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It’s a new year and there’s all this talk of goals and dreams and what you want to accomplish in the year ahead. But without the right mindset, it’s extremely difficult to create the kind of big, permanent changes that you want for yourself. Whether you want to lose weight, become a faster runner, get stronger, or just become the healthiest you yet – I want to help you develop the mindset th...

I’ve received a lot of questions about the Running Lean Coaching Group’s January 8 Pounds Down Challenge so I decided to address all of your questions in this bonus podcast episode! Starting on Tuesday, January 4th, we’ll be focusing on getting fat-adapted and dropping some weight! The goal is to lose 8 pounds by January 31st! If you’re interested in stepping up your game and joining us for this f...

2021 is coming to a close and I don’t know about you, but I always get introspective this time of year. I love this time because I can reflect on what I’ve learned this past year, how I’ve changed, how much I’ve grown, and take a good look at the progress I’ve made. I think it’s important for all of us to have a look at the lessons we learn along the way so that we can continue to grow...

It’s that time of the year again when many people set big goals for themselves. They decide that starting January 1st, they are going to lose weight, get in shape, quit drinking, start that business, or start working on whatever goal they’ve been putting off for way too long now. The problem is that almost 90% of people who set New Year’s resolutions will fail at keeping them by mid-February. This...

The holidays can be a very difficult time of the year for a lot of people. Shopping for gifts, planning social events, spending more time with family, and the added end-of-year demands at work can all lead to feeling more stressed and overwhelmed. Not to mention the shorter days, colder temperatures, and lack of sunlight can make getting outside to exercise more challenging. It can be very easy to...

Have you ever found yourself struggling with something and thought, “Why am I choosing this?” Probably not. If you’re like most people then you’ve most likely never considered the fact that you are actually choosing your struggle. Whatever it is that you’re struggling with right now – your weight, your workouts, how you feel about yourself – these are all choices that you a...

Sometimes things just don’t go your way. You might have to deal with a running-related injury, loss of job, divorce, another COVID lockdown, or some other unexpected setback in your life. What you do in these situations and how you respond to them can have a profound impact on your life – good or bad. Recently, I’ve been thrown a big curveball. I’ll talk more about that in the episode....

Wow! 100 episodes of the podcast! In this “best of” edition of the Running Lean podcast, I feature a dozen or so of your favorite moments – and mine – from the first 100 episodes. The timing of this episode couldn’t have been better. It was set to be released on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, but I decided to release it a day early. I wanted this 100th episode to be my way of sayi...

One of the biggest problems I see with people who attempt to make big changes in their life is a total lack of belief in themselves. If you set out to accomplish a big goal like losing weight or running a marathon, it’s going to require you to believe that you can do it. Instead, most people have all of these beliefs around why they CAN’T do it. They say things like, “It’s too hard”, “I always fai...

The 2021 Flying Pig Marathon is officially in the books! I did some things differently this training season from a fueling perspective. Some things worked pretty well, some not so much, but I definitely learned several valuable lessons. So in this episode of the podcast, I’m going to go over how I fueled differently this training season and for the race itself, what worked and what didn’t, and wha...

We all have expectations, every single one of us. You expect things to go a certain way and when they do, it’s amazing and you feel great! When things don’t go the way you expect them to, you get frustrated and you feel terrible. But this is just the way life is, right? What if there was a different way to go through your life? What if you simply eliminated all of your expectations? How would that...

Oftentimes, when people cut out sugar from their diet, they start to crave those sweet treats they used to indulge in. Some people just can’t handle it and give in to their cravings, while others search for low-carb or sugar-free substitutes instead. Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of questions around this topic of sugar substitutes. Questions like, “Which sugar substitutes are best?”, “Which ones...

One of the hardest things about losing weight is feeling like no one is supporting you in your weight loss journey. Not only do you feel a lack of support, but you feel like the people closest to you are actually going out of their way to make it harder for you to stay on track. Why is this? Why do we feel unsupported when we decide to make these big changes in our diet? How do we get through this...

There’s a lot of chatter out there in the world about which diet is best. You see this play out on social media where proponents of one diet will bash another diet, and then proponents of THAT diet will bash the other, and on and on it goes. With all of this conflicting information, it’s really difficult to make an informed decision about which diet is best. How do you know which one is right for...

I talk a lot about losing weight and eventually getting to your “natural weight” but I’ve never really taken the time to explain what your “natural weight” is. Several people have been asking me about this lately so I thought it would be a good idea to dig into this topic here on the podcast today. Losing weight is a very personal thing, and there’s no one right way to do it. Lots of different thi...

Some of the most asked questions in the Running Lean Community on Facebook are about running-related injuries. Runners just seem to get injured pretty often. In fact, more than half of all recreational runners experience an injury at some point. Why is this? Why do runners get injured so often? What are the most common injuries that runners experience? How do we treat these injuries, and how can w...

One of the most important principles that I teach here on the podcast, and work on with my clients is the principle of becoming the best, healthiest, most badass version of yourself. This is not meant to imply that there’s anything wrong with who you are right now, it just means that you have the desire to become more. It means that who you are right now is not the finish line, that you’re not don...

When you set out to achieve a big goal, you have to change what you’re doing, right? You have to start doing different things because if you just kept doing the same things, you’d just have the same results you have now. For example, if your goal is to lose weight, then you should probably change what you’re eating. That’s great, and we all know this, but what else could you change? What other fac...

On Sunday afternoons, I do live training and coaching sessions over in the Running Lean Community of Facebook. This past week I brought on a special guest – Kelly French – for a fun and informative conversation all about her experience becoming a fat-adapted runner. Kelly is an ultrarunner who came to me for help transitioning to the low-carb way of life. She made it through the tough...

Your mindset is one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal. Armed with the right mindset, there’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish! Whatever it is you want for yourself – to lose weight or run an ultramarathon – the right mindset will get you there. Mindset is not always positive though, the wrong mindset can keep you stuck, and keep you from realizing your true potent...

As a weight loss coach for runners, I work with a lot of people whose main goal is to lose weight. As a runner, they may have put on a few dozen pounds over the years and no matter how many more miles they run, they can’t seem to drop the pounds. They want badly to get back to their “natural weight”, so they come to me for help reaching that goal. This all makes perfect sense, right? But once we s...

It’s pretty common knowledge that if you have a faster metabolism – meaning you burn more calories while at rest – you will lose more weight. What most people don’t know is that there are many different ways to increase your metabolism other than just running an extra 100 miles every week. Exercise is great, but it pales in comparison to other methods of increasing your metabolism. So...

If you really want to create change in your life, you have to focus on changing your habits, right? I think we all get this concept, but most people don’t really understand how habits actually work. Most people just focus on trying to change the behavior and don’t focus on the things that are actually driving the behavior in the first place. In order to change a habit, you first have to unde...

Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to fuel your runs as a low-carb runner. It might be because we’re back in marathon season and your runs are starting to get longer. I think it’s partly that, and also some fear around bonking when you get into those higher-mileage runs. I get it, I was also very skeptical about fueling without carb-loading and using gels because that’s just...

As we come to the end of the #DryJulyChallenge, I’d love to know how it went for you. How was your experience giving up alcohol for a month? What’s changed? Are you sleeping better? Do you have more energy? Are your workouts better? Do you just feel better overall? A lot of people are asking themselves…now what? Do I keep going? Whether or not you choose to continue abstaining from alcohol,...