
100% Real With Ruby; no #BS nutrition, fitness, fat loss, muscle, macros + mindset
Ruby Cherie (@transformxruby) brings the best guests who are not just evidence based, but experience based
we address your questions & cut the BS so you can break free of confusion
- empowering you to a LEAN, STRONG & HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
- Build muscle, strength & change your body composition - where amazing conversations happen
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Apr 7, 2023 • 41min
#261; is your diet causing havoc to your GUT HEALTH?/ Gab Fundaro pt 1
@vitaminphd
Barbend
Examine.com
@transformxruby
Chronic high fat feeding –
Hyper caloric
Need to get energy from our diet
Protein or fibre
But alternate = eating away at mucous layers
Not having the fibre there and relying on protein etc = carcinogenic & where does cholesterol fit into this
Microbes can change within 24 hours
So the gut can change but the consequences will take the time they need to revert
Its not lways going
Sorbitol,
How about emulsifiers – is there an impact of too much processed food and how the impact on the gut can also impact the brain and make fatloss harder at all
Food quality matters
Thermic effect of food
Satiety
It will make the diet easier
Chronic dieting or undereating you can have more extractable energy
When youre dieting you can absorb more from the food as well
I want to highlight the 100-150 cal per day that was less calories from food quality because it all adds up
Psychological stress can impact your gut
Broken down completely
Importance of fibre - but not all fibre is created equal
Intolerance tests & other woo woo tests are just that. BS
Too much fibre???
Emulsifiers etcetc

Mar 31, 2023 • 58min
#260/ on all things creatine; optimizing mental & physical performance, body composition & results/ Scotty Forbes
Carbs
Creatine
Importance of muscle mass etc
Recent advances in creatine nutrition and physiology suggest that the quantity of creatine the body naturally synthesizes is not sufficient to meet human needs. As a result, humans have to obtain enough creatine from the diet, which nominates creatine as an essential nutrient in certain circumstances
Alot of people are on a quest to lose fat and get “”toned””
But a big component of what they want is fatloss… how can creatine help in this
> maybe you can explain now what exactly this magical white powder is, how we can get it in the diet but thats not near enough, especially for those who arent heavy meat eaters
> Performance & ability to train harder for longer & do more HIGH QUALITY WORK is what gets the best body composition outcomes.
How can creatine help with that and the 3 anabolics noone is talking about enough - protein has enough lime light
Build muscle - lose fat
Yeah if you can sustain the lifestyle of
“ high protein
>> not just focus on the scale
People are worried about scale weight
The 3 anabolics
Water - hydration
Carbs
Creatine
Everyone talks about protein enough
Talking about energy - - ATP
@scott_forbes_phd

Mar 24, 2023 • 40min
#259/ You need to accept THIS about yourself & your goals if you want to succeed – Ariel Zeigler
Undernourished
You are not your identity – its like a metabolism. Its dynamic
People hold themselves to old notions
Old things that they have become an identity of themselves
But you just cant do it all at once, and if you cant do them all that’s fine – its only a fail if you beat yourself up for all that you aren’t doing instead of all that you are holding up to
All that you are doing
Not only that but the benefits of what you are doing and why its important to you and what it added to your life
People don’t accept that maybe their goal posts have shifted and they aren’t the same person they were when they started
You learn through experience not in acquiring knowledge
Boom and bust
Its like starting a marathon without eating breakfast
Do you believe you can
I think a lot of the time it’s a fear of not believing
There was so much chaotic energy going on
Theres chaos around us this can even be pressure at work so we go to controlling our bodies
,

Mar 17, 2023 • 48min
#258; JUST BECAUSE YOURE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS AND PUTTING IN THE EFFORT Doesnt automatically mean results/ way what? Kenny & sarah Lipton
mAcro checks and calculators - macro coaches
Ben carpenter & syatts posts
Its not about willpower or motivation
People put in a certain effort and expect a certain result
THERES A TIME LAG
JUST BECAUSE YOURE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS AND PUTTING IN THE EFFORT - Doesnt automatically mean results
JUST BECAUSE YOURE SHOWING UP
& doing your best
It took years of habits, beliefs, actions… to get you to wher eyoua re now, they werent ideal for the you that you now desire to be
You need to now BUILD, repeat and cement in NEW habits, beliefs and identity shifts to create a new level of living, a new version of yourself
Shit takes time. It took you 50 miles into the woods, you need to come the 50 miles out and through forging a new path, not the same one you went down in. its like the harry potter maze that closes in on you
The only way out is THROUGH; We cant build or pivot or change from something that isnt being don't consistently
Mindset
People trying to lose weight for years on end
Losing and gaining the same weight
Struggling for months & years
Taking a break from fatloss doesnt mean gaining weight
It means the mental side as well
Yes we need to lose weight but you can lose weight without focusing on it but shifting it else where
Actions in one place, focus in another
Especially if you do have alot of weight to lose
Enabling - babysitting
Effort, intent, intensity
The role of stress
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Pain points -
Marketing, coaches … well trainers. Great sales people know how to sing to this and bring out your desperation
Saw something from adrian chavez warning people against one of the Drs on IG (no idea how hes a dr bc its not in nutrition) but warning against his advice which could easily kill people
But making a statement that people like putting contrary advice out there
Alot of chinese whispers as well where messaging gets mystified
I said this on the last podcast wher emsot people who come to us can recomp and then there will be a point along the road you cant but you
I want to talk about minimum periods with coaches being only the true
A to B wont be
B to C
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@kenny.lipton
@sarahsl.fit

