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Menopause weight seems to creep up even on women who are already doing all the things. They’re health conscious. They’re the ones their friends look to when dessert menus come out to see if you’re going to order or not. You’re the one who has already ran when you get to Easter brunch or open presents on Christmas.

If this is you, I created this episode for you. 

• When it feels like you’re doing it all and nothing works…
• You skip a workout and it’s like 5 more pounds come on.
• You do the workouts and you’re slammed with fatigue. Still, no weight comes off.

If you’re in this place you’ve heard other women talk about but never really got til now… you’re in the right spot.

I’m going to unpack two sides of this equation:

First, are you really doing the right thing or just the thing that you’ve always thought is the right thing?

Second, are you subconsciously letting sabotaging thoughts get in your way?

So I’m only very briefly going to touch on the problem believing that more exercise, less food, being a warrior who doesn’t sleep, and a workaholic … can cause. Because those I address in You Still Got It, Girl!and my follow up book Hot, Not Bothered.I cover those in hundreds of YouTube videos and dive deeply into the real what you need to be doing in my programs.

The fastest way to get support around myths you still believe is the 28 Day Kickstart, where I literally take you through the process of change for 4 weeks with live coaching calls, a private Facebook group, and the actual what to do so you can be in the change while you’re learning the science behind the right way not for a quick fix but for lasting results by adjusting to your hormones messages. They’re telling you what to do and you have control if you pay attention.

I will link to the Kickstart(it happens to be open while I’m recording – it’s only open a few times a year now so I can really take a group through the process with me live and provide answers to questions in the group. Plus each registrant gets a 20 minute session with me so it’s grown so much I wanted to be sure I can accommodate everyone).

The mistakes women in midlife most commonly make end up trashing their hormones. You can’t burn off fat with exercise if you eat less and tell your body to burn less. That’s like having one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake.

If stress – from any source – put the fat on – more stress from any source won’t take it off. And exercise is stress, my friend. Yes, even for you who listening right now thinking, “No, I NEED exercise to decrease my stress.” That is likely a quick fix like cocaine, and then you need another shot either later today or tomorrow. You probably could benefit more than anyone from less exercise. YES, you need it. Don’t think I’m saying don’t. But for a week you cutting way back may get you more fat loss than more exercise will.

Other things we address during the Kickstart are things you ignore or don’t think you have control over: your sleep, your digestion, your libido. If you’re thinking, what? I thought this was exercise and nutrition? It is, but you’re an integrated whole and the status of your habits in these areas tell me as a hormone balancing fitness expert what to do with your training program.

So let’s leave that one behind and suffice to say that what you used to believe would get you in better shape may be keeping you fat and out of hormone balance.

Let’s look at how you think about the things you need to be doing. So you’re exercising, you’re in need of restful sleep, and you need to eat well. No arguments there, right?

How Does It Make You Feel?

So, be honest. When I say exercise, what do you think or feel?

Words associated with exercise are often: hard, work, struggle, pain, sweaty, messy, time, hot, and uncomfortable. It may be time comes up for you.

Tap into the emotions around exercise. Here’s a tricky one: even if you love exercise but you are so busy you can’t do it like you want to, exercise can become something with negative emotions tied to it.

So, if you’re listening to this and you can pause, do it and then come back to me.

Just stop think- or better yet write down- what’s your response to “exercise?”

Do you attach impossible goals attached to exercise? Do you tell yourself you have to do it every day, have to do more than last time, want to be good at a certain exercise (even though you have virtually no experience doing it).

Anything there resonate? Again, pause. Don’t skip really thinking through for yourself what this is like. If this is important, change can’t happen if you don’t tap into the emotion of it.

So if you’re back let’s go on. I hope you really did this. This is different than some episodes, but it’s a little more interactive and a bit like a workshop I would do as part of a retreat. You can’t just “listen” to something and get it. If you’re talking to yourself while you’re listening, or you’re nodding your head… that’s a good thing. I do it all the time. I’ll be on a walk or hike listening to one of the podcasts I follow and I’ll be responding. Entertaining for commuters and my neighbors I’m sure.

