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How To Quit Boredom Eating And Start Creating A Happy Life

8/9/2022

 
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When food is your friend...

Do you eat when you’re not hungry or when you're bored?

​ Maybe you also reach for junk food when you need a boost with a hit of sugar, caffeine or both. Maybe on top of that you love meals out and love to indulge on vacations and socializing always involves food. In short, you feel like you’re eating too much but food is your friend.

When I was infatuated...

Here’s the thing: I can see a stark contrast between when I am feeling bored with life and craving sugar versus forgetting to eat because I’m too engrossed in writing a new program or preparing for a trip I’m really excited about. 

I can also think back to when I was in the first stages of infatuation with my now husband. I certainly wasn’t focused on food because I had something much more delectable to focus on :)! Thanks to the endorphins and my gorgeous husband. Be it Christmas morning as a kid or the plane taking off on your dream vacation, when you're hyped up (not anxious) you don't need to overeat. 
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What else really excites you?

We love to overeat. 
We celebrate overeating!.. Thanksgiving meal, birthday cake, a reward for a shitty day...
whatever the reason: w
e look forward to overeating. 
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​It’s hard to stop (over) eating when you’re bored right? AND we know if you’re trying to lose weight, doing this too often has got to go!

However, missing out on food can make you feel deprived! Having something else to focus on can stop you feeling like crap as a result! Basically, you need some excitement in life that doesn't involve food!

The first step is creating what I like to call the big EXCITING goal. Something so cool it stops food from being the center of attention!

This goal is just for you. Something that really excites you - something you’ve always wanted to do - something that makes your heart race in anticipation. A DOABLE DREAM.  It's the first step to creating a life where you don't need to eat out of boredom. ​

The big exciting goal how to

Here's the short version. 
  • Create a goal that's truly exciting to you.
  • Make it big enough to be inspiring but small enough to reach.
  • Make it specific - Eg. Book trip to Hawaii by August 15th versus ‘Spend more time with friends'. Keep your goal in mind every day by turning it into a project and having reminders everywhere. ​

I’ve created a free worksheet for you to create your perfect goal!

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DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Less food feels like loss

To lose weight once and for all, in a sustainable way, we just need to eat a little less than we burn. 

Easier said than done.

If we feel deprived by eating less we'll only balance it out later by overeating! Especially if we're too restrictive.


Our stubborn inner child wants what we want when we want it. Fair enough, but with food we've got to step in to steer her away with something more enticing - like your big exciting goal!

As well as having exciting things to look forward to, I also recommend taking food out of the equation when you have something else to keep you occupied. 

Friends for example! You can meet friends for a walk or a movie instead of going out for food or drink. 


The same goes for vacations. Having new things to see and do means you can skip overeating. If you choose.

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Life is too short for food to be the main event, especially if you have weight loss goals. Creating a big exciting goal is just one step but it’s a great place to start.

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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU HATE GOING TO THE GYM BUT STILL WANT TO GET FIT

5/16/2022

 
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We’re all stressed out right now!
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​Covid urgh... 
Recession urgh... 
Politics ARGH!!!​

Would you love to have some habits in place that make you handle all this stress better and feel better automatically?

Introducing , reintroducing… EXERCISE! It helps you manage stress by improving sleep, boosting confidence AND relaxing your body, so exercise really is a great addition to your schedule.

Exercise can help with stress but maybe we don’t enjoy what can go down at the gym…

This article explains how exercise counteracts stress, why getting an online trainer for home workouts can be preferable to the gym and how to get the most out of your trainer.
"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional and mental states.” Carol Welch 
This is how it works:
“ Exercise reduces levels of the body's stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. It also stimulates the production of endorphins, chemicals in the brain that are the body's natural painkillers and mood elevators” ​Harvard


​How Exercise Reduces Effects of Stress

Exercise gives you a break from stressful thoughts by taking your mind off your issues and releasing tension to create a calmer mind. Repetitive movements can even be meditative and a good stretch sequence after your workout works wonders for body and mind.
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Exercise Improves sleep. Stress puts you on red alert, which understandably doesn’t bode well for quality sleep. When you work out regularly you dissipate some of this stress and can fall asleep and stay asleep easier. Sleep is really important for weight loss too and it’s one of my 7 steps to permanent weight loss

Exercise boosts your self-esteem. Stress saps your confidence by, in short,  increasing nervousness. Some of this ‘nervous energy’ can be released during workouts to calm you down. In addition, simply showing up for yourself and seeing progress spills over to other areas of life and helps you navigate stressful situations easier.
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Reduces Overeating. ​
"The most common way that we've learned to turn off the stress response is to ingest food, carbohydrates in particular. ... When our belly is distended, it sends a signal to the brain that counters the stress response, and this is the essence of the parasympathetic response." Stanford
We can dissipate a build up of stress by exercising instead of overeating.
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Strengthens Immune System. Stress increases cortisol and adrenaline which puts your body in high alert and shut down the immune system. Exercise basically teaches your body to handle these higher levels so you can avoid going into fight or flight and harming your immune response.


