On today’s BEP Talks, I sat down with Eryn Kubinski—former pro athlete, physical therapist, and mental fitness coach—who broke down why true health is about so much more than just dieting or counting calories. We dug into the real reasons behind self-sabotage, the billion-dollar weight loss industry, and why self-trust is the ultimate game changer—not just for your body, but for your relationships and even your income. If you’re tired of quick fixes and ready to make a mindset shift that actually lasts, this is the conversation you need to hear.

If you’re feeling stuck in your wellness journey, remember: it’s not just about what you lose, but what you stand to gain—confidence, energy, and better connections with yourself and others.

🔗 Curious to learn more or connect with Eryn Kubinski? Visit adventuresofhealth.com for a chat about your personal journey!

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Well, hey there, and welcome to this edition of BEP Talks,

where people from all walks of life, from all industries and

professions, different ages, different stages of career, and life

itself, come so generously to share their

beliefs, their experiences, and their passions.

BEP Talks, that's what it's all about. And I am always

so intrigued by the amazing stories that are

shared and. And how they can relate to all of us

one way or another. And I'm very, very happy to

introduce you to this episode's very special

guest. Coming to us from the beautiful

mountains of Colorado here in the United States, please welcome

Erin Kobinski.

Hi. There she is, from the beautiful mountains of

Colorado. Thanks for joining me, Erin.

I've anticipated this conversation, and I'm eager to have it.

Like so many people, you have many different titles, many different

aspects of life, and I'm

intrigued by all of them. In your case,

you are listed as a mental health coach.

You are a former professional athlete.

You're a physical therapist, and the

best role that you have is you're a mom. So how

wonderful. How wonderful. I want to go back to the professional

athlete. What sport were you involved in? I

was a professional road cyclist, and then after I did road

cycling, I moved into triathlon, and I was an elite

triathlete, and I competed at, like, the national and world

stages as a triathlete also. Oh, now you're just.

You're just showing off, you know, now you're just showing off as well you

should. Oh, my gosh. So. So do you still ride a bike, like, for your

cardio and, you know, I do enjoyment once. You

do. I actually teach spin classes again in my life for fun,

but yeah, okay, spin

class and fun in the same sentence. I've got to kind of, like, let that

settle. I've got to let that settle. Okay, one of your

other. I don't want to call it a title or a brand or whatever, but

would you please explain to us what a mental fitness

coach is? So I teach people how

to rewire their brain, right? So a lot of

trans transformation and stuff or getting rid of habits

or getting rid of addictions is about getting to the

layer of self and the layer of thought and emotion and how

they're connected. And it's kind of bringing the.

The unconscious consciousness. So you can make the

shift in how you think, so then you can release the

grip something has on you, whether it's sugar, carbs,

pizza, you know, whatever is your. Whatever your vice

is, whether it's scrolling, you know, like there's so Many other things outside of

food that keep people unhealthy. You

know, alcohol, pot, you know, whatever the list goes

on, or medications. Right. We get, we get addicted to medications.

Absolutely. We take a crutch and then we never let the crutch down.

Exactly, exactly. So

today, maybe even more popular than I can

remember for a long time, it's so heavily advertised on

tv. Weight loss. We

seem to be, it's a strong word, but I'm going to use it, obsessed

with weight loss. And I

was in a business years ago where fitness was a component of it

and a personalized nutrition program so

that people could lose weight. And it worked very, very well.

And I always was amazed that people would say, I'll do

anything to lose weight except change the way I eat and

exercise. Other than that, I'll do anything to lose weight.

Why are we so obsessed with that as a

goal and yet so reluctant to actually

do what needs to be done?

Well, I mean, the industry, it's

broadcasted at us, right? Because it is

broadcasted at us. We start doing it. Right. Like,

you know, you and I have been through the fat free phase, the

sugar free phase. Now we're in the carb free phase and the high protein.

