Podcast Episodes

01 November 2011

Episode 28 - Five Things

5-numberOn July 1 we decided to do an episode for August 1 called Five Things - in which we'd come up with five fun things to do in the remaining five months of 2011. But we didn't record until September 1, and it took me two months to get around to the editing. So it's now November 1 and there's only two months left in the year!

So today we belatedly present Five Things, three months late.

My humble apologies for some recording dodginess - we lost our Skype connection so had to switch Carla to the phone, and my microphone has not been playing ball. Can you tell we've been a little frazzled round here lately!? But what this episode lacks in finesse it makes up for with love and enthusiasm ;)

5-jacksonsA huge thanks to our special guest bloggers who provided their own Fives:

Here's how to listen:


Here is an alternative download link if you have any issues with the options above

Please let us know if you have any problems listening - we are here to help.

Huge thanks for today's Blogger News stars:

5-shoesWe've received more Blogger News since we recorded and it has been held safely ready for our next episode. Apologies for the delay!

Got a some episode feedback or Blogger News to share? Just fill out this handy form! We want to make sure we don't miss your news so please use the form to submit your item.

Today's outro tune is These Things Take Time by The Smiths. But three months between episodes? Really now!

If you'd like to help spread the word about the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes.

Many thanks for tuning in!

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)

| |

01 July 2011

Episode 27 - Kettlebells and Kindness

Karen Anderson We're back after a looooong absence. Thanks for sticking around!

Annoyingly life and work keep getting in the way of podcasting lately, so we're going to experiment with a monthly schedule. We're now planning to post a new episode on the 1st of the month.

Today we talk about finally meeting in person (woohoo!) at the Fitbloggin conference and talk about our Baltimore experience. Then we move on to the main topic Kettlebells and Kindness, with our special guest Karen Anderson of Before & After: A Real Life Story.

We chatted to Karen about:

  • her path to self-acceptance
  • her groovy Mirror Exercise for boosting body image
  • how she discovered the joys of kettlebells
  • her new book AFTER the Before & After

Here's how to listen:


Here is an alternative download link if you have any issues with the options above

Please let us know if you have any problems listening - we are here to help.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Huge thanks for today's Blogger News stars:

Got a some episode feedback or Blogger News to share? Just fill out this handy form! We want to make sure we don't miss your news so please use the form to submit your item.

Today's outro tune is Ring My Bell by Mix Master Chris.

If you'd like to help spread the word about the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes.

Many thanks for tuning in!

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)

| |

18 April 2011

Episode 26 - Lynn and the Art of Weight Maintenance

  We've had many requests for an episode about weight maintenance and we're happy to report that we've finally delivered the goods!

Maintenance is a topic that I (Shauna) have wanted to cover for a long time. I've written a lot on my blog about my efforts to understand how and why my own maintenance efforts went off the rails. A big help in moving forward again has been studying successful maintainers and trying to figure out what the heck makes them so successful. One woman in particular has been wonderfully inspiring and insightful and both Carla and I are so excited that she's our guest today.

Lynn Haraldson is a freelance writer living in Pittsburgh, originally from Minnesota. Lynn lost 168 pounds using Weight Watchers Online and has successfully maintained for 4 years. She has blogged about her journey on her blog Lynn’s Weigh and also co-authors a maintenance blog called Refuse to Regain with Barbara Berkeley, M.D., an internist specializing in obesity. Lynn has had numerous television appearances including the Today Show, Entertainment Tonight and Oprah!

We chatted to Lynn about:

  • The ups and downs of her maintenance
  • How she knew "this time was different"
  • Why maintenance is about vigilance
  • Weight loss and identity
  • The joys and pressures of blogging about your weight
  • What it was like being on OPRAH!

A wee warning - I had the computer volume a wee bit too loud when I recorded so my voice is a little distorted in places. Sorry about that!

Here's how to listen:

Here is an alternative download link and another in-browser player below:

26 Lynn and the Art of Weight Maintenance

Please let us know if you have any problems listening - our technical support team is here to serve you with a smile.

