F* It!

When life gets overwhelming, do you double down on the habits that help you—or abandon them first? In this candid Twisted Tuesday episode of the F* It! Podcast, Amy Ledin shares two unfiltered walk-and-talk updates about food freedom, fitness setbacks, stress, and the power of keeping promises to yourself. With Canadian Thanksgiving approaching, Amy reflects on the years she feared holiday meals,...

What if the reason your fat loss plan feels so exhausting isn’t that you need to work harder—but that you’re making it harder than it needs to be? In this episode of the F* It! Podcast, Amy Ledin draws on 18 years of coaching to unpack three common traps: treating every meal like a brand-new project, switching workouts before progress can be measured, and using up your mental energy on constant fi...

What does real progress look like when the scale can’t measure it? In this Twisted Tuesday episode of the F* It! Podcast, Amy gets candid about an overwhelming week of stretching outside her comfort zone, learning from her new coach, creating more intentional content, and noticing where she has started compromising on some of the small promises she makes to herself. Those little promises may seem...

You hired a coach. You invested the money. You got the roadmap. Now comes the part that actually determines what happens next: being coachable. After joining an Instagram growth mastermind, Amy suddenly found herself back on the client side of coaching—and staring at new systems, new expectations, new strategies, and a massive learning curve. The experience gave her a fresh appreciation for exactl...

Sometimes growth looks like doing the thing that makes you cringe. Sometimes it looks like staying in your own lane instead of comparing yourself to everyone around you. And sometimes, growth has nothing to do with achievement at all—it simply means being there when someone you love is hurting. In this Twisted Tuesday episode, Amy opens up about returning home from Dallas energized by a new master...

Amy made it to Dallas—and the trip didn’t exactly go according to plan. After traveling alone to an Instagram growth event where she expected to know absolutely no one, Amy found herself confronting several things that normally make her uncomfortable: meeting strangers, navigating social situations alone, changing plans, eating outside her normal routine, and accepting that even the best preparati...

Sometimes the best opportunities happen when you stop overthinking and simply **shoot your shot**. Amy starts this Twisted Tuesday walk-and-talk with some good news: her missing Oura Ring was found. But after spending several days without it, she’s looking at wearable tracking differently. Instead of obsessing over daily scores, Amy wants to focus on the information that actually helps her—especia...

Sometimes the smallest things can completely change the direction of your day. In this Twisted Tuesday episode, Amy keeps things casual and real, starting with the unexpected excitement of “hair day.” After Leilani carefully plans around schedules, rides, and appointments to see her favorite stylist, a last-minute case of food poisoning throws the entire plan off. But the cancellation unexpectedly...

Two days ago I lost my Aura ring at the gym, and I still haven't found it. That sent me down a rabbit hole I've actually been in for years, on and off, with every tracking device I've ever owned. The body bug, a few different Polar heart rate monitors, the Whoop, and now the ring I've had since before Aura was even really a thing. In this episode I'm thinking out loud about the real pros and cons...

Are you really inconsistent—or did the structure supporting your healthy habits disappear? After nearly three weeks away from training because of a painful back injury, Amy notices something surprising: despite being committed to drinking enough water, she keeps reaching the evening without meeting her hydration goal. The problem isn’t a lack of desire or discipline. One of the checkpoints built i...

Amy went in for routine blood work and walked out with an episode idea after seeing something she could not ignore: a newer phlebotomist had seemingly begun to look, move, and behave like the fit, health-conscious women around her. That real-time change becomes the starting point for a bigger question—how much of your own behavior is being shaped by the people closest to you?   In this episode, Am...

What happens when you're finally in a great fitness groove—and one injury suddenly takes it away?   In this Twisted Tuesday episode, Amy walks through an honest weekly self-audit that becomes a much bigger lesson about discipline, ego, setbacks, and staying aligned with the person you want to be. After experiencing significant back pain following a leg workout, Amy learns she'll be out of the gym...