And I was like, and when is the one water phase coming? Anybody, Anybody want

to like broadcast water? You know that many years

ago there was a doctor named Dr. Stillman

and he had something called the water

diet. And

this may be. When was that? I read about that. Maybe it went back

to this, the 60s or the 70s.

Yeah, Dr. Stillman, the water diet.

Interesting, interesting. So now when you talk about,

as a mental health coach and you said, you know, helping people break

bad habits maybe, or triggers, identify triggers so that they can

break a habit, is weight loss one of the topics that you deal

with? So weight loss is the main topic that I, you know,

most people come to me because they want to lose weight, but what people really

want is to regain self trust because of

all the noise coming at us. You can't, you don't know when to eat, what

to eat, how to eat, how much to eat, what's really important, and

you've lost the ability. And then you wear these devices that tell you

like if you're doing good or not, you know, or the rings or what, like,

and you've lost the ability just to check in with yourself.

Right. And so when we don't have the ability to like think for ourselves

and we're being broadcasted all the information, you get very lost. And

then you just throw in the towel and you,

you just do whatever you want to do or you just give up, you give

up, you give up. So when you, you say it's broadcast ads,

and clearly it is. I mean, it's on all day, every day, all day.

The shots, the pills, the this, the that.

What is it about the way our

brain works that we'll do something like that because we're told to

do it? Is it the restriction that makes a behavior, at least

for a temporary period of time, something that we can do?

But does that change anything?

Does that really identify what the trigger was

so that if you stop the pills or the shots, you can continue

on your own? Well, the, I

don't want to get too deep into the, the GLP1 pill. Stuff like that's a

deep conversation. But as far as,

as far as, like anybody can do anything for a short

period of time, as soon as you put always, this is how you, you,

for the rest of your life, you're going to have to always not eat carbs,

forget about it. And then your brain says no, right?

Whenever we put a very like, definitive

like never, then our brain immediately, where

is it? I need to get it and we can't give it up. So if

I told somebody, like, you're never going to be able to drink another Coca Cola

in your life, then that's all they

would see everywhere. But as soon as I say, look, we're going

to teach you how to. You can have a Coke whenever you want to have

a Coke, you're just no longer going to desire the Coke.

Well, how does that sound like, to not have a desire to even drink

it. Oh, now you're interested?

Well, yes. Well, I meant to say in the possibility of that by simply

telling somebody, you can have it, but

you're not going to want it. Is it as

simple as that? Well, that's, that's how easy it is.

And that is one of the things that the GLP1 medication does is

takes out the noise, chatter. It changes. For some people, it changes like your taste

buds. So the thing doesn't even taste good anymore. Like they. Yeah.

Anyway. I mean, there's a lot of different things, but what you

want to train your mind to is I can have it, but

here are the reasons why I don't want to have it. So a lot of

work I do is like aligning your decisions with your values,

Right? Having a really deep emotional thought.

Physical, like, you know, emotional, like you can feel your

emotion attached to your goal. So the goal is not I

want to lose 10 pounds. The goal is I want to be able to do

X, Y or Z, or feel X, Y or Z, look in the mirror and

be happy to look in the mirror. Right. Like some people can lose the weight

and still look in the mirror and still hate themselves. Yes, of course.

How sad is that? How sad is that? That's a whole other issue.

Well, that's the issue that I get to. So we lose the weight and

we fall in love with ourselves. Oh, so it's not about losing,

it's about gaining. Yeah, exactly. Well,

that's a great quid pro quo. You know, you're not just losing,

you're giving yourself permission if you want it.

So what happened when it comes to weight loss? Whatever happened to the word

moderation? I don't know, kind of

lost that. We have lost that, you know, in, in the

speaking of it. But the reason there's probably not

that that isn't broadcasted to us is

it's a money making industry. I mean, the wellness industry is a billion

dollar industry. And the reason they make so much money is because it doesn't

last. Right. It just puts you on a temporary fix.

And then a lot of things I talk about is like, hey guys,

gosh, the, the dogs.

