Episode 230

Top 10 of 2023

Published on: 27th December, 2023

If you are a new listener or just haven’t been able to listen to as many episodes this year, Jenn is breaking down her Top 10 Episodes from 2023. Tune in to hear summaries of each episode to reflect on what we learned together in 2023 and use this as a playlist when you have some extra listening time. 

As 2023 comes to a close, Jenn is taking the time to walk through her top 10 episodes from the year! There have been so many great topics and guests on the show this year, it wasn’t easy to choose, but Jenn has carved out a good mix of topics. From understanding how the popular diet pills are impacting you, to digesting nutrition news, creating a balanced plate, and learning how perfection might be hiding your pain, there is at least one episode that will be beneficial for you! Tune in to hear key takeaways and short summaries of each episode. 

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. 

 

IN THIS EPISODE: 

●  [4:33] Episode 205: What is Health

●  [8:45] Episode 204: Diet Pills (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) & The Real Shortcut

●  [14:36] Episode 211: Birth Control Part 1: FDA Approval & What Happened Next

●  [18:25] Episode 202: Is Perfectionism Hiding Your Pain?

●  [25:12] Episode 97: A Grocery Store Run with Your Health Coach

●  [29:55] Episode 201: Building a Balanced Plate

●  [32:38] Episode 221: Healthier Options at Starbucks

●  [35:41] Episode 199: LIIT Over HIIT

●  [37:20] Episode 225: Mailbag: Help for the Holidays

●  [40:14] Episode 217: Top 5 Tips for Digesting Nutrition News

●  [43:33] Nutrition Nugget: Music

●  [43:49] Nutrition Nugget: Laughter

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS: 

●  [20:43] Not all perfectionism is destructive. Maladaptive perfectionism is what Dr. Margaret Rutherford talks about during Episode 202: Is Perfectionism Hiding Your Pain? It’s important for us to just consider that and think through it to understand if we are struggling with destructive perfectionism. 

●  [28:02] Not a single food is off limits unless you decide you want it to be. Everything is just about figuring out how. It’s not what you eat, it’s how you eat.

●  [36:17] If you do LIIT, low intensity interval training, vs. HIIT, high intensity interval training, and can be consistent with it, you are better off maintaining that consistency, so you can get the daily habits that create health, vitality, and longevity. 

 

QUOTES: 

“Western medicine functions on the treatment of symptoms versus what’s the underlying cause of the issue. So that’s how a lot of people end up in the snowball of prescriptions because it’s like this one’s for the first symptom and then this is for the side effects.” - Jenn Trepeck 

“A friend's husband said to me, wait a minute, I thought we were supposed to put our daughters on birth control as soon as they got their period. So it’s another thing to wait, stop, we have to take this back. We have to be our own health advocate and do our own knowledge search, get our own education.” - Jenn Trepeck 

“It almost goes back to that perfectionism thing. If you use a food scale at home and then you go eat out and you're anxious, that anxiety over the portion size is worse than whatever the portion size is, you know? So the objective is to make it work and figure it out, not to let all of this stuff completely consume your life.” - Jenn Trepeck

“What feels really personal and specific, is often incredibly universal." - Jenn Trepeck

"Everything we've talked about is about changing your life without disrupting it, without losing your life." - Jenn Trepeck

 

RESOURCES:

Episode 189: Should Chat GPT or AI Be Your Health Coach?

In the Name of the Pill by Mike Gaskins 

Resolution Revolution

Become A Member of Salad with a Side of Fries

Jenn’s Free Menu Plan

A Salad With a Side of Fries

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Salad With a Side of Fries Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss
What to eat and when to cheat! Let's decipher between all the “diets” out there. You know what to do but it itsn't working. In fact, your diet could be making you fatter.

Ever wondered if cryo-freezing your fat cells would really work? Should you try acupuncture? A hypnotist? If you do, how do you know if someone’s good?

Salad with a Side of Fries is the podcast that will answer all these questions and more! Talking wellness and weight loss for real life, because most of us are going to drink, eat out, skip the grocery store and who wants a life without fries or dessert?! Host Jenn Trepeck’s expertise as an optimal health coach, in practice for over a decade, along with experts in various modalities will clear up the myths, mis-information, bad science and marketing to reveal the truth of HOW TO EAT and HOW TO CHEAT!*



*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This podcast, its content and guests are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Jennifer Trepeck

“My passion for nutrition and helping others stems from “kicking my food issues” with my own weight management saga.” ~ Jenn

I believe that the greatest accountability is paying it forward! That’s why I teach the nutrition education we are all supposed to know but no one ever taught us, along with the science behind food, fitness, and health.

After I graduated from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, I founded Better Life Now LLC while working full-time in hedge funds. In 2019, I took my practice from side-hustle to full-time self-employment and launched my podcast, Salad With a Side of Fries. On the show, we offer science-based tips and tricks for how to achieve wellness and weight loss for real life – because who wants a life without fries or dessert?!

Topics we tackle on the podcast include debunking fad diets, food myths, misinformation in marketing, bad science, and general nutrition. I encourage guests whose expertise is different from my own focus on weight management to bring their unique, fact-based perspectives to talk about subjects they are educated in and passionate about.

Due to my decade-long experience of working with clients, I have gained insight into the health and food industry and the how-tos of building a business.

Some specific health and wellness topics I can speak to include debunking fad diets, exposing the BS we are fed by the food and diet industry, how the people around us can positively and negatively impact our health journey, and shifting mindsets in order to overcome inappropriate barometers of success to instead achieve happy, healthy, and meaningful change.

On the subject of business, I can help you by teaching my critical pieces every entrepreneur should know, how to make your side-hustle into your full-time job, ways to sustainably achieve success without burning out, contemporary networking, and how to prioritize wellness while pursuing your projects.

When I find some free time, I’m typically working out at Physique57, discovering hidden gem restaurants in NYC, or traveling to spend time with friends and family.

I’d love to have an in-depth conversation with you, whether it’s leveling up in business or debunking food myths!