My Coaching Pillars with my clients and my own principles are as follows

  • Give Up Dieting for Good
  • Real Transformation Takes Time:  Play the Long Game
  • There is no Perfect
  • Change comes from a positive Place

I had a great chance to live out #3 in Week 3.

I had a low energy morning workout and I’ll spare you all of the details but as I came home, I got sick and ended up sleeping most of the day away and eating crackers and drinking ginger ale.

I skipped my workouts for the next two days and decided to rest instead.  Even when I went back, I wasn’t feeling totally 100% but I got through it. Back in the day, this would have been a thing and I would have felt guilty about it.  I would have even thought to abandon the program because I wasn’t “perfect”

Now that I know that there is no perfect, I just continued on.

I’m really surprised at how “not sore” I am….especially compared to the last time!!

The workouts are tough but it appears that I am recovering better.  This is what we are after!

Listening to my hunger signals

I coach a weekly nutrition group and one of the principles we talked about this past week was: Listening to our own biofeedback and making adjustments from there.

Sometimes people ask me if I’m following the nutrition portion of the program and I tell them, “No” except for consciously trying to eat more protein.

Why?

One of my coaching pillars is No Dieting and after following all types of diets, I’m done.  I’m listening to my own body about when and what to eat.  One of the ladies nailed it on our call: “You hear eat this, not that, eat at this time and not at that time.  We just get so confused”

She is exactly right.  Dieting teaches us that we are not able to listen to our own bodies and trust ourselves.  Many of us don’t even know what our  own hunger signals are and we don’t trust ourselves because we’re so bogged down in diet dogma.

So no I don’t follow any plan except to eat more protein…and I’m not rigid with that either.

This was a great challenge to do because it’s really helped me to up the ante on the lifting and while 6 days of weights a week is a lot and I won’t be doing that long term…it’s been a great challenge!

Final Week next week!!

Workout Tip of the Week

Pre Workout Drink + Leg Day + Rihanna can cause a mirage for excitement. Even though I have publicly renounced my life of gym stalking and trolling, the  combination of Pre Workout Drink + Leg Day + BadGalRiRi will have you looking like our dear girl above but then it turns out to be a false alarm!