The Anti-Macro Podcast

Whether you are looking to ditch alcohol completely, simply cut back a bit, or you're curious enough to hear about someone's perspective on going sober, this is a must-listen to episode! Mariah joined me to get vulnerable AF about the multiple rock bottoms she hit as well as multiple attempts to curb her drinking and how she finally found a sober-lifestyle. She also shares her tips for nav...

Michelle came to me with a weight loss goal... but the problem was she was already eating in a deficit while training 6 days a week for an upcoming marathon. I told her to trust me as we increased her food intake and that's when magic happened. On this episode, Michelle shares her experience of working with me in 1:1 coaching and how we got her fueling her body for her running goals as well as...

While everyone out here is talking about eating in a deficit to lose weight, I want to talk about my experience I just had while eating in a surplus. What I’m hoping to do with today's episode is change the narrative on building muscle and gaining weight. The thing is women will express that they want a “toned” physique, but too often I see them either not eating enough or intentionally going...

In this episode, I invited my aesthie bestie to come on and chat skincare. Your skin is part of your health and often times your skin can be a reflection of your internal health. Plus, you need to know how to care for your skin best before and after your workouts. Today we cover: Deanna’s journey through having acne as a teen to what she did differently when her acne returned in her adulthood The...

Sleep is one of those underrated habits that I feel most people know is important but they don’t realize how important it truly is in your health and wellness journey. On this episode I want to make it clear why you need to prioritize sleep and how to optimize your sleep so you can reap all the benefits from it. Let’s dive in. Sleep is important and what I want you to understand is while you may n...

Marissa Hussain is the face and persona of her brand, The Self Love Fitness Club. Her content features either her sweet and happy personality guiding you through dance-style fitness or her sassy side calling out diet culture for the harm it perpetuates. On this episode, I invited Marissa to come on and chat with me about the body neutrality movement, what the haters get wrong about it, and how she...

Today I’m covering a topic that is becoming a more mainstream topic but still has an element of taboo to it and that is cannabis usage - specifically in tandem with your health, fitness, and food freedom journey. Cannabis usage is now legal in a handful of states and decriminalized in others but still holds a lot of stigma. As a result, typically my clients and in general people I speak to aren’t...

Let’s talk caffeine shall we? I’ll start by saying I’m a lover of coffee, I just love the delicious taste and my kind of treat is an iced Americano with soy milk from Starbucks or honestly any coffee shop I don’t care that is my go to order. But coffee - and not just coffee but caffeinated drinks - are one of those things that we need to practice moderation with when it comes to optimizing your he...

The topic of coming off birth control is trending right now as women are learning more about how hormonal birth control has the potential to impose negative effects on our bodies particularly with long term use but also many women need to go through the process of coming off hormonal birth control so they can venture into their pregnancy journey. What I’ve noticed is that in the functional health...

The topic of coming off birth control is trending right now as women are learning more about how hormonal birth control has the potential to impose negative effects on our bodies particularly with long term use but also many women need to go through the process of coming off hormonal birth control so they can venture into their pregnancy journey. What I’ve noticed is that in the functional health...

I see you - you're in the gym training your a$$ off and you think you're eating well yet… where are the results? Too often I see the common error being made of combining high intensity exercise - such as CrossFit, F45, OrangeTheory, and the likes - with a calorie deficit over long stretches of time. What you don't realize is that even with the best of intentions you could be making a f...

You can count your calories or track your macros or start showing up to the gym, but the real change won't come until you begin to shed your old identity and step into the new one you're creating for yourself. This isn't a simple task to do and along the way you'll experience friction, self sabotage, and self-doubt. In this episode I guide you through bringing awareness around the identities you m...

The biggest mistake I see being made when it comes to kickstarting your health journey is immediately jumping into a calorie deficit. Diet culture has conditioned you to believe that health is restricting food and becoming your smallest self, when in reality this isn't health at all. Health is about learning how to nourish your body so it can thrive through the consumption of mostly whole real foo...

I am TIRED of hearing women fear getting "bulky" and allow this fear to hold them back from weight training and eating more, so we're going to tackle this mindset block head on. Why is it that women are afraid to get bulky? How is this fear harming your progress or causing you to fall for BS diet advice? Will you actually get bulky if you weight train? All that and some tough love on today's episo...

WTF is food freedom even? It's two words strung together by health coaches all over the internet (including myself) that depicts a life outside dieting... or something like that. In reality, food freedom doesn't seem to have a set definition and it's pretty subjective to what it means according to the person using the term. Regardless, what I don't want you to think is that food freedom and going...

Your mindset around nutrition and your journey will impact the decisions you make along the way which will greatly impact your health. Today I unpack even MORE mindset shifts that are critical for you to make to be successful with your health journey. The mindset shifts I unpack in this episode: How can I make this a little better - how to make small incremental improvements and avoid overwhelm. Y...

Your mindset around nutrition and your journey will impact the decisions you make along the way which will greatly impact your health. It's time to be smarter than the BS marketing by diets and supplement companies and internet know-it-alls who think that because they track their macros they know a thing or two about nutrition. These are the mindsets that are keeping you stuck in a cycle feeling f...

If you’ve been tracking your food or dieting for an extended period of time you might be wondering how you make the shift towards intuitive eating. To answer this question, I want to tell you how I specifically transitioned off macro tracking to intuitive eating and what that looks like for me. I think it’s also important to note that this journey does not look the same for everyone, so I’ll also...

Fatphobia - the fear of being fat, also known as weight bias or weight stigma. Have you ever given thought to how your thoughts around your body and health may be rooted in internalized fatphobia? Given that diet culture has generated an industry worth billions, it's safe to say our society is deeply rooted in fatphobia. Fatphobia impacts our lives immensely - it impacts what we wear, what we buy,...

When it comes to exercise, less is more. This is a lesson I wish I learned much earlier in my fitness journey as it would have saved me a lot of grief, but I guess if I didn’t learn it the hard way I probably wouldn’t be the coach that I am today. I take a lot of my philosophies from personal experience and quite frankly my goal in educating others is to ensure you don’t make the same mistakes I d...

It's that time of year in which we're thinking hard about the goals we want to accomplish in our future. But have you ever set your sights on a goal or multiple goals only to let time pass and see none of them come to fruition? Do you get started with the best of intentions and highest motivation only to see your efforts dwindle over time? Instead today I break down how to set goals and develop a...

Imagine being put on your first diet 9 years old. Think of the impact that will have on you and your relationship with food and your body for years to come. For many of you, you don’t have to imagine it because you lived it. To think that’s how entrenched we are in diet culture that we push it on our kids at early ages can be mind blowing. But this is exactly what happened to today’s guest, Gabi M...

It's time to address the elephant in the room. You've seen it on my Instagram headline. You've seen it in my videos and you've probably heard me talk about it before on any one of my social media platforms. What makes me the anti-macro coach and why am I anti-macro tracking? To fully answer this, I'm going to give you a little background on macro tracking my personal history with the method and so...

Amy lived her life as an athlete starting at a young age through her collegiate basketball career and on to traveling the world through a professional basketball career. Post-athletics Amy experienced a shift in identity as she struggled to navigate assimilating to life after athletics and again when her body began displaying symptoms she couldn't quite understand. When she finally became fed up w...

You've been told all your life to eat less in order to shrink your body. The problem is that eating less hasn't been making you any healthier, in fact it's making you unhealthy. Our societal obsession with dieting is leading to us having a poor relationship with food, binge and restrict tendencies, gut health and hormonal health problems, and more. In this episode, we're going to dive into why you...