Stop Dieting, Start Eating Real Food: Losing 30 Pounds Without the Diet Cycle
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
For decades, Jenny Hicks felt like she was always on a diet.
Like many people, she tried everything—low carb plans, restrictive programs, packaged diet foods, and extreme calorie cuts. The weight would come off for a while, but it always came back. After years of repeating the same cycle, Jenny wanted something different.
In this episode of Beast Over Burden, Niki Sims and Andrew Jackson talk with Jenny about how she finally broke the diet cycle. Working with a Barbell Logic nutrition coach, she learned how to stop dieting start eating real food, prioritize protein, and build habits that actually fit into everyday life.
The results were significant. Jenny lost 30 pounds, kept it off, and built real strength along the way—including a 200-pound deadlift. Instead of chasing rapid weight loss, she shifted toward sustainable nutrition, strength training, and consistency.
The conversation explores what it looks like to move beyond decades of dieting, how small habit changes can make a big difference, and why accountability and coaching can help turn short-term progress into long-term health.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Beast Overburden, powered by Barbell Logic. |
| 0:04.2 | We're Nikki and Andrew, your personal professional coaches. |
| 0:07.4 | We help you take control of your fitness through hard but doable training and nutrition practices that fit your busy life. |
| 0:15.0 | Build a stronger, healthier version of yourself with lifelong habits. |
| 0:25.9 | Thank you. version of yourself with lifelong habits. All right. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to Beast Overburden, powered by Barbell Logic. |
| 0:30.5 | Excited to be here with you. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Nikki Sims. |
| 0:33.0 | With me as Andrew Jackson. |
| 0:35.9 | Howdy, howdy, howdy. And we have a guest with us today. |
| 0:40.8 | Jenny Hicks, she is a client of ours and a client of our director of nutrition, Brittany Snyder, |
| 0:45.4 | is her coach. And Jenny, we're excited to have you on the podcast. Hello. Hello, thank you for having me. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, I was going over your notes from your coach, Brittany, and you seem like a really cool client to talk about. So I'm excited we get to hear what this has been like for you. And everybody listening, you're going to hear why. I'm excited to talk to Jenny. But I'm curious just to kick things off. Tell us a little bit about yourself, |
| 1:12.4 | Jenny, like what you do and what brought you to Barbell Logic. I'm a high school Spanish teacher. |
| 1:20.9 | This is my 30th year teaching. And my husband and his son were working with Barbell Logic with Mike Burgos. |
| 1:35.9 | And Mike had lost some weight and he was working with Brittany. |
| 1:42.2 | And I was tired of the constant losing the same 10 to 20 pounds and |
| 1:50.4 | getting it back and losing it and getting it back. |
| 1:52.5 | And I was like, okay, I've had enough of this. |
| 1:54.9 | You know, why is Britney special or whatever? |
| 1:57.0 | And can I do just the nutrition side of it? |
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