Summer is a a rockin' woman- and someone who I have followed as for the last few months.  And, naturally, I was really excited to connect with her.

Here's what we talk about:

    Summer's personal journey and to body acceptance (including why she quit cross fit, and pretty much working out altogether, and the moment she learned that her desire to lose weight was robbing her of her health)
    Top 3 steps you can do today to improve your own body image
    The relationship between body weight and health
    How she can eat what she wants, when she wants it, and why she knows you can too.

We also talk about a 6 step process to overcoming body shame.  

For the show notes and to download the awesome freebies, go to www.tanjashaw.com/13

This week on the Fit and Vibrant You Podcast, I am joined by JV Crum III, host of the Conscious Millionaire Podcast and the Conscious Millionaire Health Reality Show.  JV is no stranger to healthy eating and exercise, but when his father became seriously ill, he put his own healthy on the back burner.  Now, JV Crum III is on a journey to lose 100 pounds- and this time he's doing it differently.

J V Crum III is a certified Food-Healing Instructor, business and life coach, and host of the top-ranked Conscious Millionaire Health Reality Podcast that focuses on Health & Fitness for Busy Entrepreneurs. He is a speaker, marketer, Huffington Post Columnist, best-selling author, and founder of ConsciousMillionaire.com, a global coaching and wealth product business that helps conscious entrepreneurs build six and seven figure businesses. He holds an MBA, JD, Masters in Psychology, and has built and sold successful companies.

In this episode you're going to learn:

    What JV has done in the past to lose weight and what he's doing differently this time
    The questions to ask yourself to learn why you're eating
    The four reasons why we eat, and how to prioritize nourishment
    How to enjoy socializing with friends without needing to center it around food.

In the podcast, we also talk a lot about salads.  And if you think salads are well, boring, think again.  Just to make sure you don't get the wrong impression on salads, and to make sure you NEVER having a boring salad again, I've put together a never have a boring salad again cheat sheet.  Go to www.tanjashaw.com/12 to download!

Just so you know, I'm not sharing the thief of happiness so you can be unhappy.  That would be silly! 

I'm sharing the thief of happiness so that you can become aware of it and recognize when you are doing it, which is the first step of making changes to your thought process.  Like anything, it's a process! 

Let's be honest.  Comparing yourself to others, and to where you 'should' be, (because someone said so, or society says so) is normal.  And having some awareness is healthy.  But we take it too far... and the constant comparison takes us away from focusing on the things that we are working on, and takes us away from the present. 

 In episode 11 of the Fit and Vibrant You Podcast, I share:

    4 real life examples of comparison (career, parenthood, relationships, and body)
    2 action steps to start to change the way you view other people
    The question you need to ask two times to close friends: and then be prepared to listen. 

For the 6 metabolism boosters (and they're not what you think!) go to www.tanjashaw.com

Full disclosure: I don't meal plan.  But I do understand the benefits of meal planning, and I have seen how it's helped so many people I've worked with. 

But, since I'm not an expert in the area, I've invited someone who is: Ascend Fitness member Melanie Voth.  During a 12-Week program we did in the spring, Melanie shared all her tools and resources on meal planning with the group and I was impressed!  In this episode, I go over the basics of making meal planning simple and effective.  Melanie brings the FUN (and some more strategies for success).  To download all of the tools to help you meal plan, go to www.tanjashaw.com/10

I used to think that goals needed to be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound).  In this episode (part 2 of goal setting) I go over why you could, and maybe should, ditch SMART goals. 

For the full show notes and my weekly success tracking sheet, go to www.tanjashaw.com/9.

-Tanja :)