AMA with Angela: How to Use Essential Aminos, Staying Connected to Your Goals, How I Balance Business and Family, Teaching Children Healthy Eating and More!

Nov 29, 2024

In a lively AMA, Angela tackles essential aminos, highlighting their role in muscle recovery and plant-based diets. She shares clever strategies to stay aligned with personal goals, emphasizing progress over perfection while avoiding burnout. The conversation shifts to balancing career and family, where she stresses modeling healthy eating for kids and nurturing their body image without emotional ties to food. Practical tips abound, making health and happiness a family affair!

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ADVICE

Essential Amino Acids for Low Appetite

Supplement with essential amino acids to help reach protein targets, especially if you have a low appetite.
These aminos are rapidly absorbed and don't require the digestion of whole proteins like chicken.

ADVICE

Using Essential Aminos Around Workouts and Fasting

Take essential amino acids before, during, or after workouts to minimize muscle breakdown and improve recovery.
Use them between meals or while fasting to boost your overall protein intake.

INSIGHT

Leucine Threshold for Muscle Protein Synthesis

Leucine is the key amino acid that triggers muscle protein synthesis; aim for 2.5 to 3 grams.
Essential amino acids are leucine-rich, making them an efficient way to stimulate muscle growth.

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The Gap and The Gain

The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success

Dan Sullivan

Benjamin Hardy

This book introduces the concept of 'The Gap and The Gain', developed by Dan Sullivan, which helps high achievers understand why they are often unhappy despite their accomplishments. It explains that measuring oneself against an ideal (the Gap) leads to dissatisfaction, while measuring against past achievements (the Gain) fosters happiness, gratitude, and motivation. The book is a masterclass on positive psychology, healthy relationships, mental well-being, and high-performance, offering practical advice on how to shift focus to appreciate progress and achieve greater fulfillment and success.

The 12-week year

Tom Pile

Brian Moran

Michael Lennington

The 12 Week Year challenges the traditional annual goal-setting approach, which is often ineffective for many individuals and organizations. The book introduces a 12-week execution cycle that captures the energy and urgency of year-end goals, avoiding the pitfalls of low productivity associated with annualized thinking. It provides a step-by-step system to improve execution effectiveness, creating focus, clarity, and a sense of urgency to achieve more in a shorter period.

The 4 Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss

In 'The 4-Hour Workweek', Timothy Ferriss presents a step-by-step guide to 'lifestyle design', encouraging readers to question the traditional notion of retirement and instead create a lifestyle that prioritizes freedom, adventure, and personal growth. The book teaches how to outsource life tasks, automate income, and eliminate unnecessary work using principles like the 80/20 rule and Parkinson’s Law. Ferriss shares his personal journey from a corporate workaholic to a location-independent entrepreneur and provides practical tips and case studies to help readers achieve similar results. The book emphasizes the importance of focusing on high-value activities, taking 'mini-retirements', and living life to the fullest in the present rather than deferring enjoyment until retirement.

Angela dives into a thought-provoking AMA (Ask Me Anything) session, addressing listener questions on topics ranging from protein intake and the use of essential amino acids to maintaining alignment with personal dreams and values.

She examines the importance of staying connected to one's goals while navigating potential burnout and offers practical strategies for achieving realistic objectives. She also shares insights on balancing work and family life, encouraging healthy lifestyle choices for children without fostering negative body image issues

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Using Essential Amino Acids:
Essential amino acids support muscle repair, prevent breakdown during fasting or workouts, and improve recovery without added calories, especially helpful for low appetite or plant-based diets.
Staying Connected to Goals:
Align goals with personal values, use realistic timelines, and focus on progress rather than perfection. Balance ambition with recovery and chunk large goals into actionable steps.
Managing Sugar and Body Image for Kids:
Model healthy eating habits, emphasise strength and energy, and avoid linking emotions with food. Speak in terms of their values to foster better choices.

TIMESTAMPS AND KEY TOPICS

0:05: Staying connected to dreams and vibrational alignment.
0:48: Introduction to the High Performance Health Podcast.
1:09: Start of AMA and questions submission details.
12:04: Benefits of essential amino acids for muscle health.
18:15: Using amino acids for fasting, workouts, and recovery.
25:49: Strategies to achieve big goals without burnout.
35:45: Aligning goals with personal values for better focus.
40:19: Managing sugar intake and fostering healthy habits in kids.
45:28: Closing remarks and next month’s AMA details.

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Resources Mentioned:

Perfect Aminos and Thorne Essential Aminos

The 12 Week Year Book

The Gap and The Gain Book

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ABOUT THE HOST

Angela Foster is an award winning Nutritionist, Health & Performance Coach, Speaker and Host of the High Performance Health podcast. A former Corporate lawyer turned industry leader in biohacking and health optimisation for women, Angela has been featured in various media including Huff Post, Runners world, The Health Optimisation Summit, BrainTap, The Women’s Biohacking Conference, Livestrong & Natural Health Magazine.

Angela is the creator of BioSyncing®️ a blueprint for ambitious entrepreneurial women to biohack their health so they can 10X how they show up in their business and their family without burning out. Angela’s BioSyncing®️ Blueprint is currently closed. Click here to get on the waitlist.

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