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."   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 Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

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 Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

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 Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

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 Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

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 Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

90% of our thoughts are the same thoughts as the day prior. This data is impressive: if we have the same thoughts, we end up having the same behaviors, and the same actions, with the same results. This constant is what makes our life get into a routine. Although routines are very important in terms of organization and structure, how can we do some things differently and eventually bring more joy into our lives? In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie dives deep into this concept of ‘breaking routines, finding freedom, and enjoying life no matter what. When we think about our daily tasks, the work we need to do, the food we need to eat, the people we need to meet, or even the workout we need to get done, it's easy to think negatively about those things – we've done it over and over, right? At this moment, ask yourself the question: ‘How can I do this same thing in a more fun, refreshing, and joyful way?' “If we find ourselves stuck in that routine, that mundane existence of life, just getting through the day, going through the motion… to me that's death. That is a slow decline. That's when we are not going through life as though we are living it anymore” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart/workwithme Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

Self-sabotage is the feeling that comes to the surface when we don't ‘stick to the plan'. But it's important to analyze this feeling from a different angle: is there such a thing as self-sabotage? Surely, we don't avoid doing things that are good for us because we want to. We don't skip the gym, eat the chocolate, and skip meditation because we want to. There's a more powerful force behind these decisions: our mind. In this episode, Natalie dives deep into this concept, explaining that our mind sometimes plays trick on us and make us do things that – deep down – we don't want to be doing. Natalie explains that it's almost like a game of battling our minds and our emotions and forcing ourselves to ‘stick to the plan'. Self-sabotage then becomes an unreal idea, by practicing self-mastery we will start showing our minds who is the boss. Tune in! “Regardless of that goal that you have, in terms of motivating yourself to action, do you think it's going to be more supportive to be on the lower spectrum of those emotional states or on the higher spectrum of those emotional states?” – Natalie Newhart   Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie interviews Monk Shi Miao Hai at the Shaolin Temple. They talk about many important concepts to create a high level of consciousness in our lives. We achieve this level by being aware of our thoughts, actions, and behaviors. The more we spend time in our heads, worrying and thinking thoughts that will lead us to places we don't want to go, the harder it will be to change. Another aspect of the conversation is about ‘repeating patterns'. The idea that ‘nothing changes if you don't change' is very well spread nowadays and people don't have a hard time understanding the theory, but in practice the story is different. Monk Shi Miao Hai highlights how fundamental it is to stop reproducing old patterns because the first step to changing your reality is changing your personality. Tune in! “It seems to me that we stay in the same patterns over and over again and I want to see if there is a different quality of life that one can experience.” – Monk Shi Miao Hai   Episode Resources Follow Shaolin Temple Europe on Instagram: @shaolintempleeurope Learn more about Shaolin Temple Europe: www.shaolintemple.eu   Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie interviews Ema Rocket who is a student at Shaolin Temple. Ema talks about many concepts with a special focus on the importance of "just be". According to Ema, we all need to try a little more to just enjoy the moment and quit the mentality that everything has to have an end goal. Her own journey at the temple has no goal and she tells us she is just learning, observing, and being. With a background on movement, Ema also explains that a relaxation state helps with body function too. The secret to having a body with no pain is relaxing into the movement even if you move every day. This idea applies to someone who works out a lot, for example. In addition, Ema talks about nutrition and how good it is to eat food that makes us good – even foods that are not considered "healthy". “There is a fine line between trying to become the best you can become and judging yourself constantly.” – Ema Rocket   Episode Resources Contact Ema at journeyintooneself@gmail.com Follow Shaolin Temple Europe on Instagram: @shaolintempleeurope Learn more about Shaolin Temple Europe: www.shaolintemple.eu   Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie interviews Monk Shen Dojo. As a follow-up to the previous episode, they talk about enlightenment, the importance of staying present at the current moment, and how the mind tricks us into thinking about something else rather than what we are experiencing. Monk Shen also speaks about his background and the reasons that inspired him to become a monk. With a past in martial arts and fitness, Shen explains that life in a monastery has made him more focused on the important things and less stressed about life because now he has more structure – which sometimes can ease the body and the mind. According to Shen, the biggest lesson of this experience is seeing everything changing – he finally let go of control. Tune in! “Enlightenment for me is you always living in the present moment without judging it.” – Shen Dojo Episode Resources Follow Shen Dojo: @shen_dojo Follow Shaolin Temple Europe on Instagram: @shaolintempleeurope Learn more about Shaolin Temple Europe: www.shaolintemple.eu Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this special episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie interviews Shi Miao Qing who is a monk at the Shaolin Temple in Europe. In this conversation, Shi Miao speaks about the importance of balancing work and rest, observing the mind, and creating the practice of training the mind to help the body perform better. He also sheds some light on resting. Resting is a fundamental key to relaxing the mind and living a better life. In terms of training, Shi Miao explains that during a training routine when the body is burning and almost giving up, the mind can come into place and help the body to unblock its limitations and do more. You will also learn the