​Why Going to the Gym is stressful

IT Takes Too Much Time Driving to and from the gym adds time and frustration to your workout. As does finding or waiting for equipment!

IT Saps Self Esteem Gyms use a business model that promises you the world in order to get you to sign up but do nothing to get you motivated to actually attend. In fact if everyone who signs up attends, the gym will be over capacity. 

So you go a couple of times but you don’t feel comfortable… and you don’t know what to do… and there’s unwritten rules you don’t know about. Then you quit - and believe it's YOU that’s at fault and you feel crap about yourself.

Other People Can Be Dicks OMG. dealing with other people at the gym!  Unsolicited mansplaining and condescension…  being judged… being filmed without permission, arrogant dicks dominating the free weights section making you feel unwelcome…​


​Why Online Personal Training Is Better The Gym

Convenience & Time. Without travel time you can easily fit in exercise at home and reclaim those hours back to spend on what matters to you. And as a bonus it’s easier to be consistent because you don’t have the excuse of having to go anywhere!

It's More Comfortable. Working out with a gym instructor at home is so much more relaxing than going to the gym. You don’t have the stress of travel, and don’t have to deal with onlookers. You can practically roll out of bed and onto your workout mat and chill during your stretches knowing you don’t have to get home afterwards!

You Can Still Get Results If You Travel or don't want to travel. Working out with an online personal trainer means you can train while away from home. Conversely, you don’t have the added excuse of having to leave the house, so you get all your workouts complete! 

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Support & Accountability 
Working with an online trainer gives you confidence: you’ll never be at a loss for what to do and you can ask as many questions as you like. Being online means you can learn to check your own form with guidance too. Booking one on one sessions gives you the ultimate type of accountability. 


​How to Get the Most from your Online Personal Trainer

Have Realistic Expectations. If you don’t change your eating habits and don’t move at all outside of workouts don’t expect a six pack or to get super fit, Especially if you are not doing many workouts a week.

Be Honest. Be honest about what does and doesn't work for you. Your trainer wants you to be happy with your workouts and knows you will make more progress if you are.

Share Your Likes And Dislikes. Before you meet your trainer, think about anything you’ve liked or disliked about exercise in the past so you can share with her and she can create a program that works for you
So we’ve seen how stress can negatively affect us emotionally and physically and how exercise can help. And we’ve explored how going to the gym can add to that stress and how online personal training can be a better option.
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How to Lose Fat in 7 Easy Steps

2/1/2022

 
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Want to lose weight once and for all? These 7 simple habits will help curb your appetite and optimize your body for fat loss. Lets' dive straight in.

# 1 Fuel up on protein
Muscle burns 3 times as many calories as fat. Therefore, the more muscle you have, the more calories, and thus fat, your body burns throughout the day. 
The amino acids in protein help you build and maintain this muscle. After strength training, muscle fiber breaks down and is restored with the help of amino acids. As an added bonus, protein also helps you recover quicker from workouts and feel less sore!

Eating protein speeds up your metabolism because it uses up calories to digest and metabolize. This keeps your digestive system busy and thus reduces your appetite too. 

The western diet has us filling up on carbs, leaving little room for protein so it tends to take a conscious effort to make high protein choices especially if you have a vegetarian diet. Plant based sources of protein tend to have a lot less protein pound for pound than meat and dairy sources. You can get some ideas for high protein foods here

# 2 Eat Fiber

Eating plenty of fiber helps you maintain a calorie deficit  by keeping you feeling full. 

Insoluble fiber helps stave off hunger pangs and soluble (viscous) fiber dissolves and reduces your body’s ability to absorb fat among other awesome things! 

Fiber is associated with keeping us regular, which is a sad reflection of how bad our western diets are! But fiber provides a whole host of wonderful benefits such as detoxing you naturally and maintaining strong bones . Check out some more here 

Find a balance of both soluble and insoluble that works for you and aim to build up to a total of 25g overall. 

# 3 Drink Water

Drinking enough water, like eating fiber & protein, can help you lose weight automatically

Water reduces your appetite because dehydration can be confused with hunger, and water also helps you feel full with zero calories. Drinking it before meals, for example, reduces your appetite for food. In addition, being fully hydrated means you feel less stressed and can make better food decisions.  

