Fat 2 Fit Radio

Anti-Depressants and Weight Gain

Russ Turley — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:03:05 +0000

A listener named Rita wrote in asking if anti-depressants can cause you to gain weight. So, can they? Absolutely. Jeff and I discussed this topic on Show #81 back in November 2009. The truth is that anti-depressants are not the only type of medication that can cause you to gain weight. The topic was also covered in [...]

Fat 2 Fit #147 – Weight Loss with Parkinson’s

Helana Brigman — Thu, 09 May 2013 05:15:44 +0000

Exercise and healthful eating are a no-fail recipe for weight-loss success. But, in the case of certain rare diseases, losing weight just isn’t this simple. In today’s episode of Fat 2 Fit Radio (#147), Russ and Helana discuss one of the more serious weight-loss topics yet to be addressed on the show: Parkinson’s Disease. We play [...]

Fat 2 Fit #146 – Menopause and Weight Loss

Helana Brigman — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 07:54:25 +0000

“I’m eating 1500 calories. Why am I still gaining weight?” ”Does menopause play a role in weight gain?” ”How much can I eat?” and, “How can I make DOMS more bearable?” These are some of the questions Russ and Helana answer in Episode #146 of Fat 2 Fit Radio. Understanding the role diet plays in maintaining a healthy [...]

Fat 2 Fit #145 – Running with Endomondo

Helana Brigman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:38:02 +0000

In today’s episode of Fat 2 Fit Radio, Russ and Helana check back in with listener Caren about her fitness and weight loss goals before listening to a voicemail from a caller in Kennedale, TX. Helana reveals some good weight loss news, and Russ keeps things real with helpful advice for listeners James, Caren, and [...]

Fat 2 Fit #144 – New Measurements Of Success

Helana Brigman — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:00:33 +0000

In Episode #144 of Fat 2 Fit Radio, Russ checks in with Helana and listener David about their fitness goals and recent progress, discussing past injuries and unhappy belly fat. We also look at the 70+ listener suggestions for running apps at our Facebook page and will follow up next time with a comparison between [...]

Fat 2 Fit 143 – Metabolic Adaptation

Helana Brigman — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:51:14 +0000

In today’s episode of Fat 2 Fit Radio, we check in with Helana and listener Caren about their body fat percentages, goals, and those hard-to-avoid numbers on the scale. We respond to listener comments from episode 142 (no, muscle does not turn into fat) and discuss some ways Photoshop and magazine covers may disrupt how [...]

Fat 2 Fit #142 – Returning with Updates

Helana Brigman — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:20:45 +0000

The female body is complicated and calculators can be tough. Between body fat percentages, BMI, height, weight, and measurements, there are countless ways to measure and track the progress of your fit and healthy lifestyle. But, what numbers should you look at exactly? When monitoring your progress, what other factors should you take into consideration? [...]

Fat 2 Fit #141 – Eating Your Exercise Calories

Russ Turley — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:37:17 +0000

The proliferation of apps on iPhones and Android devices has produced some great fitness apps. Tracking calories and tracking workouts becomes super easy with these apps. But each one has it’s own spin on how they track these activities. The most popular apps that listeners ask about are My Fitness Pal and Lose it!. These [...]

Fat 2 Fit #140 – Combatting Burnout

Russ Turley — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:00:45 +0000

You are doing everything right in changing your lifestyle, but despite seeing progress you’re still feeling burned out. That’s William’s problem. He’s in the gym 6 days a week and is making all his own food. He’s meeting all his daily goals, but he’s getting “tired of doing everything everyday.” Jeff has a doozy of [...]

Fat 2 Fit #139 – Breaking Those Nasty Weight Loss Plateaus

Russ Turley — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:00:33 +0000

First off, the 1 Million Kilo Challenge that we talked about in episode #138 is open to those outside of Australia. You just have to choose the correct field when signing up. Email and comments are awesome this show. Laura posted a link to the top 10 reasons women want to avoid lifting weights on [...]

Fat 2 Fit #138 – Vilified for Being Fat

Russ Turley — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:55:51 +0000

If we’re not talking about the weather, it just wouldn’t feel like the same podcast. Learned this week, -40 C and -40 F are the same temperature. In either system, it’s cold in Calgary! On the Web Report this week, Jeff talks about the stigma of being overweight. If you’ve been overweight for a good [...]

Fat 2 Fit #137 – Recovering from an Injury

Russ Turley — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:46:33 +0000

We’re back with all new shows for the new year. Look for shows to drop on Wednesdays and Saturday, three times a month. AND you can now listen to those shows on the new Fat 2 Fit iPhone app. Fred Giufridda over at Paladin Software volunteered his time and effort to make a sweet app. [...]

