The StressLess Lifestyle
by StressLess Lifestyle
Unravelling the complexities of stress management, fitness, nutrition, lifestyle and how to live a life with just a little bit less stress. Women over 35 have A LOT on our plates; hormones, feeling good in our body, fat loss and keeping it all together. Weight loss makes us feel good but overall health is paramount, I aim to give you tips, tricks and permission to be a "little less" so you can actually be more! Nicci, along with appearances by Britt (postpartum specialist & other specialists, hosts the podcast from the perspective of a personal trainer, nutritionist, mom and business owner
Episodes
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Ep. 53: RARE disease day- OUR story- Feb 29th!
Why is Rare Disease day important? Because when you're questioning yourself, your sanity, and wondering "why is this happening and what the heck can I do about it?" having support and answers is LIFESAVING. More than answers to "what" and "why" is the "how" and for many people living with rare...
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Ep 52. Is your goal WRONG for you? You can fix that.
I talk with a lot of people and 99% of the time we're discussing their goals. Whether they're past clients or people who find out what I've done with my business, they always ask about goals. I do love that! But what I don't love is that most people tend to have a distorted view of what their...
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ep. 51- Which is most important for body change, fitness or nutrition?
Are your workouts giving you the body change you're looking for? Is nutrition more important than fitness for body change? I get asked to coach people in either fitness OR nutrition so I get to talk about this a lot. My answer is always the same. Body change and health are 2 separate goals. Both...
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Ep. 50 Do you trust yourself w/nutrition? How to handle holiday eating!
Tracking macros can be food freedom, it really can. How do I know? Because it is how I found it and how I help some of my clients. I found that at a time, after some drastic fitness endeavors, I no longer trusted myself with my nutrition and my food choices. As someone who was never disordered in...
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ep. 49 What is a Reality-Based coach? Me! Anti-fearmongering but pro-YOU.
Controversy sells. Being wildly specific is catchy and makes it look like you know what you're talking about, no matter how outrageous the claim. I find the most extreme information spreaders are the most popular, and it's annoying. But it's most annoying in that it's not sustainable for the…
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Ep. 48 [nutrition] Carb cycling vs Calorie Cycling & do I HAVE to carb cycle to lose weight?
Many people know about carb cycling and many people have done it and succeeded while many have tried it and "failed". It is not for everyone. When someone "fails" one way of eating for fat loss they tend to jump right to another way of eating, that next one coming back in popularity might just be...
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Ep47 The ADINA act will make life healthier (and simpler) for SO many people. Why YOU should care.
Today's episode is a special one! It is about uncomplicating things that we make too complicated so it is right on target with what you normally come to listen about. I am discussing the ADINA Act effort with Seth Togal and how you and I can help make this bill turn into a law. The act, if passed...
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Ep. 46 [nutrition] To avoid foods/ingredients or not to? That IS the question.
Is eliminating foods good for you? Is eliminating specific ingredients better for your overall health? What if trying to eat whole foods all the time and cooking from scratch and avoiding all these "no" foods is ACTUALLY causing more harm to your overall health and lifestyle? I talk about why and...
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Ep 45. Toxic workout? Is your workout doing what you WANT?...or not?
This is a fitness episode. In chatting with a few friends and clients it has become apparent that not everyone is doing workouts that are benefiting them in the way they wish. Some are doing workouts that are great but not actually giving them the results they want. Some people do workouts with…
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Ep. 44 ADHD to medicate or not? It's a decision that I know you're curious about, because I definitely was!
To take pills or not to take pills? That was the MAJOR question for me and also, likely, for you or someone you know. **none of this is medical advice, it is based on my own personal experiences only. Talk to your phycologist if you need assistance.
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Ep. 43: Mom-rage, Anxiety or....ADHD *the latest buzzword*. Why I didn't embrace it until parenting mattered.
I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety in 2001... but my world got flipped upside down (not really but it sounds dramatic) at the age of 41 and I was told I don't have anxiety, per s`e. So what was I diagnosed with and why? You can probably guess. ADHD is everywhere probably because of the fact...
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Ep. 42 Special Guest Dr. Lianna Hunt-Can we control our deep health through chiropractic care? *The nervous system*
Today's episode is a conversation with Dr. Lianna Hunt, she is a chiropractor who specializes in helping those who want to be healthy and harness their lives though holistic practices. During her years of studying the spine, the nervous system, and the human body, she gained clarity topics which...
