Transform with PLANTS
Transform With Plants is the plant based health & weight loss podcast that goes beyond just the food.Hosted by Kerryn Sawyer - whole food plant-based certified, holistic health coach, life coach, and medical intuitive practitioner in training - this show is for women who want to lose weight, transform their health, and finally understand why the gap between knowing and doing has felt so impossible to close.We talk about food, yes. But we also talk about your brain, your beliefs, your emotional states, your nervous system, your identity, your childhood conditioning, and the deep patterns that are quietly running y...
Ep #20 - Plant Powered Seniors - with Brenda Davis RD, Vesanto Melina Rd & Charlyn Black MD
What does it actually look like to thrive - not just survive - on a plant-based diet as you get older?
In this special episode I sit down with three extraordinary women who have dedicated their careers to this exact question:
👉🏻 Registered dietitian and plant-based nutrition pioneer Brenda Davis
👉🏻 Registered dietitian and longtime collaborator Vesanto Melina
👉🏻 Dr Charlene Black.
Together they bring decades of clinical experience, research and real-world results working with plant-based seniors.
This isn't about whether plant-based eating is safe. It's about how to do it brilliantly...
Ep #19 - How To Recover From Mistakes Without The Shame Spiral
Have you ever had one off-plan meal turn into a week of giving up?
Gave into dessert, and it turned into an all-out binge?
It’s ok… there’s nothing “wrong” with you…
You're doing something I see all the time - you're spiralling.
The mistake was never the problem.
The spiral after the mistake - that's where your progress actually gets lost.
In this episode, Kerryn breaks down why we spiral after an off-plan meal, the psychology of shame and emotional eating, and a practical 6-qu...
Ep #18 - Moving Medicine Forward, What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutrition - and How It’s Affecting Your Health with Dr Michael Klaper MD
Most doctors were never taught that food is medicine.
Dr Michael Klaper has spent 35 years trying to change that.
In this episode Kerryn Sawyer sits down with Dr Michael Klaper - physician, plant-based pioneer, former NASA nutrition advisor and author of Moving Medicine Forward - for a conversation about what conventional medicine is missing, what the evidence actually says about reversing chronic disease through nutrition, and why he is now teaching medical students what he was never taught himself.
In this episode:
✔️ Dr Klaper’s persona...
Ep #17 - Why You Do So Well… Then Fall Off The Wagon
Do you recognise this pattern…
You’ve been going really well. Eating healthy, on plan, feeling good, you're feeling it in your body, your clothes are getting looser and the scale is finally moving.
And there’s that little voice in your head saying “OMG, I think this is actually happening!”
And then something happens. A stressful week. A hard conversation.
One of those days where everything is just a bit too much.
And suddenly you're eating your face off.
Then the guilt and shame spiral… And you're sitting th...
Ep #16 - Getting Off the Emotional Eating Roller Coaster - interview with Bianca Stares The Plant Based Queen
Ever reached for food in moments when you feel uncomfortable?
You know you’re not hungry, but you just have a compulsion you just can’t seem to control…
If that’s you - this week’s episode is going to land.
Most women who struggle with their weight already know what to eat.
The problem is not the food - it is what is happening underneath.
This week Kerryn was interviewed by fellow plant based coach Bianca Jayne Stares - The Plant Based Queen - for her “
EP #15 - What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You About Menopause - with Medical Intuitive Emma Turton
Most women going through perimenopause or menopause are told the same thing → your hormones are changing. Here are your options.
But what if that conversation is leaving out the most important part?
In this episode Kerryn sits down with medical intuitive and her tutor Emma Turton to explore a very different view of menopause - one that goes beyond hormones, beyond HRT, and into what is actually driving the experience for most women.
In this episode:
☑️ What women really experience in perimenopause and menopause
☑️ What the conventional medical res...
Ep #14 - Bianca Jane & Her Plant Powered Tour | 30 Incredible Plant Based Speakers - All Free
My friend & plant based health & weight loss coach, Bianca Jayne - The Plant Based Queen - has created an incredible event that you’d be mad to miss.
30 of the world’s leading voices in plant based nutrition, women’s health, psychology and holistic health.
One per day through September.
All completely free.
In this episode I sit down with Bianca to talk about how she built Her Plant Powered Tour, who is in it, and why you need to register before September 1st.
And yes, I’m on th...
Ep #13 - How Teneale Lost 10kg Without Perfection - And Why This Time It’s For Good
Teneale had tried three weight loss programs before working with Kerryn.
One helped her lose 15 kilos in 12 weeks on a strict meal plan.
And then the weight came back - because she had learned how to follow rules, not how to actually live.
Six months later, working without meal plans, without perfection, and without giving up chocolate - she is 10.6 kilos down…
Plus sleeping better, digesting better, experiencing less peri-menopause symptoms and feeling more energised than she has in years.
This is her story.
IN...
Ep #12 - 7 Limiting Beliefs To Ditch If You Want Weight Loss Success
Behind every single action you take there’s a belief.
What you believe will determine the action you do or don’t take.
The action you take determines the results you get.
Your results will always confirm what you believe to be true.
✔️beliefs about yourself
✔️about what’s possible for you
✔️about what you deserve
✔️about what might happen
✔️about what you’re capable of achieving
Sometimes you don’t need a better weight loss plan - you need better beliefs.
