Smart Weight Loss Coaching | Nutrition, Mindset and Fitness Tips for Women Who Want To Level Up Their Health, Wellness and Longevity
Are you looking for a SMART and sustainable approach to weight loss? One that rejects restrictive diet plans, self-blame and punishing protocols? You’re in the right place! This show discusses how to lose weight by addressing nutrition, mindset and fitness.
Tune in for answers to questions like:
-How do I lose weight?
-What are the best foods for weight loss?
-What are the best exercises for weight loss and fitness?
-What’s the most successful medication for weight loss?
-Why am I not losing weight?
-How do I maintain weight loss?
-Is it possible to lose weight if I have Binge Eating Disorder?
-How can I live healthier longer and increase my healthspan?
-How do I create balance to increase my sense of wellness?
Your host, Lisa Oldson, MD is a board certified physician and a certified life & weight loss coach. She helps women reach and maintain their healthy weight by sharing the latest science and closing the door on unhelpful nutrition and fitness concepts. You will NEVER hear her utter the phrase, “Just eat less and move more.”
Most people know what they “should” do to lose weight, but there’s something that blocks us from our goals. Each week, Dr. Lisa delivers fresh insights and effective techniques for shedding pounds. By incorporating mindset work, behavioral change and medical science, Dr. Lisa shares the SMART way to achieve & maintain weight loss. SMART weight loss focuses on health, wellness, quality of life and longevity.
Learn more about working with Dr. Lisa at www.SmartWeightLossCoaching.com.
Episodes
101 episodes
100. Special Episode - Dr. Lisa Peels Back The Curtain On Her Personal Life
In today’s episode, Bridget Brennan interviews Lisa Oldson, not about health, longevity, or weight loss, but about her life. If you’ve listened to all 100 episodes of the Smart Weight Loss Coaching Podcast, you surely feel you know Dr. Lisa, bu...
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99. Flaxseeds, Chia Seeds and All The Seeds For Better Health, Weight Loss and Longevity
Do you feel like the only one intimidated by all the talk about seeds, omega 3 fatty acids, and antioxidants? It's not just you! Any food can seem unapproachable until you get familiar with it, which is why Dr. Lisa is doing a deep div...
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98. Four EASY Spring Cleaning Actions For Your Health & Weight (aka How To Spring Clean Your FOOD, Your BODY, Your BRAIN, and Your HOME!)
It's SPRING! If you're the kind of person who loves spring cleaning, or is at least WILLING to entertain a spring spruce up, Dr. Lisa has 4 EASY spring cleaning tips that will have an impact on your weight loss and your health. Whet...
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97. Don’t Let Life’s 4th Quarter Catch You By Surprise! Metabolic Health, Weight Loss, & Longevity Planning In Your 3rd Quarter Of Life
If you want to be one of those superagers, a person who is healthy and sharp as a tack later in life, then it's time to do some planning, followed by taking ACTION. Whether you're in your 2nd, 3rd, or 4th quarter of life, it's not too late to m...
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96. I Was Fat Shamed While Making Lunch Plans With A New Friend!
Why is it that people feel free to comment on other people's bodies and on what other people eat? Today, Dr. Lisa shares an experience being on the receiving end of an unflattering comment, and how reframing her thoughts about it reduced her st...
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15:39
95. There’s A Right Way (And A Wrong Way!) To Talk About Weight Loss For Better Health
Did your doctor ever blow it with you by bringing up your weight when you didn't want to talk about it? You're certainly not alone! Today, Dr. Lisa talks about the right way for health care providers to bring up weight, and the right way to gra...
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94. Top FIVE Ways To Eat Healthy On The Road, In A Vegetable Desert, When You’re Trying To Lose Weight
Today, Dr. Lisa walks through FIVE TIPS for eating healthy for weight loss (or for better health or maintenance of weight loss), whether you're traveling for work, or facing a long day in the office, followed by a long commute home. When you fi...
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93. How To Use Self Binding Techniques To Achieve Weight Loss & Better Health. (No, This Is Not An Episode About Corsets!)
In today's episode, Dr. Lisa shares her experience using a technique called self binding to help both her clients and herself. Whether it's physical self binding or chronological self binding, these two approaches can help you to create obstacl...
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13:42
92. Create Your Personal Protocol For Nutrition, Weight Loss And Better Health, Using Marshmallows For Inspiration
If you want to lose weight, play the long game and practice the skill of delaying gratification. If you're looking for the scale to give you a short term reward, you'll probably be disappointed. Weight loss happens over months, not days or week...
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15:55
91. How Much Water Is Enough For Weight Loss, Optimal Health, and Kidney Stone Prevention?
In today's data driven episode, Dr. Lisa explores the research on water intake. Is it true that there's a benefit to drinking 8 glasses of water every day? What about drinking 2 glasses before each meal? Does drinking more water help with weigh...