But the reason why that,

you know, there are great plans out there made by amazing

physicians and amazing PhD kit people, but they're

designed really for a specific human, normally the person who

designed it. When I work with a client, I really

try to help them feel internally what has worked for you, what

feels right for you. What do you want? Right? And then I share

like, look, my grandmother lived to 93, living on bacon, coke

and ice cream and toast and then instant

coffee like she ate some good things.

But it's not so much about while. Yeah, yeah. So it

is about what you eat sometimes. And then it's also about moderation because she

never ate any of that stuff in excess. Right. She

enjoyed the little, those little foods. And then, yeah, yeah, she

didn't eat excessively ever. And you know, they've spoken

to people, octogenarians, people who've reached 100 years, and they

say, what's your secret? Men and women, they go, well, you know, I smoke a

pack of cigarettes a day and I drink two

scotch in a tumbler every night. So nothing, there's

nothing is one size fits all in life. But with weight loss,

it seems to be. So

what's the word? Epidemic that

despite all of the resources let's call them,

is that as a country we're getting

Less healthy. We're getting

bigger. I believe you,

correct me if I'm wrong, that the obesity

issue is starting earlier in life and there are

some ethnic attachments to that, are there not some

cultural differences about how people eat?

And I guess the great thing is that if everybody finds what

works just for them as an individual. And

listen, I have two sisters and we're all within three and a half years of

each other. And while we are so obviously genetically

connected that we all have such wonderful

facts about us that differentiate us, but if we all ate the

same thing exactly in the same proportions

every day, we would get different results. That I know

because we were raised under the same roof and we did that for

years and we all ended up with different

results. Talk to me about,

talk about epidemic. You said people looking in the mirror and still not loving

themselves. I'm going to guess it's particular with women. Correct me again if

I'm wrong. How we self

sabotage. I think we do it differently than men.

I think men do self sabotage. I think,

you know, that's for a different topic on a different day. But I could give

you a great person to put on your podcast about that. But I do think

men self sabotage differently. In

fact, just in my personal life, like being an indecision

is a big form of self sabotage. And I think you

can see a lot of men in indecision, in contemplation.

Interesting. I didn't even consider that. I didn't even say maybe because they

know that they have a woman who's just probably going to make a better decision

for them.

Mic drop. Mic drop.

Maybe, Maybe. Oh, I wasn't even thinking about that.

But the self sabotage. And listen, I have to be honest,

been there, done that. When a. I am a huge.

In my family, I'm known as Aunt Cookie. I'm known as like, you know, I,

I never smoked, I really don't drink. But boy,

put, put a candy bar, put a Hershey bar. I don't even need like really

great stuff. Put, you know, chocolate chip cookies. I've never met a

chocolate chip cookie that I didn't like. So we all have,

I guess you could call it. Yeah, we all have.

I think we like, I call it like our vice. Right? We all have a

vice and there's nothing wrong with it. But this is kind of going into the

mental fitness side of things. Like, so our, our digestive

system, from our mouth down to our bottom has the second

largest number of nerve endings compared to our brain. So

we feel our emotions between here and here. And then the

other thing I tell people is like, look, you can go 30 days

without eating. As long as you have water and oxygen,

you'll be fine. It will be uncomfortable, but, you know, that's life, right?

But you can go 30 days, you're not hungry. I'm not even sure

if you know what hungry really feels like, because you're having an emotion

and bored is an emotion. Yes.

And misunderstanding. You think you're hungry, but you really are

thirsty. Yeah. I always heard good advice. If you think you

need to eat something, have a glass of water first and see if that

doesn't, you know, calm the vice, as you refer to

it. Wow, 30 days we could go without eating. Or longer. You

could also run. You could also run three marathons and no food.

Well, I'm not going to do that. Yeah, but I mean, to know, to know

your body's capable of that, that you have that much energy stores, it's got to

move into ketosis. It's going to feel uncomfortable moving there.

