Tag: Healthy AF Challenge

Episode 124: What I Would Tell You If I Wasn’t Afraid To Hurt Your Feelings

EPISODE 124: 

EPISODE 124: 

What I Would Tell You If I Wasn't Afraid To Hurt Your Feelings

What I Would Tell You If I Wasn't Afraid To Hurt Your Feelings

SHOW NOTES

Alright babes… buckle up. It’s just me today. No guest, no filter, and apparently no fear of ruffling a few feathers. Because after years of coaching clients, reading their intro posts, cheering their wins and gently calling out their nonsense, I’ve realized there are a few things I would absolutely tell you if I wasn’t worried about hurting your feelings.

So today I’m naming the patterns that show up again and again. The attitude that lets me know within the first five minutes whether someone is going to crush their goals. The beliefs that quietly sabotage you before you even begin. The overwhelm that comes from consuming way too much wellness content. And the sneaky habit of outsourcing your power to programs, gadgets and accountability buddies instead of owning your results like the badass you actually are.

This episode is tough love wrapped in a cozy blanket. You are not broken. You are not behind. You just need to stop giving your power to anything outside of yourself. And yes, I say that with love and possibly a tiny bitch slap.

WHAT’S INSIDE:

  • The five-minute success test I can’t unsee and what your intro post secretly tells me about your future results
  • How program hopping keeps you stuck in the valley of despair instead of moving forward
  • Why the emotional cycle of change makes you think you need a reset when you really need persistence
  • The truth about accountability and why the person who leads always gets the biggest transformation

So here is my question for you. What is winning really about for you? Is it obsessing over the perfect plan or finally trusting yourself to follow through? Is it searching for the shiny new program or getting so rooted in your habits that your life starts to quietly transform from the inside out?

That could be you. Truly.

If something in this episode poked at a sore spot, good. That’s your clue. I want to hear which part hit home. Come tell me on Instagram. I love knowing what lands for you and what you are ready to change.

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Join Oonagh Duncan (fitness expert and bestselling author of Healthy As F*ck/Ditch The Diet) as she examines the habits of kicking ass every day - so you can create a life of no regrets.

Because your dream life (and your dream bod) isn’t just going to happen because you made a vision board. It takes Goals. It takes Grit. And it takes some woo-woo sh*t."

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Episode 123: The Ozempic Effect with Paul Kemp

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EPISODE 123: 

The Ozempic Effect with Paul Kemp

The Ozempic Effect with Paul Kemp

SHOW NOTES

Have you ever stumbled into something that feels way bigger than you expected? That is exactly what happened with today’s guest, Paul Kemp, multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker and creator of The Ozempic Effect: Beyond the Waistline. And the wild part? My actual voice opens his film. Yep, somehow I accidentally narrated his sizzle reel and did not even know it. Life is weird.

In this episode, we go way past “Is Ozempic good or bad?” and dive into what might happen when up to 40 percent of North Americans are on GLP-1 drugs. We are talking changes to restaurants, grocery stores, alcohol companies, airlines, fashion, sex, gambling, online shopping, and even dementia and inflammation in the brain.

Paul opens up about his own assumptions going into the film. He thought it was just a shortcut at first. That shifted after hearing story after story from people who finally felt free from food noise. One guy literally said that chocolate-covered almonds became invisible to him. Imagine that.

We also get into some of the more complicated stuff, like black-market peptides, the pressure on the body-positive movement, and the question no one really wants to ask: if these drugs take away our vices, what replaces them? Are we becoming healthier, or just differently disconnected?

And then, at the end, Paul turns the tables and asks me if I would take a GLP-1 drug. You will want to hear that answer.

This episode is not about telling you what to do. It is about waking up to the fact that a massive cultural shift is already happening and whether we like it or not, it is changing how humans interact with food, pleasure, and even each other.

So now I am throwing it back to you. Is ease a bad thing, or have we just been conditioned to believe suffering equals worth?

WHAT’S INSIDE:

  • How GLP-1 drugs work beyond weight loss, including brain health and inflammation
  • The impact on restaurants, alcohol, fashion, and society
  • Why shame still exists around Ozempic and so-called shortcuts
  • The surprising effect on addiction, sex drive, and impulse control

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Join Oonagh Duncan (fitness expert and bestselling author of Healthy As F*ck/Ditch The Diet) as she examines the habits of kicking ass every day - so you can create a life of no regrets.

Because your dream life (and your dream bod) isn’t just going to happen because you made a vision board. It takes Goals. It takes Grit. And it takes some woo-woo sh*t."

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Episode 122: From Perimenopause Panic to Peace with Amanda MacKintosh

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 From Perimenopause Panic to Peace with Amanda MacKintosh

From Perimenopause Panic to Peace with Amanda MacKintosh

SHOW NOTES

Okay, dude… if you’ve ever had a doctor shrug and basically say, “Yeah, you’re in perimenopause, good luck with that,” this episode is going to hit hard. My guest today, Amanda MacKintosh, got that exact speech right at the moment when she was gaining weight, feeling constantly hungry, and low-key convinced her body was broken.

Her social feeds were screaming hormones. Her doctor was like, get used to it. And Amanda? She honestly didn’t feel like doing any of the things she was being told to do. Chocolate and chips were putting up a very convincing argument.

But instead of spiraling into despair, Amanda did something kind of brilliant-slash-petty-slash-genius. She decided to follow a healthy living program perfectly just so she could go back to her doctor and say, “See? I did your boring advice and it does not work. Now fix me.”

Except… plot twist… it did work.

In this conversation, Amanda shares how she went from that perimenopause panic to feeling strong, capable, and dare I say joyful again. From eating vegetables like a goddamn champion to doing push-ups in sets of thirty and lifting her carry-on overhead without asking some random guy for help.

We get into habit loops, chocolate negotiations, why “making it fun” felt like an insult at first and the surprisingly boring thing that changed everything. Spoiler: it is not hormones. It is vegetables.

If you have ever felt like your body changed overnight and your willpower packed its bags and left, Amanda’s story is going to give you hope, relief and maybe a little kick in the butt.

WHAT’S INSIDE:

  • How panic around perimenopause and the “it’s your hormones” message kept Amanda stuck and what actually moved her forward
  • The shockingly boring secret behind her massive transformation
  • How the MFA helped her ditch all-or-nothing thinking and build habits that actually stick
  • Why fun matters more than willpower and how she made healthy living feel doable instead of dreadful

If you are nodding along to this and thinking, “Oh crap, this is me,” then dude, I want to hear about it. What is your version of feeling broken and what would it look like to feel powerful again? Not in some magical hormone hack way but in the real-life, choosing-yourself kind of way. Send me a DM on Instagram and tell me where you feel stuck and what you wish felt easier in your life right now. I love hearing your stories and cheering you on.

Mentioned in This Episode:

ABOUT THE SHOW

Join Oonagh Duncan (fitness expert and bestselling author of Healthy As F*ck/Ditch The Diet) as she examines the habits of kicking ass every day - so you can create a life of no regrets.

Because your dream life (and your dream bod) isn’t just going to happen because you made a vision board. It takes Goals. It takes Grit. And it takes some woo-woo sh*t."

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