The No Nonsense Wellness Podcast | Weight Loss & Health for Real Life - without diets, emotional eating, or BS

What you don't know CAN hurt you!   "If only I knew then what I know now" . . .  I find myself saying that so often about my body and my health! Thanks to my friend, my physical therapist, and our guest on this episode I'm finding out that so many of my back problems  could be stemming from poor pregnancy and c-section recovery.  If you've given birth, intend to, or know someone  who will be, listen up because the way you take care of your body AFTER pregnancy can have LONG LASTING effects and imbalances that may be causing you a lot of trouble now.  But don't despair, imbalances can be fixed and damage can be repaired with patient, consistent work.   Our guest today is Sarah Nichols, who was a licensed Physical Therapy Assistant for 13 years and has now made it her mission to educate and assist women in getting thier bodies back.  She loves to teach about improving your foundational strength, and getting to the root cause of physical problems and pain instead of just managing symptoms.  She has a genuine desire to help woman during pregnancy and post becasue, as she says, we're not taught how to protect our bodies and get our pelvis strong again which causes future problems in the lower back, hips and knees.  Her favorite body part to work with is the spine because that is usually where our issues start, that's certainly the case for me!    And just a quick update - I've been working really hard on re-building my own foundational strength, and improving imbalances with Sarah.  Our consistent work has paid off and while I have back issues that will never go away, my functioning and mobility has greatly improved and I've started getting back into walking and lifting weights.  The knowledge I now have and the foundational strength I've gained will keep me on the right track and feeling good!  If you're struggling like I was, my best advice is find the RIGHT helpers, be consistent in your exercises and treatments, and give it enough time!   I hope this episode give you hope if you're struggling.  Your body is amazing and incredible abilites to heal itself if you give it the right help!    XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann  Important Links:   Want more from Special Guest & Sarah Nichols?! Contact her HERE: SarahNicholsPTA15@gmail.com     Related Episodes:  Episode 38 - 6 Areas to Address for Deep, Transformational Health Episode 46 - Health Hierarchy - Building a Strong Foundation Episode 22 - 3 Weight Training Myths You Need to Ditch Now   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/86/

Reconnect to health through your garden   Are you a gardener?  Gardening has long been held as a successful stress reducer, but did you know that the microbes in the dirt are also good for your gut? AND, food grown in your own garden is more nutritious than food purchased at the store!     In this episode, I got to sit down and have a conversation with my friend, Alicia DeVore, owner of Create My Garden.net You'll get to hear a bit of her journey and how she's used gardening to heal from years of health struggles in both she and her kids.  Alicia has used gardening as a way to improve her physical health, her mental health, and to connect with her kids, connect with herself, and connect with her food.     Alicia went from being a terrible gardener and killing everything, to now being able to create courses and coaching to help you be a successful gardener, no matter where you live.  I definitely encourage you to go to her website, and check out all of her programs. She's just an absolutely wonderful person and with so much great knowledge to share with you.    Alicia shares some great tips for creating a garden for yourself and check out her website for TONS of great information.  Make sure you look a the course: Learn to Grow Herbal Tea and Enjoy All Year and use code TARA for a discount!   I hope you're as inspired as I am to ge your hands dirty, get out in the garden, and just start growing stuff!    XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Important Links:   Want more from Special Guest & Alicia DeVore?! Find her HERE: CreateMyGarden.Net Grow Your Own Herbal Tea Course - Use code TARA at checkout for a discount! Instagram @createmygarden     Related Episodes:  Episode 78 - Simple Stress Management Episode 57 - Self Care for Real Life Episode 38 - 6 Areas to Address for Deep, Transformational Health Episode 26 - 5 Signs you need a Mind/Body Reboot Episode 19 - How to be Happier   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/85/