Are you going to. You're not going to be performing at the marathon. You're going

to just be trudging along. But you have enough energy in your

body to do amazing things. And so

when people like, you know, I work with athletic

people and teaching reteaching them

how to eat around their, their workout and kind of remove the,

the really strict rules as an athlete, you know, like, I

need to eat, eat every 30 minutes in my workout. I need to eat before

the workout, I need to eat after the workout. Now I need three meals and

two snacks. I'm like, no wonder you're not losing weight.

You're fueling, you know, the exercise as if you're a top

performing athlete. And we're not. We're exercising now for life and

for health. Right. Like, let's drop that. And then, you know,

there's. They're so surprised. Like, once we start

calming down all the food intake, then the gut

then gets to rest. People see their performance start to increase.

They see their resting heart rate start to increase and their blood pressure

decrease. Because. Because we're giving a very large system in our

body a break. Break. Yeah. Resting it, resting it.

Thus the. When you said, you know, the nerves and everything,

you know that the saying follow your gut, that there is

scientific evidence, they call it the second brain because. So

when you feel butterflies in your stomach and your gut, that it's a very,

it's very physiologically correct. When they say follow your

gut. You mentioned the word ketosis. Is that a

dangerous state for your body to be in.

It's not dangerous. I try not to be. Wait,

Aaron, please define. I. I'm familiar with it. Define what it is for

our viewers, please. So ketosis is when you go into. Using fat

stores for energy. Right? So instead of using the carb

stores, the easy access energy, we move into fat storage. So we.

Our body starts using fat. It's.

It's. You can run with. Like I said, if you ran three marathons, you would

move into ketosis. Right. Your body's gonna deplete the

easy, easy fuel. It's gonna deplete the. The high

octane carb fuel, and it's gonna move into ketosis, which

is gonna start burning your fat. And, and in

order to get there, you have to have. If you. That's why you're on a

low carb diet, because now you don't have any extra carbs floating around in your

body, and your body has to go into ketosis. It has to pull the energy

from your fat stor stores. I mean, it has a place.

I think it was originally designed to treat cancer patients.

It's. It's not a way to live for life, in my opinion.

Yeah, yeah, I think it has a place, but not

a lifestyle. But I've seen people make it a lifestyle.

Well, again, I have a niece who's a vegan. And I mean,

my gosh, she doesn't pontificate it to anybody, but she

follows it. It's. It's like a religion to her. And I don't mean

literally, but. But that she's so devoted to

it and she's a high performer

and it just works for her. And for her, that's

more social. That's a great. Two

things. One kind of there's a values behind

her vegan. Yes. It's not just about the food. No, it's not about the

food. It's not about her health. It's more about

the animal values. Yes. Values, Clearly. Yes. That is

a very important part to, to dive into in this,

like, lifestyle. Brain rewiring. You know,

like, you can have the coke whenever you want the Coke. You're just no longer

desiring the Coke, Whatever value is attached to that Coke.

And we would dive into that so that you no longer desire the Coke

because it somehow is attached to a value. You know, we can get

into details of that. But. But also

performance. She said she was high performing as a vegan. Yeah.

Yes. Yes. So this is where, you know, back to my grandmother ate those

foods. Right. And she lived to 93. She's a vegan and she's thriving

like this. Our brain, what we think is what

is possible. And if you think you can, you can. If you think you

can't, you can't. And if you think the vegan diet is going to sustain you

and, and propel you, it's going to. If you think the vegan diet is

going to make you slow and sluggish, guess what? It's going to. It's going to.

It will. Wow. Wow, that is so true. All right, how

do people work with you? You're in

Colorado, as I mentioned. Are you able to work with

clients virtually? I do most of my work virtually.

I have local clients, but we still meet virtually.

I am available. We meet on

zoom and then we stay in contact

on a daily basis depending on which phase of their weight loss

journey they're on. But you know, weight loss, the weight loss journey is you

kind of need somebody in your back pocket

accountability and. Yeah, well, that makes sense.

