The Your Level Fitness Framework is built around one core idea: you do not have to wait until you lose weight, change your body, or hit a goal to start appreciating yourself.
Instead of treating fitness like a short-term project, this framework helps you make a declaration that you are going to build fitness into your real life and learn to appreciate yourself from the inside/out. From there, your actions, thoughts, habits and routines become a way to reinforce that decision. The goal is not perfection “Seriously, we ALL fall short ALL the time”. The goal is to create a strong foundation of self-trust, consistency and self-respect that can support your health and fitness goals for the rest of your life.
What makes this approach different is that it starts with your preferences, your real life and your current capacity. Whether you are working on your eating habits, exercise routine, body image and/or overall consistency, the framework is designed to help you build from where you are. That means creating an eating plan around foods you actually enjoy, starting exercise with what you are willing and able to do right now, using minimum daily actions “MDA’s” and weekly goals to practice follow-through, and tracking progress in a way that informs you without controlling how you feel about yourself. This is a long-term approach. You are trading years for decades, giving yourself permission to build something sustainable instead of trying to force fast results.
The framework is supported by self-paced resources that help you keep reinforcing the process as you go. The podcasts gives you ongoing practical support, the journal prompts help you reflect and apply the ideas to your own life, and the broader YLF ecosystem “social media, live streams and events” are designed to help you keep coming back to the core message. You can trust yourself, you can figure this out and you can build an active lifestyle that fits who you are. If you’re up from trying your best to do this and support others that are doing the same YOU are already part of the #YLFcommunity.
Self-Paced Resources:
Love the Body You Have Book: Learn to appreciate who and what you see in the mirror while building a healthier relationship with your body, your mindset, and yourself. This is a practical first step for creating lasting self appreciation from the inside/out. Get the Book Here.
Podcasts: Over 20 shows, made up of thousands of episodes designed to help you. Some reinforce the path your own, others are applying the YLF approach to common obstacles and some are just good conversations with people that are figuring things out as the go along.
Journal Prompt Emails: These 3-step reflection prompts help you unpack how you feel about eating, exercise and yourself. Friday messages remind you to evaluate the week you just had. Each prompt takes just a few moments to complete. Get the Journal Prompt Emails Here.
The YLF Live Streams: Contribute to conversations around body image, confidence, mindset, Food Noise, building a forever active lifestyle and much more! Streams happen Monday through Thursday. Join the Live Streams Here.