We are continuing our celebration of Primal Potential’s 2nd anniversary with a super special guest! My friend and former Fat Loss Fast Tracker, Maggie!
I want you to hear directly from someone who has transformed, inside and out, over the last 14 or so months. She has lost 50 lbs, more than 13 inches from her waist and she feels that the biggest changes she made were to the way she thinks! That’s right, Maggie is going to share how you can use your mind to transform your body.
She is real, she is inspirational and I hope we can all find encouragement and hope in her powerful message!
If you didn’t yet catch the first two special episodes we celebrated with, you can catch them here and here.
In today’s episode, Maggie and I tackle so much including:
What results she has created over the last 14-15 months
How affirmations changed her life
How she handles days when she isn’t feeling motivated
How her mindset has changed
How her dietary habits have changed
After recording, Maggie emailed me to share this:
Hey!
I just wanted to add a brief addendum to my advice for those out there struggling:
I want people to know that this took me a village of support, and that I never once felt alone on this journey. I had, and have, so many outlets to ask for help when I feel the need to reach out. And thank god for modern technology and real time for delivering podcasts and supportive audio! Seriously. There is support out there with truly strong bones, and I definitely found it with you and the community you developed with the fast tracks, as well as the myriad other brilliant minds out there.
Anyways, that was it! Community support is integral for my success, as much as I’d like to think I’m a one woman wolf pack at times.
Today is a special & emotional episode! My mom is on the show! Yup, we are discussing the problem behind the problem – where my unhealthy relationship with food & body image began and how she coped with raising an overweight child.
While I don’t think our past defines us and I certainly don’t think we’re stuck there, I absolutely believe it is important to evaluate your self-limiting food & body image beliefs and begin to ask “Are these true?” and find ways to move beyond them.
In today’s episode, my mom and I tackle so much including:
Specific choices she made and how they impacted how I view food and my body
The development of unhealthy relationships with food & body image
Helpful and unhelpful strategies related to raising an overweight child
How her body image impacted the way I thought about food
What might have happened if she took a different approach
How restriction and forced exercise shaped the way I look at health
I want to give another huge THANK YOU to my mom for stepping outside of her comfort zone, admitting where she made mistakes and having this honest conversation with me to hopefully help others and open up conversations about weight, shame and body image.
THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart, for your support, trust and encouragement.
What a wild ride it has been!
I hope you’ll take a few minutes to listen to today’s episode on Primal’s anniversary. Today, I’m opening up registration for ASCEND, the first ever Primal Potential Women’s Transformation Weekend.
Listen to hear all the details and click here to be one of the 50 women to join me in downtown Nashville, TN this November!
In response to the recent episode on the 3 stages of carbohydrate intolerance, I got an email that merits further discussion.
I want everyone to understand that while yes, our food choices drive blood sugar and are primarily responsible for our fat loss and lack thereof, there are non-food influences on blood sugar.
That’s right – there are physiological and lifestyle factors that drive blood sugar & insulin significantly enough to influence fat loss and today we’re investigating those things.
In order to reach our highest fat loss potential and optimize our health, we have to understand both the food and non-food influences on blood sugar.
We need to evaluate the ways by which we can increase blood sugar as well as the factors that influence how we decrease or stabilize blood sugar.
Three ways by which blood sugar is increased include:
Eating – this includes but is not limited to consuming carbohydrates. The extent of the blood sugar increase depends on what and how much you eat
Glycogenolysis – breaking down stored muscle or liver glycogen to glucose
Gluconeogenesis – generating new glucose from a non-carbohydrate substance like protein. This can be triggered in response to low blood sugar and/or stress
The factors that determine how quickly blood sugar drops after an elevation include:
Your activity level
When, what and how much you last ate
Your carbohydrate tolerance
Your insulin sensitivity
Your baseline (include glycogen storage capacity)
Factors which determine what happens to the glucose in your blood include:
Your activity level
Your fuel needs
Your muscle glycogen status
The potential uses for glucose in the blood include:
Immediate energy
Glycogen storage
Fat storage
For specific strategies on improve your blood sugar response and reducing fat storage, listen to the full episode!
His classification describes people who get things done and reach their highest potential versus people who don’t.
I started to think about the thousands of people I’ve worked with who are trying to burn fat and improve their bodies and I could see similar trends in the ways they think & act.
I have classified into three groups which I’m calling wishers, wanderers and warriors.
In today’s episode I’m going to help you see which category your past choices represent and help you move from where you are now to the warrior category.
That’s right, this episode is about how to become a warrior. It’s about how to stop making excuses and exceptions and start crushing your goals.
How do you make choices? Like a wisher, like a wanderer or like a warrior?
In today’s episode I’m going to describe the wishers, wanderers and warriors and help you understand how you can become a warrior and stop making excuses. Do not miss the full episode!
Wishers have a desire but take little action
They have goals and the might even feel passionately about them, but they aren’t consistently taking action to move towards them.
Wanderers are seekers with short attention spans
They jump from plan to program to approach, never developing the consistency required for sustainable results & never learning what works (and what doesn’t) for their own bodies.
Warriors show up to work every day
They stay focused on the day at hand and ask themselves, “what can I do today to move towards my goals?” Then they do it!
Wishers need to be told what to do
They are looking for meal plans, food lists and for someone else to provide the instructions. They might not follow them, but they want the answers to come from someone else.
Wanderers create a “best case” plan
They have a plan and can follow it when all the conditions are in their favor.
Warriors steer everything to their advantage
A warrior’s choices are not dictated by their circumstances. They do the best they can no matter what gets thrown at them.
Wishers watch others and compare
They are preoccupied with what others are doing & thinking and they compare their results and efforts against others.
Wanderers watch others and plan
They might not compare, but they are always jumping on board with what others are doing, regardless of whether or not it works for them.
Warriors run their own race.
Others watch them.
What other people are doing or saying has nothing to do with what they need to do.
Wishers give in to temptation
They make decisions based on impulse
Wanderers give in to excuses
They justify indulgences with circumstances
Warriors make no excuses.
They don’t give in.
Wishers perform when its comfortable
They do the work when they feel like it
Wanderers perform when they are prepared
If the stars aren’t aligned and the circumstances are beyond their plan, they crumble.
Warriors perform
Warriors refuse limitations
Warriors practice calm confidence
Warriors take responsibility
Warriors expect to succeed and so they do.
In today’s episode, I’ll share how you can stop making excuses and become a warrior TODAY.
