Calorie Deficits Don’t Work for Women with UFC Champion Miesha Tate
Realfoodology
Courtney Swan
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Were you healthier as a UFC champion or as a mom eating real food? Oh, this one's easy. Definitely a mom. I really believe that if people want to get healthier, they want to lose weight. In its basis, it's pretty simple. You can pretty much eat as much whole foods as you want. I'm fighting Liz Posner. She put me in a moitai clinch. She begins kneeing my face. Oh, my God. And I have no idea how to get out of this. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm trying to grab... Liz Posner, she put me in a moitai clinch. She begins kneeing my face. And I have no idea how to |
| 0:23.3 | get out of this. I'm trying to grab her legs with open arms and one of them just clean on just |
| 0:28.4 | smashes my nose. I mean, just a crunch, smash blood. This is the only time in my life. I think |
| 0:34.3 | I've ever lost my temper in a fight. What's the biggest mistake you see women |
| 0:38.4 | making when it comes to training or weight loss? I think the biggest mistake that they make is |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome back to the Real Foodology podcast. On today's episode, I sit down with UFC legend |
| 0:50.3 | Misha Tate to talk about the power of real food, motherhood, and the shift from feeling for performance to feeling for true health. Misha opens up about the myth she bought into |
| 0:59.1 | as a young athlete, why the calorie-deficient model fails women and how eating nutrient-dense |
| 1:03.7 | whole foods transformed her energy, recovery hormones, and more. We discuss how processed foods |
| 1:08.9 | hijack our reward centers, why parents don't need a nutrition |
| 1:11.8 | degree to know how to feed their kids and themselves, and how women can finally stop feeling |
| 1:16.4 | guilty for hunger and start eating in alignment with her biology. This is a conversation about |
| 1:20.9 | rewriting outdated nutrition rules and choosing your own body every time. We also talk about |
| 1:26.9 | her early days, the UFC, which I just found |
| 1:29.6 | so fascinating. She is such a badass, and she has become a dear friend who I met recently at a |
| 1:35.9 | regenerative farming conference, which just made me love her right when we met. She's such a cool |
| 1:42.8 | human, and I really hope that you love this episode. I thought it was so fascinating to hear what it was like to be in the UFC and what the focus was around nutrition and eating and calories in and calories out. So I think you're going to love this episode. If you want to take a moment to rate and review it, it really does help the show. It means a lot to me. And of course, if you are loving this particular episode, if you want to tag me and at Misha Tate, we will do our best to |
| 2:05.1 | try to repost it. Thank you so much for listening. Here's the deal about New Year's resolutions. |
| 2:11.5 | Most of them don't fail because we don't care enough. They fail because we're guessing. |
| 2:15.9 | We're trying to fix symptoms without actually |
| 2:18.0 | understanding what's happening inside our bodies. Things like hormone imbalances, inflammation, |
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