Fit Minds
The Fit Minds podcast with your host: Coach Mariah Jean. Discussing all things health and fitness, nutrition, training, mental health, bodybuilding, competitions, sports performance, female specific health and debunking fitness/nutrition industry myths.
Coach Mariah has been training for 10+ years in the gym. She’s a full time online nutrition and fitness coach and a qualified, accredited, registered and insured sports nutritionist and personal trainer under the Mariah Jean fit brand.
Coaching clients and other coaches since launching her business in 2017. Mariah coaches clients nationally in Australia and internationally around the world. Mariah is not just a fitness/nutrition coach, but a business owner, life coach, business coach and mentor within her company: Mariah Jean Pty Ltd. She is a 2 x pro and national champion natural women’s bodybuilding figure athlete.
Mariah recovered from anorexia and bulimia nervosa plus severe depression and anxiety in 2015 and has been no stranger to mental health struggles since childhood. Post recovery she decided to pursue her passion in helping others to avoid the all too common mistakes she made herself along her fitness journey. Mariah’s aim is to help everyday people just like you, discover sustainable nutrition and fitness information and education to utilise for the rest of your lifetime.
To simplify the process once and for all by opening the doors on the fitness and nutrition industry. Peeling back the layers to discover the right mindset and mentality required to live your best, balanced and healthiest lifestyle. To finally remove the confusion, take back your power and establish a better relationship with yourself, your food and your exercise.
The Fit Minds Podcast will help you improve your attitude and approach towards tackling your life challenges, goals and success.
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Fit Minds
Do you have to eat “clean” to be healthy and lose weight?
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Short answer? No. And believing you do might actually be holding you back.
In this episode I break down:
• Why you don’t need to label foods as “good” or “bad”
• How the 80/20 approach supports fat loss, health and sustainability
• Why restriction often leads to binge–restrict cycles
• How including flexible foods protects your relationship with food
• The role of fibre and micronutrients (without obsessing over perfection)
• Why processed food isn’t the real problem — calories and consistency matter most
• Why balance beats extremes every single time
You don’t need to live on salads.
You don’t need to cut out your favourite foods.
You don’t need another all-or-nothing plan.
You need structure, balance, and a method you can actually maintain as a busy mum.
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