The Kelly O Show

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Interview with Lindsey Smith, the author of "Eat Your Feelings: The Food Mood Girl's Guide to Transforming Your Emotional Eating". Today we talk about emotional eating and how to address it- and not in the way you'd think! 

Gina Aliotti is a multi-awarded professional bodybuilder and competitor and is the co-founder of Devotion Nutrition, a company that helps people stay devoted to their fitness lifestyle through high-quality food products and supplements. She is also a Certified Personal Trainer, CrossFit Instructor, Yoga Instructor, and a marathon runner. In between her work as a personal trainer and a business owner, Gina spends her free time with her husband and two children while practicing self-care.

Josh Henkin has more than 20 years of experience in the fitness industry. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Master RKC, and the founder of Ultimate Sandbag Training who promotes what he calls Dynamic Variable Resistance Training or DVRT. DVRT gives you the flexibility and versatility that fills the void in strength training. His main tool in fitness is the sandbag, which trains your body in ways conventional strength training can’t.

Brian and Carrie Grasso are the type of personal trainers who help clients obtain the right mindset to accomplish their goals. Brian has worked alongside professional athletes in the fitness industry for 20+ years and realized most of the work involved mental and emotional stability. Carrie quit being a personal trainer, finding out that it had a lot more to do with counselling than actual training. They are now accomplished mindset coaches and considered experts in their field.

In today’s episode, Whitney opens up about what it’s like to be a female bodybuilder and competitor, and her thoughts on her many critics and online haters. She also shares her story on what her life was like before she became who she is now, how her methods are different than most trainers, and tips for those who want to get fit and lean the safe way.

Dr. Izabella Wentz is a pharmacist with a passion for spreading awareness of lifestyle interventions as well as the root causes of thyroid diseases. She is the author of The New York Times bestselling books “Hashimoto’s Protocol” and “Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.” In today’s episode, Izabella tells us all about what Hashimoto’s disease is, the usual prescriptions that don’t really work, and the type of interventions she recommends to her patients.

Amanda Tress is a mother, a personal trainer, and a digital marketing consultant. She is passionate in helping her clients improve their level of fitness through safe and sustainable means. She has helped her clients not just lose weight and get stronger. One of her most powerful tools is her FASTer Way to Fat Loss program, a program that promotes a healthy and fit lifestyle through fasting and optimized nutrition.

EPISODE 102: What's the REAL DEAL with KETO anyway? Kate Jaramillo breaks it down.

Jessica Tunon, the founder of Netwalking, shares her story about how walking, just walking, helped her heal a herniated disc, and start a business in DC that helps hundreds of men and women each week get out and WALK-- improving their health and their business life simultaneously. 

Dr. Barry Sears is considered the founder of what we refer to as anti-inflammatory nutrition, a diet that is meant to control hormonal and inflammatory responses through specific food and recipes. He vcoined the “Zone Diet,” where the Zone is the state of the body where both inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses are balanced. He has authored more than 40 scientific publications and holds 14 U.S. Patents in the areas of hormonal regulation and intravenous drug delivery systems.

Emily Allen is a nutrition coach and owner of Health by Emily, a business that serves to help others lose weight in the healthiest way possible. Like some of her clients, Emily also had body image and health struggles - specifically, she was clinically obese. When she had health issues that doctors said correlated to her weight, she knew something had to change. Through her determination, and research, she was able to lose over 60 lbs of weight and has since been her own health advocate.

Heidi joins me today to discuss the concept of disordered eating and how it continues to physically and emotionally damage teens and adults alike. She explains the causes of eating disorders as well as why not everyone who has an issue with food has an eating disorder. She also describes how a person can shift from a negative outlook on food to a positive one, and why punishing yourself because of bad eating habits will only make things worse.

Chris Freytag is the founder of Get Healthy U, a business that caters to the fitness struggles of middle-aged women and older. She has over twenty years of experience in the fitness industry and has helped hundreds of women get their health back together past their prime. She is a certified personal trainer, health coach, and group fitness instructor as well as author of seven books and dozens of fitness DVDs. Her goal is to help women understand that fitness is accessible beyond forty.

In part 2 of our series, Jenny Mire explained the definition of emotional eating and its ramifications for our overall health. In this episode, Jenny focuses on the topic of self-sabotage. She defines self-sabotage and how it can negatively affect not just our physical health, but also our mental well-being. She shares her story, her struggles, and the many solutions she found that helped her overcome them.