17: Cravings & Carbs with Aelie Swift

At 247 pounds, Steph tried every diet imaginable and only became more and more discouraged. None of these schemes taught her the skills she needed to improve her health, give her energy to thrive, and manage her weight. But with the FASTer Way, she learned how to shed the fat sensibly through carb cycling. She embraced resistance training to build muscles to stimulate and maintain fat loss. With these tools and the motivation and accountability from her coach, she now has the strength and endurance to manage a hectic lifestyle.

Special Bonus Episode!
As host of a health and wellness podcast, I'm sometimes asked to share my story with another podcaster's audience. Anthony Amen, the host of Health & Fitness Redefined, asked me to share my FASTer Way to Fat Loss story. Here is our discussion.

Check out these FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
Beginner’s Guide to Counting Macros
Introductory Guide to Intermittent Fasting
What are MACROS and Why Do We Track Them? 

After struggling her whole life and trying numerous programs, Lexy experienced significant weight loss on the FASTer Way. She avoids fast food and cooks more at home now that she knows how to shop for healthy supplies and prepare tasty recipes. She now is a certified FASTer Way coach and wants to be an inspiration for those who, like her, struggled for so long.

Check out these FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
Beginner’s Guide to Counting Macros
Introductory Guide to Intermittent Fasting
What are MACROS and Why Do We Track Them? 

Long-time FASTer Way client and ice cream lover, Karen Gombault, lives in France. With access to quality food, she ate nutritiously. At age 46, she didn’t like how she looked or how she felt.  She thought she was doing all the right things, but something wasn’t working. The weight slowly crept on.

She found the FASTer Way and learned and implemented the strategies and adopted the sustainable lifestyle. She’s been following the program and trusting the process for over five years. Karen knows the steps she takes now will help her live a fuller life in the future and sees the FASTer Way as an investment in her health.

Check out these FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
Beginner’s Guide to Counting Macros
Introductory Guide to Intermittent Fasting
What are MACROS and Why Do We Track Them? 

Check out these FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
How to Lose Belly Fat FAST

Aelie Swift knows food. She is a chef and owns a catering business in Alberta, Calgary, Canada.  After years of eating what she wanted, it was no surprise that in her mid-30s she found herself overweight and decided to adopt a low-carb lifestyle. She did lose weight, but after years of restricting her carbohydrates, chronically undereating, and being committed to exercise, she was not getting the results she wanted. 
Aelie thought she was eating healthy and that she just needed help with workouts. Through the FASTer Way program, Aelie learned she was a chronic undereater and discovered her body needed proper nutrition.
Now 44 years old and in the best shape of her life, Aelie offers advice to those who join the FASTer Way starter program, She also discusses how to address cravings, the importance of eating the right carbs, and how happy she is eating more food than ever.

More FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
Beginner’s Guide to Counting Macros
Introductory Guide to Intermittent Fasting
What are MACROS and Why Do We Track Them? 

When it comes to exercise, the FASTer Way does it differently. To maximize results and optimize metabolism, we exercise strategically to pair with our nutrition. And to tell you how, in this Bonus! episode, I'm highlighting 10 things to love about the FASTer Way workouts. 

Check out these FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
Beginner’s Guide to Counting Macros
Introductory Guide to Intermittent Fasting
What are MACROS and Why Do We Track Them? 

Get your free introductory guide to intermittent fasting!

Susan Perdue was overweight her whole life and fought the ups and downs of the scale through three children, unimaginable stress, and even a heart attack.

When Susan showed me her before and now photos, I was shocked by the difference and overjoyed by her transformation. The drastic difference is not just in her physical size, but also in the lightness and joy in her expression, a look that says a huge burden had been lifted.

That’s because, in 2019, she discovered the FASTer Way to Fat Loss and recruited her husband, who is a surgeon, and her daughter, a diabetic, to join her in the Starter Program. All three experienced life-changing success. Susan overcame her numerous struggles by learning how to eat right and exercising to make her strong for the future. She, and her daughter, Meghan, embrace the FASTer Way lifestyle completely and so whole-heartedly that they became a mother-daughter coaching team and now guide clients together in the 6-week FASTer Way Starter Program.

Susan shares her success story with passion because she knows that she will follow the FASTer Way for the rest of her life. Her before and now photo shows more than just a reduction of weight; it also shows a lifting of spirit, and a joy, a pure joy, from being healthy and free.

If you’re ready to learn the strategies that lead to fat loss and better health, the FASTer Way to Fat Loss puts it all together in a 6-week online starter program. Go to FatLossSuccessStories.com and click on any FASTer Way link.

