldn't it be amazing if you could drop an extra 5 pounds without even trying?

0:05.6

What if you could lose the weight without counting calories, macros, or extreme workouts?

0:10.2

Well, it is possible, and I know because I just did it and I'm going to tell you all about it in this episode of the

0:17.5

Shalin show, so let's get to it.

0:20.5

So for those of you who have been following for quite some time, you know story for those of you who don't I'm going to recommend that you check out the episode I did where I shared my journey in Consumer Fitness and why in fact it was I felt I needed to leave consumer fitness. I

0:35.1

slipped into a place just to kind of recap for me anyways it was unhealthy. I

0:39.4

found that partly because of my own imposter syndrome that I felt when I was in the fitness industry,

0:45.5

I did things that were unhealthy to maintain a certain look.

0:50.0

I was under eating, I was over-exercising, that was the main thing I was obsessed with

0:55.6

Exercise I couldn't do enough I would exercise three and four hours a day I was getting minimal sleep I was afraid of food unless it was like I knew exactly what the macros were and it was

1:07.7

high in protein and more often than not that meant it came in like a package.

1:11.7

You know it was like highly processed protein

1:13.9

snacks. That was like the bulk of my nutrition and it got your place where

1:18.4

just was really super unhealthy for me. I stepped away from that and I kind of healed myself. I went through a process of what I would

1:28.2

call reverse dieting, even though I wasn't doing that like formally, but I had to kind of undo what I had done.

1:36.2

I had to stop exercising for four hours.

1:38.4

I had to go to something that was more normal, like, you know, maybe an hour of strength training and 30 minutes of cardio I

1:46.2

forced myself to sleep I learned how to eat real foods and I started studying like

1:51.2

everything I could about nutrition and what it meant to eat a whole foods diet.

1:56.4

I understood plant-based diet and keto diets like I wanted to look at all the different forms of diets

2:07.4

not like diets, meaning like how the Mediterranean people eat, and learning what it was that truly it meant to be healthy from the inside out.

2:13.3

Now listen, your body, if you are over-exercising

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