Does Nutrition Trigger You?

What happens when you think about the word “nutrition?” What feelings come to mind and what words describe how that makes you feel?

How do you think about the fact that you’ve maybe gone through Whole30 or you are doing Paleo or you’re plant-based?

If you say you “have a sweet tooth” how does that feel for you?

When you think about the holidays and eating how does that feel?

Does the word nutrition, when it’s related to you getting results you want but aren’t getting now, stir up any emotion? Do you associate it with “diet?” But I’m not suggesting that you diet temporarily but that you acquire a lifestyle that might go through periods of changing your diet in different ways.

Compare it to chocolate cake, and to salad, and to pasta.

Try on meal planning.Does that make you feel like there’s no spontaneous have what I want when I want it?

We get comfortable eating the things we like. Even if it isn’t working we sometimes refuse to give them up.

An elimination phase of testing food sensitivities can be a trigger for you. But realize, it can be from the words we use and the feelings attached to them. It’s not necessarily the activity.

We grew up thinking everything in moderation. We’ve got higher cancer, heart and other diseases because of it not in spite of it.

Actually, when you’re struggling with weight or energy or can’t sleep, moderation in alcohol or sugary treats or gluten – even exercise isn’t the answer. The right answer is the answer.

Spinach and kale are healthy greens… as long as you don’t have drug interactions with vitamin K, and as long as you’re healthy right? You wouldn’t have them if you were sick with the flu. Well you wouldn’t exercise the same way with hormones out of balance as if they were in balance either.

Words associated with nutrition  – eating less, being hungry, limiting, restricting, depriving, go to bed hungry, no fun, no flavor. Or Nutrition can be just neutral and boring for you. Diet may trigger more negative feelings. Pizza or tacos may trigger another kind of feeling.

Changing for Menopause Weight Benefit

This word we talk about all the time that very likely has feelings attached to it and we don’t even realize.

The word is Habits.

The word alone may or may not get you. But going to bed early, not staying up late, getting up early, checking your phone constantly, snacking all day… all of these are habits and if any of them is yours and someone made you change from what is currently a habit, it would feel foreign, maybe “bad.”

You’d resist.

How do all those associated feelings motivate or convince you that you don’t want to do this?

Attaching Baggage to Habits Interferes with Menopause Weight

At the airline counter if your bag is too heavy you have two choices:

1. Pay more
2. Take something out

The same is true if what you’re doing isn’t working. Some of my students embrace change and understand the process. The students that keep finding themselves exhausted or carrying more weight are still trying to eat less and exercise more. They tend to push through instead of find ease in doing what they want to become who they are every day.

They try adding more supplements and trying more shortcuts before they’ve got the basics. I’m a believer that it’s ridiculous to invest in “super foods” unless you’re already eating a few more vegetables every day and you’ve gotten rid of processed and fast foods.

For a short time – a month – 28 days – concentrated focus on something means that a year from now it will still be important. During that 28 days you’re working on creating new systems and breaking old patterns.

Guess what you’re not focused on? Goals. Goals are temporary. Skills are permanent.

So if you want to know how to eat and exercise and be doing it more naturally and normally a year from now you have to take about a month and focus on it. Concentrate on it.

Also really important is making an environment where doing what you want to be doing is easy not hard. If you’re a smoker and you want to quit but you live with four smokers, it’s going to be tough. It’s similar with exercise or with eating differently. There’s both a need to stop something and to start something else. With food, get rid of all the stuff you don’t want to eat. I call it a Pantry Raid in the 28-Day Kickstart.

Make It Easy for Menopause Weight to Go Bye Bye

Create the least resistance possible by getting a plan, clearing the time, getting your thoughts about it right, telling your friends and family, thinking in advance about how you’ll overcome obstacles like approaching holiday dinners or parties, tailgates, time alone when you might ordinarily eat food you don’t want to.

Let me come back to “baggage.” If you get negatively triggered by words like “workout” or exercise, or by nutrition, and food planning, for instance, rename the actions you want to take.

