FitChic for Life

When I'm in the body I want, THEN I'll take better care of myself- I'll break away from macros, I'll stop forcing myself to eat and workout a certain way, and I'll start listneing to my body." That's the way most people relate to achieving the body they want: When everything is perfect, THEN I can relax and not try so hard. This way of thinking will NEVER work for women over 35. Which is why diets don't work. Tune into this episode to hear a different, more revolutionary approach to creating the body you want. "How different would your body look and feel if your body it had a faster metabolism because you committed to better self care? How different would your body look and feel if working out was something you genuinely looked forward to doingv everyday ? How different would your body look if you saw food as plentiful and something to enjoy instead of something to be afraid of and in fear of missing out if you don't have it now?" - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Complimentary Coaching Call: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Are you a woman over 30 that works out a lot but doesn't see the results she's been hoping for? If so, you're not alone. In fact, this is the case with most of my clients when they first come to me. And one thing is for sure: working harder in the gym or being more controlling with your food will NOT help. In this episode, Natalie dives into why so many women struggle to see results from all their effort around exercise and food, and exactly what to do about it. "If you want to lose weight, you have to stop following diet plans and workout plans. You have to take a completely new approach from what you've done in the past. Working harder will not work." - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Complimentary Coaching Call: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Do you find yourself reaching for food when you're stressed? Or bored? Do you keep thinking that the food is the issue? Do you keep thinking you just need to not eat until 12pm? Or not bring certain foods into the house if you want to lose weight? As a result of restricting food, do you keep finding yourself in a perpetual cycle of depriving and overindulging? Well, here's the thing... FOOD IS NOT THE ISSUE. In this episode, Natalie breaks down what the real problem is and how to fix it. If stress eating, boredom eating, mindless eating has been a struggle for you, you're gonna want to tune into this one. "So every time we feel a litlte be anxious or low, our body's like "oh, we remember that chocolate makes us feel good! Remember the chocolate!" So we get the chocolate and it soothes us right away, but only for a short period of time." - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Complimentary Coaching Call: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Do you feel the need to constantly go-go-go? Always doing things 24/7? If so, there's a reason for this. And it's not because of your schedule, or your kids or your responsibilities. In this episode, Natalie shares some key concepts that will allow you to be productive AND enjoy life more, and not feel the need to constantly be efforting your way through your day. "So sometimes there's some shame around being joyful or playful or relaxing. There's some shame around being seen as enjoying yourself. It's like the shame of allowing yourself pleasure, the shame of allowing yourself to be happy. And it's like seeing almost as a judgment of, "well, if I'm happy and that person sees me resting or sees me as happy, then that means that I am indulging or I'm being lazy or I'm not working hard enough." - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Complimentary Coaching Call: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Ever wondered why it's so hard for you to stick to a plan longer than a couple weeks? You set a goal of the body you want. You get really excited about it. You say "this is gonna be the one". You start the plan, but when the passion and excitement wears off, you fall back into your daily food and exercise habits. You think you just don't have the discipline or the willpower, or the right plan, or mabe you think there's something wrong with your body... none of that is true. You have it all. Your body is perfect. Even the plan is perfect. The problem lies in the reason you're doing the plan. Most people are following a plan to lose weight. And that's the mistake. If the reason why you're working out and eating healthy is to lose weight or not gain weight, you've failed before you even started. Tune into this episode to finally get answers on why nothing works and exactly what to do about it. "If your goal is to lose weight or keep yourself from gaining weight, you've failed before you even started because you're driving from a place of fear and lack. Dieting won't work because you're constantly running away from your current body or gaining weight... youll be scared of food, scared to take a day off to rest, scared to not get a walk in... and all this fear will cause so much tension and resistance and stress inside you that number one, youre gonna feel shitty all the time and number 2, your body won't have the ABILITY to lose weight because of all the strses that's in the way." - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Complimentary Coaching Call: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Do you trust yourself? Do you trust yourself enough to have chocolate in the house ? Do you trust yourself enough to rest when your body needs it ? Do you trust yourself enough to say no to things you don't want to do? A big topic that comes up when we talk about creating vitality in the body is learning how to trust ourselves again- how to trust our hunger, our cravings, and our need for rest. Most people don't trust their body to tell them what the right decision is around food, movement, and rest. Which is why people go to coaches, to tell them what to do. Learning from a coach or a plan can be good in the beginning to get guidance. But once you have this knowledge, then it's time to take off the training wheels and learn how to trust your own intuition, your own wisdom, your own body. Tune in to learn how Natalie has built her up her own trust within herself and how she teaches her clients to trust their bodies again. "When we finally give ourselves free reign, we go and eat everything. We need to all the chocolate, all the sweets, all the fun foods , and then we go 'I can't trust myself' but it's actually some energy imbalance going on that's causing this back swing of 'now I need to eat back that energy.'" - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Have you ever wondered why you lose control with food? Or why you have that day where you feel like you've been ran over by a truck? In this episode, Natalie shares why that happens and why being super disciplined with your food and training may not be as helpful as the dieting world makes it out to be. We try to control our food, our training, our daily schedule and forcing ourselves to stick to the plan. And it's this need to control that always leads us to swinging out of control, and then losing trust in ourselves. An important part to making fitness a lifestyle is learning how to free yourself from this need to control. Tune in to learn how Natalie teaches herself and her clients how to let go of control. "Forcing ourselves to follow the plan may make us feel safe, but is it really creating the life you want? Are you expeirencing food freedom? Are you experiencing life fully? Are you feeling full of life? Or are you becoming more obsessive, burnt out and overhelmed?" - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