When You're More Than Just Tired   Stress, fatigue, overwhelm; we can't talk about true lasting health and wellness without addressing these drains on our energy and happiness.     In this episode I'm so pleased to introduce you to my friend and fellow coach Jennifer Farley of the Mind Body Circle.       As a certified coach, Jennifer helps her clients improve both their lifestyle and thought habits, because, like me, she believes you MUST address the mind and body together!  Prior to coaching, she worked for over a decade as a recipe developer, food photographer and cookbook author, freelancing for outlets including The Washington Post, Better Homes & Gardens and Parade Magazine.  After many years of working with life and wellness coaches on her own chronic health struggles she decided it was time that she pivoted to helping women the ways she had been helped.     Together we're going to walk you through what's REALLY behind your fatigue (hint: it's more than the obvious stuff) and what you can start doing about it!   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann      Important Links:   Want more from Special Guest & Coach Jennifer Farley?! Find her HERE: The Mind Body Circle - Individual & Group Coaching, and Membership Instagram @The Mind Body Circle   Related Episodes:  Episode 78 - Simple Stress Management Episode 57 - Self Care for Real Life Episode 50 - 5 Steps to Feeling Your Feelings Episode 44 - The Truth about Sugar and Your Body Episode 32 - Overcome the Overwhelm   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/84/

Chronic Stress is Making You Fat   As a society, we're more stressed than we've ever been.  We're also more out of shape, overweight, obese, and unhealthy than we've ever been.  Stress isn't the ONLY reason we're struggling but it's a HUGE contributing factor that we don't give enough time, thought, or work to.     Stress is not just when you feel overwhelmed or pulled in too many directions, stress is a physiological response in your body to TONS of things.  Acute stress, like running from a tiger in the jungle, has kept us alive, but chronic stress is slowly killing us.  We were not designed to be in a stress response long term, yet that's how most of us live our lives and it's taking a toll.  Chronic stress can result in: high blood pressure and heart disease insomnia chronic illness and auto immune disorders stroke overweight, obesity, difficulty losing weight poor digestion, and impaired gut microbiome  weak immune function and prone to catching illnesses muscle tension and pain skin irritations and rashes poor recovery from physical activity If you're struggling to get healthy and lose weight it could be that chronic stress that's holding you back! Listen in to find out how, and what to do about it.   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Important Links:   Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program  If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food!   Episode 78 - Simple Stress Management | A New Study on Meditation & Breathwork Episode 57 - Self Care for Real Life Episode 32 - Overcome the Overwhelm   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/83/

Getting Back to Basics   Special Guest Interview!  Meet my friend Melissa De La Cruz, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and CEO of Made to Be Thriving.  As a nutritional therapy practitioner, Melissa gets to help people thrive not just survive. She focuses on a holistic and bio-individual approach to nutrition, lifestyle, and supports foundational health aspects like nutrient dense food, optimal digestion, blood sugar regulation, hydration, etc.    Melissa shares her journey from years of illness to finding the right doctors and treatments to finally get her on the path to health.   And now she's made a career of helping other women find health through improving digestion and reducing toxin exposure.     Enjoy our chat!   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Important Links:   Melissa De La Cruz at Made to Be Thriving   www.madetobethriving.com  Instagram  Facebook     Episode 27 - What the Heck is Healthy Eating Anyway? Episode 10 - Trust Your Gut Part 1 Episode 11 - Trust Your Gut Part 2   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/82

Do you have to cut carbs to lose weight?   To carb or not to carb, that is the question!   If you look around social media, half the people are telling you to quit carbs altogether and half the people are telling you the carbs are good and you need them. But who's right? This episode is our third installment in our focus on the food three part series.  We already talked about protein and fat, if you haven't caught the first two episodes, go back and listen to them after this.    So why are carb so demonized? What does it actually mean to reduce or eliminate carbs? What exactly IS a carb? How much and what type of carbs are the best for me?  I'll answer all your questions because . . .   It's definitely NOT as easy as saying "carbs are bad, dump them" - an apple is a carb, broccoli is a carb, lettuce is a carb, are those bad?  In my opinion the conversation about WHAT TYPES of carbs, and the quality of carbs is the conversation we SHOULD be having, so let's do it!   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann      Important Links: Episode 10 - Trust Your Gut Part 1 Episode 11 - Trust Your Gut Part 2 Episode 27 - What the Heck is Healthy Eating Anyway Episode 79 - Optimizing Protein for Health Episode 80 - Good Fats, Bad Fats, & Keto   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/81