You may also have to look at what it is you’re telling yourself you want to do. If you say you want to lose weight, for instance. What if you focused on getting healthy and feeling good? The side affects on the side of the bottle are going to read, warning: may cause optimal weight. The point is though if there’s no negative association telling your brain to avoid avoid, avoid, you’re much more likely to create the system that gets you where you wanted to go. It’s just that your GPS is broken!

Your brain avoids negative things. Things associated with pain, disappointment, and it’s not going to bring those things to you.

Menopause Weight Loss Voodoo?

This is no woo-woo episode. There’s literal science that began in the late 70s about the body’s physical ability to change based on your thoughts (and your emotions are just a result of your thoughts). So what you want to do is tap into the emotion to tell you what you’re thinking. You can logically change the thinking and when your emotions change habit change is easy, effortless, and fun.

When someone tells you you’re a “hardworker” or the most hardworking in the gym, are they hurting or helping?

Up to you.

Respond, no it’s easy. I enjoy it.

Because even if you think you value hard work. Your brain still does not want to go there.

Think about it. Hard work or vacation? Which one do you want more of? Struggle or ease? Which one do you want more of? Discipline or naturally? Which one do you want more of?

When you think of “fat-burning” or “calorie-torching” exercise what comes to mind?

How does it make you feel?

For 80% of the population the feelings associated with fat burning and calorie-torching are: hard, effort, intimidating, doubt, failure, exhaustion, punishing.

• Are those words positive or negative?
• And what will that do for your desire to exercise or to resist?
• What will your desire to exercise or resist work do for results you want?
• What will desire to do something or resist doing it for long-term staying power? (The ability to change your life!)

You won’t start potentially. You won’t stick, potentially. You won’t retain it.

Two things you want to do to lose menopause weight:

1. Identify thoughts – your feelings tell you what they are – that sabotage you
2. Identify whether you really know what to do now – in 2019 as opposed to what might have been the answer in 1979

Helpful?

I hope that was helpful and I would love to hear from you. (leave a comment) First, if the 28 Day Kickstart feels like a fit the last one of the year, but also of it’s kind is happening in November and it’s open for enrollment now. This session will be available in the future for our Café members and nowhere else.

If you’d like a live connection with me via a retreat in Scottsdale or Boulder or private coaching (which by the way my private coaching clients come to retreats for significantly less than anyone else), please contact debra@flippingfifty.comand my customer service experience wizard will give you the next steps to learn more. I’ve got one planned to kick off the year and another for summer at altitude.

Menopause weight and inches are temporary, girlfriend. As long as you find the permanent skills to adjust to the messages you’re getting from hormones. Don’t let them take up residence too long. Don’t give up and resign.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

28 Day Kickstart https://www.flippingfifty.com/28-day-kickstart

debra@flippingfifty.com

https://www.Flippingfifty.com/retreat

Dr. Ellen Langer Podcast interview  

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We’re diving into results in this episode!

How do you get better results? You’ve been there: stuck in same old repeating patterns. You started so well. You got to the middle thinking this is it. Then, nope. Same problems, and same obstacles bubble up again. How can you prevent those obstacles that prevent your results?

Before I introduce my guest I want to let you know this episode is sponsored by Fit U. If you have 20 or more pounds to lose and you want a program designed for you, I’ll share the link to the 8-week course in the show notes and a very special rate.
Warning: if you’re after a quick fix and misery through deprivation this is not for you. If you love to suffer this is not for you. If you want programs designed based on young fit males this is not for you. You should not do this course.

Personal Success Coach and Author Heather Lee Chapman has over a decade of experience coaching individuals to be their best and live their best lives through mindset, movement & nutrition. Heather has a background that combines Movement Science as a Personal Trainer, and nutrition as a Certified Nutritional Practitioner.

Heather works with her mentor Danielle Amos from the Proctor Gallagher Institute in leading a Business Mastermind group and educating people on Bob Proctor and Sandy Gallagher’s programs Thinking into Results, Lead the Field, (originally taught by Earl Nightingale) and 6 Minutes to Success.