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Ep 41 {A.C.M.E.S.}pt 5-Sleep- biofeedback for easier fat loss and healthy lifestyle
We ALL know that sleep is important, it's one of the reasons why I put sleep at the end of the ACMES list, it anchors up everything we need to be looking at when assessing our overall deep health and/or fat loss efforts. We began at episode 36 with the intro to what biofeedback is and how I use…
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Ep 40 {A.C.M.E.S.} pt4 Energy!- knowing your biofeedback for better fatloss & healthy life
If you haven't yet, begin with Episode 36 as it will go over more about biofeedback as a whole. I do get into that a tiny bit during this episode but that's a good place to start. Didn't start with A though M? Don't worry, they do NOT have to be listed to in order, as I mention during each…
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Ep 39 {A.C.M.E.S} pt3-Mood- Biofeedback to help fat loss & healthy lifestyle
I said this was Episode 40 but I was wrong! It's episode 39...but either way, we're talking about MOOD and how it affects all of the other ACMES. Mentioned in this episode is the DoMORE 6 week program, See CONSIDERSBLE change by Sept. 1st! email me to talk about it or take your spot, only 4…
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Ep 38 {A.C.M.E.S}pt2- Cravings- 3 important points about cravings & weight loss.
The 2nd part of the StressLess ACMES that I use with clients (and I suggest all people adopt a biofeedback frame of reference). In this episode: How cravings fit into biofeedback and how we use them to help or how they hinder our lifestyle or weight loss goals. Why are you having cravings? Where...
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Ep. 37 {ACMES series} part 1: Adherence to your diet/lifestyle and how this biofeedback can help you succeed in your nutrition and lifestyle goals.
When something is at its "acme" it is at the point at which someone or something is best, perfect, or most successful. Who isn't trying to be their best or their most successful? This the definition of ACME but the StressLess A.C.M.E.S. are how we determine when someone is feeling their best or…
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Ep. 36 Biofeedback for fat loss (&health) the StressLess way {series intro}
This is the introduction to an upcoming 5 part series on the 5 types of biofeedback that I suggest you use when determining if you fat loss/maintenance/fitness goals are working for you or against you. I introduce you to what I ask my clients to look for and give me information on and how that...
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Ep 35 {postpartum series} #3- The 4th trimester: What I WISH I had! A doula explains...
Ep 35 {postpartum series} #3- The 4th trimester: What I WISH I had and what I suggest you DO have. I had an interesting birth/postpartum experience, one I've not shared publicly and probably never will, from when my first baby was born. It was (years later) explained to me that it was a trauma…
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Ep. 34: My #1 tip for Anti-Aging or Aging Gracefully- Get your "Deep Health" in order asap.
What is Deep Health? There are 6 parts that we look at to determine your Deep Health and working on those constantly will help all aspects of your "anti-aging" routine. I also talk about why I hate the term "anti-aging" so there's that. The tip is simple, but not easy. Do you think you're doing...
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Ep 33: Should I go Gluten Free? Why? (Celiac Awareness month)
"I'm going to eat gluten free to lose weight..." " Should I eat gluten free for health?" I hear this a lot as a nutrition coach, and even more as someone who has celiac. Today's episode will talk abit about my journey struggling with it until diagnosis as well as my answer to those questions I…
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Ep. 32 Tracking macros: when to be Super Strict & when can you relax?
Does weighing and tracking your food make you crazy? Do you want to look like one of those super-fit Instagram people? You might have to pick your goal... or decide when to be super strict and when you can relax and live a normal life.
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Ep. 31 [postpartum series] #2 Fat loss postpartum
This episode is going to go into the desire to eat for fat loss as a postpartum person. I discuss nutrition for breastfeeding individuals as well as nutrition for non-nursing parents, both scenarios require special nutritional considerations. At no time should you do something that is dangerous…
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Ep. 30 [Postpartum Series] #1 -PP Movement w/specialist Erica Friedman
Welcome to our Postpartum series! This is the first episode of the series in which I'll be talking about all things postpartum and fitness, nutrition and overall health and lifestyle. The very first guest is Erica Friedman and I am so honored she said "yes" to this interview. She gives SO much...
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Ep. 29 {small-bite tips} Goals: How to keep going once you've reached a goal? What to do if you don't have one?
What do you do when you need to set a goal but you don't have a goal? You know the feeling, you've reach a goal, the vacation ended and now what?? You don't have the drive, energy or motivation to actually get into the gym or eat well because the goal has passed. But now is the perfect time to...
