155: Sarah Bomer, RD: Nutrition for Women — The Myths Keeping You Confused, Underfed, and Overthinking Food
Nutrition for Women: The Myths Keeping You Confused, Underfed, and Overthinking Food
If you've ever stood in your kitchen wondering whether it's too late to eat carbs, whether your fruit intake is secretly sabotaging your progress, or whether you should be "detoxing" from something, you already know how loud nutrition advice has gotten. Everyone has an opinion. Almost nobody explains it clearly. And a lot of the loudest voices got their credentials from a weekend course.
That's the exact problem Tara digs into with her guest this episode: Sarah Bomer, a registered dietitian, personal trainer, and one of the newest coaches on the BroadsCOACH team. Sarah didn't take the fast track, she spent four years and logged over 1,200 supervised clinical hours to earn the letters "RD" after her name. And in this conversation, she uses that training to cut through the noise on protein, food tracking, GLP-1 medications, and the myths that keep women stuck in a bad relationship with food.
Here's what's worth taking with you.
RD vs. "Nutritionist", the Credential Gap Nobody Talks About
One of the most eye-opening parts of the conversation is how little the word "nutritionist" actually guarantees. Sarah walks through the real difference: becoming a registered dietitian requires a master's degree, more than 1,200 supervised clinical hours, and a national registration exam. "Nutritionist," on the other hand, has almost no legal or educational protection behind it, which means the person confidently telling you to cut carbs on Instagram may have a few weeks of training, or none at all.
Sarah could have taken a shorter path. She chose the harder one because it's the one that actually holds up under real clients with real, complicated bodies. That's the training she now brings to Broads coaching clients, nutrition guidance built on clinical evidence, not trends.
Food Noise Is Real, and It's Exhausting
If you're already training hard, eating reasonably well, and still can't turn off the mental chatter about what you ate, how much, or whether it was "right", that's food noise, and it's one of the most common things Sarah sees in women who are otherwise doing everything correctly. The episode gets into what actually quiets it, and it's not another rule. It's consistency, structure, and letting go of the idea that food is something to constantly police.
Protein Is Doing More Than You Think
For women who strength train, protein isn't a bonus macro, it's foundational. Sarah breaks down how much women actually need and what chronic under-eating protein costs you over time: recovery, strength, body composition, even mood and energy. If your plate has been protein-light for a while, this is the section to actually sit with.
Diets Fail Because They're Designed To
Rather than another "here's the one diet that works" pitch, Sarah gets honest about why restrictive plans collapse: they're built around deprivation, not sustainability. A better approach starts with a balanced plate, enough protein, carbs, and fat to actually fuel training and hit micronutrient needs — without turning every meal into a math problem.
Food Tracking: Tool or Trap?
Tracking macros can be genuinely useful, until it isn't. Sarah lays out how to tell the difference between tracking that's helping you learn portions and patterns, and tracking that's quietly becoming an obsession. If tracking has started to feel like a requirement rather than a tool, that's worth noticing.
GLP-1s, Without the Judgment
The conversation doesn't shy away from GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy. Sarah offers a grounded, non-judgmental take on where they genuinely help, where they're being misused, and the pattern she sees most often in clients using them: undereating and malnourishment, not overeating. It's a nuanced take in a conversation that usually only has two extremes.
Rapid-Fire Myth Busting
Because half the battle is unlearning bad information, Tara and Sarah run through a list of nutrition myths that refuse to die, carbs after 6pm, "detoxing," fat makes you fat, you can out-train a bad diet, fruit has too much sugar, everyone should go gluten-free, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and the old "if you can't pronounce it, don't eat it" rule. Spoiler: most of these don't hold up to actual evidence.
The One Thing Every Woman Should Hear
If there's a single takeaway to walk away with, it's this: nourish your body consistently. Not perfectly. Not restrictively. Consistently. That's the thread running through everything Sarah teaches her BroadsCOACH clients, and it's the mindset that actually lasts.
Nutrition doesn't have to be another thing you're white-knuckling your way through. If you're ready for coaching that treats training and nutrition as one system instead of two separate battles, BroadsCOACH integrates both, the way it was always meant to work. And if you want a head start on building a plate that actually supports your training, the Broads macronutrient guide is a solid place to begin.
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So, which myth on that rapid-fire list did you grow up believing was fact? Carbs after 6pm, detoxing, or the fruit-has-too-much-sugar one? Reply and let us know which one was hardest to unlearn.
