Wanna lose weight but don’t want to lower your calories? Good! Lowering calories is NOT the most effective weight loss tool. Burning more calories is! And a simple way to do that is simply by increasing your steps. There are so many walking benefits, including: -easy on the joints -boosts immune function -help lower blood … Continued
Have you made this mistake? You go on a diet & you cut out ALL the things you love? This is a fast track to disappointment & failure. As soon as food is taboo, it’s all you can think about. Plus, it’s not a sustainable way to live if you can’t eat the things you … Continued
Haven’t achieved your goals? Rather than beat yourself up about it, remind yourself that good things take time. Control the things you can. When you’re taking positive action, remind yourself: This is what success looks like today. Those bigger things will happen when you continue to take the baby steps. Having a coach helps you … Continued
If overspending is an issue, you create a budget. Food tracking creates awareness about eating, like a budget does creates awareness about spending. It’s a temporary tool that helps in these three ways: It helps you connect the dots between what you eat, how you feel and the results you get. It helps with accountability. … Continued
Question… How do you know how to breathe? Heal a cut? Create a baby? Lose weight? You don’t, but your body knows. So instead of trying to trick your body into weight loss, just give your body what it needs & it’ll do the rest. Listen to your body’s cues. Eat healthy food when you’re … Continued
Frustrated that your continued hard dieting efforts aren’t working? Stop working so hard! Your body isn’t designed to thrive on low calories for long periods of time. Your body is such a remarkable machine, it will just learn to get by on less. It’s called metabolic adaptation. Taking a diet break by increasing your calories … Continued
Food tracking can be inaccurate. But that’s not the REAL point! The big benefits of food tracking include increasing self accountability & intentionality around eating. Food labels can be up to 20% off – like in this example: the label assumes that the scoop holds 42g of product when in fact, it only holds 30g … Continued
Trying to lose weight and ALWAYS hungry? Have you considered just eating MORE? Yes, this sounds counterintuitive, but hear me out. Too often in an effort to shed pounds, you stop listening to your body’s cues. You ‘white knuckle’ your days starving with severely reduced calories & other distractions. You set yourself up for wild … Continued
How consistent are you on the weekends? If you’re ‘on the path’ nutritionally during the week, but fall off track on the weekends, this could be the reason why you continue to ‘maintain’ your weight’. Rather than being super strict during the week, then feeling the need to binge on the weekend, you might do … Continued
Can’t sleep? Choose your evening foods wisely. Foods to avoid include: -Processed foods high in sugar can cause an insulin spike & then subsequent cortisol spike -Spicy foods can cause acid reflux -Alcohol & caffeine disturb deep levels of sleep & promote wakefulness Here are some before bed ideas to help you get more shut … Continued