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Ep. 28 N.E.A.T & fat loss: how focusing on it can help or hinder your fat loss.
Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis is the process of burning calories but NOT related to exercise. You cannot focus on NEAT and still call it NEAT, it's in the name. But how can you increase your NEAT and still get benefits from it? How do we use NEAT as biofeedback in the StressLess Lifestyle?...
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Ep 27: The #1 thing that fixed my herniated disc pain
One year ago, I was not able to walk, I hadn't worked out in 6 weeks, I hadn't even touched a dumbbell without pain in 4 weeks. So what did I do to be able to not only lift again 3 months later but to run a half marathon 6 months later and another on the 1 year anniversary of my "no walking…
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Ep. 26: Decision Fatigue- What is it and how to minimize it
Have you ever been extra cranky and unable or have zero desire to make a choice? Is "whatever, that's fine" a decision you've make lately? Why do we get this way and how can we avoid it? Decision fatigue is something that everyone will experience and some people will experience it more often than...
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Ep. 25: Stress Management vs Stress Relief+My 3 favorite Stress Management techniques
Do you find yourself snapping at people (or inanimate objects)? Do you find yourself short in tone and spiking in your anger a lot? Do you do things to fix that? Stress Management and Stress Relief are 2 different things. They're used for different reasons and in different scenarios. Life and...
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Ep. 24: Yes or No person? How "No" saved my sanity but how "yes" freed me from "No".
We did a "Yes day" a couple of years ago with my daughters, it wasn't until this last few weeks that I realized the impact it had on me. I had placed "no" as my word in 2016 or 2015 because I was over-scheduled, overstimulated and over doing everything in my life...and I felt great doing it all,...
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Ep. 23: Do you have a "Sabotager" or ARE you a sabotager? I have been one, and I hear about them too frequently.
I don't talk about others often, because I like anonymity (weird for someone with a podcast and an IG account) but I love telling people things and also keeping a bit back just for me. BUT in today's episode I talked about how I have been someone's "sabotager" in the past...for years. I didn't...
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Ep. 22: Does tracking food fit into a healthy lifestyle? 4 ways it is beneficial to your whole body health
Tracking your food gets a bad wrap a lot, and for some it isn't helpful, but for most it is VERY helpful. The difference is in your reasons and your habits. In this episode I give my top 4 reasons why I believe tracking/logging your food does fit into a healthy lifestyle that focuses on deep...
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Ep. 21: Bringing up girls as a nutritionist & wanting to protect their body image/self talk
As a personal trainer and nutritionist who specializes in women losing body fat and "balancing" their hormones via nutrition I get as ALL of the time how I do this and also talk about it around my own daughters. Everyone needs to be cognizant of their nutrition, whether they're trying to be…
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Ep. 20: 3 Things you need to achieve your goals.
Do you set goals? Do you do "vision boards"? Do you set "new year resolutions"? I did, I have and I didn't. I have reasons for why this year I talked about setting a "feeling"...as cheesy as it sounds, it will make sense. I also talk about what the 3 things you need to have in order to actually...
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Ep. 19: The CNS- why stress [mental load] can turn into physical pain.
Ever wondered why when one bad thing happens (ie you get horrible news) you go turn around and run into the corner of a table or kick something and hurt yourself? Because your whole system is fired up and "busy". Your central nervous system doesn't forget. You may have had a bad week 3 weeks ago...
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Ep. 18 How to control your hunger hormones: My 4 tips to start now.
Everyone seems to blame all things that go wrong with their health on hormones, I'm guilty of it too! Bad day? Hormones Bloated? Hormones. Pimples? Hormones. Starving? Hormones. In reality, there are so many reasons why you might be gaining weight (eating too much, for example. Not wanting to eat...
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Ep. 17: Is your environment adding stress to your life? How your environment affects your health. Can you change it and do you want to?
Today's episode is talking about one of the 6 types of stress that affect your body and your deep health: Environmental stress. I talk about what that means, what it can do or not do for your health and how you can fix it. We all have stress, we can't always get rid of it but we can always figure...
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ep 16 Setbacks-will you lose ALL progress? How to handle them and make them work for you not against you.
In this episode of The StressLess Lifestyle podcast I discuss setbacks and how they affect the body (why do we feel so bloated?) and how they can actually help you. I'm not all about that "toxic positivity" and yes, times in life do suck, but there is a way out of it, if you don't see a way out...
