I want to help you feel better • Transformation from the inside out • Once obese, then Ironman, now aligned and embodied • Lead through presence
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Hold yourself accountable but with compassion - forgive your mistakes
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As you open up and connect with how you feel it can become effortless
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Your body wants to keep you safe, and will always gravitate back to what's familiar.
How to get out of the comfort zone?
Through awareness, intention, and deliberate & consistent action.
How could these possibly be bad for you? Created from the nutrients of the earth and taste delicious
Obviously some nuance: frying them in trans fats isn’t good and all things in moderation
But connect to your body - eat foods that borh taste good & make you feel good
If you repeat the same patterns despite wanting to let them go it is because it feels safer for you than the alternative
You may desire to experience something different but be unable to create that because of deeply held unconscious limiting beliefs
Face your fears
These beliefs are based upon irrational fears and can be let go, but you must shine the light of awareness on them first
For example: you may desire to be rich but deep down believe all rich people are evil
Subconsciously your desire to not feel like you are evil is greater than your desire to remain rich
So you continue to repeat the patterns which create poverty because it allows you to hide onto a misguided belief that you are more virtuous
This happens subconsciously, beyond what we are consciously aware of
Through self discovery we can become aware and see the beliefs for what they are
And this process is endless because we are infinite and there’s always more to explore
I struggled with obesity for 25 years & twice lost 75 pounds only to gain it back and these are the principles I adopted to finally lose the weight and keep it off for a decade
For me losing weight wasn’t the hard part, it was maintaining it. The third time I lost 75 pounds I committed to never going back
I realized if I just continued the principles I used during weight loss and adapted them to maintenance I wouldn’t gain weight again
So after I reached my weight loss goal I did that
-got on the scale every day. If my weight remained below 160 I knew I wasn’t getting fat again, and if I did gain a few pounds it was easy enough to dial back in and lose
-kept tracking my food and budgeting calories. This wasn’t too difficult because I could eat much more during maintenance than while losing weight
-kept walking 10k+ steps every day
-kept strength training regularly
By following these principles for years I was able to do what I could never do before and keep the weight off
And as I became more comfortable in my body and identity over the years I could eventually relax these principles. I haven’t tracked food or weighed in daily for years because I no longer have to. My lifestyle supports maintaining a healthy weight and it became effortless for me
Weight maintenance is not a throwaway phase in your journey.
It needs the equivalent attention AND intention that weight loss required.
• Daily step goal
• Regular weigh-ins
• Calorie & protein targets
• Structured resistance training
And more.
If you think that someday you cross a magic finish line and get to STOP doing all of the healthy habits that got you to lose weight in the first place...
You're in for a rude awakening.
I don’t think calories are the be all end all either. Plenty of people lose weight without tracking that and I have worked with clients who have been successful without doing it
But calorie tracking can be a helpful paradigm to adopt. No matter how you do it the principle of eating less/different foods is essential for success in weight loss
I eat plenty of carbs and it doesn’t impact my ability to maintain my weight: potatoes, lots of fruit, chocolate, ice cream…
What I almost never eat is refined or processed carbs, pasta, bread, grains, gluten etc
I don’t subscribe to any sort of ideology about this, it’s the diet I’ve aligned to based on how I feel after decades of trying various things
I have eaten processed carbs and still been able to maintain my weight in the past but I feel leaner, less bloated without them. Those sort of foods have little appeal for me anymore, just occasional nostalgia
6 months ago I started eating buttered red potatoes roasted with olive oil daily and today I got on a scale for first time since May:
My weight has gone from 159.6 to 159.0 pounds over these 6 months
Also I eat significantly more potatoes now compared to when I weighed 230+
A POTATO IS NOT A HEALTH FOOD
WebMD says potatoes, popcorn, peanut butter and dark chocolate are "treats" that aren't unhealthy.
A 100-gram baked russet potato, skin and all, has 21.4 grams of carbs and only 2.3 grams of fiber. That's starch your body turns directly into blood sugar, which spikes your insulin. It also has just 2.6 grams of protein.
If you've got insulin resistance, pre-diabetes or a big belly, the potato is not your friend. Eat meat and eggs and skip the treats.
Source below...
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There's an arc. You start out in the 3d world and everything weighs so heavily and seems to matter so much. Then you awaken to your nature as eternal awareness and you realize you are not your body or your mind and the world is a dream and nothing really matters. At first that feels like freedom. But that is not the end. You continue to awaken and you begin realize there is no separation. No Eternal Reality vs illusion. No you observing the observed. It is all one sacred thing. Then you find yourself embracing reality exactly as it is. And you end up back very near where you started, in the world, living, eating, creating. Only now there is Love instead of fear. The grasping is gone. Everything feels richer now. Sacred.
Don’t listen to what other people tell you is possible or not
I’ve been doing things people thought were impossible my entire life
If you do listen to them you are choosing to let their limitations define you
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Anything that I've ever accomplished physically had first been accomplished within the mind. It had been trained for many months and years in advance.
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There is a level of consciousness that enables you to know things without logical reasoning. Direct knowing. It is never wrong. Never. It bypasses rational thought process and allows you to tap into your intuitive intelligence.
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Blue light blocking glasses work.
I’ve never been one to fall for fads or shite that’s ineffective.
1-2 hours before bed each night I stick these on.
Much better sleep through the back end of prep and coming out of the recovery phase post show.
Better sleep = better gains.
Simple.