Three cheers for today's Blogger News stars:

Other links mentioned in the episode:

Today's outro tune is The Long And Winding Road by The Beatles coz that's the best thing I could think of to illustrate the topic of maintenance, which is indeed a long and winding road.

Got a some episode feedback or Blogger News to share? Email us at hello@twofitchicks, pop a comment on this post, tweet @twofitchicks or say hello on Facebook. If you'd like to help spread the word about the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes.

Thank you for tuning in!

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (13) | TrackBack (0)

| |

07 March 2011

Episode 25 - When Staying Healthy Is A Pain

Jennette Fulda From injuries, illness to chronic pain, today we're talking about the struggles of staying healthy when circumstances get difficult.

As well as a brand-spanking new acronym from Carla, we also have a very special guest today. Jennette Fulda is the author of  Chocolate & Vicodin (of which you could win a copy - read on!)

Her memoir chronicles the story of a headache like no other:

Jennette Fulda went to bed on February 17, 2008, with a headache, and more than three years later, it still hasn’t gone away. Yes, she’s tried everything: intravenous drugs, chiropractic adjustments, acupuncture, subliminal messaging, marijuana (for medical purposes only), heavy drinking (which just made it hurt more), and lots and lots of chocolate.

In this painfully honest, smart, and funny memoir, the popular PastaQueen.com blogger who chronicled her nearly two hundred pound weight loss in Half-Assed shares her incredible journey to find relief from a chronic headache. As she visits countless doctors, indulges all manner of unsolicited advice from the Internet, and investigates every possible cause, from a brain tumor to a dead twin living in her brain, Jennette considers what it means to suffer, how to live with pain, and why the best treatment might be the simplest: laughter."

image from www.dietgirl.org
With her trademark grace and humour, Jennette talks to us about her headache experience, how it's changed her life and offers some great tips on coping with chronic pain.

Here's how to listen:


Here is an alternative download link and another in-browser player below:

25 When Staying Healthy Is A Pain

Please let us know if you have any problems listening - our technical support team is here to serve you with a smile.

Thanks Sandrelle for your question and thanks to our Blogger News informants:

A huge thanks to Jennette Fulda for joining us today. Chocolate & Vicodin is OUT NOW in book stores! Find out more on her website.

We both absolutely LOVED the heck of this book so we're dead excited to announce we have a copy away to give away to a Two Fit Chicks listener, courtesy of Jennette Fulda . To enter, please leave a comment on this post. Entries close Monday 14 March. Winner will be drawn at random.

Today's outro tune is Headache by Frank Black.

Got a some episode feedback or Blogger News to share? Email us at hello@twofitchicks, pop a comment on this post, tweet @twofitchicks or say hello on Facebook. If you'd like to help spread the word about the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes.

Thank you for tuning in, you lovely people!

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (21) | TrackBack (0)

| |

20 February 2011

How to access ye olde episodes

We're having some technical issues with our early episodes not showing up in iTunes or being playable from this blog. We've now posted alternative download and in-browser player links on all Two Fit Chicks episodes. You can find the big list of old episodes here »

Our apologies to everyone who has tried to access these episodes and not had any luck. And a very big thank you to Nicole for alerting us to this!

UPDATE: Our iTunes feed has now been updated so all 24 episodes should soon be visible. The embedded player for Episode 2: Running (Feet and Nose) was also broken, but has now been revived. Phew! :)

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

| |

14 February 2011

Episode 24 - Your Questions Answered IV

Designated Fat Girl by Jennifer Joyner Happy Valentines lovely listeners! We present to you in a heart-shaped box a new episode entitled Your Questions Answered Part IV.

(Shauna refers to it as Part V throughout the episode, but let's just ignore her counting issues!)

Today's questions:

  • How did Carla lose her 40 pounds?
  • Fat Burning Zone v Cardio Zone - WTF?
  • How do you choose guests for the podcast?
  • Should I have weight loss surgery?

