Each month I go live in the Fit + Vibrant Women Facebook Group to answer questions from listeners of the podcast. This is one way I can help you get off the crazy diet cycle, get to your happy, healthy weight permanently, naturally and WITHOUT the obsession so that you can LIVE your life. 

This month I answer:

➡️ What are some tips to thrive over the holidays?
➡️  Any suggestions for an anti-inflammatory diet to support fertility treatment?
➡️ How do I start exercising when it's been a LONG while?
➡️ I keep binging on carbs every week or so... why do I do it?

When you’re ready to take the next step, here’s how I can help.

⭐️ For Women Over 50: Discover the 4 Steps that have Helped 100s of Women Achieve their Happy, Healthy Weight, Permanently and Naturally, Without the Obsession: www.fitvibrant50.com

⭐️Join the Fit + Vibrant Women Facebook Community: www.tanjashaw.com/join

⭐️Subscribe to the Fit + VIbrant YOU Podcast on your favourite podcast player.

I have been listening to the Midlife Matters Podcast for a few months, and it feels like I’m having a cup of coffee (and laughs) with good friends. I love how Marie, Julie and Mindy NORMALIZE so many of the things we don’t really talk about in the middle years. I am delighted to have the opportunity to interview these lovely women on the Fit + Vibrant You Podcast and introduce them to you!

Listen in as they share:

⭐️ How their health, fitness goals, relationship with their body has changed over the decades
⭐️ Some of the unique challenges women in their 40s, 50s and 60s face (that we don’t usually talk about)
⭐️ How they embrace their changing body and changing roles as they age

Marie, Julie, and Mindy are three moms raising twelve kids from middle school to young adulthood. Each week on the Midlife Matters Podcast they talk about all the topics keeping women in the middle years up at night. They cover the new challenges frequently encountered in midlife such as empty nest syndrome, the double standards of aging between men and women, and the ups and downs of raising teenagers. They approach every topic with encouragement and humor as they strive to create a supportive and fun community for midlife women!  

Listeners can find us on Instagram at Midlife Matters Podcast and on our website at midlifematterspodcast.com.

Ever wish you had more motivation? Have you ever blamed lack of motivation for not reaching your goals, or even getting started in the first place?

We say it all the time "I just need to get motivated", and then we passively wait for motivation to strike us. 

But what if motivation is not something that just happens to us? What if we could be motivated every single day? How would life be different? 

Join me in this episode of the FIt + Vibrant You Podcast for a conversation on MOTIVATION. 

We'll cover the most common myths surrounding motivation, what kills motivation and a simple step by step process to create lasting motivation in your life. 

Ladies… I am THRILLED to share this conversation with Courtney Claggett, Kinesiologist and Core Confidence Specialist about your core and pelvic floor: incontinence, pelvic floor dysfunction, postnatal recovery and movement.

Join us for a candid conversation to learn:
⭐️ Why incontinence is common, but NOT normal… and what you can do about it
⭐️ Why doing kegels might be doing more harm than good
⭐️ How to properly strengthen your core and pelvic floor (hint: it doesn’t include crunches and planks)

Meet Courtney:
"While pregnant with my son, I got lost in all the information available for pregnant women and new moms; don't do planks, don't lift too heavy, don't jump, etc. It was then that I decided I wanted to learn everything I could about safe and effective exercise during and following pregnancy. Yes, there are certain movements that should be avoided in certain stages of pre/postpartum or with certain dysfunctions; it is my passion to find ways to get women safely back to doing the movements they love while staying active no matter the situation.

I am a Kinesiologist who is driven to help moms train safely through pregnancy as well as help them back into fitness following delivery.”

Connect with Courtney online:

Website: cmcfitnessconsulting.com
Facebook: CMC Fitness Consulting
Instagram: @cmcfitnessconsulting
Email: courtney@cmcfitnessconsulting.com

**Exclusive offer for Podcast Listeners: mentioned you listened to this podcast can contact Courtney through my website, email, instagram, or facebook for 30% off**

Each month I go live in the Fit + Vibrant Women Facebook Group to answer questions from listeners of the podcast. This is one way I can help you get off the crazy diet cycle, get to your happy, healthy weight permanently, naturally and WITHOUT the obsession so that you can LIVE your life. 

This month I answer:

➡️ I've started gaining weight after surgery... what can I do?

➡️ I'm doing everything right, but it is so hard to lose weight... I'm hormonal... what can I do?

➡️ I'm overwhelmed and anxious... and then I eat. How can I stop this cycle?

➡️ How can I stay motivated to make changes when slow and steady changes work, but I want instant gratification?