Ep #11 - How Cathy, at Age 77, Lost 45lb After Years Of Yo-Yo Dieting
Cathy tried fourteen diets over 66 years of her life. She knew how to lose weight - she had done it many times. But she could never keep it off.
At seventy seven years old, something finally shifted. Not because she found a stricter plan or a better set of rules (she was already plant based). Because she stopped following her brain and started listening to her body.
In this episode Kerryn talks with Cathy about the childhood patterns that started it all - an Italian mother who showed love through food and an English father...
Ep #10 - 6 Steps To End Emotional Eating
Do you find you eat well most of the time, and then suddenly you’ve eaten a block of chocolate and you’re thinking, how did that happen?
The answer is never about willpower or discipline.
It is about the nervous system doing its job.
Food is such an easy, fast way to feel good.
But it’s also exactly why you’re not seeing the weight loss results you want.
In this episode Kerryn breaks down exactly why this happens & how to stop doing it, so that weight loss becom...
Ep #9 - Nutrition Nonsense - Debunking Plant Based Myths with Callum Weir of Plant Fuelled Nutrition
The online wellness and nutrition & wellness space is full of conflicting information and a lot of misinformation - and it can feel impossible to know who to trust.
In this episode Kerryn Sawyer sits down with Callum Weir from Plant Fuelled Nutrition - a plant based nutritionist who has built a following by calling out misinformation with science - for an honest conversation about the nutrition nonsense and wellness waffle quietly getting in the way of real results.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Callum’s story - what brought him to plant ba...Ep #8 - How To Close The Gap Between You And Your Plant Based Weight Loss Goal
If you have been doing everything right with your plant based diet and still not getting the results you want - this episode is going to help you understand why.
Many people who are stuck with their health & weight loss goals are not stuck because they are not trying hard enough.
They are stuck because the thing that is actually standing between them and their goal has never been properly identified.
Sometimes we don’t understand how these habits can inhibit our results, and sometimes we are so close to our own habits that...
Ep #7 - How To Stop Quitting On Your Weight Loss Goals When Life Gets Hard
This episode is for anyone who’s been having a tough time - relationship stuff, life stuff, work stuff, anything - and has found themselves using food or anything else to cope with feelings they don’t know what to do with.
Not to shame that. To offer something different.
In this episode Kerryn Sawyer talks about what it actually looks like to allow the hard feelings - without food, without alcohol, without anything that leaves you further from the person you are trying to become.
In this episode:<...
Ep #6 - Body Hunger vs Brain Hunger & How To Tell Them Apart
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Have you ever eaten when you weren’t genuinely hungry - and wondered why you could not stop yourself?
It is not a willpower problem. Your body has a sophisticated biological hunger system. Your brain has a completely separate reward-driven system.
And when the brain’s system is running the show - it generates urges that feel exactly like hunger but are not.
In this episode Kerryn decodes both systems, explains what drives brain hunger, and gives you four practical tools for telling the difference in the momen...
Ep #5 - How to Eat Large Portions and Still Lose Weight - The Calorie Density Method
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What if the key to losing weight on a plant based diet wasn’t eating less - but eating differently?
Calorie density is the most powerful and yet most under-taught concept in sustainable fat loss. And in this episode Kerryn explains it completely - the science, the scale, and the simple PLANT Powered Plate that makes it practical every single day.
Kerryn shares her personal story of discovering this concept through her own whole food plant based journey - and how it finally ex...
Ep #4 - Why Too Much Restriction Often Backfires (And What to Do Instead)
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Have you ever cut your calories hard, lost weight, eased up even slightly - and watched it all come back?
You probably blamed yourself. Most women do.
But that pattern is not a willpower failure.
It is a physiological survival response that your body has been refining for hundreds of thousands of years. And once you understand it, everything changes.
In this episode Kerryn explains exactly what happens inside the body when you restrict too severely - the adaptive mechanisms, the hormonal shifts, the famine re...
Ep #3 - How Venetia Lost 20lb After a Lifetime of Emotional Eating
In this episode I sit down with my client Venetia for one of the most honest, raw and powerful conversations I've had on camera.
A lifetime of yoyo dieting never got to the root cause of why she put on the weight.
But once that became obvious, the real work began, and now she’s 20lb lighter.
Venetia had been vegan for years.
She thought she was eating healthy because it was plant based.
She cared deeply about her health. But the weight was...
Ep #2 - Why Willpower & Motivation Fail -The Neuroscience Of Habits, Motivation & Lasting Change
You've tried losing weight using willpower. You've tried motivation.
And every time life gets hard, both disappear - and you're back where you started wondering what's wrong with you.
Nothing is wrong with you. You've just been using the wrong tools.
In this episode we go deep into the neuroscience of why willpower and motivation are fundamentally unreliable foundations for lasting change - and what actually works instead.
IN THIS EPISODE
What willpower actually is neurologically - and why it always runs outThe Radish and C...Ep #1 - Why You're Not Doing What You Know You Should Do
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Welcome to Episode One of Transform With Plants - and the question I get asked more than any other:
Why am I not doing what I know I should do?
You know what to eat. You have probably known for a while. So why does the gap between knowing and doing feel so impossible to close?
In this episode Kerryn teaches the CTEAR model - the exact framework she uses with her coaching clients to explain why your brain works against you, why willpower always...
