Losing weight, coaching, strength training, protein, and how health changed with Maggie Stewart

In this episode I talk with Maggie Stewart, a personal health and fitness coach who also hosts the “Off of the couch podcast”. We talk about:

• Losing weight - Getting enough protein
• How health changed over decades
• Primal health coaching
• Cholesterol, fat and heart disease
• Strength training
• And more…

 

• Maggie’s off of the couch podcast: https://www.offofthecouch.com
• Off of the coach on Twitter: https://twitter.com/offofthecouch
• Mark sission’s blog: https://www.marksdailyapple.com/mark-sisson/

Maggie wanted me to include this as she didn't mention it in the episode:

• The recommended amount of protein is 1.2 gm/ kg body weight
• I like seated exercise for people that are extremely heavy or have knee problems

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Episode timing:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:38) How Maggie's career and interested in health started

(10:24) How Maggie started her approach for helping people with losing weight

(13:27) What Maggie advices now for losing weight

(16:48) Getting enough protein

(22:32) How did health change for people over the decades?

(28:06) Maggie is a primal health coach

(33:40) Maggie's view on cholesytrol, fat and cardiovascular disease

(38:31) Why did Maggie start the Off of the couch podcast?

(40:47) About strength training

(43:33) Maggie's top practical tips to improve health

(46:29) Outro and disclaimer