If your goal has been fat loss for months, but the scale keeps landing in the exact same 5 pound range, this episode is about the gap between those two things.   I call it accidental maintenance.   Your intention is fat loss… but working hard all week and loose all weekend adds up to the exact same static outcome as an intentional maintenance phase, minus every benefit that phase is actually suppo...

It’s easy to tell yourself you’re doing fine. It’s harder to look in the accountability mirror and actually measure it. In this Twisted Tuesday, Amy breaks down the weekly audit she uses to assess whether her actions are aligned with the person she wants to be. She explains why tracking your behavior matters, how seemingly small broken promises can affect your confidence and “self-love meter,” and...

What would you do if the scale suddenly jumped nearly four pounds overnight? Years ago, Amy admits that a result like this could have sent her into a spiral of frustration, food sabotage, excessive exercise, and negative self-talk. Today, she understands that a single weigh-in is only one data point—and often a misleading one.   In this episode: Amy delivers an important reality check about scale...

What happens when you're surrounded by cookies, donuts, coffee, and treats every month—but food no longer controls your thoughts?   In this Twisted Tuesday episode, Amy reflects on nearly two years of volunteering at her church café and the surprising lessons it's taught her about dieting, food guilt, and emotional eating. She shares how years of restrictive dieting once made baking feel stressful...

Here's what actually happened.   The food noise came back louder than I expected, even after twenty years of doing this work. By week three, the scale was climbing instead of dropping, and my own biofeedback tracking, sleep, hunger, digestion, was flashing signals right alongside it.   In this episode I walk through exactly what happened, the mistake I made assuming my own formula was automaticall...

Why do some people keep growing through hard seasons while others slowly lose momentum? In this candid, on-the-go episode, Amy shares the reality of training close to failure, why progressive overload means your workouts may never truly feel easy, and how learning to tolerate discomfort separates people who simply exercise from those who visibly build strength.   Amy also reflects on completing a...

In This Episode:   The Mistake Nobody Catches The single biggest training mistake Erik sees in women 40+, even the ones who think they're pushing hard. It comes down to one thing: not appreciating that your recovery ability has changed.   Why Short Rest Intervals Are a Silent Killer HIIT, HYROX, boot camps, CrossFit-style metabolic conditioning. Erik explains why short rest interval training comes...

Are your habits truly part of your identity—or do they disappear as soon as the weekend begins? In this episode, Amy explains why Friday night through Sunday can either reinforce your progress or quietly erase the work you completed during the week. She shares how an unexpected change in her routine forced her to examine whether her meals, walking, and personal commitments were dependent on struct...

In this episode: Why “knowing what to do” is often just trivia, not real awareness, and what real awareness actually sounds like How perimenopause can interfere with your body's hunger and fullness signals (interoceptive awareness) Why this exact objection hits high-achieving, capable women the hardest, and why the LLYT lens explains why force of will doesn't work on a body run by cortisol and hor...

What does your body reveal about the standards you hold for yourself? In this honest walk-and-talk episode, Amy explains how discipline, organization, delayed gratification, and keeping promises to yourself extend far beyond fitness. Building a strong body is not simply about following the perfect diet—it requires becoming the person capable of maintaining it.   Amy also gives a deeply personal up...

Everyone assumes the meal plan is the hard part. It's not.   In this episode, Amy walks through the eight things she'd do before, and during, the first 30 days of a new deficit, from telling the people around her what she's about to do, to building the one daily promise that determines whether the whole thing sticks. This isn't theory. It's the exact sequence Amy uses with her own group coaching c...

In this episode of The F*It! Podcast, Amy shares a raw reflection on self-love, discipline, and the quiet ways we lose trust with ourselves. She explains how her “self-love meter” drops when she starts cutting corners, even in small ways, and why rebuilding confidence starts with one simple promise. From not eating after 9 p.m. to resisting the voice of compromise during a power outage, Amy shows...

In this episode we get into:   Why coaches who’ve “been around forever” sometimes quietly rebuild their whole message around whatever’s hot, and how that’s different from genuinely evolving a system.   The peptide wave that exploded six months ago and is already cooling off, and why we never jumped on it even when clients were asking.   GLP-1s: what the data is actually showing about who’s using t...