Marisa Silva and Vanessa Silva
170 episodes listed below
Sustainable fitness without the food fear.
Not Just Gym Girls treats fitness as something that has to fit real life. Marissa and Vanessa talk through macro tracking, reverse dieting, digestion, underfueling, sickness, and business lessons with a steady coaching style that pushes back on extremes.
PRESS PLAY
Not Just Gym Girls is a coaching-led fitness and nutrition show centered on sustainability. Its main territory is the space between macro tracking, intuitive eating, and real-life habits. Marissa and Vanessa talk like people who have lived through the more restrictive side of fitness and are now trying to give listeners a clearer route out of it. The show does not reject tracking outright. It treats tracking as a tool, not an identity. That distinction shapes episodes on eating enough without logging every bite, adjusting macros in a reverse diet, and recovering from long dieting phases. Marissa and Vanessa are especially interested in what happens after a deficit, when the goal shifts from pushing harder to rebuilding maintenance, performance, food freedom, and trust in the body. Their advice is practical and often corrective. Fitness industry hot takes become lessons about discipline, misery, social media pressure, and the false idea that being healthy has to feel punishing. Digestion gets the same grounded treatment. Instead of overloading on volume foods or leaning too hard on supplements, the conversation returns to fiber, food quality, individual tolerance, energy, recovery, hunger, and how a body actually feels day to day. The show also makes room for less polished parts of the journey. Getting sick, missing workouts, feeling guilty about rest, being cold or irritable from underfueling, and resenting health routines all become usable coaching moments. The tone is warm, repetitive in a helpful way, and firm when needed. It is not a hype show. It is more like a long check-in with two coaches who keep circling back to the basics until the point lands. Business episodes add another layer, showing how coaching, client education, systems, and growth have shaped their work over two years. Across the catalog, the through line is simple: fitness should make life bigger, not smaller.
Made for: Best for fitness-minded listeners, especially women with a dieting history, who want structure around nutrition without staying locked into restriction. It also suits people curious about macros, reverse dieting, digestion, and intuitive eating.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing macro-literate coaching with a steady push away from chronic dieting and social media extremes. Marissa and Vanessa use their own past experiences as teaching material, then translate them into practical next steps.
Welcome to Not Just Gym Girls. Not Just Gym Girls was created to empower and educate others in their health and fitness journeys. We hope to inspire you inside and outside the gym bringing you all things; training, nutrition, mindset, personal development, and so much more.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Marissa and Vanessa make nutrition habits easier to question by connecting food rules with energy, digestion, training and peace of mind.
Not Just Gym Girls turns everyday food decisions into candid conversations about control, adequacy and trust. Marissa and Vanessa approach nutrition through their own dieting histories and coaching work, returning to the tension between macro tracking and intuitive eating…
Marissa and Vanessa turn diet-culture red flags into permission to loosen your grip on MyFitnessPal.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded pushback against fitness advice that treats misery as discipline.
The episode reframes a familiar fitness argument as a practical one: whether advice actually fits real life. Marissa and Vanessa, drawing on years as coaches and macro tracking, return to a steady point from several angles: tracking can help, but it is not a requirement for…
A grounded reminder that chronic dieting is not the same thing as progress.
Vanessa and Marissa draw on their own dieting histories to frame a practical warning: when a calorie deficit stops being a short-term tool and turns into a habit, the cost can show up in both mind and body.
Plain talk on digestion that emphasizes habits and individuality.
The episode keeps digestion at the center and treats it as a practical health concern rather than a simple talking point. Marissa and Vanessa connect it to energy, recovery, hunger, and how people feel across the day, then ground the discussion with examples such as volume…
A steady reminder that eating enough does not have to mean logging every bite.
The episode stays focused on eating enough without logging every bite, and Marissa and Vanessa frame intuitive eating as a workable approach while still leaving room for macro tracking when it helps.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
Vanessa and Marissa argue that body image struggles are often intensified by social media, chronic dieting, and the belief that losing weight or fitting into old clothes will solve broader problems.
Marissa and Vanessa open with a stack of blunt takes on the health and fitness industry.
Vanessa and Marissa frame the episode around a lesson they learned the hard way: dieting too hard can turn into its own trap.
Marissa and Vanessa keep the conversation centered on digestion.
The hosts celebrate their business's two-year anniversary and share lessons learned about entrepreneurship and business growth.
This episode explains what reverse dieting is, who it's for, and how to adjust macros during the process.
An interview with a sports dietitian about amenorrhea and under-fueling in active women, focusing on the health risks and education.
Marissa and Vanessa spend the episode on a simple question: how to eat enough without tracking every bite.
Vanessa and Marissa discuss how to navigate health and fitness routines when sick, offering tips on recovery and mindset.
Two fitness coaches explain the concept of reverse dieting, how to transition out of a calorie deficit, and the importance of slowly increasing calories to maintain metabolism.
Two fitness coaches discuss how to use macro tracking as a tool without becoming obsessive, sharing their personal journeys from tracking to intuitive eating and offering practical tips for sustainable nutrition habits.
Vanessa and Marissa discuss how to break the cycle of yo-yo dieting by adopting sustainable health and fitness habits.
Vanessa and Marissa discuss food guilt, its origins in diet culture, and strategies to overcome it.
The hosts discuss the importance of creating morning and evening routines to bring structure and ease to daily life.
The hosts discuss the signs and dangers of under-eating, distinguishing it from healthy fat loss, and aim to educate listeners on recognizing and avoiding chronic restriction.
The hosts reflect on their first year running an online health and fitness coaching business, discussing early days, mistakes, favorite moments, and unexpected struggles.