Last week I hosted a few live webinars to chat about why so many of us struggle to take consistent action towards our goals. It can be so frustrating to want a better life and a healthier body but repeatedly fail to do the work.
Even though we want so much more, we doubt that we can create it. We doubt our motivation, our focus and our will.
One of the primary reasons we doubt ourselves is because we continue to carry all our past experiences.
We see what is possible through a thick veil of past frustrations, failures and broken promises. This heavy burden of doubt makes change so much harder than it needs to be.
We doubt ourselves because we value information & answers over implementation & questions.
We spend so much energy trying to find & understand the perfect solution instead of investing that energy in action.
I know for sure that a dramatically different result is possible for you. You are not destined to struggle with this for the rest of your life. I know that if you are willing to stop carrying all your past experiences & frustrations that you can create permanent change with less effort than you’ve invested before.
Invest an hour in yourself and watch the below video training to see how you can get out of your own way, stop repeating past mistakes, and finally step into your full potential.
Make the change. Let go of the past and create the future that is possible for you!
One of the primary reasons we haven’t reached our goals is that we doubt ourselves. It’s not the doubt itself that is the problem, but it’s the inaction & inconsistency that stems from doubt.
In today’s episode I’m talking about why we doubt and how to leave all your past failures, frustrations and missed opportunities behind you so you can create a dramatically different outcome than anything you’ve had before.
We talk through legitimate hurdles to success like projecting past failures onto future attempts, valuing information over implementation and much more.
If you’d rather watch this episode as a presentation instead of listen, follow this link.
Take progress pictures. Take them every single week on the same day, no matter what.
I get it, you don’t want to. You only want to take the pictures when you know you’ll progress. You don’t want to take the pictures when you might not see progress.
Too bad. Do it anyway. The whole POINT of taking progress pictures is to face the moments when you aren’t making progress.
Turning away won’t work. It hasn’t worked and it never will.
You don’t like that your body shows that you didn’t do the work? Yeah well, avoiding the picture doesn’t make it any less real or true. But taking the picture and facing what is happening in your body increases the chances that you’ll do something about it.
Do not turn away from what’s happening with your body. You look the way you look, whether you take the picture or not and deciding to not stare it down makes you LESS likely to succeed.
When you have the sense that you really don’t want to take the picture, guess what? That’s when you need to take it most.
Stop making excuses. Stop turning away. Take the damn pictures.
Today’s workout was much spicier than it seemed on paper. It was tabata style, which means you’re doing 20 seconds of work & 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes (that’s a total of 8 rounds of work/rest).
“Body Check”
Tabata (8 x :20 on/:10 off)
Air Squats
Sit-ups
Push-ups
Calorie Row
This is how it works: 20 seconds of air squats, 10 seconds rest, repeat 8x.
Immediately transition into 20 seconds of sit-ups, 10 seconds rest, repeat 8x.
You get the picture. Those push-ups got TOUGH!!
After the workout I did some single leg deadlifts, GHD sit-ups, hollow-body holds & ring rows before heading to the chiropractor.
Today is the final live webinar of launch week!! Yeah! If you missed it, you can watch it here. I hope you carve out some time to do so! I think you’ll really enjoy it.
On the food front:
I had some drama in my apartment last night which led to me not sleeping. At all. Needless to say, I was hungry before my workout after tossing & turning all night long so I had a couple of grilled chicken strips around 6am.
At 11am, before my final webinar, I had a cobb salad from Paleo Power Meals and as soon as the webinar was over I headed into Boston with a friend.
I’m scheduling this blog to post before I’ll get home so I’m not sure what I’ll have for dinner but here’s what I have decided:
No starchy carbs
No alcohol
No indulgences
I’m sure we’ll be doing a lot of walking around the city and I’ll either have seafood & veggies or a salad with meat or fish. Keeping it simple – there’s always a fat loss friendly option available!
I could have called this episode so many different things. I could have called it “Lifestyle Transformation After Baby”. I could have called it “When You Should NOT Workout”. I could have called it “Learning To Be Calm As A Fat Loss Strategy”. I should probably just keep it simple and call it awesome.
In today’s episode I’m talking with one of my Fat Loss Fast Track clients who has lost 90 pounds, 40 of which has been in the last few months of her Fat Loss Fast Track experiences.
At first, we talk a lot about what has worked well for her. We talk about how learning to be less reactive and more calm has helped her weight loss but also her happiness.
Then we start to talk about exercise, sleep and when to push yourself.
Not only is she inspiring, she’s incredibly wise and I know you’re going to get so much out of her story!
Too often, we scramble for solutions without taking the time to really define and understand the problem. That leads to lots of effort with little results. We either solving the wrong problem or implementing the wrong solution, or both. It’s a waste of time & a fast track to frustration.
Today’s episode features a candid conversation with one of my Masters Club clients. Prior to her time in the Fat Loss Fast Track, she was always on a diet. She felt like her only weight loss strategy was “eat less” and she was exhausted by it.
Though she developed a solid strategy that worked for her, she struggled to make consistent positive choices after having a baby and juggling life, marriage & motherhood.
Through the course of our convo we define the problem, toss around potential solutions and determine a course of action to help her learn more about what works for her and get back to feeling her very best.