Mar 10, 2023 • 50min
#257; The route to true transformation & realistic expectations + the good & bad social media - Kenny & Sarah Lipton
Trying to take from a body
Getting to results as quickly as possible
Chasing more more more
Rise of social media
FALSE MESSAGES
8 week progress
Look at this
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Also the unrealistic expectations
I also think that people don't understand the actual healthy body fat, everyone wants to get off every corner of fat on their body without realising ‘
& how theres so many people jumping to comps and photo shoots which isnt always taken to a sustainable level
When people hear a year or months, it seems too long
The real results don't come with exciting measures
Its boring consistency
And a coaches job is to sift trough the bullshit to stop you doing dum shit
Why youre doing something comes from you tho - you know youre why but you confuse it. Your want and actions arent aligned
Love talking aout this stuff too
Rep range 8-12
HOW you perform them
You get better at what you practice, practice control and you get better at it
Only focusing on weights can talke away the quality
→ people also don't understand realistic expectations
But your history does matter
Also you don't know the past of people when you see them
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Different forms of stress on the body - you tax different energy systems which is why periodization is so important - nothing is more important because they all have a part and all potentiate the next phase
Thats why progress isnt linear and its important to spend

Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 6min
#256 the mindset & expectations of fatloss and building muscle for BEST results / Nikias Tomasiello
@nikias_fittotransform - Fit to Transform Podcast - fittotransformtraining.com
@transformxruby
- Your total effort level that you give reduces
Body critique even as you get to your leanest not out of it
But the thing is
I want to go back to where you mentioned the people with a lot of body fat that also have the mindset and habits holding them back
Focusing on not dieting doesn’t meal not losing weight, it means shifting your focus but having actions aligned for fatloss + another focus point
You know its going to take longer than you want it to anyway so chasing something tangible & exciting is important
Resassurance
What to expect
Kilos to be kickass
You cant thrive on 1500 calories
You will never thrive without carbs
You will struggle to get to the gym bc things feel hard
Your energy isn’t all there
People you see say they train hard blah blah but still acnt see gains, glutes cant grow blah lah
The same people are trying to lose fat and build muscle at the same time
People are impatient enough
You make it harder with this approach
Chase performance, hard to do when you don’t have strategy, or someone to show you where to look
You still need to be intentional outside of dieting so you don't gain too much fat
Sometimes a coaches job is to just stop yuou doing dub crap like changing your macros as a knee jerk reaction
The process of a true transformation
Is phasic
And they get easier over time as you gain more experience
But you ned consistency not only optimizing things here and there
Your life is in flux. Adapt your targets to the season of life you are in
The missing part in a transformation is usually allowing yourself long enough to build
Mindsets that hold you back from building the body you want
Being afraid to eat more consistently for long enough but why you need to
Not dieting doesnt always mean getting into a surplus… if you still have alot of bodyfat, you can build in maintenance but otherwise a slight surplus will serve you better
You still need to be intentional outside of dieting so you don't gain too much fat
Things you need to let go of
The identity crisis you can have in not being “a dieter” or “chasing fatloss” anymore
How it can feel worse before it feels better
What to focus on & how to train for optimal results
How body image isnt about a look or number perse but something deeper
Shifts you need to make to build muscle, lose fat and keep your results long term
What you do to lose the weight isn’t what you to do keep it off
But your lifestyle
• Fear that its going to be the rest of their life
• It feels too hard
• The commitment is the hard part because it feels too long
• Its hard at first and there are a lot of tradeoffs, youll have to say no… people are unwilling to say no
Why its important to have a coach outside of a fatloss phase
But also in one
If you do it the right way, the after phase will be so much easier to transition out of have give you
Any transition is hard
Any transition between phases
Identity crisis
Identity of a dieter
Always on a diet always struggling to lose weight