Water helps you build calorie burning muscle faster during exercise by improving electrical triggers for muscle contraction. It also helps your workouts overall by allowing sweat to keep you cool and lubricating joints

Drinking cold water even boosts your metabolism while your body burns calories to warm it up!

# 4 Do compound strength exercises

The more muscle you have, the faster your metabolism and the more calories you burn throughout the day. This doesn’t mean bulking up, it just means getting more toned through strength training.

Compound strength exercises optimize your body for fat loss by building more muscle overall and burning more calories during the workout itself by engaging more than one muscle. Some examples of compound exercises are squats, deadlifts and push ups. Grab the 3 Session kick Start personal training sessions to learn how.

# 5 Prioritize sleep

​A good night’s sleep sets you up for successful weight loss by helping you make better food choices and leaving you with more energy to be active. 

When you get enough sleep, the hormones ghrelin & leptin let you know when you’re hungry and full so it’s easier to say no to high calorie foods. If you’ve had a really bad night’s sleep and you feel hungry all day, that is why.. 

With more energy you’ll move more throughout the day and ace those scheduled workouts (and recover from them quicker). Also, your mood is less likely to drop so you’re less likely to reach for that high calorie mood pick me up.

# 6 Journal
You can get really clear on your personal challenges when it comes to reaching your target weight.

Journaling keeps your weight loss goal at front of mind by helping you stay focused on why you want to lose weight. It’s a safe place to cheer yourself on and reflect on how much you're eating and why and on what else could bring you joy and comfort instead of food. It’s also a place to process difficult emotions so you don’t eat to block them out.


# 7 Move throughout the day

Staying active throughout the day burns more calories than your workouts because it’s the lion’s share of your day. 

And here’s the thing, women who exercise for 60 minutes a day keep weight off long term. They did some big research on this. 60 minutes a day can be a workout,  5 minutes of exercise here and there OR a walk, gardening, playing with the grandkids or getting up from your desk every hour. 

The ‘150 mins of activity a week’ guidance from the FDA is not weight loss or weight maintenance advice: “while clearly sufficient based on data from many studies to lower the risk of developing chronic diseases, is insufficient for weight-gain prevention, without restricting caloric intake.” link

If you’re moving, you're not sedentary - your heart rate’s a little bit higher. You’re probably not going to be eating out of boredom or because your mood is low. You’re probably doing something that is engaging you or at least keeping you busy. 
Summary

Maintaining the right amount of protein, fiber and water in your diet, helps  reduce your overall calorie intake and lose fat. Basically you will feel full on less food and you speed up your metabolism. 

Muscle burns 3 times as many calories as fat. Creating a body that has more toned muscle, through strength training, turns your body into a lean mean fat burning machine. Protein is important here too to help build muscle through exercise. 
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My hope is that if you want to lose weight, you also want to keep it off so you don’t have to spend extra time and energy on it. You can get into habits that work for you once and for all and then get on with all the other precious things you want to do in life, because life is short right?

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How to overcome lack of motivation to exercise in 3 simple steps

12/16/2021

 
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Do you have no motivation to exercise? Sometimes change is as simple as asking yourself a few simple questions and making a plan.

Step 1 - Ask  yourself why you want to exercise?

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What would be an EXCITING exercise outcome for you?

If you only focus on the initial discomfort of exercise you'll never get started!

🔥Make exercise meaningful you by relating it to what matters to you. Go beyond weight loss and consider how to make  exercise really meaningful to you. 

👍For example - being more productive and creative at work

✴️Do this now 👉Ponder what matters to you and how you can link that to exercise


Step 2 - Identify what's getting in the way

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3 ways to identify exercise blocks

🔥1. List all your reasons for not working out - you are too tired, you don't have time don't know what to do etc.

🔥2. Challenge what you tell yourself that may or not be true, for example - "I don't have time to do a full workout so there's no point in working out today."

🔥3. Go deeper - look for fears - are you scared of getting injured or bulking up or not being good at working out?

Step 3 - Make a plan to blitz your barriers

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3 tips to blitzing exercise blocks

🐍 When you want to workout consistently and you know what's getting in the way...

🍁Here's how to make a plan to blitz those exercise blocks-

👉1. Brainstorm as many solutions as you can for each of your blocks. This is just to switch on your problem solving brain and you don't have to do all of them.

👉2. Pick the actions that work for you and that you are willing to do.

👉3. Schedule in these actions. What can you do in the next 24 hours & within the next 7 days?
👉Bonus tip - Get support or accountability. Make an appointment, tell someone or Send me a ​message💚​
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