Real Fit Pam Moore

Episode #60 // Eating disorder recovery, thriving in menopause, navigating perimenopause,  fueling for power and performance without restriction

CW: Eating disorder

If you have questions about perimenopause, menopause, or how you can eat what you want without adhering to any rules and still perform well as an athlete, do not go anywhere, this episode was MADE for you.

Today I have Selene Yeager, the host of the Hit Play Not Pause podcast, content manager at Feisty Menopause, and best-selling professional health and fitness writer, including the co-author of ROAR and Next Level with Dr. Stacy Sims.

She lives what she writes as an NASM-certified personal trainer, Pn1 certified nutrition coach, off-road racer, and former All-American Ironman triathlete.

In this interview Selene discusses her history with an eating disorder- and consider this a content warning, she gets into some graphic detail - and how she ultimately healed her relationship with food. She also talks about the evolution of her career as an athlete, how she’s come to embrace gravel biking and bikepacking, and how both her approach to training and her outlook have changed since going through menopause.

 Selene also shares some beautiful insights on how a perimenopausal mom and an adolescent daughter can not just survive but thrive while living in the same household- you’ll definitely want to listen all the way through to the end for that little gem.

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Website: https://www.feistymenopause.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fitchick3/
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Episode #59 // Covering the first principle of Intuitive Eating: Reject the Diet Mentality, part 3- the importance of curiosity

I'm back with a solo episode on intuitive eating, discussing the first principle: Reject the Diet Mentality. (Quick backstory if you're new here: Intuitive Eating is a practice Evelyn Tribole and Eileen Resch originally presented in the 90's in the book Intuitive Eating, is now in its 4th edition.)
This is actually the third in a three-part series on the first principle of Intuitive Eating (the first two as well as an episode where I go over all the basics of IE are linked below). 
Why am I devoting three entire episodes to one principle? Because this is a hard one! Rejecting the diet mentality means undoing all the brainwashing we've been exposed to since basically forever. That means unlearning all the implicit and explicit messages we've ever absorbed, from friends, family, teachers, coaches, media, ad copy, product descriptions, and healthcare providers, etc telling us that thinner is better, weight loss is healthy, and that food is attached to morality (and mortality for that matter). 
Honestly, 300 episodes wouldn't be enough to cover this one topic. But in this third (and final) episode on Reject the Diet Mentality, I give you three strategies to help you undo some of that programming. 
First, though, I share a story (the Great Broom Heist of 2007) for the dual purposes of (hopefully) making you laugh and demonstrating just how easily we can dupe ourselves into believing our own lies. 
Links
Episode 44: What is Intuitive Eating?Episode 47: Intuitive Eating Principle 1: Reject the Diet Mentality (Part 1)Real Fit Episode 54: IE Principle 1: Reject the Diet Mentality (Part 2)

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Episode #58 // Alison Rothman, Body-Centered Holistic Empowerment Coach and yoga practitioner // How can we use what's already inside of us to heal from trauma and cultivate resilience?

TW: trauma, gun violence, eating disorders, addiction

 I’m so excited to bring you a conversation with Body-Centered Holistic Empowerment Coach and yoga practitioner Alison Rothman.  Alison is a fellow Boulderite and podcaster- her show is called Embodied and Awake, and she’s also the mom of a teenage boy. 
Through healing from her her experiences with trauma, addiction, and an eating disorder (please consider this your trigger warning), she learned to reconnect with her true self and has since made it her mission to share the tools she used in her own healing journey to help others in her practice. 


In this episode, she shares her story and how, after decades of being disconnected from herself, a practice of embodiment led her back to herself and how that has literally saved her life and her sanity over and over again. She shares what it means to be embodied, why it matters, and how you can start becoming more embodied right now.


If you know me at all you know I am passionate about intuitive eating and one of the reasons why is that every time we restrict our food or deny our appetites we are essentially training ourselves to disconnect from our true selves. But our true self is where all our power is. It’s the home of our, emotions, our authentic voice and our intuition, and we NEED to honor it in order to live a life that’s aligned with our values and to fully express our gifts. 


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Episode #57 // Erin Ayala, cyclist and sports psychologist // How do the stories we tell ourselves impact our self-image, our performance, and even the enjoyment we derive from sport? And what if those stories aren’t serving us? How can we change them? 
Licensed sport psychologist, certified mental performance consultant, researcher, and elite cyclist Erin Ayala and I explore these questions and so much more in this week’s episode of Real Fit. 
Erin also shares the surprising comment from an ex that sparked her leap into endurance sports, her experience competing in triathlons in the Athena category, why she’s passionate about creating space for athletes of all sizes, how she’s rewritten her own body image story, and how self-compassion has served as the basis for all of it.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erineayala
Website: https://www.skadisportpsychology.com/

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#56 // Sara Gross, retired pro triathlete and founder of Feisty Media // Growing up, Sara Gross was one of the strongest, fastest, kids in her class. So she didn’t understand why she only saw women playing sports on TV once every four years, at the Olympics. Today, she’s a retired professional triathlete and the CEO and Founder of Feisty Media, a company she created in 2017 with the goal of creating an empowering culture for all active women. Feisty Media approaches change-making in a multi-disciplinary way, using four pillars of performance: Physiology, Nutrition, Mental Health and Culture.
After defending her PhD in Women’s History in 2008, Sara competed as a professional triathlete for 14 years and won two Ironman titles and two major championships.
Born in Canada, she went to high school in the United Arab Emirates, and has lived in Scotland, France, Switzerland, and the US. Sara currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia with her daughter Rosalee.

In addition to being the head Feisty Chief, Sara also hosts the Feisty Women’s Performance Podcast, and is an amateur CrossFitter.
In this interview we discuss…
How Sara became a pro triathleteWhat it took for her to win her first Ironman at age 38How inadequate nutrition impaired her performanceThe intersection of diet culture and sportWhy Sara is actually grateful for PMSHow she’s negotiating perimenopauseThe shift from endurance sports to CrossFitThe parallels between sport and entrepreneurshipCONNECT WITH SARA
Website: www.livefeisty.com // Instagram: instagram.com/feisty_media // Twitter: twitter.com/saragross
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#55// Kim Basler, group fitness instructor and food freedom & mindset coach// TW: Suicidal thoughts // How do you let go of restrictive dieting and a lifetime of people pleasing to ultimately embrace intuitive eating and start living a life that honors your true needs, desires, values? 
Food freedom & mindset coach, author, speaker, and award-winning fitness professional Kim Basler takes a deep, vulnerable, insight-filled dive into that question in this episode. Kim is a flipped her professional and personal life upside down when she admitted that dieting and perfectionism were destroying her mental and physical health. 
I suggest preparing to be inspired and having a tissue ready before you listen. Kim's honesty about some truly tough stuff is such a gift. 


We discuss...
Beginning to diet at a young age The pressure to "look fit" as a fitness professional Searching for validation through weight loss and professional success The breaking point where Kim knew her life was no longer sustainableManaging the uncomfortable feelings that came with weight gain as she became an intuitive eater The power of mirror work as part of the intuitive eating journeyWhat it looks like to respect your body What it feels like to separate your weight from your worth How to change your self-talk 

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Website: www.kimbasler.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kim.basler
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimbasler_foodfreedom/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kimbasler_foodfreedom
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rawandunscripted
Community: https://www.kimbasler.com/empowered-movement-community

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