concept of self-mastery (not listening to the mind and being a master over your thoughts). Shi Miao also speaks briefly about his past with anxiety and panic attacks and how he overcame them. “Don't fight the mind. If you fight the mind you're already locked in, and then you'll give up. Stay calm and step back.” – Shi Miao Qing Episode Resources Follow Shi Miao Qing: @dao_tea_qing Learn more about Shaolin Temple Europe: www.shaolintemple.eu Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie talks about the idea of putting ourselves on the top of our to-do lists. It's really easy to feel overwhelmed with several tasks and activities that we think need to be done by the end of the day. It's also easy not to know which one we should prioritize and taking care of ourselves can really be dragged down to the bottom of the list. Why don't we choose ourselves first? Natalie shares her morning routine and which tasks are non-negotiable for her to feel her best, have energy throughout the day, and be productive personally and with business. If you are feeling the need to take a breath, stop for a moment, and reenergize somehow, don't feel guilty about it. At the end of the day, we all have the ability to keep things functioning if we are functioning in the first place. Tune in! “Your self-care needs to reflect the demands that you're putting on your body.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie talks about how fundamental it is to be aware and pay attention to the way we talk to ourselves and to the words we use to think about things. Using the gym as an example, you might think about the workout as something draining, super hard, and a part of the day you just want to ‘get over with'. If you use these words when thinking about the workout, there's absolutely zero chance that it will actually be an enjoyable experience, right? We can apply this concept to many areas of life like work, relationships, house tasks… but the main focus here is health. Also, the way we think about diet on a daily basis can be improved with the right self-talk. We can view foods as a source of nourishment and wellness or as a source of stress and restriction. Approaching things with the right talk, the right descriptions, and the right mentality is key to living a stress-free lifestyle. “The person that is working out every single day and actually enjoying it, they have a particular way of thinking about the gym, thinking about the body, they have a particular conversation that's going on inside them. Likewise, the person that is compassionate with the people in their life and has really meaningful relationships, that person shows up a particular way… not just because that shows who they are, but because they've trained themselves – whether knowingly or unknowingly – to think a certain way.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie helps you train your mind to live in the present moment and stop worrying about future things. Focusing on what we're doing in this moment, enjoying whatever is happening right now, paying attention to the details of where we are, and actually being with the people that are with us are all things we can do to be fully present, and it gets easier with practice. Natalie also makes a parallel between the weather inside of us and the weather outside of us. Just like the stormy clouds and the grey sky cover the sun, the sadness, anxiety, and depression cover the true and bright feelings that exist in our core: happiness, gratitude, and joy. The majority of the time we feel these inferior feelings because a) we are worrying about what's coming next; b) we are not savoring the present, and c) we are not even aware of it. Let's practice awareness! “When the mind is still and we're connected to the present moment, there's going to be that sense of peace. There's going to be our natural state. Just like you go above the clouds, and the sun is always there.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode of FitChic for Life, you will listen to some techniques and mindset shifts you can implement today to get rid of attachments. When we are attached to something or to a certain ‘way' of how things should be done, we become enslaved to this thing or to this way. In terms of fitness, food, and health, these attachments can exist on a large scale and on a daily basis – which makes living life really hard. Besides the notion of attachments and how they can be the root of a lot of suffering, Natalie also sheds light on the difference between attachment and connection. While the former can make us tired and drained with so many ‘to dos', the latter is a healthier and easier type of bond. If you're finding yourself ‘having to' train super hard every day or track food every day, maybe it's time to go easy on yourself. “It's a good thing when it feels good and we have that freedom inside of it, but as soon as we feel it has to be done a certain way and it's creating more destruction, then it's leading to suffering.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie talks about the most important component that women need to take into account when aiming for fat loss. This one thing is the most crucial thing and people should be paying more attention to it, but no one is doing it. There's no doubt that a well balanced diet and a training routine play a major role on this process, but this specific thing makes all the difference. A well balanced diet, enriched with nutrients and micronutrients is fundamental for fat loss. As well as being active. But the #1 factor that prevents women over 35 – and is probably preventing you too if you're reading this – is not something people speak a lot about. In this episode, Natalie also explains the science behind the fact that weight loss gets harder with time and why the habits that made you lose fat in the past, might not be working today. Tune in to learn more!  “Whatever you're thinking, whatever your patterns are… if you're constantly in a state of worry, and anxiety, and overwhelm, that is putting the body in a stressed out state. You can feel it.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie highlights the importance of feeling “gratitude”. At all times and for no reason, the action of feeling gratitude for the big things and for the small things is a big component to take better care of our health. When we feel gratitude, we let go of feelings of stress, fear, and anxiety… and getting rid of these useless feelings is the first step to start changing our bodies. A fat loss journey involves several factors to actually work. Stress is one of the most important factors, especially for women over 35. If we let our minds and our hearts feel stressed all the time, there is no diet in the world that will work. Practice gratitude, start small, start today, look around, write 3 things that you're grateful for, and if done consistently, this practice will create unbelievable transformations. “Be grateful for who you can become and what you have yet to discover in this life.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

