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You are NOT Hopeless

Looking into the mirror and climbing on the scale can be detrimental to your health and fitness. Yeah, you read that right. I think sometimes when we look in the mirror or check the numbers on the scale our internal dialogue takes over…

“Look at you, you’re so fat”

“Ugh, why would anyone want you?”

Seriously, can’t you ever get it together?”

Maybe, this is just me. But I don’t think so. Some of the things that I say to myself I would never say to anyone else out loud. Ever. We tend to forget that what is in that reflection or the numbers does not include our value. We relegate ourselves to the idea that only other people can be healthy, beautiful, and fit. That this body is what we are stuck with and that it just can’t change. So we stop trying, what’s the use? It feels hopeless.

Well, I have good and bad news. The good news is that your health and fitness, better yet, YOU, are not hopeless. You can change. You can be healthy and fit. If the change is important enough to you, possibilities are endless. I can help you. In fact, I would love to help you. I remember sitting in the fitting room crying, it’s still very real to me. If you need help to make real lasting change in your level of health and fitness, I can help you do it.

Here’s the bad news though. YOU still have to do the work. There is no “quick fix to a perfect body” Anybody that says that is selling you more than a product. You are the one that has to decide that your health is a priority and more important than watching that episode of GLEE (nothing against GLEE, just an example). You are the one that is going to have to monitor what and when you eat. I can help, but you are in control.

If you feel like you’ve gotten to the place where you feel hopeless in your health and fitness journey, contact me. I can help and I would love to have you succeed!

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Eliminate the “Uh Oh Effect”

Your challenge for the next 21 days is to plan your week in advance, make some extra protein, and eliminate that “Uh It’s 5:30 and the day has been crazy, school, library, grocery store, post office, and you just realized that the chicken you pulled out of the freezer is still frozen! ARRRRGGGH! What’s a mom to do? Guess we’ll have to run and get something on the way to soccer…

This is what we’ve dubbed the “Uh Oh Effect.” It’s what causes most cases of “drive thru on the way syndrome.” I know this, because I have lived and sometimes am still living this. I have the best intentions of fitting a family meal in between the scheduled places we need to be. The problem is that I am not that good at planning, so my half-hearted attempts at getting something ready completely backfire and my family ends up paying for it. They, of course, don’t realize that they are paying for it, but think that it’s awesome to go to the pizza buffet. Now it’s not a bad thing to have pizza every once in a while, but when we do this 3-4 times a week we are teaching our family that this is the way to eat.

The only way to eliminate the “Uh Oh Effect” is to plan. UGH!!! I am so baaaad at planning. When do I fit this in? Seriously I need to do one more thing? Yes, yes you do. I do too. The amazing thing about this kind of planning is that it will make your life so much easier! It will bring your stress level down immensely, provide a better family morale, and teach your family how to live a healthier lifestyle.

Okay, so how do we do this planning thing? You’ll need to pick a day that you have at least an hour to use. Sit down and plan your week’s menu. The days that you have very little time between things, assign a meal you can cook in the crock pot or something that is already made and frozen (turkey meatloaf works well for this).

It’s also important to plan for your meals throughout the day. It is sometimes difficult to come up with a protein for your meals when you haven’t planned well enough. One of the things that I have found that works best is to make extra chicken breasts while I am making dinner on a weekend. Just grill up three or four times as much as you would normally use for one meal. You can then separate them into serving portions and either freeze or place in the fridge for later. These can be added to salad, tortillas, veggies, just about anything!

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