But won't fat make me fat?   No. 😏 No it won't, we can put that myth to bed right?  Fat is an ESSENTIAL part of your diet, you cannot be healthy without adequate fat.  Fat is necessary to absorb certain vitamins like A, D, E, & K, to reduce inflammation, regulate your immune system and synthesize hormones .  Every single cell in your body has a layer of fat around it and your entire nervous system is sheathed in a layer of fat.  Fat is important! The problem most of us have is we ingest a lot of "bad" fats and not enough "good" fats.    So perhaps I should amend that first statement - GOOD fats are healthy and essential, BAD fats will make you inflamed, sick, and yes, probably fat.   But what's a good fat, what's a bad fat and how much should you be eating? Is the Keto diet something you should try?  How did fats get so demonized in the first place?   In this second installment of our "focus on the food" series I'm going to break it ALL down for you!     XOXO Tara   Important Links: Episode 16 - Should I Track Macro's to Lose Weight? Episode 27 - What the Heck is Healthy Eating Anyway? Episode 44 - The Truth About Sugar & Your body Episode 79 - Optimizing Protein for Health   Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/80

Time to Focus on Food   In this podcast, we talk a lot about the mental game of overcoming stress eating, emotional eating, food obsession, and over eating.  We talk a lot about the mindset piece, and it's SO important, but that's only half the equation. The Healthy Mind side of the equation. We need to also spend some time talking about the Healthy Body side of the equation. So  for the next few weeks we're going to focus on food because truly, they both work together.  Fixing the food, fixing how your body works, will make it so much easier to deal with how your mind works. They both very much work together, and we need to understand both.    It's January and many of you probably started some sort of healthy eating plan, to eat cleaner, to eat healthier, to work on the food. And that's amazing! I want to help you along with that, I want to give you some real science backed ideas about food so the next three episodes we're focusing on the 3 macronutrients, proteins, fats, and carbs.    We're starting with protein in this episode because in my opinion it's the most important macronutrient for you to optimize in your diet.  For those of you in perimenopause or menopause especially, getting enough protein is SO important for hormone production, and muscle mass protection.  Most women don't get enough protein and a whole host of issues could be improved if you did - so listen up for the details!   And it's not too late to join HMHB for 2023, it's still open through January.  So if you think you're ready for more, then the HMHB Program and Membership is ready for you! (check your email for 10% off!)   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Important Links: Episode 12 - Collagen Supplements | Hype or Help Episode 16 - Should I Track Macro's to Lose Weight? Episode 51 - Where's the Beef? Are Plant Based Burgers Healthy?   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/79

Got Stress?   Ya, I know you do, we all do. CHRONIC stress.  Did you know that that chronic stress is drastically interfering with your ability to lose weight and get healthy? Chronic stress contributes to heart disease, insomnia, poor immune function, inability to lose weight, skin issues, anxiety, low energy, poor recovery, etc. etc. It's obvious that managing your chronic stress is a BIG DEAL!   You've probably heard that one of the most effective ways to deal with stress is meditation, but have you tried to meditate? I find it SUPER difficult, and I've tried several times to start a habit of meditation with no success.  I just don't stick to it.  If that sounds like you too, I've got geed news! A new study out of Harvard has found that certain breathing exercises are actually MORE effective than mediation at improvements overall in heart rate variability, improved sleep, reduced stress, and improved mood.   In this episode I'm going to break down the study, what they looked at, what they found and how YOU can incorporate these super easy breathing exercises right now to start managing your stress.   In writing and recording this episode I'm thinking it might be awesome to have a stress management challenge! If learning about stress and learning some effective tips and strategies to manage stress more effectively sounds cool to you let me know! Send me a DM or email if you're interested and if there's interest I'll put it together!   And it's not too late to join HMHB for 2023, so if you think you're ready for more, then the HMHB Program and Membership is ready for you!   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Important Links: Episode 32 - Overcome the Overwhelm Episode 57 - Self Care for Real Life​   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/78