In this episode, Natalie gives you practical tips and different perspectives on how to have more self-control around food. It's really interesting that we need additional encouragement to have more self-control with food and the theoretical stuff doesn't always work, right? We are practical human beings who need practical solutions for the problems we are dealing with, and here you will find hands-on strategies.   Natalie highlights the importance of 3 different tools in order to create this sense of sufficiency and satiety when it's meal time. For some people, food has this kind of magical power to keep calling us – especially if we are struggling with problems in other areas of life. But, it's important to understand that food is not the answer, food is not a reward, and so we shouldn't praise it. It's a way to nourish and maintain our body functioning properly.   “The body doesn't know and doesn't have a good understanding of when it's hungry. So, we end up eating more frequently than we actually need because if the body is always stressed out what happens is these communications become really disrupted.” – Natalie Newhart   Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work with me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: fitaddictednutrition.com

Welcome to this week's episode of FitChic for Life. As a follow up to the previous episode, Natalie takes you through the possible answers of why you may have difficulties dealing with impulsive and emotional eating. The same disruptive feelings that we once felt connecting with something (or some type of food) can reappear if we find ourselves in the same situation. The only way to break this cycle is being aware of it, constantly.  Natalie explains that in order to break the cycle, you need to first use the technique of creating a vision and seeing yourself already changing, already experiencing acting differently, already feeling the feeling of doing it in a new way. This technique, used in the work Natalie does with her clients, if done consistently, can catalyze you to true change and can be implemented to assist you in many other areas. Tune in! “You are intentionally making these connections and before you know it, the mind, the unconscious mind will show up on your behalf so it doesn't feel like something you have to will yourself to do.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work With Me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

Welcome to this week's episode of FitChic for Life. In this first episode of a two-part series, Natalie dives deep into the possible explanations of why some people cannot fix impulsive and emotional eating and how this problem connects with memories and feelings from the past. This is a concept that is easily applied to all areas of life because we all at some point suffered some type of trauma that guides our current actions. Natalie gives you the tools and the foundation you need in order to start making changes. If you find yourself obsessing over your body, your training, your diet, and your self-image in general, this practice will give you much more consciousness of the reasons why you reproduce this obsessive behavior. Natalie helps you identify the emotion associated with the behavior and how to modify it. Stay tuned for part 2! “That's why the majority of the time we set out to get in great shape, or just create that body that we want, or eat better, or take better care of ourselves, many times we typically fail – because the ‘why' of doing it. The ‘why' of doing it is not in a place of strength.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart Work With Me: calendly.com/natalienewhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