Our special guest is Jennifer Joyner, author of Designated Fat Girl: A Memoir, who kindly helps us out with the weight loss surgery question. Jennifer had gastric bypass surgery two years ago and is very open, heartfelt and candid with us about the ups and downs of her experience. She also has a really great accent, so don't miss this one!

Here's how to listen:


Here is an alternative download link and another in-browser player below:

24 Your Questions Answered IV

Please let us know if you have any problems listening - our technical support team is here to serve you with a smile.

Big thanks to our Blogger News informants:

And thank you to our question ask-ers and our special guest Jennifer Joyner. You can visit her website, find her on Twitter or peek inside her memoir Designated Fat Girl over on Amazon.

Today's outro tune is Tell Me Why by The Beatles, as it was getting late and Shauna was struggling to think of a song that had a Question or an Answer in it. And also because she's been on a total Beatle bender lately!

Got a some episode feedback or Blogger News to share? Email us at hello@twofitchicks, pop a comment on this post, tweet @twofitchicks or say hello on Facebook. If you'd like to help spread the word about the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes. That would make us more besotted than if you gave us a pound of Godiva choccies!

As always, thank you for tuning in.

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

| |

24 January 2011

Episode 23 - Happy New You!

The Great Fitness Experiment We're baaaaack and raring to go for 2011!

In lieu of belated new years' resolution chat we're talking about exercise today, particularly about how to learn to enjoy and find a way to move your body that you enjoy.

And of course this means a brand N.E.W. acronym for you!

We also bring you an interview with the lovely Charlotte Hilton Andersen that we recorded earlier this month, in which Carla doesn't even try to be impartial with her adoration for Charlotte's blog and brand new book, The Great Fitness Experiment. Charlotte talked to us about her favourite fitness experiments and the joys of trying something new.

And of course we have lots of your Blogger News, albeit quite ye olde Blogger News now since we took that wee sabbatical. Timely it may not be, but inspiring it most definitely is!

Here's how to listen:


Here is an alternative download link and another in-browser player below:

23  Happy New You

Please let us know if you have any problems listening - our technical support team is here to serve you.

Big thanks to our Blogger News stars - thank you for your patience!

Today's outro tune is New Sensation by INXS, as it was the first tune with the word NEW in it that popped into Shauna's head.

Got a some episode feedback or Blogger News to share? Email us at hello@twofitchicks, pop a comment, tweet @twofitchicks or say hello on Facebook. If you'd like to help spread the word about the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes. Thank you for tuning in!

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)

| |

13 December 2010

Episode 22 - Holiday Food

Podcast-project If you're looking for "how not to gain weight over the holidays" advice you've come to the wrong place! We reckon this topic has already been covered by pretty much every media outlet in the Western world, which leaves us free to talk turkey. And other tasty holiday foods!

Today's episode is part of the Holiday Food Podcast Project, a collaboration between a bunch of fantastic podcasts and food blogs (see below for the full list of goodness). We discuss our own holiday traditions and well as the rituals of many Two Fit Chicks listeners. From herring to French toast, latkes to cheeseburgers, to boozy hot chocolate to pajama days, it's a fascinating and droolworthy window in your world.

We then finish up the last episode of 2010 with our Highlights of the Year.

Here's how to listen:


Here is an alternative download link and another in-browser player below:

22  Holiday Food

Please let us know if you have any problems listening - our technical support team is here to serve you.

Check out our fellow Holiday Food Podcast Project particpants:

Thank you to these listeners for sharing their holiday traditions with us: Lori, Deb, Sagan, Charlotte, Mary, Melissa, Victoria, Maureen, Amanda, Sharla, Kate, Donna, April, Jeanna, Gaile, Charlene and Crafty in Ottawa (please let us know if you have a blog or Twitter page you'd like us to link to!).
Get festive with today's outro tune, Frosty the Snowman by The Ronettes. Dig that Wall of Sound!