Intentional Living Made Simple   It's hard to believe it's January 2023! I know that this is the time of year where we're all really focused on getting our crap together.  We all want to get a little bit more organized so that we feel like we're heading into the year with a plan. I thought this was the perfect time to share with you guys my interview with Julie Redmond of Mom Made Plans. Julie is all about intentional living made simple. She's on a mission to make life feel easier and meaningfully productive through the ultimate life hack of self awareness and intentional living.    Julie is a mom of twins so had to learn really fast how to get organized so she could get more done.  She also had to learn how to give herself a whole lot of grace for what she DIDN'T get done!     In this episode, Julie shares some of her best tips and tricks about being more intentional in your day, especially with your meal planning.  All to often we overcomplicate things to the point we get overwhelmed and then don't do anything.  Meal planning and being intentional with food can be way easier than we make it! These tips will be great for new meal planners and those who have been doing it awhile.    If you want to hear more from Julie, check out the Mom Made Plans Podcast, and check out her Etsy store for all her amazing organizational printables at Paper Made Plans.   XOXO Tara   Guest Links: Connect with Julie Redmond of Mom Made Plans! Podcast >  Mom Made Plans Podcast  Instagram >  @mommadeplans  Email >  julie@papermadeplans.com  Productivity Printables > www.etsy.com/shop/papermadeplans    If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/77

Imagine this: 2023 is the LAST time you have to lose the weight, the LAST time you feel crappy and tired all day, the LAST time you emotionally eat, the LAST time you give in to all your cravings, the LAST time you look in the mirror and hate what you see.   In general, I'm not a fan of New Years Resolutions, in large part because about 91% of people have given up on them before January is even over.  I AM however in favor of self-reflection, goal setting, and thinking BIG at the turn of the year.  I want this year to be YOUR year! The year you move forward, the year you make progress, the year you OVERCOME! So much can happen in a year!   In this episode I'm going to give you 3 steps to create better goals and better resolutions so that you'll actually achieve them.  Because really, what's the point of self-reflection and setting goals and making resolutions if you don't actually DO anything, if nothing actually changes?     I'm going to challenge you here; do you listen to all these episodes, follow the people on social, consume, consume, consume, information but don't actually DO anything? If you struggle to be an action taker, maybe it's time to take this relationship to the next level? 😘    If you have been listening to the podcast for a awhile, you think the advice is good, but you have trouble implementing it, then maybe you need more? More support, more coaching, more accountability, a more personalized plan to follow.  If you think you're ready for more, then the HMHB Program and Membership is ready for you!   XOXO Tara   Next Steps: Get your free workbooks: www.tarafaulmann.com/resources Join the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program: www.tarafaulmann.com/join Email me: tara@tarafaulmann.com Full Episode Transcript: www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/76   Listen to Related Episodes:  Episode 33: 3 Reasons Your New Years Resolution Didn't Stick and What to do Instead Episode 3: The Motivation Myth Episode 52: 4 Keys to Being More Disciplined

It's time to bring in the big guns!   And by big guns I mean ME 😂!    When you're frustrated, you're not getting the results you want, you want to move faster, or you're not sure what to do next - you talk to an expert right? In my life I've hired personal trainers, business coaches, life coaches, therapists, etc. so that I could learn what I didn't know, figure out what was holding me back, and move forward faster.  A health and nutrition coach is the same!   When it comes to nutrition, health, or weight loss you've probably only looked to diets, books, Instagram, or google (or a good podcast 😉) to try and figure out what to do.  Your doctor said eat healthier and lose weight but didn't' give you much help beyond that.  There are a lot of good (and bad) resources out there, but if those strategies worked on their own you probably wouldn't be reading this right now!  There's a difference between knowing and understanding information, and actually implementing and acting on that information.  That's where a coach comes in.  Coaches take you from stuck in information overload to moving forward and making progress.     To get a different result, you need to do something different.  You need a coach in your corner to personalize a plan for you, hold you accountable, and help you move forward faster.    Think of a health coach as a trainer, nutritionist, and life coach and in my case a therapist, all wrapped into one.  Don't you think you could figure out way more, WAAAAY faster with someone like that on your side!?   I want to be your coach in 2023.  But even if I'm not your person, please reach out to me because I know a lot of coaches and I'd love to help you find your person, because hiring a coach this year is going to finally be the game changer you've been looking for.     If you have been listening to the podcast for a awhile, you think the advice is good, but you have trouble implementing it, then maybe you need more? More support, more coaching, more accountability, a more personalized plan to follow.  If you think you're ready for more, then the HMHB Program and Membership is ready for you!   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    30% OFF Healthy Mind, Healthy Body! For a limited time, get 30% OFF the HMHB Program! Only my email subscriber fans get the discount code so if you aren't already on the email list, get on it now! If you're not an email/newsletter subscriber, CLICK HERE  and hit the button on the banner at the top to sign up!   See you in HMHB!   Important Links: If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/75