The concept of lower mind reflects the need to experiment with situations that will bring temporary happiness and joy, but that eventually will fade away. The lower mind is conducted by the ego, by mundane desires, and by unhealthy attachments. The higher mind, on the other hand, knows that these wonderful feelings of happiness, joy, and inner peace can be felt separately from the small, constant obsessions. In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie dives deep into the idea that looking for happy feelings in temporary habits is not the answer to keep feeling happy. This empty pursuit is just not the answer to stop feeling unfulfilled, on the contrary, it just keeps pushing us into feeling more and more like this. Because guess what? The temporary excitement goes away and what stays is the sensation of “it was not enough”. “In that moment of offering yourself as your true nature of love and peace, there will be nothing that you actually need.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

Make no mistake: the little things that make our day are more than enough to give us a sense of gratitude. We don't need anything more than we already have in order to be happy. We don't need more money, more income, a better place to live, a better body, more clients, more status… If we keep looking for more and more we'll always feel like we have less and less. That is the first step to living an unfulfilled life. In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie talks about the great blessing that is life and the great blessing that is the fact that we are living this moment today, breathing this air today, and having the chance to experience the many attributions and benefits of life. When we stop waiting for ‘this' or ‘that' to happen in order to feel satisfied and joyful, we start appreciating the fact that everything is already here. Tune in!  “There is no body, no achievement, no accumulation that is going to lead to that sense of fulfillment, to that sense of happiness...” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

How good does it feel when I feel calm and at ease? That is one of the questions we should be asking ourselves constantly if we feel overwhelmed with our own expectations. Being obsessed about any topic, such as the gym, your job, food, your self-image, your relationships… it can be really draining and tiring. Wouldn't it be so much better to create a different result by dropping the obsessive behavior? In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie explains that you are just one action away from achieving your goals. The truth is you already know what you need to know in order to change. You already have all the information, all the tactics, all the strategy, and the details that will take you to the other side. The only thing missing is: momentum. Stop rationalizing, imagine yourself in the finishing line, and go for it.  “Knowing what to do to achieve the goal that you're looking for – whatever that goal is – is not the problem. Where people fall short from achieving their goals is getting themselves to do the things when they don't really feel like doing it.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

New studies have been showing that women and men should have different approaches when it comes to diet and exercise. The male physiology is much simpler and with fewer variables than the female physiology, and that affects many aspects of how an exercise program should be created and how a diet philosophy should be followed. This inconsistency plays a major role specifically on weight loss goals. In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie gives you a science-based explanation on the specificities of both male and female bodies, highlighting that over time what once worked for women in their 20s and 25s, simply doesn't work anymore in their 35s and 40s – which doesn't happen with men. Natalie also talks about the menstrual cycle factor and the huge impact that stress and stress symptoms cause for women. Tune in! “Men and women are different. They're different enough for women to want to take a female specific approach to fat loss, which entails a stress-focused and a stress-centered approach.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

On the process of creating something outstanding (new habits, new thought patterns, new actions, or an entire new version of you) one thing is definitely going to happen: you will be afraid. It's inevitable and understandable, but the good news is that fear is something that is totally under your control and when you accept these feelings of fear you start to embody the most fearless version of you. Listen to this episode of FitChic for Life as Natalie talks about the importance of accepting fear, the importance of being committed to our visions, and the importance of shifting our mindset when we face challenges in life. We can see things as tribulations or we can see things as an opportunity… an opportunity to do things differently, to act with more strength, and not to fail again. Tune in to learn more! “Whatever game you've played in the past, whatever self-destructive patterns that you keep finding yourself in… give yourself permission to play a bigger game.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

Listen to this episode of FitChic for Life as Natalie takes you through a powerful message on energy, alignment, and creating your chosen reality. We often think reality happens to us and we have no control over the circumstances, but it's important to believe that our mind and the energy we embody has a lot of strength and can do wonders. Energy is emotion and emotions are a result of our creations. In order to elevate our way of being and increase the emotional frequency we emanate to the world, we need to have a positive attitude towards our thinking, acting, and feeling. In addition to that, the mind has a way to transfer energy to tangible things, so our environment, the situations in our life, and the things we encounter along our journey are just consequences. What are you creating on a daily basis? “Emotion is the foundation of everything we create.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