Fat 2 Fit #136 – 5th Annual Goals Show

Russ Turley — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:34:38 +0000

The new year is an obvious time to turn over a new leaf. Whether it’s quitting smoking, drinking or the ever popular lose weight, there’s no denying that the resolutions are flying. If you took a look out the window this morning you might have seen more people than normal walking or even jogging. The [...]

Fat 2 Fit #135 – Googling for Weight Loss

Russ Turley — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:37:08 +0000

We are back with another new show. That wouldn’t be news, but considering the last few months, it definitely is. We are getting back to regular shows…slowly. In the email and comments section we tackle two questions. One that we sent in by multiple people that goes kinda like this, “I just started listening to [...]

Fat 2 Fit #134 – Halloween All Year Round

Russ Turley — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:13:54 +0000

We’re back after an extended hiatus. Thanks for sticking around and staying subscribed. First off, Jeff has a couple things to say to all the well wishers out there, and there were a lot of you. But, pretty quickly it is back to Fat 2 Fit business as usual. In our email and comments section, [...]

Fat 2 Fit #133 – Crunches Not Required

Russ Turley — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:34:01 +0000

We have three great emails this week that don’t have to do with calories. Lyrissa wrote in asking about her sore tailbone. She’s getting down on the ground and doing crunches and it’s killing her tailbone. She wants to know how to do crunches without the pain. Check out the links below for our [...]

Fat 2 Fit #132 – Can You “Tone” Muscles?

Russ Turley — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:46:21 +0000

Toning your muscles seems like a reasonable thing to want to do. Except, there’s no such thing. What most people are looking for when they want to “tone” is they want to see their muscles. They want to know that the hard work their putting in at the gym is not going to waste. That’s [...]

Fat 2 Fit #131 – Secrets To Keeping The Weight Off

Russ Turley — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:00:35 +0000

What do 5% of the weight losing population do that the other 95% don’t? How about keep the weight off. That’s right. The statistics are staggering. According to the article on Time.com, there are four secrets that those who’ve lost weight use to keep it off. Those secrets are, eating a diet rich in low-fat [...]

Fat 2 Fit #130 – Combatting Weight Creep

Russ Turley — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:00:35 +0000

The Weight Creep. It’s not a creature. It’s what happens when you eat just a few extra calories a day that you don’t burn off. Over many years those calories add up to more fat, more weight. What foods help in feeding weight creep? There’s a new study out of Harvard that tracked almost 121,000 [...]

Fat 2 Fit #129 – The Best Meal Plan

Russ Turley — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:00:40 +0000

What is the best meal plan? We’ve received that question a lot recently. Joanne emailed to ask this exact question. People are looking for that one food, or foods, that will help them lose weight. We don’t recommend any certain meal plans, mostly because what we like, may not be what you like. Plus, if [...]

Fat 2 Fit #128 – Gain Muscle & Lose Fat

Russ Turley — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:00:59 +0000

The Holy Grail of transforming your body from fat to fit is shedding your excess fat and gaining some lean muscle. It was thought that one couldn’t do it. One requires a caloric surplus (gaining muscle) and one requires a caloric deficit (fat loss). Well a study on the Web Report says differently. Jeff reports [...]

Fat 2 Fit #127 – Weight Loss By The Numbers

Russ Turley — Sun, 22 May 2011 06:59:33 +0000

We flipped the show on it’s head this week. Instead of a bunch of emails, we instead focused on some interesting news stories. We’ve got five of them for you, but we do have one email to share, and it’s a great one from Rhonda. Rhonda’s mother and sister are all over her to try [...]

Fat 2 Fit #126 – Following the Fat 2 Fit Philosophy

Russ Turley — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:30:39 +0000

First and foremost on today’s show, we introduce you to a new Fat 2 Fit podcast. It’s called Fat 2 Fit Power Tips. We’ve taken what used to be the old homework section of the show and have created a new, hyper focused show just around that concept. We offer up one tip a week [...]

Fat 2 Fit #125 – Avoid Impromptu Cheat Days

Russ Turley — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:00:42 +0000

Cheat days. Many diet plans tell you to take a day off a week and eat anything you want. The idea is that you minimize your calories during the week to an unhealthy level and with one day of binge eating you make up the difference, but not completely. By the end of the week [...]

Fat 2 Fit #124 – Raised To Be Overweight

Russ Turley — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:00:03 +0000

Joell’s old basketball coach used to say, “The biggest room in a person’s house is the room for improvement” and that was the case for Joell. She was not losing weight despite training and completing a half marathon. Three months ago she started listening to the podcast and decided to take some of our advice. [...]

