Paul & Orlaith

In this episode we give a follow on from our negative psychological effects of dieting episode . We give our top 9 tips for overcoming a diet mentality and how to work on your mindset towards dieting

In this episode we talk about why constantly striving to be in diet and fat loss can massively negatively impact your mentality and results long term. We chat about how dieting can negatively effect your confidence and how to create good habits around it instead. We chat about the outside-in approach so many people take that negatively impacts them. We speak about how to recognise your own triggers and weaknesses and how to work around that. Finally we talk about emotional eating, where it stems from and how to get yourself into a positive feedback loop to begin to lose this habit.

Orlaith interviews Megan Bruneau , a psychotherapist and wellness coach  based in New York who specialises in helping people change their relationships to themselves. Her work has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post and more. She chats about how to recognise and make attempts to overcome  anxiety , disordered eating and perfectionism .  

In this episode we chat about our top 8 tips that will help you grow any weak body part. From our own experience  in the trenches with 1:! clients these are what we see as often the most overlooked aspect of training and nutrition .

In this off the cuff episode we talk about a debate we were having and decided to record mid conversation. We talk about how it has become the done thing to blame social media and wear anxiety and depression as badge of honour to gain more followers. We ask questions like why do we let social media influence us in such negative way? and what can we do about it ?  

In this episode Paul talks about how we seemed to have blurred the lines between mastery and obsessions. As fitness enthusiasts who just want to look better, have we mastered our relationship with food and training , or are we merely obsessed and creating havoc in our lives ?

A solo session here for Oralith who speaks passionately about power and empowerment and the differences between them in our fitness journeys. This episode focuses on how we are sold ideas of strength and beauty but how ultimately real power is hidden within us . Orlaith talks about how ‘taking control’ of yourself by following a plan can ultimately take your own power away. The power to eat without guilt , train without the necessity and actually control your own cravings and hunger. She talks about ‘what is fitness doing to your life and for your life’ . Finally she chats about what the secondary gain is , you look better but what’s the trade off ? Anxiety around food , guilt , self critique , avoiding social situations. A lot of great information here inspired by Krista Scott Dixon from https://stumptuous.com/ and Scott Able from https://scottabelfitness.com/ .

In this episode we start with talking about how to  identify if you are under eating and causing havoc to your metabolism . Orlaith mentions some key pointers like binging & craving , constant fatigue and always having food  on your mind . Paul chats about how to start to combat under eating both through diet and mindset .  Both are of equal importance for us . One of the golden lines here for us is that no matter the outcome you want you cannot hate the process ,so it is important to educate yourself and become self aware on your eating habits and downfalls .

In this episode we talk about how fitness is  about finding out what works for you from the inside out , not the outside in . We focus on how to actually determine what your goals are and how to achieve them . We chat about the difference between goals - fat loss - general health and well being - training to enhance your mood - bulking up etc. We chat about why nutrition specificity ,training specificity and mindset specificity goals are the most important. We delve into chatting about why habits should be formed before specific goals . Finally  we mention why most people never achieve their goals.    

We chat about 10 questions to determine if you have food issues , an interesting topic inspired by Coach Scott Able . We delve into 10 questions that will help you determine if you have a food issue , how it is manifesting for you and how you can become more aware of how to overcome it . We believe it's about searching within yourself and auditing what kind of person you are and how you want to live the rest of your life free of a fear of food .   

In this episode we focus on real world fat loss . Stripping back the gimmicks and marketing that's always thrown at the consumer . We talk and the physiological and psychological elements of fat loss and how to create a long term stable environment for it to occur .