Health Coach Rebecca Holland on Hormone Balancing Strategies That Help Women lose Weight Permanently and How Cortisol Can Ruin Your Progress!

What's the biggest mistake you think people make when it comes to nutrition? Because you mentioned there about caloric restriction, which is what I love about your content is it funnels all the way around.

You talk about sleep and stress and recipes and nutrient-dense foods, but also hormonal imbalance and making this all factor into your lifestyle so that people can stick to it.

You're a mom with twins.

Like, you know what it's like to be short on time, to have stressful moments and to be able to manage that.

But when it comes to the nutrition element, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, but this is from personal experience where, and again, I'm a big believer, obviously calories are important.

They're the principle of energy in, energy out.

But hormones play a massive role, particularly with females, more so even than males, but to males to a degree as well.

What are some of the biggest mistakes you tend to see your clients making, people following you who are struggling and frustrated? What are some of the biggest nutritional mistakes they make?

I think a really big one for women is focusing on kind of getting lost with the calorie counting.

And it's so important to be aware of the calories.

And for a short term, it's a great like nutritional strategy to be aware of the calories.

But once you get lost in the calories and you go away from the nutrient density of food, that's where people become unstuck because your hormones react differently to all the foods you eat.

So if you're just looking at keeping the calories low, you're not getting enough good fats, you're not getting enough good quality protein.

I think that's exactly where most women kind of go off track.

And then it becomes like this really confusing concept.

Why am I not losing weight? I'm eating low calories.

But your body's like, oh, my God, I want all the sugar.

I want all the salt because you're not giving it what it needs.

So I think like that in itself is one of the biggest traps.

And people come to me and say, oh, you don't have the calories in your nutrition strategy handbook or your recipe book.

I'm like, I purposely don't because I want you to learn about the nutrient density of food.

And I think like that's why clients are able to lose weight sustainably because they're like, oh, OK, the calories is one thing, but I need to understand food as well.

Yeah, I think something that I've said on this podcast is calorie tracking is a skill that you use when you need it.

It's kind of like learning to fire an arrow or a bow.

Like you don't need to use calorie tracking all the time, but being mindful of calorie amounts and foods can be helpful.