Here are the 5 questions we covered in today’s results episode:

1. What do you think is the number one thing that stops people from reaching their goals?
2. How can listeners change their paradigms?
3. What is results-based thinking?
4. How can listeners tell if their actions are based on old or new paradigms?
5. What are some actionable items the listeners can take away to begin improving their results and have quantum leaps in their results?

Connect with Heather:

HLChealth.com 

Get social with Heather:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HLCcoaching/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/heather_lee_chapman/

Twitter: twitter.com/hlchealth

Pinterest: www.pinterest.ca/HLChealth/

Resources we mentioned on this results episode:

You Are the Placebo

Mary Morrissey[I am so happy and grateful…]

Louise Hay 

Gabby Bernstein 

Dr. Ellen Langer 

741 Hertz app (could not be found)

Wholetones (741 Hertz) 

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Stress is a Bitch: Here’s What to Do About Her

During midlife hormonal shifts you are more susceptible to negative effects of stress since you’ve got more sources… sleep disturbances, progesterone tanks, libido drops and intimacy with your best friend could be an issue, caught between anything from kindergarteners to adult children and aging parents.. you’ve got the perfect storm.

It’s definitely an obstacle to optimal energy and fitness. I’ve got expert help here today to help offer some new insights.

We’re going to dive into how and why you can prevent the fat storage that’s oh so much easier when you’re under stress, and the brain fog and aging acceleration we all want to avoid.

My guest:

Registered Herbalist (AHG) and Holistic Nutritionist, Danielle Ryan Broda has found her calling as an Instructor of Mycology at Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism, and National Educator at Four Sigmatic. Danielle brings her passion and expertise in herbal medicine, clinical practice, teaching, formulation, and her deep love for fungi, to the Everyday Magic™ of Four Sigmatic.

Stress has become so common in our modern Western world and no one knows it better than a Flipping 50 listener, let’s talk about some of the natural ways we can support ourselves.

 Questions we covered on this stress-busting episode:

• What are some natural ways to support our bodies in times of stress?
• We’ve discussed adaptogens previously here on Flipping 50 but a good review of what they are and how they help is always good. What’s the deal with “adaptogens”?
• There’s a term tossed around “functional mushrooms” and medicinal mushrooms is another… let’s define those and because this is really your secret power, enlighten us about how we might use these to our advantage.
• Where do functional mushrooms fit into all of this?

5 Four Sigmatic favorites that align with stress and self care:

Mushroom Coffee with Lion’s Mane and Chaga

Adaptogen Coffee with Tulsi and Ashwaghanda

10 Mushroom Blend

Adaptogen Blend + Mushroom Cacao with Reishi

Try Four Sigmatic for yourself(click here)

Use code: Flipping50

Connect on Social Media:

IG @foursigmatic and @danielleryanbroida

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Are you Mindful About Aging, Fitness, Food?

Is the way you think about your habits, your every day habits that create the level of health which you currently have, aging you or slowing the process? Mindful practice of your inner and outer conversations may have more influence on your aging process than anything else that you do.

Of course you’ll have to have the right habits. Yet, if you’re mindful of them, you’ll naturally be inclined to make positive changes. You’ll seek the right information and the right steps. Then you’ll be conscious applying them in your life.

Dr. Ellen Langer, Ph.D., is a social psychologist and the first female professor to gain tenure in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She is the author of eleven books and more than two hundred research articles written for general and academic readers on mindfulness for over 35 years. Her best selling books include Mindfulness; The Power of Mindful Learning; On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity; and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Her most recent book is The Art of Noticing which pairs one-liners culled from her research with her original paintings.

Dr. Langer has been described as the “mother of mindfulness” and the mother of positive psychology.

Among other honors, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Distinguished Scientist Awards, the World Congress Award, the NYU Alumni Achievement Award, and the Staats award for Unifying Psychology. Most recently she received the Liberty Science Genius Award.

