01/25/2023
— Another rotation around the sun —
I’m not too sure if older always means wiser but that isn’t going to stop me from sharing 5 things I’ve learned as I’ve rotated around the sun these 26 times.
1. This is a fitness and nutrition business and I say eat the cookies/cake/ice cream/ cookie dough if you want it. Enjoying your moments and life is what makes it worth living. Restriction goes against every free nature of our being
2. Following number 1; movement, exercise, lifting weights, walking, swimming, running, sports, etc are good for the soul. Yes, it’s good for your health but mental and emotional health is just as important as physical
3. The workout fueled by negative self talk is the a bad workout. Forcing yourself through your hour plus long gym session because “I’m *insert negative comment about self you’d never say to a friend* and NeEd To WoRkOuT” is not why you should be working out
4. Fruits and vegetables are awesome and make your meals fun and colorful. Have them every meal you can
5. Surround yourself with people that make you smile, clap for you, cheer for you, celebrate you and your wins, and pick you up when your down
I hope all your travels around the sun being you joy and fun and new learnings. Learning and growing is the best part of life💜
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11/24/2022
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Here are some Paiging Progress tips for taking on the holiday, maintaining progress, and being fully present today with your family:
🥔 🧈🥧 you can enjoy the carbs, the butters, the creams/sauces/dressings, and the desserts. There are 365 days in the year and if you were to indulge today and even a couple more days as you enjoy some leftovers you aren’t going to negate the 360 other days of progress. You wouldn’t even ruin your progress if you had 65 days of enjoying some extra slices of pie/cake/pizza/etc.
👨👩👧👦👩👩👧👦👨👨👧👦 enjoy being around your family. Engage in conversations and be present. Don’t fixate on what is on your plate or what isn’t or what is on someone else’s or isn’t. Today is about being thankful for all the good in your life. Being here to celebrate, being healthy, having whatever family members are around you there to celebrate with is more important than the calories in that slice of pie you’ve been eyeing.
🥦🍗while enjoying the potatoes and the breads and the desserts, try to fill most of your plate with the veggies and the leaner portions of turkey. This will fill you up with the more nutrient dense foods, which will allow you to enjoy the goodies while still eating mostly nutritious foods.
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03/17/2022
The voice in your head is a powerful one. If it constantly runs a loop of negative remarks and is negating everything you do and accomplish you will never see all the amazing things you are and have done.
💜Positive health changes and habits will be downsized because someone else will always appear to be doing more than you. Through Smarter Athlete Fitness and Nutrition I focus on helping my clients implement health positive habits, while navigating any of their negative self-talk.
💜Wellness is more than physical health; it encompasses your mental and emotional health along side your physical health.
🧠If you can repeat negative things about yourself and believe them to be true, you can reverse that self-talk cycle. Repeat positive things about yourself and believe them and watch things change. Believe them because they are actually true, most of the negative things we think about ourselves aren’t true.
💜Take one of these affirmations(or all them if you need them). Repeat them to yourself throughout the day, write them down somewhere you will see often, believe it when you say/read it, and share with your friends and family.
▫️You are all strong enough to get through challenges in front of you
▫️You are all enough as you are. Nothing needs to change to make you whole, you are whole as you are, on your own
▫️You are all deserve a chance to rest, whether from the gym or work or all the to-dos in your calendar. Take that rest
▫️You are all loved, because I have love for you all and I know I’m not the only person in your lives who has love for you
💜Tag someone who might need to hear these today, save this post to look back on when you are having a down day, and comment (if you want) what you are taking with you today.
📲Message me to join the Smarter Athlete Fitness and Nutrition family as my client and begin to journey toward a strong and happy you—both physically and mentally
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02/14/2022
Let me explain, I’ll keep it short I promise.
You are you, a living being. Unique, complex, always changing.
Food is pretty straight forward. A donut is a donut, pizza is pizza, salad is salad, and broccoli is broccoli. They can be prepared differently, but they are pretty much universally known for being a certain type of food or in a certain food group.
You, as a human, have morality. Food doesn’t not, it isn’t capable of choosing right from wrong. And because of this food can not be good or bad in the way we assign these definitions to people in terms of morality.
Some foods can be better choices in regards to your overall health and longevity than others. But food isn’t inherently good or bad. So having pizza or a salad doesn’t make your good or bad. So you are in fact not what you eat.
Eating a donut doesn’t make you bad, nor does it make you good. It just makes you a person eating a donut.
Long story short= You aren’t what you eat, you are you.
