The Flipping 50 Show

Do you know what you want? It’s not easy, especially if you have a lot of choices. Ironic right? But true. I learned this about myself AND learned it about women in general about 30 years ago. Somewhere between 3 and 4 decades ago I began doing the marketing for fitness businesses and creating packages and options for people who were overwhelmed with choice.  There is a difference in the way women...

What should you ask a trainer?  Recently a woman shared her misfortune of attending a fitness class and hurting her knee, and cautioned, “Be careful what fitness class you go to” to other gym-goers. This happens all the time. So this episode takes a moment, and supplies the questions you want to ask before you give up your trust to someone you don’t know in a gym, studio or online.  Unfortunately...

Think after 40 muscle is a thing of the past? Think again!  There was a time when I was a cardio bunny. I dabbled in strength training but spent hours each week, sometimes a day, doing “aerobics.”  We tend to think, because we were told it so often for decades, that aerobic activity is best for fitness. Even though more and more science featuring postmenopausal women shows muscle has the most infl...

Could your house, or your office, use a little decluttering?    Get ready for weight loss in a way you’re not used to hearing me talk about it! You have the ability, through decluttering, to change your mood, and potentially your weight. Could your kitchen counter be reflecting on your resistance to weight loss? Is it a source of comfort, in the way that ice cream is temporarily?  In the episode I...

Caregiving is anything but easy. Even if it’s a labor of love. For many midlife women this is just a chaotic time. Midlife, midlife hormones, midlife career, midlife relationship changes, and aging parents or other loved ones. Maybe a sick or injured child or spouse.  What can you do to take care of your own health when you are consumed by caregiving? We’re diving into it here. When you know sleep...

Weight management after 50. Calories don’t determine whether you store or burn fat; hormones do.  A few ideas for you in this episode. Even if you don’t want to focus on weight loss, you’ll find something in this episode.  My Guest: With us today is Certified Health Coach, fitness expert, and author David Greenwalt. A husband, father, former police officer, gym owner, competitive state-level bodyb...

Bodybuilding for women over 50. No matter who you are, you probably got an image in your head. What was it? I can’t wait to introduce you.  I have 5 guests today. And there’s a video version if you’d like to see them. You might want to. They’re not your grandma but some are grandmas. They’re not what you thought 60 or 70 would look like when you were 20. For one of them… she didn’t know if she’d h...

Most midlife women have gut issues they ignore, accept as normal, or just try to quietly cope with. And they may avoid group exercise or social engagements because of it. If you too are doing either of those or limiting your food intake, avoiding eating instead of finding the root cause of the issue, this is your episode.  To deal with gut issues I have a treat for you in this episode, one of my f...

Your Health Coaches, Group Fitness instructors and personal trainers don’t get this in their basic foundation. Nor do undergrads in exercise science or kinesiology. There’s just too little time.  The “minimum viable information a fitness or health professional needs to enter the field” is not enough for your support of women. Let alone women in menopause, the most significant disruptive period of...

Fasting your way. Exercising your way. Working, loving, living your way. Consider that many women actually compromise doing it their way and yet their entire world revolves around them. Kids, spouse, career positions many women hold are the glue behind an organization. Whether it’s the behind the scenes or you’re the boss running the show, it’s about how well you’re able to do it that matters if i...

Your body is fit or you’re working your way there, but are you brain fit? Did you know that you may not know it but have had a concussion? That kind of trauma doesn’t do the brain any favors. From memory to focus today to dementia later, brain health is on our minds (pun intended).  While exercise supports brain health simply from the increased circulation and the decrease in stress, there’s so mu...

Metamucil and Coffee to Poop, Alcohol to Sleep. These Health Band-Aids are not doing you any favors.  If you’re using coffee to poop and alcohol to sleep, it’s not normal. Nor do you have to settle or tolerate feelings or symptoms.  t’s time to rip off these false health band-aids. If constipation or chronic energy needs coffee or if relaxation and sleep don’t come without a nightcap, listen here...