Fat 2 Fit #123 – Dr. Oz Jumps the Shark

Russ Turley — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:32:38 +0000

On the Web Report, we discuss a recent Dr. Oz show that has Russ convinced the good doctor has “jumped the shark”. This term, of course, refers to the moment on the popular TV show Happy Days. Fonzie actually jumps a shark on water skis and marked the down turn of that show. The episode [...]

Fat 2 Fit #122 – Overcoming Temptations at Work

Russ Turley — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:19:36 +0000

What if you’re around junk food all day long at the office? That’s the problem Cookie is having. He works at a baseball stadium and the lure of hot dogs, peanuts, chips and the like, are on his mind. How does he keep them away from his lips? We share our tips for overcoming temptations [...]

Fat 2 Fit #121 – Running and Weight Loss Plateaus

Russ Turley — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:36:36 +0000

This week we had a bunch of running questions and running advice sent in. Erin wrote in to tell her story. She hit a weight loss plateau while running and went to see a nutritionist to find out why. Ended up, surprise surprise, that she was under eating. She shares some great advice about calories [...]

Fat 2 Fit #120 – Excess Skin After Weight Loss

Russ Turley — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:18:42 +0000

Today on the show we do the rare Fat 2 Fit interview. This time it’s with an individual, Jonathan Karpetz, that lost an immense amount of weight. Unfortunately for Jonathan, his skin did not bounce back. A few years ago, he went on a crash diet and lost weight fast and that may have had [...]

Fat 2 Fit #119 – Question-palooza

Russ Turley — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:00:47 +0000

Every now and then, when the backlog of questions from listeners gets too large, we do an all question and answer show. This is that show. We answer 10 questions from 10 listeners. Some you’ll know the answer to, awesome, and others are unique. Here’s the rundown of question topics and asker: Activity levels – [...]

Fat 2 Fit #118 – The Evils of Starvation Diets

Russ Turley — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:00:36 +0000

We’ve answered a lot of questions recently about these starvation diets. Last time it was Dr. Bernstein and this time it’ s the HCG diet. This beaut of a diet has you getting injections with hormones found in a pregnant woman. Oh, and you also eat only 500 calories a day. Jessica wrote us on [...]

Fat 2 Fit #117 – Listener Statistics & Jack LaLanne

Russ Turley — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:00:09 +0000

Over that last several months, we’ve been collecting anonymous data about the visitors to fat2fitradio.com who use our calculators. We’ve looked at the data and found some interesting information about our “average listener”. Carol wrote in about a new book that offers a new body in 4 hours. While that’s an exaggeration, to say the [...]

Fat 2 Fit #116 – The Real Skinny on Weight Loss Centers

Russ Turley — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:58:19 +0000

We’re a few weeks into the New Year and the weight loss clinics are in full rush mode. Both Jeff and Russ have noticed an increase in the number of commercials pushing their programs. Don’t be fooled! Stick with your goals and stick to your plan! Jana wrote in asking if it’s okay to fast [...]

Fat 2 Fit #115 – Food Journaling Tips & Tricks

Russ Turley — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:00:05 +0000

We got some great feedback on our list of fitness devices that will “put your money where you mouth is” this week. Multiple listeners sent in their picks. Included in the picks were measuring spoons. We also discussed an email from Dan about his pants. Apparently when he measured his pants, he found that they [...]

Fat 2 Fit #114 – Fitness Products That Can Make A Difference

Russ Turley — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:12:44 +0000

We did a show a few months back about how to confront a loved one about their out of control weight. But, we received an email from a listener that was just the opposite. Robyn’s mother is out of control pestering her about her weight. She even goes as far as to call her mother [...]

Fat 2 Fit #113 – Achieving Your Goals in the New Year

Russ Turley — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:00:53 +0000

Are you planning to fail on your New Years resolutions? Well, if you’re like most, you’ve failed to plan, so that old adage will come to fruition. Without planning out your goals with specificity and deliberateness your resolution will fall by the wayside part way through the year. This is our 4th annual goals show [...]

Fat 2 Fit #112 – Sleep and Weight Loss

Russ Turley — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:00:16 +0000

Martine wrote in with another question about sleeping and eating when doing shift work. A lot of people end up eating during these odd hour shifts and end up gaining weight. We share our tips for three basic situations you may find yourself in when working the night shift. Rich wrote in about his experiences [...]

