Episodes

When you set out to reach big goals like losing weight and getting fit, you will eventually come face-to-face with all your fears and insecurities. Even just thinking about changing your diet can get you feeling pretty anxious. You might even just say “no thanks” to the whole idea so you won’t have to deal with all the negative stuff that’s bound to come up. But I want to offer another approach. I want you to think about what it would feel like to actually deal with all of those fears instead...

When it comes to making lasting habit change, there are two main areas of “work” that you have to address. There’s the outer work, which is what to do and how to do it, and then there’s the inner work, which is all about making profound shifts in your mindset. Most people only focus their attention on the outer work. “Just tell me what to do”, they say. But the outer work is only a small fraction of the game. If you want better results for yourself and want to create new habits that last, yo...

Have you ever found yourself wishing your life was somehow “better”, that there was some future version of yourself that was leaner, stronger, and healthier? Of course you have, we all think about stuff like this, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. The problem is when you are so focused on what you DON’T have, that it completely consumes you. When you are obsessed about where you’re NOT, that’s when things begin to break down for you. Today, I’m talking about the difference betwee...

Today I have a very special guest for you. I recently sat down with Melanie Millaway and we had a candid conversation about her experience of changing her diet and getting fat-adapted. But the real change didn’t happen on the outside. Yes, she lost weight. Yes, she improved her running performance. Yes, she has more energy now and yes, she generally feels a lot better. But the real change happened on the inside. Melanie made a massive shift in her mindset. And I just have to say that this is...

If you’re like most people (me included), your beliefs about what you can or can’t accomplish are based on whatever you’ve been able to do up to this point in your life. You might want to lose 30 pounds, but deep down inside, you don’t believe you can get there, because every time you’ve tried to lose weight in the past, you’ve failed. Your point of reference with weight loss is that you always give in to temptation and end up failing. So you are looking to your past experiences as evidence t...

Oftentimes, when you set out to improve your health and fitness, you find yourself feeling all of this negative stuff. Just thinking about changing your diet will bring up all of these thoughts and feelings like, “it’s going to be too hard”, “What if I fail?”, “These things never work for me”, and so on. This is called the resistance and it shows up in the form of fear, self-doubt, worry, excuses, procrastination, and it can absolutely stop you from ever achieving your goals. It can even keep...

Who are you becoming? It’s a good question, right? The thing is, most people don’t ever ask themselves this. They don’t spend any time thinking about who they really want to become. This is a problem. If you don’t know where you’re going, how are you supposed to get there? If you don’t know who you want to become in the future, chances are pretty good you’re going to stay stuck right where you are right now. So in this episode of the podcast, I talk about the importance of contemplating th...

I have a very special podcast episode for you today. I recently sat down with one of my clients, Eva Bailey, and we had a fun conversation all about her experience getting fat-adapted and training for her first ultramarathon. She shares some of the doubts she had going into all of this and how she worked through them. It wasn’t always smooth sailing for Eva. She and I discuss a few things she struggled with along the way and how she had to make some big shifts in her mindset in order to keep ...

If you’re anything like most runners, you have a very hard time taking time off. Rest days can feel like torture, you feel like you’re losing fitness, and you are convinced that your running is going to suffer! But the reality is, most runners do not prioritize rest and recovery days, and so most runners are not getting the most out of their training. You cannot become that lean, badass runner you want to be if you never take the time to rest and recover properly. Rest and recovery have to be...

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 that is absolutely required to get you there. In this episode of the podcast, I’m going to share a very s...

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 fun and transformative challenge, be sure to listen to this episode and join us starting January 4t...

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 and evolve and become the badasses we ultimately want to be. In this podcast, I’m going to share a few of th...

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 is why the gyms are full in January and then empty again by March. Why is it that most people c...

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 just say “F-it” and blow off all your diet and exercise plans, stay indoors watching Netflix wit...

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 are making. In this episode of the podcast, I explain what it means to be choosing your struggle, and offer up some insigh...

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. But instead of sitting around feeling sorry for myself, I’ve decided to do everything I can to get through ...

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 saying “thank you” to all of you for listening and for allowing me to be a part of your health and fitness journe...

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 fail”, “I could never do something like that”. These are called limiting beliefs because they absol...

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 what I would do differently next time. I recorded this episode last week in the Running Lean Commun...

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 change things for you? That’s exactly what I’m talking about here today. In this episode, I ...

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 should be avoided?”, and “How will these affect my running performance?” These are all great qu...

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? How can we get the support that we need to be successful with being healthy, and with this new ...

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 you? What happens if you’re wrong? In this episode of the podcast, I’ve decided to make things a...

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 things work for different people. The same goes for what your natural weight should be – it’s a ver...