Mentioned in this episode:
If you would like to work directly with Susan and have her for your own FASTer Way coach, please use this link to register with her.

Check out these FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
Beginner’s Guide to Counting Macros
Introductory Guide to Intermittent Fasting
What are MACROS and Why Do We Track Them? 

Get your free introductory guide to intermittent fasting!

Mobility is the joy of moving freely and easily. Healthy muscles, bones and joints allow us to perform all types of movements. Regular exercise, meaning a planned, structured and repetitive form of physical activity like weight training, is an easy way to increase your mobility and prevent falls.

So, the story in this episode focuses on mobility, because, when it comes to mobility, it’s "use it or lose it". And the FASTer Way provides strategic exercises for all levels with mobility and strength in mind so you can keep moving.

Topping at 293 pounds, Sabina Montemayor underwent gastric bypass surgery and lost 100 pounds. But because of her lack of knowledge of good nutrition and proper exercise, she quickly gained back half of what she lost. She joined the FASTer Way and worked with certified coach Le Bergin to learn a new way of eating and to incorporate regular exercise. 

Now Sabina works out regularly and continues to eat the foods that are good for her…with the occasional margarita! And she is seeing a change in her body that’s beyond her size – it’s also improvement in her mobility and balance so she can enjoy her retirement – and new husband – for years to come.

Mentioned in this episode:
What the Health Documentary
The Doctor's Farmacy podcast with Dr. Mark Hyman

Check out these FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
Beginner’s Guide to Counting Macros
Introductory Guide to Intermittent Fasting
What are MACROS and Why Do We Track Them? 

Get your free introductory guide to intermittent fasting!

This episode is special because I'm sharing an interview I gave on Hot Flashes Cool Topics, a podcast hosted by two fun and brave friends from Tennessee.

Colleen and Bridget are changing the narrative about menopause and creating positive messages for women so we can enjoy this time of life and the freedom gained, not lost, from entering midlife. 

The "midlife middle" is one menopausal symptom gained we can all do without. Why can’t we control our bodies during menopause? We can if we are educated and proactive.

Through the FASTer Way to Fat Loss 6-week program, I learned about proper nutrition and efficient exercise that helped me lose that midlife middle and gain strength and energy.

The FASTer Way teaches you to listen to your body and respond proactively. It’s about learning what's best for your body and being able to make the right choices when it comes to food and exercise and rest. It puts you back in control of your body, and that’s powerful. 

Recently I was honored to be a guest on the podcast Hot Flashes Cool Topics to talk about the importance of nutrition and exercise during menopause. And this episode is a rebroadcast of that interview.

Mentioned in this episode:
Hot Flashes Cool Topics website, YouTube Channel, and podcast


Check out these FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
How to Lose Belly Fat FAST
Beginner’s Guide to Counting Macros
Introductory Guide to Intermittent Fasting
What are MACROS and Why Do We Track Them? 

--> Get your free introductory guide to intermittent fasting!

Amy Connell is 45 and married with two teenage boys living in Houston, TX. She been a personal trainer for 15 years and hosts the podcast Graced Heath. Through her podcast and blog, she fulfills her mission to encourage women to strive for balanced, sustainable health.

At the time of our interview, Amy was in the final week of the FASTer Way 6-week starter program. The Starter Program is like a nutrition and fitness boot camp. It’s how you learn the strategies that make the FASTer Way work and put them into practice with the guidance and one-on-one support of a certified coach. It’s how you learn the importance of non-scale victories and the FASTer Way mantra: progress over perfection. 

So why would a personal trainer like Amy want to join such a program? As she explains, she has adjusted her workouts to correspond with her age, but she wanted to know how to feed her changing and active body the nutrients it needs.

Amy is being proactive about her health and she’s found that the FASTer Way gives her what she’s looking for: a sustainable nutrition and fitness approach that offers the grace she needs to fulfill her health goals.

Amy’s links:

GracedHealth.com
Graced Health on Instagram
Graced Health on Facebook
Healthy Skoop - plant-based protein

Amy’s episodes with FWTFL certified coach, Kandice Harris:
Part 1 before the starter program
Part 2 review and experience after the starter program

Podcasts Amy recommends:
Everything Happens podcast
All About Fitness Podcast

Check out these FREE resources:
Fat Loss Quiz
How to Lose Belly Fat FAST
Beginner’s Guide to Counting Macros
Introductory Guide to Intermittent Fasting
What are MACROS and Why Do We Track Them?