Fat 2 Fit #111 – Getting Fit Over 40

Russ Turley — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:00:57 +0000

We’ve had a lot of great emails come in from listeners who are over 40 years old. So, on this show we chose 3 emails to answer that those individuals sent in. The advice doesn’t just apply to those who have hit this milestone. No matter what your age, the advice still holds true. We [...]

Fat 2 Fit #110 – All Hail the Twinkie Diet

Russ Turley — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:00:58 +0000

The Twinkie diet has gotten a lot of press recently. A professor at Kansas State University lost 27 lbs. on a diet consisting of snack cakes of all kinds. He did that in 10 weeks. While that seems like an awesome way to lose weight, there was some damage done to the professor’s metabolism because [...]

Fat 2 Fit #109 – Your Own Operation Hot Bod

Russ Turley — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:56:46 +0000

The title of today’s show was inspired by one of our emails. Michelle’s husband is deployed overseas and while he’s away she is embarking on what she has named Operation Hot Bod. The best part of the operation is that she’s set a completely reasonable goal and when her husband gets back Michelle will be [...]

Fat 2 Fit #108 – Secrets of Fat Loss

Russ Turley — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:00:05 +0000

When people succeed in fat loss and keep it off for the long haul, they leave clues to their success. Listener Charity has lost 100 lbs. and uses an article she read to remind her of what it takes to have permanent fat loss. It’s a great list of clues from DietChannel.com of what worked [...]

Fat 2 Fit #107 – Corn Sugar and Kitchen Fresh Chicken

Russ Turley — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:25:31 +0000

You may have heard about the Corn Refiners Association floating the idea of changing the name of high fructose corn syrup to the more palatable and less stigmatic, corn sugar. KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken, tried to do this in the past and rebrand themselves Kitchen Fresh Chicken. It didn’t work. They’re not fooling us and [...]

Fat 2 Fit #106 – Faster vs. Better Weight Loss

Russ Turley — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:59:15 +0000

What’s possible when you lose weight? Climbing a mountain? That’s exactly Randy’s plan. Over the last year he’s lost 80 lbs and is now living life to it’s fullest. He’s planning on climbing Mt. St. Helens. Check out Randy’s before and after picture. Terry wrote in as well asking about better versus faster results. She [...]

Fat 2 Fit #105 – Reversing Osteopenia

Russ Turley — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:52:13 +0000

Rachel wrote in asking about losing muscle and losing bone. You’ve all heard, probably from us, that as we get older we lose muscle. But did you also know that we use bone? It’s called osteopenia. It’s a natural part of aging, but it doesn’t have to be. You can stop and even reverse that [...]

Fat 2 Fit #104 – Diet Coke: Good or Bad

Russ Turley — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:30 +0000

Debbie is drinking 48 ounces of Diet Mountain Dew a day. Her husband is concerned that the diet soda is making her eat more, rather than less as she claims. We go around and around on this subject, but what is the latest and greatest information on diet soda and it’s effects on the body? [...]

Fat 2 Fit #103 – Body Fat Calculation

Russ Turley — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:00:44 +0000

How should you determine your body fat percentage? Do you take you own measurements and use a calculator? How about body fat scales, are they accurate? Do you need to get pinched in a skin caliper test? How about the “Cadillac” methods, the Bod Pod or hydrostatic testing? That’s a lot of questions. Listener Lisa [...]

Fat 2 Fit #102 – Curing Disease with Weight Loss

Russ Turley — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:05:01 +0000

Every once in a while we get these great emails from listeners. They’re success stories that show what good old exercise and eating healthy and moderately can do. Today’s show is one such show. Listener Jeff wrote a great email that recounted his weight loss journey including the myriad diseases that were cured by losing [...]

Fat 2 Fit #101 – Losing Weight Too Quickly

Russ Turley — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:15:25 +0000

What do you say to someone that tells you you’re losing weight too slowly? You are in fact losing weight, just not at the pace that they would like. Listener Robin has just such a problem. Even her doctor wants her to use very low calorie diet and her friends are pushing her to run [...]

Fat 2 Fit #100 – Reminiscing and Announcements

Russ Turley — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:00:46 +0000

We’ve been at this for 100 shows now. We’re changing things up a little bit. We go through those changes here on the show. Jeff also put together two clips. The first clip contains parts of our first show way back in Oct. ’07. It’s a little painful to hear those early shows, the pauses [...]

Fat 2 Fit #99 – Being a Vegetarian

Russ Turley — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:24:53 +0000

Being a vegetarian or vegan is not the general focus of Fat 2 Fit Radio. But, we still get many emails asking about losing weight and being a vegetarian. What are some good sources of vegetarian protein? Will I lose weight if I’m a vegan? We could just do the research ourselves but instead we [...]