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14:03
90. Cut Your Risk Of Cancer (And Lose Weight) With New Research On Plants, Health, And Your Gut Microbiome
So many of the things we want to do for our health are HARD, but today's episode offers you an EASY approach to weight loss that also lowers your risk of cancer and diabetes. The best part? It's something you can do gradually. No need to flip a...
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14:07
89. The No Fail Approach to Weight Loss and Better Health (With Help From Thomas Edison!)
Dr. Lisa borrows heavily from Thomas Edison's playbook when working with the women in her Smart Weight Loss Coaching program. Today, she shares how lessons from the inventor of the light bulb can shed light on weight loss and better health!...
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15:17
88. Are “Gotcha Foods” Blocking Your Weight Loss And Putting Your Health At Risk?
Today, Dr. Lisa reviews 3 steps to simplify healthy eating for weight loss, longevity, and better health. The first step requires learning to identify "Gotcha Foods," which have become ubiquitous in our society and are fueling the obesity epide...
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19:34
87. How Dry January Can Help You Avoid Dying From Cancer (And Also Lose Weight and Live Healthier Longer!)
Dr. Vivek Murthy, in one of his last acts as Surgeon General of the U.S., issued an advisory highlighting alcohol use as a leading preventable cause of cancer, behind tobacco and obesity. Did you know that alcohol increases the risk for breast ...
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24:00
86. The Impact of Sleep On Weight Loss, Pre-Diabetes, Health, and Longevity
In today's episode, Dr. Lisa gets vulnerable and shares a personal health story. She'll walk you through her reaction to getting some disappointing news, her discovery of how shifting to a more empowered mindset changed her attitude & helpe...
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12:25
85. How To Create An Exercise HABIT To Manage Your Weight, Your Health, and Your Mood
You might be curious to know what's involved in losing 84# and keeping it off. Science tells us that EXERCISE is a key component to maintenance of weight loss, but how can someone create an exercise habit if they've never been successful before...
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20:40
84. Is Losing Weight With Zepbound (or Wegovy or Ozempic) Cheating? Dr. Lisa Has The Answer To This & Other Health & Wellness Conundrums
Today, Dr. Lisa muses on topics that came up this week during her online coaching program. She shares some thoughts about the effectiveness of weight loss medication, about how much weight a person can expect to lose with lifestyle modification...
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21:46
83. Can A Cluttered Home Cause Weight Gain Or Pre-Diabetes?
There is fascinating research about how a cluttered office or home can impact our metabolic health. If you're interested in losing weight, improving your health, and especially if you're concerned about your risk of developing diabetes, this ep...
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11:36
82. If You’re TOO BUSY To Eat Healthy Or Exercise, These 5 Steps Will Transform Your Approach To Weight Loss
There's no award for being the busiest person, nor is there an award for being so busy and self sacrificing that we ignore the things that would help us lose weight or improve our health. Today, Dr. Lisa goes over 5 steps to transform your appr...
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81. Are You Sure You Want To Indulge In Food Drama For The Holidays? Lean In & Listen Up If You’re Trying To Lose Weight Between Now And The New Year
Food drama is a ruminating thought pattern that many people have, which is often amplified this time of year. Between Halloween and the New Year, most of us are gaining weight that we never lose, despite the fact that the majority of u...
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18:41
80. When Thanksgiving Is Over, You Have To Throw Out Your Halloween Candy, And Other Weight Loss & Wellness Axioms
We know, we know...Dr. Lisa gave you the first of her 10 personality types for weight loss a couple of weeks ago, and she's been meaning to get back to the 2nd type. But believe us when we say...something more pressing came up this week!
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79. Exercise Is Not A Weight Loss Tool (But It's Amazing For Health, Longevity, Prevention & and Maintenance!)
We decided to replay our most popular episode for you today! Enjoy!If exercise was a pill, it would be the most widely prescribed medication in the world because of its tremendous power to impact our health. But it's actually overrated ...
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78. Dr. Lisa’s 10 Weight Loss Personality Types And What They All Share In Common
In today's episode, take our quiz and let Dr. Lisa walk you through which personality type you have when it comes to weight loss. You might find you have a mix of several types. Whatever you discover, weight loss will be easier when you learn h...
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15:53
77. Let It Be Messy: Why You Should Chill Out In Order To Achieve Weight Loss, Better Health, Wellness, and Longevity
It's so common for working moms (and some dads too, of course!) to take on way too much responsibility for things at home. There's nothing wrong with asking others to help out too! If you're thinking there's no time to exercise, prep healthy me...
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76. It’s Time To Snuggle Up To Strawberries and Cozy Up To Carrots! Dr. Lisa’s Three Tips To Improve Your Relationship With Produce, In Order To Drive Weight Loss, Better Health, and Longevity
If you're eager to increase your fruits & vegetables, in order to lose weight, improve your health, and live longer, healthier, this episode is for you! Dr. Lisa shares 3 practical tips for making produce the easy thing to grab. We all know...
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