There's just a lot of bad advice out there!   Tis the season for looking around at all the diet and supplement commercials and deciding what's going to be the best one for you to FINALLY lose weight and get healthy in the new year.   The diet and supplement industry spends billions of dollars to convince you that the newest fad thing is the best.  Your best friend is SURE her way is the best, and that gal you follow on insta says her way is the best! How do you know what's real? How do you know what's hype?   In this episode I'm going to break down 5 of the MANY terrible health ideas and BS advice that you've probably tried before, I sure have.  In my 20's, before I was a nutrition and health coach, I definitely have fallen for my fair share of bad advice. I took the fat burning supplements, I tried the magic pills and potions, I never missed a Monday, I have ascribed to all the things. When you're young, I think you can get away with some of that and the terrible ideas don't have such bad effects on you. But when you hit your 30s, 40s or 50s, and beyond the BS advice really starts to have bigger detrimental effects on your body and your progress. I really want to make sure that you can decipher what's good and true from what's BS and terrible. So today, I'm going to share five of the many terrible ideas and weight loss traps so that you can avoid them.   And since I know you're thinking about getting healthy, breaking free from stress and emotional eating and losing some weight in the new year I want to invite you to join us in the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program.  If you're tired of the BS, the restrictive diets, the crazy programs, and just want to finally figure out your body so you can be healthy for good, then the HMHB Program and Membership might be exactly what you're looking for. See you there!   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    30% OFF Healthy Mind Healthy Body! For a limited time, get 30% OFF the HMHB Program! Only my email subscriber fans get the discount code so if you aren't already on the email list, get on it now! If you're not an email/newsletter subscriber, scroll to the bottom of this post (If you're on the website) to sign up for the weekly newsletter!   See you in HMHB!   Important Links: If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/74

It's the happiest time of year!   Unless it's not.     I had a fantastic conversation with Life Transformation Strategist Cristina Jolly about how to handle this time of year when you don't exactly FEEL happy.  Christina is the host of the Believe for Bigger Podcast, and a life coach who helps women who struggle with identity, lack of confidence and helps them embrace their worth, step into boldness and operate in their gifts with confidence.    We spoke about the larger topics of finding and cultivating gratitude, and being open to change and things looking different than they have in the past.  We also talked about some more tactical tips like how to successfully ask for the help you need, and how to have productive conversations with family.    After we recorded this episode I've been having some additional thoughts about the holidays that I'm feeling called to share.  I think sometimes we can feel down during the holidays because we lost sight of WHY we have the holidays.  Christmas isn't JUST about presents, and cookies, and Santa. It's not JUST about expectations, and family stress, and drama, and the like.  It's about Jesus.  Christmas is about God coming to earth in the form of Jesus to set in motion the most important fulfillment of God's prophecy.  It's about the birth of the Savior of the world, the Savior sent just for YOU and just for ME.     It's true, the holidays can feel stressful, but in my experience, I ONLY feel stress if I've veered from the truth of the Christmas.  If we keep Jesus front and center my stress is removed, my kids are full of gratitude, my husband is calm, and no matter what goes awry it really doesn't phase us because what is TRULY important is eternal and unchanging.  We talk a lot about cultivating gratitude in this episode, but truly my gratitude is for Christ, for His birth and later His sacrifice, and for His hand on my life.     Friend, this Christmas I'm praying for peace in your heart and mind and I'm praying that if you don't yet know the peace of Jesus, that this Christmas season it is revealed to you.     XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Healthy Holidays Masterclass! Did you know that the average American gains 8 pounds over the holidays?  If you're worried about weight gain over the holidays, stress eating, or overeating, this masterclass is for you! You're going to learn my best strategies for overcoming emotional and stress eating, how to deal with the overwhelm of the holidays without food.  We'll talk about how your body work. How does stress during the holidays affect your body? How does food choice affect your cravings during the holidays, we are touching on it all.  You're going to leave that masterclass with tons of skills and tools that you can use simple strategies and actionable steps that you can put into place right away,  and create your plan for Handling the Holidays and staying on track!   Learn More & Register!   Important Links: If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   Connect with Special Guest Christina Jolly! Website: https://christinajolly.com/ Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/believe-for-bigger/id1526276186?uo=4 Instagram: @christinahjolly   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/73