Feb 24, 2023 • 1h 13min
#255; The mindset & identity shifts for lifechanging & transformative success/ Kait
ou don’t know what you got until its gone
# Its never to late to start being 1% better to your best self. ‘being ready’ is a lie
Identity
Fear of change
Where does the fear of loss of control come from
The need for identity change
Because they f
You don't see the whole picture online
Something i notice is that people arent even aware of what holds them back
They start with the right intentions but get lost in it all
identity
Bc people feel like they need to be a master of it all already and at someone elses year 3 6 or 9
Being ready
embracings the phases
they beat themselves up alot
perfectionism
impatience many times
doing the hard shit
i feel like there's this YES YOU NEED TO BE KIND TO YOURSELF and allow yourself to find balance but it also hits a point where they dont push themselves into discomfort enough
like the actual hunger and discipline to go at it and push harder, do more, challenge themselves
29:00
The wins you are so desperate to see are hidden behind the losses you are afraid to have
Fear of the feedback
The learning is tedious, its uncomfortable
You have to start somewhere
this is a great way to see it – if youre recomping, that’s not a good thing. It shows how inconsistent you are because you adapt to what you give your body so then you need to increase the force of change
people wont allow themselves to sit with emotions
People wont allow themselves to experience the process – why is that
Self narratives – relate to not dieting and maintenance
I always gain faat not muscle
Fear of maintenance or not able to do maintenance bc they dieted their whole life
Busy busy to not sit with emotions so we cant see ourselves doing the journey of the diet the right way

Feb 16, 2023 • 1h 10min
#254 Your ultimate guide for fatloss, avoiding the BS & keeping your sanity/ Alan Aragon
Habits, mental stuff to maintain the new transformed body is another ball game
Only think 12 weeks down the line
Scale is only useful when its part of other indicators
The scale isnt end all be all
The fitter you get
The leaner you get
The less useful the scale gets
Knowing how your body works is so impotr
This is where alot of people undo themselves because they just want results yesterday
People are scared of diet breaks & maintenance because they feel like they are going to just get fat
Weightloss resistance
Most people don't know what they want or like because they always answer with what they think their answer should be which keeps them away from their values and a way that can actually lead to results
What do you have to say to the people who say they arent losing weight in a fatloss phase
What do you say to the people who blame carbs and say sugar is addictive
zero-fluff guide to setting up the diet for fat loss.
The people who tend to go to extremes tend to rebel all the other way and then go to HAES or trying to fit anything in and wonder why it doesnt work without realising how micronutrients are important and i know that you spoke about this with brandon
Micro nutrients and thermic effect of whole foods and then we will go into the magic of protein
Your speciality
Fibre
Veges
Metabolism and key nutrients
Krebs
Okay so lets set up the ultimate diet for fatloss. Zero fluff
Your ultimate guide for fatloss, avoiding the BS & keeping your sanity/ Alan Aragon
And weight fluctuates and as a female you may go up for 2 weeks before you go down
How not every message is for you because some people CAN do a massive deficit and it IS healthy because it is reducing bodyfat which isnt healthy when you are overwweight to that degree
And what is it that bodyfat sends out because they arent actually inert cells
If you love food, shakes will make it harder for you and so will the fact you wont really feel full
How can excess body fat impact the ability for protein to be built
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how the importance of protein increases as you age as well as weight training
Benefits of protein in attempts to lose BF%
PROTEIN how the protein you eat isnt all about muscle
Only 10% of it goes to muscle as muscle is broken down every day and ¾ of that is reused in muscle synthesis
What happens to the rest of the protein we eat & why is it so important?

Feb 11, 2023 • 33min
#253; THE TRUTH about building muscle & can you get rapid results? Luke Leaman p4
People are too focused on the scale and especially in the acute sense when its the worst metric over time
When people say that they were building but only
Are you training hard enough?
Are you being honest and consistent with what you say you are eating we also said how beneficial protein can be here and carbs can helpalot too
People who arent focused on fatloss are more lax and too flexible outside of that so it might not be the maintenance or surplus thats the issue, its your mindset and how youre approaching it but we will talk about that later
The reality of how slow muscle grows especially for women
When women say they gain muscle too fast… whats the reality there
You cant force feed muscle growth
You don't need that big of a surplus
Looking shit before youre fit - also cellulite
@transformxruby
MUSCLE NERDS on everything and @musclenerds_education on Instagram. Go follow them.
Google luke leaman podcasts and listen to all the ones hes been on. Please please
and go and listen to 203 and 204 on my podcast because theyre the gold with Lukes wife zoe

Feb 10, 2023 • 39min
#252/ How can we optimize our fatloss results to reveal a lean body? Supplement or not to supplement? Luke Leaman p3
Fibre and its importance
Micros & why food quality is so important
Energy out is flawed
For the general person they mentally masturbate over the wrong siht
Healthy body = responsive body
Common deficiencies and the down sides of that
Micro deficiencies can stall fatloss and prevent muscle building
And a lot of people are nutrient deficient even when they are overeating, but more so when undereating
Calorie surplus but nutrient deficit
Another reason why a
She lost
-also hunger
Talking on supplements
Lets quickly touch on magnesium and then vitamin D & melatonin
WHO are the ones in research
What exactly does research tell us and what doesn’t it tell us?
To summarize the supps list, lets just touch on how melatonin can be beneficial
NOW lets talk about fibre and its importance and why the keto & carnivore crowd got that wrong and all the other reasons fibre is so important
Melatonin kidney detoxifier, helps you poop better gut parasalsis
You are what you eat don’t eat, absorb and don’t excrete – bryan walsh