The citation for the APA distinguished contributions award reads, in part, “…her pioneering work revealed the profound effects of increasing mindful behavior…and offers new hope to millions whose problems were previously seen as unalterable and inevitable. Ellen Langer has demonstrated repeatedly how our limits are of our own making.”

This episode was peppered with questions:

You started pioneering this mindfulness movement – certainly about aging – before anyone else seemed to be writing much about it. In 1979, the rest of the world wasn’t quite tuned into the shock that was going to happen when baby boomers all started turning 50 and the change it would have on business opportunity, the economy, health care, so what was it that made you do that study so early in your career? Was it personal? Was there some influence of other researchers that pivoted you in that direction?

In 1979 how old were you? And now you are?
Tell listeners about the Clockwise study

When you removed them from that environment what happened?

This is a quote from some of the press reporting on the Clockwise study:

“What she found, however, surprised even her own team of researchers. Before and after the experiment, both groups of men took a battery of cognitive and physical tests, and after just one week, there were dramatic positive changes across the board. Both groups were stronger and more flexible. Height, weight, gait, posture, hearing, vision—even their performance on intelligence tests had improved. Their joints were more flexible, their shoulders wider, their fingers not only more agile, but longer and less gnarled by arthritis. But the men who had acted as if they were actually back in 1959 showed significantly more improvement. Those who had impersonated younger men seemed to have bodies that actually were younger.” [as printed in Harvardmagazine.com]  

Because your body is listening you can change anything.

-Dr. Ellen Langer

Why didn’t we… the mainstream rest of the world hear more about this earlier?

The counterclockwise study results have been described in several of your books, but have never appeared in a professional journal.

Why was that?

The Impact of Mindful and Mindless Revealed

Almost 4 decades after that study… you’ve been quoted and your research cited many times in regard to placebo, the power of thinking. We’re now using and hearing the word mindset so much more often. Do you think we’re getting it? The majority of us? Or is it mindset that still limits us?

“It is not our physical state that limits us,” she explains—it is our mindset about our own limits, our perceptions, that draws the lines in the sand.”

Why is it so hard – or is it that we’re doing it wrong – to change mindset?

How can listeners put mindfulness to work for them?

But the biggest obstacle for so many is the language and thoughts that reflect their expectations. The entire premise of Flipping 50 is to first change our mindset so that our expectations send us looking for new knowledge and science that will help us live out our much higher expectations.

Exercising less, with the eye on balancing hormones naturally for more longevity and vitality, optimizing weight with more but better food not diets, and moving for joy not punishment.

“Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow”

But if the expectation is currently exercise is hard and it’s only purpose to burn off something that shouldn’t be there or change something unacceptable… or that it must take dietary deprivation and restriction … then getting healthy becomes hard.

Do you live with any care about your age?

Hotel Maids Mindful Change

The other study I love to refer to is that you did with Alia Crum with 84 hotel workers. Talk about placebo effect. The mindset we adopt when we take pills – or not – that matters.

You divided the maids into two groups and nothing changed about their physical habits at work, only the beliefabout their physical activity while at work changed. The study was 4 weeks – is that correct?

Engagement is powerful, it’s the act of noticing.

Much of what you’re saying is about the ability to accept that there is a different way to think about anything.

If I gave you some thoughts from our listeners – limiting beliefs – would you be willing to counter with something that might help them see the obstacles those mindless thoughts provide … and offer an action or thought change that would remove self-inflicted limits?

Many of the women listening are thinking:

• I’ve always been overweight.
• I’ve had insomnia forever.
• I always get injured just when I get some momentum exercising.

How has your work influenced your own aging?

How old are you now? The age of or beyond your subjects back in 1981…

“All Rules Are Turned.”

Connect:

Ellenlanger.com 

Resources:

Counterclockwise book

New book she’s working on: Why Not? The Power of Possibility

Does your mind control how you age?

Listener: Mindfulness and mindlessness were two big words in this episode. What are you doing mindlessly that if changed and approached mindfully could change everything?

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Gain Strength After 50?