It tastes so good I just want more!   And then you have more and more and more.  Why does it seem like, when food tastes so good, I have such a hard time stopping and other people don't?  Do they have some sort of super power that I don't have?   If you've asked those questions, you're far from alone. Control around food is a skill that you can learn, but it takes the right tools, and a lot of practice.  That's why I'm here!    In this episode you'll learn my top 3 tips (plus 1 bonus tip) to help you STOP eating, even when food is really good, even when you haven't been able to in the past.  Super simple shifts to make, but super powerful and will put YOU back in control of your thoughts and actions.     But like everything else I teach you, it only works if you practice it! If you have been listening to the podcast for a awhile, you think the advice is good, but you have trouble implementing it, then maybe you need more? More support, more coaching, more accountability, a more personalized plan to follow.  If you think you're ready for more, then the HMHB Program and Membership is ready for you!   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Healthy Holidays Masterclass! Did you know that the average American gains 8 pounds over the holidays?  If you're worried about weight gain over the holidays, stress eating, or overeating, this masterclass is for you! You're going to learn my best strategies for overcoming emotional and stress eating, how to deal with the overwhelm of the holidays without food.  We'll talk about how your body work. How does stress during the holidays affect your body? How does food choice affect your cravings during the holidays, we are touching on it all.  You're going to leave that masterclass with tons of skills and tools that you can use simple strategies and actionable steps that you can put into place right away,  and create your plan for Handling the Holidays and staying on track!   Learn More & Register!   Important Links: If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Full Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/72

Dry, winter skin be gone!   I've got a special treat for you in this episode! I got to sit down and interview my friend Rene Bartosh with Pure & Coco skincare. Renee has an awesome story of dealing with eczema her whole life, and then figuring out how to solve her own problem by creating her own skincare products. Those products turned into a skincare line which now she sells online, in her own store in Montesano WA, and in several local stores.     We also talk about the importance of the ingredients of the products that you're using on your skin, things that you want to make sure your products have and things that you want to make sure that your products leave out. Not all products are created the same and some things that you think should be helping you or should be safe for you probably aren't. So we got to have a really good conversation about what's safe and what's not the things you should look for and the things that you should avoid.    Rene shares her best tips for protecting your skin and having healthy skin through the wintertime especially when most of our skin gets really dried out. I don't know about you, but for me, my skin gets super dry in the wintertime. I get dry, scaly, alligator looking skin.    I've been using Pure and Coco product sugar scrub and moisturizer and I've got to say my skin is loving it! I have never had such moisturized, glowing amazing skin in the wintertime. Total game changer.  I highly encourage you to check out pureandcoco.com. And then enjoy this interview and learn a lot about protecting your skin in the wintertime and keeping your skin and your body healthy all year long.   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Healthy Holidays Masterclass! Did you know that the average American gains 8 pounds over the holidays?  If you're worried about weight gain over the holidays, stress eating, or overeating, this masterclass is for you! You're going to learn my best strategies for overcoming emotional and stress eating, how to deal with the overwhelm of the holidays without food.  We'll talk about how your body work. How does stress during the holidays affect your body? How does food choice affect your cravings during the holidays, we are touching on it all.  You're going to leave that masterclass with tons of skills and tools that you can use simple strategies and actionable steps that you can put into place right away,  and create your plan for Handling the Holidays and staying on track!   Learn More & Register!   Important Links: If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   Pure & Coco Moisturizing Exfoliators + Face & Body Cremes because they were designed to work together to give women fast and long-term results for dry, eczema & maturing skin types.  Check out Pure & Coco!   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Full Transcript:  ​https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/71

