Your Best Self with Ky

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com Hustle culture has been sold to moms as the path to health. It's not. Constant overdrive keeps your body locked in fight-or-flight mode, spikes cortisol, stores belly fat, and makes weight loss biologically impossible regardless of how hard you work. You're not failing. The approach is wrong. In this episode, I'm going to break down e...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com You are not lazy. You are not doing it wrong. But if you are skipping meals, doing cardio every day, and still not losing weight, your approach is working against your hormones instead of with them.  There are five specific habits that look like discipline but send your cortisol, insulin, and hunger hormones exactly the wrong signal. In this episode...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com If you've ever said "my metabolism is broken" or "nothing works for me anymore" you're not broken. Your body adapted. There's a difference, and once you understand it, everything changes. In this episode I'm giving you my complete guide: why your metabolism slowed after 30, what cortisol and blood sugar are do...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com Most nutrition advice is designed for someone who has three hours to prep food and zero chaos in their life. That's not real life as a mom. The good news is that eating for fat loss doesn't require any of that. It just requires simplifying the right things. In this epiosde, I'm going to walk you through my full day of eating, show you...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com These are the questions I get asked the most. Every single one of them. And most of the answers are not what you expect. In this episode, I am answering the 8 questions every mom asks about losing weight, from finding time to work out to whether you can actually have wine and still see results. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 The 8 questions every mom asks about lo...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com Four years ago, I was a trainer with 14 years of experience and a master's degree in progress, and I could not lose my own baby weight.  I was bloated, exhausted, hiding from every camera, and telling my daughter "Mommy's tired" when she wanted to play. I knew all the rules. None of them were working. In this episode, I'm go...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com All those hours on the treadmill, all those HIIT classes, all that effort you've put in and the scale is not moving.  Here's what nobody is telling you: for moms over 30, cardio alone is one of the worst tools for fat loss. Not because it doesn't burn calories. It does. But only while you're doing it, and the hidden cortisol cost...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com Every calorie counting app you've downloaded has ended the same way. You tracked obsessively for two weeks, burned out, and gained it back.  Here is a certified trainer's five-step system for losing weight as a busy mom without opening a single app, tracking a single gram, or eating like a rabbit. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Can you really lose we...

You've tried keto, counted macros, done the 21 Day Fix, and joined Orange Theory. The scale won't budge. Your body isn't the same as it was in your 20s. There's been a metabolic shift. Every diet you've tried has been treating a hormone problem with a calorie solution. Weight loss after 30 isn't about willpower. It's about hormones, metabolism, and building simpl...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com You've cut the carbs, counted the calories, done all the cardio. And that belly fat is still there. Stubborn belly fat isn't a calorie problem. It's a hormone problem. Your body stores fat around your belly in response to elevated cortisol and metabolic inflexibility. This video shows you why your usual approaches backfire and what ac...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com You've been logging every bite, weighing every portion, hitting your macros. Somehow, despite doing everything right, the scale still won't move. Calorie counting isn't just failing you. It's actively keeping you stuck. Kylene Heykants is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach with 14 years of experience helping busy mo...

📌 Join my community: www.yourbestselfwithky.com The afternoon crash. The belly fat. The raiding the kitchen after the kids go to bed. These aren't three separate problems. They're all symptoms of one thing. Kylene Heykants is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach with 14 years of experience helping busy moms lose weight without diets, burnout, or giving up pizza night with th...

Welcome! I'm Kylene Heykants, but my friends call me Ky. I’m a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach helping busy moms lose weight without diets, calorie counting, or burnout. After 14 years and 1,000+ clients, I've learned that weight loss after 30 isn't about willpower.  It's about hormones, metabolism, and building simple systems that fit your real life. On this pod...