Usually by week 2 or 3 of a calorie deficit, we start to feel pretty hungry. Why? Our bodies are always fighting for homeostasis (to stay the same). So when we start losing body fat, our body processes kick into gear to try and stop… Read More »Help! I’m Hungry!
So motivation…it’s a tricky beast isn’t it?! Sometimes you’re so full of motivation you feel like you can reach all your goals and change the world! Other times, no matter what you do, you just can’t motivate yourself at all, and enter a spiral of… Read More »What is motivation?
While it’s not ideal to go off-plan, it’s not the end of the world. The only real problem with going “off-plan” is if you subsequently act like it was a “failure”. Before I explain why micro-failures can be a good thing, I’m going to tell… Read More »What we can learn from micro-failures
Have you ever woken up without any plans for your meals? And then found yourself struggling to decide what to eat? Eggs for breakfast or a fruit smoothie? Salad for lunch or leftovers or a sandwich? Chicken for dinner: But how to cook it? What… Read More »Is decision fatigue preventing you from fat loss?
–> Download the worksheet to follow along with this lesson <– This is the most common question I get asked. And, to be honest, if you want to lose weight, it is one of the most important concepts to understand. “What is the best diet… Read More »What is the BEST diet for weight loss?
A long time ago, when I first started dialing in my nutrition and lifting weights and CrossFit, I measured myself on the scales every week. After a few months, I hit a low point because after all the hard work I’d been putting in, the… Read More »Why do we love to track everything?
Everyone tells me to track my calories….but how?
Life is full of ups and downs, and often, when we hit those times of stress or get out of routine (think: holidays and vacations), we put our health goals on pause, until life is easy again. And while it’s important not to be too… Read More »What to do when you want to hit “pause” on your goals
Sometimes it really sucks being an adult. We literally have to be responsible for EVERYTHING. There’s no one making sure we go to bed at the right time, no one to wake us up in time for work, no one making sure we have clean… Read More »Why do we eat when we’re bored?
She’s in her early thirties, with a busy office job. She’s lately been finding she easily gets out of breath just from short walks, and is finding all her clothes feel too small for her. It’s making her lose confidence, and she really wants to start feeling in control of her health again.
She wakes up with 30 minutes to get ready for work. She showers, dresses and throws her things into the car. She doesn’t have time to make breakfast or lunch, or even think about dinner. She stops off at a cafe on the way to work and orders a large mocha and a muffin which she eats in the car.
At work she has M&Ms with more coffee, and at lunchtime she ends up buying a large sandwich and coke from the closest cafe with some workmates. To get through the afternoon she buys some snacks from the vending machine, but she’s ravenous by home time.
On her drive home, she always passes a MacDonald’s and has kinda got in the habit of getting takeaways for dinner as she has nothing else prepared.
At home to unwind, she watches Netflix with a couple of glasses of wine and finishes off the day with a bowl of ice cream.
Now, can you picture…if Grace wants to improve her health and fitness and lose a bit of weight, she will be struggling against her environment?
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