If you are a new listener or just haven’t been able to listen to as many episodes this year, Jenn is breaking down her Top 10 Episodes from 2023. Tune in to hear summaries of each episode to reflect on what we learned together in 2023 and use this as a playlist when you have some extra listening time. As 2023 comes to a close, Jenn is taking the time to walk through her top 10 episodes from the year! There have been so many great topics and guests on the show this year, it wasn’t easy to choose, but Jenn has carved out a good mix of topics. From understanding how the popular diet pills are impacting you, to digesting nutrition news, creating a balanced plate, and learning how perfection might be hiding your pain, there is at least one episode that will be beneficial for you! Tune in to hear key takeaways and short summaries of each episode. The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.  IN THIS EPISODE: ●  [4:33] Episode 205: What is Health●  [8:45] Episode 204: Diet Pills (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) & The Real Shortcut●  [14:36] Episode 211: Birth Control Part 1: FDA Approval & What Happened Next●  [18:25] Episode 202: Is Perfectionism Hiding Your Pain?●  [25:12] Episode 97: A Grocery Store Run with Your Health Coach●  [29:55] Episode 201: Building a Balanced Plate●  [32:38] Episode 221: Healthier Options at Starbucks●  [35:41] Episode 199: LIIT Over HIIT●  [37:20] Episode 225: Mailbag: Help for the Holidays●  [40:14] Episode 217: Top 5 Tips for Digesting Nutrition News●  [43:33] Nutrition Nugget: Music●  [43:49] Nutrition Nugget: Laughter KEY TAKEAWAYS: ●  [20:43] Not all perfectionism is destructive. Maladaptive perfectionism is what Dr. Margaret Rutherford talks about during Episode 202: Is Perfectionism Hiding Your Pain? It’s important for us to just consider that and think through it to understand if we are struggling with destructive perfectionism. ●  [28:02] Not a single food is off limits unless you decide you want it to be. Everything is just about figuring out how. It’s not what you eat, it’s how you eat.●  [36:17] If you do LIIT, low intensity interval training, vs. HIIT, high intensity interval training, and can be consistent with it, you are better off maintaining that consistency, so you can get the daily habits that create health, vitality, and longevity.  QUOTES: “Western medicine functions on the treatment of symptoms versus what’s the underlying cause of the issue. So that’s how a lot of people end up in the snowball of prescriptions because it’s like this one’s for the first symptom and then this is for the side effects.” - Jenn Trepeck “A friend's husband said to me, wait a minute, I thought we were supposed to put our daughters on birth control as soon as they got their period. So it’s another thing to wait, stop, we have to take this back. We have to be our own health advocate and do our own knowledge search, get our own education.” - Jenn Trepeck “It almost goes back to that perfectionism thing. If you use a food scale at home and then you go eat out and you're anxious, that anxiety over the portion size is worse than whatever the portion size is, you know? So the objective is to make it work and figure it out, not to let all of this stuff completely consume your life.” - Jenn Trepeck“What feels really personal and specific, is often incredibly universal." - Jenn Trepeck"Everything we've talked about is about changing your life without disrupting it, without losing your life." - Jenn Trepeck RESOURCES:Episode 189: Should Chat GPT or AI Be Your Health Coach?In the Name of the Pill by Mike Gaskins Resolution RevolutionBecome A Member of Salad with a Side of FriesJenn’s Free Menu PlanA Salad With a Side of FriesA Salad With A Side Of Fries MerchA Salad With a Side of Fries Instagram