Don't make this bigger than it is . . .   In ANY journey there's ups and downs, leaps forward and setbacks.  Why would we think a journey to overcome emotional/binge eating overeating would be any different?  Messing up is totally normal and you should EXPECT it to happen! The real problem is that when we "mess up" we go down the shame and guilt spiral, we decide it's never going to change, we'll always struggle, nothing will ever work, I'm a horrible person, etc. etc.  We get stuck in the "failure" and can't move forward from it.     The trick to overcoming setbacks is to learn the lesson and move on as fast as possible! Your binge or overeat was just one tiny blip on the entire timeline of your life and the entire personhood of you and the entire journey that you're on. It's just one thing one time. We need to stop making it so big, stop making it mean so much. Stop allowing it to define who you are, or what you're capable of it does none of those things, all of those things are lies. Stop believing in those lies and stop repeating those lies in your own brain.    What if you could see your binge or overeat experience as an opportunity to learn about yourself? What if you saw it as an opportunity to give yourself some more grace and some more compassion and really understand what it is that you truly need right now? What if you saw this an an opportunity to train your brain to stop being so habitual all the time and make more conscious choices? If you can start to see an event like a binge or overeat as practice to get better, I promise you, you're gonna move forward so much faster. Friend, you can do this. I'll help.   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Healthy Holidays Masterclass!   Did you know that the average American gains 8 pounds over the holidays?  If you're worried about weight gain over the holidays, stress eating, or overeating, this masterclass is for you! You're going to learn my best strategies for overcoming emotional and stress eating, how to deal with the overwhelm of the holidays without food.  We'll talk about how your body work. How does stress during the holidays affect your body? How does food choice affect your cravings during the holidays, we are touching on it all.  You're going to leave that masterclass with tons of skills and tools that you can use simple strategies and actionable steps that you can put into place right away,  and create your plan for Handling the Holidays and staying on track!   Learn More & Register!   Important Links: If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Full Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/70

You CAN Handle the Holidays!   Did you know the average American gains 8 lbs over the holidays?  The "holidays" are only 2 months!  And the vast majority don't lose it.  This does NOT have to be you!   The holiday season seems to take all our normal stressors and amplify them.  All the difficult emotions and situations that we emotionally eat because of now, seem bigger during this holiday season.  Finances, relationships, loss, our weight, our health, and add to that all the expectations we put on ourselves and that others put on us!  Then put an ever-ready supply of "not so healthy" food choices at our fingertips and it's no wonder we turn to eating.  The insidious thing about emotional eating, stress eating and overeating is that we usually don't even realize we're doing it  until we're ALREADY doing it!   In the link below you'll see that I've made a Healthy Holidays Masterclass for you this year.  Your guide to handling the holidays successfully WITHOUT the extra eating and extra stress.  I took some of the tips from that guide and shared them in this episode. Some are very practical - like tips for how to not overeat at events, and some are more mindset based - like how to handle Uncle Joe and his rude comments.     The biggest takeaway from this episode is that YOU have the power to decide how you want to feel. ALWAYS.  You have to decide ahead of time how you want the holiday season to go, how you want to feel each day, at each event, after each event, with each person, about each situation.  My goal for you is that you've learned to handle yourself during the holidays SO WELL that come January 1st the thought of going on some crazy New Years Resolution diet will be laughable to you!   XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Healthy Holidays Masterclass! Did you know that the average American gains 8 pounds over the holidays?  If you're worried about weight gain over the holidays, stress eating, or overeating, this masterclass is for you! You're going to learn my best strategies for overcoming emotional and stress eating, how to deal with the overwhelm of the holidays without food.  We'll talk about how your body work. How does stress during the holidays affect your body? How does food choice affect your cravings during the holidays, we are touching on it all.  You're going to leave that masterclass with tons of skills and tools that you can use simple strategies and actionable steps that you can put into place right away,  and create your plan for Handling the Holidays and staying on track!   Learn More & Register!   Important Links: If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/69

