In this episode of Talking Nutrition, Johan is joined by his friend Katy Margison - nutrition and fitness coach, founder of Athena Nutrition, and known on Instagram as @thesoberweightlifter.
After 13 years inside the US healthcare system, Katy walked away from what she calls chronic disease management to coach disease prevention instead. And behind that career change is a bigger story: overcoming alcohol and cocaine addiction, and rebuilding her identity from the ground up.
This conversation is about what the hardest form of behavior change teaches us about nutrition, fat loss, social pressure, and becoming the person who follows through. This isn't a lecture on drinking. It's an honest story about what change actually takes.
In this episode:
Who Katy is: 13 years in healthcare, and why she left to coach prevention instead of disease management
Coaches as the missing piece in preventative healthcare: education, accountability, and more than 15 minutes of your doctor's time
"It creeps up on you": pre-gaming everything, the moderation lie, and how 2023 snowballed
December 15, 2023: rock bottom, and why she still waited until January 1 to quit
The first sober Sunday morning, and what the substances were really covering up
Why food addiction can be even harder: you can quit alcohol, you can't quit eating
Tier 1, 2, 3 days: planning for chaos so one bad week doesn't undo everything
Why maintenance is harder than fat loss, and why comments about your plate are usually projection
Whether alcohol is poison, the culture that glamorizes it, and why we might look at it like cigarettes in 20 years
The birth control conversation: 16 years on the pill, and learning to advocate for yourself at the doctor's office
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