Can I gain muscle and gain strength after 50? Two frequent questions I’m asked. And for good reason! Muscle mass not only contributes to your metabolism but it determines your successful independent living later in life.

When I began presenting on stages internationally in the 90’s I often said sexy now is one thing but later it’s going to be who can carry their own tray in the dining room. Truth. Today’s episode is in part about some of the research making waves and about contents of the Flipping 50 Member box too good not to share.

In the Flipping 50 Member box recently we’ve added super strength bands- also known as blood flow restriction bands used in a special Kaatsu training method. As always the Flipping 50 Member Box is filled with items vetted and used by me and I also love to introduce you to the creators and people behind the company.

That’s what today is all about. In the show notes I’ll be linking to the products –F50MB subscribers have a special market place access to find at a better rate – and I’ll also link to a recent blog all about the technique complete with videos. The method is going to be an extra bonus for STRONGER I participants this last quarter of 2019.

My Guest

My guest is creator of BFR bands that went into our Flipping 50 Member box this month.

As a personal trainer, Kusha Karvandi has trained over 10,000 hours of one-on-one sessions. With over 20 nationally-recognized certifications, and a unique specialty in neuroscience, Kusha’s ability to transform his clients is unlike any other coach in the fitness industry. Although considered the eternal student, Kusha describes his coaching philosophy by the latin word “docere” which implies ‘coach as teacher.’ Kusha is the creator of the BFR Bands, designed for the research-backed form of training known as blood flow restriction training, which helps you gain muscle tone and strength without lifting heavy weight.

Questions We Answer in This Episode:

• So, if a woman is able to lift heavy and willing to, research seems to prefer results from heavy to results from blood flow restriction bandsalthough there’s promise in the gains from BFR (compared to not using them with light loads), do you concur?
• What if any research is there about bone density benefits?
• That said, there’s a lot of great opportunity for strength after 50 in using BFR including less recovery time, an easy travel alternative, or during bedrest/other injury or life getting in the way of the “gym” an easy way to prevent muscle loss – do you have some customer stories to share?
• Let’s talk about protocol for listeners that varies from the traditional 2-3 times a week strength training protocol? What’s the ideal frequency?

• And in terms of sets and repetitions, let’s talk about that for listeners seeking strength after 50 because that too is unique…

• Let’s talk about the elephant in the room… the bands look like some big muscle head in the deep dark of the weight room would use them. In fact, when you go shopping online it’s pretty apparent that they are intended for body builders, or figure competitors, there’s not a menopausal female in any of the ads I saw for over 2 dozen different products, are you trying to change that? Why and how?
• So, truth there is some research on older adults, both resistance training, aerobic exercising, and even at rest or bedrest … what areas show promise for this tool with regard to age?
• Should my listeners be using it? or should they be using it for their parents seeking strength after 50!?
• Last, we’re super excited about the lower body bands our Flipping 50 member box subscribers are getting gifted! Do you also have upper body bands? We don’t want to skip that!

Links to the BFR bands:

https://checkout.bfrshop.com/double-wrap-bfr-bands

https://checkout.bfrshop.com/prox-bands/

(Flipping 50 Member Box subscribers: Use your special Market Place to get yours at the better rate on additional sets)

Links to resources mentioned:

Osteosarcopenia podcast 

Flipping 50 Member Box  

STRONGER I 

Should You Be Doing Blood Flow Restriction Exercise 

I’d love to hear from you on this one. Are you intrigued? Inspired to use BFR bands? Want some guidance? (Check out STRONGERwhile it’s open as we’re incorporating it into STRONGER I and STRONGER IV programming!)

What’s Happiness Got to Do with Bone Density and how you can reduce Osteoporosis risk? In this episode my guest and ambassador to the National Osteoporosis Foundation links the connection for us. So tune in for the unexpected way to reduce osteoporosis risk.

