Planning & Acheiving Your PCOS Goals With Maria Horstmann

Welcome to Episode 8 of Season 1 of The PCOS Revolution Podcast:Planning and Achieving Your PCOS Goals With Maria HorstmannMovement is an essential part of our overall health, especially when addressing PCOS. Whether it is a few minutes a day, a couple hours a week or an hour a day, any bit of movement is important for our wellbeing and ability to function well. During this episode, we have an expert on movement who can help anyone get started or get them where they want to go. This week on PCOS Revolution Podcast, I am having a conversation with Maria Horstmann. Maria is a Speaker, Health and Insulin Resistance Coach, Personal Trainer, and Corporate Wellness Consultant. She made the decision to trade in the corporate lifestyle to help busy professionals and go-getters set and reach their goals so they can do more, live more and expand their quality of life. Maria has an MBA from Emory and has completed trainings in Insulin Resistance and Nutritional Endocrinology. Maria enjoys helping other people but she also talks her walk. She is passionate about inspiring because she had to get unstuck, push past fears, press rest and redesign her life in order to reverse her own pre-diabetes and digestion challenges. During this episode of the PCOS Revolution Podcast, we’ll be discussing various topics that Maria is passionate about. From practicing fundamental movement to how to improve and facing stress in the workforce, we dive into it all. Learn more about Maria, how to get started and the importance of movement during this discussion. Episode Spotlights: Where do you start? ([2:43]) Practicing fundamental movements ([6:00]) Intention behind functional movement ([8:25]) Consistency is better than persistency ([14:01]) There is always room for improvement ([17:10]) Stress in the workforce ([27:15]) Mobile vision boards ([34:18]) Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Learn more about Maria here (http://befabbeyou.com/) Explore Befabbeyou.com (http://befabbeyou.com/) Check out Maria on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/BeFabBeYouWellness/) Find Maria on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/be_fab_beyou/) READ the entire transcript here: Read Full Transcript (#) Farrar Duro Welcome back to the PCOS Revolution podcast everyone. Today I have with me Maria Horstman, who is a speaker, health and insulin resistance coach, a personal trainer and corporate wellness consultant. She left the corporate world to help busy professionals go getters achieve their health goals, so they can do more, live more and expand their quality of life. Now, Maria empowers people to lose weight, boosts energy and confidence and build physical and mental strength. And she’s also spoke at PCOS Awareness events and conferences. And she herself has reversed her own insulin resistance and pre-diabetes, actually. So we’re going to speak a little bit about some strategies that she can share with us to help do that via exercise, diet and lifestyle changes. But also getting started with that, because this is the time of the year where we’re going to actually be focused a little bit on our goals, obviously, everybody is thinking about what to do in the new year and all that. So we want to actually talk about getting a plan in place that’s going to keep you inspired and motivated throughout the rest of the year. And hopefully, this is going to be your last year of actually making that your ultimate goal. It’ll just become easier and easier as you implement it. So welcome, Maria, thank you for coming on the show. Maria Horstman Yes, thank you for having me such a pleasure to talk to your audience, and to you. So very excited about, you know, this topic that we’re talking about, because I have a personal interest and experience with insulin resistance. And I have worked with women with be CEOs. And I’m passionate about helping women to get to get to their next level of their health in a holistic approach. And with PCOS, we know dead there is a