Welcome to another episode of Fit Chic for Life! Today, Natalie talks with Val Voboril. Val is a CrossFit Games athlete who is able to balance it all: fitness, work, family, and fun. She explains more about her life and routine and how her goals have evolved: fitness for her used to feel like super hard work and almost like a “chore”, today Val handles the gym with much more grace and fun. She also talks about important aspects that make fitness happen for her: not obsessing over food and maintaining a healthy but very enjoyable diet, respecting her body and knowing when it’s time to level up ..read more

Diet culture has so many of us feeling like we have a complicated relationship with food. So many people have been dealing with eating disorders for many years, and they got to a point where ‘struggling’ and ‘suffering’ have became their identity. This mentality makes it hard to change, which makes you stay in the same place, which turns into a cycle. In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie welcomes Molly Carmel. Molly is a food addiction therapist and author of ‘Breaking Up with Sugar’. She has been devoting her time to helping people to break up their disruptive relationships with food ..read more

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie connects with Emily Abbott. Emily has an incredible background with CrossFit and has a lot of knowledge about nutrition, mindset, and how to stay fit with freedom and balance. Being an athlete doesn’t always mean you need to be extremely strict with diet and exercise. Emily is living proof that you can achieve your goals without sacrificing everything. Emily also shares how she has been reconnecting with her feminine side recently. Ever since she has rediscovered this other side of her, she has been feeling more at ease: enjoying her free time, rela ..read more

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie shares the best tips and strategies – as well as a very thorough explanation behind them – on how to get rid of belly fat. Especially for women, the way we lose fat, lose weight, and change our bodies, transforms over time. The practices that once worked, sometimes don’t work anymore and that’s completely normal: the same way we age, our body ages as well. Natalie explains that despite being a crucial part of the weight loss journey, counting macros and focusing on calories might not be enough to get results. It’s also important to pay attention to ..read more

Welcome to another episode of FitChic for Life. Today, Natalie shares special tips and strategies to achieve your fitness goals from a place of intuition, instead of an obsession. It’s really common for people who want to take better care of their health to get caught up with tracking calories, tracking steps, and obsessing over exercise. But, it doesn’t need to be that way. In fact, it can lead to anxiety and feelings of overwhelm. “Surrender” is the keyword to be able to do this, and Natalie explains that is not happening overnight and it’s not going to be easy. The body and the mind are too ..read more

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie shares with the listeners the greatest exercises to do when it comes to belly fat burn. We all know – and Natalie shares this a lot on this podcast – that some factors like stress and sleep quality, impact fat loss. However, we can’t forget about the exercise portion of it. Especially for women over 35: the activities that once worked, don’t work anymore but that can be reversed. Natalie also dives deep into two very important topics: 1) Working harder doesn’t mean working smarter and the “go go go” mentality can be stressful and delay your results ..read more

Self-sabotage is the feeling that comes to the surface when we don’t ‘stick to the plan’. But it’s important to analyze this feeling from a different angle: is there such a thing as self-sabotage? Surely, we don’t avoid doing things that are good for us because we want to. We don’t skip the gym, eat the chocolate, and skip meditation because we want to. There’s a more powerful force behind these decisions: our mind. In this episode, Natalie dives deep into this concept, explaining that our mind sometimes plays trick on us and make us do things that – deep down – we don’t want to be doing ..read more

90% of our thoughts are the same thoughts as the day prior. This data is impressive: if we have the same thoughts, we end up having the same behaviors, and the same actions, with the same results. This constant is what makes our life get into a routine. Although routines are very important in terms of organization and structure, how can we do some things differently and eventually bring more joy into our lives? In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie dives deep into this concept of ‘breaking routines, finding freedom, and enjoying life no matter what. When we think about our daily ta ..read more

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie interviews Monk Shen Dojo. As a follow-up to the previous episode, they talk about enlightenment, the importance of staying present at the current moment, and how the mind tricks us into thinking about something else rather than what we are experiencing. Monk Shen also speaks about his background and the reasons that inspired him to become a monk. With a past in martial arts and fitness, Shen explains that life in a monastery has made him more focused on the important things and less stressed about life because now he has more structure – which some ..read more

In this episode of FitChic for Life, Natalie interviews Ema Rocket who is a student at Shaolin Temple. Ema talks about many concepts with a special focus on the importance of "just be". According to Ema, we all need to try a little more to just enjoy the moment and quit the mentality that everything has to have an end goal. Her own journey at the temple has no goal and she tells us she is just learning, observing, and being. With a background on movement, Ema also explains that a relaxation state helps with body function too. The secret to having a body with no pain is relaxing into the moveme ..read more