Margie Bissinger is a physical therapist and integrative health coach. She is the author of Osteoporosis: An Exercise Guide. Margie is the creator of Move Today, a statewide exercise program in NJ, Happy Me, Happy Life, and Happy Bones, Happy Life™ online programs. Margie helps people achieve optimal bone and overall health through whole foods, exercise, mind-body relaxation techniques, and happiness training. She is a member of the NJ Interagency Council on Osteoporosis and an Ambassador to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Margie has implemented happiness training in her professional career for over 30 years.

Obviously, Margie’s unique approach to reducing Osteoporosis risk through happiness is very unique. As a lecturer on osteoporosis and bone health since 1995 I’m embarrassed to say even I haven’t come across it.

Questions we answered in this episode:

1. You are a physical therapist and health coach. How did you get into teaching happiness?
2. What is the Happiness Set Point? Can we actually increase our happiness set point?
3. How does increasing our happiness affect our bones, osteoporosis risk, and overall heath?
4. In your happiness class, you talk about 7 pillars that are important for happiness – what are they?
5. What practices have you found to be the most effective in helping people increase their happiness?

Connect with Margie:

FREE morning meditation (it’s only 7 minutes!) 

For additional resources on Osteoporosis risk look for the STRONGER I strength training program. Enrollment opens 4 times a year and you can join the notifications list if you’d like to be notified the next time I open.

Meanwhile start something! Try a safe at-home exercise program starting with the 5 Day Flip. 

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Let me introduce America’s Holistic Beauty Doc. Does the term Holistic Plastic Surgery peek your curiosity?

What is it and why is this surgeon so unique in his approach? How can you get younger looking skin? What is the lowdown on Botox? Safe, harmful, or prowess with caution? I answer all this and so much more with my guest in this episode. My good friend and returning guest on Flipping 50 shared inside secrets from behind the scalpel today. Every girl over 50 can use a beauty doc for the ever-changing landscape she’s got!

Known as America’s Holistic Beauty Doc, Anthony Youn, M.D. F.A.C.S is a nationally-recognized, board-certified plastic surgeon. Recognized as a leader in his field, he is the author of the best-selling books “The Age Fix: A Leading Plastic Surgeon Reveals How To Really Look Ten Years Younger” and “In Stitches: A Memoir.” His public television special, The Age Fix with Dr. Anthony Youn, has been viewed by millions.

Dr. Youn also hosts the popular podcast The Holistic Plastic Surgery Show. His new book, “Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon,” details his humorous, heartwarming, and often harrowing journey to become a leading plastic surgeon.  He is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Oakland University / William Beaumont School of Medicine.

Questions I covered with the Beauty Doc in this episode:

– What is holistic plastic surgery?

– What is a simple skin care routine that works?

– What are some of the newest non-invasive options to look younger or get rid of unwanted fat?

– What about botox? Is it safe? Are there negative side affects? There are other fillers out on the market – what’s the difference? Anything you’d say to avoid?

– Tell me about your new book, “Playing God.”

– Tell me a story from your book that reveals the real truth behind plastic surgery?

– You’ve worked in the hospitals, ICU’s and the operating room for two decades.  Can you let us in on a secret that most people may not know?

Note:

The book, “Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon”is a humorous, heartwarming, and at times harrowing account of surgery residency, fellowship, and starting a private practice. It’s available everywhere books are sold.

My beauty doc is your beauty doc:

Website: http://www.dryoun.com

Social media handles:

facebook: facebook.com/dryoun

Instagram: instagram.com/tonyyounmd

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Getting thyroid support, beyond medication, for the follow through for taking the medication, and doing the things that can be overwhelming when you’re first diagnosed isn’t easy. Who, after all, gets it?

Someone who’s been there and done that does.

Danna Bowman and Ginny Mahar are two thyroid patient advocates who teamed up to create a diet and lifestyle support platform for thyroid patients. They are the creators of the revolutionary wellness game, THYROID30, and hosts of Thyroid Refresh TV, a podcast featuring the world’s leading experts on thyroid-specific diet and lifestyle.

They are thyroid support for women who need a place all things thyroid. Exercise, nutrition, meds, daily habits… all around thyroid.