It's so easy to get caught up in thinking that "when I have the body I want, THEN I'll be happy." But it doesn't work like that. You may experience short-term gratification when you achieve the body you want, but it's only a matter of time until you feel empty inside again. And the truth is, needing a particular body to feel happy is often the very thing that keeps women from achieving the body they're after because it creates attachment. Attachment to the body creates worry and fear of losing the body (obsessing over food, calories, step count, scale weight). Living in this constant worry and fear will create a body that doesn't burn fat well, will lead you to eat more, and make the gym feel like a chore. Attachment to a particular body will create a life of worry and fear instead of the peace and happiness that we're all after. There is a way to create both fitness and happiness though! Tune in to this episode to hear how. "So yes, we can strive for a vision of the body we want . But do not look expect it to create the absolute fulfillment. Because it will never satisfy." - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

The way to feel more passion for life or peace in your life is to feel it. Emotions can be trained just like muscles. The more we feel peace in our lives, the stronger it gets. So the way we train happiness is to feel it. In fact, happiness is our natural state. However, most people are not aware of how they are so quick to give up their happiness. They allow the smallest things to shake them and cause them to not feel great- from an email that comes in, or how their clothes fit, or if somebody walks on their floor with dirty shoes. In this episode, Natalie shares practical approach on how to train happiness so that you can feel great more of the time. "No matter how good life is, no matter no matter what body we have, now how much money we have, no matter how many people we have that love and care about us... all those things immediately don't matter when we're stuck in painful emotions of sadness, or fear, or anger. Like what matters is alleviating that pain." - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Intuition is the key to being fit while having freedom in your life- freedom from all the diet rules and diet structures that so many women get stuck in. But so many women have lost their abilty to feel because they've been so conditioned by society to trust 'the plan' instead of themselves. This dependency on macros, meal plans, dieting apps, and diet coaches is the reason why women struggle to create the body and life they want - especially as they get older. In this episode, Natalie shares why intuition is so important when it comes to creating the body you want and how feeling good is the key to looking good. "Our attachement to diet rules and diet structures just ends up making us feel really, really shitty because we end up forcing ourselves to follow the plan instead of our feelings." - Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Have you ever thought about why you hate your body so much? Why it's so hard to love your body? And have you ever considered what impact those repetitive thoughts of self-hate and disgust are having on your body and your relationship with food? In this epsode, Natalie talks deeper on the where our body image patterns come from, why it's so hard to love yourself, and the energetic role that self-hate is playing on your physical appearance and your relationship with food. If you're hating your body, your body will respond to that hate. You will look worse, you will feel worse, and you will hate yourself more. Creating a fit and happy body is about learning how to put retrain the way you think and feel about your body by putting more love in. "So it's knowing that if I'm always thinking about how much I hate my legs, the cells actually start to change. They become stagnant. And you will get more cellulite." Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

In Part 2 of this episode, Natalie discusses the (hidden) secrets to why women are not losing weight despite eating well and working out. Expect a more practical training as she takes you through actual drills as if you're a client of her own. She refers to it as inner training. Inside, she'll help you become aware of your thoughts that are driving your undesirable behaviors around food, the gym, and self care. You'll see how these tapes that your mind is playing is what's keeping you from creating the body you want, the food habits you want, the gym habits you want, the self care habits you want, and the body you want. Tune in now so you can start to take your power back and create the habits you need to be fit and happy. Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

In this episode, Natalie gets real clear on how your body is a mirror of the thoughts that you're allowing your mind to think. Creating a fit body with peak health and vitality is an inner game, not an outer game like we're conditioned to believe. You hear it everywhere- our thoughts are power, our thoughts create. So why aren't you training your mind in a way that will create the body you want? Or the food habits you want? Or the gym habits you want? Have you ever considered why you do the things you do? Why is it so hard for you to eat without weighing and counting? Why is it so hard for you to motivate yourself to workout? Why is it so hard for you to rest? Natalie shares her insight and her experience as to how your thoughts are the real problem- not the food, your discipline, or your busy schedule. Be sure to check out Part 2 after listening to this episode! Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Welcome to another episode of Fit Chic for Life! Today, Natalie talks with Val Voboril. Val is a CrossFit Games athlete who is able to balance it all: fitness, work, family, and fun. She explains more about her life and routine and how her goals have evolved: fitness for her used to feel like super hard work and almost like a “chore”, today Val handles the gym with much more grace and fun. She also talks about important aspects that make fitness happen for her: not obsessing over food and maintaining a healthy but very enjoyable diet, respecting her body and knowing when it’s time to level up and when it’s time to let go, being smart with her training sessions even when she doesn’t feel like training at all, and trying not to compare herself with other professionals. Tune in! “We only have 100% to give. So if you are trying to give 100% to three different areas, it’s just not possible.” – Val Voboril Connect with Val! Instagram: @valvoboril Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

