S3 EP19: Female Fat Loss & Hormones - Part 2
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
How does your nutrition affect your hormonal cycle? What should you be eating to support your hormonal cycle, and are there any foods you should be avoiding? Today, Dr. Beth Westie returns to the podcast to discuss these and other important questions about feeding and caring for the female body. Listen in to hear what Dr. Westie has to say about eating to optimize the stages of your cycle, how the female body builds muscle, and what signs there are that something might be off with your hormones.
If you missed our first episode with Dr. Beth we suggest going back to listen to episode 55.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Beth’s background and qualifications
- Why women need to eat a certain way to optimize the current stage in their cycle
- The differences in the female body from week to week
- How the female body builds muscle
- Quality vs. quantity when it comes to calories
- What women should be eating and when
- Listening to your body’s cravings
- Easing the symptoms of PMS with nutrition
- Foods to avoid
- Signs of issues with the hormonal system
- Nutrition to ease symptoms of chronic illnesses
- Nutritional support for women in menopause and perimenopause
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| 0:00.0 | One of the next important things to monitor and realize is your cortisol levels, your stress levels. |
| 0:05.7 | Your body also is processing stress differently. |
| 0:08.7 | So stress leads to belly fat. |
| 0:10.4 | Stress leads to that weight right around your midsection. |
| 0:13.9 | So essentially, if you're not managing your stress, not resting, not recovering well, that's going to, again, just be that much of a harder uphill |
| 0:23.0 | battle from there. |
| 0:27.9 | The big question is this. |
| 0:31.5 | In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:40.3 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:47.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 0:56.8 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:00.7 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:06.4 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Rachel and I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:12.0 | Ooh, we are so excited today because we have one of our favorite guests of all time back on again. |
| 1:19.1 | Who do we get, Kelsey? |
| 1:20.3 | We have Beth Westie coming back on our podcast because she was absolutely amazing on our first episode we had with her |
| 1:28.8 | and we knew we had to bring her back on. |
| 1:31.4 | You guys loved her. |
| 1:32.4 | We loved her. |
| 1:33.3 | It was love at first sight. |
| 1:34.6 | So she had to come back on. |
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