Got a some episode feedback or Blogger News to share? Email us at hello@twofitchicks, pop a comment, tweet @twofitchicks or say hello on Facebook. If you'd like to help spread the word about the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes.

That's all for Two Fit Chicks for 2010 - thanks for tuning in this year. Wishing you all a very happy holiday season and hope to see you in 2011!

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (9) | TrackBack (0)

| |

11 October 2010

Episode 19 - Happy Birthday to us!

6a00d83451c20669e2011168a1f95f970c-pi Today we celebrate a year of podcasting by turning the microphone on each other and asking some hard-hitting questions. Well, the questions are more featherweight, really. We were in a happy mood and just ran with it!

We also discuss The Hunger Diaries, the controversial Marie Claire article about the "Big Six" healthy living bloggers, then Shauna tries to describe a lamington (pictured right!).

Here's how to listen:


Here is an alternative download link and another in-browser player below:

19 Happy Birthday to us!

Please let us know if you have any problems listening - our technical support team is here to serve you.

Many thanks to our Blogger News contributors:

  1. Amanda from Food Exercise Express
  2. Kari via Facebook
  3. Melissa
  4. Melissa from Run Is My Fun
  5. Julia via Facebook

Links mentioned in this episode:

Hip hip hooray for today's outro tune: Birthday by Shonen Knife.

Got a some episode feedback or Blogger News to share? Email us at hello@twofitchicks, pop a comment, tweet @twofitchicks or say hello on Facebook. If you'd like to help spread the word about the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes.

As we said in today's episode, a huge thank you to you all for listening, for your news and questions and for all your support over the past thirteen months. Without you we'd just be two chicks yapping to ourselves!

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (20) | TrackBack (0)

| |

27 September 2010

Episode 18 - Intuitive Eating II

Back in Episode 14 we attempted to define intuitive eating, explored what it means to us and gave some tips to getting started. As we said back then, Intuitive Eating goes by a myriad of names and definitions and means different things to different people. So for today's follow-up episode, we've brought a guest along to share her story and experiences.

Christie Christie Inge is what some might call an intuitive eating success story. On her heartfelt blog Honoring Health she has recounted her journey of learning to listen to her body while encouraging others to do the same. Through this, she has found her greatest passion in life and is now a mindful living coach supporting others to bring awareness to all areas of life - food and beyond.

We asked Christie about the "no more diets" moment that led her to try intuitive eating, how she eats now, the joys and struggles of eating mindfully, her favourite resources. We also discuss the question we get the most on this topic - are weight loss and intuitive eating completely incompatible?

Here's how to listen to the show:


Here is an alternative download link and another in-browser player below:

18  Intuitive Eating 2

Please let us know if you have any problems listening - our technical support team is here to serve you.

Many thanks to our Blogger News contributors:

  1. Phil
  2. Sarrobi of Journey to a Healthier Ginger
  3. Lynda from Taking Less Space
  4. Ellen from 94 Monkeys
  5. Patrick for Responsibility 199
  6. Staci Z
  7. Suellen of Transforme
  8. Ria from Butterflies and Beers

Prince Thanks again to the rockin' Christie from Honoring Health for joining us today.

We talked today about the importance of trusting ourselves which is a strong enough link for me to roll out today's funky outro tune, Trust by Prince.

Got a some episode feedback or Blogger News to share? Email us at hello@twofitchicks, pop a comment, tweet @twofitchicks or say hello on Facebook. If you'd like to help spread the word about the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes! Thanks for tuning in.

Posted by Shauna in Podcast Episodes | | Comments (10) | TrackBack (0)

| |

Next »

Welcome!

Subscribe to the Podcast

Get in touch

Learn to run with Coach Julia Jones

  • Up & Running online running courses Up & Running - kickass running e-courses for women.
    Get expert coaching from Julia Jones (star of Ep 2 and 15) with personal support and a mind-body approach. Find out more »

Get fit with MizFit!

Check out Shauna's book!

Search

Podcasts We Dig

Latest from MizFit

Latest from Dietgirl