When you’re ready to take the next step, here’s how I can help.

⭐️ Join me LIVE on November 30 at 5:30PM PST for the Stop Self Sabotage Workshop. In this 90 minute training you'll learn exactly how to overcome your self-sabotaging pattern with my proven step-by-step process so that you never need to diet again. For all the details and to register go to www.tanjashaw.com/sss

⭐️ For Women Over 50: Discover the 4 Steps that have Helped 100s of Women Achieve their Happy, Healthy Weight, Permanently and Naturally, Without the Obsession: www.fitvibrant50.com

⭐️Join the Fit + Vibrant Women Facebook Community: www.tanjashaw.com/join

⭐️Subscribe to the Fit + VIbrant YOU Podcast on your favourite podcast player.

Have you ever said to yourself:
"I just can't stay committed" or "I do really well for a while, and then something always seems to get in the way" or "I just need to get in the right mindset"

And then you find yourself scrolling through Pinterest for healthy Instant Pot recipes, hoping you'll find the answer to your eating struggles.

Except food isn't the problem. Most women I work with already know that kale and beans a better choice than Oreo cookies.

Diets focus on the method, and while method matters (no cabbage soup diet here!), it doesn't solve the real issue most women have with food. Because, once again, food isn't the problem.

We are overwhelmed with information, and yet we keep searching for more. Thinking that we just need more information to solve our problems.

What we really need is a MINDSET upgrade.

I know... (eye rolls, yawn)... "I'll work on my mindset once I lose the weight".

Except it doesn't work that way.

Mindset, is our attitudes and beliefs, our way of thinking. And it drives all behaviour.

So many women are afraid to try again, or to even work with me, because they have always 'started out with so gung ho, and then all that motivation fizzles out and they go back to square one'.

But they are fearful because they are still operating on the same thinking that caused their inconsistent habits in the first place. They never learned to change their mindset.

Ok... so how does one BUILD a winning mindset?
Glad you asked... and glad you are here.

Join me in episode 209 of the Fit + Vibrant You Podcast as we do just that.

With so much love + hope,
Tanja x

Winter is coming!!! And that means, dark rainy, cold weather. And while you could sport your highlighter vests and flashy lights and get out there rain, shine, day or night and get out there for your walk or run, sometimes it's just not practical. Does that mean you get to put your runners away til spring?

Of course not! The solution (cue superhero music).... indoor cardio!

However, if you HATE indoor cardio workouts, you're simply doing it wrong. Join me on this week's podcast as I share 3 ways to keep your indoor cardio more effective and more enjoyable, or at the very least, less boring.

Each month I go live in the Fit + Vibrant Women Facebook Group to answer questions from listeners of the podcast. This is one way I can help you get off the crazy diet cycle, get to your happy, healthy weight permanently, naturally and WITHOUT the obsession so that you can LIVE your life. 

This month I answer:

➡️ How to keep motivated when you don't see results

➡️ Bubbly water versus still water: which is best?

➡️ Restriction versus commitment: how to overcome the diet cycle and still lose weight

➡️ How to overcome fear of failing

➡️ The myth of motivation

When you’re ready to take the next step, here’s how I can help.

⭐️ For Women Over 50: Discover the 4 Steps that have Helped 100s of Women Achieve their Happy, Healthy Weight, Permanently and Naturally, Without the Obsession: www.fitvibrant50.com

⭐️Join the Fit + Vibrant Women Facebook Community!

⭐️Subscribe to the Fit + VIbrant YOU Podcast on your favourite podcast player.

Thank you to everyone who let me know that I had released the incorrect audio file to the podcast yesterday. 🤦‍♀️ *Human moment*

While I have corrected the file, if you have already downloaded the incorrect one, I wanted to make it easier on you an re-release the correct audio!

Many thanks!
Tanja x

• Why do many women struggle with weight gain, especially around the midsection when they hit menopause?
• The #1 most important lifestyle factor to prevent menopause weight gain(and it's not tracking calories or logging extra hours at the gym)
• Three critical nutrients that you might be missing to support your body through menopause.

1. The big mindset shifts you must make to be consistent with you workout routine (good bye “I worked out 4 x per week until ‘life’ happened”)
   
   
2. Why you need to think about HORMONES and not just calories in/ calories out (and HOW to actually do that).
   
   
3. The 4 critical components of an optimal fitness plan for women in their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond. 

• How do I fit in exercise? Everything else takes priority and I don’t understand why!
• I’ve been in menopause for 3 years and struggle with belly fat. How do I lose it?
• Why do I put food in my body without thinking “Do I really want this?"