In today's episode, Natalie has a special message for anyone struggling with taking action in order to create changes in life. Why not make 2022 a year different from the previous years? Why not take the first step to become the best version of you today? Why not put into practice now, the vision of your best life? Life happens as we are living it, and wasting one more minute is a guarantee of regret later. Natalie also talks about the importance of acting differently every time we have a chance to and not letting our trained inner pattern to take over our life and goals. If we continue to keep giving in to this inner program that works like a computer, we lose spontaneity, we lose opportunities, and we, unconsciously, keep waking up to live the same day. Give it a listen if you also need to transform your vision into daily action!  “Vision is that thing that inspires us, it ignites passion. When you create vision, it should be something that just by closing your eyes and imagining it, you get in touch with it and wakes you up inside.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

Give yourself permission to be brave and face change, for change is one of the things that most requires bravery and courage. It's very comfortable to keep being and existing exactly the way you are, with everything that comes with it. To keep complaining, getting frustrated, getting the same results, and facing the same struggles… but haven't you had enough? The only person capable of saying ‘I had enough' is you. In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie motivates you to step out of your comfort zone of being the same person, and instead of reacting to life, choose how you want to live. Choose a new way of showing up in life and have the awareness to ask yourself what new way of being aligns with the results you want to achieve, the feelings you want to experience, and the state in which you want to navigate through your journey. “A path of true growth is not always an easy path, is not always comfortable, and it doesn't always feel good.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

Weight loss is a dynamic process that is influenced by many variables. One of them is age. As we get older, our body and our metabolism change, and in order to keep functioning well, keeping track of our performance, and achieving certain goals we must understand and accept this new “phase”. It's a natural development of who we are and the only course of us humans… so, why not learn from it? In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie shares some important and valuable advice on fat loss for women over 35. Before getting frustrated with not seeing results anymore, it's important to accept the fact that with time, what once worked simply doesn't anymore, and it's ok. Natalie shares the 4 pillars to pay attention to in order to keep getting results even with more experience over your shoulders. Tune in! “I have so much respect and compassion for this type of women. Women that are over 35, doing everything right, and they're frustrated because nothing is working.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

One thing we should know about changing who we are is this: more important than to start acting and thinking as the new you, is to stop acting and thinking as the old you. Repetitive thoughts, rumination, self-doubt, and unhealthy patterns are so deep rooted in our personality that, at first, it might seem impossible to get rid of it all. That's why change occurs gradually, slowly, and with tiny daily adjustments. In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie continues to talk about what we should be doing to break the pattern of being who we are to start being who we want to become. It's inevitable to try to focus on new habits, new behaviors, and all of the things we want to start doing in order to become this new person, but today Natalie highlights the importance of leaving behind what no longer serves us. Tune in! “I'm no longer going to allow my mind to think about food and eat out of impulse.....what am I going to do instead?” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

Every second is a new opportunity to embody the person we choose to be. We don't need anything outside of our control to tell us when we can become who we want to be; it's our choice. And you can also make a choice to forget the past, to heal the wounds, to look ahead, and to be the future you, it's only a matter of starting. So take a moment, forget the excuses, commit to your inner strength, and start being. In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie takes you through an inspiring message on courage, compassion, love, and inner peace. Natalie shares that every moment of our day and every day of our life, is the perfect opportunity to embody love and to be grateful for everything that we have in our life, but don't always value. Your life is created in every moment and in every moment you can recreate it. Tune in! “Be compassionate for yourself in this moment. Perhaps this last year you had some goals that didn't come to be. It's okay. You did your best. It's okay that you're not perfect. It's part of being human. It's part of the human experience. It's part of growth. Yes we should strive for our best. But if we fall short it's okay. Have compassion for yourself. Don't beat yourself up. Have compassion.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

Do I accept who I am with no change or do I commit to change? Commitment is a one-way street because there is no way of turning back once you commit to something. If you really focus on your vision, if you really start pursuing the person you want to be, and if you commit to this fate by changing the feelings, thoughts, and actions that are holding you back, your future self will unfold much sooner than you thought it would. The fourth episode of FitChic for Life makes you think about commitment and accountability. Natalie invites you to audit your daily behavior and to analyze if your actions are matching with the actions of the person you want to become. If we choose to live every day the same way as the day before, we'll end up stuck to the past, ignorant to the present, and in the worst case scenario, hidden from the future. “So often we have this vision but we're not fully committed to it. What is commitment? This is what I see with people all the time, is they set this benchmark but they're not fully committed to it…. Commitment is where there is no other option…. that's how I define commitment.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @natalie.newhart YouTube: Natalie Newhart Website: FitAddictedNutrition.com