It's NOT about your weight   We talk a lot in this podcast about HEALTH being your goal instead of just weight loss being your goal.  I am firmly in the camp that if you focus on increasing your health, weight loss will be a great side effect of that if your body needs to lose weight. ONLY focusing on losing weight all the time does not necessarily make you healthy.   I could point to a lot of people who look very thin on the outside but inside are not very healthy. I could also point to a lot of women who would, by a BMI chart, be considered overweight but are SUPER healthy athletes.  So what does it really mean to be healthy?   In my opinion whether or not you are healthy has 2 components: your experience of your body as healthy, and the hard numbers.  How you experience your body, how you feel on a daily basis, how your body is able to perform in the ways that you want it to; that's all your subjective experience of your own health. And that is different for all of us.  Then there's the numbers: things like your blood pressure, fasted insulin, and inflammation markers. Those are numbers that are more universal for what's considered healthy or not.  They are super useful markers for us to measure our health against, and they are way more useful at giving us a picture of what's going on inside our bodies that just looking at our weight.     The cool thing about these 7 markers of health is that if you focus on trying to improve one, you'll improve all of them AND your weight as well! What I REALLY want is to set you free from being obsessed and fixated on weight.  We've been so conditioned all our lives that we need to be a certain weight but your weight is just one of TONS of health markers and it's not super useful at telling us what's really going on inside.  You'll be so much more empowered, encouraged, and motivated if you focus on these seven factors instead of just your weight.       XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Healthy Holidays Masterclass!   Did you know that the average American gains 8 pounds over the holidays?  If you're worried about weight gain over the holidays, stress eating, or overeating, this masterclass is for you! You're going to learn my best strategies for overcoming emotional and stress eating, how to deal with the overwhelm of the holidays without food.  We'll talk about how your body work. How does stress during the holidays affect your body? How does food choice affect your cravings during the holidays, we are touching on it all.  You're going to leave that masterclass with tons of skills and tools that you can use simple strategies and actionable steps that you can put into place right away,  and create your plan for Handling the Holidays and staying on track!   Learn More & Register!   Important Links: If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/68

Stop letting your situation define you   We've all got problems, big and small.  But all too often we let those problems define us.  We decide what we are or are not capable of, based on those problems.  Our identity gets wrapped up in it and we get stuck there.     Your problem could be a situation, an illness, a trauma, a relationship, a difficulty of any kind.  For many years after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder I let that disorder define me.  I saw myself as broken.  I BECAME my problem.  I allowed that disorder to define who I was, and define what I was capable of in my life.  I decided that because of this problem my options were limited and my path was narrowed.  Have you ever done this before? Are you doing it right now?   Sometimes our problems can see overwhelming. It feels like the problem will ALWAYS be present like a heavy weight on our shoulders, always there, always affecting us, like we'll always be stuck in the problem.    But the truth is, staying stuck is a choice.  Overcoming is another choice.  In this episode I'm going to share the 3 steps I took to get unstuck and overcome the grip that my problem had over me.  Friend, you ARE powerful, you ALWAYS have a choice, and I'm going to give you the tools make the change you want.    XOXO Tara   PS. If anything in this episode resonated with you, then share the LOVE! Head to iTunes and subscribe and leave a written review or post a screenshot of this episode in your stories and tag me @tarafaulmann    Important Links: If you struggle with yo-yo dieting, emotional eating or creating lasting weight loss and health, then check out the Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Program and Membership so you can ditch the diets and finally make peace with food.   👉 Ask me! Go ahead and ask! I'd love to answer your burning questions on the podcast! I guarantee, if you're wondering something, you're not the only one.  Click to Ask Tara and leave me a short question . . . and then listen for your question to be answered on an upcoming episode!    Subscribe and Review:   I'm honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey by showing up each week with inspiring, educational, and actionable content that I hope is truly helpful for you! I hope the No Nonsense Wellness Podcast blesses you each week. One of the best ways you can bless me in return is by subscribing and leaving a review!  Doing that will help others find the podcast, and show them the value and support that's provided here.  CLICK HERE to subscribe & review!   Share the Wellness!      Show Notes & Full Transcript:  https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/67