48. 5 Nutrition Lessons I've Learned After 30 Years of Coaching Women

Sep 4

After nearly 30 years of coaching women around fitness, nutrition and healthy habits, Joan has seen a LOT of nutrition trends come and go.

Fat-free. Low-carb. Counting calories. Counting points. Keto. Intermittent fasting. Detoxes. Even the cabbage soup diet.

And after trying many of them herself and coaching women through decades of changing nutrition advice, she’s learned that eating well doesn’t need to be nearly as complicated as we’ve made it.

In this episode, Joan looks back at how nutrition advice has changed over the past 30 years and shares the lessons that have most influenced the way she eats and coaches women today.

She talks about why so many of the approaches women have been taught around dieting and weight loss can make eating well harder than it needs to be, why midlife is a good time to rethink how we fuel and care for our bodies, and how simple strategies can make healthy eating much easier to maintain in real life.

Joan also gets personal about how her own relationship with food has evolved from dieting, restriction and focusing heavily on how her body looked to thinking much more about strength, energy, longevity and enjoying her life.

If you’re overwhelmed by conflicting nutrition advice or simply want healthy eating to feel easier, this episode will help you step away from all the noise and focus on what really matters.

If you’re tired of wondering whether you should fast, cut carbs, avoid certain foods or follow another set of nutrition rules, this episode will help you come back to the basics and build an approach to food that supports your health AND the life you want to live.

Joan also shares how these lessons became part of the foundation for Joan’s Kitchen, her monthly food prep membership for busy midlife women who want to make healthy eating simpler and more sustainable.

Doors to Joan’s Kitchen are open through August 31.

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