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Ep. 15 The *ideal* workout for your goal.
In this episode I'll touch on 3 goals: 1) fat loss 2) muscle gain 3) healthy life/maintenance and what workouts are best for each of those goals. Working out, training, exercising -whatever you call that time of your day that you work on your fitness and your lifestyle goals- is a stress on the...
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Ep. 14 The #1 Predictor of Success: How I Balance Life & Nutrition
Life comes in waves, cycles if you will, so with all the ups and downs and disruption how does one fit nutrition or fitness goals into life? How do you keep hitting goal when it seems life has other plans? It's easier than you think. We make it to complicated sometimes and when you break your...
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Ep. 13 Guest: Recovery for health w/ Coach Ney discussing "why" & her favorite "how"
Today's podcast brings us another interview with a special guest, Ney from Work With Ney. This is for anyone, not just athletes, we ALL need recovery both physical and mental. Stress, even in the mental form, can affect us physically. Ney brings with her expertise in recovery, she was a...
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Ep.12 Does move more, eat less work? How not to "break" your metabolism
Whenever someone wants to begin their health journey or dive deeper into it the first thing most people do is simply workout more. They wake up earlier, do two-a-days, they join a gym and take no rest days and on top of that they decide to cut out a meal or a snack or (unfortunately) an entire…
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Ep.11 "Running" a household and fitness goals, is it possible?
I get to have a conversation with Christie, our stress less lifestyle running coach, about long term goals. How running 2-4 hours just for training can fit into life with kids. It's a perspective that, as a type A person, I have a hard time with! Having a different mindset, managing any stress...
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Ep. 10 Stress- good & bad: The 5 ways I manage it
Stress is not going to go away. Sorry, I'm sure you thought that a podcast named "The StressLESS Lifestyle" would talk about getting rid of stress, unfortunately that's not it, not how it works. It's more about managing and reducing the negative effects of stress on your body. I talk about the…
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Ep.9 Balance- What it means in nutrition & LIFE(style)
This episode puts all of the things together from the last 5 episodes that made up the series "Breaking Down Nutrition" but I talk about it from a more overall perspective and what it means when we hear "balanced nutrition". We'll talk about what that mean when eating/treating/cheating also, do I...
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Ep.8. Breaking Down Nutrition: Protein- why, where, how much. pt.5
This is the last episode in the 5 part series about breaking down nutrition. We go back to basics with all of the macro nutrients, micronutrients (and alcohol) and talk about where to get them how to find them and how much you need. This episode is discussing protein. If you ever have any…
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Ep. 7 Breaking Down Nutrition- Carbs pt. 4
In this episode I go into the "Why", "What", and "How much" of carbohydrates. Carbs seem to be a hot topic when it comes to fat loss, weight loss, nutrition and healthy living but why? What about keto and fiber and what if I want to eat carbs, how many do I need, where can I get them and which…
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Ep. 6 Breaking Down Nutrition: Fats- Why & how much, pt 3.
This is part 3 in a 5 part series* Does the fat you eat turn into fat on your body? Have you been afraid of fats? How much dietary fat do you need and why? These questions are answered in this episode of The StressLess Lifestyle podcast. Hormonal balance is dependent on many factors and fats play…
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Ep 5. Nutrition Breakdown Series: Micros (and alcohol) what, why & how it affects fat loss, part 2.
This is the second part in the 5 part series breaking down nutrition basics and topics. I am touching on topics and terms that are very common in nutrition and fat loss but that you may not really know the "what, why or how much" about each topic. In today's episode I also get a bonus topic of...
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Ep. 4 Nutrition Breakdown series: Focus on Macros- What, Why and How much, part 1
How do macros help you lose weight? Do we need to pay attention even if we're just living healthy? If you've ever looked into nutrition over the last few years you may have heard the term "macros" or "macro tracking" or "if it fits your macros" (and then shut it down because it's so confusing).…
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About this show
Unravelling the complexities of stress management, fitness, nutrition, lifestyle and how to live a life with just a little bit less stress. Women over 35 have A LOT on our plates; hormones, feeling good in our body, fat loss and keeping it all together. Weight loss makes us feel good but overall health is paramount, I aim to give you tips, tricks and permission to be a "little less" so you can actually be more! Nicci, along with appearances by Britt (postpartum specialist & other specialists, hosts the podcast from the perspective of a personal trainer, nutritionist, mom and business owner
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