You asked for it, so today we are talking about it! You want to know, how do you motivate yourself to achieve your goals? You have a vision of how you want your life to look, the body you want, the relationships you want to have, but maybe you're struggling with consistency, or feeling anxious about your next meal or workout. Natalie is no stranger to this feeling, but over time, she grew incredibly tired of feeling this way, and knew there has to be more to life than living in a state of constant stress. In episode 3 of FitChic for Life, Natalie explains how she motivates herself towards her goals, and how you can do it too. This is an internal process, and not about jumping into a new workout or diet, but instead, reflecting within yourself, and creating a picture of what you want to start or stop doing. Natalie walks you through a practice of getting yourself relaxed and centered, envisioning the life you want for yourself, and feeling empowered to go after it. Quote: "There is no such thing as an extraordinary result that just happens where it just occurs very quickly. We really wanna look at, or think about what is the micro step that I need to take over and over and over again, that's going to compound, that's going to influence and create the outcome, the extraordinary outcome, that I'm looking to achieve.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @Natalie.Newhart YouTube Website

Do you find yourself struggling to reach your goals, stay consistent, and build the life you dream of? Natalie found herself in this spot years ago, and it was a very challenging and tumultuous place to be mentally and physically. She learned that in order to reach her goals, which she refers to as a “vision”, she had to train her mind to work for her. In episode 2 of Fitchic for Life, Natalie walks you through the steps of how you can do it too.  You will learn the significance of imagining your ideal life, and then begin taking steps that align with that vision. We can't be neutral here, all steps must lead to our vision, or we are only going backward. Natalie will take you through a reflection practice to get in touch with your vision as though it is real, and feel empowered to start on the path that will lead you to your ideal life, full of purpose and intention.   Quote: “I wanted peace of mind. I didn't want to be worrying about food all the time. I wanted to be present.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @Natalie.Newhart YouTube Website

Welcome to FitChic for Life with Natalie Newhart! In this opening episode, Natalie welcomes her friend Liza to ask Natalie questions about herself in a fun, and relaxed manner. The purpose of this episode is for you to get to know Natalie, and learn how she got started helping women to find peace with food and fitness. Through struggles, strict food restriction and obsession, eating disorders, and competitions, Natalie eventually realized that freedom exists when you can master your mind. If you're struggling with your body image, are tired of counting calories or macros, and are just so done with the stress of it all, Natalie shares how she used to be in the exact same place. Through learning the importance of making a huge mindset shift, Natalie was able to find peace with food and the gym, and now she teaches other women to do the same. Her specialty is helping women to realize that the stress in their lives is what is causing their weight loss to stall, and it is of utmost importance to address the stress in their lives.  Quote “If I could just leave everybody with one thing: It's getting clear about what you want. I thought I wanted to win, be fit, and be the best, but what I realized is that what I wanted was just to be happy.” – Natalie Newhart Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @Natalie.Newhart YouTube Website

Are you THAT girl?  That girl that's hitting the gym, eating well, and still not seeing changes in her body? That girl that's over 30 and confused on why the diets that used to work for you no longer work for you? That girl that has the discipline to work hard but struggles to rest and sit still? That girl whose lost her love for the gym? That girl that keeps falling off track because her motivation runs out? Well, if you answered yes to any of these, you're in the right place. At 28, I found myself in a constant cycle of worrying and obsessing over my next meal and my next workout. I lived in a constant fear of getting fat, so food and the gym ruled my mind and my life.  I was so tired of it all! Tired of counting macros. Tired of thinking about food. Tired of feeling like my workout was never “enough”. And mostly, I was tired of working my butt off, doing all the right things, and it not making a difference in how I looked that next day.  I wanted out of that dieting mindset, and I just wanted to be fit while having a peace of mind. But no matter where I looked, no diet and no coach seemed to have cracked that code... so I cracked it on my own.  In this podcast, you'll finally get the solutions to a balanced fit lifestyle that you've been looking for. A blend of science and mindset, I'm going to teach you how to MASTER your body by mastering your MIND.  Together we'll talk female-specific nutrition, fitness, mindset, relationships and all things life after 30. If you're done with being entertained with the common dieting advice, fed up with short term results, and tired of having an obsessive relationship with food and the gym… then let's get to work. You ready? Connect with Natalie! Instagram: @Natalie.Newhart YouTube Website