Cortisol hormone, it’s a love hate relationship. It’s energy. It’s stress. It’s stress energy. It’s energy stress. It’s where we get energy to exercise. It’s what we sometimes need to purge with activity. It keeps us up. It can keep us down. It can prevent weight loss. It can increase belly fat storage.  Stop the stress-induced loss of muscle with protein. Did you know fasting too long can dial up...

An oxymoron? You might be thinking fat loss for women over 50 is just that. Two statements that don’t belong in the same sentence. Oh but they do and not just because it’s frustrating or elusive.  In this episode, how I make fat loss for women over 50, including my about to be 59 year old self, easier. Want recipes for boosting protein deliciously? My smoothie guide: https://www.flippingfifty.com/...

Effective fat loss for women after 50 does not include starving yourself. It doesn’t include walking or other exercise hours and hours, it doesn’t include salads and missing pleasure from food.  It may not include intermittent fasting, or grapefruit.  Two words for you:  Add muscle. That is the Cliff Notes for this episode.  If you’re focused on all things weight loss, there’s a BIG chance that yo...

Trying to lose fat in menopause? This is for you.  You enter menopause without having bought a ticket. You just find yourself suddenly inside. Things around you start changing. For you it may be sleep changes, a change in your body composition so there’s a little more padding in the cushions. Weight seems to have relocated to your belly. Maybe the skin seems to have suddenly thinned making celluli...

If you’ve got an expert who's done more than 150 interviews with wellness experts, what would you ask? This is a male voice, you’ll love if like me you love an accent, and may also love this voice of reason.. Got males in the household? My guest may resonate. Give me sane, give me realistic, give me something I can do…. If that’s your battle-cry this is for you. I met my guest while interviewing w...

Kelly McGonigal has taken a message I learned in 1984 and looked at complex science of it, and simplified it again down to Joy of Movement… and she’s done it by storytelling. I am an exercise and sports psychology expert, trained in not only the exercise physiology and kinesiology but in the mindset of exercise and behavior change.  I was drawn to the book because I’d already been a fan of the aut...

Worried you might be making nutrition mistakes? We’ve got a no-judgment zone in this episode.  No one chooses to die sicker, fatter, or suffer but what if your daily choices were making that happen? Unknowingly, many adults make a wrong turn on the way to “healthy eating.” Foods learned at one point to be healthy are potential inflammatory foods. Foods you thought you ate enough of may fall short...

Walking off weight – in far less time than you might think – not only sounds easier and more accessible than most exercise options, but also been proven. Move over intermittent fasting, here comes intermittent walking.  Seriously, I don’t mean to dish fasting. And plenty of prior episodes have reviewed the plausibility of fasting based on when and how as well as your status. A recent study publish...

Want more effective exercise ? Let’s talk pelvic floor. The area between your anus and your pubic bone is some of the most important real estate a woman has. Do you know how to take care of it, stage it, and manage it?  My guest today shares that more women do now. She’s a young pelvic floor therapist with tips on what the pelvic floor is, how you can best activate, and offers some support for inc...

Easy healthy habits coming up! Yes, exercise! However, what if it was easier than that to get more energy and boost your overall well being? We do certain things regularly. Your daily routine and mine are probably very similar day to day. That is what you do this morning in the first 10-30 minutes of your morning is probably similar to what you do every day.  What if you could take 50% of those ha...

You don’t wake up thinking about healing trauma. You don’t even search for it on your computer at night. You may however, want to lose weight… and be stuck. You may find you continuall get injured or get repeated bouts of colds or virus. But it’s just stress, right? That’s what we say.  Could your stress really be trauma? And what if that were keeping you from losing weight, or getting regular exe...

If you want to burn off body fat there are a few things you have to know. Very possibly there are a few things you need to unlearn.  In this episode you’ll hear me ask my guest these questions:  Are Keto and Fasting good for Midlife weight loss?  We are going to unpack the science of weight loss, specifically fat loss, and Stu’s recipe for success with his clients. We look at the difference betwee...

When you saw the title of this podcast, what was the first thing that popped into your mind? Like “Is it too late to lose weight? Too late to go back to school? Too late to be a lawyer? Is it too late to find love? To climb Mount Everest?” What would be your end to that question? As you think it over, there are some reasons why you may come up empty handed…because life is pretty good right now. We...