Yeah. Like, what am I supposed to do right now? Now I can tell you

at the level success is how much they utilize me. Right. The

people that don't want to utilize me and are like, oh, yeah. So I went

to, you know, McDonald's and I had, I'm like, you forgot to call me.

Because they don't want to share that conversation. That's like going to confession.

I'm going, I'm going. Anyway, I read something that

through your work, I said that it's not just about losing, that you

gain. Yeah. And I read in your, in your

bio information, better relationships at home

and at work and even the potential

to earn more income.

Fascinating statement. What's

behind? I get the relationship thing because if you're happier with yourself, I

imagine it's easier to share happiness and find

happiness in other things that you don't, you know, trigger at the people

closest to you. How does it affect income? Yeah.

So one thing you know, you, you're going to gain self

trust. One of the biggest losses in this whole, like weight loss

cycle is you lose a lot of self trust. Why can't I do this?

Why can't I stick to my rules? Why is this so hard?

What's wrong with me? There's something, there's just a lack of

trusting yourself that you're going to stick to what you said you were going to

do. So once you start doing this process and you start building

that self trust up now, you're going to show up more

confidence. And when you have more confidence, you can show

up in your work environment as with

more authority. Right. Like, with better leadership

skills, with an inner knowing that you trust

yourself and your team is going to trust you. Confidence.

You have more confidence. You make better self more. Yeah. You

make decisions faster. Makes so much sense. Any way of

knowing in a lifetime how many

diets someone goes on? I would

say, yeah, I don't know. That's a great question. But I

would say at least once a year. So however many years

old you are, minus, like the first 17 years. And

then some women start dieting much younger. But, yeah,

I would say probably on average, you go on a diet once a year.

What about every Monday? Yeah, definitely every Monday.

On Monday. I'll start over on Monday. Yeah. If you

started Monday, it's now Wednesday and you're going to start again

next Monday. There's so much. There's so much

emotional baggage that goes with this whole thing, isn't there? And

it's so important because it's not just about vanity. It's not just

about your physical appearance. It's about your health.

Yeah, it's about your health. Yeah. How

can people work with you? How can people get in touch with you? Erin,

on my website@adventuresofhealth.com, you can book a

call with me. And on the call, we discover kind of like,

where you are on your journey. And then.

I'm really sorry about the dogs. That's okay. And

then on the call, we look at, like,

what. What you've been through and what your personal weight

loss map could look like. Your personal weight loss loss path.

Tess, settle down. Come here.

They're exercising. They are following their plan.

I want to repeat that. It's Adventures with an s

of health. Adventuresofhealth.com Please,

to the listeners, because I know our audience is predominantly

women, but men as well, that if you're

struggling with this, that there are solutions because

there were reasons you're struggling. And when you can identify the

reason, you automatically kind of identify the solution.

And here is a pro, a former professional athlete.

Athlete, who, I mean, you know, my

thighs are hurting just thinking about how many thousands of miles

you must have pedaled. So congratulations on all of your

success in that arena and from business as well.

So please be in touch with Erin. If this is

something that you're plagued with,

I hate to say it, but that if you're suffering with, if

you're trying and not succeeding, there are reasons,

and Erin, is your pathway to the solution.

Thank you. So embrace that opportunity and be in touch with this

wonderful, wonderful professional. I can just tell how much you know and

how your heart is in it. So, Erin, thank you so much for joining

me here on BEP Talks today. Thank you for having me. My absolute

pleasure. What you speak about is no minor detail

in life. You're talking about health, which is our wealth.

And if you can have better relationships at home, at the office,

and have the confidence to be who you truly are, meant to

be, be your greatest self. We're here for a very short time, aren't we? Yes,

we are. Yes, we are. Yes. So true. So, Erin,

thanks again so much. And to all of our viewers, our listeners,

thanks for joining me again here today on BEV Talks. We want to hear your

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bye for now.