The site is really like thyroid-central. A resource for experts, information, education, motivation … all things thyroid. It’s truly a thyroid refresh.

Questions we answered in this episode:

• What’s your “WHY”?
• How did the two of you end up together?
• What is so different about the thyroid support you offer?
• How are you making it fun- describe the gamification?
• What is someone saying or thinking before they join the program?
• What mistakes are newly diagnosed thyroid patients making?
• And why are those mistakes so common?

Are you looking for thyroid support?

So many of our Flipping 50 listeners mention thyroid issues and are just realizing the impact of food and small lifestyle habit changes. If you’re navigating this all on your own with a little overwhelm, there’s help. And it’s in the form of a game that makes it easier to adapt while surrounded by people going through exactly the same thing.

The Cliff Notes on Thyroid30 from my guests:

“THYROID30is a gamified, 30-day online wellness adventure designed to help thyroid patients reach their healing goals. Our web app is a revolutionary tool that empowers patients to make successful and sustainable diet and lifestyle changes. Our players come back season after season because THYROID30 makes the healing fun.”

Learn more about the program:

Sign up now for the upcoming Fall Wellness Adventure– Game play starts September 22, 2019. Seeing this later? You can check out the next one and get some other juicy help like the Grocery Guide.

Resources mentioned on this episode:

Thyroid Thrivers’ Grocery Guide

When it comes to a thyroid-friendly diet, there sure are a lot of things you’re not supposed to eat. That’s no fun! Thyroid Fresh likes to focus on the positives, like all the wonderful and healthy foods you can eat– foods that nourish and help you feel your best.

Get Social with Thyroid Refresh at:

https://www.instagram.com/thyroidrefresh/

https://www.facebook.com/ThyroidRefresh/

https://www.youtube.com/thyroidrefresh

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Which Infrared Sauna Benefits Do I Love Most?

Really, I can choose one from all the infrared sauna benefits I’ve gained in the 15 months I’ve enjoyed my solo sauna. But I got one for sure I hadn’t even counted on.

For me, infrared sauna was a health investment, but it was mostly for relaxing and recovery. I loved the idea of natural detox and increased metabolism. But it wasn’t until I was exposed to months of mold in the house I rented that I realized how fortunate I was to already have it right there in my home.

I invited my friend Alicia Botryruis from Sunlighten to share some news during Sunlighten’s anniversary. I saw her recently at a conference and they’ve got a new toy! It makes it easy to enjoy infrared sauna benefits on a budget of any size! So I wanted you to hear about it!

Alicia has been a health and wellness advocate for over 25 years.  She is passionate about sharing the full-spectrum of a vibrant lifestyle, which empowers people to live a healthier, happier and more colorful life. Alicia believes wellness is equal parts nurture, perseverance and listening to your intuition.

Her success is attributed to her belief in servant leadership, copious amounts of artisanal dark chocolate and very high heels.

Questions we answered in this episode:

1. What makes Sunlighten different from other infrared saunas?
2. How does near infrared affect our bodies?
3. Are there any dangers with near infrared?
4. How often should someone use LumiNIR wand to see improvements in fine lines and wrinkles?
5. Is the near infrared in LumiNIR the same as the near infrared in the mPulse sauna?
6. How long and how often do you personally use the LumiNIR to attain the infrared sauna benefits?

You can reach Alicia directly to ask questions!

alicia@sunlighten.com

I have personally noticed these infrared sauna benefits (in addition to mold detox!):

• Improved skin clarity
• Boost in metabolism
• Deeper sleep (and I was a good sleeper already)
• Less water retention (lowering progesterone levels can cause w.r.)

Learn More:

Sunlighten.com

Social with Sunlighten:

Instagram & Facebook @sunlightensaunas

Twitter – @sunlighten

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1. Visit Flipping 50 on iTunes
2. Click listen in iTunes
3. Click ratings and reviews
4. Leave your 5 star rating (seriously I’d love it, but your authentic comments are what I need to grow and give you more of what you want and less of what you can leave!)
5. Know how much I appreciate you doing this!