When we are trying to adopt new habits and create new actions that will help us achieve our goals, the first thing we try to do is DO the thing. Overnight and all of a sudden, we try to eat healthier, not obsess about our bodies anymore, start reading, start drinking more water, or whatever it is we want to start doing. It just doesn’t work that way: we first need to recognize what prevented us to change in the first place. In this new episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie dives deep into what we can do to identify these ‘limiting beliefs’ and ‘attachments’ and how to effectively break them. By getting rid of these patterns, it’s going to be easier to become a new and more aligned version of yourself, and the goals will be easily met as well. Tune in! “If we continue to do what we have always done, we will get what we have always gotten. Nothing will change. So we must be willing to fundamentally allow everything that we know to change, and that is scary.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Diet culture has so many of us feeling like we have a complicated relationship with food. So many people have been dealing with eating disorders for many years, and they got to a point where ‘struggling’ and ‘suffering’ have became their identity. This mentality makes it hard to change, which makes you stay in the same place, which turns into a cycle. In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie welcomes Molly Carmel. Molly is a food addiction therapist and author of ‘Breaking Up with Sugar’. She has been devoting her time to helping people to break up their disruptive relationships with food. Having gone through eating disorders herself, Molly shares in this episode the ‘guidelines’ and the necessary self-development work that one has to do to get free from vicious patterns with food. “If you have been harming yourself with food or with an unhealthy relationship with food for a really long time, it might mean that it takes, not a really long time, but some time to come out of that.” – Molly Carmel Connect with Molly! Instagram: @mollycarmel Join Molly’s Breaking Up with Sugar course here: mollycarmel.com/buws and use code Nat20 for a discount! Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie connects with Emily Abbott. Emily has an incredible background with CrossFit and has a lot of knowledge about nutrition, mindset, and how to stay fit with freedom and balance. Being an athlete doesn’t always mean you need to be extremely strict with diet and exercise. Emily is living proof that you can achieve your goals without sacrificing everything. Emily also shares how she has been reconnecting with her feminine side recently. Ever since she has rediscovered this other side of her, she has been feeling more at ease: enjoying her free time, relaxing in the moment, grounding herself more frequently, and learning everything she can about her mind and body. Emily runs several retreats for other women looking to do the same. Tune in to learn more! “Anything you go through, it’s all unfolding as it should. Stay the course.” – Emily Abbott Connect with Emily! Instagram: @emily.ann.abbott Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

Welcome to another episode of FitChic for Life. Today, Natalie shares special tips and strategies to achieve your fitness goals from a place of intuition, instead of an obsession. It’s really common for people who want to take better care of their health to get caught up with tracking calories, tracking steps, and obsessing over exercise. But, it doesn’t need to be that way. In fact, it can lead to anxiety and feelings of overwhelm. “Surrender” is the keyword to be able to do this, and Natalie explains that is not happening overnight and it’s not going to be easy. The body and the mind are too used to following all the rules. Wouldn’t it be better to pursue your goals with ease and only because it feels good? Sit with yourself, ask yourself this question, and try to visualize your goals from a different perspective! “To get to that place where we want to be, we’re going to have to let go of that attachment, to that false sense of safety. And when we do that, it’s going to feel scary, and wrong, and uncomfortable because our impulse is going to call us to want to follow the diet plan, the gym plan, or whatever used to work for us.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie shares with the listeners the greatest exercises to do when it comes to belly fat burn. We all know – and Natalie shares this a lot on this podcast – that some factors like stress and sleep quality, impact fat loss. However, we can’t forget about the exercise portion of it. Especially for women over 35: the activities that once worked, don’t work anymore but that can be reversed. Natalie also dives deep into two very important topics: 1) Working harder doesn’t mean working smarter and the “go go go” mentality can be stressful and delay your results. 2) Stress and food can get you in a lopping state that is hard to get out from. When we feel stressed, we seek out food and when we binge on food, we get into a stressed state. Tune in to learn more! “Stress is the thing that is blocking women from seeing results in the gym or seeing results from their diet, so you can be eating well and working out perfectly but none of that will work if the body is stressed out, whether it be physically or mentally.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie shares the best tips and strategies – as well as a very thorough explanation behind them – on how to get rid of belly fat. Especially for women, the way we lose fat, lose weight, and change our bodies, transforms over time. The practices that once worked, sometimes don’t work anymore and that’s completely normal: the same way we age, our body ages as well. Natalie explains that despite being a crucial part of the weight loss journey, counting macros and focusing on calories might not be enough to get results. It’s also important to pay attention to a few other things: managing stress throughout the day, getting good nights of sleep, hydrating, and, most importantly, hormones. Hormonal imbalance is a huge component of this and Natalie debriefs this topic today. Tune in! “If you learn how to control your nervous system and you learn how to direct your mind, instead of letting your mind and your nervous system control you […] all of a sudden your body naturally starts to let go of the weight that is clinging to.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Coach Nat! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: natalienewhart.health