Slow down
The faster you rush through the weight loss process, the less prepared you’ll be to maintain your progress.
Take your time developing the foundation that will be your lifelong active lifestyle. Trade the next few years getting this squared away, so that the decades that follow include a healthy relationship with food, fitness and yourself. Please. 🤗 👊🏻
Hey there. At some point in your 30’s or 40’s, especially if you have been on a weight loss journey for years, you may look around and quietly think, this is not where I thought I would be.
Hey there. If you have been in the same place for a long time, it can start to feel permanent.
Not just physically, but mentally. Emotionally. You begin to believe that this is simply who you are. This is your ceiling. This is your reality. Whether it is your weight, your habits, your confidence, or your life situation, the longer something stays the same, the easier it is to believe it cannot change.
But your circumstance is not your identity.
Hey there. There is something powerful about the people who support you when you are struggling, not when you have already succeeded.
Anyone can celebrate you when the results are obvious. When the weight is off. When the confidence is visible. When the outcome matches what people expect success to look like. But the people who support you when you are still in the middle of the process, when you are still figuring things out, when the progress is quiet and internal, those people are rare.
Those people matter more than you realize.
Hey there. When we were younger, people used to ask us where we saw ourselves in five years. It was a standard question. It showed up in classrooms, job interviews, and casual conversations. Back then, it felt like something we were supposed to know. Like if we were thoughtful enough or disciplined enough, we could map out our future and simply follow that path.
Hey there. One of the biggest misconceptions in fitness, and in life, is that change has to begin with something dramatic.
Hey there. What is the biggest dream you have right now, and why have you not taken the first step toward it?
Not the practical version. Not the safe version. The real one.
Most people who have been on a weight loss journey for years do not struggle because they lack knowledge. You already know how to eat better. You already know how to move your body. You already know what consistency looks like. You have lived it. You have tried it. You have seen progress before.
Hey there. There is something that quietly shapes more decisions in your life than you probably realize. It is not your discipline. It is not your knowledge. It is not your plan.
It is their opinion.
Hey there. Obstacles are not a sign that something has gone wrong. They are a sign that something is happening.
Hey there. If you are going to obsess over anything, obsess over protecting your mind.
Not forcing it. Not draining it. Not pushing it to exhaustion in the name of discipline. Protecting it so it can actually support you.
Hey there. For most of my life, I thought fitness was something I had to fix.
Fix my weight. Fix my body. Fix how I looked compared to everyone else.
If you grew up in the 80’s or 90’s like I did, you probably remember being labeled early. Husky. Big boned. Out of shape. Different.